Oracle BPEL Process Manager at Center of Click Commerce SOA

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Click Commerce Uses Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware to Integrate Applications and Deliver New Product Offerings

Oracle BPEL Process Manager at Center of Click Commerce SOA

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 24-JAN-2007 05:15 AM Click Commerce, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, is using Oracle(r) BPEL Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, to integrate its existing product portfolio and to deliver new offerings. As part of its strategic, long-term vision, Click Commerce is using Oracle BPEL Process Manager to power the company's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) that enables organizations to build composite applications, comprised of Click Commerce and third-party applications.

Headquartered in Chicago, Click Commerce provides a range of on-demand solutions that support the unique business processes of multiple industry segments such as manufacturing, aerospace and defense, and high-tech. Over the past six months, Click Commerce has used Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Database 10g to create a composite application framework and an SOA. The first composite application delivered on this framework is the Click Commerce Service Supply Chain Solution. In addition, the company is using Oracle software and the composite application framework to create the Click Commerce Extended Order Management solution, which orchestrates the management of orders from businesses and consumers across an extended network of company-owned and third-party facilities.

The Click Commerce Service Supply Chain Solution relies on Oracle software to flexibly integrate several products including warehouse management; returns and repairs management; supply chain execution and service parts optimization. The new offering will provide real-time visibility and inventory control into service operations across the extended enterprise, helping to improve service levels, reduce costs for customers and provide market differentiation.

"As customers see their margins squeezed, they are looking for additional revenue generating services. By increasing visibility into the extended enterprise supply chain, we are able to help companies improve service levels and identify new revenue opportunities," said Steve Cole, senior vice president of Product Management at Click Commerce. "With Oracle Fusion Middleware, we are able to combine our own applications to create new composite applications that better serve our customers, as well as provide our customers with a set of technologies they can use to create their own composite applications that reflect their unique business processes."

Serving as the foundation of the Click Commerce SOA, Oracle BPEL Process Manager provides the flexibility to create a wide range of composite applications that span Click Commerce, third-party and legacy applications. Now, Click Commerce customers can create solutions according to their own business processes, instead of being forced to work in a predefined framework.

Click Commerce, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand supply chain management solutions, enables millions of users in 70 countries to collaborate in real time, with business partners across the extended enterprise. Click Commerce solutions support the unique business processes of multiple industry segments such as manufacturing, aerospace, and defense and high-tech. Click Commerce enables corporations including Alaska Airlines, BASF, Citibank, Eastman Kodak Company, Jabil Global Services, Pier 1, Ryder and Verizon to coordinate and optimize business processes, accelerate revenue, lower costs and improve customer service.

About Oracle Fusion Middleware
The company's comprehensive, standards-based family of middleware software, Oracle Fusion Middleware enables customers to adopt and manage SOAs in heterogeneous computing environments. More than 31,000 customers now use Oracle Fusion Middleware and include leading organizations in the Financial Services, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Health Care and Public Sector industries. Oracle Fusion Middleware is also supported by 9,000 partners, including leading independent software vendors, value added resellers and system integrators.

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Avue Technologies to Streamline Workforce Management Processes for U.S. Government Agencies with Oracle BPEL Process Manager

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Avue Technologies to Streamline Workforce Management Processes for U.S. Government Agencies with Oracle BPEL Process Manager

Leading Standards-Based Integration Tool to Provide Customers Greater Visibility into Business Processes and Demonstrable ROI

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 20-APR-2005 09:57 PM Oracle today announced that Avue Technologies, a leading provider of public sector workforce management solutions, is expanding its relationship with Oracle by selecting Oracle BPEL Process Manager to be the foundation of its heterogeneous, business process based technology infrastructure. With Oracle, Avue delivers more flexible technology solutions that minimize costs and can easily evolve as its customers' business requirements change. Oracle BPEL Process Manager, a key component of the Oracle Application Server Platform Suite, provides the integration capabilities Avue required to achieve its goals: increase organization-wide management effectiveness, shorten business processes for typical tasks, increase visibility across these processes, and improve overall workforce productivity and satisfaction. Avue will use the standards-based foundation of Oracle BPEL Process Manager to support its workforce applications - from recruitment to salary management and employee life cycle management. Additionally, Avue will be able to identify bottlenecks that may occur in agency processes before they happen, while easily tracking return on investment of its technology and infrastructure.

For example, Avue workforce applications are used by government agencies to manage and track complex, multi-step hiring processes that, manually, can take up to eight months to complete. When an agency opens a position, it needs to be approved, posted online and then officially closed to candidates - at the same time that approved applicants start an extensive interviewing process. Avue will use Oracle BPEL Process Manager to monitor these applications, keeping the processes moving by reporting any unnecessary holdups. By migrating to a process based infrastructure, Avue can more readily identify and eliminate significant time gaps that prevent a timely start to the interviewing process.

"Providing workforce management for federal agencies means tracking and monitoring intricate procedures, where compliance and process visibility are vital, that can span multiple sources, departments and organizations," said Dan Creamer, chief architect for Avue Technologies. "With our use of Oracle BPEL Process Manager, our clients will be able to clearly see how Avue Technologies is saving time and reducing costs by simplifying their complex processes and significantly condensing time to market."

Following the successful migration from BEA WebLogic to Oracle Application Server 10g, Avue has continued to turn to Oracle as a key partner for technology solutions that increase competitive advantage. Most recently, Avue again called upon Oracle when it realized that standards-based components were an essential element of its infrastructure vision. The company desired a solution that could seamlessly integrate with its J2EE applications and existing IT environment consisting of Oracle Database and Oracle Application Server. After evaluating a number of products, Avue found that Oracle BPEL Process Manager was the only product with out-of-the-box functionality providing the tightest integration with Avue's existing technology systems. Moving forward, Avue plans to use Oracle software to provide the foundation for its grid infrastructure.

"One of the benefits of Oracle BPEL Process Manager is that it meets our requirements to create an enterprise grid moving forward," Creamer said. "Having one common vendor with grid-enabled solutions guarantees us that all of our pieces will work together."

About Avue Technologies

Founded in 1982, Avue Technologies is the recognized market leader and technology innovator in public sector workforce management. The company provides the public sector with integrated technology and service solutions that dramatically increase organization-wide management effectiveness, workforce productivity, and manager and worker satisfaction. Avue is a privately held company headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Victoria, British Columbia.

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Oracle SOA Customer - Leading Network Operators Across EMEA Select Oracle

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Leading Network Operators Across EMEA Select Oracle For Better Information and Results

Telecommunications companies in the EMEA region endorse Oracle’s end-to-end solutions

Geneva 14-NOV-2006 09:12 AM As network operators in the telecommunications industry in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) look to offer new services in a more agile manner, Oracle continues to be the choice for information technology products and services. During the 6 months ended August 2006, Oracle saw key customer wins in the telecommunications sector across EMEA as companies such as Telecom Egypt, Infote of Greece, Welcome Italia, TP SA and PTC ERA of Poland, Mobile Telesystems of Russia and Etisalat of United Arab Emirates endorsee Oracle's strategy of product choice and support.
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The telecommunications sector is a highly competitive industry, with a number of factors including deregulation, convergence and consolidation having a significant effect on the market. Oracle enables network operators to rapidly implement, offer, deliver, manage, charge and bill for new services and content; increase customer satisfaction and loyalty; reduce operating costs in the business and the network; and improve management reporting and control. Oracle's family of products which include core telecommunications applications, Oracle® E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database 10g enables organisations to serve their customers better by enabling better delivery of services. 19 of the world's top 20 telecommunications companies run Oracle applications.

"Network operators are increasingly relying on Oracle to provide them with the most agile solutions available, as they roll out new services and move towards next-generation Internet protocol networks," said Andrew Court, Regional Marketing Director, Telecom and Media, Oracle Europe, Middle East and Africa. "Only Oracle offers end-to-end support for the key business processes for network operators, and these latest customer wins clearly demonstrate our success in this sector."

Blau Mobilfunk GmbH
Blau Mobilfunk is the first independent mobile telephone discounter in Germany. The company has seen high growth rates and implemented Oracle Database 10g Standard Edition to accommodate more than 100,000 participants with up to 2GB of storage. It also deployed several Oracle business intelligence tools, enabling ad-hoc analyses of its online activities, including financial transactions and commissions and outcomes of customer care enquiries, improving service and gaining insight into potential fraud. "Oracle's business intelligence tools are steering us toward our key performance indicators. On any given day, each area knows precisely where it stands," said Dirk Freise, CIO, Blau Mobilfunk GmbH.

