Drive-In Theater Webcast" Recap – Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com By Bruce Tierney

April 28, 2014 Leave a comment

In case you had car trouble, the replay and slides are available here. As you learned, the new Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com takes the complexity out of integration by encapsulating session management, security and other tasks into the same intuitive wizard-based approach that has been so popular with our other adapters.  During the webcast, we started with a visual description of the challenges that can occur with a growth in disparate toolkits and then converged onto the Oracle solution for unifying cloud and on-premises integration with a single standards-based toolkit.   Then Vikas Anand gave a demo of Salesforce.com/E-Business Suite real time integration followed by a quick demo of how to set up the adapter.

We had over 150 questions and here are few selected questions and the answers:

  • Will this work with Oracle SOA Suite 11g or is this an upcoming 12c feature?
    The Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com is available today and works with SOA Suite 11g
  • What adapters are coming in the future?
    Check out the video from Oracle OpenWorld with Thomas Kurian and Demed L’Her available on Oracle Media Network (6:15)
  • Does the adapter work with Oracle Service Bus and Oracle BPM Suite?
    Yes, as of release 11.1.1.7
    Read the complete article here.

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Resequencer Health Check by Shreenidhi Raghuram

April 27, 2014 Leave a comment

In this Blog we will see a few useful queries to monitor and diagnose the health of resequencer components running in a typical SOA/AIA Environment.

The first query is a snapshot of the current count of Resequencer messages in their various states and group_statuses.

Table below lists a representative sample output of the above query from a running SOA Environment containing Resequencers collected at 12:04:50 Read the complete article here.

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Video: SOA Transformation (with Lonneke Dikmans) by Bob Rhubart

April 26, 2014 Leave a comment

Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans shares the details on a Dutch government agency’s transition from an Oracle Forms-based environment to a service-oriented environment using Oracle SOA Suite in this interview recorded at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. Watch the video here.

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Top tweets SOA Partner Community – April 2014

April 25, 2014 Leave a comment

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

clip_image001[18]SOA Community ‏@mvzoest Hi Michael hope you passed! If you want to take it prepare with https://soacommunity.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/soa-suite-bootcamp-on-demand-training-free/ … & get free vouchers https://soacommunity.wordpress.com/2014/04/03/fusion-middleware-partner-community-forum-xviii-february-2014-malta-all-presentations-follow-up/ …

clip_image002[6]Michel van Zoest ‏Just finished the 1z0-478 exam. I’m now an Oracle SOA Suite 11g Certified Implementation Specialist 🙂 #soa #Oracle

clip_image003[26]OTNArchBeat ‏Podcast: #BigData Architecture – Part 3 w/ @gwenshap and "Oracle Big Data Handbook" authors. #hadoop http://pub.vitrue.com/7Bno

clip_image001[19]SOA Community Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum XVIII February 2014, Malta all presentations & follow-up http://wp.me/p10C8u-2Nv

clip_image001[20]SOA Community ‏thanks for 5555 followers 🙂 great to see such a large and active #soacommunity THANKS to All! @OracleSOA @OracleBPM pic.twitter.com/Hjqr7em1uI

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clip_image006[6]ipt.ch ‏Unternehmenseigene Mobile Apps mit Zugriff auf die Backend-Systeme – aber sicher! http://www.ipt.ch/de/blog/detail/unternehmenseigene-mobile-apps-mit-zugriff-auf-die-backend-systeme-aber-sicher/ …

clip_image007[18]Dain Hansen Dear @OTNArchBeat thanks for saving trees – #theLorax 54-page Chapter: Integration with Fusion Applications #soa http://pub.vitrue.com/cnXY

clip_image008[6]ADF Code Corner Looking forward to: "AMIS "Enterprise to Mobility” Oracle ADF Conference" because its spot on given the web – to – mobile transition in IT

clip_image009[6]Capgemini ‏Is process the new #app? via @leonsmiers #Technovision http://ow.ly/uSCxg

clip_image010[10]Andreas Koop Emdeon Simplifies Healthcare with Oracle SOA on Exalogic http://zite.to/1f3vVbm

clip_image011[6]Lionel Dubreuil @soacommunity Win free pass to Oracle OpenWorld. Using Oracle Fusion Middleware? Call for nominations – SOA category http://bit.ly/1h3oqgJ

clip_image012[18]Oracle SOA ‏Win your free pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2014 – Oracle SOA Innovation Award. Here are the details #oraclesoa #soa http://pub.vitrue.com/EoEK

clip_image001[21]SOA Community Did you read the SOA Community Newsletter March 2014? http://tinyurl.com/SOAnewsMarch2014 … #soacommunity @OracleSOA @OracleBPM @ORCLPartnerBiz @Oracle

clip_image013[6]JDeveloper & ADF ‏Design – Architecting for Mobile Integration Overview – YouTube http://dlvr.it/5Ffn6Q

clip_image014[14]demed ‏Get recognition you deserve for these cool #oraclesoa projects! Call for Nominations: FMW Innovation 2014 http://ow.ly/2F6HSo

clip_image015[6]Debra Lilley Almost halfway in the #OOW call for papers http://bit.ly/1loV706 trying to do mine this weekend #fb #ukoug

clip_image003[27]OTNArchBeat ‏Video: #SOA Principles, SOA Applications | Chris Ostrowski #collab14 #bpm #oracleace http://pub.vitrue.com/IBa9

clip_image003[28]OTNArchBeat ‏#IoT end-to-end demo: Remote Monitoring and Service | @harishd http://pub.vitrue.com/l6Df

clip_image016[10]Danilo Schmiedel Great input by ADF expert @andrejusb to implement interaction between BPMN processes and Oracle Process Spaces. Thank you! @soacommunity

clip_image017[10]C2B2 Consulting ‏Common Service Oriented Architecture Problems http://hub.am/1dpmch0 #SOA #SOASuite @soacommunity #JEE #Java #middleware

clip_image007[19]Dain Hansen ‏#Cloud Integration – a comprehensive solution: http://pub.vitrue.com/4YR0 via @soacommunity

clip_image012[19]Oracle SOA ‏Oracle’s Bob Rhubart on managing resistance to change to SOA #soa #oraclesoa http://pub.vitrue.com/QxdF

clip_image018[6]Oracle Middleware Enterprise apps made mobile –true AppAdvantage by Oracle. Hear what this means and how to get value. #oracle http://pub.vitrue.com/JNzX

clip_image007[20]Dain Hansen ‏Check out the Oracle SOA Suite Developer Virtual Machine blog post…"think of it as your very own PaaS" #oraclesoa http://pub.vitrue.com/fjDx

clip_image019[14]Bruno Neves Alves How to set custom Fault Handling Framework actions with properties?Check it out:http://goo.gl/Uinejl @soacommunity @OracleSOA @OracleBPM

clip_image019[15]Bruno Neves Alves ‏Thanks to this :O post from Oracle A-Team about Fault Recovery http://goo.gl/QwjvlQ one more happy BPM customer! @soacommunity @OracleBPM

clip_image019[16]Bruno Neves Alves ‏Tried to customized BPM workspace and Ps6 Webforms. Check out my experience: http://goo.gl/lNd1iS @soacommunity @OracleSOA @OracleBPM

clip_image020[10]Rajesh Raheja ‏@dschmied @soacommunity Looking forward to your feedback once you start using the VM!

clip_image021[10]Oracle Tech Network Entering the #IoT Developer Challenge? Check out these free training resources. #RaspberryPi http://pub.vitrue.com/GjvV

clip_image021[11]Oracle Tech Network ‏Adaptive Case Management, Predictive Analytics, Process Mining>> interview with @dschmied #oracleace http://pub.vitrue.com/sdvz

clip_image022[6]Oracle ACE Program Oracle ACE Director and SOA/BPM expert Danilo Schmiedel sheds light on Adaptive Case Management, Predictive… http://fb.me/6qnIEVz3Q

clip_image003[29]OTNArchBeat ‏Maturing #REST Specifications and the Internet of Things | Phil Hunt http://pub.vitrue.com/aGmS

clip_image020[11]Rajesh Raheja ‏Announcing the SOA/BPM 11g 11.1.1.7.0 Virtual Machine appliance. http://pub.vitrue.com/hcTV

clip_image017[11]C2B2 Consulting C2B2 Blog: ‘Prevent Looping and Inefficient Rule Executions’ by @mbrasier http://hub.am/1jvLWq9 @soacommunity #SOASuite #Java #JEE

clip_image016[11]Danilo Schmiedel Excellent news @RahejaRajesh! Having our running environment a few minutes after download saves so much time!! Thank you! @soacommunity

clip_image023[6]Manuel Rosa ‏#SOA #B2B Scalability strategy when the number of partnerships explode.By Cristina Arbues – Fidelidade @soacommunity pic.twitter.com/G0bVpr1nAj

