Veronica C. Silva
Computerworld Philippines
February 2, 2010

Oracle Corporation’s office in the Philippines on Thursday introduced to the local press its latest middleware, which was developed with the strength of its acquisition of Bea Systems in 2008.

Launched worldwide in July 2009 and regionally in October 2009, the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g already counts top bank Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (Metrobank) and the Bureau of Customs among its numerous clients in the country.

Chin Ying Loong, general manager for ASEAN, Oracle Fusion Middleware, said the launch of the new product in the local market is a commitment of the software giant to bring its latest innovation to its customers in the country.

“With Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, our customers will benefit from the increased performance and centralized management of a modern infrastructure, enabling them to drive down costs, improve efficiency and differentiate their organization from competitors,” said Ying Loong.

Oracle Fusion Middleware integrates disparate systems and applications of enterprises and even business partners. As an open and integrated middleware, the new product brings together the different functionalities of Oracle and Bea Systems.

Oracle acquired Bea Systems for US$8.5 billion particularly to enhance the Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle said customer feedback has prompted the acquisition as customers noted the efficiency in working with the middleware of the two companies.

Speaking on the acquisition back in 2008, Oracle President Charles Phillips said “it (the transaction) will accelerate the adoption of Java-based middleware technologies and SOA; advance innovation in enterprise applications infrastructure software; extend our strategic relationships with customers and partners; and increase our penetration in key regions like China.”

Ying Loong said the new product is designed to solve important business requirements of today’s enterprises, including rich Internet applications, business process management, enterprise team and social computing, application customization, identity and compliance management, and systems consolidation.

It was also designed to exploit current technology trends such as multi-core processing, 64-bit operating systems and large memory, virtualization and cloud computing, and storage.

“It optimizes technology trends to protect customer investments,” added Ying Loong.

He noted that industries such as telecoms, banking and manufacturing already have made investments in several IT systems and applications. The middleware can be used to integrate these different systems and applications, thus, customers’ previous IT investments need not go to waste.

Oracle Fusion Middleware has complete components, which can be bought separately but when integrated together, they can work together. Among its components are development tools, user interaction, enterprise performance management, business intelligence, content management, service-oriented architecture and process management, application grid, enterprise management, and identity management.

Customers with the version 10g can seamlessly upgrade to version 11g, said Ying Loong.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is designed to support large or small datacenters alike.

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