Infosys’ blog on industry solutions, trends, business process transformation and global implementation in Oracle.

Main

January 02, 2009

Oracle and BEA- The Real Fusion

Three years back Oracle concocted Fusion middleware to integrate and merge all its key enterprise applications into a high quality Fusion Application. Who would have thought that even Fusion middleware will undergo further Fusion? Acquisition of BEA Systems last year has enabled Oracle to position itself as the strongest in providers of middleware and java technologies for enterprises. Last two quarters we have seen a sea change in Oracle’s middleware strategy for most of its customers. Ambiguity and turbulence generated in customers and solution providers due to overlapping seem to be fading now. 2009 is expected to bring better understanding of the strategy of Oracle and its right adoption.

Continue reading "Oracle and BEA- The Real Fusion" »

Posted by Gaurav Sharma at 12:32 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

Leveraging Oracle SOA For A Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)

Details of the successful SOA implementation using  Oracle Fusion middleware for a RHIO.

Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a way to electronically make personal and medical information securely available among doctors, hospitals and other health care providers when it is needed for care. A secure electronic HIE allows patients to make sure their health information is available when they need it while seeking medical care or treatment. HIE enables authorized physicians and other health care providers to share a patient's clinical results across institutional boundaries.

Client utilizes a healthcare industry standard, which is based on XML, that could be easily consumed by other systems. Client also wanted to expose internal services encapsulating the data repository to external world so as to be easily consumed by other systems.

Continue reading "Leveraging Oracle SOA For A Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO)" »

Posted by Sreekumar Gopalakrishnan at 03:52 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

December 11, 2008

Handling Integration Crisis with Composite Applications

No prize for guessing what is the talk of the town in business world, the biggest economy slump so far in past three decades. Where will it end up? Will it redefine the way IT runs? Certainly the economic slowdown that has dwelled on business and IT worlds both has imposed deeper crisis of application integration. Business owners now look at IT to run the larger and complex business operations than just building specific processes bundled in thickly stacked applications. To address “the crisis” organizations are moving away from monolithic applications to “composite applications” offering flexible solutions adaptable to rapid changes. Oracle with its AIA framework brings lot of impetus to this new wave.

Continue reading "Handling Integration Crisis with Composite Applications" »

Posted by Gaurav Sharma at 06:48 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

November 02, 2008

SOA 11g delayed!!!

Last week I was at Oracle partner briefing on technology stack. It was quite interesting and informative. The discussion was around BEA acquisition and integrating the existing Fusion product with BEA.

Continue reading "SOA 11g delayed!!!" »

Posted by Malay Kumar at 11:15 AM | | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

September 10, 2008

Six questions to analyze if your company is ready for SOA

In today’s extremely competitive world any business needs a robust yet adaptable IT infrastructure. The growing information needs make it imperative to replace the old systems with new Enterprise Applications. And even Enterprise applications need to upgrade from time to time. Your organization ends up spending a large amount of IT budgets in managing integrations with each new release and upgrade. You must protect the investments in existing applications and leverage the returns from existing systems. Only then your organization can improve the responsiveness of its changing business needs.

Continue reading "Six questions to analyze if your company is ready for SOA" »

Posted by Gaurav Sharma at 12:11 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (1)

August 06, 2008

Oracle SOA– (S)calable, (O)pen and (A)daptable

Service Oriented Architecture is a win-win solution for organizations today that have an utmost need for modernizing their legacy IT assets to sustain in a competitive world. At the same time the indispensible legacy gamut of applications needs to be retained.

Continue reading "Oracle SOA– (S)calable, (O)pen and (A)daptable" »

Posted by Gaurav Sharma at 02:27 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

July 30, 2008

Fusion Middleware – Not Just a Middleware

We have always known a Middleware as a software program that integrates two or more disparate applications. Anyone having first encounters with Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) will tend to reckon it as a collection of middleware products. The fact is it is not just a middleware; it is much more than that.

Continue reading "Fusion Middleware – Not Just a Middleware" »

Posted by Gaurav Sharma at 11:46 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

July 11, 2008

Upgrading to Oracle R12? Keep Fusion in mind

R12 is a milestone in Journey to Fusion

Oracle’s E-Business Suite Release 12 is Oracle’s latest version of their business applications with an upgrade path to Oracle Fusion Application. The technology stack is upgraded to Fusion Middleware, the backbone of Fusion Applications.

Continue reading "Upgrading to Oracle R12? Keep Fusion in mind" »

Posted by Malay Kumar at 03:03 PM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

June 10, 2008

Path to the Fusion

path_to_Fusion.JPG

Continue reading "Path to the Fusion" »

Posted by Rizwan M.K. at 12:21 AM | | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

June 02, 2008

Having Confusion around Fusion!!!!!!!!!!!

I am around Oracle Fusion and SOA for last 3 Years now. It seems to me even though Oracle provides ton of information around the same, we have people still confused about Fusion. As a Fusion technology practitioner, we do get questions. I wanted to start my blog on Infosys blog site by posting few of questions.

 

 

Continue reading "Having Confusion around Fusion!!!!!!!!!!!" »

Posted by Malay Kumar at 03:44 AM | | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)