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Andrew Sutherlands SVP Middleware Business Oracle EMEA: Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Strategy in FY12

July 21, 2011 Leave a comment

Why are Oracle partners key for our middleware success?
Will fusions applications impact the oracle middleware partner business?
What will be the key fusion middleware areas for partner in FY12?

Watch Andrew Sutherlands SVP Middleware Business Oracle EMEA

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Transform Your Business by Connecting People, Processes, and Content – Online Forum Tuesday, July 19th 2011

July 16, 2011 Leave a comment

Oracle Online Forum
Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm Pacific Daylight Time

Join us for the Oracle Online Forum, “Transform Your Business by Connecting People, Processes, and Content“ to learn how an integrated approach to business process management (BPM), portals, content management, and collaboration can help you make more accurate and timely decisions based on the collective knowledge across your organization

Join this interactive virtual conference to learn how a comprehensive and integrated solution can help you:

Improve collaboration and enhance productivity in your organizations
Increase business responsiveness by using social BPM with its latest social computing capabilities
Simplify the building and governing of shared services with a complete, open, and integrated platform

If you’re a business or IT executive, manager, or business user, this Oracle Online Forum offers you the unique opportunity to:

Watch Oracle executives participate in a roundtable discussion on the state of the social enterprise
Hear industry experts discuss best practices and case studies of leveraging BPM, portals, and content management to transform and improve business processes
Engage the experts by having your questions answered, real time

Register today and learn how Oracle Fusion Middleware provides the most complete, open, integrated, and best-of-breed solution in the industry for transforming your business.

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
All times are listed in US Pacific.
9:00-10:00am Keynote Roundtable:
Transforming Your Business by Connecting People, Processes, and Content
Andy MacMillan, Oracle, Vice President of Product Management
Dave Schaffer, Oracle, Vice President of Product Management

10:00-10:30am Webcast:
Empowering Users to Improve Collaboration and Enhance Productivity
Howard Beader, Oracle, Sr. Director of Product Marketing

10:30-11:00am Webcast:
Optimizing Business Processes in the Age of Social Computing
Maneesh Joshi, Oracle, Director of Product Marketing

11:00-11:30am Partner Webcast:
Leverage Enterprise 2.0 and SOA Paradigms in Building the Next Generation Business Platforms
Rizwan MK, Infosys, Industry Principal, Oracle Practice Infosys

11:30-12:00pm Partner Webcast:
Collaboration and Web 2.0 Technologies in Supporting Healthcare
Michael Matthews, Deloitte, Associate Partner, Health Technology Lead Canada

12:00-12:30pm Partner Webcast:
Simplifying the Workflow Process for Work Order Management in the Utility Market
Leon Smiers, Capgemini, Oracle BPM Thoughtleader and Oracle Ace

12:30-1:00pm Partner Webcast:
Oracle BPM in Banking and Financial Services – Wipro’s Technology and Implementation Expertise
Gopalakrishna Bylahalli, Wipro, General Manager and Global Head, BPM

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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How to get started with SOA Suite – How to become an expert with SOA Suite? Register for the OTN Virtual Developer Day!

July 8, 2011 4 Comments

Register today for OTN Virtual Developer Day: SOA

Get on the path to Oracle SOA Suite expertise through product presentations and demonstrations designed for developers delivered by Oracle product and technology experts. Then, get a chance to go through the demo yourself with our moderated hands-on lab.

Virtual Developer Day: SOA – Multiple Live Events and Times:

Americas – Tuesday July 12, 2011– 9:00am to 13:30pm PDT / 11am to 15:30pm CDT / 12noon to 16:30pm EDT / 13:00am to 17:30pm BRT
Europe – Tuesday July 26, 2011– 8:00am to 12:30pm BST UK / 9:00am to 13:30pm CEST Europe / 11:00am to 15:30pm MSD Russia
Asia Pacific – Chinese – Tuesday August 2, 2011 – 9:00am -13:30pm CST China

Please visit the Pre-Event Checklist to learn what system requirements and other steps will need to be taken prior to the event in order to be ready to participate.

