Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle service-oriented architecture (SOA) suite 11g, which helps customers and partners to lower costs, improve efficiencies and increase visibility into their businesses and operations.

Oracle SOA suite 11g includes service component architecture (SCA)-based SOA platform and designer, which enhances developer productivity via rapid assembly of new composite applications and unified deployment, execution, and management; simplifying application development.

New capabilities include: native sca designer, which helps improve developer productivity through drag and drop features; integration of event driven network, which enables simple development of event based applications; unified business process management, which supports unified human, system and document centric processes ; cross-application, end-to-end instance tracking, which enables integrated management within oracle enterprise manager and provides visibility and audit trails across distributed, composite processes and applications.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g provides adapters for Oracle applications and is the preferred solution for integrating with both Oracle and non-Oracle applications.

Amlan Debnath, senior vice president of Oracle Server Technologies, said: With the rapid adoption of SOA, businesses today are ready to build agile, intelligent and adaptable processes and composite applications based on services. With Oracle SOA Suite 11g, organizations benefit from the most complete, integrated and hot-pluggable platform on the market to drive the maximum business value out of existing investments by simplifying and unifying SOA development and management.