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Oracle Enterprise Manager Gets SOA Runtime Management Tools

Release 3 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g adds a new set of management capabilities for service-oriented architecture (SOA) that give managers new insights for better business decisions and IT management.

"The relationship between the applications people use and the technologies that support those applications is growing more complex," says Preeti Somal, Oracle's senior director of development. "New features in Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 map the dynamic relationships in an SOA environment to provide a new level of troubleshooting and reporting."

The new capabilities in Release 3 augment Oracle Enterprise Manager's industry-leading grid automation capabilities. With Release 2, you can look across various infrastructure products and gain a consolidated view of IT topology. In Release 3, you can peer deeper into SOA runtime to correlate events and analyze services.

"In this release, we're able to look at disparate Web services and report on those services as they are being used," says Somal. "That means historical data, event analysis, and service-level information become available to IT and business managers so they can be more proactive about managing IT resources."

Release 3 accomplishes this by leveraging the design-time BPEL process orchestration into the production monitoring of services. As a result, Oracle Enterprise Manager can correlate between events within an SOA infrastructure and draw conclusions about performance, availability, and configuration.

Business and IT Alignment
New bidirectional integration between Release 3 and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) gives business and IT managers a whole new area of discovery. "Now you can take what you learn from BAM, such as delivery problems or inventory issues with a particular BPEL process, and add a detailed understanding about IT events. Further, the IT manager can get insight into business KPIs," says Somal. "Did I have a server glitch? Was there a lack of IT resources that caused the problem? Did the new campaign generate more load than expected, causing my server capacity usage to increase?

"At the end of the day, you should be able to know if the problem was IT-related and have the information to quickly fix the problem," says Somal. "Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 ensures that the business side knows what IT is doing and be able to help IT solve business problems."

Lean More
Download Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3 on the Oracle Technology Network
For more information, see oracle.com/enterprise_manager

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