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Oracle Showcases Industry's Leading Middleware Product Family

Also Outlines Plans for Future Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g Enhancements

Oracle OpenWorld -- Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

News Facts

• During a general session presentation at Oracle® OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco, Hasan Rizvi, Oracle Senior Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Development, demonstrated how Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g uniquely provides customers with an integrated foundation for innovation.
• The presentation showcased Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, customer case studies, product demonstrations, and outlined new feature plans for Oracle Business Intelligence Suite, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite, Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Business Process Management, and Oracle Data Integration.
• Presentation highlights included:
• An outline of how Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g helps deliver productivity improvements and cost savings through integrations in installation, development tools, run-time environment, management facilities and identity management and security.
• Emphasizing additional investments Oracle plans to make to help ensure Oracle Fusion Middleware maintains its industry best-of-breed status.
• An introduction of Oracle GoldenGate, the latest addition to the data management and integration components of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• Outlining Oracle GoldenGate expected database and application customer benefits derived from capabilities in real-time, log-based change data capture, and delivery between heterogeneous systems.
• Launched in July 2009, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a modern application infrastructure.

A Foundation for Innovation: Enabling Modern IT Infrastructures

• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g helps enable customers to easily develop and deploy a modern IT infrastructure in support of a cloud computing environment -- internal, private clouds or external public clouds.
• Rizvi outlined plans to introduce and enhance the following components:
• Oracle Assembly Builder: plans include enabling a single-click deployment of relevant application environment artifacts, allowing customers to more quickly and easily deploy an enterprise application or SOA service.
• Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite: plans include the most complete ECM platform by providing a unified repository with end-to-end image processing. Oracle's plans include enabling more efficient and timely reuse of content while also continue delivering tighter integration with Oracle Applications as well as Oracle WebLogic Server and other Oracle Fusion Middleware components.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Suite: plans include new visualizations and a more dynamic interactive user experience, plus a new Action Framework to help allow users to initiate business-improving actions directly, in response to an analytic insight.
• Oracle Data Integration Suite: architected for enterprise scalability, plans for Oracle Data Integration Suite include increasing productivity and reducing time-to-market through a unified set of design tools, pre-built connectivity and content for Oracle Applications, as well as advanced Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for embedding data integration functionality in custom Java applications.
• Oracle Tuxedo: new application migration framework, and runtime capabilities to help enable customers to more rapidly reduce costs and achieve ROI when re-hosting mainframe applications to lower cost distributed servers.
• Oracle Business Process Management: plans include a unified process platform with rich and easy-to-use tools for enterprise architects, business analysts, LOBs, IT operations staff and more.

Supporting Quote
"Oracle is number one in middleware," said Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware Product Development. "The launch of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g sets new standards for integration and innovation by providing the industry's most complete, integrated, hot-pluggable and best-of-breed middleware suite. With the planned enhancements, more than 90,000 current customers will be able to benefit from the increased performance and centralized management of a modern infrastructure, enabling them to drive down costs, improve efficiency and differentiate their organizations from competitors through unrivalled innovation."

Supporting Resources

• Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
• Oracle OpenWorld 2009
• Oracle OpenWorld Middleware Stream

Oracle Innovation Showcase
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