What Customers and Partners Are Saying About Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

"Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g represents a major milestone in delivering an integrated, best-in-class software infrastructure, blending the core strengths of Oracle's heritage with its acquired technologies," said Jonathan Ebsworth, Vice President, Head of Package Solutions, Capgemini. "Perhaps even more significant is the step forward this represents in delivering open, standards-based access to the vast range of Business Capabilities that now make up Oracle's Application portfolio. Capgemini sees this as a landmark launch within the ever more exciting Oracle journey."

"As the leading provider of technology to financial services, it's important to our cash and logistics business to be able to efficiently and safely help our clients with advanced database storage and retrieval techniques," said Brian Jorgenson, Director Product Management, Fiserv Cash and Logistics. "With Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, we deliver cash and logistics solutions to our banking clients faster and easier, empowering our customers by quickly delivering excellent solutions."

"Avis Budget has always been on the forefront of new technology. We use information technology to reduce cost, increase customer satisfaction, and to help us provide a great product to our customers," said John Turato, Vice President of Technology for Avis Budget Group. "Our Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the home of our Oracle Fusion Middleware investment. As such, we are closely tracking WebLogic Server 11g and related components that can continue to enable us to provide better customer service and reduce our costs."

"Vanderbilt University is looking forward to leveraging Oracle 11g's WebLogic Server infrastructure, given its performance advantages and diagnostic capabilities. These features will be especially important as our IT needs and data volumes are ever growing. With WebLogic Server as the foundation of the 11g release, Oracle is taking Fusion Middleware to yet another level" said Tim Getsay, Associate Vice Chancellor, Management Information Systems, Vanderbilt University.

"Pernod Ricard has a long-standing relationship with Oracle, and we are very pleased to see the completeness of the solution offered with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, continuing the breadth of the product offering but also enhancing the integration of the entire platform. Specifically 11g's WebLogic Server infrastructure delivers the performance, transparency and scalability to help us deliver our technology theme, 'Synergy,' across our systems and business, and ultimately help cut costs out of our IT infrastructure," said Ryan Klose, Chief Information Officer, Pernod Ricard Pacific. "This new agility will achieve a more immediate value as our business continues to drive an excellence in our Brands and Distribution while continuing to reduce/limit our cost through efficiencies gained with good technology."

"Emerson standardized on the middleware platform from Oracle. We are using Oracle SOA Suite," said Baz Khuti, Chief Architect, Emerson Electric. "For Oracle SOA Suite 11g, we are really excited about the unified framework and the ability to enable an event-driven business model that offers End-to-End Instance Tracking. This 11g version offers the vital link between a SOA framework and an event-driven architecture. Additionally, Oracle 11g offers us real-time monitoring tools for our infrastructure through a single pane of glass."

"Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g provides an excellent technology platform for our enterprise portal. We're using it to pull together sources of content such as Oracle Applications, custom-built applications, and Microsoft Office Suite," said Dan Goerdt, Director of Architecture and Foundation Services, Schneider National. "Features like Spaces, Composer, and Collaboration Tools hit the mark for some of the biggest challenges we've faced while trying to create an integrated and highly productive experience for our internal and external users."

"CCC Information Services, Inc is excited about the upcoming 11g release. We are an existing SOA suite customer and we are leveraging several Oracle components. We are looking to the new functionality of 11g to help us accomplish our internal goals. CCC Information Services, Inc currently handles a large daily volume of claim related transactions and will look to the 11g platform to continue to support our business and transaction volume growth," said Patrick Traynor, Vice President of Architecture and Shared Technologies at CCC Information Services, Inc.

"Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a big step forward in simplifying the SOA lifecycle," said Kate Hazen, Executive IT Director of West Virginia University. "SCA offers the strong foundation for unified composite application development and deployment, and the new capabilities around event delivery network and centralized governance will be critical to reduce costs, improve business efficiencies and increase visibility into our business and operations."

"Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables our organization to stretch our IT infrastructure and investments while enhancing business process efficiency," said Sean Carey Software Architect at SPS Commerce. "Moving to Oracle SOA Suite 11g allows us to lower the complexity and cost of developing, deploying, managing and monitoring our SOA-based applications."

"At the Government Control Agency, our purpose is the use of technologies that enable us to administer and manage the information in an easy and intelligent way. Oracle WebLogic Server 11g will allow us to control data in a secure manner, permanently updated, which eases the reduction of time, risks and derived costs, " said Pablo Lera, General Director at the IT and Processes Unit, Government Control Agency - Government of Buenos Aires City.

"What we like about Oracle SOA 11g is that it now gives us the ability to monitor our core business processes. This helps us, from an IT perspective keep our respective business departments involved in creating efficient solutions that support their needs," said John Chung, Vice President of IT at Arcturus Realty.

"By making it easy for our end users and developers to customize business applications within the portal environment, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g helps us better align IT with our business goals," said Lee Fairclough, Vice President, Knowledge Management, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. "In particular, the tools offered in WebCenter Suite 11g will assist us in providing users access to the latest materials on cancer including the research, guidelines, information and relevant services and tools to support both patients and families going through an experience of cancer or those actively working in the cancer system in Canada. In this way, WebCenter 11g will provide us the ability to support our broad cancer community with a one-stop access point to Canadian information to meet their Cancer-related needs, including interactive online discussion forums."

"Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g offers so many pre-packaged components that put power in the hands of the business user instead of requiring the IT department to develop customized applications," said Jennifer Briscoe, vice president and chief technology officer, Collect America. "The ability to create composite applications coupled with the productivity gains of embedding communities directly into any type of application enables our business users to effect positive change for the business."

"Oracle WebCenter Suite is the underlying foundation of our self-service customer support application., In particular, WebCenter Framework 11g has enabled us to extend the capabilities of traditional enterprise portal using personalization and content integration " said Scott Fenton, CIO, Wind River Systems Inc. "By making it easy for our end users and developers to customize business applications within the portal environment, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g helps us better align IT with our business goals."

"By making it easy for our end users and developers to customize business applications within the portal environment, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g helps us better align IT with our business goals," said John Chung, Vice President of IT at Arcturus Realty. "And the tools it offers to build online communities that help users find and connect with domain experts across the company enables us to make better, more informed decisions."

"With WebCenter 11g, we really like the component-based development features. Using these, we have built several prototypes which front end our transactional system. The prototypes were created literally within a couple of days, which allowed us to readily showcase these to our clients," said John Chung, Vice President of IT, Arcturus Realty.

"The Oracle Identity Management 11g release will reduce cost for the state of Delaware in its primary initiative of trying to go green. It will reduce the number of citizens going out to sites as well as reducing the paperwork that's being generated every day," stated Li Wen Lin, IdM Project Manager, State of Delaware.