Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) 11g (11.1.1.7) Starter Kit available & Customizable Demos

June 26, 2013 Leave a comment

OFM PS6 starter kit is now available from Global Sales Engineering (GSE, formerly DSS).  OFM Starter Kit provides a basic foundation to design and develop middleware demos. It is based on plug and play architecture and designed to use optimal hardware resources.  The starter kit is easily extendable to incorporate more Oracle Fusion Middleware components.

New Features

  • Built on the "Build your own demos (POC)" concept
  • Starter Kit comes with core OFM Components
    • Oracle Unified Directory (OUD, SOA, WebCenter Content and WebCenter Spaces)
  • Starter Kit is available over the Internet and is tuned for optimal performance
  • Portable/Downloadable version of the Starter Kit will be available soon. Please check Demos Corner.

For and questions/feedback please contact chandan Das or Anand Prasad.

Call to Action
Review the Release Notes. & Visit the GSE Website and book the “OFM 11.1.1.7.0 Base Platform” customizable instance. Further information about this platform is available on this page. This announcement will appear in the archive as number 412.

Customizable Demos
We are happy to announce the availability of the SOA 11.1.1.7.0 Platform.  SOA 11g (11.1.1.7) Platform is fully featured, built on Plug and Play architecture, and designed to develop best of breed SOA demos.

New Features

  • Built on the "Build your own demos" concept
  • Fusion Middleware products SOA, BAM, OSB, OEP, OER, OSR, WebCenter Content and WebCenter Spaces are installed, configured, and tuned for better performance
  • Demo instances are available over the Internet
  • Portable version of the platform will be available soon. Please check Demos Corner

For questions/feedback please contact Anvesh Baluguri or Anand Prasad.

Call to Action
Review the Release Notes & Visit the GSE Website and book the “SOA 11.1.1.7.0 Platform” customizable demo. Further information about this platform is available on this page.  This announcement will appear in the archive as number 413.

To get access to the demo environment please contact OPN!

Support If you need assistance or encounter any issues please submit a GSE Repository ticket or call the GSE Support Hotline for assistance. The GSE Support Hotline is available 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday, at: US/CAN: +1.650.506.8763 & EMEA: +44 118 9240808 & APAC: +65.6436.2150 & LAD: +1.650.506.8763 & Japan: +81-3-6834-6097.

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Cutting Edge versus Just Average? Your SOA, Got BPM? by Mala Ramakrishnan

June 25, 2013 2 Comments

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has completely transformed IT from the time it was introduced well over a decade ago. Organizations have been re-plumbing their infrastructure for reusability, efficiency and gain and succeeding with it. Best practices have emerged and people and technology have matured. We have got better at delivering on a stable platform on mission critical applications and services.

Yet, there is this one secret that sets some SOA customers apart from the others. These companies grow and revolutionize their business and not just transform their IT infrastructure. The differences seem subtle for an untrained eye examining these organizations externally. And from within the company, it’s a bit like an ant sitting on an elephant, hard to differentiate between the IT trunk and business tail.

What is it that some organizations do differently that makes them succeed beyond SOA?
These organizations pull in business people more and more to weigh into their IT decisions. They wrench understanding process over services. They don’t settle easily when bridging business metrics and IT performance. They anguish over business requirements not translating seamlessly and quickly into IT. IT is not just an enabler but a pillar that revolutionizes their business. Okay, I’ll give it to you. These organizations layer Business Process Management (BPM) on top of their SOA.

BPM WebcastThink about lifeblood business processes in your own organizations. If you are Fedex, this would be shipping and handling. If you are Stanford Hospital, this would be patient case-management: from on-boarding through discharge and follow-up care. If you are Wells Fargo, this would be loan origination. Now think about how your SOA ties into your business process.

  • Can you decouple your business processes from your SOA so that the two can transform and change independent of each other?
  • Can you forecast success metrics for your business process, make the changes across the board and then look back over different periods of time to see if you are on track?
  • Are your critical business processes entrenched in the minds of few experts in your organization or does everyone from the receptionist to your enterprise architect to your CEO understand what they can do to revolutionize it?

Business Process Management is a superset of SOA. It is the process of getting your business to articulate business value and metrics and have it implemented in IT without any loss in translation. It is the act of extracting the business process from the minds of experts and IT applications in your organization and valuing them as assets for performance and gain. BPM is stepping outside your SOA and moving your organization to the next level of innovation.

Oracle is accelerating BPM across industries with the latest launch. Join us to understand how BPM can give your organization a cutting edge over your SOA.

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BPM PS6 video showing process lifecycle in more detail (30min) by Mark Nelson

June 24, 2013 Leave a comment

If the five minute video I shared last week has whet your appetite for more, then this might be just what you are looking for!

The same international team that has made that video – Andrew Dorman, Tanya Williams, Carlos Casares, Joakim Suarez and James Calise – have also created a thirty minute version that walks through in much more detail and shows you, from the perspective of various business stakeholders involved in process modeling, exactly how BPM PS6 supports the end to end process lifecycle. The video centres around a Retail Leasing use case, and follows how Joakim the Business Analyst, Pablo the Process Owner, and James the Process Analyst take the process from conception to runtime, solely through BPM Composer, without the need for IT or the use of JDeveloper.

