Partners Use Oracle® BPEL Process Manager to Facilitate SOA Implementation and Simplify Integration for Customers

Industry Support for Oracle BPEL Process Manager

A wide range of partners have built complementary solutions to Oracle's process-based integration technology for application connectivity, business-to-business integration, process modeling, Web services management and security. These partners include Aepona, Attunity, Edifecs, GT Software, IDS Scheer, ILOG, iWay Software, Itemfield, NEON Systems, NetManage, Pervasive Software, Popkin Software, ProActivity, Proforma, SOA Software, Systinet and WRQ.

"Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle BPEL Process Manager signify years of technological leadership and expertise in application integration," said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technologies, Oracle. "Our partnerships with leading ISVs and infrastructure technology vendors demonstrate the importance of this technology for a broad spectrum of markets, while also providing customers with access to cost-effective SOA and integration solutions."

Oracle BPEL Process Manager is part of Oracle Business Integration, a comprehensive offering designed to meet the various challenges customers face when integrating enterprise systems and applications while moving to an SOA and enterprise Grid infrastructure. According to a Morgan Stanley survey of CIOs, published on Dec. 15, 2004, integration is one of the top priorities for IT departments in 2005. With Gartner placing integration costs at 40 percent of the total cost of application development and maintenance, integration technology and SOAs are increasingly important elements of IT strategy. Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the company's ecosystem of partners are delivering complete and reliable solutions that help customers maximize returns on their IT budgets and realize the benefits of SOAs.

Growing Adoption of Oracle BPEL Process Manager

"Aepona and Oracle understand that telecoms firms have the same set of needs as other business in terms of their strategic IT partnerships. For too long now telecoms firms have been unable to reap the advantages that Web services can bring. In short, operators need carrier-grade applications that support these standards and allow them to address their customers' ever-changing needs. As a business integration partner with Oracle, Aepona is helping telecommunications operators worldwide to build new and exciting converged voice and data solutions. At a technical level, Aepona's Causeway architecture provides Parlay-X Web services and has successfully validated Oracle BPEL Process Manager. But at the customer level this means that operators and their partners can develop new customer-enhancing applications much more rapidly and cost-effectively than they could in the past," said Liam McQuillan, CEO, Aepona.

"Oracle's BPEL Process Manager will be a significant catalyst for enterprises looking for a cost-effective way to adopt SOA and Enterprise grid infrastructures," said Danny Sapir, vice president, Marketing, Attunity. "With a combination of Oracle's process manager and Attunity's Data Integration Suite, enterprises can eliminate the barrier between business users and the enterprise information locked in legacy and mainframe data silos."

"Edifecs is excited to partner with Oracle on providing a comprehensive integration infrastructure," said Sunny Singh, CEO, Edifecs. "Oracle's integration approach will materially assist in streamlining integration efforts for enterprises as well as significantly reducing the cost and time for integration. Edifecs EDI adapter, supporting a rich list of EDI standards for various industries, will allow users to process EDI transactions both natively as well as within the SOA environments."

"The use of Oracle BPEL Process Manager to consume mainframe Web services generated by the GT Software Ivory product is a natural extension of the process to include the mainframe into an SOA," said Wilson Rains, vice president of Alliance, GT Software.

"Both ILOG and Oracle are committed to customer success. ILOG is pleased to extend its partnership with Oracle by integrating the ILOG Business Rule Management System with Oracle BPEL Process Manager," said Bountharang Ing, Chief Operating Officer, ILOG. "Our combined solution will allow business users to create and edit policies from within Oracle BPM applications, eliminating the need for traditional software coding. This translates quickly into new levels of agility, decreased maintenance costs and faster business response times."

"Our customers are turning to service oriented architecture to develop collaborative software systems that integrate dissimilar business processes and the underlying systems," said John Senor, president of iWay Software. "Combining iWay and Oracle technologies can meet that demand quickly, easily and flexibly."

