Oracle Application Integration Architecture

Oracle Application Integration Architecture Announced

Oracle has announced its Oracle Application Integration Architecture, an open, standards-based platform for business process management across Oracle, third- party, and custom applications.

The Oracle Application Integration Architecture will be open to ISVs who can use it to integrate with Oracle Applications. Customers can extend the platform to legacy applications. As part of the architecture, Oracle is delivering pre-built integrations across Oracle ERP, CRM and industry applications using a common object model and an open, Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) based platform. The common object model is the same object model to be used in Oracle Fusion applications. Additionally, customers will be able to extend the object model and have those extensions protected during upgrades.

As part of the architecture, Oracle plans on delivering horizontal and industry-specific Process Integration Packs, which provide pre-integrated business flows across Oracle's portfolio of applications.With the pre-built, integration packs, Oracle hopes to help reduce the cost to deploy and maintain integrations, while supporting a more adaptive application infrastructure.

Initial available process integration packages include:

• Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite, which is intended to support the opportunity-to-quote process and includes auto conversion of opportunities to quotes and quotes to orders.
• Oracle's Siebel CRM Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Order Management, which is expected to support the order-to-cash process lifecycle, including capabilities for complex product configuration, inventory availability, automated order processing, price synchronization and real time order status.

Oracle also says it will deliver Industry Reference Models -- tools and documented business processes to create integrated process flows across heterogeneous environments. With these models, developers adopt industry best practices and implement processes that meet specific business needs and should be protected through upgrade cycles.