Oracle Corp. today significantly expanded its Web services-based Application Integration Architecture (AIA) enterprise application integration offering, adding support for six sets of new business processes, including one set that links Oracle’s Agile PLM software suite with SAP ERP applications.
Also today, the company upgraded its Oracle Transportation Management system, enabling manufacturers to manage private shipping fleets with assets operated by common carriers.
AIA is a software offering that uses Web services and other standards to define and implement end-to-end business processes linking enterprise applications, such as ERP, PLM, and CRM. Built on top of a set of core Web-based service and semantic definitions, which Oracle calls the AIA Foundation Pack, the AIA process integrations are enabled by a series of Process Integration Packs (PIPs) that define data, processes, and user interfaces that are used to tie together applications supporting specific end-to-end processes.
To date, in addition to the AIA Foundation Pack, Oracle has rolled out more than 20 PIPs supporting 350 integration processes or scenarios, according to Jose Lazares, vice president of application development and product strategy at Oracle. “Well over” 100 customers have implemented or built enterprise application integrations using the AIA products, Lazares said.