Oracle AIA - Why it’s hot !

Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Sanjit Anand | Print This Post | Email This Post

There was lot many news for Oracle AIA this year during OOW ,as foundation pack announcment was made by Charles Phillips in his OOW’s keynote during this gala event.Since then this was a huge interest in the subject.

In April this year the first announcement for the AIA was made which was industry-specific business process templates (BPMN) to provide Industry Reference Models (IRM), Oracle EBS, Siebel and Oracle Applications products between the actual move business processes (BPEL) to provide Process Integration Packs (PIP) from it.

Lets take a quick look what is all about and what’s makes so hot?

What is Oracle AIA Technology?

This is a framework in which the functionality of Oracle’s vast application portfolio - Oracle E-Business, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and JD Edwards - can be recombined and tailored to enterprise needs.

In simple words :A smart integration mechanism , that can support & intergrate the whole bunch of oracle products with EBS or non-EBS products(like SAP) and in this middleware is used to stitching .

The AIA has three components:

• Industry reference models. These are best practice guides so that the final deployed processes are optimized.
• Processes Integration Packs which contain out the necessary code to create business process required without risk.
• Pre built SOA that will run out of the box on Fusion middleware.

figure : Oracle AIA (Source www.oracle.com)

Oracle have now published a foundation pack which is series of templates and vanilla processes which can be adopted by a 3rd party to meet their requirements.

Technical products inside Application Integration Architecture

1. BPEL Process Manager
2. BPEL Repository
3. E-Business Suite
4. Siebel
5. Adapters
6. Oracle Warehouse Builder

The latest version comprised of the following products

• Siebel CRM to Portal Billing - Siebel CRM, FMW, BRM & EBS/Oracle Financials
• Portal Billing to General Ledger - Siebel CRM, FMW, BRM & EBS/Oracle Financials

Summary

Automating business processes across the application running at multiple plaform is normally a very laborious, complex ,costly and time consuming task.Hoping ,AIA seeks to simplify this process and make it more seamless.

Supporting Resources

While researching more about Oracle AIA , these are some interesting links:

• General information on Oracle Application Integration Architecture :
  http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-application-integration-architecture.html
• AIA Documentation
  http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/intarch.html
• Oracle AIA Foundation Pack
  http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-foundation-pack.html
• Linda Fishman Hoyle Blog :Top 10 benefits to AIA
• Process Integration Packs
  http://www.oracle.com/applications/process-integration-packs.htm
• List of validated integrations
  http://www.oracle.com/partnerships/isv/integration/search.html
• Oracle Extends Application Integration Architecture

Some AIA News from Oracle:

1. Oracle Delivers Communications Industry’s First Pre-Built Integrations Across Enterprise Business Applications
   http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_nov/111207aiacomms.html
2. “Oracle Introduces the Application Integration Architecture for SAP Initiative; Enabling Customers to Unify SAP Enterprise Applications” Why It’s Hot!Why It’s Hot!
   http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_nov/sap-aia.html