Enterprise Architecture is seldom simplistic enough to be built on a single technology - it generally encompasses a wide array of technologies, including SOA, Identity Management, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Web 2.0, Content Management, BPM, Distributed caching, Data Integration, and Application Server.

What are the key business drivers where you need mix of multiple technologies? What are the best practices (organizational as well as architectural) to meet enterprise needs? How do other organizations approach enterprise challenges that transcend technology and product boundaries? IT Leaders, CIOs, Enterprise Architects are searching for proof-points.

This book is an attempt to answer these questions by illustrating ten unique enterprise solution patterns to solve business needs in 3 specific areas: process improvement, business visibility and collaboration & security. Each chapter will introduce a new pattern, along with an architectural overview of a real-world customer solution developed with Oracle Fusion Middleware.

What you will learn from this book

Approach

This book is a compilation of ten real-world case studies, originally published on Oracle Technology Network, and shows how to design and develop business processes efficiently. Throughout the book the authors discuss the revolutionary solutions that are behind the changing face of enterprises.

Who this book is written for

This book is aimed at Architects and IT managers involved in the design, implementation, and integration of composite applications and end-to-end business processes.

• Examine the key building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 architectures and then outline important integration considerations.
• Align IT with business processes that benefit from process-driven SOA development
• Create a unified platform for fast, flexible data analysis by integrating relational and multi-dimensional data.
• Combine SOA and BI to build intelligent processes with insight-driven agility.
• Inject high performance into data services by using data-tier caching for SOA performance.
• Bring about change without developing code for application extensions and integrations.
• Provide next generation integrated real-time intelligence using Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Coherence, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring.
• Build an automated reporting platform with SOA and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.
• Govern business demands and requirements by building agile applications using Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Principles.