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Oracle Fusion Middleware

Business is changing fast. Leaders need to better manage performance in every area. Workers need to increase their productivity and more easily access information to do their jobs. There is a rising need to preserve investments in existing systems and make choices that fit business requirements now and in the future. Meanwhile, as the pace of business increases, so do the demands, complexity, and pressures customer’s face. However, rethinking their IT strategy and retooling applications and infrastructure isn’t an option.

Middleware solutions provide the confidence in scalability, reliability, and ability to evolve needed to meet your customer’s needs. The question is, whom do you trust to provide it? Your best choice is Oracle—with Oracle Fusion Middleware. We’d like to show you why.

What is Middleware?

The definition and scope of middleware has evolved significantly. Once focused on development tools, integration tasks, and runtime engines for applications, middleware now includes portals, business intelligence tools and applications, content management, identity management, and systems management. While these technologies were once viewed as discrete technologies for developers in IT, today sales, service, manufacturing, finance, and HR organizations are increasingly relying on middleware to extend enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain, and other application functionality to workers, partners, and customers.

How does Oracle Fusion Middleware meet the needs of my customers?

Increase capacity for growth and change
To align business realities with IT execution and give companies control over its entire business process lifecycle, consider Oracle’s business process management solution, which combines Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite. The open, standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware components let you model, execute, manage, and optimize business process across applications. Business user–friendly and best in its class, Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite documents and enables the simulation of processes at the business level. IT gets a clear picture of business-level changes, ensuring swift and accurate implementation that reduces costs of process implementation even as it makes business more efficient.

Improve business insight and manage performance
Workers need comprehensive insight into strategic and operational information. This insight must be pervasive both in terms of the people who can access and use it (from senior management to front-line workers) and in terms of the data sources accessed to deliver it. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus offers a unified foundation for building enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions using data from heterogeneous sources, including Oracle and non-Oracle systems. Highly popular user features such as dashboards and reporting, alerts and workflows, real-time decision-making capabilities, and mobile delivery accelerate the speed of decisions.

Mitigate risk and secure corporate information
Although applications have their own access and security policies, a comprehensive plan for security and compliance is critical to reducing risk. Oracle Identity Management, the security backbone of Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides a comprehensive range of security capabilities that balance IT security with user effectiveness and trust—across customers, employees, and partners. You can provide single-sign-on access to relevant applications, ranging from ERP and custom applications to CRM and even .NET applications, giving users a single way to access the systems they need. For both IT and HR managers, a single security framework cuts down on IT help desk calls and accelerates the on and off-boarding process as workers join, move within, and leave an organization.

For varied compliance needs ranging from “who has access to what” reports to segregation of duties, Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite provides comprehensive capabilities to establish, enforce, and report on compliance requirements. In addition to hot-pluggable interoperability with existing database, applications, and middleware investments, it maximizes Oracle Database security features and leverages new database products such as Oracle Audit Vault, which helps organizations address regulatory requirements and insider threat concerns, and Oracle Database Vault, which enforces preventive controls to help meet compliance requirements by restricting powerful users, such as database administrators, from unauthorized access to specific information.

In addition to managing transactions within human capital management, financial management, and CRM systems, IT must also manage an explosion of e-mail, memos, instant messages, and other digital content that may be requested for an audit or discovery proceedings. Oracle Content Management, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, lets you apply records management policies and practices to content across file and content management systems, and even allows secure and track sensitive documents and e-mail beyond your own network.

Boost productivity and empower users
Providing a central place for workers, customers, and partners to find information is critical. Earlier portals accomplished this task on a departmental level—Oracle Fusion Middleware offers these same timesaving functions with Oracle WebCenter. In addition, Oracle WebCenter takes the principle of a portal and applies the latest Web 2.0 technologies such as instant messaging, group spaces, wikis, and blogs for department, project, and even cross-enterprise collaboration. You gain a standards-based, SOA-enabled Web interface from which users can access a wide range of enterprise services, content, business intelligence, and productivity tool.

Workers gain one-click access to information and business processes, as well as a cause-effect context for making decisions and taking action. For example, a regional sales manager can see the performance of a promotion, view the group space and campaign-specific wiki to get details on that promotion, review Excel or PDF reports from previous promotions, view sales pipeline targets in CRM, see that the local field marketing person is online right now, and place a Voice over IP call to discuss plans to optimize future campaigns. Oracle WebCenter opportunities are not limited to internal use. The same capabilities can be applied to create external customer communities and accelerate collaborative selling.