Oracle Fusion Middleware: Difference between revisions

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Many of the products included under the FMW 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—compare Oracle Fusion.

Oracle acquired many of its FMW products via [https://www.oracle.com/corporate/acquisitions/index.html acquisitions]. 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 FMW 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 FMW into its "[[service-oriented architecture]] (SOA) portfolio".<ref>{{cite web

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[[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|accessdate=10 March 2012}}</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|accessdate=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 | accessdate=22 September 2010}}</ref>

According to Oracle, byas 2006of 2013, over 30120,000 organizationscustomers hadwere becomeusing FMW.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/fmw-customer-references-1946233.pdf|title = Oracle Fusion Middleware customers,Customer includingReference Booklet|date = |publisher = Oracle|last = |first = }}</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>[http://www.prnewswireoracle.com/cgi-binus/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=corporate/wwwpress/story/04-25-2006/0004346680016622_EN "Oracle Marks Key Milestone With Siebel Certification Roadmap for Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware", prnewswireOracle, 2006]</ref>

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

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== 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://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/811621 "Oracle Fusion Middleware Wins Two InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards"]</ref>

In 2007, [[Gartner| Gartner, Inc.]] wrote that "FMW 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 Weblogic 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

** Services [[Metadata registry|registry]]

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

** [[Oracle Web Cache]]

* 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 - [[Business process management]]

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

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** [[Oracle Application server B2B]]

** Oracle Service Registry

** [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webservices-manager/index.html Oracle Web Services Manager] (OWSM), - a security and monitoring product for [[web services]]<ref>{{

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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)

** [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/crystalball/overview/index.html Oracle Crystal Ball] - enables stochastic forecasting and simulation using spreadsheet models<ref>

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

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

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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 Universal ContentIdentity Management]]

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

** [[Oracle Entitlements Server]]

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** [[Oracle Adaptive Access Manager]]

** [[Oracle Virtual Directory]]

* Grid infrastructure

** Services [[Metadata registry|registry]]

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

* Performance

** [[Oracle Web Cache]]

** [[Oracle Coherence]]

==See also==

* [[OracleBEA Technology NetworkSystems]]

* [[Stellent]]

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

* [[Oracle Fusion Applications]]

* [[Oracle SOA Suite]]

* [[Oracle Identity Management]]

==References==

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==External links==

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

* [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]

* [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]

* [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]

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