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Oracle® Application Integration Architecture Foundation Packs for Industries

Oracle Expands Reach and Depth of Oracle AIA in Utilities and Insurance Industries and Extends Support for Oracle WebLogic Server

Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, CA – September 22, 2008

News Facts

Continuing to deliver on the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) goals of greater agility and flexibility, Oracle today released two separate Oracle® AIA Foundation Packs for Industries for the Utilities and Insurance industries. Additionally, Oracle has now supports of BEA software in the Oracle AIA Foundation Pack.
The new Oracle AIA Foundation Packs for the utilities and insurance industries deliver new industry-specific object and service components, industry best practice processes and other modified governance tools and components from the cross industry Oracle AIA Foundation Pack.
Oracle AIA Foundation Packs enable companies to unify their application portfolio through flexible composite business processes, and help standardize processes making all applications – whether from Oracle, third-party or custom-developed applications – work as one unified product on an open, standards-based platform.
Today’s announcement supports Oracle’s strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle’s approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
Oracle Customer Services provides complete coverage of Oracle AIA Foundation Pack for Industries with the world's leading portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings. Oracle Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of ownership through continued advances in providing personalized, proactive support and knowledge management capabilities.

Oracle AIA Insurance Foundation Pack

The debut of Oracle AIA Insurance Foundation Pack enables insurance companies to accelerate application integration, especially between claims and financial systems in order to process claim payments, set up claim reserves and pursue outstanding debt. It also facilitates integration with policy administration and other systems, whether it’s Oracle or a third-party.
Oracle AIA Insurance Foundation Pack helps dramatically minimize costs and risks for insurance companies by speeding time-to-value. The pre-built insurance claims business objects and services and insurance-specific enhancements to horizontal objects and services, enables companies to develop more flexible integrations that increase business and IT efficiencies, and accelerate innovation.
With Oracle AIA Insurance Foundation Pack, insurance organizations can easily adapt to changing business needs through optimized business operations using documented insurance business processes and simplified upgrades via common objects and services.

Oracle AIA Utilities Foundation Pack

The first release of Oracle AIA Utilities Foundation Pack industry includes new industry-specific enterprise business objects, a complete set of activity based industry process models and other modified horizontal enterprise business services and objects.
Utilities customers can easily leverage Oracle AIA Utilities Foundation Pack to facilitate integration design and enable composite business processes including Concept to Launch, Order to Bill, Meter to Cash and Customer Self Service. These processes span a variety of applications, including CRM for sales, marketing and service; customer care and contact center; customer eBilling, ePayment and eSupport; meter data management; rating, billing and collections; and financials ERP.

Oracle AIA Foundation Pack on BEA Software

The availability of Oracle AIA Foundation Pack on BEA software opens the door for BEA users to “hot-plug” the pack with Oracle WebLogic Server. Oracle customers can now build integrations using the same enterprise business services and objects.
BEA customers interested in buying pre-built integrations or continuing to build custom integration can now leverage AIA Foundation Pack on BEA software to speed their integration development.

Supporting Quote

“The competitive and fast-paced nature of today’s changing marketplace makes the Oracle Integration Application Integration Architecture integral to organizations’ success,” said Oracle Vice President of Application Development and Product Strategy for AIA Jose Lazares. “Oracle’s expansion of AIA Foundation Packs for Industries and support of BEA software is testament to our commitment to deliver interoperability by leveraging open standards and of accelerating AIA development to even more flexible, agile integrations across industries globally.”

Supporting Resources

Blog: AIA@Mix
Blog: AIA@Blog

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Oracle
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