Oracle boosts integration software

Rethink IT, June, 2004

Oracle will update its 10g Application Server and E-Business application suite this summer with improved integration software, in a bid to boost revenue from this source.

Both products will incorporate 'business activity monitoring' (BAM), tools that collect data from corporate applications and use it to view business activities.

Oracle will couple the monitoring tools with its existing. business intelligence products. This will allow companies to track ongoing operations, such as the progress of order fulfillment, and analyze relevant historical information, such as a supplier's record on meeting inventory demands.

The introduction of the new software is part of Oracle's strategy to bring in more revenue from integration, following its January launch of Customer Data Hub, and XMI-based product to collect customer information.

Oracle's push into process driven integration software mirrors the efforts of its competitors, such as IBM, BEA Systems and Microsoft, which are readying server-based applications that use the BPEL-based workflow software. Several other smaller companies, such as Sonic Software and Software AG, have XML and Java-based software aimed at reducing the cost of integration.