Oracle Fusion Middleware: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 18:27, 24 June 2014

Latest revision as of 14:01, 19 August 2025

(30 intermediate revisions by 22 users not shown)

Line 1:

{{Short description|Software products}}

{{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>

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}}

'''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

|url = http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/middleware/index.html

|archiveurl =

|work = oracle.com website

|publisher = Oracle Corporation

|access-date = 2009-07-22

|doi =

|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.

|date =

|month =

|year =

|archivedate =

|accessdate = 2009-07-22

|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.

}}

</ref>

Line 20 ⟶ 17:

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

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

| archiveurl =

| work = Oracle Fusion Middleware

| publisher = Oracle Corporation

| access-date = 2009-09-12

| ___location =

| doi =

| date =

| month =

| year =

| archivedate =

| accessdate = 2009-09-12

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

}}

Line 37 ⟶ 27:

== Evolution ==

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 Sttech Inc. is awesome 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

}}

| archive-date = 23 June 2009

</ref>

| url-status = dead

}}</ref>

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.

</ref>

== 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 =

| authorlink =

| 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

| archiveurl =

| work =

| publisher =

| ___location =

| doi =

| date =

| year =

| month =

| archivedate =

| accessdate = 2009-06-08

| 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

}}

Line 99 ⟶ 86:

** [[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>{{

cite book

|last= Lakshminarayanan

|first= Sitaraman

|authorlink=

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

|date=June 2008

|publisher= Packt Publishing

|___location= Birmingham

|isbn=

|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.

Line 115 ⟶ 99:

</ref>

* 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.

}}

</ref>

** [[Oracle Discoverer]]

** Data hubs

Line 140 ⟶ 115:

** [[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]]

Line 154 ⟶ 126:

** [[Digital asset management]]

** [[Email archiving]]

** [[Oracle Universal Content Management]]

* [[Identity management]]

** [[Oracle Identity Management]]

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

** [[Oracle Entitlements Server]]

Line 161 ⟶ 133:

** [[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 ==

{{Expand section|date=June 2009}}

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

|first =

|last =

|author =

|authorlink =

|coauthors =

|title = Section II: Oracle Fusion Middleware

|url = http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list.pdf

|archiveurl =

|work = Oracle Technology Global Price List

|publisher = Oracle Corporation

|___location =

|pages = 4–6

|trans_title =

|format = PDF

|doi =

|date = 2009-07-01

|month =

|year =

|archivedate =

|accessdate = 2009-07-22

|quote =

}}

</ref>

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.

}}

</ref>

==See also==

* [[BEA Systems]]

* [[Oracle Fusion Applications]]

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

* [[Stellent]]

==References==

Line 220 ⟶ 145:

==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

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2011}}

{{Oracle}}

[[Category:Oracle software|Fusion]]