pre-defined SOA = AIA Knowledge Zone

July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) and its pre-built, open and complete architecture for orchestrating agile, user-centric business processes across enterprise applications is ideal to build custom SOA solutions or integrate standard solutions like Siebel into SAP.

To support you as a partner best we created the AIA Knowledge Zone and AIA Specialization at the Oracle Partner Network (OPN). The Oracle PartnerNetwork will empower your company with exceptional resources to distinguish your offerings from the competition, seize opportunities, and increase your sales:

  • Deliver “out of the box” end to end integration to your customers – by leveraging pre-built solutions at the data, process and UI level delivering a more complete process solution to business end users. Access OPN Education Benefits to train your staff on Oracle’s AIA and SOA offerings.
  • Build, deploy, and sell more complete solutions – by leveraging Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Packs, providing a common integration framework, with pre-built components and methodologies that are designed to work together in a mix and match fashion. Build integrations for configurability and ultimately lower the cost of IT – build, extend, reuse and maintain integrations.
  • Increase your services margin and expand your capacity to close deals. Oracle Application Integration Architecture enables companies to optimize the value of their existing applications by enabling end to end business process solutions.
  • Reduce implementation risk and cost – by leveraging Oracle’s pre-built, sustainable integrations that enable rapid integration with existing business processes. Explore Application Integration Architecture for Partners initiative which provides partners several tools and methodologies for integrating with Oracle’s broad portfolio of applications
    NEW! Applications Integration Architecture Specialization!

    Be one of the very first to become an Oracle Applications Integration Architecture Specialist!
    Check out the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Knowledge Zone and go to the Specialize tab to learn how you can become an AIA Specialized Partner.
    Go to the OPN Competency Center to access AIA Specialist Guided Leaning Paths and assessments!
    Register for the OU beta exam at the nearest Pearson VUE testing center.

    Oracle Application Integration Architecture 11g Essentials (1Z1-543) exam is available in beta version from now through July 10, 2010. Pass the exam to become an Oracle AIA Certified Implementation Specialist!

    As an incentive we are offering FREE beta exam vouchers to early-adopter Partners. As there are a limited number of free vouchers available, the requests will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.

    For More Information

    Your feedback about Specialization – contact Us
    Please direct any inquiries you might have to Oracle Partner Enablement team at opn-edu_ww@oracle.com or tweet us @oraclepartners or post your comment in our Linkedin Oracle Partner Network group

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    • Filed under Community, Oracle, Partner Network, SOA

    SOA & Application Grid Specialization– Validate your Application – Step 5 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!

    Summery or 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

    Before you submit your application please validate the criteria:

    If you are certain that you meet all of these criteria Apply Now to become specialized. Your application can only be submitted by the Oracle Partner Network Administrator (PRN Admin) in your company! If you do not know this person please contact the Partner Business Centers to find out.

    PRM Specialize menu

    Select Middleware in the PRM Specialize menu

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    Select a Specialization:

    Select SOA and/or Application Grid

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    Enter reference information

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    Reference Criteria for Specialization

    • Project completed in the last 18 months

    • Project has to include products in the current or previous version of the Specialization products

    • Customer can be used for several references if each reference is an independent project

    • Same reference can be used for different Specializations if the products listed match the Specialization products

    • Internal implementations can NOT be used as reference

    • Complete information must be provided

    Customer Reference Documentation Data captured during enrollment

    • Customer Name, Industry, Country

    • Customer’s Contact Info

    – Name

    – Title

    – Phone

    – Email

    • Project Name

    • Project Completion Date

    • Oracle products and/or services related to this reference

    – specify the version

    • Business challenges for the customer

    • Describe the Oracle or joint solution implemented

    • Oracle Contact (If known): Email address

    Enter your transactions

    Transactions achieved in the last 12 months

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    Complete your Specialists

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    Notification & Status

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    If you need to get an Oracle Partner Network Account or you need support with the application please contact our Partner Business Centers.

