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E-Book: Cloud Architecture for Dummies & Cloud Considerations & Connectivity

February 7, 2013 Leave a comment

Learn how to define your architectural requirements and get started on your path to cloud computing with the e-book, Cloud Architecture for Dummies.

5 Cloud Considerations
RightNow Cloud Connectivity
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure for Dummies to:
- Realize the benefits of consolidation with the added cloud capabilities
- Simplify deployments and reduce risks with tested and proven guidelines
- Achieve up to 50% lower TCO than comparable multi-vendor alternatives
Cloud Architecture for Dummies. Topics covered in this quick reference guide include:
- Cloud architecture principles and guidelines
- Scoping your project and choosing your deployment model
- Moving toward implementation with vertically integrated engineered systems

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New SOA articles from product management

February 6, 2013 Leave a comment

If you have not done so recently, visit our SOA OTN page (http://bit.ly/soaotn) and the Advanced SOA Suite page (http://bit.ly/advancedsoasuite) for news, articles, selected blog posts and more.

Creating an SOA Roadmap This document offers a structured, iterative methodology to help you stay focused on business results, mitigate technological and organizational risk, and deliver successful SOA projects.
Read it.
A Framework for SOA GovernanceSuccessful SOA requires a strong governance strategy that designs-in measurement, management, and enforcement procedures. This document offers a framework for defining and building a proper SOA governance model. Read it.
Determining ROI of SOA through ReuseSOA offers the opportunity to save millions of dollars annually through reuse. Sharing common services intuitively reduces workload, increases developer productivity, and decreases maintenance costs. This document provides an approach for estimating the reuse value of the various software assets contained in a typical portfolio. Read it.

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Fast Data: When Big Data Comes to you Fast–Webcast February 27th 2013

February 5, 2013 Leave a comment

Fast Data: When Big Data Comes to you Fast

Much has been written about the volume of big data, as well as the variety of it and the value it can hold. But the velocity at which it is gathered also deserves a closer look. An upcoming Oracle Webcast, “Fast Data—Turning High Velocity Data Into Value”, will focus on the emerging topic of fast data and the products, solutions, and services Oracle offers to help your organization implement a fast data strategy. Read More

Fast Data—Turning High-Velocity Data into Value

Wednesday, February 27 10:00 a.m. PT
Join us for an exclusive event featuring Executive Vice President of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, Hasan Rizvi, and other Oracle fast data experts.

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Quality Analysis for SOA and Cloud

February 5, 2013 Leave a comment

With Gebhart Quality Analysis (QA) 82, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and the European Union support the quality analysis in the context of service-oriented architectures and cloud. Gebhart Quality Analysis (QA) 82 offers quality analyses of service-oriented architectures and cloud services, certifications of services, and trainings.

The quality analyses help customers to identify untapped potential regarding the flexibility and maintainability of their architecture. This enables to improve their architecture with focus on strategic goals and to reduce IT costs. The QA82 Architecture Analyzer tool enables automatic, thus efficient analyses.
With certifications customers demonstrate that their services satisfy today’s state of the art in the context of quality attributes of services and support the achievement of strategic goals. Especially software producers prove that their products can be efficiently integrated into an existing application landscape. As this aspect constitutes an important decision factor when choosing a product, customers significantly increase the value of their products.
The trainings target the systematic design of service-oriented architectures and cloud services with focus on quality attributes by means of formalized languages, such as UML and SoaML.

The fundamentals of services offered have been acquired at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany within several years of research. The examined quality attributes are publicly accessible representing an essential characteristic of the philosophy: Gebhart Quality Analysis (QA) 82 stands for transparency in research and practice.

Visit: http://www.qa82.com (English) or http://www.qa82.de (German) Or contact us: contact@qa82.com

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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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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:

Watch 200-plus Webcasts covering all Oracle technologies
Create a Webcast playlist and watch on demand
Attend live Webcasts and ask the experts questions
Subscribe to Webcast updates you won’t want to miss

Access Oracle’s Technology Webcast Center today and walk away with valuable insights and tactical advice that you can start applying now to your top initiatives.

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Technology Centers:


Oracle Cloud Application Foundation	SOA/BPM	Java	Data Integration	Oracle Exalogic	Identity Management

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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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Remote Diagnostics Agent webcasts January 30th & 31st 2013

January 29, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle Remote Diagnostics Agent (RDA) is a feature rich, platform independent, command line data collection tool. RDA is available as a feature of Oracle Premier Support for Systems, and can improve system availability through expedited diagnostics and priority service request handling.
On January 30-31, 2013, the Oracle Proactive Support Team will be hosting two Advisor Webcasts covering RDA:

NAR / LAD / EMEA January 30, 2013 9:00 AM MST / 5:00 PM CE

Webconference Session #:595 773 681 US: 888.667.2253 Int’l Toll Free Conference Code: 6298405# Conference Security Pin: 09090#

APAC / Japan January 31, 2013 9:00 PM MST (January 30) / 9:30 AM IST / 12:00 PM SGT / 3:00 PM AEST

Webconference Session #:595 773 681 US: 888.667.2253 Int’l Toll Free Conference Code: 4854623# Conference Security Pin: 909090#

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Top tweets SOA Partner Community – January 2013

January 29, 2013 Leave a comment

Send your tweets @soacommunity #soacommunity and follow us at http://twitter.com/soacommunity

SOA Community Getting to Know Oracle Fusion Middleware http://wp.me/p10C8u-A3

Danilo Schmiedel Connect to multiple SOA / BPM Virtual Machines from different computers in your network http://goo.gl/DmLV3 @soacommunity @OC_WIRE

Oracle BPM ‏Geoffroy de Lamalle, CEO of eProseed, discusses Oracle BPM Suite #bpm #processmanagement http://pub.vitrue.com/evNq

Oracle for Partners Do you want to learn about #Oracle Fusion Middleware? Register now! http://bit.ly/UsYzql #OPN #Fusion

clip_image001[1] SOA Community ‏Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013 – only 100 seats left! http://www.tinyurl.com/ofmforum2013 #opn #ofmforum #soacommunity

Eric Elzinga OutOfMemoryError – Oracle Service Bus Alerts, http://java.dzone.com/articles/outofmemoryerror-%E2%80%93-oracle …

clip_image008 Michel Schildmeijer ‏WLST change script to SOA Common, BPEL an BPMN Properties http://lnkd.in/zvkA4t #oracle #weblogic

clip_image010 demed ‏SOA Suite Developer’s Cookbook by Antony Reynolds just released! http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-service-oriented-architecture-suite-11g-developers-cookbook/book … #oraclesoa #osoa #books #adoption

clip_image011 Simone Geib ‏Just posted the #soa presentations from #ukoug2012 on our #otn page: http://ow.ly/g30Kp #oraclesoa

Lonneke Dikmans VENNSTER BLOG: SCA Composites: Java or BPEL? http://blog.vennster.nl/2012/12/sca-composites-java-or-bpel.html?spref=tw …

shay shmeltzer ‏New blog/video – Updating an #Oracle #ADF Web Service Data Control When Service Structure or Location Change – https://blogs.oracle.com/shay/entry/updating_adf_web_service_data …

clip_image015 OracleBlogs ‏Expanding the Oracle Enterprise Repository with functional documentation by Marc Kuijpers http://ow.ly/2tPvB7

orclateamsoa All A-Team blogs and other great content on SOA OTN page here http://ow.ly/g3sJy . Thanks @soasimone

Oracle BPM ‏What do you think will be key BPM trends in 2013? #BPM #processmanagement #oraclebpm http://pub.vitrue.com/YHxW

clip_image018 Oracle SOA ‏What do you think will be key BPM trends in 2013? #BPM #processmanagement #oraclebpm http://pub.vitrue.com/4PyR

OracleBlogs ‏RDA Health Checks for SOA http://ow.ly/2tJmqM

Lonneke Dikmans Really happy with the SCA testing framework in Oracle11g, with all the complex transformations I am doing. Feature request: xpath tester