Cloud Integration – A Comprehensive Solution,White Paper

March 11, 2014 1 Comment

Cloud computing solutions are widely hailed as a way to reduce capital expenditures and move to an inexpensive, subscription – based IT model. However, many organizations don’t stop to consider all of the nuances of integrating cloud applications with their existing information systems. While deploying a cloud app or subscribing to a cloud-based service may be relatively straightforward, how will this new IT asset fit in with the rest of the enterprise, including on-premise systems and other cloud applications? What is the system of record from which data will be derived? Which business processes are involved?

Do you need an enterprise data model that is independent of the cloud data model? Read the complete white-paper here.

Coming Soon: New Oracle SOA Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com Simplifying SaaS Integrations
Are Your Customers:

  • Planning for Cloud Integration initiatives as a part of or beyond their Application Integration projects?
  • Looking for a Strategic Integration Platform and Architecture (SOA) to simplify and secure connectivity?
  • Keen to enable Flexibility and Developer Productivity for their On-premise to SaaS integrations?

We will be soon launching the new SOA Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com.  Stay tuned to  our SOA Community to learn more about:

  • Why Is It Important to Simplify Cloud to On-premise Integrations?
  • How does the Adapter make it simple with a Declarative Modeling Wizard?
  • How to learn more, where to download and who to contact about the shiny new SOA Cloud Adapter?
  • Pricing and Licensing
  • Q & A

To learn more or for any questions, reach out to Yogesh Sontakke at @yogesh_sontakke.

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Oracle SOA Black Belt Cheat Sheets (Free Download of the Year!) By Rajesh Raheja

March 10, 2014 1 Comment

‘This is the season of giving, so for this last post of the year, I am pleased to share and make available some of our most requested cheat sheets used internally and by various implementation partners world wide. These cheat sheets were created as a part of the Oracle SOA Black Belt training sessions – advanced hands-on workshops that are available only to experienced Oracle SOA practitioners to gain deeper insight into the workings of the engine, enabling them to architect scalable solutions. If you have gone through this workshop, or have been working with the BPEL engine, I hope you will find this as a handy resource.

In case you are curious about this "black belt" workshop, here is a day-by-day blog written by one of our attendee.

And if you are wondering, yes, in some locations, we actually do hand out physical black belts – thanks to Jürgen Kress‘ SOA Community. Please feel free to follow the tweets for more pictures.

Click on the below links to download each Cheatsheet. In case of any errors or if you would like to see more such collateral, please do provide us your feedback.

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OSB access to salesforce.com by Steffen Miller

March 9, 2014 2 Comments

Some time ago I had a request to connect a file with salesforce.com. The tool of choice was Oracle Service Bus, first without any special adapter. So I had to investigate into the salesforce.com way of using web services and how I can approach this challenge.

First of all we need an account with salesforce.com. With this account we can access the Web Services API through Profile -> Setup -> API. Here we need to download the Enterprise WSDL.

You can find more details to this here salesforce.com Documentation.

Now we import the WSDL into the Oracle Service Bus. As written in the docs Before invoking any other calls, a client application must first invoke the login() call to establish a session with the login server, set the returned server URL as the target server for subsequent API requests, and set the returned session ID in the SOAP header to provide server authorization for subsequent API requests.

This means for Oracle Service Bus that we have to use an additional "Service Callout" before calling any other operation. With this in mind, it might be a good idea to store the session information for subsequent calls. As the Oracle Service Bus is stateless, this job could be achieved by using a java callout with a class variable storing the SF session ID. Read the complete article here.


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The O-box SOA Appliance – launched at UKOUG Tech13!

March 8, 2014 Leave a comment

In Manchester, UK, last month Simon Haslam and Lonneke Dikmans (for Veriton and Vennster), launched their new company O-box very first productc Products.

The O-box SOA Appliance, put simply, “Oracle SOA in a box”. The hardware is Oracle’s tried and trusted Oracle Database Appliance (now with up to 48 Intel cores!) and this is coupled with O-box provisioning software and its very easy “2 stick install” approach. This gives you fully HA, secured, appropriately sized and production-ready SOA platform in just a few hours!

The SOA installation itself is built to best practices (including those in Oracle’s Enterprise Deployment Guides), is fully documented and is fully tested. It allows you to implement Oracle SOA Suite for your customers within a fraction of the time, at a fraction of the cost and at lower risk than doing it yourself.

O-box is looking to work with Oracle SOA Specialized Partners so if you think this product can help your SOA offering (and we think it can!) then please contact Lonneke.Dikmans@oboxproducts.com. Alternatively O-box will be part of the Partner Exchange at the OFM Partner Community Forum 2014 in Malta next month so you can talk to the team there.

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SOA Suite Bootcamp on-demand training – free!

March 7, 2014 13 Comments

The SOA Suite 11g Implementation Boot Camp, a 4-day live course for Oracle Partners, is now available in a self-paced, on-demand form on the SOA Suite 11g Implementation Guided Learning Path (GLP).  The GLP contains all the lectures and hands-on labs from the live course.  A VirtualBox appliance is used to support the 15 hands-on labs.  The on-demand format allows students to experience a lecture segment or perform a lab exercise whenever they have time as per their ease.  Students can work through the materials at their own pace on their own computer.  Support is provided via an email link with the OPN solution specialist who developed the course.  In order to access this free course, you need to be an Oracle partner with an Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) login.

