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Table of Contents
• Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite;
• Oracle WebCenter;
• Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Suite; and
• Oracle Data Integration Suite.
Oracle Fusion Middleware is designed to protect customers’ IT investments and work with both Oracle and
non-Oracle database, middleware and applications products through its “hot-pluggable” architecture (which enables
customers to easily install and use Oracle Fusion Middleware products within their existing IT environments) and
adherence to industry standards such as J2EE and Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
By using Oracle Fusion Middleware, our customers increase their capacity to adapt to business changes rapidly,
reduce their risks related to security and compliance, increase user productivity and drive better business decisions.
Specifically, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to easily integrate heterogeneous business applications,
automate business processes, simplify security and compliance, manage lifecycles of documents and get actionable,
targeted business intelligence, while continuing to utilize their existing IT systems. In addition, Oracle Fusion
Middleware supports multiple development languages and tools, which allows developers to build and deploy web
services, web sites, portals and web-based applications. Oracle’s Fusion Middleware is used to support Oracle
applications, as well as other enterprise applications and independent software vendors that build their own custom
applications.
On April 29, 2008, we acquired BEA, a leading provider of enterprise application and service infrastructure software
solutions. Our acquisition of BEA further strengthened our leading technology in certain product areas within Oracle
Fusion Middleware such as Java application server (WebLogic Server), transaction processing (Tuxedo), portal and
Enterprise 2.0 capabilities, Service-Oriented Architecture, IT governance and business process management. Our
acquisition of BEA also increased the number of Java developers building applications for our middleware products.
Additionally, BEA’s business is complementary to other product areas within Oracle Fusion Middleware such as
identity management, business intelligence and enterprise content management.
Application Server
The foundation of Oracle Fusion Middleware is Oracle Application Server. Designed for grid computing, Oracle
Application Server incorporates clustering and caching technology, which increases application reliability,
performance, security and scalability. Oracle Application Server also provides a complete integration platform that is
designed to simplify and accelerate business, application and data integration projects. Our recent acquisition of BEA
enables us to provide our customers with additional open-standards Java-based application infrastructure products
such as WebLogic Server and scalable messaging and transaction processing platform products such as Tuxedo.
Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) provides visibility into how customers’ businesses are performing and helps them
plan and model to improve that performance. BI is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides an
integrated end-to-end system called Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) that unites our BI foundation and
data warehousing products with our BI and EPM applications (described further below) to offer our customers an
enterprise-wide business intelligence platform.
Our BI foundation products include Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus, Oracle BI Standard Edition One,
Hyperion Essbase and Oracle BI Publisher. Our BI foundation products deliver customers a comprehensive set of
business intelligence tools, including interactive dashboards, ad hoc query and analysis, proactive detection and
alerts, advanced reporting and publishing, real-time predictive intelligence, mobile analytics and desktop gadgets.
Our data warehousing products enable the extraction, transformation and loading of quality data in order for that data
to be accurately searched and analyzed.
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Source: ORACLE CORP, 10-K, July 02, 2008 Powered by Morningstar® Document Research℠