Fidelity Information Services Continues Oracle(R) Integration with BPEL

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Source: Fidelity National Financial, Inc.

Fidelity Information Services Continues Oracle(R) Integration with BPEL
Wednesday May 25, 7:30 am ET

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF - News), a Fortune 500 provider of products and outsourced services and solutions to financial institutions and the real estate industry, and its Fidelity Information Services ("Fidelity") division announce that Fidelity will integrate Oracle® BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Process Manager into its Xpress Enterprise Services (XES) solution.

Fidelity XES is an integrated suite of standards-based banking components that provide robust functionality through a service-oriented architecture. With XES, financial services institutions can implement Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities and ensure system interoperability across the enterprise. XES provides an extensive inventory of services using the Interactive Financial eXchange (IFX) standard protocol and also supports proprietary XML and other legacy formats.

The integration of XES with Oracle BPEL Process Manager will allow financial institutions to streamline business processes and lower operational costs by providing best practice, enterprise-wide standards and consistency, and automating multi-step host application activities. "The high cost of maintaining multiple transaction processing systems plagues the financial services industry," said Dave Klebba, vice president, financial services for Oracle. "Additionally, these systems are often redundant. For example, multiple systems may have their own functions for accessing customer information or checking on credit history. Oracle BPEL Process Manager allows companies to begin the transition to lessen the costs of these systems by introducing a highly manageable 'integration layer' composed of common processes that can be shared by the transaction processing systems. We think FIS is out in front of the market with its application architecture and available content. Financial services institutions should gain from their thought leadership."

Utilizing a service-oriented architecture, XES delivers operational efficiencies by allowing financial institutions to leverage their services and business processes across the enterprise. In addition, XES provides the business process, transaction, and integration management framework that is essential to enabling BPM. Using self-contained business functions represented by discrete web services, organizations can leverage these functions across multiple processing systems. "BPEL is an evolving standard across the industry and we wanted a strong partner who would help us lead our customers with a technology solution and strategy," said Frank Sanchez, president, leveraged product development for Fidelity Information Services. "Oracle BPEL Process Manager delivers the capability and future that we needed for XES and our core banking solutions. Combining BPEL with the industry standard IFX provides a very leverageable and efficient solution to the financial services market."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050525/flw009.html?.v=12

Fusion Platform Updates at OAUG Connection Point® 2005

You won’t want to miss this year’s compelling featured speaker, Cliff Godwin, Senior Vice President — Applications Technology Group, Oracle Corporation. Godwin will be on hand during OAUG Connection Point^® 2005 to share Oracle’s vision for its Fusion platform.

During this session, learn about the latest updates for Fusion, which is the next generation of the technology stack that will, in the future, run all of Oracle’s Applications business. An open Internet standards-based applications product is the goal behind Fusion.

Godwin is scheduled to speak during the general session on Tuesday, June 14, 2005, from 8:45 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

In addition, the OAUG and Quest International Users Group will be hosting two informational sessions regarding the recently formed Fusion Council, which exists to provide future users of Oracle’s Fusion software with an educational tool and forum for learning more about the product and act as a bridge between users and Oracle Corporation in the collection of business requirements for development of the Fusion product. Also learn how the OAUG’s Enhancement Request System will aid in the gathering of these requirements.

The Fusion Council sessions will be held on Tuesday, June 14, 2005, from 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., and Wednesday, June 15, 2005, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.

To register, view the tentative agenda grid (PDF format — subject to change) or view a complete listing of all papers, panels, training sessions, Star Partners, exhibitors and keynote speakers, visit the OAUG Connection Point^® 2005 Web site.

Please note: The advance registration deadline has been extended to Tuesday, May 31, 2005.

OAUG Connection Point^® 2005 will be held in collaboration with the Quest Conference & Expo 2005. Quest International Users Group is a global, not-for-profit association for the J.D. Edwards World and EnterpriseOne community.

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Oracle and Partners Announce Project MegaGrid

In an effort to develop a standard approach to building and deploying an enterprise grid infrastructure that can outperform traditional big iron solutions at a fraction of the cost, Oracle, Dell, EMC, and Intel have partnered to form Project MegaGrid. By offering a single, validated set of deployment best practices for grid computing, Project MegaGrid addresses these and many other challenges:

	Reducing Cost: Predefined and pre-tested technology combinations help save money by minimizing downtime, and simplifying the deployment and management of grid infrastructures.
	Improving Quality of Service: End-to-end testing, validation, and documentation of clustering, load balancing, and high availability configurations enables IT to set reliable service levels for the business with fast response times.
	Reducing Risk: Validated solutions and cooperative engineering minimize downtime and expedite maintenance and support processes.
	Managing Growth: Joint Grid solutions revolve around scalability and centralized management to accommodate growth in hardware and users at a low cost.
	Accelerating Time to Value: Pre-tested, validated best practices simplify and accelerate deployment time for customers.

