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API Catalog to Simplify API Management By Mala Ramakrishnan

January 31, 2015 1 Comment

Oracle is extending its API Management solution with a new product, API Catalog. This will give customers the ability to simplify the publication of API services that are developed in Oracle SOA Suite and other sources. Oracle API Catalog will be part of Oracle’s broader API Management solution portfolio. Oracle API Catalog also integrates seamlessly with with Oracle Mobile Suite portfolio of products for mobile enablement. Oracle API Catalog harvests services in Oracle Fusion Middleware to allow one-click publish, submit ratings, or manage re-use across other consuming applications. Oracle’s API Catalog is SOAP as well as REST/JSON compliant to easily support mobile mobile applications.

Here is a validation by one of our beta customers Peter Osborne, IT Technical Lead at LG&E and KU Services Company: "The Oracle API Catalog is a straightforward, easy-to-use governance tool for capturing what services exist, what these services do, and how they can be consumed. Within hours of installation, an organization can begin cataloging their SOAP and REST web services, regardless of the underlying service technology. The harvesting functionality provides a jump start on aggregating service details, while minimizing manual data entry and the risk of duplication and error. Finally, the included JDeveloper plug-in completes the lifecycle by providing a mechanism within JDeveloper to easily view and consume documented services."

To find out more information on Oracle API Catalog, visit us: Website and explore our Datasheet.

Thanks to Andre, Lucas and Luis for the first community feedback. Send us your feedback via twitter @soacommunity #APIcatalog12c & #OER12c

clip_image002 André Evensen @anevensen · 2h 2 hours ago

Harvesting services from WSDLs and publishing to #APIcatalog12c, works like a charm. @soacommunity #OracleSOA

clip_image002[1] André Evensen @anevensen · 8h 8 hours ago

Newly released #APIcatalog12c installed on SOA Suite 12c. Next: Harvesting services! @soacommunity #OER12c

clip_image007 Luis Augusto Weir @Luisw19 · 10h 10 hours ago

Publish your #API in minutes with #OAC new killer tool to manage APIs @soacommunity @oracleace @OTNArchBeat http://tinyurl.com/oac12c

clip_image008 Lucas Jellema @lucasjellema · 11h 11 hours ago

Oracle Enterprise Repository 12c is available for download at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/repository/overview/index.html … – including the brand new API Catalog @soacommunity

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Link Consulting SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c Launch in Portugal

January 31, 2015 Leave a comment

On the 7th October, Link Consulting, in partnership with Oracle, at the Hotel SANA Lisboa – Lisbon - presented the new 12c versions for BPM Suite and SOA Suite.

This event “Introducing Oracle BPM Suite 12 and SOA Suite 12c” had the presence of more than 60 guests, that had the opportunity to get a deep insight about the new 12c versions from BPM Suite and SOA Suite, and about what these innovative solutions can provide to the organizations.

One of the high points of this event was the Keynote by Yogesh Sontakke, Principal Product Manager for Integration across Europe, Middle East and Africa, where the new market trends were presented, and how Oracle is addressing them; two parallel tracks, with demos and insights on the products’ new functionalities.

Link presented these products’ new components and features, as well as their most meaningful use-cases. It were also introduced – hands-on – Oracle’s Cloud Integration e Cloud Application Foundation service offerings.

In this event we got a deep insight about these innovative solutions that provide organizations the needed flexibility to support their business process transformation and integration roadmaps, resulting in a significant cost reduction.

Some of the topics covered in the event:

 SOA Developer Productivity

 Industrial SOA

 Mobile Enablement

 Migration: from 11g to 12c

 Process Analytics and Business Activity Monitoring

 Business Process Architecture

 Adaptive Case Management

 Process Accelerators

With the presentations and demos, it became clear how, with Oracle products – market leader technologies -, our clients will be more and more able to be one step ahead of their competition with bigger agility and operational efficiency.

Link, having been active in its Beta program during almost a year, has reached a higher understanding and deep knowledge about this versions, and we believe that they can be game-changers to your organization.

Link Consulting is one of the few companies to hold several Oracle Fusion Middleware Specializations, with the Oracle Platinum Partner certification. These specializations are obtained by the high number of certified workers and number of successfully executed projects. These are also recognized by Link’s customers as having been delivered with quality, and deep technological knowledge evidences.

Want to get more information about Link Consulting please visit the website here.

Interested to host a SOA 12c and BPM 12c launch event for your customers? Participate in our Fusion Middleware ACT on marketing campaign, for details please see the presentation here.

