Oracle AIA - Application Integration Architecture

- Oracle Application Integration Architecture -

Hey c'mon, another new technology from Oracle ???. Dont worry !! man. Dont panic by listening to this. For some of us, the name itself looks very complicated and hard. Oracle always brings old concepts in a new and better ways to make the Administrator's life easy. AIA is yet another beautiful concept from Oracle Corp.

Imagine these existing scenarios:

1. You have a legacy application which tries to collect the data from the users and try to push into your ERP (Oracle Applications OR SAP OR Peoplesoft or anyother).

2. You have implemented an ERP application in your organization spending lots of rupees. Once you start your business, you ave suppliers, vendors, customers who has their ERP applications, legacy systems which send the data in different formats into your ERP.

(I can give many more examples like this ..)

Now, you have these questions in front of you:
1. How much man power do you need to maintain these systems and to enter the data manually coming from different sources.

2. What if your business grows enormously and you get lots of data ? Would you increase the man power or try to automate the system ?

3. Do you need to spend the amount again to automate this system (this feature may or may not be in your existing ERP system).

4. If the feature is not available, do you need to go for the 3rd party products ? If yes, then how much does it cost ? How many people are needed to support this new product ? etc etc ... and the questions continue ..

Ahhh !!! If this is a very big company like the Cisco or Sun Microsystems, its fine !! they can afford this price and time spent on this. Question now is what about the SOHO (Small Office Home Office) users ?
How can they automate this ? The answer is use the technology revolution - Use SOA Architecture.

Oracle has built the AIA based on purely SOA architecture. This architecture leverages the technology and helps integrating heterogenous systems into a single system and easily pass the data between them, make validations, analyze the data and the type of data and amount of data passed and many other features.

Oracle AIA offers pre-integrated packs integrations. Using these, we can try to integrate the existing systems with Oracle Applications ERP easily with small configurations. Ofcourse, they do cost a bit, but the amount of work needed by a company in investing on a 3rd party product reduces and the development on the same too reduces, thereby saving lots of rupees.

More on AIA coming shortly.... until then google yourself on the same ;)