SOA Starter Day @ jax 2009

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

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)

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Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

Oracle and Sun

On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems (Sun). The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval, certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to operate independently, and it is business as usual.

The acquisition combines best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems. Oracle plans to engineer and deliver an integrated system—applications to disk—where all the pieces fit and work together so customers do not have to do it themselves. Customers benefit as their system integration costs go down while system performance, reliability and security go up.

There are substantial long-term strategic customer advantages to Oracle owning two key Sun software assets: Java and Solaris. Java is one of the computer industry’s best-known brands and most widely deployed technologies, and it is the most important software Oracle has ever acquired. Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle’s fastest growing business, is built on top of Sun’s Java language and software. Oracle can now ensure continued innovation and investment in Java technology for the benefit of customers and the Java community.

For details please visit http://www.oracle.com/sun:

• Read the press release
• Listen to the webcast replay
• Letter to customers and partners from Charles Phillips, President, outlining the benefits of the combination
•Overview and Frequently Asked Questions (PDF) for customers and partners
•Learn more about what the combination of Oracle and Sun (PDF) will mean for our you.

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Do you want to generate SOA business? SOA Partner Sales Campaign!

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

You are a System Integrator or an Independent Software Vendor? Oracle helps you to accelerate your SOA business! Therefore we did launch our SOA Partner Sales Campaign. The goal of this campaign is to help you to generate business together with Oracle, therefore we developed a SOA Partner Sales Campaign

SOA the remedy for the hard economic times. Companies have to change their key process to continue to be successful. SOA helps them to automate, chance and integrate their processes.

Oracle has the technology to enable you as a partner to help our joint customers to do so. You as a partner are aware of the key processes in our customers industry. You can help them to chance their processes to become more efficient and flexible.

In March we launched in many countries our SOA Partner Sales Campaign. If you were not able to attend one of our workshops you can now attend the online seminar.
As part of our SOA partner sales campaign we offer you:
• SOA Sales Coach
• SOA Guidebook with Battlecards
• Fusion Middleware Cost reduction value propositions
• Fusion Middleware industry value propositions & reference
• Register your opportunities in the Oracle Open Market Program to ensure your margin and sales alignment
• SOA Marketing Campaign Kit to create your marketing material and to run your events

To access the Oracle SOA Partner Sales Campaign become a member in SOA Partner Community please fell free to sign up: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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Your SOA success at OOW 2009 – Call for papers!

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

Judson Althoff posted in his blog news about the OOW October 11th – 15th 2009 in San Francisco. Our OOW “Call For Papers” opens March 31. We encourage you, our partners, to submit your abstracts for inclusion in our Oracle OpenWorld agenda. This year, we will accept submissions from March 31 to April 17. Get all the details on or after March 31 here: http://cplan.com/oracleopenworld2009/cfp/
Similar like in the last years we plan special OOW activities for the SOA Partner Community!
Jürgen Kress

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To access all information about Oracle SOA Suite and to become a member in SOA Partner Community please fell free to sign up: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

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)

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and the Oscar goes to

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

You as an Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner! Partner play a key role in the Oracle SOA got to market strategy. Therefore the SOA Partner Community is the accelerator for customer, partners and Oracle. We would like to thank you our partners for their contribution in the community and would like to emphasis benefits for our customers.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is the market leader and receives additional Industry and Innovation Awards

Market Leading Share and Revenue Growth
#1 Share
#1 Growth
#1 in Customer Adoption

Oracle Receives Three Banking-Industry Leaders in Innovation Awards from Financial i
In its third annual Leaders in Innovation Awards, Financial i—a leading publication for the global transaction banking industry—recognized Oracle Fusion Middleware with three awards in its network services and risk management categories.

The Leaders in Innovation Awards provide recognition for those global transaction banks and financial hardware and software vendors that have excelled in terms of innovation in business solutions across wholesale transaction banking encompassing securities services, treasury & FX, data management, network services, and risk management.

