SOA & BPM Community Newsletter November 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

You want to learn more and try hands-on all the new cool Fusion Middleware 12c solutions? Make sure you attend our Fusion Middleware EMEA Partner Community Forum 2015. Every year we are booked out, don’t wait too long with Your registration!

For our customers & partners we published the SOA Magazine III with the best articles from the community. Make sure you share your content via twitter #soacommunity! We also ask the community to send us ideas for a pin design! Oracle just launched the lasted Fusion Middleware 12c product API Catalog. We are excited to get your community feedback, please use #APIcatalog12c.

In the case you missed Oracle Open World 2014 we published all presentations at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) You find there also an updated version of the Internet of Things (IoT) 12c Demo. In this newsletter edition cloud integration is a key topic. Start ready with the Computer World Cloud Report and the Cloud Computing Definition & Architecture for Cloud Service Brokers. Additional cloud integration articles include Cloud Adapter, OFM 12c on Amazon Cloud and Tame the Cloud Integration Beast.

In the Service Bus section we published articles Service Bus 12c – Series of Articles from Siva, Obtaining a list of exposed SOAP HTTP endpoints & OSB12c: Errorhandling in REST and Patching the Service Bus 12.1.3.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: Upgrading Oracle SOA/BPM Suite from 11g to 12cLink Consulting SOA Suite 12c Lunch & Dutch SOA Suite Community Event & Continous Integration & SOA 12c hosted Demo & Throttling in SOA Suite & SOA Suite Performance Tuning & ECID propagation & Getting started with the Spring Component & Actionable Emails with Human Task service & Start expired instances in waiting state & Mobile-Optimized REST API & Rapid creation of Virtual Machine(s) & Bulk Fault Recovery & Submitting an ESS Job Request & EBS 12c Adapter calling PL/SQL & Improve Developer Productivity & New Features – Coherence Adapter & SOA/API developer tool tips & Creating a Mobile-Optimized REST API & Managed File Transfer & MFT – Setting up SFTP Transfers & Debugger issue & SOA 12c Maven support & Embracing the power of Maven & B2B Event Queue Management & Internet of Things (IoT) 12c Demo update & Is Your Organization Prepared for IoT? & Embedded Systems and IoT – What’s Under the Hood?

In our BPM section Mala published the latest BPM 12c Marketing material and the free BPM 12c online classes became available. Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: Humantask Assignment & Book review: Oracle BPM Suite 12c Modeling Patterns & The role of the Process Owner & BPM / SOA 12c: Re-configure a compact domain to use a DB-based MDS & Mobile and ACM & Dynamic ADF Form Solution

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we published the OOW 2014 Applications UX Highlights, an excellent article from Tanu about Automating Financial Processes in PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite and how you can Extend & Integrate Sales Cloud. We also want to promote the upcoming From Desktop to „Flextop“ – Workshops in Germany and the #OUGN15 call for papers –  an exiting conference on a cruise boat!

Ok, this newsletter is too long – we simply have too much good content! Take your time to read it and store it if you search for information. Best you attend the Fusion Middleware EMEA Partner Community Forum 2015 to get trained in all of the new & upcoming solutions!

See you in Budapest

Best regards Jürgen Kress
Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA
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Great news! You don’t have to leave your office – you can join us from the convenience of your desk. Register, for free, to hear from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions, and Oracle product experts as they share their insight and experience on how to solve today’s IT challenges. This online event, brought to you by the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), offers four technical tracks, each with a unique focus on specific tools, technologies, and tips:

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SOA Community Newsletter October 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Thanks for an amazing Oracle OpenWorld 2014 In case you did not attend OpenWorld 2014, make sure you watch the keynotes on-demand. An excellent #OOW14 summery was published by the Amis team and a SOA review was published by the SOA team Congratulations toour community partners around the world who almost won all awards (EMEA, Global, NAS, Innovation Awards…)! Special thanks to Amis for their excellent job in Europe.

In the case you missed OOW14 make sure you attend the OTN Virtual Technology Summit November 18th 2014 and organize for your customers a SOA 12c & BPM 12c launch event.
Thanks to the community for sharing all the articles: Patching the Oracle Service Bus 12.1.3 & Microservices architectures & Examine API integration trends & SOA 12c Encryption & Integration Adaptors including SOA R/3 & Using DB Adapter & Creating a Mobile-Optimized REST API & JSON is flowing through SOA & O-box & MFT & SOA Suite 12c Developer Productivity & A Dirty Dozen Questions on SOA 12c & SOA Suite 11g and 12c: Determining composite dependencies & SOA Suite 12c New Features & SOA Suite 12c and the OPSS Keystore Service & The Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com & 2 Minute Tech Tip: Industrial SOA & Upgrading from SOA Suite 10g and 11c & WS-BPEL 2.0 Beginner’s Guide & 2 Minute Tech Tip: Tools for SOA Governance and API Management .

In our BPM section the BPM Suite 12c Launch Webcast is available on-demand. More and more BPM 10g customers make plans to migrate to BPM Suite 12c. Thanks to the Avio and A-Team for publishing articles on BPM 12c Migration & BPM 10g-12c Migration: Handling Excel Files as Input. Thanks for sharing all the additional BPM articles within the community: BPM 12c just got Groovy – A Webcente & Podcast Show Notes: The Case for ACM & BPM 12c Gateways & Navigating BAM 12c & Creating Custom BPM Work List & BPM 11g: Instance Patching.

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we publish article about Applications Cloud Release 8 User Experience Rapid Development Kit.
Our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum is scheduled for February 2015. We will showcase and train you in all the new & more solutions you have seen at OOW14!

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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SOA Community Newsletter September 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Oracle OpenWorld is ready to start, make sure you attend our community reception, attend the Focus-On Oracle SOA Suite& Focus-On BPM Focus on IoT session and most important visit the product management team at the demo grounds.

In the case you missed the Introducing SOA Suite 12c Joining the Webcast it is available on-demand. Also the analyst community recognizes SOA Suite 12c Ovum Lauds Oracle SOA Suite 12c, Differentiates Cloud and Mobile Integration. So it is time to learn more about it at Learning Library – Free SOA Suite 12c online learning or our roadshow SOA Suite 12c Pre-Sales Training – Demo the new release! You can also us the Oracle hosted SOA Suite 12c demo Systems to showcase your customers SOA Suite 12c. Upgrading to SOA Suite 12c is a huge consulting business opportunity for you as a partner! Customers who pay maintenance (Software Update License & Support) can update free of charge! Make sure you present them the Samples and Demos for Managed File Transfer a new license option for SOA Suite or standalone.
Thanks to the Community for all the SOA Suite 12c articles, please continue to share them with us via twitter @soacommunity or #soacommunity or Facebook! Special thanks to Vivek Garg for the SOA 12c blog series.
Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: SOA 12c End-to-end (e2e) Tutorial, Set-up a 12c SOA/BPM Infrastructure, FMW 12.1.3 – Invoking Enterprise Scheduler Service Web Services, FMW 12c on the Cloud, SOA12c -Service Bus Resequencer, Create Service Bus Customization File using WLST, SOA Suite 12c: The LDAPAdapter, Oracle Managed File Transfer Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Also for BPM Suite Free BPM Suite 12c online learning and Process sample are available. If you want to try BPM Suite 12c hands-on register for the BPM Suite 12c Implementation Bootcamps. Thanks for sharing all the additional BPM articles within the community: New Features and Changes in BPM 12c, New Types of Modeling in Oracle BPM 12c Process Composer, BPM 12c Gateways (Part 1 of 5): Exclusive Gateway, BPM Process Patterns using BPMN.

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage we publish articles about Integrating With Fusion Application Using Services (SoapUi – SSL) and the Usable Apps Events at OpenWorld.

See you at Oracle OpenWorld 2014  Jürgen Kress

Best regards,
Jürgen Kress

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SOA Community Newsletter August 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Thanks to all Fusion Middleware Summer Camps 2014 attendees. If you couldn’t attend our trainings in Lisbon please make sure you attend one of our up-coming OFM 12c trainings. All trainings are published in our Community trainings calendar (SOA Community membership required). Additional we posted all OFM Summer Camp training material at our community workspaces:

 

Feel free to use the documents to run both trainings for your internal consultants and your customers!
Let’s rock SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c and see you at OOW in San Francisco.

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SOA Community Newsletter June 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Are you ready for the New Fiscal Year 2015? Oracle just started in June the new fiscal year FY15, which will be exciting, new products SOA Suite 12c and BPM 12c included. To get ready for our joint success please ensure that a joint business plan with your Oracle partner manager is in place now! This joint plan should include a marketing, sales and enablement section. In this newsletter you find support for all areas: run a joint ACTon Marketing Campaign, get our SOA Suite 12c sales kits and BPM Suite 12c sales kits and get trained at our OFM Summer Camps 2014.

