New Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker Simplifies Multi-Vendor Unified Communications Networks

Redwood Shores, Calif. – December 11, 2013

Oracle today announced the Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker, a new, core communications controller designed to enable the hyper-connected enterprise with a new era of rich employee collaboration and efficient customer service.

According to a 2012 Frost & Sullivan survey, 69% of enterprises use communications products from multiple vendors (1), which can lead to interoperability issues between various communications applications and systems. Further, as communications infrastructure shifts from legacy to next-generation UC networks, enterprises’ complex and disparate infrastructure makes it difficult to maintain reliable operations, optimize network resource use and adopt next generation business automation applications – such as click-to-call – that help increase worker productivity.

Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker helps to simplify network operations and enable advanced premise- and cloud-based business applications by virtually eliminating session protocol incompatibilities and controlling session routing between proprietary voice, video and UC systems. The solution forms the core layer in the Oracle enterprise communications architecture, helping organizations reduce costs and support compliance.

Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker draws from more than a decade of Oracle expertise gained deploying multi-vendor UC networks to meet enterprises’ communications needs. The solution:

Leverages unique protocol manipulation capabilities to help eliminate incompatibilities between various third-party systems, allowing virtually seamless communications between disparate UC applications

Cuts operational expenses by enabling enterprises to manage company-wide dialing plans from a single location, rather than multiple private branch exchanges (PBX) and UC systems

Enables enterprises to use private network resources to reduce toll costs by applying flexible policies to control communications session routing by factors including time of day, route cost, user identity, session type and address

Helps support compliance with regulatory and legal standards by applying policies to control access to communications services and applications and providing comprehensive call detail reports using industry-standard interfaces

The Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker also complements the Oracle Enterprise Session Border Controller to provide a highly flexible, secure and scalable infrastructure that enables enterprises to realize a best-of-breed communications strategy using cloud, on-premise or hybrid models. The combined solution helps to protect the enterprise against service overloads and provides a carrier-class, high-availability configuration to support today’s around-the-clock business needs.

“As enterprises look to adopt next generation business applications that integrate communications, operations expense can quickly become a huge roadblock because of the added complexity. A core communications controller – like Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker – not only can reduce legacy operating costs but also abstracts key communications services, streamlining deployment of next generation UC solutions,” said Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst, ZK Research.

“As consumer communications services continue to proliferate through the web, enterprise workers demand more advanced tools to increase efficiency, collaboration and access to various communications applications. However, these voice, video and UC deployments create incompatibility issues in large, complex multivendor networks. Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker simplifies and consolidates these next-generation networks while enabling lowering costs and offering new services and applications,” said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications.

More at www.oracle.com/communications