Get a free implementation assessment voucher to become an Oracle SOA Certified Implementation Specialist!

November 25, 2010 Leave a comment

For SOA Partner Community members we offer 50 free Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist assessment vouchers!
If you’d like to get a free voucher please show us proof of your SOA knowledge by sending us a screenshot of your Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist certificate – free of charge at the OPN Competency Center.

To request the free voucher please send an e-mail with the screenshclip_image005ot to brigitte.felisaz@oracle.com including your Name, Company, E-mail, Country and the subject SOA free voucher!

For details on the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist and the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist, please read the SOA & Application Grid Specialization Guide. For support with your accounts please contact the Partner Business Center.

For more information become a member in the SOA Partner Community please feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook published by Lucas Jellema

November 23, 2010 Leave a comment

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Lucas Jellema and Oracle Fusion Middleware ACE Director just published an superb book about Oracle SOA Suite 11g. This book is ideal if you are working on an SOA project or if you want to become trained to achieve the SOA implementation certification.

Design and implement an agile service-oriented enterprise computing infrastructure using the detailed information in this Oracle Press guide. Written by an Oracle ACE director, Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook uses a hands-on case study to illustrate each programming, management, and governance concept. Get expert techniques for modeling and implementing complex business processes and deploying and securing Web services, while maximizing decoupling and code reuse.

  • Install Oracle SOA Suite 11g or migrate from a previous version
  • Design and develop composite applications using SCA and SDO
  • Model processes using BPEL, BPMN, and human task components
  • Connect components through mapping and filtering with Oracle Mediator
  • Apply the principles of event-driven architecture through complex event processing, the event delivery network, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring server
  • Benefit from the power of Java through the Spring component and the interaction with Oracle
  • Validate, enrich, transform, route, and operate on data using the Oracle Service Bus
  • Deploy, test, and manage composite applications from the Oracle Enterprise Manager control console

Lucas Jellema, an Oracle Ace Director (Fusion Middleware), is a consultant and expertise manager with a primary focus on the Oracle SOA Suite. He is a frequent presenter at international conferences as well as the author of many articles for both Dutch and international magazines and websites. Lucas has written over 400 articles on the popular AMIS Technology blog (http://technology.amis.nl/blog) and regularly develops and teaches training workshop on Oracle technology.

Want to get the book? Visit Amazon.com For additional books on SOA please visit our wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/SOA+Publications+Wiki Please feel free to add books you can recommend!

For more information become a member in the SOA Partner Community please feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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Specialization Guide – SOA & Application Grid – How to become Specialized

October 26, 2010 Leave a comment

You want to become Oracle SOA & Application Grid Specialized?

Make sure that you read our “Specialization Guide SOA & Application Grid How to become Specialized”. This ebook will support you in all the steps and show you the value of Specialization. Read more

Why Specialization? Specialized, Recognized by Oracle, Preferred by Customers.

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) welcomes you to explore OPN Specialized, the most significant evolution of the OPN program in more than a decade. The focus of the new program is on specialization, giving you the opportunity to gain the differentiation and competitive edge you need to stand out in the marketplace. Specialization is achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. OPN Specialized partners are recognized by Oracle, and preferred by customers.

Join OPN Specialized:

  • Differentiate yourself through expertise in leading Oracle IT solutions
  • Get recognized by Oracle in your specialized services and solutions
  • Be preferred by customers seeking value-added solutions for their business

For more information on SOA & Application Grid Specialization become a member in the SOA Partner Community please feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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free exam vouchers to become SOA certified implementation Specialists – attend Oracle University training

October 22, 2010 2 Comments

FREE EXAM VOUCHERS TO BECOME ORACLE SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE CERTIFIED IMPLEMENTATION SPECIALISTS.
Consultants who register and attend Oracle University’s SOA Suite 11g Implementation Boot Camp
(view schedule) between the 1st November and the 30th November will receive a FREE Exam Voucher* enabling them to become an Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist.

An Implementation Specialist will help your company on its path to an Oracle Specialized status, a key criteria required for a partner organization. Being OPN Specialized will raise your visibility in the market place and increase your access to the industry’s most challenging opportunities. Moreover, it will give your team the opportunity to gain differentiation, a competitive advantage and a solid understanding of SOA products.

