Oracle
Workflow Enables E-Business Integration
E-business is accelerating the demand for integration
of applications within the enterprise as well as integration
of a company's systems with trading partners and business-to-business
exchanges. Oracle Workflow automates and streamlines business
processes both within and beyond your enterprise, supporting
traditional applications based workflow as well as e-business
integration workflow. Oracle Workflow is unique in providing
a workflow solution for both internal processes and business
process coordination between applications.
Oracle Workflow allows you to provide all
parties in a business process with all the information they
need to make the right decision in an efficient manner, whether
that process is a self-service transaction, a standard business
document approval, or an XML document. Oracle Workflow allows
people to receive, analyze, and respond to notifications through
any standard e-mail system, or any standard Web browser. You
can easily include your customers, suppliers, and prospects
in your workflows using the power and convenience of the Internet.
Model-Driven
Integration
Oracle Workflow lets you model and maintain your
business processes using a graphical workflow builder. You can
define
sophisticated processes that loop, branch into parallel flows
and rendezvous, decompose into sub-flows, branch on task results,
time out, and more. Expressing business rules in the process
model enables model-driven integration. Oracle Workflow
acting as a system integration hub can apply the business rules
to control and route business events between applications
and systems with minimal intrusion into those applications and
systems.
Oracle
Workflow and Oracle Advanced Queuing: Availability, Scalability
and Performance
The rules-based Workflow Engine and the Business
Event System reside in the Oracle9i database. Oracle9i
transactional integrity
guarantees consistency between your application and workflow,
and Oracle9i Advanced Queuing guarantees delivery of
messages between systems, while Oracle9i Real Application
Clusters provide transparent application scalability. You get
the same industry-leading performance and scalability that has
made Oracle9i the database for e-business.
Oracle Workflow is a component of Oracle9i
Integration, a comprehensive set of infrastructure and tools
for integrating enterprise
applications and enabling e-business marketplaces. Oracle
Workflow leverages the Oracle technology stack, including
the Oracle9i database and Oracle Advanced Queuing,
to enable application integration at the business process
level. Business event messages from Oracle Workflow can be
placed on or received from Oracle9i Advanced Queues,
providing support for Oracle Net as well as HTTP and HTTPS
communication protocols. The Oracle9i Messaging Gateway
feature enables integration between Oracle Workflow and other
messaging solutions such as IBM MQSeries and TIBCO Rendezvous.
Oracle Workflow is also incorporated as part of Oracle9i
Integration in the Oracle E-Business Suite, an integrated
suite of applications for the enterprise designed to transform
your business into an e-business.
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