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{{about|middleware technology side of Oracle Fusion which consists of two parts - Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, both running on an open architecture ecosystem - Oracle Fusion Architecture. For the fusion applications, see [[Oracle Fusion Applications]]|the open architecture ecosystem|Oracle Fusion Architecture}}

{{About|middleware technology side of Oracle Fusion which consists of two parts - Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, both running on an [[open architecture]] ecosystem - Oracle Fusion Architecture. For the fusion applications, see [[Oracle Fusion Applications]]|the open architecture ecosystem|Oracle Fusion Architecture}}

'''Oracle Fusion Middleware''' (OFM, also known as '''Fusion Middleware''') consists of several [[software]] products from [[Oracle Corporation]]. OFM spans multiple services, including [[Java EE]] and [[Software development|developer]] tools, [[Systems integration|integration]] services, [[business intelligence]], [[collaborative software|collaboration]], and [[content management]]. OFM depends on [[open standard]]s such as [[BPEL]], [[SOAP]], [[XML]] and [[Java Message Service|JMS]].<ref>

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'''Oracle Fusion Middleware''' ('''FMW''', also known as '''Fusion Middleware''') consists of several [[software]] products from [[Oracle Corporation]]. FMW spans multiple services, including [[Java EE]] and [[Software development|developer]] tools, [[Systems integration|integration]] services, [[business intelligence]], [[collaborative software|collaboration]], and [[content management]]. FMW depends on [[open standard]]s such as [[BPEL]], [[SOAP]], [[XML]] and [[Java Message Service|JMS]].<ref>

{{cite web

|title = Oracle Fusion Middleware

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|publisher = Oracle Corporation

|access-date = 2009-07-22

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|quote = Oracle's complete family of application infrastructure products – from the #1 Java application server to SOA and enterprise portals – are integrated with Oracle Applications and technologies to speed implementation and lower the cost of management and change.

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|quote = Oracle's complete family of application infrastructure products — from the #1 Java application server to SOA and enterprise portals — are integrated with Oracle Applications and technologies to speed implementation and lower the cost of management and change.

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| title = Oracle Fusion Middleware is 'Hot-Pluggable'

| url = http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/hot-pluggable.html

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| work = Oracle Fusion Middleware

| publisher = Oracle Corporation

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| quote = Oracle Fusion Middleware's hot-pluggable capabilities enables customers to 'drop & deploy' various Oracle Fusion Middleware products into their existing IT environments.

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designed<!--by the company, obviously--> to facilitate integration with existing applications and systems from other software vendors such as [[IBM]], [[Microsoft]], and [[SAP AG]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}

== Evolution == ok

Many of the products included under the OFMFMW banner do not themselves qualify as [[middleware]] products: "Fusion Middleware" essentially represents a re-branding of many of Oracle products outside of Oracle's core [[database]] and applications-software offerings&mdash;compareofferings—compare Oracle Fusion.

Oracle acquired many of its FMW products via acquisitions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/|title=Strategic Acquisitions - Oracle|website=oracle.com}}</ref> This includes products from [[BEA Systems]] and [[Stellent]].

According to Oracle, by 2006 over 30,000 organizations had become Fusion Middleware customers, including over 35 of the world's 50 largest companies and more than 750 of the ''[[BusinessWeek]]'' Global 1000, with OFM also supported by 7,500 [[business partner|partner]]s.<ref>[http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-25-2006/0004346680 "Oracle Marks Key Milestone With Siebel Certification Roadmap for Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware", prnewswire, 2006]</ref>

In order to provide standards-based software to assist with [[business process automation]], [[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] has incorporated OFMFMW into its "[[service-oriented architecture]] (SOA) portfolio".<ref>{{cite web

| url = http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/306020-0-0-0-121.html

| title = HP & Oracle Fusion Middleware and Service-Oriented Architectures

| work publisher = HP

| publisheraccess-date = HP2010-02-08

| accessdate = 2010-02-08

| quote = To address increasing customer demand for standards-based software that will help automate business processes, HP and Oracle have collaborated to incorporate Oracle Fusion Middleware into the HP Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) portfolio.

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090623135921/http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/306020-0-0-0-121.html

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Oracle leveraged its [[Configurable Network Computing]] (CNC) technology acquired from its [[PeopleSoft]]/[[JD Edwards]] 2005 purchase.

[[Oracle Fusion Applications]], based on Oracle Fusion Middleware,<ref name=ORCL-F-00>{{cite web | url=http://www.oracleappshub.com/fusion/oracle-fusion-and-oracle-fusion-applications-overview/|title=Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Fusion Applications : Overview |publisher=oracleappshub.com|accessdateaccess-date=10 March 2012|archive-date=13 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213230900/http://www.oracleappshub.com/fusion/oracle-fusion-and-oracle-fusion-applications-overview/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ORCL-F-02>{{cite web | url=http://www.middleware.org/mom/esb.html|title=Enterprise Service Bus/Service Oriented Architecture|publisher=middleware.org|accessdateaccess-date=10 March 2012}}</ref> were finally released in September 2010.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20016932-92.html | title=Oracle officially launches its Fusion apps | date=20 September 2010 | accessdateaccess-date=22 September 2010 | archive-date=26 October 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026021158/http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20016932-92.html | url-status=dead }}</ref>

According to Oracle, as of 2013, over 120,000 customers were using Fusion Middleware.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/fmw-customer-references-1946233.pdf|title = Oracle Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet|publisher = Oracle}}</ref> This includes over 35 of the world's 50 largest companies and more than 750 of the ''[[BusinessWeek]]'' Global 1000, with FMW also supported by 7,500 [[business partner|partner]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/016622_EN|title="Oracle Marks Key Milestone With Siebel Certification Roadmap for Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware", Oracle, 2006}}</ref>

== Assessments ==

In January 2008, [[Oracle WebCenter|Oracle WebCenter Content]] (formerly Universal Content Management) won ''[[InfoWorld]]'''s "Technology of the Year" award for "Best Enterprise Content Manager", with [[Oracle SOA Suite]] winning the award for "Best Enterprise Service Bus".<ref>[http{{cite web|url=https://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/811621 "|title=Oracle® Fusion Middleware Wins Two InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards"]|website=news.thomasnet.com}}</ref>

In 2007, [[Gartner| Gartner, Inc.]] wrote that "OFMOracle Fusion Middleware has reached a degree of completeness that puts it on par with, and in some cases ahead of, competing software stacks", and reported revenue from the suite of over US$1 billion during FY06, estimating the revenue from the genuinely middleware aspects at US$740 million.<ref>

Pezzini, Massimo; Barnes, Michael; Cantara, Michele; Iijima, Kimihiko (2007) "Oracle Fusion Middleware: On the Road to Service-Oriented Architecture (and Beyond)", Gartner RAS Core Research Note G00145119, Gartner, Inc.

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== Oracle Fusion Middleware components ==

* EnterpriseInfrastructure / [[applicationApplication server]]

** [[Oracle WeblogicWebLogic Server]] (WLS)

** [[Oracle Application Server]] (IAS)

** [[JRockit]] (– a [[Java Virtual Machine|JVM]]) whose functionality has now been merged to [[OpenJDK]]

** [[Tuxedo (software)]]

** [[Oracle Coherence]]

* Integration- and process-management

** Oracle Service Registry – [[metadata registry]]

** [[Application server|application-server]] security

** [[Oracle Web Cache]]

** Oracle HTTP Server - a [[web server]] based on [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache]] version 2.2.13.<ref name="adminguide">{{cite web | url=http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E15523_01/web.1111/e10144/intro_ohs.htm#i1004902 | title=Introduction to Oracle HTTP Server | accessdate=2025-07-26}}</ref>

* Integration and process-management

** [[BPEL Process Manager]]

** Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM) – [[Business activity monitoring]] (BAM)

** [[business rule]]s

** [[Business Process Analysis]] Suite

** Oracle BPM<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/bpm/overview/index.html|title=BPM - Business Process Management Software - Oracle|website=oracle.com}}</ref> – [[Business process management]]

** [[Business process management]]

** [[Oracle Data Integrator]] (ODI): – an application using the database for set-based data integration<ref>

{{cite web

| first = Mark

| last = Rittman

| author =

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| title = An Introduction to Real-Time Data Integration

| url = http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-odi.html?msgid=7689776

| access-date = 2009-06-08

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| quote = Oracle Data Integrator, a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products, [...] is a Java-based application that uses the database to perform set-based data integration tasks

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** [[Oracle Enterprise Service Bus]]

** [[Oracle Application server B2B]]

** Oracle Web Services Manager<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webservices-manager/index.html|title=Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM)|website=oracle.com}}</ref> (OWSM) - a security and monitoring product for [[web services]]<ref>{{

** Oracle Service Registry

** Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM), a security and monitoring product for [[web services]]<ref>{{

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|last= Lakshminarayanan

|first= Sitaraman

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|title= Oracle Web Services Manager: securing your web services

|date=June 2008

|publisher= Packt Publishing

|___location= Birmingham

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|page= 214

|quote= Oracle Web Services Manager, a component of SOA Suite from Oracle is a web services security and monitoring product that helps organizations not only to define and enforce security policies, but also to define and enforce the service level agreements.

