SOA Blackbelt training – results & best practices

August 26, 2013 1 Comment

We hosted our 3rd SOA Blackbelt training for partners from June 11th – 14th 2013 in Berlin Germany. The first SOA Blackbelt took place in June 2010 in London and the second on January 2011 in Johannesburg. Special thanks to the trainer team Simone Geib , Rajesh Raheja and Flavius Sana & Niall Commiskey for running the 3rd SOA Partner Blackbelt training!

If you missed the training, thanks to Lonnekes blog posts for the excellent summery about the training.

You can find all twitter posts from the attendees #soablackbelt and some impressions at our facebook page. Want to get the latest news from our product management team? Follow Simone @soasimone and Rajesh @RahejaRajesh at twitter!

Do you want to attend a future SOA Blackbelt training? Make sure you join the SOA Community and read the newsletter! Visit and sign up for the SOA Community (OPN account required).

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Oracle Applications Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference Booklet

August 24, 2013 Leave a comment

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find Oracle Applications Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware references. The booklet is a wonderful resource for sales & portfolio managers and architects to get new ideas clients. Make sure you use references within your sales process! Submit your reference to be written and published at the Oracle website!

We are at the dawn of a new age of information technology. The pace of business change, and the need to simultaneously generate cost reduction and drive innovation is stressing IT operating models as never before. Traditional enterprise systems such as ERP, while critically important as systems of record and in driving standardized processes and data, cannot alone deliver the agility and innovation required. A new enterprise systems framework is needed.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is the leading business innovation platform for the enterprise and the cloud. Using a layered approach with Oracle Fusion Middleware, enterprises can leverage their existing enterprise investments while offering new and unique capabilities that the Business requires. Oracle Fusion Middleware products enable a layered approach today with Oracle Applications and are also the foundation for next generation Oracle Fusion Applications.

With over 120,000 Fusion Middleware customers, and 80,000 Oracle Applications customers we are already seeing many customers realize the benefits of a layered approach to Enterprise Applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Many of these customers are using Fusion Middleware in the context of Oracle Applications today, to:

  • “Simplify” – minimize IT complexity and lower cost while ensuring security, reliability and optimal performance through (i) Enterprise Security and (ii) Infrastructure Modernization
  • “Differentiate” – drive business effectiveness and deliver growth through (i) Business Process Agility (ii) Enterprise Application Extensions and (iii) Cloud and On-Premise Integrations
  • “Innovate” – drive business innovation, change and industry leadership by connecting people, information, and applications anywhere, anytime through (i) Enterprise Mobility (ii) Online Engagement (iii) Self-Service Enablement4.

Oracle offers the efficiency of working with a single, strategic partner for all of your middleware requirements, as well as the cost effectiveness of certified integrations with Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, and Oracle Engineered Systems. With market-leading and best-in-class offerings across every product line, Oracle Fusion Middleware can enable you to maximize the processes and applications that drive your business today and provide a foundation for innovation in the future.

I would like to invite you to review a selection of our customer references. These companies have realized significant benefits and we are confident that your company can also realize similar benefits by leveraging Oracle Fusion Middleware with Oracle Applications and next generation Oracle Fusion Applications.

Amit Zavery, Vice President, Product Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware.

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BPM 11g PS6 Hands-on Workshop by PTS September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden

August 23, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the #1 application infrastructure foundation. It enables enterprises to create and run agile and intelligent business applications and maximize IT efficiency by exploiting modern hardware and software architectures. Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 11g integrates BPMN 2.0-based modeling, simulation, optimization, execution, management and monitoring of business processes into a complete lifecycle that supports rapid change. Oracle BPM Suite is built on the industry’s leading SOA infrastructure of Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

This FREE hands-on workshop covers the life cycle of a business process from analysis, modeling, simulation, process customization and monitoring using Oracle BPM Suite 11g. The process modeled in the workshop includes integrating with web services, creating complex human workflows with user interfaces for task forms and incorporating rule engine-based decision services.

After taking this course on Oracle BPM Suite 11g, you can go onto build industry-focused solutions, customer-facing demos, proof-of-concepts (POCs), pilot implementations and reference architectures. You will also be able to extend your current SOA implementations with BPMN based business processes. If you are a J2EE, SOA, BPM developer or consultant – you cannot afford to miss this workshop!

September 17-19 2013: Oracle Kista, Sweden.

For details please visit the registration page.

