The main development directions are to assist Oracle analysts and design tools users in maximizing their investment in Oracle Designer and JDeveloper, through sharing experience with the other users and to ensure that Oracle customers are fully apprised of the future direction of Oracle analysis and design tools.

Oracle relies on its own software to run its global operations and meticulously plans software upgrades. There is an added complexity for Oracle: the company implements its software before releasing the new version to customers, so the pressure to get it right is overwhelming.

What made this possible is a foundation based on an integrated information model with a highly componentized application solution, with rich support for J2EE compliant APIs and Web services. It is a part of the latest evolution in the technology for designing and programming application software packages called Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). “In spite of this massive acquisition (PeopleSoft) in the middle our upgrade cycle we had a single place to upgrade, a single place to roll up processes, and without this architecture it would have been a very different story,” said David Cooke, Vice President and Global Oracle Alliance Leader.