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SOA Community Newsletter April 2013

April 25, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community members,

Happy Easter! I hope the Easter bunnies left you good wishes and success!

Both the SOA and BPM Oracle product management team released great PS6 surprises for you! You can find both the latest SOA PS6 and BPM PS6 product overviews at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required. On the BPM side PS6 comes with major updates for Composer, Workspace, Revisioning and most important in Adaptive Case Management Support. If you have written a blog post about the new solutions – please feel free to share it with us via twitter @soacommunity!

If in case you work on a BPM 11g opportunity please share it with us! – we want to support you and will make sure we both win!

If you work on a BPM 11g projects – make sure you read the BPM 11g performance tuning whitepaper! and for SOA Suite – read the SOA 11g performance tuning whitepaper! I would also recommend you to subscribe to the A-Team SOA blog. The Cattle Crew recently posted a SOA performance blog post, please take out some time to read it..

At theOracle Learning Library you can get instant on-demand trainings for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite. With the new release of SOA Suite, we are planning to provide training to all SOA Governance experts. If you want to be trained in it please add your name to our community wiki!

Thanks to our partner C2B2 who offers an on-demand training series for SOA Suite high performance & tuning. We will offer an SOA blackbelt training intended for all Oracle SOA Suite experts in the month of June. For registration please contact myself.

Thanks for the excellent new books SOA Made Simple & “Geschäftsprozesse automatisieren mit BPEL“. If you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

If you want to become an Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) 2013 speaker make sure you follow the tips from Demed. Feel free to submit your middleware papers for DOAG 2013 . In addition to this call for papers are posted in our wiki!

You can find the latest SOA & BPM Industry Presentations for defense, automotive, financial services, healthcare, oil & gas, public sector and utilities at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required). These presentations include many industry specific references, which you can also position to your customers. At last but not least I would also ask you to submit a SOA and BPM reference request!

Best regards

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Blueprint: A Toolbox for Architects – article at OTN and Service Technology Magazine

April 24, 2013 Leave a comment

this article introduces the foundations that need to be established in order to implement functional SOA processes. Rather than presenting specific tools, we will define a broadly applicable SOA blueprint whose individual modules can be topped up with commercial products or increasingly available open
source offerings.

A Company Blueprint

Upon examination of Figure 1, the vision of adaptive enterprise computing is illustrated as a meta-blueprint for the overall company with three differentiated levels:

Infrastructure Level – This level is formed by databases, storage systems, application servers, and all other IT resources that are required to run IT systems.
Application System Level – This level houses entire applications, both individual applications and standard software, as well as services relating to SOA, workflow and BPM systems.
Process Management Level – Functional requirements are manifested in the process design and then implemented at the lower levels.

An advanced service-oriented architecture is the most effective option for implementing the functional requirements at the application-system level. The more superior the mapping of existing business services to the functional steps in process models is, the more the business-IT gap shrinks.

Various back-coupling loops represent the actual added value of this meta-blueprint, meaning consistent usage of services and technical processes enables the measuring of KPIs. This in turn facilitates process control and ultimately the optimization of processes. The more progress a company makes in implementing their SOA, the greater and faster are the effects to be achieved for adaptive
enterprise computing. … read the full article here

The articles is published at OTN and the Service Technology Magazine.

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

April 24, 2013 Leave a comment

Video: Oracle BPM Suite 11g: Business Driven Modeling to Execution
Webcast: IDN’s – SOA Integration for the Extended Enterprise / On-Premise · Cloud · Mobile · Web APIs
Middleware Support Newsletter – Doc ID 1347075.1
Fusion Middleware’s Proactive Patch Program – Doc ID 1494151.1.

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Industrial SOA article at OTN and Service Technology Magazine

April 23, 2013 Leave a comment

SOA and service-orientation have laid the foundation for a variety of emergent service technology innovations, while the original building blocks of SOA and service-orientation continue to evolve by embracing fundamental service technologies, concepts and practices. These new technology innovations do not replace service-orientation; they use it as their basis.

Service-orientation continues to evolve towards a factory approach, towards industrializing integrated platforms, such as BI, master data management (MDM), mobile front-ends, BPM, adaptive processes, Big Data and Cloud Computing – all of which add architectural layers upon SOA-based infrastructure. All of these technologies can interface via standardized data and functions, published as service contracts, in order to avoid redundancy – that’s service-orientation. Let’s take a closer look. The amount of data, which companies produce and store tends to grow on an on-going basis. This includes structured data (for example, from ERP systems or data warehouses), as well as unstructured data (for example, from e-mails). With the rise of social media services like twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and the emphasis on Customer Experience Management, the amount of data and data sources has increased dramatically. To integrate all of these data sources through an SOA-approach is essential. The models, principles and patterns behind SOA and service-orientation can be applied to formalize interoperability between… read the full article here

The articles are & will be published at OTN and the Service Technology Magazine.

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Lucas Jellema: SOA, Events, BPM, and Oracle ADF by Bob Rhubart

April 23, 2013 Leave a comment

Watch Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema, CTO for AMIS Systems, talks about his latest OTN article, and about SOA, BPM, Oracle ADF, and his participation in the OTN Yathra Tour in India.

