eProseed Delivers Processes Skillfully with Oracle BPM Suite

March 11, 2013 Leave a comment

Geoffroy de Lamalle, CEO and Founder of eProseed, discusses how Oracle BPM Suite enables businesses to integrate business processes and achieve higher efficiency.

You want to publish your BPM success? Feel free to make use of the partner reference program:

  • Enables partners to be recognized by both Oracle and our customers
  • Provides an opportunity for partners to showcase successes with their customers on Oracle solutions
  • Helps raise awareness of our partners’ capabilities, elevating them above their competition

Time to submit a BPM & SOA reference request today.

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RDA Health Checks for SOA By Shawn Bailey

March 10, 2013 Leave a comment

What is a health check in RDA?
A health check evaluates something in your environment to determine whether a change needs to be considered in order to avoid a problem or optimize fuctionality. Examples of what this ‘something’ might be are:

  • Configuration Parameters
  • JVM Options
  • Runtime Statistics

What have we done for SOA?
In the latest release of RDA, 4.30, we have added a Rule Set for SOA called ‘Oracle SOA 11g (11.1.1) Post Installation (Generic)’. This Rule Set contains 14 SOA related health checks.
These checks were all derived from common issues / solutions we see in support of the SOA product. Many of the recommendations come from the product documentation while others are covered in the SOA Knowledge Base. Our goal is that you will be able to easily identify the areas of concern and understand the guidance available from the output of the Rule Set.
Running the health checks for SOA
The rules that the checks use are installed with RDA and bundled by product or functional area into what are called ‘Rule Sets’. To view the available Rule Sets simply run the command from the RDA home location:
rda.cmd (or .sh) -dT hcve
This will bring up a list of the available HCVE (Health Check / Verification Engine) Rule Sets. Each Rule Set contains a group of related rules that are used for evalutation and display of results. A rule can be considered synonymous with a single health check and they are assigned an ID, Name and Description that can be seen when they are executed. The Rule Set for SOA is option number 11 and you just enter this selection at the prompt. The Rule Set will then execute to completion. After running an HCVE Rule Set the tool will write the output to the RDA_HOME/output folder. The simplest way to view the output is to drag the .htm file to a browser but of course it can also be uploaded to a Service Request for evaluation by Oracle Support. Read the full article here.

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Cloud Conversations

March 9, 2013 Leave a comment

Recorded live at OTN Architect Day in Los Angeles in October 2012, these programs in the OTN ArchBeat podcast represent the Q&A between the audience and the experts panel assembled for the event, which included speakers from the day’s technical sessions.

  • Listen to Part 1: Dude, What’s My Role?
    Members of the Architect Day panel respond to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a cloud environment.
  • Listen to Part 2: Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud
    The panel offers advice and examples in response to an audience question about dealing with mission-critical applications.
  • Listen to Part 3: All Clouds Are Not Equal
    The panel responds to a challenging question about cloud strategy with a discussion of enterprise-grade cloud services.
  • Listen to Part 4: Cloud Security and Auditing
    The last segment in the series is short discussion in response to an audience question about auditing and security in the cloud.

A Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Adoption
For enterprises that seek to transform their IT capabilities and avoid disruption in the process, a structured, pragmatic approach to Cloud computing is required. You’ll find one in this practitioner guide, part of the IT Strategies from Oracle library. Read it.

Cloud Foundation
This reference architecture document from the IT Strategies from Oracle library provides architectural principles, standards, concepts, and a conceptual view for Cloud architecture. Read it.

Cloud Infrastructure
Also from the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this reference architecture document focuses on cloud computing from a provider view, covering the capabilities for public and private Clouds, and providing key architecture views to jumpstart a Cloud architecture initiative. Read it.

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“Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? By Bruce Tierney

March 8, 2013 Leave a comment

The short answer is “yes”. Connecting on-premise and cloud applications “in minutes” is true…provided you only consider the connectivity subset of integration and have a small number of cloud integration touch points.

At the recent Gartner AADI conference, 230 attendees filled up the Oracle session to get a more comprehensive answer to this question. During the session, titled “Simplifying Integration – The Cloud & Mobile Pre-requisite”, Oracle’s Tim Hall described cloud connectivity and then, equally importantly, the other essential and sometimes overlooked aspects of integration required to ensure a long term application and service integration strategy. To understand the challenges and opportunities faced by cloud integration, the session started off with a slide that describes how connectivity can quickly transition from simplicity to complexity as the number of applications and service vendor instances grows:Reasons for Cloud Integration Complexity
Increased complexity puts increased demand on the integration platform
As companies expand from on-premise applications into a hybrid on-premise/cloud infrastructure with support for mobile, cloud, and social, there is a new sense of urgency to implement a unified and comprehensive service integration platform. Without getting this unified platform in place, companies face increased complexity and cost managing a growing patchwork of niche integration toolsets as well as the disparate standards mandated by each SaaS vendor as shown in the image below: Read the full article here.