In this newsletter you find a lot of content about SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c, please do NOT publish any material before the products are general available! To get a first impression attend our SOA 12c WebCast Wednesday June 25th 2014. Registration for the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps 2014 is open – register asap for one of our bootcamps August 4th – 8th 2014 in Lisbon. Please read the details and prerequisites carefully before you register. We expect that like in the past the conference is booked out!

We want to publish your latest SOA 12c and BPM 12c articles and first experience at & OTN & SOA Magazine & Service Technology Magazine. Make sure you share with the community your best practices at twitter @soacommunity #soacommunity!

In our mobile integration section you can find three articles about SOA’s Role in Simplifying Mobile Enablement & Five Mobile Strategy Best Practices and a great report from the AMIS Oracle Enterprise Mobility conference

Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: Checkout our new series and learn about what is SOA Governance, SOA Transformation through SOA Upgrade & B2B Demo System hosted at Oracle, TechDemocracy on Oracle HealthCare Integration, Master Data Management and SOA & Message Correlation using JMS & MockServer: Easy mocking of HTTP(S) services (e.g. SOAP or JSON) & Using Oracle’s Edition-Based Redefinition to support multiple SOA Suite revisions with the database adapter & OAG/OES Integration for Web API Security: skin and guts & Integrating with Fusion Applications using SOAP web services and REST APIs & Configuring the SOA Human Task Hostname & How to set the service endPoint URI dynamically in SOA Suite 11gR1 & OSB unit testing, part 1

Highlight of the BPM and ACM section is the new release of the BPM Process Accelerators pre-build processes great for demos or to quick-start your BPM project. The CMMN notation for ACM projects keeps gaining traction, for your first ACM opportunity make use of our ACM poster. Thanks for the two ACM API articles The Oracle Case Management API & Oracle Adaptive Case Management – Exposing the API – part 1. Thanks for sharing all the additional BPM articles within the community: A Model for Planning Your Oracle BPM 10g migration & Using Signals for inter process communication & ACM 11g – Activities.
In our last section Architecture the UK team released a superb demo for Customer Experience & SOA Integration. Our UI team published details about the Simplified UI in Release 8.

See you in Lisbon

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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SOA Community Newsletter May 2014

Dear SOA Community,

Registration for the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps 2014 is open – Register asap for one of our bootcamps August 4th – 8th 2014 in Lisbon. Please read details and pre-requisitions careful before you register. We expect that like in the past, the conference will be booked out soon! If you can’t make it to Lisbon attend our SOA Suite 11c free on-demand Bootcamp or  Managing the Complexity of IoT online trainings.

With more than 5000 customers, SOA Suite Achieves Significant Customer Adoption and Industry Recognition.Thanks to all our SOA Specialized partners for making our joins SOA customers successful! As a summary of the Industrial SOA series we published the Podcast Show Notes: SOA and Cloud – Where’s This Relationship Going? Make sure you use the Oracle Demo Systems for your customer presentations. The demo systems are hosted by Oracle and include complete scenarios based on the latest Middleware version like the new B2B SOA Suite Demo System! For local presentations without fast internet use the SOA/BPM 11.1.1.7.1 Virtual Machine and Case Management Sample. At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can get new IoT presentations for Location Based Offers for Banking & Whitepaper and online Webcast & Utility presentation. In this newsletter you will find many articles about OSB: OSB 11g – A Hands-on Tutorial & Using Split-Joins in OSB Services for parallel processing of messages & OSB, Service Callouts and OQL & Working with Oracle Security Token Service. Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: How to configure Oracle SOA/BPM task auto release & Controlling BPEL process flow at runtime & Upgrading to Oracle SOA Suite 11g PS6 (11.1.1.7)? Do this. & BPEL and BPM’s performance monitoring using DMS & SOA 11g – Create RESTful Service In Oracle SOA & Wrong timezone causes TopLink warning in SOA suite.

Highlight of the BPM and ACM section is the IDC BPM vendor report. The new bundle Patch including the ACM UI is now available. If you want to learn more about ACM, get the ACM training material at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required). A great demo for your next BPM presentation is the BPM iPad app. It’s simpleMobile BPM is Not An Option. It’s a Necessity. Thanks for sharing all the additional BPM articles within the community: BPM update adds Case Management Web Interface and REST APIs & Implementing deadline functionality with Oracle Adaptive Case Management & BPM 11g Timeout Heuristics & Humantask Assignment: Names and Expressions Assignment via Rules.

In our last section Architecture, it is all about design. Usability is a key factor for customer satisfaction, worth to spend some time and read the Simplified User Experience Design Patterns eBook. Great blueprint for your project!

See you in Lisbon!

