SOA Governance FAQ by Luis Weir

April 9, 2014 Leave a comment

After more than decade implementing SOA, I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the reasons that prevent organisations from realising the benefits of SOA is the lack of some sort of governance in their SOA implementations. I have also come to the sad conclusion that even though this is well known fact, many (end customers and SIs alike) still lack understanding of what SOA Governance is and why is it needed. Having said that, I created this post not only for my own reference, but also share this knowledge for those wishing to improve their understanding on this amazing topic.

Hopefully this FAQ provides some concise answers to many of these questions.

What is SOA Governance?

R. In simplistic terms, SOA Governance is the alignment of processes, people and tools needed to ensure that a SOA implementation is successful. SOA Governance primary objective is to maximise the benefits that SOA can bring to the business and IT. One thing to bear in mind is that SOA Governance does not exist on its own; it is in fact an extension of IT governance and EA governance. Read the complete article here.

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Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards 2014

April 8, 2014 Leave a comment

Thanks for all the partners for the excellent contribution and on-going business! You are the key for the joint Fusion Middleware success. It becomes every year harder to choose the winners, due to all the excellent work and contributions.

The awarded partners have proven cutting edge projects with the latest Oracle technology and most important their contribution to the community like blogs, newsletters, conferences, papers, twitter, Linkedin and their participation in the partner advisory councils.

THANKS to the whole community and congratulation to the winners:

  • Amis
    Oracle SOA Community Award
    SOA Partner Community Award 2014
  • OPITZ Consulting
    BPM Partner Community Award 2014
  • Oracle Internal Award to Ritu Chhibber
    Oracle Partner Community Award – Oracle Contribution 2014
    The Oracle internal award also acknowledges the special contribution to the community. Ritu Chhibber publishes since years every month the newsletter you read. Ritu, as you could not come to Malta to receive it in person, when you read these lines THANKS for your great work!

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SOA Governance at OTN

April 8, 2014 Leave a comment

This is an OTN ArchBeat blog post featuring two video interviews with SOA Governance experts.

OTN tech article: "SOA Governance Through Enterprise Architecture" by Manuel Rosa and André de Oliveira Sampaio.

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Podcast Show Notes: Finding a Shorter Path to SOA

April 7, 2014 Leave a comment

A podcast featuring Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans, Simon Haslam, and Ronald van Luttikhuizen in a discussion about strategies for simplifyng SOA implementation.

The OTN ArchBeat Podcast kicks off the new year with a conversation with three highly experienced SOA experts about strategies for dealing with some of the problems that can thwart SOA efforts within some organizations. One of those strategies involves a new collaborative venture that promises to remove many of the technical hurdles on the path to SOA implementation. Listen to the podcast here.

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MDM and SOA: Be Warned! part of Industrial SOA series

April 6, 2014 Leave a comment

Introduction "You will waste your investment in SOA unless you have enterprise information that SOA can exploit." – Gartner

This quote from Gartner, Inc. describes the relationship between service-oriented architecture (SOA) and master data management (MDM) very vividly. An essential principle behind SOA is the reuse of components and the flexibility of using these components to support new functionalities or processes. MDM provides universal components (or services) for consistent data maintenance and distribution. Here the architecture concepts and principles of SOA run into MDM.

This article begins by giving a brief motive for using MDM and a conceptualization. It will then go on to present typical variants for possible MDM architecture concepts, and illustrate the interplay of MDM and SOA with reference to the architecture pattern.

Motive
Increasing pressure from competition means that business models and underlying business processes have to be adapted in ever shorter cycles. At the same time, globalization and the digital networking of companies are making interaction with external business partners even more complex. Securely exchanging high-quality data is crucial for increasing efficiency in processes. This is where the central issue, the quality of information, and therefore its security in transactions, evaluations, and reports, all stem from. Once a company is no longer in a position to provide a consistent and consolidated view of its central business objects, implementing a company-wide policy for master data management becomes a good idea.