Next Steps

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New $4.3m centre aims to help firms enter the grid

S'pore partners private sector to develop high-speed computing initiatives, reports RAJU CHELLAM

Business Times
12 May 2005

THE Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore has teamed up with Oracle Singapore, Sun Microsystems and Dell Singapore to set up the region's first 'Enterprise-g Centre' to get more companies to adopt grid computing across the Asia Pacific.

The $4.3 million investment in the centre will help companies test pilot projects in enterprise grid computing, Oracle said.

Oracle and IDA have also partnered for another initiative called gMap - for Enterprise-g Manpower Progamme - to boost the development of grid capabilities among companies in the region. The aim is to tap a global grid-computing market that's set to cross US$12 billion in revenues by 2007, according to research firm IDC Corp.

Grid computing is an emerging technology that enables large-scale sharing of widely distributed computing resources to solve specific problems. In Singapore, for example, the National University of Singapore (NUS) is setting up a supercomputing grid that will initially link 800 personal computers to act as a single massive unit. The aim is to link more than 3,000 PCs in two years, which could make the NUS Grid the world's largest by then.

'The gMap initiative is part of a goal that we set for the Enterprise-g@Singapore project that we launched in July 2004 - to create a pool of 300 people in the grid-computing field the next two to three years,' said Stanley Chew, managing director of Oracle Singapore.

'Of these, about 60 of them may rise to become enterprise grid-computing architects, and will be highly sought after for their skills and experience.'

Enterprise-g@Singapore was a joint initiative between IDA and Oracle with a projected investment of $25 million - including the $4.3 million in the centre - over three years. 'Some of the sectors in Singapore that are exploring grid computing include financial services, manufacturing, engineering design and biotechnology,' Mr Chew said.

Late last year, Oracle teamed up with Dell Inc, EMC Corp and Intel Corp to form Project MegaGrid, a complete grid-computing solution that will help companies harness huge amounts of computing resources at a fraction of the cost.

Last month, Oracle and British research firm Quocirca compiled the first global index of grid computing and ranked Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand near the top for their readiness and capacity to adopt the technology.

'Grid computing presents great opportunities and benefits for Singapore as it brings a paradigm shift from the ownership of computational assets to the buying of computing services,' said IDA chief executive Chan Yeng Kit. 'In Singapore, apart from research and education, grid computing has found its way into growth sectors such as construction and manufacturing, digital media, business process outsourcing and financial services sectors.'

Financial services firm Charles Schwab, for example, uses grid computing to integrate data, analyse customer profiles and provide specific product offerings to customers. Lucasfilm - maker of the Star Wars films - uses grid computing to make high-definition films. Some movie production houses are using the technology to digitally restore old films, or provide layers of special effects to new ventures.

URL: http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news001_20050513.html

Oracle OpenWorld Amsterdam Presentations available for download:

• Managing Corporate Performance: Dream or Reality? - John Schoenherr, VP – Analytic Solutions, Oracle Corporation (2.36MB)
• Gaining Value from Business Intelligence: Integrating the Customer Data Hub with Your Data Warehouse - Nick Whitehead, Solution Sales - EMEA BI & Data Warehouse, Oracle Corporation (818KB)
• Oracle Daily Business Intelligence Architecture - Jeffrey Kirk, Product Director - Apps Development, Oracle Corporation (2.62MB)
• The many challenges of integration: processes, data, applications and platforms - Massimo Pezzini, Oracle Corporation (717KB)
• Content Management for the Rest of Us - Rich Buchheim, Senior Director - Product Management and ECM Strategy, Oracle Corporation (4.30MB)
• Real Time Collaboration in the Enterprise - Anindo Roy, Director - S/W Development, Oracle Real Time Collaboration Group, Oracle Corporation (3.70MB)
• Location Technology and Applications with Oracle 10G - Euro Beinat, Geodan Mobile Solutions (1.38MB)
• Increasing Control: Centrally Managing Statutory Requirements and Corporate Policy Compliance - Francis Veldeman and Olivier Arthus, Oracle EMEA (688KB)
• Oracle Customer Service: Information Driven Service - Stephen Slade, HQ Product Director – CRM Service and Wilfred Sholman, EMEA Principal Consultant, Oracle Corporation (3.60MB)
• General Ledger: Improve the Transparency and Auditability of your Corporation - Gerard Verton and Ad de Kievit, Deloitte (965KB)
• Link Planning to Execution with Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting - John Schoenherr, VP – Analytic Solutions and Dirk de Ridder, Principle Sales Consultant, Oracle EMEA (373KB)
• Revenue and Receivables Management: ‘How to keep your boat?’ - Arno van der Weijden, Atos Origin (2.47MB)
• RFID, Mobile and the Brave New World of Sensor based Computing - Simon Pollard, VP - EMEA Industrial Sector, RFID & Sensor Based Services and Edwin W. Kalischnig, Director - Business Development, RFID & Sensor Based Services, Oracle Corporation
• Efficiency, Customer Service and Lean Agility with Oracle Discrete Manufacturing - Nick Arrowsmith, EMEA Supply Chain, Oracle Corporation
• Advanced Procurement: Development Update on Oracle’s SRM Offering - David Hope-Ross, Senior Director - Procurement Applications, Oracle Corporation.
• Unbundling Billing Complexity: Enabling a Convergent Process Architecture for Telecoms - Marc T. Stolte, Director - Telecoms, Oracle EMEA
• Support Complex Business Models with Adaptive Order Fulfillment - Drew Campbell, Vice President - Order Fulfillment Products, Oracle Corporation

