SOA Community Newsletter July 2013

July 29, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community members

Do you know how to position and sell Fusion Middleware SOA & BPM? What are the FY14 sales plays, including customer examples, discovery questions, competitive information and objective handling. You can find its answer at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) where we uploaded the latest presentations for Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Strategy FY14, SOA sales plays and BPM sales plays. Please use this information in the spirit of our partnership. We have also uploaded the Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet and Applications Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware references with hundreds of successful customer examples in our workspace, a great source to get new ideas for your customer!

What does Cloud Computing mean for your service business? The answer is more services! Learn in a demo how you can re-use a SOA integration platform to integrate SaaS solutions. Also the latest Oracle SalesForce, Microsoft and NetSuite announcements are all about middleware!

If you missed the SOA Blackbelt training, thanks to Lonnekes blog posts for the excellent summery about the training. Make sure you do NOT miss the OFM Summer Camps III. Specially we recommend to register for the B2B & Adapters training!

As part of the Industrial SOA series we published two new articles SOA Maturity Alongside Contract Standardization & Enterprise Service Bus. Two new books have been published by the community Advanced OSB in 21 days and Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g (see our publications wiki!). Thanks to Michel Schildmeijer who published an article series about Oracle Service Bus 11g. API Management is one of the hottest topics within SOA, our product management team just published a new datasheets API Management Datasheet & Enterprise Repository for API Management.

Within BPM unstructured processes used to be a big challenge, due to the potential high number of process flows. Adaptive case management can address this to create ad-hoc processes without to model each variety. With PS6 the ACM backend functionality is available, want to try it, check out the Case Management Samples Released. Read also the ACM Articles by Ajay Khanna & The Oracle Case Management API.

What to position BPM in certain industries – increasing Efficiency and Responsiveness BPM in the Public Sector & BPM in Financial Services.

Thanks to the additional BPM arcticles Customized BPM 11g PS6 Workspace Application & Detect, Analyze, Act – Fast! & Functional Testing Business Processes In Oracle BPM Suite 11g
Want to learn BPM Suite hands-on – attend the BPM 11g PS6  Hands-on Workshop by PTS September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden. If you can not come to Sweden or to the Summer Camps you can learn online on-demand Business Process Management (BPM) 11g PS6 Awareness Course.

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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Cloud Computing Concepts, Technology & Architecture

July 23, 2013 1 Comment

Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & ArchitectureDuring my holiday I read a book on “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture”. I found this book as an excellent resource for IT professionals and managers who want to learn and understand cloud computing, and who need to select or build cloud systems and solutions. It lays the foundation for cloud concepts, models, technologies and mechanisms. As the book is vendor-neutral, it will remain valid for many years. I will recommend this book to Oracle customers, partners and users for their journey towards cloud computing. This book has the potential to become the basis for a cloud computing manifesto, comparable to what was accomplished with the SOA manifesto – Jürgen Kress.

Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption and real-world usage of cloud-based services.

In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the world’s top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing platforms and solutions.

Subsequent to technology-centric coverage, the book proceeds to establish business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources, and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. Also provided are templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS delivery models.

With over 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side.

The book is available at Service Tech Books or at Amazon. Looking for additional SOA books or if you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum – what you missed in Faro!

April 8, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks Simon for the excellent blog article about the Community Forum. Very nice summery with all the highlights of the Forum. You wrote also blog post? Let us know! Thanks to your wonderful feedback – highly appreciated all the nice e-mails I received!

Thanks again for the wonderful week in Vilamoura last week! I really enjoyed the sessions and networking opportunities. The information from practically every session is most likely to be very valuable for a number of customers and of course, my colleagues. Arnoud Roth –  interaccess

Jurgen – again many thanks for organising the forum – my first. FMW forum appearance. It was an amazing experience to meet both Capgemini colleagues from other territories and other guys from other companies – the community has a very strong bond and I have no doubt I can turn to my new friends/contacts I have made for advice, guidance and coaching. I have already highlighted to my senior management my key “take aways” – to explore ways of how we can integrate FMW into their our client’s landscapes.  Frank Roche – Capgemini

Wickes PotgieterMany thanks once again for a cool Community Forum AND  BPM boot camp. Wonderful location, great organisation and high value knowledge transfer. Tony Albrecht – RPC UK Ltd.

Thank you again for the conference, I really enjoyed it! Learned a lot and met many new people. Can’t wait for the next one! Wickes Potgieter tsi-systems

Let me thanks you for all for what you have done in order to get this Middleware Community Forum organized as such, the best Oracle event from far I attended in Europe for the last years : very good organization, very interesting topics, high quality speaker, accessibility to Oracle experts, hotel, dinner, Beside my loyalty to Oracle for almost 20 years, all these efforts, investments, considerations for partners and all these news solutions give additional  motivations to move forward with Oracle. Thanks a lot again,  David Darte Compass Consulting sa.