    For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series and become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa

    Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

    Thanks for your efforts to become Specialized

    Filed under Oracle, Partner Network, SOA

    Specialized & Recognized by Oracle: Award season – make your submission for the OPN Specialization & OFM awards!

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

    OPN Specialization Award Submit your nomination EMEA Partner Specialization Awards2010

    As an Oracle Partner in the process to become SOA & Application Grid Specialized and working on SOA and Application Grid opportunities please make sure that you submit your OPN Specialization Award Submit your nomination. Prices include free Oracle Open World tickets, marketing budgets for joint campaigns and joint press release.

    “These awards will recognize the high-level of innovation, excellence
    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 2nd July 2010.

    Be recognized! Submit your nominations today

    Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2010

    As an Oracle Customer and Partner make sure that you submit your Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards nomination

    Does your company use Oracle Fusion Middleware innovatively?
    Nominate your organization today for a chance to be recognized for your cutting-edge solution using any of the following Oracle Fusion Middleware products:

    • Oracle Application Grid products
    • Oracle SOA Suite
    • Data Integration & Availability
    • Oracle Identity Management Suite
    • Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Applications
    • Enterprise 2.0

    Prices include:

    • FREE pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco for select winners in each category. Honored by Oracle executives at awards ceremony held during Oracle OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco.
    • Oracle Middleware Innovation Award Winner Plaque
    • 1-3 meetings with Oracle Executives during Oracle OpenWorld 2010
    • Feature article placement in Oracle Magazine and placement in Oracle Press Release
    • Customer snapshot and video testimonial opportunity, to be hosted on oracle.com
    • Podcast interview opportunity with Senior Oracle ExecutiveSubmit your nomination to Innovation-Middleware_us@oracle.com on or before August 6th 2010 to win Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2010.

    Filed under Oracle, Partner Network

    Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g next launch phase – what a week of product releases! Feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

      Product releases:

    BPM Suite 11gR1 Released by Manoj Das

    Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 became available for download from OTN and eDelivery. If you have been following our plans in this area, you know that this is the release unifying BEA ALBPM product, which became Oracle BPM10gR3, with the Oracle stack.

    Some of the highlights of this release are:studio-process

    • BPMN 2.0 modeling and simulation
    • Web based Process Composer for BPMN and Rules authoring
    • Zero-code environment with full access to Oracle SOA Suite’s rich set of application and other adapters
    • Process Spaces – Out-of-box integration with Web Center Suite
    • Process Analytics – Native process cubes as well as integration with Oracle BAM

    You can learn more about this release from the documentation.

    Notes about downloading and installing

    Please note that Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 is delivered and installed as part of SOA 11.1.1.3.0, which is a sparse release (only incremental patch). To install:

    • Download and install SOA 11.1.1.2.0, which is a full release (you can find the bits at the above location)
    • Download and install SOA 11.1.1.3.0
    • During configure step (using the Fusion Middleware configuration wizard), use the Oracle Business Process Management template supplied with the SOA Suite11g (11.1.1.3.0)
    • If you plan to use Process Spaces, also install Web Center 11.1.1.3.0, which also is delivered as a sparse release and needs to be installed on top of Web Center 11.1.1.2.0
    SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2) released by Demed L’Her

    We just released SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch Set 2 (PS2)!

    You can download it as usual from:

    11gR1 PS2 is delivered as a sparse installer, that is to say that it is meant to be applied on the latest full install (11gR1 PS1). That’s great for existing PS1 users who simply need to apply the patch and run the patch assistant – but an extra step for new users who will first need to download SOA Suite 11gR1 PS1 (in addition to the PS2 patch).

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    What’s in that release? Bug fixes of course but also several significant new features. Here is a short selection of the most significant ones:

    • Spring component (for native Java extensibility and integration)
    • SOA Partitions (to organize and manage your composites)
    • Direct Binding (for transactional invocations to and from Oracle Service Bus)
    • HTTP binding (for those of you trying to do away with SOAP and looking for simple GET and POST)
    • Resequencer (for ordering out-of-order messages)
    • WS Atomic Transactions (WS-AT) support (for propagation of transactions across heterogeneous environments)

    Check out the complete list of new features in PS2 for more (including links to the documentation for the above)!

