Today's businesses are increasingly forced
to respond faster to both competitive and customer challenges
and continually altering market conditions. It has become
critical for companies to maintain agility and innovation
- not just in terms of delivering new products or services,
but also in terms of bettering internal processes. It's
now recognised that businesses are a collection of connected
processes and for them to remain agile, they need to be
re-aligned frequently to keep pace with those constantly
changing business environments, redefined business objectives
or newly imposed regulations. An agile enterprise continuously
improves key business processes and adapts them to changing
circumstances.
As a result, businesses are now looking for IT to be a
differentiator in delivering flexibility and speed - and
not only react to the requirements of changing business
processes, but to be an integral part in driving that improvement
and change. Traditional IT infrastructures and divisional
approaches between IT and business management rarely supported
genuine collaboration between business and IT.
With increased focus on proactive collaboration between
business and information technology, IT managers are scrutinising
their technology foundations to ensure they deliver more
effectively than the archetypal IT infrastructure. The typical
IT infrastructure - often a complex mix of new and legacy
technologies from different vendors, implemented at different
times - can be costly and difficult to maintain. Additionally,
they generally have not allowed for management disciplines
affecting the enterprise to be actively or effectively supported.
These business disciplines and associated processes have
emerged to be vital business assets that need to be incorporated
into the technology stack.
Oracle is the only vendor that delivers a comprehensive
offering to address both the infrastructure complexities
and business process integration challenges of your IT environment.
We do this through our Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach and our Business
Process Management (BPM) solution.
Oracle's SOA helps you manage the complexity of your IT
environment by allowing you to link your different IT systems
as loosely coupled, integrated services that work together,
leveraging disparate systems and ensuring continued maximisation
of earlier investments. The Oracle SOA
Suite consists of infrastructure components that are
hot-pluggable, allowing organisations to extend and evolve
their architectures instead of replacing those previous
investments.
With Oracle BPM, business managers are able to capture
their business requirements and make improvements to processes
using existing software applications. By employing standardised
business modelling, managers can begin to structure and
simulate their process definitions – and turn them
into IT deliverables - with the Oracle Business
Process Analysis (BPA) Suite.
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