Agenda Virtual Conference Agenda and Abstracts.

Americas LIVE DAY – Tuesday July 12th, 2011

Europe LIVE Day – Tuesday July 26 2011

Asia Pacific – Simplified Chinese – Tuesday August 2, 2011

Advanced Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle White Papers and Presentations are available at OTN:

Tuning Your SOA Infrastructure for Performance and Scalability
Performance Tuning session from ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2011. July-2011

Monitoring, Administering, and Troubleshooting Oracle SOA Suite & ADF
Monitoring session from ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2011. July-2011

Quick Start Guide for Oracle SOA Suite
This quick start guide includes an introduction to Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.4.0, detailed download, install and configuration instructions, links and other useful information Feb-2011

Purging strategies in Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 PS3
This set of slides describes the various purging strategies now available in Oracle SOA Suite: from the graphical tools in Enterprise Manager, to PL/SQL scripts (looped purge and parallel purge) and database partitioning. This slide deck is a work in progress, so please watch this space for updates. May-2011

Oracle BPEL 10g Purging Strategies
This white paper provides the tools and an approach required to assist SOA administrators in choosing an optimal purging strategy and tool sets to best manage dehydration store requirements in BPEL 10g Nov-2010

Configure a SOAScheduler for a composite in SOA Suite 11g
A step-by-step guide how to set up a scheduler for a SOA Suite 11gR1 composite and an extra credit chapter on how to set up a business calendar Nov-2010

Slides from the hugely popular Performance / Tuning session at OpenWorld 2010, Session ID S317749
If you want to listen to the recording, go to OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop On Demand, search for our session S317749 and download the MP3 with the voice Oct-2010

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Disaster Recovery Solution Using HP Blade Servers and HP EVA Storage
This document describes how disaster recovery can be achieved for an Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g environment on HP StorageWorks EVA storage using its replication data functionality, the HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA. Jul-2010

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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Introducing Java 7 Webcast: Moving Java Forward

July 6, 2011 1 Comment

Register Now! Thursday, July 07, 2011 9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. PT View your local time

Step Forward and Celebrate
As a member of the Java community, you played a critical role in building Java 7. You contributed great ideas for new features and new ways of working and collaborating to take the next step in development. And now, it’s time to celebrate with a global gathering of the Java community—online and live. See your ideas at work. Hear about everything Java 7 can do for you and how we’re moving Java forward together.
Join us for the global introduction—in person at celebrations in Redwood Shores, São Paulo, or London, or via our live Webcast—as we unveil the latest innovations in Java 7. Learn from fellow developers around the globe who are getting the most out of the new features. Discover what lies ahead for Java from the communities and organizations—your groups—that are driving the continued evolution of Java. Find out how Oracle’s ongoing commitment to Java will benefit you.
Hosted by:


Adam Messinger Vice President, Development Fusion Middleware, Oracle	Bruno Souza Founder and President of SOUJava; Java Community Process Representative	Ben Evans Author and Java SE Executive Committee Member

It’s all happening on July 7. So don’t miss it.
Join the conversation on Twitter: #java7 Join us and Register for the live webcast.
Able to join us in Redwood Shores? Register for the live celebration.

Register Now!
As an Oracle partner you can also access our Java Knowledge Zone with the latest sales, develope and implement informations.

For details please become a member in the SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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ISVs: Is your solution running on WebLogic? Make sure you become ready & optimized on Exalogic

July 4, 2011 Leave a comment

Unleash ISV Application Performance with Engineered Systems

Oracle Exastack Program enables Oracle ISV partners to leverage a scalable, integrated infrastructure to deliver their applications tuned, tested and optimized for high-performance.
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Leverage New Program Offerings & Opportunities

The Oracle Exastack Program helps ISVs run their solutions on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud – integrated systems products in which the software and hardware are engineered to work together. These products provide OPN partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. Oracle Partners can leverage the new Oracle Exastack Program to become Oracle Exastack Ready or Oracle Exastack Optimized.

