Dominic Martinelli, Vice President of
IT for Rackable Systems
BUILDING BRIDGES
PROCESS INTEGRATION PACKS HELP RACKABLE SYSTEMS CONNECT THE PIECES.
BY TONY KONTZER
he task of integrating disparate applications—both
legacy applications and new ones from different
vendors—can be a daunting one for enterprises. As new
software companies have joined the Oracle fold, the
company has focused on ensuring that customers can benefit
from the entire portfolio of new features and functionality
represented by the host of acquisitions, whether customers
are already using a particular software package or are making
implementation plans now.
One of Oracle’s key 2007 initiatives, Oracle Application
Integration Architecture, offers customers a line of process
integration packs designed to bridge Oracle’s growing suites
of business software. What’s more, the fact that Oracle
Application Integration Architecture is powered by Oracle
Fusion Middleware and service-oriented architecture (SOA)
technology means customers will have a foundation for tackling future integration challenges.
“We’re not saying, ‘Hey, you need to go and take everybody
that you’ve trained on PeopleSoft or Siebel or others and then
move them all over to this new thing,’” says Jose Lazares,
Oracle’s vice president of applications development for Oracle
Application Integration Architecture. “We recognize that it’s
