-- As part of today's Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle
today announced that the world's leading partners, and customers
from nearly every industry, continue to embrace Oracle Fusion
Middleware.
-- Customers including Alibris Inc., Arcturus Realty Corporation, Canadian
Partnership Against Cancer, Collect America, Embarq Management Company,
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Emerson Electric, InterCall Inc.,
Irish Life, Luton Borough Council, Pernod Ricard Pacific, QUALCOMM Inc.,
Schneider National, SPS Commerce, State IT-service Centre of Finland,
State of Delaware, University of Arizona, Vanderbilt University, West
Virginia University, and Wind River provided feedback on the 5,420
customer-driven innovations across the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
product suite which includes Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle WebLogic
Server 11g, Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g and Oracle Identity Management
11g.
-- Thousands of partners around the world have participated in
Oracle's partner training and enablement programs, including: 3i
Infotech; Accruent; Adaptive Planning; Ariba, Inc.; Axeda; BMC; CA;
Capgemini; Citrix Systems; Elastic Path Software; Elster; Escalate
Retail; F5; Fatwire Software; Fiserv Cash and Logistics; Griffiths Waite
Limited; Hitachi Consulting; Kapow Technologies; Logica Nederland B.V.;
Milletech; Neusoft Corporation; OpenLink; Open Text Corporation; OPITZ
CONSULTING GmbH; Precision Software; Spectrum K12 School Solutions,
Inc.; Symyx Technologies; Tata Consultancy Services; Technology REPLY;
Tradebeam; Wipro Technologies and Wireless Matrix
-- Launched today, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a modern application
infrastructure that enables organizations to exploit new hardware and
software for more efficient IT execution.
-- More than 90,000 organizations worldwide have already selected Oracle
Fusion Middleware.
Driving Partner and Customer Success through Innovation
-- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the foundation for customer and partner
innovation, is the culmination of a multi-year effort involving
thousands of hours of development, hundreds of Beta tests and direct
work with early adopters in industries including Public Sector,
Financial Services, Telecommunications and Manufacturing.
-- For partners, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g provides the ability to
quickly build differentiated products and solutions and solve IT
problems for their customers that were previously complex,
time-consuming and resource intensive.
-- For customers, the new suite of solutions provides the ability to
innovate and differentiate their organizations from the competition,
identify and respond to changes in their business in near real-time and
maximize both business and IT efficiencies.
Supporting Quotes
-- "Our customers and partners exist in dynamic, competitive
marketplaces that require an agile, efficient IT infrastructure that
allows them to innovate in real-time while cutting cost and complexity
out of their businesses," said Amit Zavery, vice president, Oracle.
"Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, which was developed in close
coordination with members of our partner and customer community, defines
a modern IT application infrastructure - allowing partners and customers
to rapidly transform business processes, quickly develop and deploy
critical applications, and connect strategy to success across the
enterprise."
-- "By adopting Oracle Fusion Middleware for integrating Ariba's
Spend Management and Contract Management solutions with the Oracle
E-Business Suite, Ariba has made it even easier and faster for companies
to connect to our global commerce network, drive improvements across
their procurement and accounts payable processes and enhance and
accelerate the results that they deliver," said Bhaskar
Himatsingka, Chief Technology Officer, Ariba, Inc.
-- "Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g represents a major milestone in
delivering an integrated, best-in-class software infrastructure,
blending the core strengths of Oracle's heritage with its acquired
technologies," said Jonathan Ebsworth, Vice President, Head of
Package Solutions, Capgemini. "Perhaps even more significant is
the step forward this represents in delivering open, standards-based
access to the vast range of Business Capabilities that now make up
Oracle's Application portfolio. Capgemini sees this as a landmark
launch within the ever more exciting Oracle journey."
-- "As the leading provider of technology to financial services,
it's important to our cash and logistics business to be able to
efficiently and safely help our clients with advanced database storage
and retrieval techniques," said Brian Jorgenson, Director Product
Management, Fiserv Cash and Logistics. "With Oracle Fusion
Middleware 11g, we deliver cash and logistics solutions to our banking
clients faster and easier, empowering our customers by quickly
delivering excellent solutions."