Oracle Exastack Ready

Oracle Weblogic Ready Oracle Linux Ready Oracle Solaris Ready Oracle Database Ready

Partners may achieve Oracle Exastack Ready based on their support for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic; and, in doing so demonstrate to customers that their applications are available on the latest major releases of these products.

More detail on Oracle Exastack Ready benefits and criteria can be found here.

Oracle Exastack Optimized

Customers can be confident when choosing a partner’s Oracle Exastack Optimized application, knowing it has been tuned on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, with a goal of delivering speed, scalability and reliability.

Guidelines for Oracle Exastack Optimized will be available in Fall 2011. Additional detail on Oracle Exastack Optimized can be found here.

The Oracle Exastack Program is also part of the OPN program. Partners participating in the program can use their Oracle Exastack Ready and Oracle Exastack Optimized applications to meet qualifying criteria required for advancement within certain OPN levels.

Partner Level Mapping

Take Advantage of New Partner Enablement Resources

Dedicated Oracle Exastack lab environments and related technical enablement resources will be available for partners to further their knowledge of Oracle Exastack offerings, and qualify their applications for Oracle Exastack Optimized or Oracle Exastack Ready.

New Guided Learning Paths (GLPs), tailored specifically for ISVs, are available for Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database, and Oracle WebLogic. More information about these GLPs and forthcoming Boot Camps (including delivery dates and locations) will be posted on the OPN Competency Center and corresponding OPN Knowledge Zones.

More information about Oracle Exastack and ISV specific enablement resources can be found here.

For details please become a member in the SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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OPN Kickoff Event June 28th 2011

June 23, 2011 Leave a comment

Hosted by Judson Althoff, Oracle senior vice president of WW Alliances & Channels, this hour-long event will outline the opportunities for partners to increase revenue with Oracle in FY12.
Oracle President, Mark Hurd, will update you on his focus for partners in FY12. You will also hear from Stein Surlien, senior vice president, EMEA Alliances & Channels, and have the opportuntity to ask him questions in a special Q&A session.

In addition, we will be making a special announcement for our ISV partners, highlighting some exciting new offerings on how we will go to market together. You will also hear the latest from Oracle product executives, who will outline their priorities for the upcoming year.

Please register for the OPN Partner Kickoff at Tuesday, June 28th at 2:00 pm UK/3pm CET!

Don’t be left out, mark your calendar and register now!

Invitation

For details please become a member in the SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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May SOA Partner Community Newsletter 2011

May 30, 2011 Leave a comment

Dear SOA Partner Community,

May is the last month of the Oracle Fiscal Year – therefore it is key that we close all our important joint opportunities. If you need any support e.g. a call with our product management or our sales leadership, please make sure that you contact your local partner manager.

To give you a kick-start in the new fiscal year FY12 we’re planning our famous advanced summer camp training sessions for advanced ADF, BPM and WebCenter. The training sessions are only for Specialized partners who are working on projects.

To continue our road to Specialization we’ve launched the ADF Certification. If you are Specialized you should submit your nomination for the 2011 EMEA OPN Partner Specializations Awards and the Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2011!

We’ve just launched a new product – Enterprise Gateway, new versions of JDeveloper 11.1.1.5.0 (PS4) and WebLogic Server 10.3.5, and the overview Fusion Middleware 10.3.5. For the Java Community java.net is online!

We are currently shipping your Specialization plaques, if you receive one make sure you send us a picture at Twitter to @soacommunity! Congratulations and thanks to Whitehouses and Amis for the first pictures. If you’d like to receive a plaque, become Specialized, read the SOA & Application Grid Specialization eBook and the SOA & Application Grid Specialization Checklist.

