Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1. SOA
Infrastructure
Management:
What
you
Need
to
Know
Today every organization is facing the need to predict changes in the global busi-
ness environment, to rapidly respond to competitors, and to best exploit organ-
izational assets to prepare for growth. Your enterprise application infrastructure
can either help you meet these business imperatives or it can impede your ability
to adapt to change.
To proactively respond to these challenges and dynamics of change, major
companies worldwide are adopting
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
as a
means of delivering on these requirements. The adoption of SOA and
Business
Process Management (BPM)
methodologies is helping them overcome the com-
plexity of their application and IT environments, and also aligning IT and business
together. SOA represents a fundamental shift in the way new applications are de-
signed, developed, and integrated with legacy business applications, and facil-
itates the development of enterprise applications as modular business services
that can be easily integrated and reused.
Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a comprehensive suite of products that includes BPEL
Process Modeler, Business Rules Editor, Mediator, Web Services Manager, and
Business Process Manager, all designed to help build, deploy, and manage SOA
and BPM-based implementations. For the full list of Oracle SOA Suite 11g com-
ponents, have a look at
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E12839_01/integration.1111/
e10223/01_components.htm
. The deployment of the Oracle SOA Suite 11g plat-
form within the enterprise is accelerated by the continued alignment of business
and IT as a result of the rapid adoption of Service Oriented and Event Driven Ar-
chitectures and Business Process Management.
While businesses strive to be more agile and dynamic, the need for administra-
tion, management, and monitoring of the underlying SOA infrastructure is essen-
tial. These are particularly important for the following reasons:
