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• #9: Oracle JDeveloper 10G is a comprehensive development tool that provides facilities to build Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Applications using a common development tool set. Thjs tool has been evolved to provide what Gartner Group refers to as an ISSE – an Integrated environment that allows a developer to model and generate SOA; to write SOA in an IDE; or to use wizards to generate SOA.
• #10: Oracle Application Development Framework is a Model-View-Controller style (MVC-style) framework that is aimed at allowing developers to visually and declaratively develop sophisticated J2EE Applications that can run on Oracle’s Application Server and other Application Servers. ADF allows developers to select the choice of technology that they want to use in building applications while retaining a common framework. For instance: The View or Presentation layer can be built using Java Server Pages (JSP) or Java Server Faces (JSF). The Controller which is the component that receives events from the client, interprets them and invokes the appropriate business logic can be either 100% standard Struts or a Java Server Faces Controller. Finally, the Model or Business Logic can either be Java classes (or Plain Old Java Objects), Enterprise Java Beans, Web Services or other sources that are bound into the application through a standard data-binding layer. Metadata Services: A common set of metadata services (MDS) manages the metadata for the applications built using ADF allowing end-user customization to be made declaratively. Several major customers are now using ADF to build Enterprise J2EE Applications. POSCO Steel in Korea is one such customer. Oracle e-Business Suite Self-Service modules are all developed using ADF – when measured, ADF provided e-Business Suite developers between a 27-35% productivity improvement.
• #11: The Oracle Containers for J2EE has been enhanced in many important ways: J2EE 1.4 Compliance: The Container is fully certified to support J2EE 1.4 for production deployments including all the new features for Servlets, JSPs, and Enterprise Java Beans. JMS Improvements: There are several JMS improvements including the support of a JMS Bridge that allows Oracle JMS Providers to bridge to non-Oracle Messaging Systems including MQ-Series, TIBCO, MSMQ, SONIC and other JMS Providers. JMS also has been enhanced to support multiple transports to make it a more pluggable architecture. Finally, a new Java Job Scheduler has been introduced in 10GR2. This is derived from the standard EJB Timer Service but has a number of features to support batch and scheduled job execution. All of Oracle’s different JMS Providers are also now clusterable with the ability to replicate session state for failover across JMS providers in an OC4J cluster. Data Source Improvements: The data source layer of OC4J has also been re-architected with a new and cleaner architecture for emulated and non-emulated data sources and a faster, more efficient commit coordination mechanism with the data sources. Any data source – a JDBC source, a JCA source, an EJB, a Message Driven Bean, a JMS Provider, or a Web Service – can participate in a 2PC operation. Application Deployment: The Application Deployment model has changed to comply with industry standards supporting both JSR-77 & JSR-88 with a fast, incremental compilation upon deployment model. JSR-77/88 Deployment works for both single instance and cluster-wide deployment of Applications. Application Management: The Application Lifecycle Management model has changed to be based on industry standards – JMX. OC4J provides a 100% standards compliant JMX MBean Server. All system components of OC4J are monitored using JMX (eg. monitoring information from DMS is presented as MBeans); all configuration changes to OC4J are made via a JMX interface; any J2EE Application
• #13: In addition to performance improvements, Oracle Application Server 10GR2 also includes a number of scalability improvements. These scalability improvements are designed to use pools of low cost computers to run Enterprise Applications more efficiently by dynamically adjusting capacity to those workloads or applications that need them. This is carried out through a new components in Oracle Application Server called the Dynamic Resource Manager. The Dynamic Resource Manager consists of the following three components working together: Dynamic Monitoring Service: that monitors resource usage and performance of the Application Server and individual Applications. DMS statistics are placed in a workload repository against which an expert system runs to recommend a best-practice workload distribution policy. Oracle Enterprise Manager: that collects the information generated by DMS and also visualizes the different workload distribution policies including the Oracle recommended best-practice policy. OPMN and mod_OC4J: that work together to implement the chosen workload distribution policy and automatically manage to start up new Application Server instances or shut them down as required by individual applications; and route requests to them based on their resource consumption levels and the workload distribution policy. The Dynamic Resource Manager provides customers two important benefits: Less Administrative Overhead: It reduces the need for continual, complex and tedious performance tuning of systems by administrators. Less Cost: It also lowers cost by using capacity more efficiently.
