SOA Starter Day @ jax 2009

Our SOA Team organized an excellent „SOA Starter Day” as part of the jax 2009 conference. The room was over-crowded and the feedback was great.

Presentations included:
• SOA reference architecture & optimal SOA demo
• BPM myth and reality
• SOA classifications
• Loose coupling
• UI Patterns: interfaces for SOA
• Transactions in SOA
• SOA Security
• Canonical Data Model

As a resume of the panel discussion we see that SOA becomes mature and SOA adoption continues to grow. As a survival role in the current economic situation it is key that your SOA business case is focused on:
• It’s now all about cutting cost and improving efficiency (time to market won’t count…)
• Immediate (& on-going) cost savings
• Iterative programs (no big bang)
• Self-funding

Special thanks to the team:
Torsten Winterberg & Hajo Normann & Bernd Trops & Clemens Utschig & Berthold Maier.

We are more than happy to support you if you want to run a similar event. To access all information about Oracle SOA Suite and to become a member in SOA Partner Community please fell free to sign up: http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum VIII May 5th & 6th 2009 – Copenhagen, Denmark with Thomas Erl & Linus Malmberg & Clemens Utschig-Utschig & Geoffroy de Lamalle

The Copenhagen Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum VIII is a wonderful opportunity for Oracle Partners to find out about Oracle’s groundbreaking SOA and BPM solutions. This highly informative event is designed to bring you fully up-to-date with the latest developments in SOA and introduce Oracle’s innovative new products. It will feature a number of stimulating sessions including:

• Keynote I – Service-Orientation and Next Generation SOA – Thomas Erl, SOA Systems, SOASchool.com
• Keynote II – SOA & BPM – a powerful combination fuelling business model innovation – Linus Malmberg, CEO, Cordial Business Advisers AB
• Partner Success Stories
• Interesting break-out sessions
• Hands-on expert camps by Clemens Utschíg-Utschig & Geoffroy de Lamalle – on May 6th and 7th

For more information and registration, please visit our website.
We look forward to meeting you in Copenhagen!

If you like to attend the SOA Partner Community Forums please feel free to register for the Oracle SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

SOA Partner Community Forum VII – AIA Foundation Pack & SOA Suite 11g Expert Camps

During our 7th SOA Partner Community Forum in Malaga our key topics how you can achieve cost reduction based on Oracle SOA technology.

Special thanks to our partners:
• Jorn Schurinik, Logica
• Sebastian Graf, Promatis
• Steven Boon, Accenture
• Torsten Winterberg, Opitz
• Hajo Normann EDS
• Mike van Alst, IT-Eye
• Herald Wolf, Wolf Consulting

who presented excellent case studies and workshops. Special thanks to the Oracle team who delivered also excellent workshops and presentations. If you like to download the presentations or you missed the event please register and visit the Oracle SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

During our Expert Camp workshops we trained our partners hands-on in AIA Foundation Pack and SOA Suite 11g.

AIA becomes key in the Oracle portfolio to integrate out of the box Oracle Applications with each other e.g. Siebel with Peoplesoft and with their party applications. AIA Foundation Pack enables you to simplify cross-application business process integrations using a standards-based, prebuilt integration solution. Designed to promote rapid deployment, re-usability, and configurability of business processes, AIA Foundation Pack saves significant time, effort and cost, compared to building integrations from the ground up and helps you realize the value of a SOA at an accelerated pace. Special thanks to Christopher Venezia who did run the AIA Foundation Pack Expert Camp.

The hands-on SOA Suite 11g gave our partners the opportunity to become trained with the new concept of a Service Component Architecture (SCA). The standards-based SCA architecture for SOA enables us to package up applications and services and easily deploy them across the entire grid architecture. Furthermore, we can rapidly scale those applications with a minimum amount of effort and resources. Special thanks to Clemens Utschig-Utschig who did run the SOA Suite 11g Expert Camp.

If you like to attend future SOA Partner Community Forums please feel free to register for the Oracle SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

Our ACE Team Hajo Normann, Torsten Winterberg , Bernd Trops and David Chappel, Clemens Utschig-Utschig & Berthold Maier from Oracle contributed to the new book “SOA Design Patterns” from Thomas Erl.

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SOA Design Patterns, an innovative catalog of 85 design patterns for service-oriented architecture and service-orientation that documents the most proven and successful design techniques for succeeding with modern-day SOA. In conjunction with the release of the book, the new SOAPatterns.org community site has been launched, providing an open forum for the on-going development and expansion of the pattern catalog.

Thomas Erl, the world’s top-selling SOA author and series editor of The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl, spearheaded the community effort behind the creation of SOA Design Patterns. In development for over three years, the catalog has been subjected to comprehensive reviews by hundreds of industry professionals, employed by many of the world’s leading technology companies.

In support of the on-going expansion of the SOA design patterns catalog, the SOAPatterns.org site launched in coordination with the book provides an open forum for the development and review of upcoming candidate patterns. Members of the SOA and patterns communities are welcome to contribute, review, and use the content on this site and can submit their own candidate patterns.

For the SOA patterns please please visit http://soapatterns.org/
— Compensating Transaction
— UI Mediator
— Canonical Schema Canonical Schema Bus
— Service Grid, which relies on
— In Memory Fault Tolerant Collection, and may include –
— In Memory Fault Tolerant Stateful Services and
— Load Balanced Stateful Services .

We would like to encourage your to register and to contribute to our SOA Partner Community. Please feel free to contact us any time if we can support you and promote your success! For more details please visit our SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)
Jürgen Kress