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Cast Iron for Oracle Applications and Databases

Cast Iron Systems created an Integration Appliance for Oracle users. Companies of all sizes such as Motorola, Kyocera Wireless, PGP, Infor and British American Tobacco are using the Cast Iron Integration Appliance™ to migrate data and integrate their applications and databases in days, rather than months, while cutting costs by over 80%.

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Connect Oracle Applications and Databases with Your Enterprise and Partners

Most Oracle implementations require rapid synchronization of master and transactional data — such as quotes, customers, items, production orders, schedules, inventory, packing slips, and invoices — with a variety of other systems and databases. Companies using Oracle applications and databases need to integrate with logistics and distribution, factory automation, scheduling, business intelligence, salesforce automation and order entry applications. In addition, these customers want to integrate data with their business partners using a myriad of technologies like EDI, XML or flat-files. The Cast Iron Integration Appliance is a simple, purpose-built appliance that delivers everything required to solve integration projects quickly using a "configuration, not coding" approach. Companies can now configure a simple appliance to migrate and integrate data and applications in days.

Why Choose the Cast Iron Integration Appliance for Oracle Integration?

Cast Iron Integration Appliances for Oracle enable IT Departments to be nimble and responsive to the needs of the business.

Fastest Time to Market:

Rapid Integration
  • Oracle integration projects delivered in days
  • No software to install. Up-and-running in minutes!
  • Graphical configuration, not coding
  • Rack-mountable, production-ready
  • On demand library of Template Integration Processes (TIPs) for the most common integration scenarios

Lowest Costs:

Lowest cost
  • No software to license or deploy
  • Low monthly subscription pricing
  • Up to 80% lower maintenance costs vs. software-based alternatives
  • Nothing else to buy

Simplest Monitoring and Management:

Simplest monitoring and management
  • Complete visibility into transactions
  • Proactive alerting of data and connectivity errors
  • Monitor from anywhere, anytime
  • Remote setup, upgrades and monitoring

Most Rapid, Efficient Development:

Most rapid, efficient development
  • 100% standards-based; no reliance on niche middleware products
  • Pre-built connectivity to Oracle 11i, Oracle database, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel and Siebel CRM On Demand
  • Pre-built connectors to other ERP, CRM, customer support systems, flat-files, Web Services, all major databases, and messaging systems
  • Unmatched flexibility — can be deployed on-premise or hosted in the Cloud

What Problems Does the Cast Iron Integration Appliance Solve?

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance connects various internal and external applications to Oracle. If already in place, the appliances complement other integration tools including those provided by Oracle. Companies in many sectors — including manufacturing, retail, energy, transportation, and logistics — rely on the Integration Appliance to solve the following problems:

Synchronize data in real time between Oracle Apps and other systems:

  • Financial consolidation between Oracle financials and other order processing systems
  • Production order information with shop-floor applications
  • Forecasts with supply chain and demand forecasting systems
  • Shipment information and waybill tracking with logistics and distribution systems
  • Invoice data with third-party billing systems
  • Pricing and product catalog with e-commerce applications
  • Customer and contact data sync with sales force automation (SFA) systems
  • Leads and campaigns with marketing automation systems
  • Case data with customer support systems
  • Sales order, shipment and invoice information with customers
  • PO, ASN and payment information with suppliers
  • Transaction history with external reporting and business intelligence systems
  • Data migration from other ERP systems to Oracle applications
  • Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g databases
  • All other Oracle applications

Connect Oracle with:

  • All other major databases including DB2, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, Progress
  • Oracle application family including 11i, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Retek and Siebel On Demand
  • All other major databases including DB2, SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, Progress
  • Other ERP applications including SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Lawson, QAD, and more
  • Custom applications built on Oracle DB
  • SaaS application including Eloqua, Right90, Big Machines, Xactly, and White Springs
  • EDI and XML/HTTP(S) connectivity to partners
  • Flat-files using FTP, HTTP(S), Web Services, E-mail
  • Middleware including Oracle Fusion
  • Customer support systems including Siebel, Remedy, Clarify and i2
  • PLM and demand forecasting applications including Matrix One
  • SFA applications including salesforce.com, NetSuite, Siebel, and RightNow
  • And many more...

How does Oracle Integration Work?

The Cast Iron solution provides the following key features to simplify and accelerate data migration and integration with Oracle applications and databases:

Cast Iron Capabilities

Data Quality and Migration:

  • Data Profiling: Assess the quality of your data before commencing data migrations — e.g. identify the unique state and country codes present in your address data
  • Intelligent Data Cleansing:
    • Duplicate Removal (de-duplication): Combine data from various different data sources and remove duplicate values — e.g. remove the same lead scanned multiple times
    • Fuzzy Lookup: Configure sophisticated rules to highlight errors and fix them — e.g. common misspellings, abbreviations, etc.
  • Data Enrichment: Perform lookups with third-party providers to enrich your data — e.g. DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet services, etc.

Integration and Extraction

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance simplifies Oracle application and database integration in just four easy steps:

1. Connectivity 2. Transformation 3. Workflow 4. Management

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance contains pre-built connectivity to a wide variety of enterprise applications, databases, flat-files, and on-demand applications. Using a "configuration, not coding" approach for connecting applications not only enables rapid implementations, but also eliminates the need to touch the endpoints. The appliance provides a graphical UI to transform data between source and target applications, and provides automatic completeness checks. A workflow process can be defined using drag-and-drop logical functions. And, a single web-based console provides complete visibility to data flowing through the appliance and enables complete management of the integrations.

Components

The Cast Iron Integration Appliance provides three components to configure, deploy and manage your application integration projects.

Cast Iron Studio™

Cast Iron Studio™ Cast Iron Studio (Studio) is at the heart of the easy-to-use design experience offered by Cast Iron's Integration Appliances. Studio provides a graphical environment for you to configure integration data flows called workflows or orchestrations. Studio allows you to create these workflows by dragging and dropping activities into a design window. Once designed, these workflows can be published to the appliance with a single click.

Run-time Appliance

Cast Iron Integration Appiance™ Combining ease-of-use with robust functionality, the purpose-built Run-time Appliance brings high performance and reliability to your integration solution. With easy scalability and complete security, the appliance is self-contained and has everything needed to complete your integrations.

Web Management Console

Cast Iron Web Management Console™ (WMC) The Web Management Console (WMC) is a simple-to-use environment where you deploy integration projects, and then securely monitor and manage these integrations. The Web Management Console also manages all deployment assets related to the integration for you. These assets could include the WSDL definition for a web service to invoke your integration or database scripts to send database events to the Cast Iron Integration Appliance.

Getting Started

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Cast Iron Appliances

  • iA2000

    The iA2000 is the entry-level integration appliance from Cast Iron. It allows customers to get their first integration project between an Oracle application or database and one other named application up and running quickly and cost effectively. This is an attractive alternative to custom code and a good fit for simpler first projects.

  • iA2500

    Entry-level enterprise class appliance for integrating and Oracle application or database and one other named application for multiple projects. Useful for companies that seek a point-to-point integration solution with an easy upgrade path to a standards-based integration platform. This is an attractive alternative to custom code.

  • iA4000

    Enterprise class flagship solution solves integration problems between multiple applications. Useful for companies that seek a standards-based platform for their application data migration and integration needs and find software-based solutions too complex.

  • iA4000HA

    High Availability solution for mission-critical applications. Comprised of a pair of iA4000 appliances, the HA solution provides failover capability. Useful for companies that need a hot-standby option in addition to high-availability requirements.