Integration Success Workshops: Cloud, Mobile and BPM

July 28, 2014 Leave a comment

Integration Success Workshops are tools you can use when engaging with customers to generate pipeline or progress an existing opportunity – you can really use them at any stage of your customer engagement. They allow you to open doors and discuss the key areas of Cloud Integration, Mobility Integration and traditional Application Integration, all of which are hot topics in the market today.

Each workshop package consists of a presentation, a methodology to engage with the customer using best practices, a demo and maybe a video. All workshops take a solution rather than a product approach but still make good mention of the Oracle offering, allowing you to position among others SOA, ADF Mobile, Security, Webcenter and Weblogic.

Each workshop package also allows you to shape the customer engagement to suit your needs – you can have a mini discussion over a couple of hours or you can spend the whole day with your customer architecting their solution. At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the Integration Success Workshop kits for:

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Simplified UI in Oracle Applications Cloud

July 26, 2014 Leave a comment

The Simplified User Experience Design Patterns for the Oracle Applications Cloud Service eBook has been published recently. The free eBook provides the user experience design patterns that Oracle uses to build simplified user interfaces (UIs). Read more about it on the Usable Apps blog, or download it directly at tinyurl.com/SimplifiedUI.  You’ll also find a new article on the Usable Apps website about extensibility in the simplified UI: "Making the Complex Simple: Extensibility and Customization in the Oracle Applications Cloud." Read and learn more about how easy extensibility aligns with the overall Oracle Applications Cloud’s user experience strategy of simplification.
ABOUT RELEASE 8: Take a look at these recent blog posts to find out what analysts and others are saying about the usability they see in Release 8.

And several videos about the simplified UI in Release 8 are now available:

Oracle President Mark Hurd educates Baylor University students on the impact of big data in “Big Data in a Shrinking World.” bit.ly/1m33hJg
Oracle Platinum Partner AMIS Services BV, a friend of the Oracle Applications User Experience (UX) team, has been awarded the Oracle SOA Community Award and the SOA Partner Community Award 2014. Visit the SOA Community Blog for a post on “Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards 2014” to read more.

  • Amis played host to the OAUX Expo in March, and posts about the Oracle Applications UX themes of simplicity, mobility, and extensibility continue. Dutch developer Richard Olrichs, who attended the expo, wrote “What I learned from the UX Event.” Tech author Chris Koenis also wrote a post in Dutch after the expo called “World travelers hunt futuristic interface.” A translated version is available.

“PeopleSoft Talk with Marc Weintraub: PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface featuring Willie Suh”: In this PeopleSoft Talk, PeopleSoft Senior Director Marc Weintraub talks with Willie Suh, Vice President of PeopleTools Development, about the PeopleSoft Fluid User Interface.
Oracle ACE Director Basheer Khan shares his thoughts on Oracle’s Cloud strategy in the April 2014 edition of Profit Magazine. The interview, “Clouds in Vegas,” focuses on Khan’s session at Collaborate 2014 and how he thinks organizations can benefit from moving to the cloud.

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Humantask Assignment: Names and Expressions Assignment via Rules By Marcel van de Glind

July 25, 2014 Leave a comment

Screenshot12This blog post is part of a series of posts about humantask assignment. You can find the starting point of this series by following the next link. In this post I will give an example of task assignment by Names And Expressions using Oracle Business Rules. I will use the same BPM process as in most of the other posts in this series.
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BPM 11g Timeout Heuristics by Niall Commiskey

July 24, 2014 Leave a comment

Here are some basic heuristics to defensively deal with timeouts in your BPM processes.
The basic rule is – follow the hierarchy
JTA Timeout > BPM EJB Transaction Timeout > resource timeout
We can look at this as referring to the 3 different technical levels involved –

JTA Timeout – set at weblogic engine, this is the Java Transaction timeout. You want to avoid this ever happening. It can be set at weblogic domain level (JTA tab) via the weblogic console – By default this is set to 30 seconds. You will have to increase this, as the BPM EJB Tx Timeout is set, per default, to 300 seconds.

BPM EJB Transaction Timeout – set at BPM engine level. These BPMXXX EJBs are listed under deployments in the weblogic console (Deployments –> soa-infra – EJBs) and the Tx Timeout can be set there.

Resource Timeout – e.g. the web service your BPM process is calling –

Each resource may be unique from this perspective, so it may not be a case of one size fits all. Some research may be needed here to work out what one could term the “normal” response time. You want to avoid inefficient use of the BPM engine – i.e. the engine waiting too long for a response from a service, be it a web service or a DB adapter service. My rule of thumb – add 30% to the "normal" time.
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Implementing deadline functionality with Oracle Adaptive Case Management by Léon Smiers

July 23, 2014 Leave a comment

Oracle released Adaptive Case Management (ACM) in 2013 as part of the BPM stack. One of the functionality we needed in a project recently, was the handling of deadlines in the context of a case. There is (currently) no out-of-the-box solution to, for example, escalate or reassign a case when a specific deadline has expired. In this blog we describe how this functionality can be created with the out-of-the-box functionality of Oracle Case Management.