Listen to Mark Simpson SOA Practice Director at Griffiths Waite to understand why specialization is crucial for your organisation.

Encourage your consultants to view the schedule and register now to receive their FREE voucher and become an Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist before the end of the year. Vouchers will be sent the week following attendance of the Boot Camp.

If there is no In Class event in a country near you, why don’t they try a Live Virtual Class? These can be taken at European office hours but also at US office hours so that your consultants remain almost 100% billable on training days. The Oracle SOA Suite11g Implementation Boot Camp provides your consultants with knowledge on how to develop and implement solutions using SOA Suite 11g that will drive their customers’ organizations to make better decisions, take informed actions, and run more-efficient business processes.  Take advantage of this offer now – Boot Camps have a limited capacity.  Get in contact with your local Oracle University team for more details.

For more information on SOA & Application Grid Specialization become a member in the SOA Partner Community please feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Launch Webcast – October 12th 2010

October 12, 2010 Leave a comment

Launch Webcast: Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Revolutionizing the Datacenter
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud:
World’s Best Foundation for Cloud Computing

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud—new from Oracle—revolutionizes the way enterprises organize their datacenters. Exalogic is a combination of hardware and software engineered for extreme performance, reliability, and scalability, enabling customers to consolidate tens, hundreds, or even thousands of applications onto a single consistent elastic cloud foundation.

Join Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products, in this live Webcast for a complete overview of this new product from Oracle. You’ll hear what Exalogic is and how it works—and how you can bring these extreme benefits to your datacenter, including:

  • Hardware and software engineered to work together—Gain maximum performance and reliability with minimum setup and operational costs
  • Fastest Java performance—Accelerate Web applications by as much as 12 times
  • Mission-critical elastic cloud deployment—Ensure fault tolerance, scalability, security, and easy maintenance

Register now for this launch Webcast.
Register Now
Watch the live Webcast,
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: Revolutionizing the Datacenter

Tues. October 12, 2010
10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET
Presented by:
Hasan Rizvi
Senior Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Products

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we are proud – thanks to the SOA Partner Community

October 4, 2010 Leave a comment

what an Oracle OpenWorld 2010 for our EMEA SOA Partner Community! Was there an award, keynote, webcast, reception… without the community! Personally I did not make it to San Francisco – but I got the message over the ocean:

eProseed Middleware Partner of the Year Geoff award 09.2010Winner: eProseed Belgium – Gold OPN partner eProseed was recognized for its success in demonstrating a deep understanding of Oracle Middleware technology consistently delivering business value from Oracle solutions in customer implementations, and its commitment to specialization.  eProseed was the first OPN partner in EMEA to implement solutions using Oracle Business Process Management 11g and Oracle Application Integration Architecture 11g), and to offer partner training on these Oracle technologies.  The company was also recently crowned Oracle Benelux Industry Partner of the Year 2010.  Geoffroy de Lamalle, CEO, eProseed, said, said, “We are delighted to win this award.  As a niche market player Oracle middleware has been of great strategic importance to us.  Twinning it with our value-added management services has allowed us to deliver more business value more quickly to the customer and empower users.  As a result, we have built up a solid track record of delivering tailor-made projects on time, and on budget, and that enable our clients to increase their business agility.  It is great to be recognized for this.” OOW10_E20Awards_075

Red Samurai Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award Winner 2010
For successful Oracle ADF 11g and Oracle WebCenter 11g implementation in Texas A&M University. And for innovative blogging approach started 5 years ago – technical blogs with sample applications !

Judson Keynote Specialized Partner Showcase: Recognized – Opitzimage

Rolf Scheuch CTO from Opitz and Christof Orth Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Rep presented in Judson’s keynote a customer case why SOA Specialization is key to success.

SOA Partner Advisory Council & Application Grid Partner Advisory Council

Thanks to our product management team and our partners to share their roadmaps on to discuss directions of our SOA Suite 11g and Application Grid solutions. This workshops are key for both our partners and our product & development management team to get your feedback and improve the product. We are looking forward to host the next workshops in half a year in Europe!