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Thanks Simon for the excellent blog article about the Community Forum. Very nice summery with all the highlights of the Forum. You wrote also blog post? Let us know! Thanks to your wonderful feedback – highly appreciated all the nice e-mails I received!

Thanks again for the wonderful week in Vilamoura last week! I really enjoyed the sessions and networking opportunities. The information from practically every session is most likely to be very valuable for a number of customers and of course, my colleagues. Arnoud Roth –  interaccess

Jurgen – again many thanks for organising the forum – my first. FMW forum appearance. It was an amazing experience to meet both Capgemini colleagues from other territories and other guys from other companies – the community has a very strong bond and I have no doubt I can turn to my new friends/contacts I have made for advice, guidance and coaching. I have already highlighted to my senior management my key “take aways” – to explore ways of how we can integrate FMW into their our client’s landscapes.  Frank Roche – Capgemini

Wickes PotgieterMany thanks once again for a cool Community Forum AND  BPM boot camp. Wonderful location, great organisation and high value knowledge transfer. Tony Albrecht – RPC UK Ltd.

Thank you again for the conference, I really enjoyed it! Learned a lot and met many new people. Can’t wait for the next one! Wickes Potgieter tsi-systems

Let me thanks you for all for what you have done in order to get this Middleware Community Forum organized as such, the best Oracle event from far I attended in Europe for the last years : very good organization, very interesting topics, high quality speaker, accessibility to Oracle experts, hotel, dinner, Beside my loyalty to Oracle for almost 20 years, all these efforts, investments, considerations for partners and all these news solutions give additional  motivations to move forward with Oracle. Thanks a lot again,  David Darte Compass Consulting sa.

Presentations
All presentations are available at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required)

Welcome & Introduction
Jürgen Kress, OFM Partner Adoption EMEA, Oracle

Oracle Middleware Sales Strategy, Opportunities and Go-to-Market
Alistair Hopkins, Vice President Oracle

Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c and innovating application portfolio with middleware
Ed Zou, Vice President, Product Management, Oracle

BPM Suite PS6 what is new and where are the use cases & why do we win against the competition
David Read, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

What is new in SOA Suite: fast data and mobile & cloud integration and where are the use cases & why do we win against the competition
Simone Geib, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

What is new in WebLogic & surrounding technologies & Java Cloud and where are the use cases & why do we win against the competition
Maciej Gruszka, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle EMEA

ADF & ADF mobile live demo
Grant Ronald, Director Product Management Oracle Corporation

Social Network Event – gather at lobby

Welcome & Introduction Day II

Breakout sessions first round

Breakout sessions second round

Breakout sessions third round

Breakout sessions fourth round

SOA Suite 12c first impression
Simone Geib & James Allerton-Austin, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle

SOA & BPM & ADF Community Summary & Closing
Jürgen Kress, OFM Partner Adoption EMEA, Oracle

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Certification
We offer all SOA & BPM & WebLogic Partner Community members free vouchers for implementation assessments:: ADF 11g & BPM 11g & SOA 11g & WebLogic 12c.

If you’d like to get a free voucher please proof of your knowledge by sending us a screenshot of your pre-sales certificate:

Free of charge at the OPN Competency Center https://competencycenter.oracle.com (including free online training).

To request the free voucher please send an e-mail with the screenshot to Brigitte Felisaz including your Name, Company, E-mail, Country and the subject SOA free voucher! (limited to partners from Europe Middle East and Africa).

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SOA Community Newsletter March 2013

March 27, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks to everybody who attended the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013. With 125 attendees the event was booked out. Special thanks to all presenters for the great presentations and workshops. In the case you could not make it to Faro, all the presentations from the keynotes, general sessions and the 3 tracks: SOA, BPM and WebLogic & ADF are available at our community workspace, except the SOA Suite 12c beta demo – what you missed!

Congratulations to the winners of the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards – Jon, Leon, Hajo, Simon and Jan! It was very hard to choose – for me YOU the whole Community is the winner.
Based on your feedback our wikis: bpm blogs& call for papers & soa blogs & soa books are back online – please contribute!

Oracle is keen to run joint Middleware marketing events. At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find new kits for SOA “Brave New Integration World” & Achieving Greater Responsiveness with Oracle BPM” As a Specialized partner you should also take advantage of our benefits.
On the BPM side new Process Accelerators are available with release 11.1.1.6.3, make sure you try them e.g. for your next BPM customer demo. Additional several white papers are available Transforming Financial Services with BPM & Process Accelerators: Business Account Opening & Process Accelerators: Financial Services Loan Origination. A must read is the new A-Team paper BPM 11g Performance Tuning.

Thanks to all the excellent blog posts from the community like Using the MetaData Services (MDS) in a SOA environment & From the Trenches | Patching OSB and SOA Suite to PS5 & Authorization Model in SOA Suite 11g & SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware for the Busy IT Professional & Lucas Jellema: SOA, Events, BPM, and Oracle ADF make sure you share yours @soacomunity!