    But maybe even more importantly we are also releasing Oracle Service Bus 11gR1 and BPM Suite 11gR1 at the same time – all on the same base platform (WebLogic Server 10.3.3)!

    (NB: it might take a while for all pages and caches to be updated with the new content so if you don’t find what you need today, try again soon!)

    Are you Systems Integrations and Independent Software Vendors ready to adopt and to deliver?

    Make sure that you become trained:

    Time to download the software and test the new features!
    Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA
     

    First feedback from our ACE Directors and key Partners:

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    Now, these are great times to start the journey into BPM!

    Hajo Normann
     

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    Reuse of components across the Oracle 11G Fusion Middleware stack, BPM just is one of the components plugging into the stack and reuses all other components.

    Mr. Leon Smiers
     

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    With BPM11g, Oracle offers a very competitive product which will have a big effect on the IT market.

    Guido Schmutz
    image We have real BPMN 2.0, which get’s executed. No more transformation from business models to executable models – just press the run button…

    Torsten Winterberg
     

    image Oracle BPM Suite 11g brings Out-of-box integration with WebCenter Suite and Oracle ADF development framework.

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    image With the release of BPM Suite 11g, Oracle has defined new standards for Business Process platforms.

    Geoffroy de Lamalle
     

    image With User Messaging Service you can let Soa Suite 11g do all your Messaging Edwin Biemond

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    What is your feedback?  Who installed the software? please feel free to share your experience at http://twitter.com/soacommunity

    #soacommunity

    Filed under Oracle, SOA

    SOA & Application Grid Specialization step 2 of 6 – References & Marketing Kits

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

     

    In our fist step to become SOA Specialized & Application Grid Specialized we highlighted our OMM to register your opportunities. We continue our path to specialization with our marketing offerings to create your reference cases and run joint marketing campaigns.

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    Oracle delivers a wide variety of services and solutions through our partners and we believe that those successes should be recognized and promoted. References are also required to become specialized.

    We showcase our partners’ capabilities in Oracle products and industries through partner success stories that are published on Oracle.com. For significant implementations, we may invite partners to participate in a press release or be interviewed in a podcast.

    To participate and take a further step to become specialized, please take a minute to complete the form and tell us about the successful project you have implemented. If your story is selected, we will contact you for an interview. Create your references

    The partner reference program

    • Enables partners to be recognized by both Oracle and our customers
    • Provides an opportunity for partners to showcase successes with their customers on Oracle solutions
    • Helps raise awareness of our partners’ capabilities, elevating them above their competition

    Time to submit a SOA and Application Grid reference request today

    To learn more about partner references, check out the following resources:

    Marketing Kits

    We have created OFM 11g marketing kit http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required) The marketing kit includes all the ppts and demos from our launch event.

     

    Oracle package includes:
    • Event templates like invitation, agenda ,confirmation follow up templates
    • OFM 11g presentations
    • Free usage of the Oracle Customer Visit Center
    • Condition: mandatory lead registration in the Oracle Open Market Model (OMM)

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    To download the material, please make sure that you select the campaign “Enterprise: Fusion Middleware 11g”:

    OFM 11g Oracle Marketing 4 Partners Package http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required)

    For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series

    And become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa

    Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

    SOA Specialized Application Grid Specialized
    Proof 2 transactions with OMM Proof 2 transactions with OMM
    Create your 2 references Create your 2 references
    SOA Sales assessment 3, Oracle Application Grid Sales Specialist
    SOA Pre-Sales assessment 3 Oracle Application Grid PreSales Specialist
    Support assessment 1 Support assessment 2
    SOA Implementation assessment 4 Application Gridplementation assessment 4

    Filed under Oracle, Partner Network

    Oracle + Sun: Transforming the IT Industry! What are our strategic middleware solutions?

