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and Oracle announced the next phase of their joint activities to help
enterprises align IT resources and investments with business strategies.
To offer customers more agile software that helps automate business
processes, HP plans to incorporate Oracle Fusion Middleware into the HP
service-oriented architecture (SOA) portfolio. SOA is an architectural approach
to building software applications as a collection of autonomous, re-usable
business services.
Using Oracle's software and the HP OpenView manage-ment software suite,
HP plans to develop and deliver SOA-based business services that help customers
automate business processes and integrate disparate data and applications, while
leveraging existing applications. HP services' SOA offerings include a
complete lifecycle metho-dology, risk-managed start-up, proof-of-concept, and
compre-hensive solution integration capabilities. This builds on HP's existing
ability to resell Oracle Fusion Middleware. Additionally, HP and Oracle are
planning joint go-to-market activities that enable customers worldwide to
transform their business processes with SOAs.
“Companies can preserve legacy systems by using them as business assets
without the requirement for replacement or business-crippling develop-ing
lifecycles,” said Uday Kumaraswami, VP, Enterprise Application Services
Practice, HP Services. “With these HP and Oracle offerings, compa-nies can
develop new business capabilities at a lower cost and capitalize on the need to
respond to change.”
Today's announcement furthers HP and Oracle's Optimize for Agility
ini-tiative, launched in October 2005, by enabling the companies' joint
engineer-ing team to expand the initial Oracle grid reference architecture.
“Organizations can plug Oracle's best-in-class
middle-ware components into their existing IT systems to create flexible and
automated computing environments,” said Thomas Kurian, Senior VP, Server
Technologies, Oracle. “HP's adoption and support of Oracle Fusion Middleware
and its SOA components are a testament to the market mo-mentum we've
experienced, and we are confident that our HP relationship will build on this
momentum.”