The Cisco Lean Retail Oracle E-Business Suite solution provides best practices and implementation guidance that optimizes application availability, performance, and security while lowering application ownership costs. Cisco's Lean Retail architecture provides accelerated application performance and improved access to information. Data center-based applications and hosted managed services can have their performance accelerated to LAN-like speeds. 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.