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Thanks for the nice ink–OPITZ CONSULTING @ OOW 2011

Welcome to San Francisco and Oracle OpenWorld! This sentence became true since I have the pleasure of attending Oracle Open World 2011. What can I expect? Five days in San Francisco packed with Oracle technologies – from the newest hardware and software products to sneak peeks at what’s coming soon. It started last Sunday on the 4^th of October with the keynote of Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO. “The power of parallel-everywhere architecture” was his theme. If you are interested you can watch the Opening Keynote on demand on oracle.com. As part of his speech he announced Oracle Exalytics – a Business Intelligence Machine, which provides extreme in-memory analytics performance.

Yesterday Thomas Kurian, executive vice president Product Development, introduced new software products that deliver the performance of all the engineered systems (Exadata Database, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, SPARC SuperCluster and Exalytics). Furthermore he introduced Oracle Big Data Appliance and announced the release of the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, a centralized console for managing cloud computing systems. By the way: the “c” stands for cloud.

But that’s not all! Before OpenWorld I visited the Oracle Headquarter in Redwood Shores. Of course it was very exciting and I had the chance to discuss customer cases and project solutions in a lot of interesting meetings. Special thanks to Jürgen Kress for organizing the SOA & BPM Partner Advisory Council! There a group of Oracle Ace Directors discussed together with the Oracle product management future directions and improvements. The day after I was able to see how beautiful San Francisco is! Again thanks to Jürgen who arranged a very nice sightseeing tour!!!!

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Thanks for the nice ink– e-vita SOA-team @ OOW 2011

Open World 2011 was a great success with 45.000 people. I will in this posting share some of my experiences and thoughts.  You can have a short look at the announcements made at OOW here (I will only get in detail on some of them).

What Oracle-people can tell us depends very much of what is already announced, so at OOW the news are being portioned out during the week. We can get a sense of what will happen during the week (reading session titles/descriptions), but one is not sure before it is announced. The biggest thing this year is the Cloud – and I see how this has been a focus at Oracle for a long time now. I believe Cloud will be even bigger the next years. They will provide a Cloud that is a service comparable to what is available on Amazon AWS today, but the Cloud-support will also be available in all layers in the software. This is the reason why next version of Fusion Middleware will be named 12c – for cloud. First available 12c-product is Grid Control 12c – released at OOW.

Fortunately for those that were not at OOW and for those of us that missed some good sessions, Oracle has made them available for all. I think this is excellent. Content catalog

All keynotes and general sessions were also streamed live on YouTube, and Twitter made it possible to follow what colleagues and friends where experiencing in the other sessions. It is now possible to be a part of OOW even if not being there.

If there is one thing that I would like to share for newbies on OOW: Go to Demo Grounds – there you meet the experts, and they can demonstrate the products for you. They can give you the answers to your questions. It is open Monday to Wednesday, so Thursday is too late. I spent a lot of time there.

This was a busy week, from early morning to late night – the social part of OOW is as important as the sessions. There were over 300 Norwegians in SF this year, most of them at the yearly Sunday dinner at O’Foleys. As every year we met there for the daily beers from 17-19.

My week was as follows:

• Thursday : Arriving SF
• Friday: Webcenter Partner Advisory Council, SOA/BPM Partner Advisory Council at Oracle HQ
• Saturday: Bicycling with SOA Community around SF, ending up in Sausalito for dinner. Thanks to Jürgen Kress for the arrangements @soacommunity
• Sunday: ADF Methodology group, Glassfish roadmap, Norwegian Dinner.
• Monday: Demo Grounds, Webcenter reception
• Tuesday: Took the Application Grid certification, Application Grid Partner Advisory
  Council, SOA Partner Community Reception at Gordon Biersch
• Thursday: SOA/BPM Customer Advisory Board, Beer and food at Thirsty Bear
• Very,very early Friday – return to Norway

First part of OOW was very focused on HW, but Larry’s Keynote on Wednesday was the better one in my opinion. I will share some of the themes that I found interesting this OOW.

SOA/BPM

My favorite products are in the SOA/BPM space – the biggest announcement came before OOW. It was the release of BPM Suite 11.1.1.5 Feature Pack. Look here for details:

http://blogs.oracle.com/bpm/entry/bpm_suite_11_1_1

This is a release made for improving BPM, but it is also possible to apply on SOA Suite installation. One such enhancement is around Rules: improved editing in JDeveloper, tracing and testing.

One new announcement was Oracle Process Accelerators. These are Pre-built BPM solutions to automate common business processes. This will reduce cost and time to deploy, embed best practices, they will be extensible and adaptive to customer-specific needs. Processes will be both horizontal and industry-specific. This will be available at no cost, and I think will be an excellent starting point for your processes. Read more here:  http://oracleus.wingateweb.com/published/oracleus2011/sessions/15194/15194_Cho2372000.pdf

One book recommendation: Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook – this is an excellent follow-up of the book from last year. Authored by Oracle PMs. More focusing on best practices and with a good introduction to BPM and standards. It also covers the latest version. http://blogs.oracle.com/bpm/entry/oracle_bpm_suite_11g_handbook

I am looking very much forward to even more Social BPM and Adaptive Case Management in the future. This is the product I am most enthusiastic about – and I hope for a BPM service in the cloud.

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SOA & BPM best of Oracle OpenWorld 2011

Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is over – what was important what did you miss?

Keynotes: Best of Oracle OpenWorld keynotes and general session is available on-demand:

We recommend to watch:

Oracle Cloud Computing
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle

Watch full-length keynote

Middleware General Session
Hasan Rizvi, SVP, Oracle

Watch full-length general session

Presentations: All presentations are available online at the OpenWorld Content Catalog

Product highlight: Was to launch of BPM Suite 11.1.1.5 Feature Pack Released and the Oracle Process Accelerators. For details please visit the Oracle BPM team blog and the Oracle SOA team blog.

Twitter A selection of the best SOA & BPM tweets from Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Send your tweets @soacommunity #soacommunity and follow us at http://twitter.com/soacommunity

OracleSOA Oracle SOA OTN TechCast -10 min video from Oracle Open World demystifying Oracle SOA Governance for architects – bit.ly/o2QGAh#soa#cloud OracleSOA Oracle SOA Some “Oracle SOA OpenWorld” highlights bit.ly/blogOracleSOA#soa#oow11 soacommunity SOA Community Openworld: UK Oracle User Group president wins award for Fusion Apps input ( – IT Management ) news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=…#soacommunity soacommunity SOA Community SOA Partner Community Awards 2011 wp.me/p10C8u-dk frank_dorst Frank Dorst Top down “holistic” SOA management in Oracle 12c Cloud Control. Cool new Enterprise Manager version. #oow11#btm Jphjulstad Jon petter hjulstad Impressions from OOW 2011 – e-vita SOA-team blog – evita.no/ikbViewer/soa-… soacommunity SOA Community New version of BPM Suite 11.1.1.5 Feature Pack released wp.me/p10C8u-cK oracleopenworld oracleopenworld Missed a session last week @ #OOW11? Want the slides from a session you attended? Download session PDFs @ bit.ly/madQ1n debralilley Debra Lilley Won an award at @soacommunity This evening #OOW11 unfortunately then celebrated too much with the mount gay – but really pleased #fb soacommunity SOA Community Full house at #soacommunity reception thanks to all the partners and product & development management for the success yfrog.com/obab9j debralilley Debra Lilley Won an award at @soacommunity This evening #OOW11 unfortunately then celebrated too much with the mount gay – but really pleased #fb soacommunity SOA Community Full house at #soacommunity reception thanks to all the partners and product & development management for the success yfrog.com/obab9j

oracleopenworld oracleopenworld It’s never too early to begin planning for next year’s Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Mark your calendars – Sept. 30-Oct. 4 2012. #OOW11 soacommunity SOA Community Share your #OOW11 Experience @soacommunity What was your highlight? yfrog.com/klijebgj GertjanvhHof Gertjan van het Hof I had joined an Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) hands-on session (on #oow11) last week. This is realy a cool tool for SOA Governance! yannick_ongena Yannick ongena Thanks to Hans Blaas and Juergen Kress for the nice #WebCenter and #SOA#BPM reception yesterday. I had a few very nice chats. lucasjellema Lucas Jellema Great SOA & BPM & WebCenter Community Reception last night – thanks to Juergen Kress for organizing this traditional get-to-gether! #oow11 soacommunity SOA Community Thanks for attending the great #soacommunity#WebLogicCommunity arty! Please share your pictures! yfrog.com/kkfcylyj demed demed @soacommunity thx for party; community you’ve assembled over the yrs definitely single largest contributor to product success OracleBPM Oracle BPM Read about the new Oracle Process Accelerators at the #bpm blog bit.ly/qiP9wu OracleSOA Oracle SOA Accenture Foundation Platform and Oracle SOA Suite 11g – Patrick Sullivan, Sr. Manager – Accenture @ 11:45 Moscone W. 2009 #oow11#soa OracleBPM Oracle BPM Free preview of Handbook chapters #bpm Suite 11g – Overview and “Developing Rich User Interfaces for BPM with ADF” bit.ly/qa6PxV soacommunity SOA Community Leon Smiers won the #capgemini#Oracle internal alliance award for his BPM success – Congratulations! #soacommunity yfrog.com/hs8dhimj

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