Durable Subscribers in 12c by Sivakumar

Business Events are used to notify the interested parties (subscribers) about an occurrence of activity which is of important to them. On raising the business events, the subscribers would consume them and process it based on their business flows. All these things would happen in a highly loose coupled manner and business events producers may not be aware of the subscribers. So when designing an application based on business events one of the aspects requires attention is, Will there be any loss of event?

This is very important as subscribers are not in a position to request providers to raise event again, even if they do its going to be a duplicate event (occurrence) for other subscribers. Technically speaking, the loss of event can be translated into any of these following scenarios:

  • Subscriber received the business event but faulted during processing.
  • Subscriber is unavailable when the business event is published.
  • The hosted server itself is down when the business event is published.

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Middleware Community Reception at Oracle OpenWorld 2014

You attend Oracle Open World 2014? Make sure you attend the SOA & BPM stream! You are invited to join our traditional Fusion Middleware Partner Community Reception at OpenWorld. The Reception will be held on Tuesday September 30th 2014 in San Francisco! Don’t miss this unique opportunity to:

  • Network and exchange information with fellow Oracle Middleware Partners & ACEs
  • Meet with members of the Global Oracle Middleware Product Management team and Oracle EMEA Alliances and Solutions Partner Programs team
  • Learn more about Oracle OpenWorld activities

Schedule: Tuesday September 30th 2014 20:00 (California time)
For details please visit our registration page.

 

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Fusion Middleware Sales Plays 2014

Please invite your sales persons and pre-sales persons to watch this short Oracle Fusion Middleware Sales Play overview webcast. Ed Zou, Vice President product management gives insights what and how to position the Oracle middleware solutions including customer examples.Watch the webcast here.

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the sales kits for:

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Simplified UI in Release 8

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

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

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

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

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!

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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
Tips: Sales kits for SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c (including ppt &cheat sheets) Demo Systems hosted at Oracle SOA Blackbelt cheat sheets

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A Model for Planning Your Oracle BPM 10g Migration by Kris Nelson

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

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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