    July 30, 2010 Leave a comment

    Visit the on-demand version and presentations of the webcast:
    • Charles Phillips: Welcome and Oracle + Sun: Transforming the Industry View the Webcast (43 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
    • John Fowler: Hardware Strategy View the Webcast (39 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
    • Thomas Kurian: Software Strategy View the Webcast (48 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
    • Edward Screven: Operating Systems and Virtualization View the Webcast (19 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
    • Juergen Rottler: Customer Service and Support Strategy View the Webcast (23 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
    • Jeff Epstein: Operational Strategy View the Webcast (8 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)
    • Larry Ellison: Oracle + Sun View the Webcast (59 min.) Download the presentation (PDF)

    Additional resources:
    • Overview and Frequently Asked Questions for the Developer Community
    • Oracle + Sun Product Strategy Webcast Series

     

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    OFM 11g Launch Countdown

    July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

    Please fasten your Lederhosen – time to prepare for the OFM 11g Launch
    Make sure that you attend our Launch events
    • NAS: Washington (July 1),
    • EMEA: London (July 2), Munich (July 2), Paris (July 2)
    • APAC/JAPAN: Sydney (July 9), Beijing (July 14), Seoul (July 15), Tokyo (July 17)
    • LAD: Sao Paulo (July 21), Mexico City (July 23)
    • Online (July 9th )

    Filed under Oracle

    Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems

    July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

    Oracle and Sun

    On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

    The acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle plans to engineer and deliver an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Customers benefit as their system integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.

    There are substantial long-term strategic customer advantages to Oracle owning two key Sun software assets: Java and Solaris. Java is one of the computer industry’s best-known brands and most widely deployed technologies, and it is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business, is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software. Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.

    For details please visit http://www.oracle.com/sun:

    • Read the press release
    • Listen to the webcast replay
    • Letter to customers and partners from Charles Phillips, President, outlining the benefits of the combination
    •Overview and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) for customers and partners
    •Learn more about what the combination of Oracle and Sun (PDF) will mean for our you.

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    Your SOA success at OOW 2009 – Call for papers!

    July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

    Judson Althoff posted in his blog news about the OOW October 11th – 15th 2009 in San Francisco. Our OOW “Call For Papers” opens March 31. We encourage you, our partners, to submit your abstracts for inclusion in our Oracle OpenWorld agenda. This year, we will accept submissions from March 31 to April 17. Get all the details on or after March 31 here: http://cplan.com/oracleopenworld2009/cfp/
    Similar like in the last years we plan special OOW activities for the SOA Partner Community!
    Jürgen Kress

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    To access all information about Oracle SOA Suite and to become a member in SOA Partner Community please fell free to sign up: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

    Filed under Oracle

    Tuxedo & SOA! SIs: Who implemented Tuxedo? ISVs: Who embedded Tuxedo?

    July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

    Now you can integrate this Tuxedo solutions in your SOA environment!

    SIs: Re-visit your customer to achieve cost saving and to SOA enable them.

    ISVs: SOA enable your solutions and integrate them to the Oracle Fusion Middleware & Oracle Applications environment.

    Oracle Tuxedo
    Oracle Tuxedo is the industry’s #1 platform for distributed transaction processing. It provides mainframe-class scale and performance on open, distributed systems for software written in C, C++, and COBOL, and is the premier platform for “rehosting” mainframe applications on mainstream hardware. Oracle Tuxedo provides cost-effective reliability, extreme scalability up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, and investment preservation by extending the life of existing IT assets as part of a modern architectures such as SOA. Oracle Tuxedo is Oracle Fusion Middleware’s strategic transaction processing product. Learn more about its role in Oracle’s middleware strategy.

    Oracle Salt for Tuxedo
    Leading Distributed Transaction Processing Platform Delivers Extended Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Enhanced Standards Support, and Strengthened SOA -Enablement

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    If you are and SI or ISV using Tuxedo please feel free to contact me any time – Jürgen Kress and become a member in the Oracle SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

    Filed under Oracle

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