After completion of the course, you can become certified Oracle SOA Suite 11g PreSales Specialist & Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Specialist.

To access the training you need to be a member of the Oracle Partner Network, need help with your account? please contact the OPN team!

Do you like to attend the course?Send us your feedback here! For any feedback/improvements please make sure that you commend the course online!

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New Free OTN Download: "SOA Suite for Developer"

March 6, 2014 Leave a comment

Oracle SOA Suite is now available as a part of the OTN Free Developer License Agreement.

New ‘no cost‘ OTN download for developer use only. For download please visit the OTN page.

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Additional new content SOA & Business Process Management Partner Community

March 5, 2014 Leave a comment

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Why you should make use of Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications = AppAdvantage

March 4, 2014 Leave a comment

AppAdvantage solution briefs:

Analyst report: Hunting & Harvesting in a Digital World: The 2013 CIO Agenda

Agilent Technologies Delivers Web Content and Cuts IT Integration Costs by US$1 Million Annually with Middleware

AppAdvantage survey

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SOA, Empowerment and Continuous Improvement by Rick Beers

March 3, 2014 Leave a comment

Train (Guided Process) Image#1) User experience and the Oracle Applications Cloud: IDC Analyst Mike Fauscette writes about “Oracle and the Cloud” in a recent post on the Seeking Alpha website, a resource for investment information. In his article, Fauscette writes: “In particular, there are new tools and a simplified experience for all the cloud apps that extends to some new mobile and analytic apps.”
#2) PeopleSoft User Experience Guidelines now available: The PeopleSoft Applications User Experience team has announced the release of the PeopleSoft User Experience (UX) Guidelines. The PeopleSoft UX Guidelines contain information about the usage of key PeopleSoft components to create highly usable, efficient, and productive experiences for Oracle customers. Read more about the guidelines and how to use them on the Usable Apps blog.
#3) UX Direct gets a new look: Check the UX Direct blog to find out what’s new with UX Direct and to see how the site that provides user experience guidance has changed.
#4) Usability for developers: Oracle ACE Ahmed Aboulnaga of Raastech writes about usability and Oracle’s investment in user experience in the most recent digital edition of Oracle Scene from the UK Oracle User Group. “Usability – Ignored by Developers and Undervalued by Managers” is geared toward a developer audience, but hits a design audience with equal force. (Be patient — this link takes a bit.)
#5) Oracle Applications User Experience team at Sangam 13:  Read about our plans and presentations at Sangam 13 in Hyderabad, India on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog.

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Adaptive Case Management: Delivering Right Customer Experience free online training

March 2, 2014 Leave a comment

Customers today demand an experience that is both contextual and personalized. They do not want to be forced to follow a one-size-fits-all process and instead expect processes to adapt to their needs. This video, hosted by Integration Developer News at Business Process Management-CON, describes the challenges that rigid or structured processes present, introduces Adaptive Case Management (ACM) to address those challenges, and describes how Oracle Business Process Management Adaptive Case Management empowers knowledge workers to progress through unstructured and unpredictable processes to meet the needs of the current situation, or case. Attend the online training here.

Adaptive Case Management Quick Start Series

This series of videos introduces Adaptive Case Management in Oracle Business Process Management 11g. Attend the free on-demand training here.

Overview of Adaptive Case Management
Oracle Business Process Management 11g Adaptive Case Management enables you to measure and manage unstructured processes the way you have been managing your more structured business processes. This video, the first in the series, describes what Adaptive Case Management is and compares it to conventional business process management . It also describes the types of processes that benefit from Adaptive Case Management.

Participating in a Case
Oracle Business Process Management 11g Adaptive Case Management enables you to measure and manage unstructured processes the way you have been managing your more structured business processes. In this video, the third in the series, you learn what it is like to participate in a case.

Anatomy of a Case Management Project
Oracle Business Process Management 11g Adaptive Case Management enables you to measure and manage unstructured processes the way you have been managing your more structured business processes. This video, the second in the series, describes the components of a case in Oracle Business Process Management 11g, demystifying how Oracle Business Process Management is able to support knowledge workers who participate in unstructured processes.

Adaptive Case Management series – an overview – part 1 & 2 by Roger Goossens

This blogpost will be a part of a series, containing the English translation of 2 Whitebooks originally written in Dutch. Because Whitehorses believes ACM to become a very important feature in Oracle Fusion Middleware, it was decided to translate these Whitebooks into a series of blogposts. Enjoy!
With the arrival of patchset 6 of the Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) 11g Release Oracle introduces a new and important feature: Adaptive Case Management (ACM). ACM makes it easier to implement highly flexible business processes in a FMW environment. Information on ACM is still scarce. It is expected that in the next major FMW release ACM will be improved upon and that it will become as important a member of FMW as Business Process Management and BPEL.

The centerpiece of ACM is the case itself. The first series (called ACM – an overview) will focus on the most important components of a case and it’s lifecycle. The common theme of this whitebook used to explain ACM, is a fictional case based on the Dutch law called WABO (to be explained later on). The theme is used in the examples and demos to better explain the concept.

Case Lifecycle

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