Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture)

Oracle SOA Suite is a part of family of the Oracle Fusion Middleware software products. Represents tool kit for creation and management of SOA, allows to integrate separate functions in business applications.

Now thousands of clients use innovations in Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite for deployment of new social, mobile and cloud solutions. Oracle Event Processing (OEP), the Oracle SOA Suite component, is ready technology for creating applications, providing filtering, correlation and event handling in real time that the applications integrated at the level of data and also service - the architecture focused and managed by events were maintained by real-time analysis.

The most complete in the industries, single social solution for business process management of Oracle BPM Suite proposes the flexibility, efficiency and controllability necessary for corporate business processes. Ready processes based on the best techniques of Oracle Process Accelerators allow to simplify and accelerate obtaining economic effect of initiatives of clients in the field of business process management.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g

The complex of the solutions Oracle SOA Suite 11g belongs to the class of the middleware and represents the integrated product line for integration, setup, deployment and effective management of work of business applications. The standards recognized in the industry are the cornerstone of Oracle SOA Suite 11g that provides compatibility of solutions practically with any information systems and also a possibility of implementation of such projects in a short time. It is the basic technology applied at service - the focused approach to application integration and allowing to create the most modern, convenient in operation and economic IT architecture today.

2014: Oracle SOA Suite 12c

On July 2, 2014 the Oracle company submitted the new version of the most complete and unified solution for application integration and the service-oriented architecture (SOA) - Oracle SOA Suite 12c.

Oracle SOA Suite 12c simplifies integration of cloud solutions using expansion of a packet of integration Oracle Cloud Adapters adapters which allow the organizations to integrate a popular SaaS-applications, including Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud, Salesforce.com and many others. This platform of integration adapters uses the intuitive methodology of connection of software modules well familiar to customers on integration of the solutions set directly at the enterprise.

As a part of Oracle SOA Suite 12c the new features increasing labor productivity of developers, including a simple installer in use, new debugging tools and testings and also new opportunities of use of templates which accelerate development or support of projects.

Environments of execution and development are optimized at each level (RAM, disk space, the database) for support of crucial corporate systems and scaling of performance at the web level and also for large-scale and resource-intensive loadings.

The new version provides fast and high-quality integration of mobile solutions with the improved support of the integration REST standards (Representational State Transfer) and JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). Management of API interfaces which submit corporate applications in the REST and JSON formats is simplified thanks to the built-in support of these standards in Oracle SOA Suite 12c now.

Expanding possibilities of B2B-solutions (intercorporate electronic trading), Oracle provided the integrated Oracle Managed File Transfer tool - it considerably simplifies file transfer, allowing the organizations it is safe to load them into Cloud Oracle applications and also into cloud applicaions of other suppliers or partners.

The product Oracle Event Processing as a part of Oracle SOA Suite can process up to one million messages per second with midget waiting time at accomplishment on the optimized hardware and software systems Oracle Engineered Systems that does it by the ideal solution for filtering in real time, determinations of geographical location and comparison to reference samples during the work with data bulks which generate "smart" devices of Internet of Things.

The innovation in Oracle Event Processing 12c - sharing of the user interface Oracle SOA Suite, it gives to the organizations the chance of direct integration of the filtered and correlated Big Data into the existing corporate processes for corrective actions.

The product Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) 12c which is a part of Oracle SOA Suite 12c is improved for accomplishment of fast and flexible assessment of key performance indicators (KPI) thanks to preserving of data in a format of the standard circuit "star" (star schema format).

The version of Oracle SOA Suite 12c improves controllability for private cloud environments. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c offers the functions of initialization of environments, complete, ready to use, executed in style "click" for Oracle SOA 12c and fast cloning of data accelerating deployment and testing of corporate applications.

The Oracle SOA Suite 12c complex is constructed on the Oracle WebLogic Server 12c application server, best in the class, which adds new features for performance improvement of work of developers, efficiency of accomplishment of applications and also high availability and controllability. These products are a part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, the leading platform for business innovations in corporate and cloud environments.

The simplified application integration

The new version of Oracle SOA Suite 12c integrates diverse environments using the single complete platform giving to an opportunity:

• The simplified cloud integration — With the offer of integration Oracle Cloud Adapters adapters, the Oracle SOA Suite 12c complex facilitates integration irrespective of deployment option – in a cloud environment or directly at the enterprise. Oracle Cloud Adapters cardinally increase labor productivity of developers, provide comprehensive communication opportunities, reliability and efficiency for integration. Oracle is going to offer further new integration adapters as a part of the Oracle SOA Suite 12c platform. The new version of Oracle SOA Suite also includes a set of development tools of Oracle Cloud Adapter Software Development Kit (SDK) which allows clients and partners to create own Oracle Cloud Adapters adapters for future projects of integration.

• The expanded and improved mobile integration — Oracle SOA Suite 12c provides support of the integration REST and JSON standards which are optimized for development of mobile solutions that satisfies requirements of the organizations for fast integration of mobile applications. Besides, in the new version the possibility of converting of the XML format in the JSON format is implemented.

• The increased performance — the New version contains templates for support of the best techniques and reduction of time of development and also the unified interface based on Oracle JDeveloper for Oracle Service Bus and Oracle Event Processing.

• File sharing consolidation — Oracle SOA Suite 12c also facilitates transmission control of files by consolidation of separate FTP solutions on the scale of the organization using the built-in Oracle Managed File Transfer component which simplifies integration and promotes cost reduction and reduction of errors.

The new Oracle SOA Suite 12c complex is available in Oracle Technology Network (OTN). The beginning of sales is planned for July, 2014.