Oracle Announces Oracle Application Integration Architecture Release 3.1

Demonstrating its commitment to provide value, flexibility and extensive industry-specific integrations for customer success, Oracle today announced Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 3.1, a comprehensive update with the first releases of AIA pre-built integrations based on and certified for industry-leading Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Oracle AIA Release 3.1 includes nine cross-industry Process Integration Packs (PIP), eight vertical PIPs, and two direct integrations certified for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Debuting in Oracle AIA Release 3.1 are three new PIPs including Agile PLM for Process and Oracle Process Manufacturing, as well as Health Sciences industry specific PIPs: Oracle Clinical Trial Payments and Oracle Serialization and Tracking.

Oracle AIA Release 3.1 speeds time to value of the development of loosely coupled process integrations by harnessing the combined power of predefined application integration and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

With AIA Release 3.1, Oracle continues to deliver on its promise of providing a predefined architecture that helps reduce complexity, accelerating delivery of enterprise-class integration solutions, and offering pre-built integrations across all major Oracle applications, including support for newer versions of these applications.

The Oracle Serialization and Tracking Integration Pack combine the product serialization and pedigree management capabilities of Oracle Pedigree and Serialization Manager with the Oracle E-Business Suite’s inventory, manufacturing and order management applications. This pre-built integration includes all required business process models, thereby lowering risk and complexity and shortening implementation timeframes for mass-serialization projects.

The Oracle Design-to-Release Integration Pack for Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process and Oracle Process Manufacturing is a pre-built, best practice integration process that is configurable and extensible to meet your unique process needs. Based upon open standards-based Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), it is designed to enable seamless synchronization of your enterprise product record and recipes across your supply chain and extended product network. The pre-built integration accelerator supports enterprise processes that connect the PLM product record and recipes in Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management for Process with the Oracle E-Business Suite Process Manufacturing.

Clinical Trial Payments Integration Pack for Siebel Clinical is a partial integration utilizing SOA technology providing the first building blocks to automate the clinical trial payment process. Payment request information from Siebel Clinical is plugged into a SOA-based integration that can be utilized by any other system in the payments process. Once the payment has been made the payment details from any system can also be inserted into the integration and received back into the Siebel Clinical system so the clinical team is aware that the payment has been made.

The Oracle Value Chain Planning Integration Base Pack, which previously delivered pre-built integration from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to Value Chain Planning and Demantra Demand Management solutions, has now been extended to include integration with PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management to Demantra Demand Management.

Oracle AIA provides an open, standards-based approach for organizations to integrate cross-application business processes, leveraging a broad range of custom, Oracle or third-party applications, while providing a jump start to integration projects, reducing integration risk and lowering integration costs.

Oracle AIA Foundation Pack enables companies to standardize enterprise integration efforts around a common framework and methodology, improving development productivity, service portfolio management, and SOA governance for faster delivery of lower cost, sustainable business processes.

“Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) has made a huge positive impact on our business. We could not scale the business nor provide the level of service without the seamless integration of the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management,” said Michael Higgins, Senior Vice President, Advanced Innovations. “The introduction of AIA Process Integration Packs (PIPs) certified for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g in the new Oracle AIA release 3.1 will make our lives even easier as we continue to deploy Oracle’s business applications and middleware technologies as our IT platform.”

“Again proving our commitment to integration cost reduction for all Oracle customers, Oracle Application Integration Architecture Release 3.1 supplies an entirely new opportunity for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g customers to discover further value,” Michael Weingartner, Vice President of Product Development at Oracle. “As we continue to innovate across the board, the core focus of Oracle AIA remains constant by enabling organizations to do more with their existing IT investments, provide business and IT agility and lower the total cost of ownership.”