Mobile Integration Leveraging Oracle SOA Suite – Customer Webcast by Bruce Tierney

Agilent Message FlowOracle SOA Suite customer Agilent Technologies shares in this webcast how they leveraged their existing Oracle SOA Suite integration platform for rapid mobile enablement.  Our featured speaker is Rajesh Gathwala, Enterprise Architect at Agilent Technologies.  Rajesh manages the Enterprise Mobile Strategic Initiative and his areas of expertise include Cloud, ERP, CRM, SOA, Mobile and more.  Rajesh will share key aspects of Agilent’s Mobile Strategic Initiative in rolling out 6 mobile apps and increasing employee productivity while leveraging their existing enterprise foundation.  Instead of attempting to incorporate too many disparate toolsets, Agilent has successfully consolidated their integration into a unified service integration strategy.  Here are a couple of mobile screenshots Rajesh discusses: Read the full article here.

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SOA & BPM eBooks from Packt only 5 USD

Want to learn more about Oracle SOA Suite or BPM Suite? Get your eBook now from Packt for only 5 USD! For details and books please visit http://www.packtpub.com/.

Which book to choose? Visit our wikis for SOA books or BPM books.

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SOA Suite 11g ps6 – Download your log files directly from the Enterprise Manager by Dirk Janssen

PlaatjeLogFilesWith the latest Oracle SOA Suite (PS6) the Enterprise Manager has been updated. The first thing that will be noticed is that the look and feel has been changed. However that is not the only difference. While looking for log messages (I was not allowed to log into the server directly) I stumbled upon a new feature. It is now possible to access and download the complete server log files from your browser using the EM console. You no longer have to jump through hoops to access and share the log files. Simply log into the EM console and download them. Read the full article here.

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SOA Made Simple | Introduction to SOA by Ronald van Luttikhuizen

A lot of organizations are implementing, or want to implement, Service Oriented Architecture to support their goals. Service Oriented Architecture is a natural step in the evolution of Information Technology; we started out with big systems in universities and banks, and moved to desktop computers in the workplace and at home. We are now moving to solutions in the cloud, offering services to consumers and businesses alike, adding mobile computing to the mix. So what is a service? A service is something that has value. Service orientation is not a difficult concept to grasp, everyone knows services and uses them daily; think of a hotel that offers a shuttle service to the nearest airport. Or the hairdresser that cuts your hair. This presentation introduces SOA, using a practical and simple approach. It is done without overly complex abstractions, but with examples from different industries and hands-on experience. Get the presentation here.

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SOA Community Newsletter December 2013

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Do you want to get the latest update about SOA Suite 12c, BPM Suite 12c Adaptive Case Management 12c, WebLogic 12c and ADF & mobile applications? Register now for the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2014! Like last year we do have only 125 seats and we expect that the conference will be booked out!

Do you like SOA & BPM Partner Community? Let us know what we can improve in our annual community survey. We want to make the community event better; therefore we need your feedback!

References are key for our joint success. Oracle is very interested to publish and promote your SOA cloud integration and mobile integration success. It is time to submit a SOA and BPM reference request today.

The SOA product management team published new articles on Cloud to On-Premise Connectivity Patterns, Oracle SOA Suite for Healthcare Integration and OEP.

Thanks to the community for sharing all excellent articles on Event-Driven SOA part of Industrial SOA series, Scripted SOA Diagnostic Dumps for PS6 , Internet of Things – The Oracle platform, 9 Tips for Organizational Maturity in SOA, Configure Auto-Recovery in Oracle SOA Suite, Book Review: Getting Started with B2B Integration, Using JPA in SCA Spring Beans and Enabling Enterprise Mobility.

Thanks to Bob for sharing all the new podcasts and video interviews: Podcast Show Notes: Old Habits Die Hard in the New SOA World By OTN ArchBeat , Lonneke Dikmans: Oracle SOA Suite on Oracle Data Appliance  & Matt Brasier for Oracle Technology Network – Oracle SOA Suite Performance Tuning. We are also interested in your content – please feel free to share and connect with Bob!

