By utilising open standards, making applications and services transparently accessible from browsers and wireless devices, Oracle9iAS lowers the cost associated with developing, deploying and operating applications.
Oracle9iAS is a powerful business process-driven solution that allows businesses to easily implement a systematic and scalable infrastructure for integrating virtually any packaged or legacy applications, components, trading partners and people.
One key element of Oracle 9iAS which takes the pain out of implementation is that it comes complete with pre-built adapters. Adapters, or connectors, provide connectivity to external applications and technologies, and are the ultimate weapon in making applications communicate with each other. Oracle's adapters provide access to third-party applications from vendors including Ariba, Baan, CommerceONE, IBM, PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel and TIBCO.
About 30% of the cost of an ERP project arises from the need to build integration links with existing applications.
Source: 'Cutting Implementation Costs by Application Integration', Gartner, February 2002
Ultimately, the integration of applications in the enterprise environment will remain a number one priority for in-house IT teams, because ensuring streamlined communication between software applications will offer dramatic productivity gains and cost efficiencies. However, it is far from simple to achieve, as the more complex the enterprise environment, the greater the difficulty to integrate applications.
IT managers should pay careful attention to the integration process and ask their vendors a lot of questions, because it is clear that closer inspection reveals a lot of hidden challenges. Like the electrician staring at a maze of wires, trying to decide which wire belongs to which system, application integrators spend too much time today identifying where and how integration should take place - and time means money
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1 Source: "Central Application Integration Teams Expected To Proliferate," Carol Silwa, idg.net, November 2002.
2 Source: "A case for Enterprise Application Integration," J. Michael Lee and Christy Bass, Accenture, November 2001.
3 Source: "Central Application Integration Teams Expected To Proliferate," Carol Silwa, idg.net, November 2002.
4 Source: IBM WebSphere software Customer Experience Assessment, Primary Intelligence, October 2002.
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