To make improvements and grow, businesses need better visibility into their
business processes . Evolving an SOA across the enterprise frees
up IT resources and helps to ensure that investments in technology are
focused on core capabilities aimed at growing the business.

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The approach created by SOMA helps to ensure that goals set by business
process modeling can actually be implemented to generate the greatest
result in an efficient manner.

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However, once this is done, companies often
lack a flexible IT infrastructure to support change that creates growth.com/services.

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Built on open standards with integrated development and management tools,
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 enables organizations to shift from
complex, legacy Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies to more
flexible and open architectures based on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
and BPEL processes.

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, an independent research firm, cites the product's
integration technologies in a December 2004 report, "Latest Release of Oracle
Application Server Provides Robust Integration Capability .

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With an SOA, business
processes that aren't considered core or strategic can be improved and
executed at a lower cost, thereby freeing up initial IT resources to focus
on growth areas. A company no
longer needs to guess at what services will add the greatest value - - SOMA
provides a systematic approach to building the an optimized roadmap to
implementing a service -oriented architecture -- leading to faster
realization of business value -- the leading requirement for IT investments
today.

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Latest Release of Oracle's Application Server Platform Suite
Offers Enhanced Integration Features

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With the new release, "Oracle will now have a broader application
portfolio that can be used to provide its expanded base of customers with
robust composite application development capability that, going forward, will
be demanded by an increasing number of organizations," according to Ken
Vollmer, principal analyst in Forrester's Application Development +
Infrastructure research group and author of the report. Because Oracle Application Server 10g
is optimized for enterprise grid computing, it enables customers to realize
better availability of their IT systems and lower hardware and administration
costs. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The
new Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA) is an innovative
approach to solving a significant problem, a consistent way for businesses
to develop flexible technology that will provide the maximum return back to
the business.

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"We've received extremely positive feedback regarding the state -of-the-art
Enterprise Integration enhancements included in Oracle Application Server 10g
Release 2," said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president, Oracle Server
Technologies, Oracle Corp.

To address this, companies are starting to adopt Service Oriented
Architectures to build a flexible standards-based infrastructure and
support a rapidly changing business environment.

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IBM today announced a new service to help
companies build capabilities that support business goals, while freeing up
currently overstretched IT budgets to focus on growth opportunities.

Many companies have already started to experience initial benefits of an
SOA, but lack a plan to implement the technology in a systematic way across
the enterprise, which underutilizes technology investments and lowers
potential benefits.

"Business leaders not aware of how an SOA can grow their business and
become flexible are probably already losing ground to competitors," said
Michael Liebow, vice president, Web services, IBM Global Services.

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In the report , Vollmer specifically highlights Oracle's enhanced
integration capabilities including an Enterprise Service Bus; a Business
Process Execution Language (BPEL)-based process management tool; data hubs;
enhanced B2B integration capabilities, Business Activity Monitoring; and
business intelligence . An example may be payroll processing or other functions
that are common to all companies in a given industry, such as check imaging
in financial services.

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Oracle Application Server 10g
features full support for J2EE and grid computing, built-in enterprise portal
software, high-speed caching , business intelligence, rapid application
development, application and business integration, wireless capabilities, Web
services and more, all in one package.

About Oracle
Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company.oracle. "SOMA
is based on the more than three years of hands-on experience IBM has
acquired in working with early adopters of this technology using it to grow
their businesses.

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This is done through detailed
identification and prioritization of services that a business needs to
develop or expose to support improved business processes.

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"A complete
technology platform that includes the business applications, an application
platform (containing robust integration capability), and integrated database
technology will be one of the most efficient alternatives for organizations
that want to acquire the ability to create composite applications. It helps companies implement a service-oriented architecture
(SOA), a standards-based framework that enables enterprises to evolve to on
demand businesses that integrate data and applications with customers,
partners and suppliers.

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unveiling of Oracle(R) Application Server 10g Release 2 at Oracle OpenWorld,
Forrester Research, Inc."
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About Oracle Application Server 10g
Oracle Application Server 10g is an integrated, standards -based
application platform suite that enables organizations of all sizes to be more
responsive to changing business requirements. Breaking the business down into a component view --
from a discrete process or the business processes supporting the entire
enterprise -- is critical to achieving business improvement and growth.

IBM Global Services

IBM Global Services is the world's largest information technology services
and consulting provider. Some 180,000 professionals in more than 160
countries help clients integrate information technology with business value
-- from the business transformation and industry expertise of IBM Business
Consulting Services to hosting, infrastructure , technology design and
training services.ibm.

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Leveraging IBM's unequalled scope and scale, IBM Global
Services delivers integrated, flexible and resilient processes -- across
companies and through business partners -- that enable clients to save
money and transform their businesses to be more competitive.

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It enables companies to Web enable legacy systems; to
create composite applications; to build more efficient Business Processes; and
to use Business Activity Monitoring to monitor their businesses and to improve
operational efficiencies.

IBM to Help Customers Focus on Growth Through Business Transformation

SOMA provides an approach to building an SOA that
aligns to the business goals and directly ties the business processes to
underlying applications through services, which will help the business
realize benefits more rapidly.

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"Many organizations continue to cite integration
as a key pain point in their information technology and business application
infrastructures and are increasingly turning to Oracle to effectively
integrate their data, systems and applications .
Business process modeling will map out a company's business processes and
help determine which business processes provide strategic differentiation
over competitors, what processes are core and what business processes may
not be considered strategic.

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