You can read Luca;s latest article at: http://bit.ly/X3tevP
You’ll find his blog at: http://bit.ly/YrpmD5.

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With Oracle BPM Suite 11g PS6 the modeling, simulation, implementation and execution of business processes in a multi-user environment is straightforward – Danilo Schmiedel , OPITZ CONSULTING

April 22, 2013 Leave a comment

We know quite a few companies who are in the situation that processes are unpredictable, complex, difficult to model and versatile. Their software users complain that they cannot make proper business decisions because they are forced to certain process steps and their processes rely on worker knowledge and involve a lot of human participants. Think about a claim notification after a car accident – it is very difficult to model each potential option of it and a lot of effort and time is necessary to bring all varieties into the process. Think about the user interface – it has to be very dynamic in order to make optimal business decisions. With Oracle BPM Suite 11.1.1.7 and its new case management functionalities we are now ready to address requirements like those mentioned above. This is the base to provide complete BPM solutions. I couldn’t wait to play with the software and I am really happy to discuss and demonstrate the new product capabilities with our customers. Danilo Schmiedel , OPITZ CONSULTING

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Read all first impressions from our BPM experts here & Download BPM PS6 here

Which partner to choose for your BPM Implementation?

You are looking for an partner who has successfully implemented BPM Suite 11g? Who has trained and certified experts? Make sure you choose an “Oracle Unified BPM Suite 11g Specialized Partner”! Oracle BPM Suite 11g Specialized partners who implemented BPM Suite 11g successfully and trained and certified their consultants. You can find your local Specialized partner at http://www.solutions.oracle.com/

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Industrial SOA article series – for architects and experts

April 22, 2013 Leave a comment

Industrial SOA is a 14-part article series focused on service orientation, written collaboratively by a group of recognized experts and community leaders in service oriented architecture.

"SOA and service-orientation have laid the foundation for a variety of emergent service technology innovations such as cloud computing and big data, while the original building blocks of SOA and service-orientation continue to evolve by embracing fundamental service technologies, concepts and practices."

Preface: Industrial SOA
Chapter 1: SOA Blueprint
Chapter 2: Project Categories
Chapter 3: Service Categories
Chapter 4: SOA Maturity
Chapter 5: Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
Chapter 6: Security
Chapter 7: Transactions and Compensation
Chapter 8: SOA and User Interaction (UI)
Chapter 9: Mobile
Chapter 10: Events
Chapter 11: MDM and SOA
Chapter 12: BPM and ACM
Chapter 13: SOA and Cloud

OTN

Service Technology Magazine.

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User Experience new content: Fusion Applications & mobile & concepts

April 20, 2013 Leave a comment

On the Fusion Applications user experience: More: New podcasts and posts on the Oracle user experience.

Here’s a round-up of recent podcasts and blog posts relating to the Oracle Applications User Experience that were published in February.

Jeremy Ashley, Vice President of Oracle Applications User Experience, talks about Oracle’s roadmap to a simple, modern user experience for Fusion Applications. Listen to learn more about the strategy behind Project FUSE. You may also access the podcast through the Usable Apps website.
Ultan O’Broin, Director of Oracle Global User Experience, talks in this podcast about why Oracle is making design patterns available for customers, partners, and the development community. These design patterns for the Oracle Fusion Applications user experience encapsulate proven best-practices and make them available for those who are extending or tailoring an Oracle application.
Richard Bingham, Oracle Applications Architect, discusses how to tailor Fusion Applications in the cloud.

On Oracle’s investment in the next-generation user experience (in this case, mobile): Intense research into mobile use helps guide design of Oracle Applications

Read about the mobile trends that the Oracle Applications User Experience team noted during a recent global expedition, which included user studies in Sweden, the United States, and Beijing.

The Oracle Applications User Experience team continues to investigate how and why enterprise workers use their mobile devices, and their findings are already influencing the next-generation user experiences that Oracle is designing.

Visit the Usable Apps website to learn more.
Also on Oracle’s investment in the next-generation user experience (a look at trends we’re following up on): A look at new concepts for the enterprise space
The Applications User Experience team is keeping its eye on new technologies that may have an impact on the enterprise space.

New concepts and technologies go through an internal research, design, and development process to assess which ones may or may not gain traction in the enterprise space.
Read more about how our findings help guide the Oracle user experience strategy on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog.

