Oracle has launched its Data Integration Suite to combine traditional data-integration capabilities with an array of middleware and tools for constructing a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Data Integration Suite costs $60,000 per CPU for a package that bundles Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle/Hyperion Data Relationship Manager with the company's BPEL Process Manager, enterprise service bus, application server, business-to-business engine and business rules engine, according to a statement.

"This is really Oracle attempting to go a long way toward providing a credible alternative to IBM Information Server," said James Kobielus, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc.