Calling all Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovators Submit your Nominations for the 2013 Oracle Excellence Awards: Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation

June 10, 2013 Leave a comment

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Have you implemented successful SOA Suite 11g or BPM Suite 11g? Make sure you nominate this customer implementation for the  Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation 2013 Awards! We want to bring them again to home, Europe! The nomination should be focused on the customer benefits you achieved with leading edge Oracle Middleware solutions. Let us know if you want a nice quote from us to support your nomination.

Is your organization using Oracle Fusion Middleware to deliver unique business value? If so, let the world know and submit a nomination today for the Oracle Excellence Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation. These highly in-demand awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Winners are selected based on the uniqueness of their business case, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of the organization, complexity and magnitude of implementation, and the originality of architecture. Winners receive a free pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco (September 22-26) and will be honored during a special event at OpenWorld.

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To be considered for this award, please complete the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation nomination form for your specific category and send it to: Innovation-Middleware_us@oracle.com.

NOTE: The deadline to submit all nominations is 5pm Pacific on June 18, 2013.

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June 7, 2013 Leave a comment

 

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Improve performance and maintenance of heavily used SOA composites by Cattle Crew

June 6, 2013 Leave a comment

As stated in a previous post, heavily used transient BPEL processes should be configured with some well-defined parameters in order to avoid storing too much data in the database, thus optimizing performance.

However, even if BPEL processes inside the composite are configured this way, data of other components like mediators and the composite itself are all stored in the database. How much information is stored can be influenced by the audit level setting. As of documentation, the audit levels are defined as follows:

  • Off: No composite instance tracking and payload tracking information is collected. No more composite instances can be created. No logging is performed. Note that disabling logging and the display of instances in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control Console can result in a slight performance increase for processing instances. Instances are created, but are not displayed.
  • Development: Enables both composite instance tracking and payload detail tracking. However, this setting may impact performance. This level is useful largely for testing and debugging purposes.
  • Production: Composite instance tracking is collected, but the Oracle Mediator service engine does not collect payload details and the BPEL process service engine does not collect payload details for assign activities (payload details for other BPEL activities are collected). This level is optimal for most normal production operations.

faultsGenerally, the SOA Infrastructure audit level is set to Production or Development – depending on the environment – and the composites are set to inherit this audit level. In case of an intensively used composite this means that a lot of data is persisted in the database.
The audit level, however, can be overridden for every composite. Since the data from the transient, short-lived composites is not needed, the setting Off for the relevant composite should be an interesting option to consider. Three questions must be answered:

  • How much information is persisted from the composite instance?
  • How much information is persisted from the component instances inside the composite?
  • What happens in case of an error?

Read the full article here.

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BPM 11g JDeveloper IDE PS5 Bug for Process ExecData by Andrejus Baranovskis

June 5, 2013 Leave a comment

I was hitting ugly BPM 11g JDeveloper IDE PS5 bug recently. This bug is strange, because is reproduced just after JDeveloper restart for the working process. Imagine you have valid BPM process, everything works well – restart JDeveloper and suddenly BPM process is corrupted. In my specific scenario I was referencing system attribute from BPM execData – execData object is suddenly lost after JDeveloper restart. I don’t have solution for this yet, just want to share with you the use case for this BPM 11g JDeveloper IDE PS5 bug.
Sample application (SimpleProcess.zip) contains BPM process with one basic Human Task activity: When you create Human Task activity – execData object is available in Data Associations. Read the full article here.

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C2B2 educational webinars – Oracle SOA Suite 11g

June 4, 2013 Leave a comment

C2B2 educational webinars - Oracle SOA Suite 11gC2B2 is running a new series of short and snappy educational webinars about Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Delivered by C2B2 experienced middleware consultants, the webinars provide insight and ideas for the performance tuning of Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Webinars:

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Fusion Middleware for Apps Reference Guide & Inside Oracle Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware

June 3, 2013 Leave a comment

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the latest Fusion Midddleware for Applications presentations:

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SOA Made Simple by Lonneke Dikmans , Ronald van Luttikhuizen

May 31, 2013 Leave a comment

SOA Made SimpleSOA is an industry term which is often preached like a religion rather than taught like a technology, and over time, grasping the concept has become unnecessarily difficult.

Many companies proclaim that they do not know where to begin with SOA, while others have begun their SOA effort but have not reaped the benefits they were convinced it would bring.

“SOA Made Simple” explains what SOA is in simple terminology and by using real-life examples. Service-orientation is already a very natural way of thinking for business stakeholders that want to realize and sell services to potential clients, and this book helps you to realize that concept both in theory and practice. After reading “SOA Made Simple” you will have a clear understanding of what SOA is so you can implement and govern SOA in your own organization. If you are an architect who wants to be completely clear in your understanding of what SOA is, then this book is essential. In fact, anyone (designer, developer, administrator or team lead) who is implementing or about to implement an architecture in an IT environment should not miss out on “SOA Made Simple”.