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Call for community pin design!

January 30, 2015 Leave a comment

You like to get a SOA Community pin? Help us to design them! We want to get your ideas and feedback how our community pins should look like! Send us your suggestion via twitter @soacommunity #soacommunity

Some ideas & we want yours!

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Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Presentations

January 30, 2015 Leave a comment

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can download the updated the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 presentations:

SOA presentations

BPM presentations

IoT presentations

AppAdvantage presentations

For more OpenWorld material please see the OOW 2014 tag

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SOA Magazine III published

January 29, 2015 Leave a comment

The SOA Magazine III edition focuses on the new release of Oracle SOA Suite 12c. The “c2” stands for Cloud & Consolidation. Many customers face the challenge to deliver more IT value for their business. Cloud solutions are very attractive for business. SOA is the foundation for a successful road to cloud computing. To invest & grow companies needs to consolidate existing solutions. Many customers not only run multiple instances of integration products, they also run multiple solutions from multiple vendors. Analyst companies like Gartner report since years that 8 out of 10 dollar of IT investment is “dead money”. It’s time to consolidate your systems into one private cloud platform which also integrates your new public cloud solutions! Business becomes “digital” and middleware plays a key role.

IT is capable of building complex systems. With Service Oriented Architecture IT systems become flexible and integrated. With Business Process Management structured processes could be automated. Today IT needs to support business in a global competitive economy by flexible adaptive solutions. Therefore a new age of the knowledge worker, that makes his decision based on IT support, rises. Adaptive case management (ACM) is the solution which supports knowledge workers in their decision for unstructured processes. With ACM based solutions knowledge workers can make better decisions on core company values, which result in more successful companies in a competitive global environment. In this edition we highlight two ACM articles. OMG defined a suggestion for a notation for ACM, the “Case Management Model and Notation” (CMMN). Jessica Ray gives an introduction for CMMN modelling. In the second article Leon Smiers describes who the re-landscaping with case management.

This quarterly newsletter is for both customers and partners who are active in the SOA space. The content includes articles for IT decision makers, architects and developers. The goal of the newsletter is to update you on the latest SOA technologies, market studies, trainings & certifications and conferences. We publish the newsletter in English and some articles will be in Portuguese specially for the Brazilian marketing, thanks to Ricardo Puttini and his team. Contribution is open for everybody! We want to publish your content! Like case studies, best practice, technical examples and solutions and conferences. Feel free to submit your content to Marcello Marinho (Portuguese articles) & Jürgen Kress (for English articles).

Enjoy reading the SOA Magazine III we are looking forward to get your feedback! Ricardo Puttini & Jürgen Kress

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Oracle Fusion Middleware EMEA Partner Community Forum 2015 March 3rd & 4th 2015 Budapest

January 29, 2015 Leave a comment

Take this opportunity and register now for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum XX that will be held in the Boscolo hotel in Budapest in on March 3rd & 4th 2015 with hands-on training on March 5^th & 6^th. Registration is free of charge, except in case of cancellation fee € 150 or no-show fee €500!

· SOA Suite 12c & Integration Cloud Service

· BPM Suite 12c & Process Cloud Service

· Mobile & Development tools & Mobile Cloud Service

· WebLogic 12c & Java Cloud & Developer Cloud Service

Quotes from previous conferences

· Rare combo of content, networking & fun, easy access to peers, Oracle Product Manager and experts in many areas” Lucas Jellema, Amis

· “A must attend for seniors partners” Martien van den Akker, Darwin

· “Great form, a clear must for any partner” Markus Schneeweis, ec4u

The conference will update you on the last Middleware solutions & cloud services specially for:

· Architects & Practice Managers: product overview

· Developers: product details and hands-on training including live demos

· Sales Experts positioning & sales kits including cheat sheets

· Marketing Executives: campaign kits including event material and ppts and demos

The event is a wonderful opportunity to:

Learn how to sell the value of Fusion Middleware by combining SOA, BPM, WebLogic and ADF & MAF
Meet with Oracle SOA, BPM, WebLogic and ADF Product Management
Exchange knowledge and have access to competitive intelligence
Learn from successful SOA, BPM, WebLogic and ADF implementations
Network within the Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Community and the Oracle WebLogic Partner Community

Additionally to the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum, you can participate in technical hands on workshops on March 5^th & 6^th 2014 (for those attending the workshops, it is also required to attend the Community Forum on March 3^rd & 4^th) You can only choose one workshop which runs for two days. The goal of these workshops is to prepare you for customer implementations and to become a certified implementation specialist. For details please visit our registration page here.