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Oracle Cloud partnership with Salesforce & Microsoft and NetSuite – it is all about Middleware!

August 23, 2013 Leave a comment

Is Salesfore CRM the better CRM System? I work for Oracle I can’t answer this question!

Is Oracle Middleware the better platform? Yes Salesforce plans to standardize on Oracle Middleware! Yes I work for the Oracle Middleware team.

Is Windows 8 a good operating system? I work for Oracle I can’t answer this question!

Can you run WebLogic on Microsoft Azure? Yes WebLogic is the best Application Server! Yes I work for the Oracle Middleware team. Oracle just announced partnerships with Salesforce, NetSuite and Microsoft and middleware plays a key role:

CRM The World's Favorite Customer Relationship Management - Salesforce.comOracle and Salesforce.com have announced:

  • Salesforce.com plans to standardise on Oracle Linux, Exadata, the Oracle Database, and Java Middleware.
  • Oracle plans to integrate salesforce.com with the Oracle HCM Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud, and provide the core technology to power salesforce.com’s applications and platform.
  • Salesforce.com will implement the Oracle HCM Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud NetSuite Business Software: Accounting, CRM, Ecommerce, ERP, Inventorythroughout the company.

Oracle and NetSuite, have announced:

  • We will work together to help mid-size customers gain a competitive advantage by implementing SaaS solutions quickly and at a lower cost.
  • Oracle and NetSuite will deliver integrated HCM and ERP Cloud Services for mid-size customers.

MicrosoftOracle and Microsoft have announced:

  • Oracle will certify and support Oracle software – including Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server – on Windows Server Hyper-V and in Windows Azure.
  • Microsoft will offer Java, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server to Windows Azure customers.
  • Oracle will make Oracle Linux available to Windows Azure customers.

“It’s clear that Oracle continues to drive change in the global IT market, building an incredible platform for our customers both on-premise and in the cloud. These partnerships will create new opportunities for Oracle while providing value for our customers.” Loic Le Guisquet, Executive Vice President Oracle EMEA".

Oracle Middleware is the key to customize and integrate 3rd party SaaS solution or Oracle Applications in the cloud or on-premises.

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B2B & adapters training and SOA Governance training part of the OFM Summer Camps III

August 22, 2013 Leave a comment

As part of our Fusion Middleware Summer Camps III in Lisbon we will offer a SOA Suite 11g B2B & Adapters training and a Oracle SOA Governance training.

Both technologies are key for SOA! SOA Adapters and b2b are used for cloud integration, a key topic for today and the future! SOA Governance is key in each SOA Project to ensure and proof success, technical and business!

SOA Suite 11g B2B & Adapters Highlights training

  • Introduction (High Level  Features, Categorization etc)
  • Essentials of EIS Connectivity and JCA
  • Adapters Integration with SOA Suite and OSB
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Threading, Transactions and Fault Handling Capabilities
  • High Availability
  • Performance tuning and Large Payload Considerations
  • Drill down into Technology Adapters
  • File/FTP Adapter
  • JMS Adapter
  • DB Adapter
  • MQ Adapter
  • AQ Adapter
  • UMS Adapter
  • Socket Adapter
  • Overview of Enterprise Application Adapters
  • Overview of Mainframe and CDC Adapters
  • Summary

Trainers: Scott Haaland and Ramkumar Menon.

For details and registration please visit our registration page OFM Summer Camps III.

SOA Governance Highlights training
The Oracle SOA Governance Session focuses on introducing you to the crucial discipline of managing your SOA/Integration projects using the Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER), based on SOA Governance principles.

Whether you are a Developer, an Architect or a Business Manager, OER has a lot to offer to help you make the most of your SOA initiatives – a Service Catalogue, Automated Publishing, Lifecycle Management, Policies and Reporting, to name a few. OER is a powerful and flexible tool that you can leverage to manage all aspects of SOA Governance – People, Processes and Tools.

What’s more – we will also talk about our popular OER Rapid Start 30-day program delivered exclusively by Oracle Partners or Oracle Consulting. OER Rapid Start is a 30-day program, delivered to many of our customers, to kick start their  SOA Governance initiative right from engaging the right stakeholders, defining lifecycles, publishing their services to tracking ROI on their SOA investments.

The session will be lab-based giving you hands-on experience on the most popular customer use cases with OER.

Trainer: Yogesh Sontakke.

For details and registration please visit our registration page OFM Summer Camps III.