AR Telecom
AR Telecom of Portugal implemented Oracle BPEL Process Manager and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring to build a service-oriented technology (SOA) architecture that defines and manages key integrated business processes. Additionally, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters will enable round-the-clock, uninterrupted availability of business applications and efficient use of hardware. "With Oracle BPEL Solution, AR Telecom is assuring a Service-Oriented Architecture in a standards-based manner. With this solution we believe we will win better agility and faster decision-making. Today, business requirements change fast and with Oracle BPEL we can quickly respond to any of those changes, reducing costs and risk to diverse IT environments," said Luís Sousa Machado, IT Director, AR Telecom.

Unient Communications, a.s.
Unient Communications, a.s. is a leading supplier of integrated telecommunications solutions in the Czech Republic, providing its customers with services based on the latest technology. It also delivers turnkey solutions to other telecommunications carriers in the areas of IP and mobile telephony. Unient implemented Oracle BPEL to manage web services for multiple systems. The new solution delivers automated, reliable, self-service functionality for new and existing customers - customers register themselves, pick a free telephone number, and can start using their service within seconds. The system eliminates the need for manual intervention by Unient staff, and attracted more than 7,000 new users in four weeks. "Using Oracle's high technology platform improved our productivity and helps us work more efficiently," said Pavel Chlupácek, CSO, Unient Communications, a.s.

Network operators who selected Oracle in the six months to end August 2006 include:
Mobistar - subsidiary of Orange (Belgium), Telecom Egypt (Egypt), PalTel (France), Cosmote (Greece), Forthnet (Greece), Magyar Telekom (Hungary), Telecom Italia (Italy), Telenor Networks (Norway), Avea (Turkey), Turkcell (Turkey), Turkish Telekom (Turkey), Phones 4 U Group Ltd (UK), Production Services Network Limited (UK), Infote (Greece), Welcome Italia, TP SA (Poland), PTC ERA (Poland), Mobile Telesystems (Russia) and Etisalat (United Arab Emirates).

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Oracle Powers Washington Group International’s SOA

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Oracle Powers Washington Group International’s SOA

Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware Helps Reduce Costs, Streamline Integration and Increase Security for SOA

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 06-SEP-2006 05:15 AM Washington Group International, a leading provider of engineering, construction and management solutions to businesses and governments worldwide, is using Oracle(r) Fusion Middleware as the foundation for its service-oriented architecture (SOA). With Oracle, Washington Group is better aligning its IT infrastructure with its business goals by integrating applications, eliminating redundant data entry and coding and discovering new avenues to unify business processes across multiple lines of business.

Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, Washington Group International provides engineering, construction and management solutions for projects ranging from bridge construction to weapons destruction. Made up of multiple international companies that merged within the last several years, the company has diversified businesses and a geographically dispersed workforce. Washington Group's IT infrastructure consisted of multiple proprietary, custom-built and packaged applications. As a result, completing a single business process often required several duplicate steps and redundant data entry to help ensure that each application received the same information. Furthermore, because separate business units, such as mining and defense, operated on different applications, it was not possible to standardize common business processes, such as invoice generation or vendor payment, across the company to take advantage of best practices and reduce costs.

Making a Winning Bet on Oracle
Washington Group made a strategic decision to integrate its heterogeneous applications and to develop common business processes for the company's six business units with Oracle. Using several components of Oracle Fusion Middleware -- Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Enterprise Services Bus, Oracle Identity Federation, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle JDeveloper 10g, Oracle Portal 10g and Oracle Web Services Manager -- and Oracle Database, the company developed an SOA that is helping it implement an effective application integration strategy while setting the stage for additional improvements of its business processes in the near future.

"I decided to use Oracle software as the foundation for our SOA because it supported open standards and J2EE, which was more robust and scalable than .NET," said Rich Colton, application integration manager, Washington Group International. "At the time, I bet my career on Oracle. I put a lot of faith in the company, and to be quite honest, I haven't been disappointed."

Using SOA as an Integration Engine
Washington Group realized a reduction of required resources to integrate its disparate applications as a result of implementing an SOA. Leveraging Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, Oracle JDeveloper 10g and Oracle Web Services Manager, Washington Group has transitioned from a point-to-point integration model to a Web services-based model. Prior to implementing Oracle, Washington Group's integration model required IT staff to deploy application programming interfaces (API) for a single application each time integration with another application was required. With its SOA, each application's API is deployed once, wrapped in a Web service and automatically invoked by other applications as needed. This not only simplifies initial application deployment, but also simplifies upgrades and maintenance, since the API does not need to be changed multiple times across the network.