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Top tweets SOA Partner Community – April 2013

April 19, 2013 Leave a comment

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

clip_image001[8] Oracle SOA ‏A smaller footprint version of Oracle Event Processing (OEP) tailored for deployment on gateways #cep #oep #java http://pub.vitrue.com/X4T3

orclateamsoa ‏Team Blog #ateam: Best Practices for High Volume Agreement Deployment in B2B 11g http://ow.ly/2vLI5L

orclateamsoa ‏Team Blog #ateam: Mediator Instance Tracking http://ow.ly/jtuvk

orclateamsoa ‏Team Blog #ateam: EDN debugging: http://ow.ly/jtuqL

clip_image005[8] Andrejus Baranovskis ‏BPM 11g JDeveloper IDE PS5 Bug for Process ExecData http://fb.me/1BEqWr1eS

clip_image007[8] demed ‏#OOW 2013 speakers: maximize your selection chances https://blogs.oracle.com/SOA/entry/oow_2013_speakers_maximize_your … #openworld #oraclesoa #conference

clip_image008[34] SOA Proactive ‏New on OTN: SOA 11g Database Performance Whitepaper, http://pub.vitrue.com/ut4j

clip_image008[35] SOA Proactive ‏MOSTip: Need to configure OEP Coherence with Unicast? http://pub.vitrue.com/VHMp

clip_image008[36] SOA Proactive ‏OTN: Options for Unit Testing SOA Suite 11g, Slides and Video, http://pub.vitrue.com/kKK8 .

clip_image008[37] SOA Proactive ‏MOSTip: How to Route Callbacks when Multiple Activities use the same PartnerLink, http://pub.vitrue.com/jN6Z

clip_image009[8] AMIS, Oracle & Java ‏Oracle ADF and BPM integration. Practical example by @mhjmaas at BPM SIG. Custom work list compared to standard. pic.twitter.com/1HiKz8qn53

clip_image010[12] Jon petter hjulstad ‏

It was an honor to receive the Oracle SOA Partner Community Award for Outstanding SOA 11g Contribution 2012 http://goo.gl/NRV1H

clip_image001 C2B2 Consulting ‏You can now watch C2B2 educational webinars online: #Oracle #SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning http://www.ukoug.org/what-we-offer/news/c2b2-educational-webinars/ … @UKOUG @soacommunity

clip_image002 OTNArchBeat ‏Video: @lonnekedikmans and @rluttikhuizen talk about #SOA Made Simple #oracleace http://pub.vitrue.com/XKd8

clip_image003 SOA Proactive ‏MOSTip: Improve the stability and performance of SOA Suite through Health Checks, http://pub.vitrue.com/13P0

clip_image004 Danilo Schmiedel ‏News from the CattleCrew: Improve performance and maintenance of heavily used SOA composites http://wp.me/p2fG8x-5t @soacommunity @OC_Wire

Oracle BPM ‏Congratulations San Joaquin County for winning "Best BPM Organization" 2013 BPM Excellence Awards from Gartner http://pub.vitrue.com/TSqi

clip_image002[1] OTNArchBeat ‏Free! Oracle Unified Method – Enterprise Architecture Delivery Readiness – Module 1 – Course Intro | @Oracle_Edu http://pub.vitrue.com/YRwi

clip_image001[1] C2B2 Consulting ‏Part 6 of #Oracle #SOA Performance Tuning webinar about Enterprise Manager is available online: http://www.c2b2.co.uk/oracle_soa_suite_enterprise_manager_monitoring … #Java @soacommunity

clip_image006 Jon petter hjulstad ‏@Jphjulstad 6 Mar

e-vita is Oracle Specialized Partner of the Year, Middleware in Norway! #soacommunity

clip_image003[1] SOA Proactive ‏Check out Oracle Learning Library for videos and demos on SOA and OSB http://pub.vitrue.com/5LXo

clip_image007[10] Simon Haslam ‏Blog: Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community (SOA and WebLogic) Forum in Faro http://www.veriton.co.uk/roller/fmw/entry/oracle_fusion_middleware_partner_community1 …

clip_image002[2] OTNArchBeat ‏Oracle Fusion UX Design Patterns and Tools for the Cloud Crowd | @ultan http://pub.vitrue.com/eVU3

clip_image008[42] Mark Nelson ‏BPM 11g Performance Tuning Whitepaper published http://wp.me/pgVeO-Hj

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Authorization Model in SOA Suite 11g by Shawn Bailey

April 19, 2013 Leave a comment

Figuring out how the authorization works in SOA Suite 11g between the WebLogic Console and Enterprise Manager can seem daunting. This blog post aims to clarify how the two parts work together and hopefully demonstrates that it is not as complicated as it may first appear.
In SOA Suite 11g there is one Authentication stack and 2 Authorization stacks:

Authentication is handled by WebLogic Server and is based on the order and control flags set for the Authentication Providers in the Security Realm.
Authorization is split between the Global Role definitions in WebLogic Server and the SOA Application Roles in Fusion Middleware Control (EM). WLS Roles govern the interactions in the WLS Console while the SOA Roles control permissions on SOA resources / activities. In most cases the users will need access to both.

Let’s describe the authorization stacks independently:
In WLS there are Global Roles defined out of the box that apply to the WebLogic Console. For our purposes we will focus on the ‘Admin’ Global Role as it has a counterpart in EM and is representative of the other roles as well. In the standard domain this role has a single membership condition which is for the pre-configured Group ‘Administrators’. This means that any user who is a member of a group called ‘Administrators’ will be granted the permissions of the ‘Admin’ Global Role in WLS. This is important because in order for a user to login to the WLS or EM consoles they must have permissions for at least one of the WLS Global Roles, either through a Group or individual association. Read the full article here.