SOA Bob Rhubart, Architect Community Manager, talks to the Masons of SOA (OTN Live 2010) Oracle ADF Justin Kestelyn, OTN Senior Director, interviews Lucas Jellema (OTN Live 2010)

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Was great to heave most of you over at our SOA Partner Community Reception at Gordon Biersch.

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Thanks to the community – keep it rolling!

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SOA Partner Community Awards 2010

September 22, 2010 Leave a comment

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Awards:

Hard to decide, finally Clemens and I decided. Many additional great contributions like Lonneke SOA Enterprise Metholology Group, IPT for the great SOA Forum, Eric Elzinga for his super Blog, SIV for embedding our SOA as ISV,…. And the winners are:

  • SOA 11g Griffiths Waite: Mark Simpson for the SOA Suite 11g project at Wesleyan Insurance and Motability Operations, UK
  • BPM 11g eProseed: Geoffroy de Lamalle for the fist BPM11g project in Production at Herstal
  • OSB 11g trivadis: Guido Schmutz several OSB 11g project at Wirecard, Swiss Army, and Swiss RhB and Swiss Driver License
  • Specialization OPITZ CONSULTING Torsten Winterberg for the SOA Specialization: SOA Marketing brochures, Enterprise Architecture Roadshow, SOA Magazine Artikles, SOA Bootcamps, SOA internal training, SOA growth of Opitz business
  • Across the World 2010 Red Samurai Consulting Andrejus Baranovskis delivered SOA project in USA , Middle East, Africa and Europe – Asia is missing!
  • SOA Book Lucas Jellema – AMIS Mr. Lucas Jellema : great new SOA book
  • ·Web2.0 Contribution 2010 Edwin Biemond – Whitehorses: blog, twitter, wiki

Thanks to the whole community for their contribution! Thanks to the whole product management and development team for the support and the great products!

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Our most favorite chocolate award becomes a tradition, we would like to say a special thanks for the on-going support to make the community happen. This year this Oracle internal award, goes like every year before, to Becky Goodman. Thanks to her we send out every month, since years our SOA Partner Community Newsletter – make sure you read it! In the case you follow us on twitter, you know this year we will send you a box of chocolate from Brussels!

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Best regards from Stuttgart Jürgen Kress

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Oracle OpenWorld – ready to start

September 17, 2010 Leave a comment

Oracle OpenWorld & Java One and Oracle Develop are ready to start – do you attend – which session you should not miss?

Find out at our wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/SOA+%40+OOW+2010

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Must-See Middleware Events at OpenWorld

Interested in a specific Middleware focus area at Open World and Oracle Develop?
Check out the Master FocusOn page:

Architect Meet-Up

Open to any and all architects attending JavaOne/Oracle Develop/OpenWorld, this casual meet-up is a chance to talk shop with your peers from across the Oracle Technology Network community. Join us for food, drink, and great  conversation. 5:00pm on Tuesday, Sept 21, in the Mason Street Tent. Learn more

Partner Specialization assessments at OOW

Don’t miss your chance to get CERTIFIED on site at Oracle OpenWorld!

OOW at your iphone

Download Oracle Now, a free mobile application, and stay connected to the latest Oracle news, events, video, and more.

Community recommends you to visit:

SOA Partner Advisory Council
September 17th 2010 Oracle HQ
Jürgen Kress & Product Management
by invitation only please contact Juergen Kress

Oracle Fusion Middleware Hasan Rizvi | Vice President, Development, Oracle
Monday, September 20 | 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Moscone North, Hall D
Hasan Rizvi | Vice President, Development, Oracle
Oracle Fusion Middleware leads as the #1 middleware in the industry. With last year’s successful introduction of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, customers are building more-intelligent business applications while maximizing returns in IT. Today Oracle continues its innovations in business intelligence, business process management, enterprise content management, data integration, identity management, SOA, and application grid–providing customers a complete, integrated solution that maps to their critical business needs. In this session, you will hear about the benefits of Oracle Fusion Middleware firsthand from customers and also learn about all the recent innovations made available in Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Thomas Kurian Keynote
Tueday September 21st 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Thomas Kurian | Executive Vice President, Product Development, Oracle
Your investments in Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise, Siebel, JD Edwards, and other enterprise applications are core to your business. But to meet the demands of a dynamic and optimized enterprise, you need a strategic foundation that drives adaptability, productivity, and manageability across your applications. This session explores the core principles and technologies of the strategic foundation for Oracle Applications: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. You will learn how successful organizations are leveraging this foundation to enhance, extend, and evolve applications today while paving the way to Oracle’s next-generation applications