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A-Team – SOA Series of new blog posts

March 7, 2013 Leave a comment

clip_image002The Oracle A-Team shares best practice from large SOA Suite customer projects, make sure you follow their blog:

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B2B samples and training material available

March 6, 2013 Leave a comment

Oracle B2B IntegrationAt our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find b2b training material and samples:

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Generate Tradingpartners for Oracle B2B 11g with Ant by Martien van den Akker

March 5, 2013 Leave a comment

At my previous customer, a Dutch energy infrastructure managing company, I worked on an implementation of AS2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS2) message exchanging with Oracle B2B (part of SOASuite 11g) The company needed to exchange information about energy delivery with other companies that supply and transport energy (in this case natural gas).

Problem
Since there are many companies in the Netherlands that supply and transport gas, we needed to enter about 80 tradingpartners (TP’s), that were very similar in message-exchange capabilities. Instead of entering those 80 TP’s in Oracle B2B by hand, which is a lot of error-prone work, I decided to see if it was possible to automate the process, by generating an export file that would serve as input property file for B2B. Hence, as a start I looked at the B2B selfservice scripts. With those (ANT) scripts you can generate an export file based on a set of definition input xml files. Afterwards this export file can be imported into B2B. This last step can be done manually, but you could even import (deploy) the generated export file and even deploy the agreements automatically.

Generating the export file from an addressing properties input Excel sheet
Oracle B2B IntegrationIn our case we had two roles: shippers and suppliers. There are a few differences between the two tradingpartner roles, but all the shippers have the same capabilities as well as all the suppliers.
Hence, shippers and suppliers send and receive about the same set of messages.
Also, all the TP’s are identified in the same way, using a code. Furthermore, all the addressing properties were delivered in an Excel sheet. So I could generate a property file naming all the TP’s with all their properties and their roles. Based on the TP’s role I determined if the TP should be enabled or not: only suppliers and shippers had to be imported, the rest of the TP’s I disabled in the property file.
Lets take a look in how this was done.

Initializing
For the scripting I have some base targets and a base property file.

The property file: Read the full article here.

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SOA Community Newsletter February 2013

February 28, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

In this newsletter edition we highlighted many new online demos for SOA, BPM and OEP. Being a partner, you can use the same demo systems that Oracle pre-sales consultants use every day for customers. Out of the box demos including a flow & script have been updated. Demos are key in the sales process! To access the DSS demo systems please visit OPN and feel free to talk to your Partner Expert!

With the rise of big and fast data SOA and pattern matching can play a key role, make sure you attend our webcast and get the latest whitepaper. To design SOA architectures, OASIS published a SOA reference architecture and EAIESB a SOA BPEL 2.0 Poster. If you work on SOA project make sure you follow the C2B2 SOA Tuning webcast series and I recommend you to try the SOA Testing utilities.

In the BPM section we published new papers such as Transforming Customer Experience,Cooking Up Successful BPMand BPM in Utilities. In addition to this the BPM DSS Demos to extend Siebel are available. Mark Nelson published a blog post about Collecting diagnostic information for BPM and Jan van Zoggel about Integration of Oracle BPM and Oracle UCM/WCC. Please read these publications and make yourself updated from these shared knowledge.

I will be looking forward to see you all in Portugal for the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013.

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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Top tweets SOA Partner Community – February 2013

February 27, 2013 Leave a comment

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clip_image001SOA Community ‏Fast Data: When Big Data Comes to you Fast–Webcast February 27th 2013 http://wp.me/p10C8u-CN

clip_image001[1]SOA Community Quality Analysis for SOA and Cloud http://wp.me/p10C8u-Ce

clip_image002Simone Geib ‏RT @oracletechnet: Stay in, stay warm, and improve your technical skills with this list of online BPEL and BPMN training resources…

clip_image001[2]SOA Community ‏Winter time is training time! http://wp.me/p10C8u-BV

clip_image003AMIS, Oracle & Java ‏Blog by Marcel van de Glind: "SOA/BPM:Incoming Message dispatcher (part 2 of 2)" http://bit.ly/VGMjDE

clip_image001[3]SOA Community

Your One-Stop Shop for Middleware Webcasts http://wp.me/p10C8u-Cd

clip_image004Rajesh Raheja ‏Community Management: The Next Wave of SOA Governance and API Management http://flip.it/EHv3J

clip_image006Oracle Middleware Miss the BPM demo? Watch it now! http://pub.vitrue.com/PCZM

clip_image007Marc ‏Did some nice performance test with #OSB. Will come back on that later this week, to share the experience. #osb11g @soacommunity

clip_image008Jan van Zoggel ‏blogpost: Integration of Oracle #BPM and Oracle UCM/WCC http://wp.me/p1H430-qO

clip_image009Dain Hansen ‏Fully implemented, free business processes available from industry leader to kick-start BPM implementation. http://pub.vitrue.com/i7AK

clip_image010OTNArchBeat Oracle Service Bus Performance Tuning – RouterRuntimeCache | Mike Muller #soa http://pub.vitrue.com/r6az