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clip_image026[6]Oracle.IMC ‏Partner Webcast – Foundation for Innovation: Oracle Fusion Middleware http://fb.me/1YNzuOPVu

clip_image012[20]Oracle SOA Check out the Oracle SOA Suite Developer Virtual Machine blog post…"think of it as your very own PaaS" #oraclesoa http://pub.vitrue.com/fjDx

clip_image014[15]demed ‏Pre-built VM for #OracleSOA and #OracleBPM 11g PS6 available on #OTN http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/soasuite/learnmore/vmsoa-172279.html …

clip_image027[10]AMIS, Oracle & Java ‏Connect your @TeslaMotors with #rest #api with #oraclesoasuite #11g by @PeterEbell @soacommunity pic.twitter.com/idFyTRKbGd

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clip_image012[21]Oracle SOA ‏ArchBeat podcast – Finding a shorter path to SOA – Part 2 #soa #oraclesoa http://pub.vitrue.com/0RHf

clip_image003[30]OTNArchBeat Get Ready for #IoT: Challenges and opportunities in the Internet of Things http://pub.vitrue.com/sDXV

clip_image003[31]OTNArchBeat ‏#SOA Governance Technical Standard : Introduction | @theopengroup http://pub.vitrue.com/Vfdu

clip_image010[11]Andreas Koop ‏Reading: SOA Governance Through Enterprise Architecture by Manuel Rosa and André de Oliveira Sampaio http://zite.to/1nwPH4J

clip_image007[21]Dain Hansen ‏Boots not included SOA Suite Bootcamp on-demand training https://soacommunity.wordpress.com/2014/03/07/soa-suite-bootcamp-on-demand-training-free/ … @OracleSOA @ORCLPartnerBiz #soacommunity

clip_image027[11]AMIS, Oracle & Java “@soacommunity: SOA Black Belt Cheat Sheets (Free Download of the Year!) By Rajesh Raheja https://soacommunity.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/oracle-soa-black-belt-cheat-sheets-free-download-of-the-year-by-rajesh-raheja/ … @OracleSOA #soacommunity”

clip_image014[16]demed ‏The role of Oracle Event Processing in the #InternetofThings – #oep #oraclesoa #iot #whiteboarding pic.twitter.com/vub4Q5nBqr

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clip_image032[6]Lucas Jellema ‏Some interesting slide decks from the AMIS & Oracle UX event from last Tuesday have been published today:http://technology.amis.nl/2014/03/24/sharing-the-slides-of-the-ux-event-presentations/ … @usableapps

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Integration for Airlines and Cargo Hubs By Krishnaprem Bhatia

April 25, 2014 Leave a comment

Market Trend
Many airlines today are using antiquated mainframe and proprietary systems for maintaining their Passenger Service Systems (PSS). These systems are  typically mainframe systems which are old and complex with a high cost of maintenance. Airlines want to modernize these systems and reduce their costs by consolidation of numerous point solutions and legacy applications.

The need to reduce complexity, bring down IT costs and increase their flexibility is driving airlines to outsource their PSS systems to vendors such as Amadeus. Although self development of these PSS systems can be done in-house by major airlines, it can be more expensive, less flexible, and less feature rich than the outsourcing option.
As airlines outsource more of their PSS systems, they need to exchange business documents such as reservations and ticketing with the outsourced provider. They also need visibility and manageability into the data flowing from outsourced systems into their enterprises. This incoming passenger data also needs to be integrated back into their internal systems. For example, different documents received from the outsourced PSS systems need to be processed and stored so that they are available to other internal systems. This has to be done using standards-based technologies for compliance and interoperability, ensuring that performance and operations SLAs are met at the same time.
How does Oracle Service Integration fit in?
Oracle B2B allows airlines to connect with their outsourced PSS systems such as Amadeus using industry standards-based technologies. Airlines can exchange different document types (typically EDI variants, non XML formats) such as passenger reservations, updates to reservations, inventory management, departure control systems and ticketing. Oracle B2B provides the ability to exchange these documents, process them, validate them, and translate them into XML for further processing by downstream components.