Dealing with deadlines
Consider the situation that a case needs to be automatically transferred from an employee to a supervisor after 24 hours and from the supervisor to the manager after 48 hours. Of course, when a case is closed while the deadline has not expired yet, the timer keeping track of the deadline should be terminated.
A solution to this use case would be to implement an interaction between thet case manager and a dedicated timer process as depicted in Figure 1. In this figure the Case Manager initiates the timer process. When the timer expires (e.g. the first 24 hours), the data associations are updated and an internal case event is thrown to give control back to the case manager. The case manager analyses the incoming data, performs some tasks and eventually re-launches the timer process to wait for the next 24 hours.
Figure 1: Timers expires after 24 hours after which a new deadline check is started
The other scenario is depicted in Figure 2. Here the timer process is stopped by the case because the case has ended before the deadlines expires. Read the complete article here.

 

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BPM update adds Case Management Web Interface and REST APIs by Mark Nelson

July 22, 2014 1 Comment

Oracle has just released BPM 11.1.1.7 Bundle Patch 3 which adds the out of the box web interface for Advanced Case Management and REST APIs for working with BPM.

The patch is available from Oracle Support, it is patch number 18072286.

The Case Management interface looks a bit like this:
acm

And here is an example of using the REST API.  You can call the REST URL (GET) http://yourserver:port/bpm/services/rest/application.wadl to get details of the available services:
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SOA Suite 12c launch events by IPT 27th of August in Bern & 28th of August in Zürich – Switzerland

July 21, 2014 Leave a comment

SOA Suite 12c expands Oracle‘s leadership to be the most unified and comprehensive solution for simplifying cloud, mobile, and IoT Integration. Experience those new imagefeatures of SOA Suite 12c & at our launch event in 2014 hosted by IPT an Oracle Specialized Partner.

The IPT SOA Suite 12c Summits takes place on August 27th in Bern and August 28th in Zürich. For details please visit the IPT Bern & IPT Zürich registration page here.

Additional local SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c launch events by Oracle partners are posted here.

Additional resources for Oracle Customers:

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ACM training material

July 21, 2014 1 Comment

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can download the Adaptive Case Management training material from the Malta Community Forum: ACM bootcamp 02.2014. The material does not include the software image.

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Mobile BPM is Not An Option. It’s a Necessity by Brandon Dean

July 20, 2014 Leave a comment

Mobile BPM will play an increasingly important role in the relationship between businesses, customers and external partners. Consumers wantmobile apps. As a group they download more than 11,000 iPhone apps, send 168 million emails and make 700,000 Facebook posts—in one minute. Businesses need to make sure apps align with their business processes.
Mobile apps require new architectural patterns and must support differing devices. Let’s take a quick look at some integration and data type technologies, and Oracle products that form a cohesive mobile solution.

TECHNOLOGY DEFINITIONS

  1. SOAP (“Simple Object Access Protocol”) — This is the workhorse of existing SOA infrastructures and can be a single solution to heterogeneous interconnectivity issues.  SOAP defines a standard communication protocol specification for XML-based message exchange.  It can use various transport protocols such as HTTP, SMTP and JMS.  It requires far less plumbing than REST for things like transactions, security, coordination, addressing, and trust.  However, change control can be problematic due to the complexity of SOAP interfaces.   Even though these features add weight to SOAP, it is highly useful when publishing an interface to the outside world because of the formal contract that it utilizes.
  2. XML ("Extensible Markup Language")—This is the request / response format within SOAP interfaces. It’s benefit is that it’s both human-readable and machine-readable.  Even though it’s verbose and harder to change it has a formal structure and can validate content.
  3. REST (“Representational State Transfer”) — simple, lightweight and stateless.  It can return multiple data types and has bandwidth advantages over SOAP

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SOA Suite 12c launch event by C2B2 September 12th in the UK

July 19, 2014 Leave a comment

SOA Suite 12c expands Oracle‘s leadership to be the most unified and comprehensive solution for simplifying cloud, mobile, and IoT Integration. Experience those new features of SOA Suite 12c & at our launch event in 2014 hosted by C2B2 an Oracle Specialized Partner.

The C2B2 SOA Suite 12c Summit takes place on September 12th in London, UK. For details please visit the C2B2 registration page here.

image Additional local SOA Suite 12c & BPM Suite 12c launch events by Oracle partners are posted here.

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