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clip_image001[4]SOA Community ‏SOA Community Newsletter January 2013 http://wp.me/p10C8u-BR

clip_image011Mark Nelson ‏Collecting diagnostic information for BPM http://wp.me/pgVeO-H5

clip_image013orclateamsoa ‏Team Blog #ateam: OSB Performance Tuning – RouterRuntimeCache http://ow.ly/2uzXrM

clip_image010[1]OTNArchBeat ‏SOA guru Thomas Erl’s Arcitura Education has launched http://CloudPatterns.org , a community resource. http://pub.vitrue.com/hNLu

clip_image001[5]SOA Community ‏UKOUG Conference middleware track presentations http://wp.me/p10C8u-BS

clip_image001[6]SOA Community Remote Diagnostics Agent webcasts January 30th & 31st 2013 http://wp.me/p10C8u-CF

clip_image014Jon petter hjulstad ‏Learning Oracle Event Processing- cool!

clip_image001[7]SOA Community ‏Top tweets SOA Partner Community – January 2013 http://wp.me/p10C8u-BL

clip_image001[8]SOA Community ‏Writing the February edition of the SOA Community newsletter – send us your content @soacommunity 😉 #soacommunity #oracle #opn

clip_image015Oracle SOA Add the power of discrimination, making enterprises human with Oracle Event Processing http://pub.vitrue.com/Um1C

clip_image002[1]Simone Geib ‏Mala Ramakrishnan: Making Enterprises More Human: Removing the Complexity in Event Processing: http://ow.ly/h9QbX #oraclesoa #oep…

clip_image001[9]SOA Community ‏OOP 2013 – IT Stammtisch thanks to Nicolai Josuttis http://wp.me/p10C8u-Bn

clip_image015[1]Oracle SOA ‏Your next WebEx mtg-powered by Oracle SOA integration. 3-min video on how Cisco managed int, mobile #soa #oraclesoa http://pub.vitrue.com/idMh

clip_image016OracleBlogs ‏SOA Suite 11g Demo http://ow.ly/2utBxg

clip_image016[1]OracleBlogs ‏How to Configure Multiple Authentication Providers for Oracle SOA Suite Human Workflow http://ow.ly/2uqPFU

clip_image017C2B2 Consulting Register to #SOA Webinar Part 2- Diagnosing&Tuning Performance Problems in the #JVM Mon 28th Jan 5pm GMT http://www.c2b2.co.uk/oracle_soa_suite_webinars … @soacommunity

clip_image010[2]OTNArchBeat ‏#Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum – Vilamoura, Portugal – Feb 19-20 #SOA #BPM #WebLogic #ADF http://pub.vitrue.com/HTqX

clip_image006[1]Oracle Middleware ‏The January edition of the Fusion #Middleware Newsletter is now available http://pub.vitrue.com/ZhNi

clip_image001[10]SOA Community ‏@ORCLPartnerBiz At the #soacommunity partners get all material: trainings, documentation, roadmaps, marketing, sales… http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

clip_image016[2]OracleBlogs ‏BPM Integration Days 2013 become an BPM and ACM expert! http://ow.ly/2urP3a

clip_image001[11]SOA Community ‏BPM Integration Days 2013 – become an BPM and ACM expert! http://wp.me/p10C8u-Bk

clip_image001[12]SOA Community ‏Want to learn more about Oracle BPM – become a member in the BPM Partner Community http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa #soacommunity #bpm #oop2013

clip_image018Hajo Normann ‏ #BPM tooling productivity in 2013 is impressive, process modelled, services designed incl. db table, UI impl all in one hour

clip_image001[13]SOA Community ‏Super BPM Session – 3 different tools live overview #OOP2013 thanks to Nicolai Josuttis for the excellent night session! #bpm #soacommunity

clip_image019Kai Wähner ‏Live BPM tooling "contest" with Oracle, SAP and Camunda / Activiti <– Awesome session #OOP2013 http://lockerz.com/s/278908735

clip_image001[14]SOA Community Wow Oracle BPM Suite is super productive. Danilo is running tests while competitive tools are still working #OOP2013 t.co/MIIygxAM