• #14: A major enhancement in Oracle Application Server 10GR2 is the availability of a comprehensive range of High Availability technologies. No other Application Server vendor provides even a small fraction of the High Availability solutions that Oracle provides. Oracle offers a comprehensive range of solutions to reduce planned and unplanned downtime. These include: Zero Planned Downtime: Oracle Application Server 10GR2 provides a range of solutions to reduce the need to shut down OC4J for planned maintenance operations including deployment of applications; making configuration changes; or upgrading the system. Zero Unplanned Downtime: Oracle Application Server 10GR2 provides a range of solutions to reduce downtime from all kinds of failures. These include: (I) Automated Backup and Recovery tool to take backups of the Application Server and all its components; (ii) Application Server Flashback to correct administrative or human errors; (iii) Application Server Clusters to protect against software failures; (iv) Support for vendor clusterware and Oracle CRS (Cluster Ready Services) to protect against hardware failures; and (v) Oracle Application Server Guard to protect against site failures or for disaster recovery. With or without Oracle Database: These solutions can be used independently; they can also be used in concert with the corresponding High Availability technologies from the Oracle Database such as Real Application Clusters; Automatic Storage Management; Oracle Cluster Ready Services; Oracle Cluster File System; RMAN; and DataGuard. No other Application Server vendor can provide similar integration with the Oracle Database.
• #16: 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. Better, you can adopt it incrementally on a project by project basis and still benefit from the common security, management, deployment architecture, development tools, etc. that you get out of the box. Oracle SOA Suite consists of Oracle's most popular, best-of-breed technologies including: J2EE: ========================= 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. CONNECTIVITY: ========================= Adapters B2B SES ROUTING & ORCHESTRATION: ========================= Oracle Enterprise Service Bus: a standards-based multi-protocol bus to virtualize endpoints as services 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. Oracle Business Rules Engine: enables agile management of business rules. GOVERNANCE: ========================= Oracle Web Services Manager: a single console to secure and manage your Web services. UDDI Registry MANAGEMENT & MONITORING: ========================= Oracle Business Activity Monitoring: delivers real-time insight into business operations. Oracle Services Registry: a best of breed UDDI v3 registry. END-USER DESIGN TOOLS: ========================= JDeveloper for Developers and Integrators BPA Suite for Business Analysts Oracle SOA Suite is compatible with other middleware platforms including Oracle Fusion Middleware, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, and JBoss Application Server.
• #24: The top 6 boxes show our user facing components – everything you need in a complete BI suite – dashboards, answers (for ad-hoc querying), office add-ins, highly formatted reporting (via BI Publisher), alerting engine – even a fully feature disconnected mode. The BI Server is capable of intelligently federating and navigating across all relevant enterprise data sources shown at the bottom. This includes Oracle and non-Oracle sources, relational and multidimensional sources as well as structured or unstructured data. One key feature of the BI server is the Common Enterprise Information Model – this metadata layer provides the opportunity to define measures, dimensions, hierarchies and more on an enterprise wide basis. The enterprise information model also insulates you from changes to your physical systems – upgrading a database from one vendor to another or even changing the grain of data stored in a particular column will not affect reports or dashboards – a simple change in the metadata layer will accommodate this.