Until we meet again! Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA Partner Adoption EMEA – To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsmay2011
To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

SOA Newsletter

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Call for Nominations: Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2011

May 24, 2011 Leave a comment

Are you doing something unique and innovative using Oracle Fusion Middleware? Submit a nomination today for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards. Winners of these awards receive a free pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco (October 2nd-6th) and will be honored during a special awards event at OpenWorld.

Categories include:

Application Grid, Oracle Exalogic
Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management
Data Integration
Enterprise 2.0
Fusion Development, Application Development Framework
Identity Management
SOA, AIA, Business Process Management

To be considered for this award, simply fill out the Oracle Fusion Middleware nomination form below. Nominations should be submitted before July 22^nd, 2011.
Click here to submit or contact us at: Innovation-Middleware_us@oracle.com

For more information and Specialization support please read the SOA & Application Grid Specialization eBook and the SOA & Application Grid Specialization Checklist.

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Wrap-up SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl 2011 in Brasilia

May 12, 2011 Leave a comment

Thanks for a superb SOA & Cloud Symposium 2011 by Thomas Erl in Brasilia, Basil. This first South American edition was worth to travel the long trip from Europe. Very interesting presentations and discussions mixed with the very friendly and open Brazilian attendees and of course the delicious food.

Thomas Erl and Ann Thomas Manes and many additional authors, launched the SOA Governance book, the latest book in the SOA series. Within the SOA manifesto panel Ann Thomas Manes highlighted the importance of governance for SOA projects. Governance should include a. what is in for myself b. make it easy c. leadership model d. share values. For more information about the SOA Governance book listen to the podcast series:

The Importance of Strong Governance for SOA Projects Listen

The Launch of “SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services On-Premise and in the Cloud” Listen

The Secret to SOA Governance: Getting the Right People to do the Right Things at the Right Time Listen

Understanding SOA Governance Listen

Keynotes included:

Thomas Erl: The Cloud is the Service

Anne Thomas Manes: SOA 2011 – SOA is a prerequisite for: cloud, mobile, social and BPM

Simone Brunozzi: The Real Value of Cloud Computing and how cloud computing has a disruptive impact

Dennis Wisnosky: Realizing Efficiency & Interoperability: SOA & Semantic Technology in the Business Mission Area (BMA), U.S. Department of Defense

Manas Deb: SOA and BPM as Business Strategy and the importance of Capability management for SOA projects

Presentations included:

· Clemens Utschig-Utschig, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & CoKG: Enterprise Architecture, Beyond the Specification and Towards Service-Orientation

· Matthias Ziegler & Thomas M. Michelbach Accenure: Is Cloud Computing for You? Assessing the Value of Cloud Computing for your Organization

· Mehran Sarkarati, European Space Agency and Thomas M. Michelbach, Accenture: A Service and Data Model for SOA-based systems – Theory and Practice

· Anne Thomas Manes, Gartner: Service Models: Making Sure Services Deliver Value

· Paulo Mota, Oracle: How BPM can improve SOA benefits

· Jürgen Kress, Oracle: RYLC an SOA Cloud Example and the Role of SOA in Next Generation Clouds Swarm Computing

All presentations will be posted at the SOA & Cloud Symposium website in a few weeks. Additional panel session videos will be available.

During the panel “Measuring the Business Value of Service-Orientation” Paul Brown, Jean-Paul De Baets, Filippos Santas, Jürgen Kress, had a great discussion how SOA architecture impacts business. SOA project have to prove the business value. Business value patterns could be process automation, process visibility and process agility. The Case for Total Architecture presentation from Paul Brown is a great abstract to show the value of architecture.

For details and comments about the SOA & Cloud Symposium check out Twitter #soa2011:

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Special Thanks to Ricardo Puttini our local host, his whole team and program committee for the excellent organization and event! We would love to come back!

If you like to attend or to present at the next SOA & Cloud Symposium please see our SOA Call for papers wiki. For details please become a member in the SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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