Oracle Announces Oracle(R) Application Integration Architecture Release 2.5

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News Facts

--  Oracle today announced Oracle(R) Application Integration Architecture
(AIA) Release 2.5, the most extensive Oracle AIA release to date with 10
new cross-industry Process Integration Packs (PIPs) and six new
industry-specific PIPs, together with a growing library of more than 1,000
enterprise services and 100 enterprise objects.
--  With an increased focus on end-to-end industry solutions and pre-built
integrations across virtually all major Oracle and non-Oracle applications,
like SAP, Oracle AIA Release 2.5 helps organizations reduce business
process integration complexity and accelerate delivery of enterprise
application solutions with a proven and reliable SOA-based framework.
--  Oracle AIA Release 2.5 further extends the breadth and depth of support
across industries. Having already delivered on Oracle AIA Foundation Packs
Industry extensions for communications, utilities, and insurance, this
release will introduce new PIPs for manufacturing (e.g. Variant Management
-- Oracle's Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Integration to Oracle
Product Data Hub), utilities, retail and health sciences industries.
--  Oracle AIA Release 2.5, with a total 30 PIPs and four Foundation Packs,
enables critical business processes across multiple industries, and
reinforces Oracle's ongoing commitment to providing customers with
integration solutions that can be extended and more cost effectively
managed and sustained over time. Oracle AIA provides an open,
standards-based approach for organizations to integrate end-to-end business
processes across a broad range of custom, Oracle or third-party
applications, while gaining efficiencies, increasing competitive edge and
enabling lower total cost of ownership.

Oracle AIA Release 2.5 Cross-Industry PIPs Highlights Include:

--  Lead to Order: Oracle CRM On Demand to Oracle's JD Edwards World
-- provides data synchronization for Accounts, Contacts, and Products,
integrating key information to support the Opportunity-to-Quote
process.
--  Order to Cash for SAP: Oracle Order to Cash for Siebel CRM and
SAP -- allows a seamless order-to-cash business process linking Quotes and
Orders in Siebel CRM with Orders in SAP ERP.
--  Customer Master Data Management for SAP: Oracle Customer Hub
with SAP -- supports delivery of customer data sync flows with SAP in
addition to the Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel CRM.
--  Design to Release: Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne --
allows companies to control new product introductions, product innovations,
and product revisions from the initial design to the release to the
manufacturing floor using standard approval processes.
--  Project Management: Oracle Primavera to the Oracle E-Business
Suite and Oracle Primavera to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne -- provides seamless
integration between the two and Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project
Portfolio Management. This allows users to create projects in JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne, Oracle Project Portfolio Management or P6 Enterprise Project
Portfolio Management and synchronize project structures, activities,
resource details and assignments, budgets, actual costs, progress and cost
to complete.
--  Supply Chain Planning: Oracle Value Chain Planning applications
to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne -- customers gain powerful capabilities not
available in their current solution to enable best-practices in trade
management, demand signal management, risk management, supply and
distribution planning, demand management, advanced forecasting, sales and
operations planning, inventory postponement, collaborative planning and
corporate-wide planning performance management.
--  Workforce Administration: PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 Human
Capital Management -- provides a publication of Person, Job, and Profile
data using Enterprise Business Objects and Services that can be integrated
to a desired target subscription application.

Oracle AIA Release 2.5 Industry PIPs Include:

--  Health Sciences: Oracle Remote Data Capture to Oracle's Siebel
Clinical Trial Management System -- synchronize study site information;
automate patient enrollment tracking and study activity tracking for
electronic data capture and clinical trials management systems.
--  Utilities Field Work: Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing
to Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management and Oracle Utilities Work
and Asset Management -- supports the
end-to-end business processes associated with Field Work on each
application in various stages of the Field Work lifecycle.
--  High Tech/Manufacturing: Siebel CRM to Oracle Incentive
Compensation -- provides a sustained integrated Oracle Application
Integration Architecture based incentive compensation solution for the
Siebel CRM install base including telcos and high-tech.
--  Retail Financial Control: Oracle Financial Operations Control
Integration Pack for Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite and the Oracle
E-Business Suite Financials -- provides pre-configured integration to
support more efficient inventory valuation, revenue recognition, and
merchandising procure to pay processes.

Supporting Quote

--  "Oracle Application Integration Release 2.5 is the most extensive
release yet and reinforces our unwavering commitment to reducing the cost
of integration for our customers through the Oracle Application Integration
Architecture," said Oracle Vice President of Application Development and
Product Strategy for AIA Jose Lazares. "Once again, Oracle is innovating
beyond expectations and providing our customers with the integrations
required to ease enterprise application deployments, save time and reserve
resources even further."

Supporting Resources

--  Oracle Application Integration
Architecture
--  Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Blog
--  Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Overview Video
--  Oracle
Application Integration Architecture Customers and Partners Speak
Out
--  Podcast:  Oracle Application Integration Architecture -
Bringing It All Together -- Part One
--  Podcast:  Oracle Application Integration Architecture -
Bringing It All Together -- Part Two

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