If you published a book feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Insurance SOA & BPM DSS Demo

May 30, 2013 Leave a comment

For access to the Oracle demo systems please visit OPN and talk to your Partner Expert Highlights.
Introduction This demo is a business solution for Insurance domain and showcases how Insurance companies can sell Insurance online. This enables users to quote and buy the policy online. The solution covers the breadth of Fusion Middleware stack. We have WebCenter Spaces for Intranet Site, WebCenter portal application for Customer interfacing site, IDM for Security, SOA/BPM to orchestrate the business use case, UCM as Content Server, OBIEE for reporting and OBIEE Publisher to generate summary pdf reports on the fly. Java Mail Server to relay email messages to customers.

Highlights

  • BPM plays a critical role by providing proactive real-time insight through a flexible real-time decision engine
  • Reduces data entry redundancy and improves quote-to-sale ratios
  • Manages complete process to reduce service cost for end customers
  • Helps businesses to shift from a product-focused to a customer-focused business model
  • Uses MDM for business data and Insbridge for Insurance data capture

Demo Flow Client requests for a quote by entering cover details, employment details, personal details in the alamere portal application. Request quote data is evaluated and decision is taken whether to generate quote or forward the quote for approval before confirming it. Manual approval of the quote by underwriters. Communication between underwriters using BPM Process Spaces. Tracking of the BPM Process instance in Process Spaces. Communication to the client by emails. Buying the Insurance policy by the client. Policy confirmation to the client in the account of the client and through email. For more information and access visit OPN.

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SOA Community Newsletter May 2013

May 29, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Oracle’s fiscal years ends in May – let us know if you need any support to close your SOA or BPM opportunity! We are happy to arrange a conference call or visit with you and your customer. May is the last chance to get a free voucher to be Oracle certified Expert in SOA & BPM!

Together with a team of SOA experts, including Dr. SOA, we publish a 14th articles series about Industrial SOA OTN and the Service Technology Magazine. We are keen to discuss your experience and to
share your best practice, please send us your feedbackTwitter @twitter/soacommunity  #industrialSOA!

Like the past years, we want to bring the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation home to Europe! Let us know if you want to submit a nomination, we are happy to support it and write a nice quote for you.

This month’s newsletter key topic is Adaptive Case Management (ACM), which is one of the key new features of BPM PS6. Danilo Schniedel, Leon Smiers and Mark Foster published excellent articles about ACM. To get a good impression of BPM PS6 watch the video from the A-Team or attend the on-demand seven Webcasts Series. At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can test and BPM iPad mobile worklist demo application.

You can find the latest presentation about Oracle Event Processing PS6 Enhancements & Quick Start Guide to build fast data solution for big data environments also at our Workspace. For Device to Device (D2D) solutions and integrations we published D2D Executive Overview & D2D Value Proposition.

If you want to demo BPM Suite PS6 and SOA Suite PS6 make sure you use the hosted demo services. To get access to the demo environment please contact OPN! At the demo environment you will find a starter kit as well as customizable demos.

Shanny Anoep published an article” What’s new in Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 PS6”, and Mark Nelson about SOA Version Control. The Amis team published a SOA Suite definitive guide to: The UMS adapter (11.1.1.7). To size your SOA solution we published SOA performance on SPARC T5 benchmark results. Make sure you also use the SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC. A great feature to discover in SOA Suite 11g is the b2b functionality, to learn more attend our b2b training on 21-22 May in Amsterdam.

In the Service Bus section of the newsletter we feature the Fault Handling and Prevention (II) by Ronald van Luttikhuizen & Guido Schmutz and Building OSB projects with Maven and removing the eclipse dependency by Mark Nelson.

Do you want to speak about your success and best practices? Submit your paper for the UKOUG Technology Conference 2013 which will be taking place on 2nd – 4th December at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. For additional call for papers please visit our C4P wiki. Please feel free to add yourself to the conference!

Wish you great success to close all your SOA & BPM opportunities! And thanks for the collaboration & success in fiscal year 2013!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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Push Fast Data to the Edge by Mala Ramakrishnan

May 29, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle Event ProcessingOracle today announced the availability of Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embedded, a smaller footprint version of Oracle Event Processing (OEP) tailored for deployment on gateways. This can change the game plan for your organization’s responsiveness by harnessing Fast Data.

With an increase in the number of mobile devices and the ubiquity of high speed connectivity, we are entering an era where organizations can change their game plan with responsiveness. There is an explosion of data generated by mobile devices – not just cell phones, but large volumes of data coming from implementations such as industrial and building control, e-health, smart grid and home automation that need support for edge devices like wireless modules for Machine to Machine communication (M2M) and environmental sensors. However to be responsive, this large volume of high velocity data from varied sources has to be converted to actionable insight. In addition this data loses relevance with time. Fast Data is taking meaningful action on this large volume of data as it gets generated.

Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embedded allows embedding OEP on gateways. This allows embedding intelligence to filter and correlate the data as it occurs, as close to the devices as possible. Oracle Event Processing for Oracle Java Embedded will provide companies the ability to handle massive volume and growth of data coming from edge devices by processing data closer to the source.

In addition to this capacity to embed a lightweight event processing engine on gateways, OEP provides flexible deployment options: standalone, integrated as part of the Oracle SOA stack as well as on embedded devices. This gives you a versatile, high performing event processing engine that can be deployed just about anywhere to process fast data.

To learn more visit us at Oracle Event Processing and to understand more on Fast Data watch our webcast: Fast Data Solutions.

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