Next-Generation Application Foundation
Tuesday, September 21 | 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Moscone South, Room 102
Hasan Rizvi | Vice President, Development, Oracle

S313355 Developing Large Oracle ADF 11g Applications
September 2010, San Francisco
Andrejus Baranovskis Red Samurai Consulting
This session will show how data passivation and activation should be managed in large applications and demonstrated different UI Shell templates for separate Oracle ADF applications integration. Based on personal experience from retail industry projects, the speaker will describe how Oracle ADF applications can be tuned for the best runtime performance and show how developers can apply Oracle ADF architecture best practices. There will also be multiple demos about Oracle ADF Task Flows and Libraries usage for application integration and reusability.

WebLogic Partner Advisory Council
September 22nd 2010
Jürgen Kress & Product Management
by invitation only please contact Juergen Kress

Larry Ellison Keynote
Wednesday September 22nd 2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
Larry Ellison | CEO, Oracle

S313445  ADF Enterprise Methodology
Group
Sunday, September 19th, 14:00-15:00
Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3012
+ 2 Unconference Sessions
Wednesday 22nd Sept 10:00-12:00
Hotel Parc 55, 3rd Floor, Mason Room
Chris Muir, Simon Haslam
The “on schedule” session will run an array of speakers on ADF topics including:

  • Frank Nimphius, well known as one of the top JDev Product Managers presenting on ADF-Security-or-Bust
  • Kito Mann, a key JSF contributor presenting on JSF2.0
  • Andrejus Baranovskis one of the ADF communities leading bloggers and presenters demoing a new ADF production system
  • Aino Andriessen of the we-only-hire-geniuses-mold from Amis on the ultimate smackdown, Automated vs Manual Builds
  • Sten Vesterli, ODTUG’s 2009 best speaker, giving us some facts and myths about ADF Tuning

The Unconference sessions will include:

  • Andrejus Baranovskis, Oracle ADF 11g and Oracle WebCenter 11g Production Demo
  • John Flack, ADF BC 10g and ADF Faces 10g to ADF BC 11g and Trinidad, Live!
  • Todd Hill & Ed O’Connor-GilesDemonstration of UW-Madison’s Scholarship Application
  • Gert LeendersIntegrating 3rd party tools/frameworks into ADF
  • Sten VesterliADF – How much do you really need to know?

S314708 Transform Your Business with Oracle Application Integration Architecture
Monday, September 20, 14:00 | Moscone West L3, Rm 3011
Jaap Kramer, Accenture, Systems Analist

Rene Ouwehand, C1000, IT Lead
In a world of point-to-point integration, moving your business to use standardized methods for integration is an uphill battle. Additional challenges arise if your organization is new to Oracle Fusion Middleware. This session provides answers to the central questions of your organization: · What is an enterprise business object (EBO)? · Why do we need one? · How can you use EBOs in an optimal way? Based on an actual customer story at Schuitema, the presentation shares lessons learned and the benefits of using the Oracle Application Integration Architecture approach. It includes guidance tips for the organization AND the IT department.

S316135 From Oracle Forms to a Service-Oriented Architecture with Oracle SOA Suite 11g
Tuesday, September 21, 5:00PM | Marriott Marquis, Salon 9
Edwin Biemond, Whitehorses, Architect

Oracle ACE and Architect at Whitehorses in the Netherlands. Java Developer of the year 2009 by Oracle Magazin. Edwin is a (inter)national speaker and has a popular blog ( http://biemond.blogspot.com ) about ADF and SOA. I have worked for many years with JDeveloper, JHeadstart and in the past with Designer. I am an expert in ADF, JSF, messaging ( edifact / ebXML) , web services and tuning of the Application and Database server

Melvin van der Kuijl, The Future Group, Oracle Consultant
Many customers have a traditional, rigid architecture that isn’t agile enough to handle environmental change. Enhancements are very time-consuming and expensive. The time to market is above average but must be as short as possible. This session elaborates on how a customer successfully moved from a traditional Oracle Forms-based architecture to SOA with Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Using a top-down, business-driven approach, this company went from a canonical data model to a loosely coupled environment based on open standards such as WSDL, SCA, and BPEL. What were the drivers and challenges, where do you start, and–last but not least–what are the best practices? The presentation answers all these questions.

