REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --

News Facts

-- Oracle Service Bus (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/service-bus.html) is positioned as a leader in Forrester Research's January 2009 independent report (http://tinyurl.com/bhy5mc), "The Forrester Wave(TM): Enterprise Services Buses, Q1 2009."(1)

-- Forrester defines Enterprise Service Buses (ESB) as "an intermediary that provides core functions to make a set of reusable services widely available, plus extended functions that simplify the use of the ESB in a real-world IT environment." They also note: "most SOA efforts rely heavily on one or more ESBs as their core software infrastructure."

-- Vendors were evaluated on their strengths and weaknesses across 171 criteria spanning their current offering, strategy and market presence.

-- Leaders, including Oracle Service Bus, were recognized for supporting the broadest range of protocols and other features and for having the most focused ESB and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) related strategies, the most-mature tooling, and the greatest flexibility in deployment and configuration.

-- According to Oracle, Oracle Service Bus, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, is a proven, lightweight and scalable SOA (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/index.html) integration platform that delivers low-cost, standards-based integration for high-volume, mission critical SOA environments. It is designed to connect, mediate, and manage interactions between heterogeneous services, legacy applications, packaged applications and multiple ESB instances across an enterprise-wide service network. Oracle Service Bus is a key technology in the Oracle SOA Suite (http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/soa-suite.html).

Supporting Quotes

-- According to Forrester, "OSB earned top scores for design-time support because of tight integration between OSB and its Oracle Enterprise Repository, which makes it easier for OSB customers to get full SOA service life-cycle management support by using both products together."

-- "As businesses move from small departmental SOA footprints to enterprise-wide SOA, they need to use the services distributed across multiple SOA domains to build high-value composite applications," said Amlan Debnath, senior vice president, Oracle Product Development. "Oracle Service Bus enables customers to achieve value more quickly with simple, code-free, configuration-based service integration -- allowing them to build composite, cross-domain applications while future-proofing their SOA with a high-performance, scalable SOA integration backbone."

Supporting Resources

    --  Oracle Service Bus
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/service-bus.html)
    --  Oracle Service Bus Data Sheet
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/docs/service-bus-datasheet.pdf)
    --  Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/index.html)

-- A Revolution in Agility: Business Integration Through Service-Oriented Architecture(PDF) (http://tinyurl.com/bsywj9)

    --  Oracle Expert Blog: David Chappell
http://blogs.oracle.com/davidchappell)


    (1) "The Forrester Wave(TM): Enterprise Service Buses, Q1 2009", Larry
        Fulton, January 26, 2009

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