Oracle Announces Application Integration Architecture Release 2.5

Oracle has announced Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 2.5 with 10 new cross-industry Process Integration Packs (PIPs) and six new industry-specific PIPs, together with a growing library of more than 1,000 enterprise services and 100 enterprise objects.

Oracle AIA Release 2.5 further extends the breadth and depth of support across industries. It introduces PIPs for manufacturing (for example, Variant Management – Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Integration to Oracle Product Data Hub), utilities, retail and health sciences industries.

Oracle AIA Release 2.5, with a total 30 PIPs and four Foundation Packs, enables critical business processes across multiple industries.

Oracle AIA Release 2.5 Cross-Industry PIPs Highlights Include:

* Lead to Order: Oracle CRM On Demand to Oracle’s JD Edwards World - provides data synchronisation for Accounts, Contacts, and Products, integrating key information to support the Opportunity-to-Quote process.

* Order to Cash for SAP: Oracle Order to Cash for Siebel CRM and SAP - allows a seamless order-to-cash business process linking Quotes and Orders in Siebel CRM with Orders in SAP ERP.

* Customer Master Data Management for SAP: Oracle Customer Hub with SAP - supports delivery of customer data sync flows with SAP in addition to the Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel CRM.

* Design to Release: Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management to Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - allows companies to control new product introductions, product innovations, and product revisions from the initial design to the release to the manufacturing floor using standard approval processes.

* Project Management: Oracle Primavera to the Oracle E-BusinessSuite and Oracle Primavera to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - provides seamless integration between the two and Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. This allows users to create projects in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Project Portfolio Management or P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and synchronise project structures, activities, resource details and assignments, budgets, actual costs, progress and cost to complete.

* Supply Chain Planning: Oracle Value Chain Planning applications to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - customers gain capabilities not available in their current solution to enable best-practices in trade management, demand signal management, risk management, supply and distribution planning, demand management, advanced forecasting, sales and operations planning, inventory postponement, collaborative planning and corporate-wide planning performance management.

* Workforce Administration: PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 Human Capital Management - provides a publication of person, job, and profile data using Enterprise Business Objects and Services that can be integrated to a desired target subscription application.

Oracle AIA Release 2.5 Industry PIPs Include:

* Health Sciences: Oracle Remote Data Capture to Oracle’s Siebel Clinical Trial Management System - synchronise study site information; automate patient enrollment tracking and study activity tracking for electronic data capture and clinical trials management systems.

* Utilities Field Work: Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing to Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management and Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management - supports the end-to-end business processes associated with Field Work on each application in various stages of the Field Work lifecycle.

* High Tech/ Manufacturing: Siebel CRM to Oracle Incentive Compensation - provides a sustained integrated Oracle Application Integration Architecture based incentive compensation solution for the Siebel CRM install base including telcos and high-tech.

* Retail Financial Control: Oracle Financial Operations Control Integration Pack for Oracle Retail Merchandising Suite and the Oracle E-Business Suite Financials - provides pre-configured integration to support more efficient inventory valuation, revenue recognition, and merchandising procure-to-pay processes.