• #28: Instead of an integrated approach to enterprise content management – Stellent offers a unified or universal approach to enterprise content management. Meaning Stellent offers: A single content repository – to store all your content no matter if it’s a record, image, Web content or video And a common set of core functionality – such as security, workflow, search capabilities for all content {enter – slide animation} Then depending on the needs of your business applications, in Stellent, you can easily turn on different content management functionality – such as document and imaging management, Web content management, records and retention management, digital asset management and collaboration {enter – slide animation} One of the benefits of this unified approach is that you now have one user interface and API to access not only the content but also the services. An enterprise content management “service” might be to ‘search content,’ ‘check in content,’ or ‘get HTML version.’ And that is because Stellent Universal Content Management was designed from the ground up with a service-oriented architecture. {enter – slide animation} Finally, beyond the single API, organizations can easily support multiple composite applications on top of Stellent. And the system can growth with your organization and address your content management needs for today and the future. While you may be wanting to implement a business application that requires document management and Web content management today – With Stellent, you can easily turn on retention management functionality one day in the future when you are prepared to address those needs as well.
• #30: Oracle Application Server 10GR2 also introduces new, industry-leading capability to collect and process RFID information. The Oracle RFID Sensor Edge Server allows customers to: Collect and Filter RFID Information: From a variety of RFID hardware devices each of which have different RFID event formats. It can also filter RFID messages to detect and eliminate erroneous messages and duplicates. To Store RFID Messages: The RFID Server places filtered RFID messages via JMS to AQ from where it is persisted in an Oracle Database for query purposes. To invoke Applications: From RFID Messages, J2EE Applications can be invoked as Message Driven Beans. To kick off BPEL Processes: From RFID Messages, BPEL Processes can be invoked via the AQ/JMS Adapter. To integrate with the e-Business Suite: RFID Facilities in Oracle Application Server can be used to integrate RFID events with the e-Business Suite’s warehouse management facilities. The RFID events are also integrated with Oracle Application Server’s event processing infrastructure. These RFID facilities provide two important customer benefits: Comprehensive RFID Processing Infrastructure: It provides a comprehensive software infrastructure to process RFID events and integrate them with a customer’s corporate I/T infrastructure as opposed to standalone RFID solutions. Provides Investment Protection: Today, there are no standard RFID event formats. As a result, different hardware readers generate events in different formats. Oracle’s RFID Server normalizes this information, thereby allowing you to build Business Applications that are independent of the specific hardware reader chosen. Further, this also protects the application should you choose to change the RFID hardware platform at some point in the future.
• #36: Oracle Application Server 10GR2 also introduces new, industry-leading capability to collect and process RFID information. The Oracle RFID Sensor Edge Server allows customers to: Collect and Filter RFID Information: From a variety of RFID hardware devices each of which have different RFID event formats. It can also filter RFID messages to detect and eliminate erroneous messages and duplicates. To Store RFID Messages: The RFID Server places filtered RFID messages via JMS to AQ from where it is persisted in an Oracle Database for query purposes. To invoke Applications: From RFID Messages, J2EE Applications can be invoked as Message Driven Beans. To kick off BPEL Processes: From RFID Messages, BPEL Processes can be invoked via the AQ/JMS Adapter. To integrate with the e-Business Suite: RFID Facilities in Oracle Application Server can be used to integrate RFID events with the e-Business Suite’s warehouse management facilities. The RFID events are also integrated with Oracle Application Server’s event processing infrastructure. These RFID facilities provide two important customer benefits: Comprehensive RFID Processing Infrastructure: It provides a comprehensive software infrastructure to process RFID events and integrate them with a customer’s corporate I/T infrastructure as opposed to standalone RFID solutions. Provides Investment Protection: Today, there are no standard RFID event formats. As a result, different hardware readers generate events in different formats. Oracle’s RFID Server normalizes this information, thereby allowing you to build Business Applications that are independent of the specific hardware reader chosen. Further, this also protects the application should you choose to change the RFID hardware platform at some point in the future.