Unfortunately, in many companies today it is common for IT systems to be unable to keep up with fast changes in organization, business, and even technology. As a result, on the companies’ side, a vast, ever-growing web of IT systems with known integration problems comes into being. This heterogeneity accounts for a variety of challenges when using master data that include differences in:

  • imgdata structures and formats in master data
  • specifications and understanding of the master data values in the participating organizational units
  • validations and plausibilities (data quality)
  • processes and responsibilities concerning data sovereignty (data governance)
  • business processes with partially conflicting functionalities in the application systems
  • organizational units that have different systems for master data maintenance

Read the complete article here. Share your comments and feedback on the Industrial SOA series by using the hashtag #industrialSOA. Read the full article at the Service Technology Magazine or Oracle Technology Network. Missed an article of the Industrial SOA series visit the overview at OTN.

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Oracle Mobile Suite New Product

April 5, 2014 7 Comments

As enterprises increasingly face challenges in going mobile, Oracle Mobile Suite provides a complete mobile platform that extends enterprise application data to mobile devices. Leading analysts estimate that more than 85% of mobile application development costs comes from integration with backend services, and Oracle Mobile Suite will assist customers quickly realize ROI by wrapping and reusing existing enterprise services, rather than rip and replace the entire platform.

 

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Clear Day for Cloud Adapters By Antony Reynolds

April 4, 2014 2 Comments

Yesterday Oracle released their cloud adapter for salesforce.com (SFDC) so I thought I would talk a little about why you might want it. I had previously integrated with SFDC using BPEL and the SFDC web interface, so in this post I will explore why the adapter might be a better approach.

Why?

So if I can interface to SFDC without the adapter why would I spend money on the adapter? There are a number of reasons and in this post I will just explain the following 3 benefits:

  • Auto-Login
  • Non-Ploymorphic Operations
  • Operation Wizards

Lets take each one in turn. Read the complete artcile here.

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Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum XVIII February 2014, Malta all presentations & follow-up

April 3, 2014 Leave a comment

Thanks for a wonderful Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2014! Special thanks to all the excellent speakers for the great presentations and everybody to be a real community. Thanks for the nice Community Forum articles from Amis, esentri and C2B2 – let me know in the case I missed yours! In the case you could not attend the conference in Malta we uploaded the presentations to our community workspaces.

Presentations
All presentations are available at the Community workspaces (community membership required – you get workspace access within a week)

Your feedback at twitter #ofmForum SOA Community Twitter & WebLogic Community Twitter.

clip_image001WebLogic Community ‏Presentations from the #ofmForum are available at the Community Workspace http://tinyurl.com/WLSworkspace (membership required) #WebLogicCommunity

clip_image002esentri Review of the #Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2014 in Malta @rszilinski #ofmForum http://ow.ly/tVI8F

clip_image003Robert van Mölken Just published blog "Recap of the Oracle Partner Community Forum XIV" on my own blogspot. http://bit.ly/1hFW1UZ #ofmForum @soacommunity

clip_image004Robert Szilinski ‏finally it’s time to fly back home. Thank you all for a wonderful #ofmForum week in Malta! pic.twitter.com/Nbie9m2V0q

clip_image005Ronald Rood Safe landing at AMS Happy end if #ofmForum pic.twitter.com/U0v6lxpI6H

clip_image006Lucas Jellema I published a blog article on Adaptive Case Management on the AMIS Technology Blog: http://technology.amis.nl/2014/02/21/acm-organizing-the-chaos-and-flexing-rigid-process-structures-through-adaptive-case-management/ … Inspired by Niall at #ofmforum

clip_image007Henk Jan van Wijk Thank you @soacommunity for the great week we had at #ofmForum in Malta!

clip_image008vinay kumar ‏Thanks to @soacommunity and @wlscommunity for organizing wonderful event in Malta #ofmForum

clip_image009SOA Community Time to go home – flight full of IT geeks feels like a school trip – goodbye Malta #ofmForum pic.twitter.com/OFNYJkiUNN

clip_image003[1]Robert van Mölken Just had my last breakfast in the Hilton on Malta. Thanks @soacommunity for this great week. Will be back next #ofmforum

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clip_image003[2]Robert van Mölken ‏Startend Day 3 at #ofmForum. Today first day of #IoT bootcamp. Using Raspberry Pi, OEP and Go Temp. Sensor. pic.twitter.com/v9IlDk5FLi