Airlines typically exchange information with Amadeus using two modes. In the real-time (online) mode the messages are sent ‘live’ by the PSS systems on an ongoing basis as they occur. In the batch mode many messages are batched together and sent at a particular time. Oracle B2B provides support for both real-time and batch modes, providing critical functionality such as document translation, validation, de-batching for these documents. It also provides the communication mechanisms such as File, FTP and MQ for exchanging these messages with outsourced systems. All this is done using standards based technologies such as standard document and exchange protocols. Once B2B is done processing the messages, these are typically sent to adjacent components within Oracle SOA Suite for message enrichment and transformations. Messages can then be stored in an enterprise warehouse where this data can be used by other internal applications. The end to end scenarios typically have high performance SLAs in terms of throughput and end to end processing time.
The products typically deployed in such scenarios include Oracle B2B, Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager for data transformation and enrichment and Oracle Data Integrator for migrating processed data into enterprise data warehouses. Customers may also choose to deploy this over Exalogic and Exadata systems for performance reasons. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Community Newsletter April 2014

April 24, 2014 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

It is time to submit your paper for Oracle OpenWorld & Java One 2014 and for the Fusion Middleware  Innovation Award and Partner Award Regional and Global!

Thanks to Rajesh – a new SOA/BPM 11g 11.1.1.7.0 Virtual Machine appliance is available, a great way to test and start with middleware. If you are not yet Specialized in SOA Suite – this is your chance in April for Free SOA hands-on on-demand training and certification only for  EMEA partners. Thanks to Bob an new Video SOA Principles and an article by Lonneke SOA’s People Problem are available at OTN. SOA Governance is key to successful SOA Projects. Complementary to the Oracle SOA Governance and API Management solution Link consulting developed EAMS – Oracle Enterprise Repository Edition for SOA Governance. In the IOT section of the newsletter you can learn more about the IoT Developer Challenge and IoT end-to-end demo and attend an IoTWebcast on April 24th. Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: Common SOA Problems, Dynamic endpoint binding, Cook a SOA/BPM Development Environment, Introduction to using the Enterprise Manager SOA/BPM Facade API, Consuming Async SOA in a WebService Proxy and Prevent Looping and Inefficient Rule Executions.

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find tons of new material including: B2B Integration – Customer Presentation | Cheat Sheet, Cloud-to-On-Premise Integration – Customer Presentation | Cheat Sheet , API Management – Customer Presentation | Cheat Sheet, MobileSuiteIntroduction.mp4 and IoT Healthcare presentation.

Highlight of the BPM and ACM section at the BPM best practice at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) by David Read and Niall Commiskey. If you want to learn more about BPM Suite 11g visit the Online Learning Library with free BPM training for everybody partners, customers and freelancer!. Thanks to Capgemini our top BPM partner for the annual Capgemini Global Business Process Management Report and the interesting articles on Process Is The New App. BPM becomes key in Financial Services and Healthcare. Watch the OTN WebCast why Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is the new trend in BPM!

Thanks for sharing all the additional BPM articles within the community: BPM 11g and Human Workflow Shadow Rows, How to enable automatic startup recovery in  BPM 11g, BPM Workspace and Webforms customization and Manipulating Human Tasks (for testing).

In our last section Architecture, Usability and AppAdvantage we published the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) 6. The User Experience was super busy making available content on Mobile strategy, Specialist role, Harvard, Raspberry PI and Wearable’s. Same the  AppAdvantage Team which published new Assets on: Webcast on-demand & solution brief & resource kit and customer case studies.

Don’t forget at the end of the newsletter you’ll find our latest training calendar and the top tweets of the month! Thanks to 5555+ twitter followers.

Good luck with Your Oracle OpenWorld papers & awards!

See you at Oracle OpenWorld 2014!

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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SOA Suite 11g On-Demand, Self-Pace Course Now Available

April 24, 2014 Leave a comment

The SOA Suite 11g Implementation Boot Camp, a 4-day live course for Oracle Partners, is now available in a self-paced, on-demand form on the SOA Suite 11g Implementation Guided Learning Path (GLP). The GLP contains all the lectures and hands-on labs from the live course. A VirtualBox appliance is used to support the 15 hands-on labs. The on-demand format allows students to experience a lecture segment or perform a lab exercise whenever they have time. Students can work through the materials at their own pace on their own computer. Support is provided via an email link with the OPN solution specialist who developed the course. In order to access this free course, you need to be an Oracle Gold Partner (or above) with an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) login.

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Taking Charge: Meeting SOA Governance Challenges – podcast series

April 23, 2014 Leave a comment

clip_image002Taking Charge: Meeting SOA Governance Challenges – podcast series This four-part OTN ArchBeat Podcast series gives you a seat at a roundtable discussion with four experts on the current state in the evolution of SOA Governance: what old problems persist, what new problems have presented themselves, and what can be done to implement an efficient and effective SOA governance program.

