Oracle acquired AmberPoint, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management provider, to strengthen its enterprise solutions with SOA management capabilities.
Oracle will use AmberPoint’s solutions, designed for diagnosing challenges in application performance and business transactions, to extend Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite, including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Governance and Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The transaction, whose value remains undisclosed, will close in the first half of 2010.
“We expect the addition of AmberPoint’s products to Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA Suite will provide stronger end-to-end governance that allows customers to manage the entire lifecycle of SOA-based solutions, providing visibility and management across heterogeneous environments”, said Thomas Kurian, Oracle Executive Vice President, Product Development.
Oracle’s improvements to its SOA suite will provide customers with improved performance, lower IT costs through end-to-end SOA management and Business Transaction Management solutions.
John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO, concluded that the partnership with Oracle will further sustain enterprise offerings based on real-time applications for business processes.
Does anyone know of any Amber Point users in South Africa? I am writing a thesis on Managing SOA composite applications using ITIL and as part of this, would like to know the effectiveness of applications like AmberPoint and/or others (especially those based on ITIL) in reducing runtime problems. Thank you.