S316877 Practical Insight on using Application Integration Architecture
Thursday, September 23, 1:30pm | Moscone West L3 Room 3011
Rajesh Raheja, Senior Director, Development, Oracle AIA
Rohit Agarwal, Senior Principal Solution Architect, FMW A-Team
This is a deep dive session that will walk through the basics of implementing an AIA based SOA integration. Based on customer experiences as well as working internally with various Oracle teams who develop pre-packaged AIA integrations, we will cover the implementation best practices as well as walk through an implementation scenario, show casing the methodology and tools involved in a typical AIA implementation.
For other informative AIA sessions, refer to to this post.

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Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

clip_image002Our ACE Director Guido Schmutz and his colleagues published a new book about successfully implement your own enterprise integration architecture using the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint:

  • Overview of Service Oriented Architecture: An Integration Blueprint
  • Discover and understand the structure of existing application landscapes from an integration perspective
  • Get to grips with fundamental integration concepts and terminology while learning about architecture variants
  • Fully comprehend all the individual layers and components that make up the Trivadis Integration Architecture Blueprint
  • Map and compare a variety of different vendor platforms to the blueprint
  • Packed with visual representations of the blueprint in order to help you fully understand its structure and implementation

For additional books on SOA please visit our wiki: http://wiki.oracle.com/page/SOA+Publications+Wiki

Please feel free to add books you can recommend!

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SOA & Application Grid Specialization – Specialization Benefits – Step 6 of 6

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Thanks for joining our series of SOA & Application Grid Specialization which can be the foundation of our joint success in the new fiscal year FY11! In this final edition we feature our Specialized Benefits for partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Specialization Middleware Award – Be Recognized

Make sure that you submit your SOA & Application Grid Specialization Award nomination by July 2nd 2010 to become recognized by customers and Oracle!

We are proud to announce the Partner Specialization Awards, a new annual awards program in Oracle EMEA which will recognize partners’ achievements in specialization and self-sufficiency.

Partner Specialization Awards are available to partners in EMEA who have demonstrated success with specialization and outstanding solution or service innovation.

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and commitment our partners bring to the table when they become
Specialized with Oracle. We’re looking for partners with a proven
track record in delivering winning, proven solutions that solve
customers’ most critical business challenges. Our Award winners
will be partners that have demonstrated tangible success, growth
in their Oracle business and outstanding Oracle solutions.”
Stein Surlien, SVP Oracle Alliances and Channels EMEA

Nominations are open to partners based in EMEA from 1st March to July 2nd 2010. Be recognized! Submit your nomination today!

· The winners of the Partner Specialization Awards will be announced on 19th September 2010 at the OPN Forum at Oracle OpenWorld.

Google Advertisements

For the Partners who become SOA & Application Grid Specialized we offer free Google advertisements to promote your Oracle SOA & Application Grid service offerings on your website or your SOA & Application Grid events. We will host the complete campaign management

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To create your Google campaign please send us:

  • Your campaign text: 3 lines of text each 35 letters
  • Your campaign link: direct link to the website you want to promote

A pre-requisite to participate in this free offering is that you are Specialized in SOA & Application Grid.

Oracle Partner Business Center

Whenever you need support with your SOA & Application Grid Specialization please don’t hesitate to contact your local Oracle Partner Business Center. Our experts are there to support you with all requirements and the application process:

Oracle Partner Business Centers

Or submit your questions via twitter @ORCLPartnerBiz.

Summary of our journey to SOA & Application Grid Specialization:

Step 1: Proof 2 transactions & OMM

Step 2: reference cases & marketing campaigns

Step 3: SOA Sales assessment & SOA Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment / Application Grid Sales assessment & Application Grid Pre-Sales assessment & Support assessment

Step 4: Oracle Application Grid Certified Implementation Specialist & Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist

Step 5: Validate Speak to Partner Business Centers & Check competency status & submit your application

For more information on Specialization please get the Specialization Guide and attend our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

Thanks for your efforts to become Specialized!

Jürgen Kress

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