Strengthening Security with Oracle Identity Management
The company relies on Oracle Identity Management to extend the advantages of this automated integration and to help strengthen security by providing employees with immediate and seamless access to the applications required for their jobs. Using Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Identity Federation, Washington Group can set employee access policies once and extend those policies across its network of applications. As a result, employees have secure, role-appropriate access to multiple applications with a single username and password.

"You can't have SOA without identity management," said Colton. "If employees need to access 12 or 13 applications seamlessly, logging in to each one defeats the purpose. That process needs to be automated. That's where Oracle Identity Management comes in. Without it, I'd have to build authentication and authorization routines again and again within the SOA."

Oracle Provides Building Blocks for Business Change
In addition to helping solve Washington Group's application integration challenge, the Oracle-powered SOA is providing greater automation of the company's business processes. Washington Group is looking for new ways to leverage its SOA to further align its IT infrastructure with its business objectives. The company's future plans call for an analysis of its business processes, unification across business lines as appropriate, and the finalization of a layer of business processes that operates on top of the applications, seamlessly pulling required information from each application as needed and automatically populating each application with data as required.

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About Washington Group International
Washington Group International provides the talent, innovation, and proven performance to deliver integrated engineering, construction, and management solutions for businesses and governments worldwide. Headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with more than $3 billion in annual revenue, the company has approximately 24,000 people at work around the world providing solutions in power, environmental management, defense, oil and gas processing, mining, industrial facilities, transportation, and water resources. For more information, visit www.wgint.com.

Overstock.com® Stocks Up on Oracle® CRM and Oracle Fusion Middleware

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Overstock.com® Stocks Up on Oracle® CRM and Oracle Fusion Middleware

Online Retailer Standardizes on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle CRM service applications to Help Increase Sales Opportunities

Redwood Shores, Calif. 08-AUG-2005 11:00 AM Overstock.com(r), one of the world's largest and fastest-growing online retailers, announced it is standardizing on Oracle(r) CRM applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware. The company will use Oracle Fusion Middleware to integrate business applications and standardize on Oracle CRM's Service applications for its entire support staff. Overstock.com opted for Oracle's customer service solution over competing offerings from Kana, RightNow Technologies, Salesforce.com and Siebel Systems.

"Given Oracle Database has already helped us address critical data management challenges, Oracle Fusion Middleware was a natural option to create a technology infrastructure that enables us to focus on our customers," said Shawn Schwegman, senior vice president, Technology, Overstock.com. "We chose Oracle CRM because of its information-driven approach to service. Leveraging customer data across the phone, Web and email contacts earns loyalty by providing a consistent, personalized experience for our customers."

Previously, Overstock.com operated four different front-end systems, each containing customer data captured by its shopping, auction and travel Web sites. Because the systems were not integrated, Overstock.com had limited cross-sell and up-sell opportunities. Overstock.com implemented a more scaleable and unified approach by investing in Oracle Fusion Middleware-including Oracle Customer Data Hub, Oracle Application Server and Oracle BPEL Process Manager-coupled with a data warehouse. Together, these technologies enable the company to consolidate siloed data and get a holistic view of its customers, all while helping decrease IT management costs.

Leveraging Customer Information to Reduce Support Costs
Since its launch in October 1999, Overstock.com has grown rapidly by saving consumers millions of dollars off manufacturers' suggested retail prices. As the company's revenue grew to half a billion dollars in the past year, they found that its in-house service applications could not scale up to match the rising volume of customer calls.

"We chose Oracle CRM's Service applications to help increase customer satisfaction while we drive down cost," said Schwegman. "We can offer our customers convenient Web and email self-service options that reduce our call volume, plus we can resolve issues faster when customers do call us. That means shorter hold times, happier customers and ultimately lower prices. Everybody wins."

Overstock.com will use Oracle TeleService, a contact center application, to automate its entire issue resolution process. Whether requests come in by phone, email or the Web, the system can route them to the most qualified agent. Oracle's information-driven approach to customer service gives the agent a complete history of previous service interactions through any contact channel. Oracle Email Center, an e-mail response management system, will manage Overstock.com's high volumes of incoming messages. Oracle Email Center can reduce response time by intelligently classifying and routing incoming e-mails and suggesting appropriate responses to agents.