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Cloud computing your Middleware Service opportunity!

August 22, 2013 Leave a comment

More and more companies adopt cloud computing to benefit from the advantages like usage based cost and time to market. What does this mean for your consulting business as a system integrator? Typically large companies who start to adopt Software as a Service (SaaS) like CRM (Salesfore or Oracle CRM) or HCM (Workday or Oracle HCM), they need to adopt this cloud solutions to their specific needs and integrate their existing on-premises solutions like billing or financial ledger. Demo: Hybrid Cloud Integrations using Oracle SOA Suite – Blog/Video

What is the value proposition of Cloud Computing for System Integrators?

  • Integration of the SaaS solution is a large service opportunity
  • SaaS and integration solution from one vendor Oracle (reduce risk and cost)
  • Proven middleware integration solution at thousands of customers! (re-use of the existing integration platform)

Oracle offers today SaaS Integration Program for 3rd party (SIs and ISVs) to build Oracle Validated Integrations – Find a Partner Solution.

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Oracle Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet

August 21, 2013 Leave a comment

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet. The booklet is a wonderful resource for sales, portfolio managers and architects to get new ideas clients. Make sure you use references within your sales process! Submit your reference to be written and published at the Oracle website!

We are at the dawn of a new age of information technology. For a very long time IT has struggled to cope with increase complexity while attempting to be responsive to the changing needs of business. Organizations are now embracing the promise of social, mobile, fast data, and cloud computing – in the hope of leveraging a whole new approach to running IT never imagined before. At Oracle, we have been working hard on making the advance – social, mobile, fast data, cloud technologies and avail it to our Oracle Fusion Middleware customers.

With over 120,000 customers, Oracle Fusion Middleware is the only middleware available from any vendor that provides a complete, open, and integrated approach across all middleware solutions including development tools, application servers, identity management, service integration, data integration, business process management, content management, business intelligence, and enterprise portals. Oracle offers the efficiency of working with a single, strategic partner for all of your middleware requirements, as well as the cost effectiveness of certified integrations with Oracle Database, Oracle Applications, and Oracle Engineered Systems. With market-leading and best-in-class offerings across every product line, Oracle Fusion Middleware can enable you to maximize the processes and applications that drive your business today and provide a foundation for innovation in the future.

I would like to invite you to review a selection of our customer references. These companies have realized significant benefits and we are confident that your company can also realize similar benefits with Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Amit Zavery, Vice President, Product Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware

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Sales Briefing Fiscal Year 2014 go to market SOA & BPM

August 19, 2013 Leave a comment

We want to make sure your sales and pre-sales A&C teams are trained like the Oracle middleware sales team. Therefore we would like to encourage you to read the Oracle internal middleware sales presentations. Please use the sales material in the spirit of our partnership. Please do not publish any information – all material is Oracle & Partner confidential. For customer presentations please use the external customer presentations at our Community Workspace! In addition to this you can find marketing kits for the key initiatives to run joint campaigns.

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find:

Each presentation includes sales plays (customer examples, discovery questions, competitive information and objective handling), market overview and product updates.

All this information is Oracle and Partner confidential!

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SOA Governance 11g Implementation book by Luis Augusto Weir & Andrew Bell

August 16, 2013 Leave a comment

This book will show the reader how to successfully implement SOA Governance using Oracle’s SOA Gov ernance Suite 11g based on practical examples and real world use cases.

This book is intended for Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects and SOA consultants who want to successfully implement SOA Governance using the Oracle SOA Governance Suite of products. The book assumes that although the reader may have previous experience and/or exposure to the Oracle SOA Suite 11g, and may have general knowledge of SOA Governance, the reader doesn’t have practical experience implementing the Oracle SOA Governance Suite.

Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation: RAWKey Features:

  • Understanding SOA Governance, its key concepts, goals and objectives and how to implement these using the Oracle SOA Governance Suite.
  • Execute a SOA Maturity Assessment in order to capture the SOA Governance challenges specific to your organization.
  • Implement Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) and Oracle Service Registry (OSR) to address your organisation’s SOA Governance Design-time and Runtime requirements.
  • Implement Runtime Governance using Oracle Web Service Manager (WSM) security policies and by leveraging Oracle Enterprise Manager’s (OEM) key management features.
  • Achieve close-loop governance by feeding OER with runtime operational metrics and enforcing service reuse in OER.

The book is available at Packt Looking for additional SOA books or You published a book feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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