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) the latest SOA Suite for healthcare presentation are available. Thanks to Wyn Ackroyd for SOA Suite 11.1.1.7 Installation Instructions.

Process Accelerators are a wonderful tool for BPM demos or POCs – make sure you use them! Manoj published his presentation KPI Risk Assessment from bpmNext2013.Thanks to Mark as well for sharing the Code Coverage for BPMN articles.

In the Adaptive Case Management section you find new free on-demand training on ACM Quick Start Series ACM free online training, ACM Delivering Right Customer Experience free online training and a articles series on ACM overview part 1 & 2 by Roger Goossens.

For AppAdvantage many new solution briefs are available including Why you should make use of Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications = AppAdvantage. For architects Rick publishes articles on SOA, Empowerment and Continuous Improvement.

At last but not least I will be looking forward to know your community feedback and see you in Malta 2014!

Happy Holiday Season!

Jürgen Kress

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Mobile Order Management for EBS GSE Demo using middleware technology

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Global Sales Engineering (GSE, formerly DSS) is happy to announce the availability of “Mobile Order Management for EBS”.

The demo use case is a dashboard for a sporting goods manufacturing company that provides its mobile sales force with real time access to the backend EBS data as well as key business KPIs (fulfillment accuracy, backorders, order status).

Transactional support (EBS order entry) from the device is also supported, depending on the user authorization level. In addition, integration with native location services (GPS) provides the capability to launch maps to automatically locate customers who are nearby.

Demo Highlights
This demo showcases key technologies for a mobility platform and provides a reference architecture to mobile enable Oracle applications.

  • Develop using Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Mobile, to provide tight device services integration and native user experience.
  • Connect and integrate to backend enterprise applications via SOA/OSB
  • Secure access using EBS SDK for Java and Oracle Web Services Manager, for enterprise grade mobile security.
  • Available as an iPad app, Android version to follow soon.

Call to Action

  • Check out the ~1 minute video overview of this demo
  • Review the Demo Script and Release Notes on the GSE Demo Store
  • Start your instant tech demo (aka "Canned Demo") using Demo Title "Mobile Order Management for EBS" directly from the GSE Home Page
  • Demo pre-requisites and additional demo information are available here

For questions or feedback please contact anvesh.baluguri@oracle.com or  anand.prasad@oracle.com.

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SOA and User Interfaces (UI) part of Industrial SOA series

Overcoming the challenges to developing user interfaces in a service oriented architecture.

Part of the Industrial SOA article series

Abstract: The interaction between user-interfaces and services in an Service Oriented Architecture is an often-neglected topic. This article focuses on the particular challenges that need to be overcome when creating user-interfaces while entire process chains have to be called and interacted with. After outlining some general architectural considerations, the authors describe a practical application of Thomas Erl’s UI Mediator pattern that will be accompanied by their own technical experience.

Introduction

In the simplest scenario, a user’s interaction with a business process consists of initiating the process and awaiting the result. However, processes very rarely run completely automatically, meaning human intervention in a process cycle is an important requirement. The WS-HumanTask specification can fulfill this requirement in the SOA environment. A standardized API that is defined for a workflow service can be used to fill a mailbox with tasks. If the process automation language BPEL is used, the BPEL4People specification defines how this mailbox functionality can be used directly in the process cycle by means of the WS-Human Task. Of course, this is possible from BPMN, too.

For example, if manual approval or the input of additional data is needed during a process cycle, the process can determine the correct actor and deposit the task in their mailbox via the task service. The HumanTask service provides a Web service API for this functionality. The users receive the entries in their mailbox and process the pending tasks sequentially, while the process resumes its work in the background.

Human Interaction & Mailboxes

This solution concept is flawless from a technical viewpoint, but its handling is unfamiliar to many users. Workflows can even be perceived as disruptive for short processes that lack role changes, since conventional data-driven application systems can provide immediate responses without detouring to a mailbox. Process control is embedded in the interface control.