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SOA Community Newsletter April 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

It is time to submit your paper for Oracle OpenWorld & Java One 2014 and for the Fusion Middleware  Innovation Award and Partner Award Regional and Global!

Thanks to Rajesh – a new SOA/BPM 11g 11.1.1.7.0 Virtual Machine appliance is available, a great way to test and start with middleware. If you are not yet Specialized in SOA Suite – this is your chance in April for Free SOA hands-on on-demand training and certification only for  EMEA partners. Thanks to Bob an new Video SOA Principles and an article by Lonneke SOA’s People Problem are available at OTN. SOA Governance is key to successful SOA Projects. Complementary to the Oracle SOA Governance and API Management solution Link consulting developed EAMS – Oracle Enterprise Repository Edition for SOA Governance. In the IOT section of the newsletter you can learn more about the IoT Developer Challenge and IoT end-to-end demo and attend an IoTWebcast on April 24th. Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: Common SOA Problems, Dynamic endpoint binding, Cook a SOA/BPM Development Environment, Introduction to using the Enterprise Manager SOA/BPM Facade API, Consuming Async SOA in a WebService Proxy and Prevent Looping and Inefficient Rule Executions.

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find tons of new material including: B2B Integration – Customer Presentation | Cheat Sheet, Cloud-to-On-Premise Integration – Customer Presentation | Cheat Sheet , API Management – Customer Presentation | Cheat Sheet, MobileSuiteIntroduction.mp4 and IoT Healthcare presentation.

Highlight of the BPM and ACM section at the BPM best practice at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) by David Read and Niall Commiskey. If you want to learn more about BPM Suite 11g visit the Online Learning Library with free BPM training for everybody partners, customers and freelancer!. Thanks to Capgemini our top BPM partner for the annual Capgemini Global Business Process Management Report and the interesting articles on Process Is The New App. BPM becomes key in Financial Services and Healthcare. Watch the OTN WebCast why Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is the new trend in BPM!

Thanks for sharing all the additional BPM articles within the community: BPM 11g and Human Workflow Shadow Rows, How to enable automatic startup recovery in  BPM 11g, BPM Workspace and Webforms customization and Manipulating Human Tasks (for testing).

In our last section Architecture, Usability and AppAdvantage we published the Oracle Unified Method (OUM) 6. The User Experience was super busy making available content on Mobile strategy, Specialist role, Harvard, Raspberry PI and Wearable’s. Same the  AppAdvantage Team which published new Assets on: Webcast on-demand & solution brief & resource kit and customer case studies.

Don’t forget at the end of the newsletter you’ll find our latest training calendar and the top tweets of the month! Thanks to 5555+ twitter followers.

Good luck with Your Oracle OpenWorld papers & awards!

See you at Oracle OpenWorld 2014!

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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SOA Community Newsletter March 2014

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Did you miss the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum in Malta? Most of the presentations are available at our SOA & BPM Community Workspace ( SOA Community membership required). Key announcements include free implementation assessment vouchers, SOA 12c launch events and the SOA Suite 11g On-Demand Course. During the conference, attendees also had the opportunity to learn more about Internet of Things (IoT) a great showcase for middleware. Thanks for the excellent feedback at Twitter #ofmForum and the first impression on the SOA Community Facebook page.

Congratulations to the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards 2014 winners – Amis for SOA and OPITZ Consulting for BPM – well deserved!

The Industrial SOA article series continues with SOA and Business Processes: You are the Process! And Bob published a podcast series about SOA Governance and API Management.

Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: Integration for Airlines and Cargo Hubs & Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com & Recap – Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com & Video SOA Transformation & Working with Oracle Security Token Service & Resequencer Health Check & Humantask Assignment.

In our BPM and ACM section you find two ACM articles from Lucas Jellema ACM: organizing the chaos and flexing rigid process structures & The key ingredients of an ACM case. At our SOA & BPM Community Workspace ( SOA Community membership required) we published the latest ACM customer presentation and video and a new Demo system page and new BPM demo is available. In the case you implemented successful BPM make sure you re-use your processes and promote them in the BPM Solution Catalog.
Thanks for sharing all the additional SOA articles within the community: Case Management API’s & BPM workspace: Scripted security & Content-Enabling Your Insurance Business Using Oracle BPM and WebCenter Content.

The last section in our newsletter is focused on architecture, usability & AppAdvantage, resource kit, documents, videos and roundtables are available. Together with AMIS the Applications User Experience Expo Set in Amsterdam takes place March 18th 2014.

Thanks for attending the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum and happy reading!

 

Best regards Jürgen Kress

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