-- "With WebCenter 11g, we really like the component-based development
features. Using these, we have built several prototypes which front end
our transactional system. The prototypes were created literally within
a couple of days, which allowed us to readily showcase these to our
clients," said John Chung, Vice President of IT, Arcturus Realty
Corporation.
-- "By making it easy for our end users and developers to customize
business applications within the portal environment, Oracle WebCenter
Suite 11g helps us better align IT with our business goals," said
Lee Fairclough, Vice President, Knowledge Management, Canadian
Partnership Against Cancer. "In particular, the tools offered in
Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g will assist us in providing users access to
the latest materials on cancer including the research, guidelines,
information and relevant services and tools to support both patients and
families going through an experience of cancer or those actively working
in the cancer system in Canada. In this way, Oracle WebCenter 11g will
provide us the ability to support our broad cancer community with a
one-stop access point to Canadian information to meet their
Cancer-related needs, including interactive online discussion
forums."
-- "Emerson standardized on the middleware platform from Oracle. We
are using Oracle SOA Suite," said Baz Khuti, Chief Architect,
Emerson Electric. "For Oracle SOA Suite 11g, we are really excited
about the unified framework and the ability to enable an event-driven
business model that offers End-to-End Instance Tracking. This 11g
version offers the vital link between a SOA framework and an
event-driven architecture. Additionally, Oracle 11g offers us real-time
monitoring tools for our infrastructure through a single pane of
glass."
-- "Pernod Ricard has a long-standing relationship with Oracle, and we
are very pleased to see the completeness of the solution offered with
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, continuing the breadth of the product
offering but also enhancing the integration of the entire platform.
Specifically 11g's Oracle WebLogic Server infrastructure delivers
the performance, transparency and scalability to help us deliver our
technology theme, 'Synergy,' across our systems and business,
and ultimately help cut costs out of our IT infrastructure," said
Ryan Klose, Chief Information Officer, Pernod Ricard Pacific.
"This new agility will achieve a more immediate value as our
business continues to drive an excellence in our Brands and Distribution
while continuing to reduce/limit our cost through efficiencies gained
with good technology."
-- "Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g provides an excellent technology
platform for our enterprise portal. We're using it to pull
together sources of content such as Oracle Applications, custom-built
applications, and Microsoft Office Suite," said Dan Goerdt,
Director of Architecture and Foundation Services. "Features like
Oracle Spaces and Oracle Composer hit the mark for some of the biggest
challenges we've faced while trying to create an integrated and
highly productive experience for our internal and external users."
-- "Oracle SOA Suite 11g enables our organization to stretch our IT
infrastructure and investments while enhancing business process
efficiency," said Sean Carey, Software Architect, SPS Commerce.
"Moving to Oracle SOA Suite 11g allows us to lower the complexity
and cost of developing, deploying, managing and monitoring our SOA-based
applications."
-- "The Oracle Identity Management 11g release will enable reduced
costs for the state of Delaware in its primary initiative of trying to
go green. It will help reduce the number of citizens going out to sites,
as well as the paperwork that's being generated every day,"
stated Li Wen Lin, IdM Project Manager, State of Delaware.
-- "Vanderbilt University is looking forward to leveraging Oracle
WebLogic Server 11g, given its performance advantages and diagnostic
capabilities. These features will be especially important as our IT
needs and data volumes are ever-growing. With Oracle WebLogic Server as
the foundation of the 11g release, Oracle is taking Oracle Fusion
Middleware to yet another level," said Tim Getsay, Associate Vice
Chancellor, Management Information Systems, Vanderbilt University.
Supporting Resources
-- Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
-- Oracle SOA Suite 11g
-- Oracle WebLogic Suite 11g
-- Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g
-- Oracle PartnerNetwork
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