Users are their own process masters when such conventional applications are used, whereas a mailbox-supported solution subjects the users to the restrictions of a prescribed process.

Anyone designing classic BPMN or BPEL processes with mailbox interaction understands that users will be faced with a long list of tasks in their mailbox, which often require mechanical and repetitive interactions. Nowadays, many technical departments are aware of this issue, and provide assistance to the users whose daily processes need their requirements recorded.

With the advent of SOA and loose coupling, work processes are further automated and process control is gradually shifted to the back-end. Excessively close coupling of processes and interfaces should be avoided, since processes can also be subject to frequent adaptations due to flexibility. Decoupling via the mailbox is generally the most effective solution.

Read the full article in the Service Technology Magazine or at OTN.

Share your comments and feedback on the Industrial SOA series by using the hashtag #industrialsoa.

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Recap of the "Real-World Cloud Integration Simplified with Oracle SOA Suite" presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2013

I attended this presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 titled "Real-World Cloud Integration Simplified with Oracle SOA Suite" by:

  • Raghu Kadirvelu (Bristlecone, Inc.)
  • Vikas Anand (Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle)
  • Rajesh Raheja (Senior Director, Development, Oracle)

Raghu provided a live demo of multiple integrations between E-Business Suite (which was sitting on premise in their data center) and SalesForce.com (which resided on the cloud). The SOA Suite integrations were built using the new 11g SalesForce adapter, and demonstrated the bi-directional movement of data to satisfy two functional use cases.

This was by far one of the best SOA presentations I attended at OpenWorld this year, and let me explain why.
At the surface, this appears to be a simple presentation on yet another JCA adapter. But both Vikas (@VikasAatOracle) and Rajesh (@RahejaRajesh) are masters in their domain, and you have to listen closely to them to really understand that these guys are visionaries in their respective fields.
Here are some of the points I appreciated:

  • The live demo showcased multiple asynchronous integrations between E-Business Suite and SalesForce, seeing first hand how the end result works. The techies in the crowd got it.
  • A walkthrough in JDeveloper of the new 11g SalesForce "cloud" adapter was provided, with mention to some of the various (unique) options specific to the adapter and how Oracle addressed SalesForce API design considerations.
  • A brief mention of cloud-to-cloud integrations was made, but Vikas stated that the trend they’ve been seeing was more onpremise-to-cloud scenarios, and that typically any organization would want to host their master data internally while still taking advantage of cursory or supplementary cloud services. Otherwise you risk having your data sprinkled across your many public cloud service providers Read the full article here.
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Cloud integration with Oracle SOA Suite

As the number of connections to disparate SaaS providers grows, so does the importance of ensuring your application infrastructure avoids the Accidental Cloud Architecture of increasing complex disparate connectivity.

Oracle simplifies cloud integration by providing a unified and comprehensive solution to integrate cloud and on-premise applications. Oracle cloud integration leverages Oracle Cloud services as well as components from Oracle’s SOA, BPM, and data integration technologies to deliver a truly comprehensive solution for cloud connectivity.

Download and review the ‘Cloud Integration’ and ‘Integrate with Salesforce.com’ whitepapers and get going with Oracle today. More resources are available at Oracle.com At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can download the latest whitepapers: cloud-integration-wp-1873149.pdf & Integrate with SalesForce.com.pdf.

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Canon Delivers Fast Data with Oracle Event Processing by Mala Ramakrishnan

CanonCanon has made Fast Data a reality with processing a large variety, high volume and velocity of events from multiple devices across geographic boundaries. Canon is surging forth on their strategy for an Internet of Things, thanks to an approach that has focused on extreme availability, reliability, and scalability from their IT infrastructure in order to handle remote maintenance services for Multi Function Printers (MFP).

In this session at Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Canon discusses the benefits of running Oracle SOA on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata engineered systems. The session highlights the extreme scale and performance the platform delivers for transactional SOA and Fast Data. It also illustrates best practices that work in real-life. Read the full article here.

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