| Leading companies are tackling the complexity of their application and IT environments with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which facilitates the development of modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused — creating a truly flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure.
An SOA approach within your IT infrastructure provides significant benefits that ultimately allow your IT organization to focus more resources and budget on innovation and on delivering new business services:
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Lower development costs — SOA services are easily reused and can be rapidly assembled like building blocks into new, composite applications without higher-cost manual programming |
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Lower maintenance costs — Reusable services reduce the number and internal complexity of IT services, lowering the amount of maintenance support required for the entire services portfolio |
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Higher quality services — SOA heavily promotes the increased service reuse that creates more reliable, higher-quality services through multiple testing cycles from different service consumers |
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Lower integration costs — Standardized services know how to work together, enabling disparate applications to quickly and easily connect |
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Reduce risk — Fewer, reusable services provide greater control over corporate and IT governance policies and reduce the overall risk of non-compliant behavior |
Oracle SOA Suite is a complete set of service infrastructure components for creating, deploying, and managing SOAs. Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into composite applications and business processes.
Hot Pluggable
Oracle SOA Suite is hot-pluggable. It enables you to deploy on the leading J2EE application servers and messaging bus while avoiding IT investment loss or integration failures. As new technologies develop, organizations using the Oracle SOA Suite can easily extend and evolve their architectures instead of replace existing investments.
Oracle SOA Suite consists of Oracle's most popular, best-of-breed technologies including:
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Oracle JDeveloper 10g: a comprehensive integrated SOA development environment for creating and composing applications that also acts as a unified toolset for all components in the Oracle SOA Suite. |
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Oracle BPEL Process Manager: the first native business process execution language (BPEL) engine for Web services orchestration enabling you to design, define and execute business processes. |
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Oracle Web Services Manager: a single console to secure and manage your Web services. |
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Oracle Business Rules Engine: enables agile management of business rules. |
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Oracle Business Activity Monitoring: delivers real-time insight into business operations. |
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Oracle Enterprise Service Bus: a standards-based product that connects existing IT systems and business partners as a set of services. |
Supported Middleware Platforms
Oracle SOA Suite is compatible with other middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion Middleware, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, and JBoss Application Server.
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