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Service-Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software development and architecture methodology that creates a
modular, re-usable approach to applications development; makes it easier to integrate systems with each other;
and reduces the need for costly custom development. Oracle SOA Suite is a suite of middleware software
products used to create, deploy, and manage applications on a Service-Oriented Architecture including Oracle
JDeveloper, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Business Rules, Oracle
Business Activity Monitoring, and Oracle Service Bus. Oracle Business Process Management Suite is a suite of
software designed to enable business and IT professionals to design, implement, automate, and evolve business
processes and workflow within and across organizations. Oracle SOA Governance is designed to maintain the
security and integrity of our customers’ SOA deployments.
Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is a comprehensive set of analytic software products designed to provide
customers with the information they need to make better business decisions. Oracle’s software Business
Intelligence products include Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition, a comprehensive query and analysis server;
Oracle Essbase, an online analytical processing (OLAP) server; Oracle BI Publisher, a self-service production
and operational reporting tool; and Oracle Real-Time Decisions, a real-time data classification and optimization
solution. Users can access these tools from a variety of user interfaces including browser-based interactive
dashboards; ad hoc query and analysis; proactive detection and alerts integrated with e-mail; Microsoft Office
integration including support for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; and mobile analytics for mobile and smart
phones.
Identity and Access Management
Oracle’s identity and access management software products are designed to enable customers to manage internal
and external users, secure corporate information from potential software threats and streamline compliance
initiatives while lowering the total cost of their security and compliance initiatives. These software products
include a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) directory service to store and manage user identities and
policies; identity provisioning to provision users and roles in multiple enterprise applications and systems; access
management to manage access control and entitlements for customers, partners, and employees; and identity
analytics products to audit and identify users attempting to access systems for which they are not authorized.
Data Integration
Oracle’s data integration offerings consist of Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Data Integrator, and Oracle Data
Quality products. Oracle GoldenGate is a high performance data movement and continuous availability solution
designed to capture transaction records on one system and to move and apply them to other systems with low
impact on system and network performance. Oracle Data Integrator is an extract-transform-load (ETL) solution
that enables users to extract data from one system, transform it from the source system’s format to a target
system’s format, and load it into the target system (such as a data warehouse). Oracle Data Quality enables users
to profile data and to clean it using a variety of automated matching and cleansing rules making the data more
reliable and more accurate.
Content Management
Oracle Content Management is an enterprise content management software suite that is designed to enable users
to capture, manage, and publish information that is either unstructured, not easily readable or has not been stored,
including documents, images, audio, video, and a wide variety of other forms of digital content. Oracle Content
Management is designed to provide customers with a highly scalable document management repository; web
content management to publish information to websites and portals; digital asset management to manage and
deliver digital content; imaging and process management to capture and process paper documents and document
related business processes; and records management to archive and retain documents and electronic records.
Oracle Content Management is integrated with business applications to automatically capture and process
electronic and paper documents such as invoices, accounts receivable receipts, and sales order documents from
these applications.
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