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Collect America Enhances Business Agility, Reduces Costs and
Streamlines Processes with Oracle® Fusion Middleware 11g
Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic
Server and Oracle SOA Suite Support Development of Rich Internet Applications
Redwood Shores, CA – August 24, 2009
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Collect America, a leading provider of asset management services and
financial products, is using Oracle® Fusion Middleware 11g, the
foundation for innovation, to deliver a more agile and scalable ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA) platform. This platform supports the
development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for a network of
franchise customers that manage the bankruptcy process in the debt
purchasing and collections industry.
Collect America's business has rapidly expanded through the pursuit of
new markets. To support this growth, the IT staff determined that a more
agile infrastructure and improved efficiencies were required. To help
design and implement the new platform, Collect America collaborated with
Oracle and ECS Team.
With Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Collect America has been able to
reduce development time for several hundred applications and services
that support automated and human workflow activities designed to
manage the lifecycle of its assets. This has allowed the company to
maximize liquidation rates and minimize costs, while speeding the delivery
of IT projects to business users by 30 percent.
Built on an SOA-based N-tier architecture, Collect America's IT staff uses
Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework
(ADF) for Java application development; Oracle WebLogic Server
underlies its Web tier; Oracle SOA Suite provides the foundation for the
application tier; and, the database tier utilizes Oracle Database to manage
both online transaction processing and data warehouse systems.
The productivity gains found with Oracle's Java development tools have
improved the predictability of future projects costs, time and resources,
bringing substantial efficiencies to Collect America.
The business benefits realized with the new platform include the ability to
support new markets, grow revenue and provide improved forecasting for
better business intelligence. The new architecture also enables Collect
America to rapidly adapt to new business needs and easily scale with
business growth.
Collect America has long been an industry leader in adopting new
technology to help differentiate their business. With the delivery of its
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g architecture, Collect America expects to
continue outpacing its competition through reduced IT costs and faster
time-to-market on innovative enhancements.
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Collect America also intends to deploy Oracle Universal Content
Management in future development efforts.
Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g Unite Rich Internet Applications and SOA
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A key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle JDeveloper is
a complete Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for SOA and Java
development, "hot-pluggable" with Oracle and non-Oracle environments.
While Oracle JDeveloper supports all major Java EE application servers
and databases, performance is optimized for Oracle WebLogic Server and
Oracle Database.
Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) is a standards-based,
end-to-end Java EE framework that simplifies development by providing
out-of-the-box infrastructure services and a visual and declarative
development experience. Oracle ADF Faces Components provide over a
130 AJAX and Flash-based JSF components for developing rich user
interfaces for Java EE applications and includes framework features
needed by Java Server Faces (JSF) developers. These out-of-the-box
widgets support the delivery of a dynamic and intuitive user interface that
can present a responsive, consolidated view of several disparate data
sources.
Together, Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g enabled Collect
America to build RIAs with advanced graphical capabilities for entering
and analyzing data, bringing a responsive, interactive and dynamic
interface to the applications supporting their business and franchise
customers.
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“Oracle JDeveloper 11g and Oracle ADF 11g provide developers with an
easy-to-use, highly productive development environment while also
delivering outstanding performance and scalability,” said Ted Farrell, chief
architect and senior vice president, Tools and Middleware, Oracle.
“Collect America's implementation is an excellent example of the
innovative RIAs that can be designed with Oracle Fusion Middleware's
Java development tools."
“Oracle Fusion Middleware provided a significant development savings
through its out-of-the-box integration features and development tools,”
said Jennifer Briscoe, chief technology officer and vice president, Collect
America. “The rapid development environment has allowed us to lower
our overall cost of development while continuing to remain agile as
business needs change.”
“Oracle offers the industry’s most comprehensive and integrated set of
Java development tools to help enterprise application developers
streamline the development process. Teaming with Oracle, we were able
to help Collect America design a strategic, agile technology architecture
that has delivered significant productivity gains,” said Kurt Kellner,
Principal Technical Architect, ECS Team.
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About Collect America
About ECS Team
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
Oracle JDeveloper
Oracle Applications Development Framework
Oracle WebLogic Server
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