SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 22, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ --
 Oracle OpenWorld --

    News Facts

    -- Meeting the needs of business analysts and IT professionals, Oracle
       today announced immediate availability of the Oracle(R) Business
       Process Management Suite
       ( http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/bpm-suite.html)(Oracle BPM
       Suite), a new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware
       ( http://www.oracle.com/products/middleware/index.html).
    -- Oracle BPM Suite is the latest in a series of product releases that
       combine technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Systems.
       These products illustrate the rapid progress that Oracle is making in
       combining market-leading technologies from the two companies into a
       unified product offering.
    -- Through its pre-integrated portfolio of BPMN compliant modeling tools
       for business analysts, developer tools for system integration, business
       activity monitoring for dashboards, integration with Microsoft Office
       and desktop clients, and a unified portal for process participants,
       Oracle BPM Suite enables organizations to increase efficiency,
       visibility and agility across a broad range of processes.
    -- Oracle BPM Suite helps eliminate the boundaries between applications,
       systems and people by supporting an array of human- and system-centric
       processes on a flexible platform.  The suite is comprised of Oracle
       BPEL Process Manager ( http://www.oracle.com/appserver/bpel_home.html),
       Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
       ( http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-activity-monitoring.html),
       Oracle Business Rules ( http://www.oracle.com/appserver/rules.html),
       Oracle Business Process Management
       ( http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/bpm.html)and process portal
       capabilities.
    -- Oracle Customer Services ( http://www.oracle.com/support/index.html)
       provides complete coverage of Oracle BPM Suite with the world's leading
       portfolio of IT lifecycle-based service and support offerings.  Oracle
       Customer Services is focused on helping customers maximize their
       success with Oracle solutions while lowering the total cost of
       ownership through continued advances in providing personalized,
       proactive support and knowledge management capabilities.
    -- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete,
       integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based
       middleware and database architecture.  Oracle's approach helps
       customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and
       provides greater choice and flexibility.


    Comprehensive, Integrated Suite

    -- Oracle BPM Suite features:
       -- Oracle BPEL Process Manager -- standards-based tool customers can
          use to build and orchestrate processes and Web services for system-
          to-system integration.
       -- Oracle Business Activity Monitoring -- solution that enables
          customers to build interactive, real-time dashboards and create
          proactive alerts for monitoring business processes and services.
       -- Oracle Business Process Management -- set of tools for creating,
          executing and optimizing business processes and allows collaboration
          between business and IT users.
       -- Oracle Business Rules -- a tool that makes processes and
          applications more flexible by enabling business analysts to easily
          define and modify business logic without programming.


    Supporting Quote

    -- "Oracle BPM Suite offers the flexibility that business analysts demand
       while providing the power IT requires," said Amlan Debnath, senior vice
       president, Product Development, Oracle.  "By unifying the best of BPM
       from Oracle and BEA, organizations get a unique solution designed to
       drive operational excellence and competitive advantage.  This
       announcement reinforces Oracle's middleware leadership and commitment
       to delivering value and innovation to our customers."


    Supporting Resources

    -- Oracle BPM Suite ( http://www.oracle.com/goto/bpm/index.html)
    -- Oracle BPM ( http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/bpm.html)
    -- Datasheet: Oracle BPM
       ( http://www.oracle.com/technologies/bpm/docs/bpm-datasheet.pdf)