Mobile Order Management for EBS GSE Demo using middleware technology

December 19, 2013 Leave a comment

To get access to the demo environment please contact OPN!
Global Sales Engineering (GSE, formerly DSS) is happy to announce the availability of “Mobile Order Management for EBS”.

The demo use case is a dashboard for a sporting goods manufacturing company that provides its mobile sales force with real time access to the backend EBS data as well as key business KPIs (fulfillment accuracy, backorders, order status).

Transactional support (EBS order entry) from the device is also supported, depending on the user authorization level. In addition, integration with native location services (GPS) provides the capability to launch maps to automatically locate customers who are nearby.

Demo Highlights
This demo showcases key technologies for a mobility platform and provides a reference architecture to mobile enable Oracle applications.

  • Develop using Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Mobile, to provide tight device services integration and native user experience.
  • Connect and integrate to backend enterprise applications via SOA/OSB
  • Secure access using EBS SDK for Java and Oracle Web Services Manager, for enterprise grade mobile security.
  • Available as an iPad app, Android version to follow soon.

Call to Action

  • Check out the ~1 minute video overview of this demo
  • Review the Demo Script and Release Notes on the GSE Demo Store
  • Start your instant tech demo (aka "Canned Demo") using Demo Title "Mobile Order Management for EBS" directly from the GSE Home Page
  • Demo pre-requisites and additional demo information are available here. 

For questions or feedback please contact anvesh.baluguri@oracle.com or  anand.prasad@oracle.com.

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Survey SOA & BPM Partner Community

December 18, 2013 Leave a comment

Like every year we want to know your feedback about the SOA & BPM Partner Community. Your feedback is important to us and will help us to better understand what you like and what we can improve. Please spend 5-10 minutes to answer our questions: SOA & BPM Partner Community Survey 2013 and help us to know your feedback.

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SOA and User Interfaces (UI) part of Industrial SOA series

December 18, 2013 Leave a comment

Overcoming the challenges to developing user interfaces in a service oriented architecture.

Part of the Industrial SOA article series

Abstract: The interaction between user-interfaces and services in an Service Oriented Architecture is an often-neglected topic. This article focuses on the particular challenges that need to be overcome when creating user-interfaces while entire process chains have to be called and interacted with. After outlining some general architectural considerations, the authors describe a practical application of Thomas Erl’s UI Mediator pattern that will be accompanied by their own technical experience.

Introduction

In the simplest scenario, a user’s interaction with a business process consists of initiating the process and awaiting the result. However, processes very rarely run completely automatically, meaning human intervention in a process cycle is an important requirement. The WS-HumanTask specification can fulfill this requirement in the SOA environment. A standardized API that is defined for a workflow service can be used to fill a mailbox with tasks. If the process automation language BPEL is used, the BPEL4People specification defines how this mailbox functionality can be used directly in the process cycle by means of the WS-Human Task. Of course, this is possible from BPMN, too.

For example, if manual approval or the input of additional data is needed during a process cycle, the process can determine the correct actor and deposit the task in their mailbox via the task service. The HumanTask service provides a Web service API for this functionality. The users receive the entries in their mailbox and process the pending tasks sequentially, while the process resumes its work in the background.

Human Interaction & Mailboxes

This solution concept is flawless from a technical viewpoint, but its handling is unfamiliar to many users. Workflows can even be perceived as disruptive for short processes that lack role changes, since conventional data-driven application systems can provide immediate responses without detouring to a mailbox. Process control is embedded in the interface control.

Users are their own process masters when such conventional applications are used, whereas a mailbox-supported solution subjects the users to the restrictions of a prescribed process.

Anyone designing classic BPMN or BPEL processes with mailbox interaction understands that users will be faced with a long list of tasks in their mailbox, which often require mechanical and repetitive interactions. Nowadays, many technical departments are aware of this issue, and provide assistance to the users whose daily processes need their requirements recorded.

With the advent of SOA and loose coupling, work processes are further automated and process control is gradually shifted to the back-end. Excessively close coupling of processes and interfaces should be avoided, since processes can also be subject to frequent adaptations due to flexibility. Decoupling via the mailbox is generally the most effective solution.

Read the full article in the Service Technology Magazine or at OTN.

Share your comments and feedback on the Industrial SOA series by using the hashtag #industrialsoa.

