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Oracle Fusion User Experience Capability Discussion Guide Last updated: 11/01/07 Oracle Introduction Oracle Business Strategy: Oracle User Experience Strategy Provide unified applications vision with MW. Oracle‟s Profile: Overall Messaging: Sell DB options and DB switches to new customers. Oracle was founded in 1977, with offices in 145+ countries. Sell MW as extension of DB and applications. Provides enterprise SOA Portal and Web 2.0 development. As of 2007, Oracle employs ˜75,000 people. Continuing acquisition strategy: WebCenter is the new face of Oracle Fusion applications. o Consolidate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Utilizes 10g deployment and government options. Is the leading enterprise software company. Is No. 1 in database (DB), No. 2 in business intelligence (BI), Relationship Management (CRM), and Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Business Intelligence (BI) market Oracle Position and Opportunity: and No. 3 in middleware (MW). Claims $1 billion in MW sales—more than BEA. segments. Fusion Portal Server and WebCenter provide for an easy o Build vertical industry expertise. migration of existing applications in order to deliver rich Web 2.0 Oracle Fusion Middleware includes all Oracle software other o Fill MW gaps. user experiences, including mashups, wikis, VoIP (Voice over than applications or database. Oracle MW Web site: Internet Protocol), RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, www.oracle.com/products/middleware Oracle Fusion User Experience Offerings discussion forums, and online Web content publishing. These Oracle products: Oracle‟s Strategic Goals: Oracle’s key offering in User Experience (UX) starts with the Lead in business applications. Oracle Application Server 10g, which includes Oracle Portal Server utilize end-user excitement about using the Web 2.0 Present a complete stack (with the help of Linux). (also available separately). Oracle has also announced a new features in SOA applications. Build maintenance revenues. product named Oracle WebCenter. These are related but increase business agility to deliver the latest user experience separate products that deliver Service Oriented Architecture features. Oracle Fusion Middleware Framework: (SOA) and Web 2.0 functionality utilize existing investment in Oracle database technology to Oracle Portal Server (Portal) is a 10g application server option enable services for database-oriented applications. System System App Services Applications for building enterprise portals that features wizard-driven page For more information on Oracle WebCenter features and Identity Mgmt. Mgmt. Identity design, content management functions, and JSR 168 (Java architectures, read the Oracle WebCenter FAQ. Oracle applications, SAP, R/S, mySAP Specification Request 168) Portal application program interfaces User Interaction (APIs). For more information, consult the Oracle Portal Web site Why is this Important to Solutions Partners? Portals, Content, Search, Desktop, Mobile, VoIP Oracle WebCenter integrates enterprise services to provide a Microsoft solutions partners should expect to hear the following Business Intelligence unified, context-aware Web application. The tools in Oracle claims from or about Oracle Fusion development capability: WebCenter allow Java developers to integrate Web-based portals ETL, Q&A, OLAP, Reports, Alerts, Real „Portal and WebCenter provide Web-based content Time and enterprise applications with context-sensitive work creation, editing, and management tools.” Oracle’s Integration and Process Mgmt. Admin. On,Sign Identity Directory Provisioning, Single environments that are based on rich, Asynchronous JavaScript solutions are competitive alternatives to Microsoft® Office Messaging, ESB, BPM, B2B, BAM, MDM XML (Ajax)-based components, portlets, and content in an open, System Mgmt. Mgmt. System ® ools and Framework SharePoint Server. Application Server standards-based architecture. Oracle reportedly describes Developer Tools Developer J2EE, WS-*, Events, Rules WebCenter as being essentially the opposite of a portal. “Oracle WebCenter will emerge as the new face of SOA T Grid Infrastructure Developers are allowed to put elements into an application (or Oracle Fusion Applications.” This may create the Clusters, Metadata, Registry, Security application interface) instead of putting content into a distinct perception for many companies that it is inevitable as a de Databases portal product. [Source: Infoworld, November 2006] facto user interface. “Many developers perceive that Oracle has a more Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase For additional information and links to related information, visit powerful understanding of the Web 2.0 software the Oracle WebCenter Web site. development tools than Microsoft.” Fusion offers Web 2.0 functions that do not rely upon desktop applications, as For additional information on acronyms and components, please see is the case with Microsoft’s current strategy. the Glossary at the end of this discussion guide. “Cost is driving the merging of infrastructures into SOAs.” Analysts expect that in order to integrate heterogeneous intra-company and outside enterprise Microsoft, BizTalk, Excel, Expression, InfoPath, Internet Explorer, Outlook, the Microsoft Office logo, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows Media, Windows Mobile, the Windows logo, Windows Server, and Windows Vista are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries/regions. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. The information contained in this document represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation on the issues discussed as of the date of publication. This document is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS DOCUMENT. Page 1 of 5 Oracle Fusion User Experience Capability Discussion Guide Last updated: 11/01/07 systems, the market is anticipating a merging of based authoring and Oracle WebCenter Spaces for group- based composing application supporting user interfaces, infrastructures into SOAs to enable integration and achieve based authoring and workflow. business rules and policies, user profiles, and preferences lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). A lack of announcements on release dates may be and business processes. frustrating to Oracle customers. In an early 2007 Infoworld Oracle has announced, but apparently not yet provided a Oracle Fusion User Interaction Strengths article, analyst Jim Murphy of AMR Research reportedly ship date for WebCenter Spaces, a configurable work Oracle WebCenter helps to facilitate the interaction of noted that details on the functionality planned for the initial environment that enables individuals and groups to people, processes, and information across multiple channels. Fusion/WebCenter application were still ―nonexistent.‖ collaborate more effectively. Development environments are in the middle of major Oracle Fusion utilizes an extensive installed base of Oracle transitions. For instance, Borland has redesigned its How To Succeed Against Oracle UI Tools Portal customers, established channels, and existing direct- JDeveloper 2007 around Eclipse. sales efforts. Overall success topics: Oracle presents its solution as an integrated portal and Web Requires the entire Fusion stack, which is 300 GB installed Oracle does not yet provide solutions such as those 2.0 development stack. and does not offer the option of installing only parts of the stack. currently offered by Microsoft -- Oracle Portal and Oracle is already delivering solutions to advanced SOA WebCenter do not yet provide the same features, problems, such as security management and support of Oracle Portal Server: functionality, and solutions as established Microsoft partner-developed extensions. May have a limited customer base; Microsoft and its offerings. For example, the Microsoft Web user experience is Oracle’s numerous middleware components provide APIs solutions partners rarely encounter it as a competitor to already integrated through SharePoint Server (portal, sites, and support for external services. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. pages, Web parts), Microsoft Expression® Web, Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, and Microsoft Office business Oracle Fusion supports local language applications. Lightweight Web-based authoring interfaces, and Web- applications (e.g., Microsoft Office Outlook®, Microsoft based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Oracle has good local network support from partners Office Excel®, and Microsoft InfoPath®.) around the world with new internet-based services. capabilities are available, but transformation facilities for intelligently decomposing desktop content are limited. Microsoft Recognized Leader -- Microsoft is recognized as a leader with high ability to execute by a leading analyst. Has built-in versioning, templates, and localization available, Oracle Fusion User Interaction Challenges but few of the advanced features (such as version compare, Portal success topics: Overall Fusion Issues: automated triggers, and sophisticated publishing and promotion routines) that are now standard in more robust Proprietary -- Advanced Oracle features such as clustering, Oracle’s products are well suited for integrating with Oracle Content Management System (CMS) packages. replication, and high availability require adoption of Oracle applications, but may not provide some customers with the 10g