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter January 2015

January 28, 2015 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

We are excited to announce the keynotes from Andrew Sutherland and Amit Zavery at our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015. The Community Forum will be all about Middleware & Cloud Computing, if you want to get a preview get the latest presentation at our community workspace FMW Cloud-Public and Private Cloud-Overview-Oct32014-FINAL.pptx (SOA & BPM Community membership required). Cloud Computing will be the key topic for our community in 2015. In this newsletter edition you find also details about the latest Cloud Adapter for Oracle RightNow.

In 2015 we continue to encourage our partners to became Specialized, now the SOA Suite 12c Certified Implementation Specialist is available in beta. As a Specialized partners please make sure that you benefit from our marketing offers. In the case you missed the OTN Virtual Technology Summit it is now available on-demand. Same for the SOA Suite 12c free on-demand overview and OOW 2014 in the case you could not join, make sure you read the Amis OpenWorld 2014 Whitepaper.

In the Service Bus section we published three articles Migrating Oracle Service Bus 11g to 12c, Using the For Each action in OSB 12c and Install 12c SOA and OSB at Exalogic. Thanks to the eProseed team our b2b experts for B2B 12c overview and the technical b2b architects B2B 12c – Listening Channel activation and deactivation in bulk, and SOA Suite/B2B as a Critical Mission Hub for a High Volume Message Use Case.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: SOA Suite 12c – Business Events, Protecting Sensitive Data in SOA Suite 12c, SOA Suite 12c: Topology Suggestions, Set-up a 12c SOA/BPM Infrastructure, A Chef Cookbook for Fusion Middleware 12c, SOA 12c – EDN Logging, What’s New in UPK 12.1? And beyond and Java Embedded helps IoT.

In our BPM section a must read is the Top 10 Things You Should Know About BPM 11g/12c by Mark Foster. In the case you are working on a BPM 12c project please make sure that you reach out to myself to get Oracle support. The Red Mavericks team published a nice example and series how to build your first BPMN process. Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: Adaptive Case Management 12c and ADF Human Tasks & BPM 12c Gateways (Part 3 of 5): Parallel Gateway & BPM 12c Migration & BPM Workspace Login with libOVD & Running Oracle BPM 12c on AWS. For all partners who are working on Adaptive Case Management opportunities we would like to recommend the last book Thriving On Adaptability: Best Practices for Knowledge Workers by Keith Swenson.

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we published a free on-demand online training about the Oracle Unified Method, additional information from our UX team See the Oracle Cloud UX roadmap in action at our lab and also a on-demand webcast series how to use Fusion Middleware for Applications AppAdvantage On-Demand Webcast Series.

Thanks to the whole community for your contribution and sharing your knowledge. In 2014 many of our articles made it in the Top SOA articles at OTN! Please make sure you share also your best practice and technical information in 2015, best via twitter @soacommunity #soaCommunity

Great start in 2015 and see you in Budapest! Jürgen Kress

Jürgen Kress
Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

January 28, 2015 Leave a comment

· Podcast: Redefining Information Management Architecture The latest OTN ArchBeat podcast series features a conversation with Oracle enterprise architect Andrew Bond and Oracle ACE Directors Stewart Bryson (Red Pill Analytics), and Mark Rittman (Rittman Mead), key players in a collaboration that produced a new Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture. These three gentlemen know each other quite well, which comes across in a conversation that is as lively and entertaining as it is informative. Listen to the podcast.

· Taking Enterprise File Exchange to the Next Level with Oracle Managed File Transfer

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Which opportunities for BPM are a good fit for Oracle? Qualification and customer stories with Oracle BPM at Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015

January 28, 2015 Leave a comment

The Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum takes place March 3rd & 4th in Budapest Hungary. During this annual conference You as an Oracle Partner can get the latest updates on the Fusion Middleware 12c solutions. “The Cloud Platform for Digital Business” will be the theme of the 20th conference. Keynotes will be delivered from Amit Zavery, Andrew Sutherland and SOA, BPM and Mobile product management including live demos. On the second day you can choose between three tracks: SOA, BPM or WebLogic and Mobile. As part of the BPM track Barry and Joost will present:

Which opportunities for BPM are a good fit for Oracle? Qualification and customer stories with Oracle BPM

BPM is a technology with wide applicability but which opportunities are more likely to be successful specifically with Oracle technology? This session gives clear guidelines on how to qualify your BPM opportunities, on how competition engages and how to recognise the opportunities that suit the Oracle offering and the ones that are best left to others.