Simplified UI in Release 8

August 30, 2014 Leave a comment

Succession PlansThe simplified user interface (UI), designed by the Oracle Applications User Experience team, extends its reach in the recent Oracle Applications Cloud Release 8 with user experience enhancements that include expanded simplicity, expanded visualizations and analytics, and expanded extensibility and customization options – all in the cloud.  Check the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog for a look at some of the simplified UI user experience highlights.

New tools to help you tailor your applications.

Want to build or tailor your own application? You don’t have to be a developer to use these tools. Check the Usable Apps website for new podcasts, presentations, UX design patterns, and success stories and leverage Oracle’s best practices from our newest releases. Our UX design patterns, in particular, will save you time and money while increasing your users’ productivity. If you’re looking to speed up a customization project in PeopleSoft, go to the UX Direct blog for information about the PeopleSoft 8.53/9.2 prototyping tool kit that was just released. This tool kit provides user interface components in Microsoft PowerPoint format that you can use by simply dragging and dropping into your slides to create user interface designs for your application.

User Experience highlights in JD Edwards and E-Business Suite

Hear about the JD Edwards user experience from Gary Grieshaber, Senior Director, EnterpriseOne Product Strategy, in this video, which showcases today’s user experience highlights in Oracle’s JD Edwards applications. Hear about the Oracle E-Business Suite user experience from Nadia Bendjedou, Senior Director, Oracle E-Business Suite Product Strategy, in this video, which showcases today’s user experience highlights in Oracle’s E-Business Suite applications.

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Customer Experience & SOA Integration Demo

August 28, 2014 Leave a comment

At our SOA Community Workspace ( SOA Community membership required) you details about a great customer experience demo using SOA Integration technology:

5Red_CX_Boxes2.pngWith this release the number of viewlets (video’s) has grown from 21 to 37. Each viewlet can be shown individually or in conjunction with any others and can show either technical feature or business centric demo’s.  There is a matrix of options for using the demos, to help you select relevant materials  there is a ScenarioMatrix.xls spreadsheet, you can filter on any of the columns to reduce to the viewlets that interest you.
In this release feature enhancements have been made to:

  • RightNow – New business scenario’s.
  • RTD – Integrated into several front-ends, Composite Pagelet for RightNow, plus back-end viewlets.
  • WC-Sites – updated with latest MyBank demo with SCV MyProfile.
  • SCVLite VirtualBox VM (due to be uploaded to retriever mid-may).
  • Retail Banking Client-OnBoarding viewlets.
  • Documentation on Design Pattern and SCV Service.
  • New MDM / EDQ scenario viewlet.
  • Improvements to ATG, eBS.

Want to learn more about the cool CX demo? Contact Vince Keehan | SC Manager UK E-Mail: vince.keehan@oracle.com

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ACM 11g – Activities by Suyash Khot

August 27, 2014 Leave a comment

In my previous blog, we looked at Oracle ACM’s Title, Priority, and Category artifacts and their configurations in an Oracle ACM project. In this blog, we will dig a bit deeper into ACM, specifically ACM Activities. Within an ACM Case, when you create an ACM Activity, you are presented with a few properties that need be set for the activity. The values you select in these properties will define that activity. In this blog post, we will take a look at these properties and, more interestingly, at how a combination of these properties define a case activity, and hence the case.

Before we dive into the properties, here is a quick look into how to create an ACM activity and the three levels an activity progresses through within a case.

Creating a Case Activity

While creating your BPM project, make sure you selected the ‘Composite with Case Management’ option. If you do that, when you right-click any BPM process or Human Task it gives you an option to ‘Promote as Case Activity’. When clicked, this creates a case activity under the case. That specific BPM process or that specific human task gets associated to the case activity, such that when that case activity is set to Running (see below for definition of Running), it kicks-off the BPM process or human task that you associated to that case activity. Read the complete article here.

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Using Signals for inter process communication by Niall Commiskey

August 26, 2014 Leave a comment

BPM Start Activities of type Signal – subscribe to Oracle EDN events.
BPM End Activities of type Signal – publish Oracle EDN events.
BPM Wait activities of type Signal – subscribe to Oracle EDN events.
BPM Throw Activities of type Signal – publish Oracle EDN events.
I have the following composite –
Process 1 is as follows –

It takes an as input, one of it’s attributes is the unique orderNr.
It waits for the Signal Event – OrderOKEvent for that specific order Nr.
Read the complete article here.

