Oracle Delivers
First Complete SOA and Integration Platform;
Announces Oracle BPEL Process Manager
Oracle Gains Industry's Leading
Native BPEL
Engine Through Collaxa Acquisition
Hong Kong, October 28, 2004 - Oracle
today unveiled in Hong Kong the industry's first and most complete Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) and integration platform, featuring Oracle
BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager. Through its
acquisition of Collaxa Inc., Oracle gained technology that makes it easier
for organizations to coordinate Web services and automate business processes.
Oracle's integration solution enables organizations
to easily deploy open, flexible business processes that leverage existing
information technology (IT) assets to quickly adapt to changing business
demands. Building on the business process management and Web services
capabilities in Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle now boasts the most
complete integration solution, including Web Services, SOA and BPEL support,
Business Activity Monitoring technology, rules engine, Business Process
Monitoring and traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Using
Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the entire Oracle integration solution,
companies can leverage standard Web service interfaces and portable business
processes to reduce the cost of integrating business applications.
Oracle's BPEL Process Manager (formerly the Collaxa
BPEL Server) supports the industry-standard BPEL specification backed
by Microsoft, IBM, SAP and BEA, and widely recognized as an enterprise
blueprint for reducing the cost, complexity and inflexibility of integration
projects. Oracle BPEL Process Manager, hailed as the best BPEL implementation
on the market, enables organizations to easily implement adaptive transactions
and collaborative business processes based on composite applications.
The solution includes an engine for executing business processes, a console
to monitor, manage and debug business processes and a rich graphical interface
to design and build business processes. Similar to other Oracle technology
products, Oracle BPEL Process Manager adheres to open standards and can
be deployed on any J2EE compatible server.
Collaxa has a long history with BPEL, creating one of
the first and most proven implementations of BPEL. With its native BPEL
engine, Collaxa provided organizations such as the European Space Agency,
SAIC and British American Tobacco the most open means for executing business
processes written in BPEL. When coupled with Oracle Application Server
10g, this native BPEL engine completes Oracle’s comprehensive SOA and
integration platform.
Industry Support of BPEL
"Service-oriented business applications - the key to delivering real-time
business processes - depend on effective use of Web service standards,"
said David Smith, research vice president and fellow at Gartner. "Gartner
believes that BPEL will emerge as the leading industry standard for Web
service orchestration and coordination of business processes."
"We see both potential and demand for the BPEL
standard and an execution engine such as the type Oracle is providing
with the BPEL Process Manager," said Bobby Soni, vice president and
global solution leader, Integration Services, BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE:BE),
one of the world’s largest business consulting and systems integration
firms. "Oracle has worked on a number of standards over the years
that have addressed issues throughout the industry. BPEL is an extremely
important standard as it relates to interoperability, building flexible
integration and business process automation solutions for our clients."
"With Oracle’s grid computing platform, organizations
can allocate IT resources to address spikes in utilization requirements,"
said Amit Zavery, senior director of product management, Application Server,
Oracle Corporation. "Further building on this capability, Oracle
BPEL Process Manager enables organizations to quickly respond to changing
business requirements and reduce the cost and complexity of enterprise
application integration projects."
Availability Oracle BPEL Process Manager is immediately
available for free download and evaluation from Oracle Technology Network
(http://otn.oracle.com), and can be purchased either as an add-on option
to Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition for US$10,000 or as
a standalone product for US$30,000.
About Oracle Application Server 10g
Oracle Application Server 10g, the first grid enabled application server,
is an integrated, standards- based software platform that allows organizations
of all sizes to be more responsive to changing business requirements.
Oracle Application Server 10g features full support for J2EE and grid
computing, built-in enterprise portal software, high-speed caching, business
intelligence, rapid application development, application and business
integration, wireless capabilities, Web services and more, all in one
package. Because Oracle Application Server 10g is optimized for enterprise
grid computing, it enables customers to realize better availability of
their IT systems and lower hardware and administration costs.
About Oracle
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