clip_image001[15]SOA Community BPM11g live Demo at #OOP2013 by Danilo and Torsten from #Opitz #soacommunity #bpm #oracle pic.twitter.com/raAcRXfy

clip_image020Lucas Jellema ‏Participate in the discussion on Best Practices for ADF Frontend with ESB (SOA services) back end on ADF EMG forum https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/adf-methodology/GKgKgALg0N8 …

clip_image021ADF Code Corner Attend 2 day ADF architecture workshop at Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum, Portugal (Feb 21-22, 2013) http://www.tinyurl.com/ofmforum2013

clip_image010[3]OTNArchBeat ‏#ADF interaction with business service – an ongoing discussion | @LucasJellema http://pub.vitrue.com/RoRf

clip_image014[1]Jon petter hjulstad Excellent Middlewaretrack at #ougn2013 this year: http://ougnvarseminar2013.sched.org/overview/type/middleware …

clip_image017[1]C2B2 Consulting ‏Oracle #SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning -Live Webinar Part 2: 28th of Jan http://www.c2b2.co.uk/oracle_soa_suite_webinars … … @soacommunity #Java #JVM #WebLogic

clip_image001[16]SOA Community ‏Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013 http://www.tinyurl.com/ofmforum2013 almost booked out – register now! #ofmforum #soacommunity

clip_image001[17]SOA Community ‏Want to learn more about Java and Cloud – attend the Oracle OOP Developer Day free of charge https://blogs.oracle.com/emeapartnerweblogic/entry/oracle_developer_day_oop_2013 … #oop2013 #oracle

clip_image022Rolando Carrasco ‏New entry @ oracleradio http://oracleradio.blogspot.mx/2013/01/oracle-bpm-process-accelerators.html#more … OBPM Process Accelerators @oracleace @soacommunity @OracleBPM @heidibuelowBPM

clip_image002[2]Simone Geib ‏Not clear what SOA Suite is? RT @oraclesoa: Oracle SOA Suite in action. Watch the video demonstration #oraclesoa #soa http://pub.vitrue.com/8vEr

clip_image013[1]orclateamsoa Team Blog #ateam: Oracle SOA for Healthcare – Setting Endpoint Acknowledgement Acceptance http://ow.ly/2ujlBt

clip_image001[18]SOA Community ‏Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013 – more than half of the seats booked! http://www.tinyurl.com/ofmforum2013 #opn #ofmforum #soacommunity

clip_image001[19]SOA Community ‏Distribute January SOA Community newsletter – read it! Did not receive it – want to become a member http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa #opn #soacommunity

clip_image017[2]C2B2 Consulting ‏Oracle #SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning -Live Webinar Series start 21st of January http://www.c2b2.co.uk/oracle_soa_suite_webinars … @soacommunity #Java #JVM #WebLogic

clip_image024Oracle UsableApps ‏Getting to Know Oracle Fusion Middleware: Jürgen Kress & Simon Haslam https://blogs.oracle.com/soacommunity/entry/getting_to_know_oracle_fusion … @SOACOMMUNITY) <-& meet #FusionApps too

clip_image002[3]Simone Geib ‏Cool! RT @oraclesoa: Check out the new Oracle SOA Suite video on Motability’s 100% ROI in 2 months. #soa #oraclesoa http://pub.vitrue.com/EDXy

clip_image020[1]Lucas Jellema ‏SOA Suite Testing Utilities: http://java.net/projects/soa-testing-snippets …

clip_image026Eric Elzinga ‏Reference Architecture Foundation for Service Oriented Architecture Version 1.0, http://docs.oasis-open.org/soa-rm/soa-ra/v1.0/soa-ra.pdf …

clip_image010[4]OTNArchBeat ‏Best Practices for Integrating REST/SOAP Services into ADF | Grant Ronald’s Blog http://ow.ly/gC12C

clip_image027Yogesh Sontakke ‏Confused what all comes under the Fusion Middleware umbrella? Excellent overview here – http://bit.ly/VO7Tnr @soacommunity

clip_image001[20]SOA Community ‏Getting to Know Oracle Fusion Middleware http://wp.me/p10C8u-A3

clip_image028Danilo Schmiedel ‏Connect to multiple SOA / BPM Virtual Machines from different computers in your network http://goo.gl/DmLV3 @soacommunity @OC_WIRE

clip_image029Oracle BPM ‏Geoffroy de Lamalle, CEO of eProseed, discusses Oracle BPM Suite #bpm #processmanagement http://pub.vitrue.com/evNq

clip_image031Oracle for Partners Do you want to learn about #Oracle Fusion Middleware? Register now! http://bit.ly/UsYzql #OPN #Fusion

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Additional new content SOA Community:

February 23, 2013 Leave a comment

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