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* Application development tools

** [[Oracle Application Development Framework|Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF)]]

** [[JDeveloper]]

** [[Oracle SOA Suite]]

** [[TopLink]], – a Java [[object-relational mapping]] package

** [[Oracle Forms]] services

** [[Oracle Developer Suite]]

* [[Business intelligence]]

** [[Oracle Business Intelligence 11g<ref>http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/overview/index.html</ref>Suite Enterprise Edition|Oracle Business Intelligence]] (OBIEE)

** Oracle Crystal Ball<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oracle.com/applications/crystalball/|title=Crystal Ball - Applications - Oracle|website=oracle.com}}</ref> – enables stochastic forecasting and simulation using spreadsheet models

** [[Oracle Business Activity Monitoring]] (Oracle BAM)

** Oracle Crystal Ball - enables stochastic forecasting and simulation using spreadsheet models<ref>

{{cite web

| url = http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/bus-int/crystalball/index.html

| title = Oracle Crystal Ball

| publisher = Oracle Corporation

| accessdate = 2011-03-01

| quote = Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization.

}}

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** [[Oracle Discoverer]]

** Data hubs

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** [[Oracle Enterprise Manager]]

** [[Web service]]s manager

* User interaction / [[content management]]

** [[Oracle Beehive]] – [[collaboration softwareplatform]]

** [[Oracle Portal]]

** [[Oracle WebCenter]]

** [[Real-time collaboration]]

** [[Unified messaging]]

** [[Workspace]]s

** [[ContentOracle managementWebCenter]]

** [[Oracle Imaging and Process Management]]

** [[Web content management]]

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** [[Digital asset management]]

** [[Email archiving]]

** [[Oracle Universal Content Management]]

* [[Identity management]]

** [[Oracle Identity Management]]

** [[Single sign-on|Enterprise Single sign-on]]

** [[Oracle Entitlements Server]]

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** [[Oracle Access Manager]]

** [[Oracle Adaptive Access Manager]]

** [[Oracle Information Rights Management]]

** [[Oracle Virtual Directory]]

* Grid infrastructure

** Services [[Metadata registry|registry]]

** [[Application server|application-server]] security

* Performance

** [[Oracle Web Cache]]

== Integration, pricing and bundling ==

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Apart from selling licenses to run OFM components,<ref>{{cite web

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|title = Section II: Oracle Fusion Middleware

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|work = Oracle Technology Global Price List

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Oracle Corporation also markets a managed option via the [[SaaS]] [[Oracle On Demand]] service.<ref>{{cite web

|title = Get to Fusion Faster with Oracle On Demand

|url = http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/information-insight/on-demand/oct-06/ondemand-path-to-fusion.html

|archiveurl =

|work = Oracle Information Insight

|publisher = Oracle Corporation

|___location =

|doi =

|date= October 2006

|archivedate =

|accessdate = 2009-07-22

|quote = Companies [...] can turn to Oracle On Demand [...] providing a smoother, lower-risk path to Fusion.

}}

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==See also==

* [[BEA Systems]]

* [[Oracle Fusion Applications]]

* [[Oracle SOATechnology SuiteNetwork|Oracle Technology Network (OTN)]]

* [[Stellent]]

==References==

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==External links==

* [http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html Oracle Fusion Middleware overview]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100830054926/http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=18862 KMWorld article on Oracle acquisition of Stellent]

* [http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/stellent/index.html OfficialStellent acquisition Homepagepage]

* [https://archive.today/20130105151455/http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/intradoc_users/ Yahoo!WebCenter Content Users Group for- StellentYahoo! UsersGroups]

* [https://community.oracle.com/community/fusion_middleware/webcenter/webcenter_content OTN Forum - WebCenter Content]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

* [http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=390 Oracle forum for Stellent/UCM product suite]

* [http://www.fujitsu.com/downloads/EU/uk/services/application-services/42-fusion-middleware.pdf Fujitsu.com-42 Real Life Examples of Fusion Middleware with Applications]

* [httphttps://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Fusion-Middleware-Patterns-Harish/dp/1847198325 Amazon.com Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns - Harish Gaur (Author), Markus Zirn (Contributor)]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100410000146/http://content.fm/en/ Content.FM] Content Management On Air. Broadcasting news, product updates and general purpose information about ECM and Oracle Universal Content Management

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