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SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware for the Busy IT Professional by Frank Munz

Not everybody is starting up JDeveloper first thing in the morning in order to work with Oracle SOA Suite. Let’s face it: Instead of being an SOA expert, any given IT specialist is more likely a certified DB admin, a Java developer or somebody who was just told by his manager to take care of that Oracle Service Bus installation. In case you are one of them and looking into SOA and the related Oracle products this posting is written for you.

Technology and Oracle

The following two recipes provide firstly a no-nonsense explanation of Service Oriented Architecture (the first part is not related to Oracle at all !) and secondly an overview of Oracle’s Fusion Middleware (OFM) product stack.

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The description is deliberately easy to read and I intentionally didn’t reuse any fancy marketing slides since they are often too generic and contain too many buzzwords. Read the full article here.

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SOA Blueprint: A Toolbox for Architects – article at OTN and Service Technology Magazine

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this article introduces the foundations that need to be established in order to implement functional SOA processes. Rather than presenting specific tools, we will define a broadly applicable SOA blueprint whose individual modules can be topped up with commercial products or increasingly available open
source offerings.

A Company Blueprint

Upon examination of Figure 1, the vision of adaptive enterprise computing is illustrated as a meta-blueprint for the overall company with three differentiated levels:

  • Infrastructure Level – This level is formed by databases, storage systems, application servers, and all other IT resources that are required to run IT systems.
  • Application System Level – This level houses entire applications, both individual applications and standard software, as well as services relating to SOA, workflow and BPM systems.
  • Process Management Level – Functional requirements are manifested in the process design and then implemented at the lower levels.

Figure 1An advanced service-oriented architecture is the most effective option for implementing the functional requirements at the application-system level. The more superior the mapping of existing business services to the functional steps in process models is, the more the business-IT gap shrinks.

Various back-coupling loops represent the actual added value of this meta-blueprint, meaning consistent usage of services and technical processes enables the measuring of KPIs. This in turn facilitates process control and ultimately the optimization of processes. The more progress a company makes in implementing their SOA, the greater and faster are the effects to be achieved for adaptive
enterprise computing. … read the full article here

The articles is published at OTN and the Service Technology Magazine.

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Jürgen Kress  Hajo NormannClemens Utschig-UtschigTorsten WinterbergDanilo SchmiedelGuido SchmutzBernd TropsBerthold Maier

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Industrial SOA article at OTN and Service Technology Magazine

image3SOA and service-orientation have laid the foundation for a variety of emergent service technology innovations, while the original building blocks of SOA and service-orientation continue to evolve by embracing fundamental service technologies, concepts and practices. These new technology innovations do not replace service-orientation; they use it as their basis.

Service-orientation continues to evolve towards a factory approach, towards industrializing integrated platforms, such as BI, master data management (MDM), mobile front-ends, BPM, adaptive processes, Big Data and Cloud Computing – all of which add architectural layers upon SOA-based infrastructure. All of these technologies can interface via standardized data and functions, published as service contracts, in order to avoid redundancy – that’s service-orientation. Let’s take a closer look. The amount of data, which companies produce and store tends to grow on an on-going basis. This includes structured data (for example, from ERP systems or data warehouses), as well as unstructured data (for example, from e-mails). With the rise of social media services like twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and the emphasis on Customer Experience Management, the amount of data and data sources has increased dramatically. To integrate all of these data sources through an SOA-approach is essential. The models, principles and patterns behind SOA and service-orientation can be applied to formalize interoperability between… read the full article here

The articles are & will be published at OTN and the Service Technology Magazine.

 

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Industrial SOA article series – for architects and experts

imageIndustrial SOA is a 14-part  article series focused on service orientation, written collaboratively by a group of recognized experts and community leaders in service oriented architecture.

"SOA and service-orientation have laid the foundation for a variety of emergent service technology innovations such as cloud computing and big data, while the original building blocks of SOA and service-orientation continue to evolve by embracing fundamental service technologies, concepts and practices."

  • Preface: Industrial SOA
  • Chapter 1: SOA Blueprint
  • Chapter 2: Project Categories
  • Chapter 3: Service Categories
  • Chapter 4: SOA Maturity
  • Chapter 5: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
  • Chapter 6: Security
  • Chapter 7: Transactions and Compensation
  • Chapter 8: SOA and User Interaction (UI)
  • Chapter 9: Mobile
  • Chapter 10: Events
  • Chapter 11: MDM and SOA
  • Chapter 12: BPM and ACM
  • Chapter 13: SOA and Cloud

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Jürgen Kress  Hajo NormannClemens Utschig-UtschigTorsten WinterbergDanilo SchmiedelGuido SchmutzBernd TropsBerthold Maier

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

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
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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

Pictures
First impressions of the Community Forum are available at our Facebook pages – share yours! SOA Community Facebook page.

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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Community Awards – Congratulations to all the winners – proud of the Community

Thanks to all partners for your wonderful middleware business – you are the key that Oracle is Nr.1 in middleware! This year we celebrated the Community Awards during the Fusion Middleware Community Forum. Congratulations to all the winners – proud of the Community!

Oracle SOA Partner Community Award
Outstanding SOA 11g Contribution 2012
Jon Petter Hjulstad – eVita

Jon Petter Hjulstad

Oracle BPM Partner Community
Award

Outstanding BPM 11g Contribution 2012
Leon Smiers – Capgemini

Leon Smiers

Oracle Fusion Middleware
Partner Community Award

Outstanding Specialization Contribution 2012
Hajo Normann – Accenture

Hajo Normann

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SOA Community Newsletter March 2013

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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Sticky Notes, Burritos, and Building the Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience & Oracle Fusion Applications: Customizing and Extending with Oracle Composers

Sticky Notes, Burritos, and Building the Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience
Sticky notes are still a powerful reminder, even in the mobile apps age.Misha Vaughan, of the Oracle Applications User Experience team, explains how observing even little things makes for building a great application user experience (UX). Read the Usable Apps blog to find out more about what those small details could be, and how that has shaped Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle Fusion Applications: Customizing and Extending with Oracle Composers: This presentation, which is only for existing Oracle customers, is now available. Oracle Applications User Experience team members Killian Evers and Kristin Desmond prepared the presentation for PeopleConnect. It is available at the following URLs: Streaming recording & Download recording & the presentation (pdf) is available here.

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OOW 2013 call for papers open – submit your middleware partners success!

We want that you present your Fusion Middleware Partner success at Oracle Opeimagen World 2013! Make sure you submit your papers:

– Call-for-Papers Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne & MySQL Connect

We recommend to submit best practice session of leading edge products like BPM-Suite 11g, SOA Suite 11g mobile integrations with ADF or OEP 11g. Also highly welcome are joint presentations with your customers. Let us know if you like to get a nice quote from Oracle. For additional call for papers visit our wiki.

See you in San Francisco

Jürgen Kress

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