Software 2005 - Charles Phillips Key Note presentation

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Oracle Financials 11.5.10 - Overview

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Oracle execs talk up Fusion plans

Two top Oracle executives met with analysts and customers in New York on Monday as part of an Oracle road show aimed at reassuring those nervous about Oracle's recent buying spree and its plans for a merged applications set, dubbed Fusion, incorporating its purchases.

"I know you're all wondering: is there some strategy behind all this bizarre behavior over the last six months, us buying all these companies, or is it just Oracle being Oracle?" company President Charles Phillips said at the event's start.

Phillips and John Wookey, Oracle's applications development head, reiterated the points Oracle first laid out in January, when it introduced its Fusion road map. Oracle will deliver one more major update, due in 2006, in each of its three applications lines -- its own E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and EnterpriseOne (formerly J.D. Edwards) -- and release an applications set built on a new, Java-based architecture, Fusion, in 2008. Customers on all of the product lines will be able to smoothly upgrade to Fusion without any greater pain than they encounter in a standard applications upgrade, executives said.

Read more at...

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1377035173;fp;16;fpid;0

Oracle 'Fusion' Sounds Good, but Will It Happen?

"Fusion is a smart move. It is a response to the issue of how to get value (both to Oracle as well as its customers) from synergy from multiple code bases," Andrew White, senior analyst, Gartner, told CRM Buyer. The first product will be a Fusion middleware, which will eventually underlie all its applications. Due out in limited release at the end of the year, it will be Java-based and have a service-oriented architecture so its components can be easily broken out.

http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/Oracle-Fusion-Sounds-Good-but-Will-it-Happen-42539.html

Oracle Rebrands Middleware As Fusion

Oracle is slapping a new "Fusion" moniker on its array of middleware and development tools.

"Oracle Fusion Middleware" to be formally announced Monday, will be the umbrella brand for some 32 products including Oracle's J2EE server, portal, data integration, application development, business intelligence, identity management, and collaboration offerings, said Rick Schultz, vice president of product marketing for middleware.

The products will also still carry their usual version designation, as in Application Server 10g, he added.

The group is borrowing the "fusion" moniker that has already been applied to a proposed next-generation applications that would meld the best features and functions of the current Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards portfolio.

Schultz also sketched in some more details of when Oracle will add integration between its middleware and its newly acquired applications from PeopleSoft and JD Edwards.

"When we acquired PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, their apps worked only on our competitors' middleware exclusively. We're committed to continuing that support on whatever middleware but it's natural that customers in this installed base have asked when Oracle middleware products will support them," Schultz said.

Oracle plans to roll out PeopleSoft integration in two phases starting in the second quarter of 2005 with certification for Oracle's BPEL process manager its LDAP directory servers. The second phase, slated for the fourth quarter of 2005, will add planned certification of its J2EE server, portal server and integration server, the rest of its identity management technology. All of this integration pertains to PeopleSoft Enterprise Versions 8.4, 8.8, and 8.9, he said.

For JD Edwards there is an analogous two-phase rollout planned. The first, due in the third quarter, will see Oracle's J2EE server, portal server, identity management and BPEL process manager certified for JD Edwards. The remaining components will be certified in the first quarter of 2006, he said.

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=161501223

Oracle in the Financial Services Industry - Executive Overview

See this presentation by Oracle executive Mark Smedley, Senior Industry Director, Financial Services

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/oaug-fin-sig/files/Oracle%20Presentations/

FSI - Realizing a single source of financial truth

See this presentation by Oracle executive Alan Payne, VP Financial Services Industry

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Corporate Performance Management & Governance in global Financial Services sector

See a presentation by Oracle executives Andrea Klein, VP Financial Services Industry Marketing & Brett Kennedy, Solutions Director FSI Aus & NZ

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/oaug-fin-sig/files/Oracle%20Presentations/