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free SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c pre-sales training – Germany & Netherlands

August 25, 2014 2 Comments

Want to demo SOA Suite 12c to your customers, make sure you attend this partner training! SOA Suite 12c is available and we would like to make sure that you become trained in the many new exciting features. Please make sure that you attend our on-demand trainings including certification and our local in-class hands-on trainings.

As our customers start looking at new trends such as Cloud and Mobile, Integration becomes increasingly important for their businesses and continues to be at the heart of our Fusion Middleware solution. Time and again, Application Integration has proven to make businesses more agile, save costs and provide a robust, future-proof architecture for complex enterprise systems.

SOA 12c brings exciting new features around the key themes of Developer Productivity and Industrial SOA. These new features (including a brand new product addition!) demonstrate why SOA is important to include in customer conversations and solutions around Cloud, Mobile, Fast Data and, of course, Application Integration. Topics to be covered during the workshop include Developer Productivity, Industrial SOA, Application Integration, Cloud Integration, Mobile Enablement, Managed File Transfer, B2B and Fast Data

In-Class trainings:

clip_image001[6]SOA Suite 12c pre-sales training: September 16th 2014 Utrecht, Netherlands Register here!

SOA Suite 12c bootcamp: September 8-9 2014 Frankfurt, Germany Register here!

BPM Suite 12c bootcamp: September 23-26 2014 Utrecht, Netherlands Register here!

BPM Suite 12c bootcamp: November 12-13 Munich, Germany Register here!

 

On-Demand trainings:

Sales Pre-Sales Implementation
Online-training SOA Suite 12c Sales Specialist – free SOA Suite 12c Presales Specialist – free SOA Suite 11c free on-demand Bootcamp  -free & SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c training material
Certification SOA Suite 12c Sales Specialist Assessment – free SOA Suite 12c PreSales Specialist Assessment – free SOA Suite 11g Certified Implementation Specialist – $245
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A Model for Planning Your Oracle BPM 10g Migration by Kris Nelson

August 25, 2014 Leave a comment

As the Oracle SOA Suite and BPM Suite 12c products enter beta, many of our clients are starting to discuss migrating from the Oracle 10g or prior platforms. With the BPM Suite 11g, Oracle introduced a major change in architecture with a strong focus on integration with SOA and an entirely new technology stack. In addition, there were fresh new UIs and a renewed business focus with an improved Process Composer and features like Adaptive Case Management. While very beneficial to both technology and the business, the fundamental change in architecture does pose clear migration challenges for clients who have made investments in the 10g platform. Some of the key challenges facing 10g customers include:

  • Managing in-process instance migration and running multiple process engines
  • Migration of User Interfaces and other code within the environment that may not be automated
  • Growing or finding technical staff with both 10g and 12c experience
  • Managing migration projects while continuing to move the business forward and meet day-to-day responsibilities

As a former practitioner in a mixed 10g/11g shop, I wrestled with many of these challenges as we tried to plan ahead for the migration. Luckily, there is migration tooling on the way from Oracle and several approaches you can use in planning your migration efforts. In addition, you already have a defined and visible process on the current platform, which will be invaluable as you migrate. 

A Migration ModelThis model presents several options across a value and investment spectrum. The goal of the AVIO Migration Model is to kick-start discussions within your company and assist in creating a plan of action to take advantage of the new platform. As with all models, this is a framework for discussion and certain processes or situations may not fit. Please contact us if you have specific questions or want to discuss migrations efforts in your situation. Read the complete article here.

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Adaptive Case Management – Exposing the API – part 1 by Roger Goossens

August 23, 2014 Leave a comment

Custom ACM Api One of the most important building blocks of Adaptive Case Management is the ACM API. At one point or another you’re gonna need a way to get information (think about a list of stakeholders, available activities, milestones reached, etc.) out of the case. Since there’s no webservice available yet that exposes the internals of the case, your only option right now is the ACM API.

ACM evangelist Niall Commiskey has put some samples online to give you a good feeling of the power of the ACM API. The examples show how you can access the API by means of RMI. You first need to obtain a BPMServiceClientFactory that gives access to the important services you’ll mostly be needing, i.e. the IBPMUserAuthenticationService (needed for obtaining a valid user context) and the ICaseService (the service that exposes all important case information). Now, obtaining an instance of the BPMServiceClientFactory involves some boilerplate coding in which you’ll need the RMI url and user credentials: Read the complete article here.