The Panelists

(Listed alphabetically)

  • Mark Dutra,Senior Principal Product Manager for API Management, Oracle
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  • Manuel Rosa,SOA Governance Practice Leader, Link Consulting
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  • André Sampaio,Enterprise Architect, Senior Consultant, Link Consulting
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  • Luis Weir, Senior Oracle Solution Director, HCL AXON
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The Conversation

  • Listen to Part 1: What are we talking about when we talk about SOA Governance? What are the key components and objectives?
  • Listen to Part 2: Some things never change. Exploring the most persistent SOA Governance challenges.
  • Listen to Part 3: The most common SOA Governance mistakes and why organizations make them.
  • Listen to Part 4: Cloud, mobile, IoT – what new challenges face SOA Governance in the rapid evolution of enterprise IT?

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Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com

April 22, 2014 Leave a comment

What are LIMIT_EXCEEDED errors I encounter while using Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com?

Salesforce.com imposes different types of limits on users using the Salesforce.com APIs to connect to Salesforce.com. This is a common feature across all cloud vendors and it ensures optimal as well as balanced access to the hosted services. Two such restrictions are the “API usage limit” and “Storage Limit” imposed on each Salesforce.com “Organization” by Salesforce.com. This article briefly tries to explain these limits and how the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com can help you to optimize your integration with Salesforce.com.

API Usage Limit
When the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com communicates with Salesforce.com, it does so by making SOAP calls. The number of calls made during the execution of a SOA composite depends on the complexity of the orchestration and amount of data flow being handled by the adapter.

Limits are calculated against the total of all API calls made by a Salesforce.com“Organization” in a 24-hour period, and not on a per-user basis. When your Salesforce.com Organization exceeds the limit of its API calls, all users in the organization will be blocked from making additional calls until the 24-hour period is over and your organization’s call limits are reset.

This is when a user will get the REQUEST_LIMIT_EXCEEDED fault message while invoking the Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com. There is no work around for this fault and you will have to wait for the 24-hour period to lapse, and your organization’s limit to be reset by Salesforce.com.

For instance, if you are using the Enterprise Edition of Salesforce.com, your organization will have a per user limit of 1000 API calls in a 24-hour period up to a maximum of 1,000,000 API calls. To further simplify, say your organization has 100 users; Salesforce.com allows your organization to make 100,000 API calls per 24-hour period. When your organization reaches this limit, the users of this organization will be temporarily blocked from connecting to Salesforce.com via the API. Please note, that this has no effect on the users of your organization accessing Salesforce.com in their browsers. Read the complete article here.

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SOA and Business Processes: You are the Process! Part of the Industrial SOA article series

April 21, 2014 Leave a comment

Business Process Management is a management discipline that thrives to improve process performance. If done right, BPM leads to appealing, user-friendly processes that provide information about productivity, that measure performance and that illustrate the potential for improvement while indicating the exact location in the overall process that potentially benefits from one of various process optimization strategies.

To deal with the complexity of modeling a company’s business processes, business analysts proceed hierarchically and begin by describing a value chain (process level 0) through several levels of processes, until they reach a level on which they depict a detailed description of the activities of process participants. Figure 1 gives an overview of BPM with a figure for each modeling technology and the interaction with SOA services.

We see that Business Process Management and SOA go hand in hand: SOA enables BPM.

Figure 1: BPM and SOA: the bigger picture

At the highest level of the process hierarchy, the functional process blocks for end-to-end processes that potentially span departments in the overall organization are described in a high level, very abstract and coarse grained language, like IDS Scheer value chains. There is no branching, but they do include the most important business goals, ideally expressed as KPIs and other organizational aspects, such as assigning steps to departments.

At the next levels, the process steps are described hierarchically, with the level of detail increasing downward. This is done today in the lingua franca for business process models, Business Process Management and Notation (BPMN). Here the process participants or players in a process are represented as “swim lanes,” which contain the process steps that are assigned to this participant.

At a middle hierarchical level (levels 1-3), the process participants are still included relatively roughly through the organizational units, such as the “Purchasing” department.

If you drill down deeper into the process details, you reach the fine-grained level (level 4), at which the activities of the process are represented through automatic system interactions via services and through human interactions These steps that are performed by individuals are called “human tasks.” Tasks are specified through process participants in their task lists. The sequences within a task can be modeled and listed in detail in an enterprise portal as “page flows.” Examples of human tasks are: Read the complete article here.

Share your comments and feedback on the Industrial SOA series by using the hashtag #industrialSOA. Read the full article at the Service Technology Magazine or Oracle Technology Network. Missed an article of the Industrial SOA series visit the overview at OTN.

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