  • Joakim, the Business Analyst, models the process, designs the user interaction forms, and creates business rules,
  • Pablo, the Process Owner, reviews the process documentation and tests the process using the new ‘Process Player’,
  • James, the Process Analyst, analyses the process and identifies potential bottle necks using ‘Process Simulation’.

Read the full article here.

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Build in better usability with UX Direct

June 22, 2013 Leave a comment

The Oracle Applications User Experience team has created a program called Oracle UX Direct to provide customers, partners, and consultants in the enterprise industry with design best-practices and tools that they can leverage to make their enterprise implementations more successful. Read the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog to learn more about why the program was created, and visit the UX Direct web site to find out how to introduce design thinking during the implementation stage. Create a solution that best fits the needs of users from the beginning. Read more about UX Direct on VoX.

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Oracle Event Processing PS6 Enhancements & Quick Start Guide

June 21, 2013 Leave a comment

The latest release of Oracle Event Processing (OEP) is focused on the Big Data Integration = Fast Data.

New features include: Oracle Event Processing

  • Product artifact rename "Complex Event Processing" to “Event Processing”
  • Solutions/Packaging
    • Parameterized OEP applications and libraries, with public metadata to document the application
  • Big Data Integration (FAST DATA)
    • NoSqlDb Cartridge
    • Hadoop Cartridge
  • User Defined CQL Fault Handlers
    • Allows developer to catch and handle errors that occur in CQL queries
  • List-based Aggregations
    • Allows CQL aggregation functions to create Java collections
  • Support for Eclipse Indigo (3.7.2)
  • Usability
    • Persistence for EventInspector configuration
  • Performance Optimizations

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the OEP PS6 Enhancements.pptx & Oracle CEP Quick Start.ppt

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Adaptive Case Management Series by Mark Foster

June 20, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks to Mark Foster from the A-Team. He published a series of Adaptive Case Management articles:

Case Management Part 1: An Introduction by Mark Foster
With the release of PS6 on 1st April, Case Management made its appearance. In this series of blogs Mark intend to

  • introduce the concept of case management
  • explain the anatomy of a case management project in BPM 11g
  • explain the lifecycle of a typical case management project at runtime
  • give pointers as to best practices in the design of a case management project

Case Management Part 1: An Introduction [Read More]

Case Management Part 2: Anatomy of a Project by Mark Foster

In Oracle BPM 11g PS6, BPM Studio (JDeveloper) is the design-time environment for Case Management. This blog entry will describe the make-up of a Case Management project in BPM Studio, stepping through all the terms and properties associated but will stop short of giving recommendations or best-practices, which will follow in a later blog entry.

BPM Studio: Case Management Project Read More.

Case Management Part 3: Runtime Lifecycle of a Project by Mark Foster

Now we understand what Case Management is and the anatomy of an Oracle BPM 11g PS6 Case Management project, we can look at the simplified lifecycle of a project at runtime, how the stakeholder interacts, what happens when a Case Activity is triggered, what happens when it ends etc.

Case Management Runtime Lifecycle Read More.

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SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC

June 19, 2013 Leave a comment

If you run your SOA Suite on SPARC make sure you read the SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC. The guide contains details about:

  • Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Test Overview
  • Oracle Service Bus Microbenchmark Test Overview
  • Test Configuration
  • Hardware Configuration
  • Software Configuration
  • Partitioning Using Oracle VM Server for SPARC
  • Generalized Performance Data
  • Performance Tuning Methods
  • BPEL Infrastructure Tuning Parameters
  • Oracle Service Bus Performance Tuning
  • Conclusion
  • Links and Further Resources

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Mastering Oracle BPM Suite 11g Webcast Series

June 18, 2013 Leave a comment

This seven part series is for architects, developers, and anyone who is interested in better understanding the use, deployment, and best practices for managing processes with Oracle BPM Suite 11g. By joining this series of seven Webcasts you will get information on use, deployment, and best practices.

BPM-related topics will include:

  • Planning
  • Mastering Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN)
  • Rule usage
  • Monitoring
  • Development with APIs
  • Deployment

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Register here for the on-demand Webcast Series.

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BPM mobile worklist demo for iOS

June 17, 2013 2 Comments

Thanks to Manoj you can find a first demo of a BPM mobile worklist at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required):

Additional Andrejus Baranovskis our ADF Guru build a Oracle BPM 11g Mobile Worklist with ADF Mobile.

Let us know when you test the demo – we are looking forward to get your feedback!

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Read about the Cloud and the Oracle user experience

June 15, 2013 Leave a comment

Consumers have already seen the benefit of a cloud approach with tailored, consumer-driven experiences. Find out what that means for Oracle’s enterprise applications on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog.

Do you want to hear more about the Oracle Cloud and other UX innovations? UX architect Misha Vaughan writes about what Oracle Apps UX is sharing with the team’s Sales Ambassador (SAMBA) representatives in this post on VoX.

Spot the Oracle user experience design pattern Visit this post by Ultan O’Broin, Director of User Experience, to go design-pattern spotting in the Oracle Fusion Mobile Expenses app. O’Broin also takes a different angle on design patterns and talks with Oracle partner Innowave Technologies about how they used design patterns in this post on the Usable Apps blog.

Watch this interview with Oracle’s Apps UX VP ACE Director Debra Lilley interviews Apps UX Vice President Jeremy Ashley about the new, simplified UI for Oracle Fusion Applications in this video, courtesy of the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG).

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