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Oracle's Fusion 11g lays groundwork for ERP platform


By David Worthington
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July 1, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 3)
Oracle's Fusion Middleware 11g introduces an integrated, pluggable component architecture that lays the foundation for its next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, but Fusion's full advantages are only realized when every component is Oracle-supplied, analysts say.

The 11g suite, released today, includes new versions of Oracle Coherence, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle JRockit, and WebLogic Server, as well as an array of additional middleware to enable an event-driven architecture (EDA) within enterprises.

The company also delivered WebCenter Suite 11g, a new version of its enterprise portal platform that integrates with Enterprise Manager, Oracle's environment for configuring and managing applications. Some of its highlights are a team environment for projects, integration with Microsoft Office, and social computing services to help users collaborate on work.

Ultimately, Oracle's goal with Fusion is to create not only best-of-breed middleware, but also "to build the foundation for the next-generation ERP system," said Stefan Ried, a senior analyst at Forrester Research. Fusion is the keystone of a long-term replacement for Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft and Siebel, and Oracle may disclose its full vision of ERP at its OpenWorld 2009 conference in October, he added.

The broader strategy is evidenced by Fusion's integration of Oracle Identity Management 11g with other Fusion middleware, as well as Oracle’s investment in its JRockit Java Virtual Machine and its Coherence distributed data caching system, he said. "It is for large-scale ERP types of applications built in Java."

In Fusion 11g, Coherence has been tied into Oracle's TopLink Java object-to-relational mapping and persistence tool, providing for large-scale Java object caching.

This "tera-scale" caching, according to Software AG deputy CTO Miko Matsumura, might displace reliance on traditional relational SQL database infrastructure.

And Anne Thomas Manes, vice president and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies, said, "I tend to agree with Miko's assertion that Java is the new SQL. Oracle's ownership of Java will give them a huge advantage going forward. For example, combine CEP [Complex Events Processing] with the Coherence object data grid, and Oracle has something very interesting and unique. This solution
maintains data from the event stream in the distributed in-memory data grid
rather than a relational database [as most other CEP solutions do].
Developers use Java to interface with the data grid; not SQL. And Java is
much more expressive than SQL."


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