To reduce incoming call volume and provide 24-7 self-service to customers and employees, Overstock.com will implement Oracle iSupport and a knowledge base. Customers can use a secure Web portal to solve technical problems, manage product configurations and track orders, payments, shipments and returns. Overstock.com's rollout also includes Oracle Interaction Center, to provide synchronized multi-channel communication for customer service contact centers and to help guide agents to provide consistent service inquiries through interactive call scripting.

Single Platform Benefits
Leveraging consultants, solutions specialists and architects, Oracle used a proof of concept to educate Overstock.com's management and development groups about the value of Grid centric service oriented architecture and a full Oracle infrastructure. Overstock.com's preference to work with a single platform, leverage existing skill sets and more rapidly implement new solutions led the company to select Oracle Fusion Middleware. The company was already using elements of Oracle's Grid technology platform - specifically, Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters - to power its business.

Overstock.com also selected Oracle JDeveloper 10g as its development tool of choice to meet a company mandate that all new application development be based on J2EE. J2EE offers the increased scalability, flexibility and high performance essential to the company's rapidly growing technology infrastructure. After evaluating numerous solutions, Overstock.com chose Oracle.

About Overstock.com
Overstock.com, Inc. is an online "closeout" retailer offering discount, brand-name merchandise for sale over the Internet. The company offers its customers an opportunity to shop for bargains conveniently, while offering its suppliers an alternative inventory liquidation distribution channel. Overstock.com, headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a publicly traded company listed on the NASDAQ National Market System and can be found online at http://www.overstock.com.

About Oracle Fusion Middleware
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of proven middleware products that help organizations achieve greater agility, make better-informed business decisions and more easily integrate data and processes across disparate IT systems - including technologies from Oracle and other vendors. Oracle Fusion Middleware features Oracle Application Server 10g, related Oracle Application Server products and options, Oracle Data Hubs and Oracle Collaboration Suite. These products are available today and are being used by thousands of customers and partners throughout the world. Additional information can be found at www.oracle.com/middleware.

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Oracle And Accelior Help ING Lease Streamline Business Processes

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Oracle And Accelior Help ING Lease Streamline Business Processes And Improve Overall Process Efficiency

ING Lease Belgium Uses Oracle® BPEL Process Manager and a Service-Oriented Architecture to Build New Leasing Platform, Web Enabled Leasing

ORACLE OPENWORLD, SAN FRANCISCO 19-SEP-2005 08:00 AM Thanks to Oracle technology and Accelior Consulting expertise, ING Lease Belgium, part of the ING Group, today enjoys all the benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA); increased capacity, reactivity and agility enable the company to keep on growing rapidly and integrate product innovations easily.

To automate business processes and improve overall process efficiency, Oracle partner Accelior implemented at ING Lease Belgium a leasing automation solution using its Work Process Manager (WPM) framework. The WPM is built on top of Oracle(r) BPEL Process Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, and brings many benefits to ING Lease Belgium such as a process execution time decrease from days to hours, more contract volumes managed within existing resources and a real-time, graphical view of the business and its processes.

"Leasing companies are facing fierce competition. The market is consolidating and we're confronted with decreasing asset values and a reduced markup," said Jean-Simon Cornélis, Managing Director at ING Computer Lease and IT & Organization Director at ING Lease Belgium. "To increase profitability, we need to differentiate ourselves through enhanced services and a better offering. However, we can no longer depend on cost reduction as we've squeezed out whatever was possible over the past few years. Further streamlining business processes and increasing business efficiency is the key to improve our margins. Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the leasing automation solution Accelior has implemented enable us to do just that."

Significant Business Benefits From Accelior WPM

Accelior's Work Process Manager is based on a robust infrastructure that will fit in any financial services environment, easily meeting demanding technical requirements such as security, high-availability and scalability. This end-to-end lifecycle automation platform provides a clear view on any activity from offering to contract execution, however complex a transaction might be. It automates the generation of key documents such as offers, orders and contracts, and generates bar codes to easily track documents through the operation lifecycle. It eases the changing of operational procedures and the creation of new product offerings quickly and easily. The solution deployed at ING Lease is also highly flexible due to the technology stack used: Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle XML/DB and Oracle Grid Control 10g.

