F5 is a worldwide Oracle Certified Partner, a proud member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), and works closely with Oracle on the development and refinement of their Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). Oracle E-Business Suite is a fully integrated, comprehensive suite of business applications for the enterprise. In fact, Oracle is one of F5’s largest customers, providing application delivery networking to Oracle.com, and all of their internal and external enterprise applications for Oracle employees worldwide.
APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE
ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE 11i & 12Comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability, and performance of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i and 12 deploymentsSUMMARY
OracleŽ Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information
management, and the ? rst software company to develop and deploy 100%
internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line. Since 2001, F5
and Oracle have collaborated on delivering market-leading Application Delivery
Networking solutions. F5 is a worldwide Oracle Certi? ed Partner, a proud
member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), and works closely with Oracle on the
development and re? nement of their Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA).
Oracle E-Business Suite is a fully integrated, comprehensive suite of business
applications for the enterprise. In fact, Oracle is one of F5's largest customers,
providing application delivery networking to Oracle.com, and all of their internal
and external enterprise applications for Oracle employees worldwide.
F5 has designed an integrated and adaptable network platform for delivering
Oracle applications across the LAN and WAN. F5 provides a complete suite of
application infrastructure technologies that can help simplify infrastructure and
management, reduce costs and increase ROI, and improve security for Oracle E-
Business Suite applications, as well as the entire network.
2F5 APPLICATION READY NETWORK GUIDE: ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE 11I & 12
Bene? ts and F5 value
No longer do application and network teams This enables the applications to dedicate full User Experience and have to spend hours tuning the applications processing power to application-related duties. Application Performance and tweaking the network parameters. F5 F5 devices include custom hardware and Oracle E-Business Suite is a powerful suite of optimizes the local and global network, software that take on processor-intensive tasks applications that provides your organization providing immediate, tangible performance like compression, caching, SSL processing, and better business information for effective bene? ts for the end user. For example, F5 certi? cate management. By of? oading these decision-making and enables an adaptive improves the speed of ? rst time visits to Oracle types of tasks onto F5's centralized and high enterprise for optimal responsiveness. While E-Business Suite by 40% across an entire powered devices, F5 greatly improves server a tremendous amount of thought goes into transaction over the WAN (see Figure 1). For productivity and allows organizations to reduce choosing modules and deploying Oracle repeat visits, F5 provides an increase of more the amount of necessary hardware by 20-40%.E-Business Suite, much less thought is spent than 50%, only slightly higher than the same Another way F5 increases the productivity on the impact these applications can have on transaction directly on the LAN. These types of Oracle E-Business Suite applications is network and end-user productivity. With a of performance gains are generally many times through a number of TCP optimizations. signi? cant amount of money and time invested greater than the gains made by tuning the Most applications and servers are designed in the Oracle E-Business Suite deployment, IT Oracle E-Business Suite applications. to distribute data in one way, regardless departments are often left with the unfortunate When deploying web-based applications over of the type of client requesting it; the task of trying to juggle the myriad of issues the WAN, one of the most signi? cant factors application negotiates with the client until it related to what is perceived to be poor organizations run into is latency. Packets of ? nds the lowest common denominator for application performance. data traverse thousands of miles across multiple communications. F5 devices, acting as a full F5's Application Ready Network for Oracle hops to reach their destination and then make proxy, intermediate on behalf of the client and E-Business Suite optimizes application the return trip. Information is inevitably lost use TCP enhancements to optimize delivery performance, ensures availability, and increases during these transactions. In trying to reduc... [download for more]