• #44: 35 of World’s 50 Largest Companies 9 of World’s 10 Largest High-Tech Cos. 7 of World’s 10 Largest Financial Svcs. Cos. 9 of World’s 10 Largest Telecomm. Cos. 8 of World’s 10 Largest Diversified Cos. 8 of World’s 10 Largest Automotive Cos. 8 of World’s 10 Largest Manufacturing Cos. 7 of World’s 10 Largest Health Care Cos. 6 of World’s 10 Largest Retail Cos. Independent of Applications & DBMS
• #47: eWeek – Analyst Choice Award – ‘Oracle Database 10g Does More, Demands Less” July 2004, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1618793,00.asp - Top 10 Product of 2004, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1742108,00.asp I.E. – Readers’ Choice Award: Best DBMS for Data Warehousing August 2004, http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2004_aug/ie%20awards.html CRN – “Simply put, Oracle 10g is by far the most sophisticated database on the market today.” November 2004, http://crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=51200908 DM Review2004 Readers Award - DM Review, the premier publication for business intelligence and analytics, announced Oracle as the winner of its 2004 Readership Awards for Database and Data Store. Oracle also won in the following categories: (1) Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management & Web Analytics, (2) Collaboration, Portals, Unstructured Data, Content Management & Knowledge Management, (3) Data Quality http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1012960 SSPA - http://globalxchange.oraclecorp.com/pls/gxchange/docs/PAGE/ROOTCORNER/PRACTICESORGANIZATIONS/CORPORATE_ORGS/WWMARKETING/SENDMAILS/IN_THE_KNOW/ITK_2K4_REDESIGN/ITK_HTML_FILES/NOVEMBER_ITK_HTML_ITEMS/11_08_04_STANDARD_EDITION/ITK_2_STAR_AWARDS.HTML Oracle Support Services recently received two 2004 Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Awards for superior customer support service from the Service and Support Professionals Association (SSPA). The leading industry organization for information technology (IT) support professionals, the SSPA recognized Oracle in the “Innovative Support” category, based on advanced systems and processes for delivering top-quality technical support to its customers. The Association also honored Oracle with the WebSTAR Service Award for the company’s Web-based support offerings that significantly reduce customers’ time to resolution.
• #48: eWeek – Analyst Choice Award – ‘Oracle Database 10g Does More, Demands Less” July 2004, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1618793,00.asp - Top 10 Product of 2004, http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1742108,00.asp I.E. – Readers’ Choice Award: Best DBMS for Data Warehousing August 2004, http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2004_aug/ie%20awards.html CRN – “Simply put, Oracle 10g is by far the most sophisticated database on the market today.” November 2004, http://crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=51200908 DM Review2004 Readers Award - DM Review, the premier publication for business intelligence and analytics, announced Oracle as the winner of its 2004 Readership Awards for Database and Data Store. Oracle also won in the following categories: (1) Analytic Applications, Business Performance Management & Web Analytics, (2) Collaboration, Portals, Unstructured Data, Content Management & Knowledge Management, (3) Data Quality http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1012960 SSPA - http://globalxchange.oraclecorp.com/pls/gxchange/docs/PAGE/ROOTCORNER/PRACTICESORGANIZATIONS/CORPORATE_ORGS/WWMARKETING/SENDMAILS/IN_THE_KNOW/ITK_2K4_REDESIGN/ITK_HTML_FILES/NOVEMBER_ITK_HTML_ITEMS/11_08_04_STANDARD_EDITION/ITK_2_STAR_AWARDS.HTML Oracle Support Services recently received two 2004 Software Technical Assistance Recognition (STAR) Awards for superior customer support service from the Service and Support Professionals Association (SSPA). The leading industry organization for information technology (IT) support professionals, the SSPA recognized Oracle in the “Innovative Support” category, based on advanced systems and processes for delivering top-quality technical support to its customers. The Association also honored Oracle with the WebSTAR Service Award for the company’s Web-based support offerings that significantly reduce customers’ time to resolution.