Oracle in the USi and abroad

Managed enterprise software solutions provider USinternetworking Inc. has announced its creation of a service-oriented architecture to integrate disparate applications and automate application provisioning throughout its enterprise with Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Oracle Fusion Middleware product used by USi included Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle JDeveloper 10g, and Oracle Web Services Manager. USi developed the SOA to integrate and simplify user provisioning for its internal business applications which include Ariba and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise applications.

"Oracle BPEL Process Manager is like workflow on steroids," said USi advanced engineering vice president Mike Rulf with an interesting simile. (Let’s just hope it doesn’t ultimately destroy USi’s musculature and cause premature death like real anabolic steroids do, eh?)

As an application service provider offering managed enterprise solutions for Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel and other applications, USi seeks to assist in managing user provisioning and authentication for users.

USi is an AT&T company providing application outsourcing, remote management, professional services, SaaS enablement, eBusiness development, and eBusiness hosting services. USi clientele currently numbers over 150 world-class organizations in 31 countries.

In other Oracle news (and there’s always Oracle news, trust me), the big corporation noted some key customer wins in the second quarter of fiscal year 2007. Oracle had reported a 35 percent increase in applications revenue for the quarter.

Included on the list were examples such as Etisalat, the leading telecommunications provider in United Arab Emirates, which deployed the Oracle Human Resources Management System; the UK government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ deployment of stage one in its “Shared Services” roll out; and the National Bank of Kuwait’s selection of Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Fusion Middleware to streamline operations.

For the list of significant Oracle customers wins in the quarters (whoo, it’s long), click here.