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Winter time is training time!

February 4, 2013 Leave a comment

Your project is on holiday, you are sitting home and it snows, time to get trained! You can increase your skills from your sofa to get ready for the next project, here is the plan to get a start to become an BPEL or BPMN expert:

Training Name	Target	Type	Assessment & Certificate
A.) SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist & Service-Oriented Architecture 11g Implementation Specialist	Beginner	on-demand GLP	Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist
SOA Virtual Developer Day	Beginner	On-demand virtual hands-on
SOA Bootcamp	Advanced	In-class training material	Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist
B.) ADF
Application Development Framework 11g PreSales Specialis & Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Implementation Specialist	Beginner	on-demand GLP	Application Development Framework 11g PreSales Specialist
ADF Virtual Developer Day	Beginner	On-demand virtual hands-on
ADF Advanced Training chapters one and two.	Advanced	On-demand	Application Development Framework 11g Certified Implementation Specialist
C.) BPM
Unified Business Process Management 11g PreSales Specialistt & Oracle Unified Business Process Management 11g Implementation Specialist	Beginner	on-demand GLP	Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g PreSales Specialist Assessment
BPM Bootcamp	Advanced	In-class	Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Certified Implementation Specialist

For in-class training please check our training calendar below and your local partner training calendar!

Oracle SOA Infrastructure Implementation Certification Handbook (1Z0-451) by Torsten Winterberg Want to prepare for Oracle SOA Specialization, then check out this book:

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For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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Your One-Stop Shop for Middleware Webcasts

February 2, 2013 Leave a comment

Are you looking to brush up on new technologies, discover the latest IT trends, learn best practices, or find out how other customers are using Oracle products to drive ROI?If so, visit Oracle’s Technology Webcast Center, where you can:

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SOA Community Newsletter January 2013

January 31, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Happy holiday and have a great start in the year 2013!

To make your New Year successful, we would like to invite you to our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013. This is the best platform to learn and become certified on middleware. Our major tracks include SOA, BPM and ADF & WebLogic. If you are also an expert in middleware, you can learn more about new products and features like BPM PS6 or b2b and event processing. The event is also a great opportunity to network within the partner community and with the Oracle product management team. Make sure you register asap – as only 120 seats are available this year!

In this newsletter edition you will find two major topics: b2b and cloud computing. On the b2b side Martien van den Akker and the A-Team published a series of articles. Additional we made the latest b2b samples and training material available at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required.

On the cloud side Bruce Tierney published an article on "Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? and at the OTN Architect Day a series of podcasts was recorded: Dude, What’s My Role? and Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud and All Clouds Are Not Equal and Cloud Security and Auditing.
In our monthly BPM section Ajay Khanna shared insight on what will happen in the BPM space in 2013. Geoffroy de Lamalle published a video “eProseed Delivers Processes Skillfully with Oracle BPM Suite" Want to promote your BPM success – submit a BPM eference request!

If you are working on SOA projects, make sure you use the RDA Health Checks for SOA and read the SOA Suite 11g Developer’s Cookbook by Anthony Reynolds.

See you in Portugal!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsJanuary2013 (OPN Account required)

To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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UKOUG Conference middleware track presentations

January 30, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks to UKOUG and Simon Haslam for an excellent middleware track at the user conference. Special thanks to all presenters for the excellent presentations, if you missed it you can find the middleware presentations at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required)

Some impressions are posted at our Facebook Community website – feel free to add your pictures! Or post your feedback on twitter #ukoug!

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Getting to Know Oracle Fusion Middleware

January 7, 2013 Leave a comment

A quick tour of the broad set of products under the Oracle Fusion Middleware umbrella.

Simon Haslam, Principal Consultant, Veriton & myself published an middleware article in the UKOUG Scene magazine. This article arose because Jürgen Kress’ “Fusion Middleware Architecture Overview”
abstract was one of the most highly rated submissions for UKOUG 2012, so it seemed there
might be an interest in trying to clarify the products that Oracle calls ‘Fusion Middleware.’
Little did we realise how many products there were…

Fusion Middleware – what is it?

‘Middleware,’ as its name suggests, is a generic term for the layers of software (or ‘software glue’ – see http://www.middleware.org/whatis.html) that sit between an application and, within enterprise software, typically services and resources like the Oracle Database. Oracle Fusion Middleware started off as the Java EE application server (Internet Application Server) but evolved to cover pretty much all software that isn’t the database or applications!

