Oracle Fusion Middleware Overview
Lets briefly discuss about Oracle Fusion Middleware and one liner on its various components to give you a feel of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
What is Fusion Middleware ?
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of oracle product’s which will help in application development and integration solution to Identity Management, Collaboration Suite & Business Intelligence reports.
Various products of Fusion Middleware Family are
Application Server
BPA Suite (Business Process Analysis)
Business Integration
Business Intelligence
Collaboration Suite (Content, RTC, Mail Server, Discussion, Calendar)
Data Hub
Data Integrator Developer Tools
EDA Suite (Event Driven Architecture Suite)
Identity Management
SDP Suite (Service Delivery Platform)
SOA Suite (Service Oriented Architecture)
Web center Suite
For most of us grasping/understanding all of them at once is difficult so I ‘ll be discussing one liner about all these components and later I’ll cover them in detail based on each components importance & use in real world.
Application Server
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This is core component in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Various component of Application Server are Webcache, j2ee, wireless & portal and uses Infrastructure Services like Single Sign-On and Oracle Internet Directory.
Business Process Analysis (BPA)
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This helps in modelling business process and converting them to IT executable. Various components of BPA suite helps business user to design, model, simulate and optimize business process. This helps in reducing gap between strategy and actual execution of that strategy. Various components of BPA are Architect, Repository, Simulator & Publisher.
Business Integration
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Connecting or Integrating processes, Applications or information with business partners using hot pluggable products which are based on Services Oriented Architecture.