According to the editors of Financial i, “Criteria we looked at included: innovations in global transaction banking business solutions over the last 12 months; what upgrades were made to existing solutions; functionality enhancements; depth and breadth of functionality; customer service segments; the ease with which customers can implement these solutions and integrate them with existing business applications; and the extent to which these solutions help firms resolve business issues, whether it is regulatory compliance, combating money laundering, reducing market data latency or helping firms build an end-to-end enterprise data management fabric.”

Oracle’s Network Services Awards:
Winner Best Enterprise Application Integration (EAI): Oracle SOA Suite
The publication noted, “Oracle has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past few years. Its open standards, preintegrated approach to application integration—otherwise known as Oracle Fusion Middleware—holds out significant promise for customers of its growing application portfolio. Oracle’s approach to integration is based around what it calls an Application Integration Architecture, a platform on which the vendor is pre-integrating particular business processes that cross over different applications. An example in its financial services global business unit is bank account origination. Oracle’s acquisition of BEA Systems should only add to it.”

Winner Best Enterprise Service Bus: Oracle Enterprise Service Bus
Financial i wrote: “The emergence of its SOA Suite, initially built on Oracle’s enterprise service bus (ESB) and moving soon to recently acquired BEA System’s highly-rated AquaLogic Service Bus, has cemented Oracle’s position at the head of the service bus market.… Oracle’s ESB for financial services was certified SWIFT-ready, easing the implementation for organizations building applications for payments, settlements and electronic trading, and that work will also be carried over to the new Oracle Service Bus.”

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To access all information about Oracle SOA Suite and to become a member in SOA Partner Community please fell free to sign up: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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Tuxedo & SOA! SIs: Who implemented Tuxedo? ISVs: Who embedded Tuxedo?

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

Now you can integrate this Tuxedo solutions in your SOA environment!

SIs: Re-visit your customer to achieve cost saving and to SOA enable them.

ISVs: SOA enable your solutions and integrate them to the Oracle Fusion Middleware & Oracle Applications environment.

Oracle Tuxedo
Oracle Tuxedo is the industry’s #1 platform for distributed transaction processing. It provides mainframe-class scale and performance on open, distributed systems for software written in C, C++, and COBOL, and is the premier platform for “rehosting” mainframe applications on mainstream hardware. Oracle Tuxedo provides cost-effective reliability, extreme scalability up to hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, and investment preservation by extending the life of existing IT assets as part of a modern architectures such as SOA. Oracle Tuxedo is Oracle Fusion Middleware’s strategic transaction processing product. Learn more about its role in Oracle’s middleware strategy.

Oracle Salt for Tuxedo
Leading Distributed Transaction Processing Platform Delivers Extended Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Enhanced Standards Support, and Strengthened SOA -Enablement

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If you are and SI or ISV using Tuxedo please feel free to contact me any time – Jürgen Kress and become a member in the Oracle SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

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

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

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.

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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)

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SOA Design Patterns by Thomas Erl

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

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

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ISVs Fusion Middleware Adoption & Innovation by GIP and convergin

July 28, 2010 Leave a comment

ISVs Fusion Middleware Adoption & Innovation by GIP and convergin

Last month I attended a conference from a very innovative ISV GIP: Their Xyenia solution becomes key for German Telecommunications Providers. Many companies like Deutsche Telekom AG, Kabel BW or Arcor adopted their solution. Xynia is fully build on Oracle technology, database including Real Application Cluster for high availability and of course our complete middleware stack OC4J and Oracle SOA Suite.

Our next joint challenge is to adopt Oracle Weblogic Server. Therefore we offer for our ISVs a special migration service. In our labs we will support with best practices a most seamless migrations.

With the joint BEA and Oracle forces in Communications we are the key middleware player in this industry. Another great example is also our partner convergin who presented their solution in our Next Generation IN (NGIN) Infrastructure webcast in December.

Please feel free to contact us any time if we can support to adopt your solution on Oracle Weblogic. For more details please visit our SOA Partner Community www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required)

Jürgen Kress

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