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clip_image004[1]Robert Szilinski ‏thank you Jürgen for the organisation of the outstanding #ofmForum event and the spontaneous room party! pic.twitter.com/NP2EGClA9U

clip_image014Steffen Miller ‏IoT lab now also works with 1-wire sensor. #ofmforum @soacommunity pic.twitter.com/8gY5G0ZW9Z

clip_image015Simon Haslam ‏ Mr OEP @gschmutz built a BAM dashboard in his spare time in the #ofmForum IoT boot camp… v impressive! pic.twitter.com/ZPJ6BjltUu

clip_image016Ronald Luttikhuizen ‏And finally, the view from the bootcamp location at #ofmForum pic.twitter.com/WpaCnJmQy0

clip_image017Oracle WebLogic chatting in the ACE room of the Weblogic Virtual Developer Day from #ofmForum with @lucasjellema @simon_haslam http://pub.vitrue.com/ZPnj

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clip_image016[1]Ronald Luttikhuizen ‏Happy coding & testing at ACM bootcamp #ofmForum pic.twitter.com/4bqosBYdV1

clip_image015[1]Simon Haslam ‏Lots of pi at #ofmForum IoT boot camp with @nicovanbenthem & @olveslind – mobile app & BPM running pic.twitter.com/y8FoIkPAvE

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clip_image014[1]Steffen Miller ‏Raspberry with 1.8" display and projection keyboard @t_winterberg testing at #ofmforum IoT bootcamp pic.twitter.com/fHxmPVTMoy

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clip_image016[2]Ronald Luttikhuizen ‏Excellent start of the ACM bootcamp by Niall Commiskey at #ofmforum pic.twitter.com/3kPm5jMlbs

clip_image015[2]Simon Haslam ‏Very interesting start by Harish Gaur at #ofmForum IoT bootcamp pic.twitter.com/h0mzRqTa42

clip_image024gschmutz ‏Now the @soacommunity partner community awards: congrats: congrats to @t_winterberg and the Optiz team for winning the BPM award! #ofmForum

clip_image025AMIS, Oracle & Java ‏“@orakelvandelphi: #ofmForum last session of today: ACED hacking an application pic.twitter.com/cQ0w3wrobn”

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clip_image005[1]Ronald Rood ACE hacking session, building SOA servers in 12 mins ON #ofmForum #IMPRESSIVE pic.twitter.com/wm9PZoPkVL

clip_image006[1]Lucas Jellema ‏Juergen saying farewell to everyone not doing the handson at #ofmForum @soacommunity pic.twitter.com/b1Pg6CkgEn

clip_image006[2]Lucas Jellema ‏Frank Nimphius taking us on a tour of the mobile world and the ADF Mobile framework (and its near future) #ofmForum

clip_image028Torsten Winterberg ‏Listening to interesting Oracle SOA Suite 12c stuff at #ofmforum by Robert Wunderlich. All about developer productivity and industrial soa

clip_image029C2B2 Consulting ‏We’re proud to announce that C2B2 won the WebLogic Partner Community Award at #ofmforum 2014! @wlscommunity #webLogic pic.twitter.com/5lBvh1iuMk

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clip_image028[1]Torsten Winterberg ‏@t_winterberg Feb 18

Thanks to our great SOA/BPM team!! OPITZ won the BPM community award at #ofmforum 2014!! @soacommunity @OC_WIRE pic.twitter.com/iBCnRDuHFm

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clip_image015[3]Simon Haslam ‏Ed Zou: middleware is at the heart of cloud initiatives #ofmForum pic.twitter.com/JBX1OVxbG0

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Introducing Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com Integration

April 3, 2014 Leave a comment

Screen Shot 2013-12-11 at 2.32.34 PM.png“A game changer”

As the CTO of Oracle partner Rubicon Red stated, this is a “game changer” for Oracle. There is no need for separate integration approaches for cloud and on-premises applications. “Oracle has reduced the cost and complexity with a simplified and unified approach”.

The “Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com” has been released today and lets Oracle take your Salesforce.com customers out of isolation and into a unified application environment spanning cloud and on-premises.

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Screenshot of Salesforce.com adapter fully integrated into Oracle SOA Suite

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Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com (11.1.1.7.0) Now Generally Available – Press Release.

April 2, 2014 Leave a comment

  • This adapter is certified to work with Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7.0

 

 

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