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Table of Contents
Service-Oriented Architecture Suite
Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite is a complete set of service infrastructure components for creating, deploying, and managing SOA’s, including
Oracle Developer 10g, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Business Rules Engine, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, and
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus. Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed and orchestrated into composite applications and reconfigurable
business processes, reducing development time and costs and increasing flexibility and response time. Oracle SOA Suite is hot-pluggable, enabling customers to
easily extend and evolve their architectures instead of replacing existing investments.
Applications Software
Our applications strategy is centralized around protecting our customers’ current investments by providing lifetime support, continuous product enhancements
and upgrades; extending the benefits of those investments by delivering new technologies such as Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Grid Computing and Oracle
Service-Oriented Architecture designed to support Oracle Fusion Applications; and supporting our customers’ evolution to the next generation of enterprise
software that best fits their needs, whether that is Oracle Fusion Applications or one of our four enterprise software lines: Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft
Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne | JD Edwards World and Siebel Business Applications. Developed to deliver business insights, adaptive industry
processes, and a superior ownership experience, Oracle Applications enable efficient management of all core business functions, including customer relationship
management (CRM), financial management, human resources and supply chain management. Each of our four enterprise applications product lines is offered as
a fully integrated suite or available on a component basis, and all are built on open architectures and are designed for flexible configuration and open,
multi-vendor integration.
Oracle’s applications combine business functionality with innovative technologies such as workflow and self-service applications, to enable users to lower the
cost of their business operations by providing customers, suppliers and employees with self-service internet access to both transaction processing and critical
business information. Companies can use self-service applications to automate a variety of business functions, such as customer service and support,
procurement, expense reporting and reimbursement. Each product line is also available in multiple languages and currencies, enabling companies to support both
global and local business practices and legal requirements.
Our applications can be tailored to offer customers a variety of industry-specific solutions. As part of our strategy, we strive to ensure that our applications
portfolio addresses the major industry-influenced technology challenges of customers in key industries. With the acquisition of Siebel, we gained expertise in the
vertical markets in which Siebel offered industry solutions. In addition, we recently expanded our offerings in certain industries, most notably in retail with our
acquisitions of Retek, Inc. and several other companies; in banking with our majority interest in i-flex solutions limited; and in telecommunications with our
recent acquisition of Portal Software, Inc.
We also offer a comprehensive set of analytic applications. Our analytic applications include capabilities such as corporate performance management, interactive
dashboarding, embedded analytics and actionable intelligence for each business function and user role. All of our analytic solutions are hot-pluggable into
existing operational systems, enabling customers to incorporate enhanced intelligence capabilities into Oracle, custom and third-party applications.
We enable customers to synchronize information in a single central location, from all systems throughout the enterprise to get an accurate, consistent view of
company data from packaged, legacy or customer applications through products like Oracle Customer Data Hub and the Oracle Product Information
Management Data Hub. Oracle Data Hubs are built on open standards and can integrate with third-party software, as well as all modules within the Oracle
E-Business Suite.
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, July 21, 2006 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