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Partner Webcast – Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Connect 4 Cloud, Mobile, IoT with on-premise – August 28th 2014

August 22, 2014 Leave a comment

Thursday August 28th 2014 SOA Suite 12c Webcast

The pace of new business projects continues to grow from increasing customer self-service to seamlessly connecting all your back office and in-the-field applications. At the same time increased integration complexity may seem inevitable as organizations are suddenly faced with the requirement to support three new integration challenges:

  • » Cloud Integration – integrate with the cloud, rapidly integrate a growing list of cloud applications with existing applications
  • » Mobile Integration – the urgency to mobile-enable existing applications
  • » IoT Integration – begin development on the latest trend of connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to your existing infrastructure.

Join this webcast to get an overview of what is in Java 8 from a business perspective and how with Java 8, you are uniquely positioned to extend innovation in your solutions through the largest, open, standards-based, community-driven platform.
Oracle SOA Suite 12c Oracle SOA Suite 12c, the latest version of the industry’s most complete and unified application integration and SOA solution, aims to simplify, accelerate and optimize integrations. Oracle SOA Suite 12c and its associated products, Oracle Managed File Transfer, Oracle Cloud and Application Adapters, B2B and healthcare integration, offer the industry’s most highly integrated platform for solving the increased integration challenges.
Oracle SOA Suite 12c is a complete, integrated and best-of-breed platform. It enables next generation integration capabilities through

  • A unified toolset for the development of services and composite applications.
  • A standards-based platform that is service enabled and easily consumable by modern web applications, allowing enterprises to quickly and easily adapt to changes in their business and IT environments.
  • Greater visibility, controls and analytics to govern how services and processes are deployed, reused and changed across their entire lifecycle.

 

Join us to find out more about the new features of Oracle SOA Suite 12c and how it enables you to reduce time to market for new project integration and to reduce integration cost and complexity. Oracle SOA Suite is the ability to simplify by integrating the disparate requirements of cloud, mobile, and IoT devices with existing on-premise applications.
Agenda:

Oracle SOA Suite 12c new Features

Cloud Integration

Mobile Enablement

Interent of Things (IoT)

Summary – Q&A

For details please visit our registration page here.


Thursday, Aug 28th 2014
10am CET  (9am GMT / 11am EEST

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Adaptive Case Management Modeling with CMMN by Jessica Ray

August 22, 2014 Leave a comment

A new version of Oracle BPM Suite 11.1.1.7 with Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is now available, so what will that mean for requirements gathering? BPM project requirements can be documented using Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN 2.0). For ACM, there is a new notation in the works. It is called Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN). For now, this notation isn’t included as a modeling tool in the new version of Oracle BPM Suite 11.1.1.7 with ACM, but it is possible that a modeling tool could be included in a future release.

What is CMMN? CMMN is a standard intended to capture the common elements that Case Management Products use, the same way that BPMN is a standard for BPM products (such as Oracle BPM). CMMN is created by the Object Management Group (OMG) and is still in the beta version. In April 2014, OMG released the second beta version the CMMN 1.0, and the most recent version is available here.

CMMN captures some of the elements that are commonly used when talking about ACM such as Cases, Milestones, and Tasks. It also introduces some elements that you may not automatically hear when talking about ACM such as Stages, Events, and Decorators. Here is a quick summary at a few (but not all) of the elements of CMMN taken from the CMMN spec.

A Few CMMN Elements Read the complete article here

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Case Management API by Koen van Dijk

August 21, 2014 Leave a comment

Case Management is a new addition to Oracle BPM in release 11.1.1.1.7 (PS6). This new release contains the Case Management engine, see blog Léon at  http://leonsmiers.blogspot.nl/ for more details.  However, currently this release does not contain a case portal. The case management API’s, just like the already existing Oracle BPM API’s, help in developing a portal page with relative ease. This blog will use some real life examples from the EURent casemanagement application and portal application developed by Oracle.

The Oracle BPM Case Management API is a Java Based API that enables developers to programmatically access the new Case Management functionalities. It is an elaborate API that can access all the functionalities of Oracle Case Management. I will describe two of those functionalities in this blog: retrieving case data as DOM (http://www.w3.org/DOM/) and attaching a document to a case.

Libraries

First of all when creating a Case Management project you will need to attach the following libraries:

These contain all the classes that are in the Case Management API.

Service client

To do anything with the BPM CaseManagement API in general it is necessary to create a CaseManagementServiceClient Object. The Case Management service client is the central piece of the Case Management API. It can be used to retrieve two different types of services. The first is the case stream service and the case service. The case stream service contains functionality to upload and download documents to and from a case. The second one is the CaseService. This service contains all the other functionality acting upon a case including but not limited to: Read the complete article here.

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