Why is Fusion Middleware important?

Middleware provides infrastructure services to enable applications to run. For example, if you want a ‘container’ (i.e. a server with very specific APIs) to run your enterprise Java application, and most likely connect to a relational database, you use WebLogic Server; if your application wants to use web services somewhere out in the ether it calls the Oracle Service Bus. As you can tell these Middleware services are vital to the successful and continuing operation of your application. For a long

time Middleware has been seen as the poor relation to the database (which holds the irreplaceable business data) but this is changing as Middleware is now providing integration of, and decoupling from, the underlying resources, plus there is an increased demand for 24/7 (or close) availability of applications for use by customers, partners.. read the full article here and get your Scene magazine copy as a UKOUG member .

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Real User Experience Insight: Oracle’s Approach to User Experience

December 14, 2012 Leave a comment

This self-study course is the first in a series about Oracle Real User Experience Insight. Intended for a broad, general audience, this course begins with a discussion on why user experience is important, followed by Oracle’s approach to user experience. Next, several use cases for Real User Experience Insight is presented. The course ends by showing how Real User Experience Insight is integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. This course is a suggested prerequisite for the other two self-studies in this series, one that focuses on basic navigation, data structures and workflows, and the other that focuses on best practices in deployment.

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Advanced Oracle SOA Suite Oracle Open World 2012 SOA Presentations

December 3, 2012 Leave a comment

The list below only includes SOA presentations delivered or moderated by Oracle SOA Product Management. For a complete list of Oracle Open World 2012 presentations, please go here.

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SOA Community Newsletter November 2012

November 30, 2012 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Too many different product from Oracle, no idea how do they fit together? Get a copy of the Oracle catalog, an excellent overview of the Oracle middleware portfolio. BPM is a key solution to this portfolio. To position BPM to your customers you can find many use case ideas in the paper BPM 11g Patterns and industry specific value propositions for Financial Services & Insurance & Retail. Many more Process Accelerators (11.1.1.6.2) have become available. It is an excellent demo and starting point for BPM projects.

Our SOA Suite team published the most important OOW presentation at the OTN website. The Oracle SOA proactive support team is running a series of blog posts about SOA and JMS Introductory. To become an expert in SOA, Bob highlighted the latest list of SOA books. For OSB projects we recommend the EAIESB OSB poster.

Thanks to all the experts who contributed and shared their SOA & BPM knowledge this month again. Please feel free to send us the link to your blog post via twitter @soacommunity:

Hope to see you at the Middleware Day at UK Oracle User Group Conference 2012 in Birmingham.

Jürgen Kress
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Oracle Catalog – product overview for middleware

November 28, 2012 Leave a comment

Are you looking for quick overview of all the Oracle product and solutions? The answer is the Oracle Catalog which helps you to understand the whole stack from hardware, database, middleware all the way to applications. A great source and helpful for sales persons and customers. Make sure you add the file to your mobile device.

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Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO) – Your pre-build & tested middleware platform

November 26, 2012 Leave a comment

The Accenture Foundation Platform for Oracle (AFPO) is a pre-built, tested reference application, common services framework and development accelerator for Oracle’s Fusion Middleware 11g product suite that can help to reduce development time and cost by up to 30 percent.

AFPO is a unique accelerator that includes documentation, day one deliverables and quick start virtual machine images, along with access to a skilled team of resources, to reduce risk and cost while improving project quality. It can be delivered all at once or in stages, on-site, hosted, or as a cloud solution.

Accenture recently released AFPO v5 for use with their clients. Accenture added significant updates in v5 including Day 1 images & documentation for Webcenter & ADF Mobile that are integrated with 30 other Oracle Middleware products that signifigantly reduced the services aspect to standing these products up.

AFPO v5 also features rapid configuration and implementation capabilities for SOA/BPM integrated with Oracle WebCenter Portal, Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Identity Management and Oracle ADF Mobile.

AFPO v5 also delivers a starter kit for Oracle SOA Suite which builds upon the integration methodology, leading practices and extended tooling contained within the Oracle Foundation Pack. The combination of the AFPO starter kit and Foundation Pack jump-start and streamline Oracle SOA Suite implementation initiatives, helping to reduce the risk of deploying new technologies and making architectural decisions, so clients can ultimately reduce cost, risk and the time needed for an implementation.

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