Ever-increasing customer demands, volatile market forces, and global competition compel the modern enterprise to deliver greater goods and services to customers at a lower cost. The Oracle E-Business Suite is an extensive set of business applications developed to assist enterprises in addressing these challenges. The E-Business application framework is a flexible environment designed to protect, extend, and evolve business processes.

The enterprise data center is an intricate system of computing power and storage resources that support enterprise business applications. Data centers are not simply a facility, but a competitive edge that is strategic to achieving the real business objectives that these applications address. Therefore, the physical and logical design of the data center network must provide a flexible, secure, and highly available environment to optimize these critical business applications and to assist the enterprise in achieving its goals that are not confined to the local data center campus but extend to encompass remote locations and users.

Enterprises are evolving to address IT infrastructure and management costs through the consolidation of branch and data center resources. Consolidation centralizes application environments and storage assets in the data center to make them accessible to remote users via the WAN. The introduction of detached applications to the enterprise is significant because “distance” may negatively affect performance, availability, and the overall end-user experience.

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