Special thanks also to our User Experience team who shares great content every month, in this edition you can read more about Fusion Applications & mobile & user experience concepts.

Like every month at the end of the newsletter you get the top tweets and the upcoming trainings – make sure you attend them!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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Cloud Conversations

March 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Recorded live at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles in October 2012, these programs in the OTN ArchBeat podcast represent the Q&A between the audience and the experts panel assembled for the event, which included speakers from the day’s technical sessions.

  • Listen to Part 1: Dude, What’s My Role?
    Members of the Architect Day panel respond to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a cloud environment.
  • Listen to Part 2: Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
    The panel offers advice and examples in response to an audience question about dealing with mission-critical applications.
  • Listen to Part 3: All Clouds Are Not Equal
    The panel responds to a challenging question about cloud strategy with a discussion of enterprise-grade cloud services.
  • Listen to Part 4: Cloud Security and Auditing
    The last segment in the series is short discussion in response to an audience question about auditing and security in the cloud.

A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Adoption
For enterprises that seek to transform their IT capabilities and avoid disruption in the process, a structured, pragmatic approach to Cloud computing is required. You’ll find one in this practitioner guide, part of the IT Strategies from Oracle library. Read it.

Cloud Foundation
This reference architecture document from the IT Strategies from Oracle library provides architectural principles, standards, concepts, and a conceptual view for Cloud architecture. Read it.

Cloud Infrastructure
Also from the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this reference architecture document focuses on cloud computing from a provider view, covering the capabilities for public and private Clouds, and providing key architecture views to jumpstart a Cloud architecture initiative. Read it.

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“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? By Bruce Tierney

March 8, 2013 Leave a comment

The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud integration touch points.

At the recent Gartner AADI conference, 230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall described cloud connectivity and then, equally importantly, the other essential and sometimes overlooked aspects of integration required to ensure a long term application and service integration strategy. To understand the challenges and opportunities faced by cloud integration, the session started off with a slide that describes how connectivity can quickly transition from simplicity to complexity as the number of applications and service vendor instances grows:Reasons for Cloud Integration Complexity
Increased complexity puts increased demand on the integration platform
As companies expand from on-premise applications into a hybrid on-premise/cloud infrastructure with support for mobile, cloud, and social, there is a new sense of urgency to implement a unified and comprehensive service integration platform. Without getting this unified platform in place, companies face increased complexity and cost managing a growing patchwork of niche integration toolsets as well as the disparate standards mandated by each SaaS vendor as shown in the image below: Read the full article here.

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SOA Community Newsletter February 2013

February 28, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

In this newsletter edition we highlighted many new online demos for SOA, BPM and OEP. Being a partner, you can use the same demo systems that Oracle pre-sales consultants use every day for customers. Out of the box demos including a flow & script have been updated. Demos are key in the sales process! To access the DSS demo systems please visit OPN and feel free to talk to your Partner Expert!

With the rise of big and fast data SOA and pattern matching can play a key role, make sure you attend our webcast and get the latest whitepaper. To design SOA architectures, OASIS published a SOA reference architecture and EAIESB a SOA BPEL 2.0 Poster. If you work on SOA project make sure you follow the C2B2 SOA Tuning webcast series and I recommend you to try the SOA Testing utilities.

In the BPM section we published new papers such as Transforming Customer Experience,Cooking Up Successful BPMand BPM in Utilities. In addition to this the BPM DSS Demos to extend Siebel are available. Mark Nelson published a blog post about Collecting diagnostic information for BPM and Jan van Zoggel about Integration of Oracle BPM and Oracle UCM/WCC. Please read these publications and make yourself updated from these shared knowledge.

I will be looking forward to see you all in Portugal for the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013.

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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Additional new content SOA Community:

February 23, 2013 Leave a comment

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Cloud Integration White Paper – Now Available

February 11, 2013 Leave a comment

Accidental SOA Cloud ArchitectureInterested in expanding your existing application infrastructure to integrate with cloud applications? Download the new Oracle White Paper “Cloud Integration – A Comprehensive Solution” to learn not just about connectivity but the other key aspects of successful cloud integration.
The paper includes three technical examples of cloud integration with Oracle Fusion Applications, Saleforce, and Workday and follows with the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to also include service aggregation, service virtualization, cloud security considerations and the benefit of maintaining a unified approach to monitoring and management despite an increasingly distributed hybrid infrastructure.

To keep the integration architecture from being defined “accidentally” as new business units subscribe to additional cloud vendors outside the participation of IT, a discussion on the “Accidental SOA Cloud Architecture” is included:Read the article here.

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we uploaded the whitepaper cloud-integration-wp.pdf and presentation
Integrate_Cloud_Apps_SOA_Suite_upload.pptx

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E-Book: Cloud Architecture for Dummies & Cloud Considerations & Connectivity

February 7, 2013 Leave a comment

Learn how to define your architectural requirements and get started on your path to cloud computing with the e-book, Cloud Architecture for Dummies.

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