With the buyout of Sun Microssystems having come to a conclusion, Oracle is now adding fuel to its SOA Middelware stack. The Redwood giant is continuing its shopping spree with the acquisition of AmberPoint, a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Management provider. AmberPoint’s solutions are aimed at endowing organizations with the ability to diagnose and resolve issues in application performance and business transactions, such as insurance claims processing or account provisioning where multiple applications need to work together.
AmberPoint’s SOA management products further extend Oracle Fusion Middleware’s SOA capabilities including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Governance and Oracle Enterprise Manager improving the resolution of application performance and business transactions issues before the business is impacted.
The transaction is expected to close the first half of this year. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Commenting on the acquisition, Thomas Kurian, Oracle Executive Vice President, Product Development said, "AmberPoint and Oracle share a vision of providing customers with comprehensive SOA management capabilities that support modern IT environments and are also complete, open, and integrated. 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."