Oracle® Recognized as a Leader in Enterprise Service Buses by Independent Research Firm

Oracle Service Bus is positioned as a leader in Forrester Research’s January 2009 independent report, “The Forrester WaveTM: Enterprise Services Buses, Q1 2009.”1

Forrester defines Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) as “an intermediary that provides core functions to make a set of reusable services widely available, plus extended functions that simplify the use of the ESB in a real-world IT environment.” They also note: “most SOA efforts rely heavily on one or more ESBs as their core software infrastructure.”

Vendors were evaluated on their strengths and weaknesses across 171 criteria spanning their current offering, strategy and market presence.

Leaders, including Oracle Service Bus, were recognized for supporting the broadest range of protocols and other features and for having the most focused ESB and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) related strategies, the most-mature tooling, and the greatest flexibility in deployment and configuration.

According to Oracle, Oracle Service Bus, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, is a proven, lightweight and scalable SOA integration platform that delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, packaged applications and multiple ESB instances across an enterprise-wide service network. Oracle Service Bus is a key technology in the Oracle SOA Suite.

According to Forrester, “OSB earned top scores for design-time support because of tight integration between OSB and its Oracle Enterprise Repository, which makes it easier for OSB customers to get full SOA service life-cycle management support by using both products together.”

“As businesses move from small departmental SOA footprints to enterprise-wide SOA, they need to use the services distributed across multiple SOA domains to build high-value composite applications,” said Amlan Debnath, senior vice president, Oracle Product Development. “Oracle Service Bus enables customers to achieve value more quickly with simple, code-free, configuration-based service integration – allowing them to build composite, cross-domain applications while future-proofing their SOA with a high-performance, scalable SOA integration backbone.”