"The WPM framework brings Business Process Management to the financial services industry and offers ING Lease Belgium the opportunity to extensively use modern, standard integration technologies, enabling them to reuse and leverage existing systems," said Geoffroy de Lamalle, the Solutions Architect at Accelior responsible for the project. "With the help of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Accelior delivers integration technologies that enable companies to rapidly adopt and deploy SOAs, which facilitate the development of enterprise applications as modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused, creating a truly flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure. We can then exploit the unique capabilities of Oracle BPEL Process Manager to deliver WPM's graphical Business Process Management capabilities."

"We believe that WPM will help position ING Lease Belgium for further business growth," said Oracle's Managing Director of Oracle Belgium, Xavier Verhaeghe. "It will enable them to expand operations without raising the cost of operation and increases internal efficiency as well as customer service quality."

Oracle BPEL Process Manager is part of Oracle Business Integration, a comprehensive offering designed to meet the various challenges customers face when integrating enterprise systems and applications while moving to an SOA and enterprise Grid infrastructure. According to a Morgan Stanley survey of CIOs, published on Dec. 15, 2004, integration is one of the top priorities for IT departments in 2005. With Gartner placing integration costs at 40 percent of the total cost of application development and maintenance, integration technology and SOAs are increasingly important elements of IT strategy. Oracle BPEL Process Manager and the company's ecosystem of partners are delivering complete and reliable solutions that help customers maximize return on their IT budgets and realize the benefits of SOAs.

About ING Lease Belgium

ING Lease Belgium is one of the largest leasing companies in Belgium. ING Lease Belgium is fully owned by ING Lease Holding making it member of the ING group, itself one of the world's major actors in the field of integrated financial services.

ING Lease Belgium's activities center wholly and solely on financial and operating (with or without services) leasing. A pioneer in its sector, ING Lease Belgium is an innovating force and created, amongst other products the real estate leasing. Known and recognized for its professionalism and creativity, it has become a reference on the Belgian leasing market.

The ING Lease group is structured by product type. This favors dynamism and adaptability, and allows ING Lease Belgium to stay at the leading edge of each market segment whilst developing products designed for its customers specific requirements.

ING Lease Belgium has its own sales force but also enjoys synergies with ING Belgium. ING Belgium, with its network of 14 headquarters and about 1000 branches is the ideal tool for a wide distribution of ING Lease Belgium products. For more information about ING Lease Belgium visit our Web site at http://www.inglease.be

About Accelior
Accelior is an independent European cross-industry technology-specialist specializing in Business Process Automation, Middleware and Service Oriented Architecture with customers in Europe and North America. Accelior provides services in Architecture, Development and Support and structures the services to reflect its customer's specific needs and requirements. For more information about Accelior visit our Web site at http://www.accelior.com

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FAA Maps the Skies With Oracle

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FAA Maps the Skies With Oracle

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. 27-JUL-2004 06:00 AM The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected Oracle(r) Database 10g and Oracle 10g Spatial to create precise electronic maps of the skies. These highly complex geographic information systems provide pilots with instrument flight procedures to help them safely navigate airspace.

Aviation System Standards, a department within the FAA, produces more than 10 million individual national airspace charting products per year for use by military, commercial and private aviators. The FAA chose select Oracle products to support automating the instrument procedure development and distribution process to produce superior products for use by the aviation community. The scalability and advanced spatial functions of Oracle's offerings will allow the FAA to more easily manage large volumes of geospatial data and produce charting that evolves with the changing terrain.

"Data integrity in our business is directly related to safety. Our approach with these systems is to maintain zero tolerance for inaccuracy and provide automation for updates to the National Airspace System," said Tom Accardi, Director of Aviation System Standards, FAA. "We are extremely proud of our development team's work and our recent ISO certified flight procedures processes."

"Highways in the Sky"
The FAA's airspace navigation system includes on-ramps, off-ramps, and "highways in the sky." Continuous maintenance is required to keep flight procedures current with new obstructions to airspace such as cell-phone towers and high-rise buildings.

With Oracle Database 10g's spatial functionality, including GeoRaster and vector data capabilities, the FAA will be able to consolidate aeronautical information into a virtual data store. Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle MapViewer are important in enabling the FAA to quickly identify which flight routes are affected by a new structure and assist in taking the necessary steps to help keep the airways flowing safely.