"Oracle recognizes that the efficient integration of unstructured data is key to the overall success of most business integration initiatives," said Dan Carmel, CEO, Itemfield. "Itemfield ContentMaster for Oracle BPEL Process Manager brings significant new value to Oracle Business Integration Suite customers and reinforces Itemfield's position as the platform of choice for complex data integration."

"NEON is pleased to support Oracle BPEL Process Manager. Oracle has demonstrated its technology vision and leadership in Web services and SOA by providing a solution that allows organizations to reduce time and costs associated with the deployment of process-centric composite applications. The combination of NEON's Shadow RTE and Oracle's solution that spans the enterprise, from distributed applications to legacy mainframe systems, to enable them to quickly adapt their infrastructure to changing business requirements for competitive advantage and a higher ROI," said Mark Cresswell, president and CEO, NEON Systems.

"Leveraging NetManage's proven technology and core competency in legacy and application integration with Oracle BPEL Process Manager enables enterprises to capitalize on the existing investments in mission-critical applications and bring new corporate and line-of-business solutions to market quickly and easily, at a lower cost," said Andy Murchison, vice president of Worldwide Alliances for NetManage, Inc. "Together with Oracle, we help to ensure that customers deploying Web services using the NetManage solution suite have the best tools to manage and secure production-ready applications."

"Pervasive is pleased to partner with Oracle, one of the world's leading software technology providers," said David Sikora, president and CEO, Pervasive Software. "Oracle customers now have a cost-effective alternative to enabling hundreds of information sources as they adopt service oriented architecture principles. Pervasive adapters are backed by fifteen years of data integration experience and offer customers a new choice to reduce the cost, complexity and skills required to enhance business productivity through process integration."

"Popkin and Oracle have successfully partnered to deliver the first-available, integrated BPM solution that supports architecture development through process execution and monitoring for closed loop business process management. This is enabled by the combination of Popkin's System Architect with Oracle BPEL Process Manager. This solution leverages our respective technology expertise to give architects an efficient way to add modeling and architecture to their BPM initiatives. We are excited to work with Oracle to provide organizations with the latest technology for improved BPM development," said Jan Popkin, CEO, Popkin Software.

"ProActivity is committed to BPEL as the ultimate language of choice for process information exchange related to process analysis, design and optimization," stated Avi A. Fogel, CEO of ProActivity, Inc. "ProActivity's process analysis and design software suite now includes Fusion and InFusion for Oracle, which allow import and export from Oracle BPEL Process Manager. Included in the interchange are important constructs such as Partner Links." "

Well understood and optimized process definitions - via process modeling tools like Proforma's ProVision - and the implementation of those processes via Oracle BPEL Process Manager, will be the primary factor in today's successful BPM programs," said Jerry Huchzermeier, chief technology officer, Proforma. "We are confident that Proforma's partnership with Oracle will enable our customers to further realize the potential of their enterprise models portfolio by driving the design of executable SOA business processes."

"SOA Software's award-winning Service Manager, Registry and XML VPN products integrate with Oracle BPEL Process Manager to provide a complete SOA based integration platform," said Roberto Medrano, executive vice president, Sales and Marketing, SOA Software. "Customers can leverage the industry-leading SOA security, management and governance infrastructure together with Oracle BPEL Process Manager to reduce the cost of enterprise application integration initiatives." "Systinet is committed to a standards-based approach to SOA, and believes BPEL is critical for orchestrating business services," said Roman Stanek, Systinet Founder and CSO.

"Systinet implements the OASIS Technical Note for mapping BPEL processes to UDDI, contributing to the Business Service Registry as the SOA system-of-record. We're very pleased to support Oracle's BPEL initiative and Oracle BPEL Process Manager."

"With a majority of companies' critical data locked away in various legacy applications, Oracle customers can now use WRQ Verastream within their service-oriented architecture to rapidly expose legacy application logic and data as reusable components in Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle BPEL Process Manager," said Randy Robinson, vice president of products at WRQ. "Oracle users will witness how WRQ Verastream makes legacy systems appear as just any other modern application. This interoperability makes us a perfect fit for the Oracle partner ecosystem."