Oooh, architecture!

From the Collaborate ‘07: Technology and Applications for the Oracle Community show going down in Las Vega$ this week comes news from – who else? – Oracle.

The Oracle Application Integration Architecture, an open standards-based platform for business process management across Oracle, third-party and custom applications was released, presumably to provide a little “ooh” and “aah” to carry through the rest of the show.

Getting on board the SaaS ship (of a sort), Oracle will deliver pre-built integrations across Oracle ERP, CRM and industry applications using a business process execution language-based platform. These industry-specific programs are called “Process Integration Packs” (No acronym provided here – can we call them PIPs?) and seek to provide pre-integrated business flows across Oracle’s portfolio of applications. The PIPs leverage the Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite.

PIPs currently available include Oracle’s Siebel CRM On Demand Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite, designed to support the opportunity-to-quote process, and Oracle’s Siebel CRM Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Order Management, which promises support for the order-to-cash process.

Subsequent PIP releases planned include Oracle’s Siebel CRM Integration Pack for i-flex Flexcube Account Originations, an integrated front-to-back-office banking solution; Oracle’s Siebel Call Center Integration Pack for Oracle Adverse Event Reporting System, intended to support a complete closed-loop “adverse event” (gotta love the euphemism there) and complaint (ah, that’s better) solution; Siebel CRM Trade Promotions and Deductions Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite, which is expected to provide a closed-loop trade promotional process for consumer goods companies; Communications Integration Packs for Siebel CRM, Oracle Billing and Revenue Management and Oracle Financials for the concept-to-launch and order-to-cash processes; Multi-Order Channel Management Integration Pack for Siebel CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Retail; Siebel CRM On Demand Integration Pack for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne; Oracle Transportation Management Integration Pack for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, to support rate and route shopping during sales order entry; and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Financials Integration Pack for Oracle Financial Services Accounting Hub, which is promised to allow users in the financial services industry to consolidate information from back-office systems into the Oracle Financial Services Accounting Hub and PeopleSoft General Ledger.