Beyond increasing flight safety and improving processes, the information stored in the FAA's spatially enabled database will provide other federal agencies with valuable data. For example, other government organizations supporting programs with similar processes could layer specific geographic and non-geographic information they manage to create more accurate intelligence views and track anomalous patterns.

A Complex Process Simplified
Aviation System Standards publishes new flight procedures every 56 days and issues change notices every 28 days. The FAA is moving away from manual processes that result in new paper charts for distribution. With Oracle products, the entire process is becoming automated. Previous versions of the procedures will be stored in FAA systems, changes to the airspace and flight routes will be managed electronically, and new chart generation will be automated. Data integration, process tracking and spatial referencing will help Aviation System Standards simplify production and maintenance of flight procedures. This automation will remove potential for manual errors, reduce time to chart delivery and increase work capacity.

Multiple applications capture data relevant to the chart creation process. The FAA selected the Web services capabilities of Oracle Application Server 10g to integrate the numerous data sources, improve data accuracy and avoid redundancy. In addition, Web services will allow Aviation System Standards to share data with other applications and organizations that require spatial information.

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), created by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, is responsible for the safety of civil aviation. Its major roles include: regulating civil aviation to promote safety; encouraging and developing civil aeronautics, including new aviation technology; developing and operating a system of air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft; researching and developing the National Airspace System and civil aeronautics; developing and carrying out programs to control aircraft noise and other environmental effects of civil aviation; and, regulating U.S. commercial space transportation.

Deutsche Post Simplifies Business Integration Using Oracle® Application Server 10g

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Deutsche Post Simplifies Business Integration Using Oracle® Application Server 10g

Oracle’s Integration Capabilities and Open Standards Support Play Pivotal Role in Deutsche Post’s International Growth Strategy

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., 29-APR-2005 08:39 AM Oracle today announced that Deutsche Post World Net, one of the largest high-performing logistics providers in the world, will use Oracle(r) Application Server 10g as the foundation for its standards-based technology infrastructure. Deustche Post required a flexible infrastructure to help reduce the time and cost of integrating the company's many business systems, subsidiaries and applications, resulting from its aggressive merger and acquisition growth strategy.
Due to the large scope and complexity of the project, Deutsche Post will build an advanced Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using Oracle Application Server 10g for its strategic information technology integration platform, the Service Backbone (SBB). Relying on ESB capabilities, the SBB platform will enable individual department and business units throughout the world to develop integration projects with local controls and autonomy that can also connect with the company's larger, global integration fabric or grid. For example, a division in Germany can define and implement pricing while a separate division in the U.S. can control the procurement process.

Key to this project is Deutsche Post's modular enterprise application architecture for integration, which consists of services that act as a layer of abstraction between business functionality and technology. Oracle, one of the most important application platform suite providers to support the proposed Java Business Integration (JBI, JSR 208) standard, will play a critical role in the project.

"Working with a strong partner like Oracle will help us support our international growth strategy. We intend to become the leading company in mail, parcel, express and logistics worldwide. To have a service-oriented platform into which we can very easily plug both newly developed and existing IT systems, combined with those resulting from mergers and acquisitions, is a very attractive value proposition," said Michael Herr, senior director of IT, Head of Service Orientated Platform Group, Deutsche Post. "Our use of Oracle technology supports our strategic decision to take a 'best-of-breed' approach to technology deployment and helps ensure that the applications and systems we select to best operate our business will work together."

"Oracle plays a key role in developing and adhering to industry standards that enable organizations to more easily implement flexible and scalable architectures," said Amlan Debnath, vice president, Server Technology, Oracle. "Our collaboration with Deutsche Post to deliver a next-generation ESB underscores our commitment to open standards and provides Oracle the opportunity to leverage Oracle Application Server in every project throughout Deutsche Post that connects to the Service Backbone."

About Deutsche Post World Net

We move the world. Deutsche Post World Net is one of the largest high-performing logistics providers in the world. With its brands Deutsche Post, DHL and Postbank, the Group offers its customers a global mail, express and logistics service as well as a wide range of financial services. The company is thus excellently positioned on the way to becoming the global number one in the express and logistics sector. Approximately 380,000 employees generated world-wide revenues above ? 40 billion in 2003. Deutsche Post World Net is listed on the Frankfurt stock exchange and is a member of the DAX 30 index.

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. 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. 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.

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