Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW, also known as Fusion Middleware) consists of several

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products from Oracle Corporation. FMW spans multiple services, including

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and

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tools,

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services,

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, collaboration, and

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. FMW depends on open standards such as

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and JMS. Oracle Fusion Middleware provides software for the development, deployment, and management of

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(SOA). It includes what Oracle calls "hot-pluggable" architecture, designed to facilitate integration with existing applications and systems from other software vendors such as IBM,

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, and

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Evolution

Many of the products included under the FMW banner do not themselves qualify as

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products: "Fusion Middleware" essentially represents a re-branding of many of Oracle products outside of Oracle's core

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and applications-software offerings—compare Oracle Fusion. Oracle acquired many of its FMW products via acquisitions. This includes products from

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and Stellent. In order to provide standards-based software to assist with

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, HP has incorporated FMW into its "

(SOA) portfolio". Oracle leveraged its Configurable Network Computing (CNC) technology acquired from its

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2005 purchase.

Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA) are a suite of applications built on Oracle Cloud that include cloud-based applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), supply chain management and manufacturing ( ...

, based on Oracle Fusion Middleware, were finally released in September 2010. According to Oracle, as of 2013, over 120,000 customers were using Fusion Middleware. This includes over 35 of the world's 50 largest companies and more than 750 of the ''

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'' Global 1000, with FMW also supported by 7,500

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Assessments

In January 2008, Oracle WebCenter Content (formerly Universal Content Management) won ''

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s "Technology of the Year" award for "Best Enterprise Content Manager", with

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winning the award for "Best Enterprise Service Bus". In 2007,

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wrote that "Oracle Fusion Middleware has reached a degree of completeness that puts it on par with, and in some cases ahead of, competing software stacks", and reported revenue from the suite of over US$1 billion during FY06, estimating the revenue from the genuinely middleware aspects at US$740 million.

Oracle Fusion Middleware components

* Infrastructure / Application server **

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(WLS) **

Oracle Application Server The Oracle Application Server 10g (the "g" stands for ''grid'') (short Oracle AS), consists of an integrated, standards-based software platform. It forms part of Oracle Corporation's Fusion Middleware technology stack. The heart of Oracle Applic ...

(IAS) **

JRockit JRockit was a proprietary Java virtual machine (JVM) originally developed by Appeal Virtual Machines, acquired by BEA Systems in 2002, and became part of Oracle Fusion Middleware as part of acquisition of BEA Systems in 2008. The JRockit code ba ...

– a

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whose functionality has now been merged to

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** Oracle Service Registry –

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** application-server security **

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* Integration and process-management **

BPEL Process Manager Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a Business Process Execution Language, BPEL engine that is a member of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. It enables enterprises to orchestrate disparate applications and Web services into business proc ...

** Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM) –

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(BAM) **

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s **

Business Process Analysis Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or Trade, buying and selling Product (business), products (such as goods and Service (economics), services). It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for pr ...

Suite ** Oracle BPM –

Business process management Business process management (BPM) is the discipline in which people use various methods to discover, model, analyze, measure, improve, optimize, and automate business processes. Any combination of methods used to manage a company's business p ...

Oracle Data Integrator Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is an Extract, load and transform (ELT) (in contrast with the ETL common approach) tool produced by Oracle that offers a graphical environment to build, manage and maintain data integration processes in business inte ...

(ODI) – an application using the database for set-based data integration ** Enterprise connectivity (adapters) **

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Oracle Enterprise Service Bus Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (Oracle ESB), a fundamental component of Oracle's Services-Oriented Architecture suite of products, provides integration of data and enterprise applications within an organisation and their connected ( "extended" or ...

** Oracle Application server B2B ** Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) - a security and monitoring product for web services * Application development tools ** Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) **

JDeveloper JDeveloper is a freeware IDE supplied by Oracle Corporation. It offers features for development in Java, XML, SQL and PL/SQL, HTML, JavaScript, BPEL and PHP. JDeveloper covers the full development lifecycle from design through coding, debuggi ...

TopLink Oracle TopLink is a mapping and persistence framework for Java developers. TopLink is produced by Oracle and is a part of Oracle's OracleAS, WebLogic, and OC4J servers. It is an object-persistence and object-transformation framework. TopLink p ...

– a Java object-relational mapping package **

Oracle Forms Oracle Forms is a software product for creating screens that interact with an Oracle database. It has an IDE that includes an object navigator, property sheet, and code editor that uses PL/SQL. It was originally developed to run server-side in ...

services **

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(OBIEE) ** Oracle Crystal Ball – enables stochastic forecasting and simulation using spreadsheet models **

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** Data hubs ** Oracle BI Publisher **

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services * Systems management **

Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is a set of web-based tools aimed at managing software and hardware produced by Oracle Corporation as well as by some non-Oracle entities. Releases Oracle Enterprise Manager includes three releases: Oracle Enterpr ...

** Web services manager * User interaction /

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–

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s **

Oracle WebCenter Oracle WebCenter is Oracle's portfolio of user engagement software products built on top of the JSF-based Oracle Application Development Framework. There are three main products that make up the WebCenter portfolio, and they can be purchased toge ...

** Oracle Imaging and Process Management **

Web content management A web content management system (WCM or WCMS) is a software content management system (CMS) specifically for web content. It provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools that help users with little knowledge of web programm ...

** Records management **

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Digital asset management Digital asset management (DAM) and the implementation of its use as a computer application is required in the collection of digital assets to ensure that the owner, and possibly their delegates, can perform operations on the data files. Termi ...

** Email archiving * Identity management **

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** Enterprise Single sign-on **

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** Oracle Identity Manager **

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References

External links

Oracle Fusion Middleware overview

KMWorld article on Oracle acquisition of Stellent

WebCenter Content Users Group - Yahoo! Groups

OTN Forum - WebCenter Content

Fujitsu.com-42 Real Life Examples of Fusion Middleware with Applications

Amazon.com Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns - Harish Gaur (Author), Markus Zirn (Contributor)

Content.FM
Content Management On Air. Broadcasting news, product updates and general purpose information about ECM and Oracle Universal Content Management {{Oracle

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Middleware Service-oriented architecture-related products

Evolution

Assessments

Oracle Fusion Middleware components

See also

References

External links