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Recap of the "Real-World Cloud Integration Simplified with Oracle SOA Suite" presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2013

December 17, 2013 Leave a comment

I attended this presentation at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 titled "Real-World Cloud Integration Simplified with Oracle SOA Suite" by:

  • Raghu Kadirvelu (Bristlecone, Inc.)
  • Vikas Anand (Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle)
  • Rajesh Raheja (Senior Director, Development, Oracle)

Raghu provided a live demo of multiple integrations between E-Business Suite (which was sitting on premise in their data center) and SalesForce.com (which resided on the cloud). The SOA Suite integrations were built using the new 11g SalesForce adapter, and demonstrated the bi-directional movement of data to satisfy two functional use cases.

This was by far one of the best SOA presentations I attended at OpenWorld this year, and let me explain why.
At the surface, this appears to be a simple presentation on yet another JCA adapter. But both Vikas (@VikasAatOracle) and Rajesh (@RahejaRajesh) are masters in their domain, and you have to listen closely to them to really understand that these guys are visionaries in their respective fields.
Here are some of the points I appreciated:

  • The live demo showcased multiple asynchronous integrations between E-Business Suite and SalesForce, seeing first hand how the end result works. The techies in the crowd got it.
  • A walkthrough in JDeveloper of the new 11g SalesForce "cloud" adapter was provided, with mention to some of the various (unique) options specific to the adapter and how Oracle addressed SalesForce API design considerations.
  • A brief mention of cloud-to-cloud integrations was made, but Vikas stated that the trend they’ve been seeing was more onpremise-to-cloud scenarios, and that typically any organization would want to host their master data internally while still taking advantage of cursory or supplementary cloud services. Otherwise you risk having your data sprinkled across your many public cloud service providers Read the full article here.

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Adaptive Case Management hands-on Bootcamp at OFM Forum 2014

December 16, 2013 Leave a comment

As part of the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2014 we offer a Mobile Platform Cookbook Concepts and Practices Workshop. The conference is ONLY for Oracle Partners, for details please visit our registration page!

niallTrainer: Niall Commiskey, Technology Architect
Agenda Highlights:

  • Introduction to Case Management
  • Case Design
  • BPM/Case Management Interaction
  • Case Management API

Skill Requirements:
Attendees must have the following skills to make sure they get the most out of the training:

Technical Requirements:
Every participant works on his/her own laptop. The minimal hardware requirements are:

  • Laptop 8 GB RAM
  • Pentium 4 with dual-core CPU
  • Minimum 40 GB free disk space
  • Please install the most recent Oracle Virtual box
  • Make sure you have administrator rights on your machine

clip_image002Take this opportunity and register now for the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum that will be held in the Hilton Malta on February 18th and 19th 2014 with hands-on training on February 20th & 21st 2014- Like last year we expect that the conference is booked out – register asap!

  • SOA Suite 12c & Cloud integration
  • BPM Suite 12c & Adaptive Case Management 12c
  • Internet of Things & mobile strategy & fast data
  • WebLogic 12c the foundation of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

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Cloud integration with Oracle SOA Suite

December 16, 2013 Leave a comment

As the number of connections to disparate SaaS providers grows, so does the importance of ensuring your application infrastructure avoids the Accidental Cloud Architecture of increasing complex disparate connectivity.

Oracle simplifies cloud integration by providing a unified and comprehensive solution to integrate cloud and on-premise applications. Oracle cloud integration leverages Oracle Cloud services as well as components from Oracle’s SOA, BPM, and data integration technologies to deliver a truly comprehensive solution for cloud connectivity.

Download and review the ‘Cloud Integration’ and ‘Integrate with Salesforce.com’ whitepapers and get going with Oracle today. More resources are available at Oracle.com At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can download the latest whitepapers: cloud-integration-wp-1873149.pdf & Integrate with SalesForce.com.pdf.

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Canon Delivers Fast Data with Oracle Event Processing by Mala Ramakrishnan

December 15, 2013 Leave a comment

CanonCanon has made Fast Data a reality with processing a large variety, high volume and velocity of events from multiple devices across geographic boundaries. Canon is surging forth on their strategy for an Internet of Things, thanks to an approach that has focused on extreme availability, reliability, and scalability from their IT infrastructure in order to handle remote maintenance services for Multi Function Printers (MFP).

In this session at Oracle OpenWorld 2013, Canon discusses the benefits of running Oracle SOA on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata engineered systems. The session highlights the extreme scale and performance the platform delivers for transactional SOA and Fast Data. It also illustrates best practices that work in real-life. Read the full article here.

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OSB Threading and the HTTP Transport White Paper by Mike Muller

December 14, 2013 Leave a comment

I have created a white paper explaining the OSB threading model with a focus on the HTTP transport.  I have heard from several customers who have experienced difficulty with tuning HTTP services with relation to the use of work managers.  This paper’s goal is to explain the threads involved in servicing a proxy and how work managers fit into that model.

OSBThreadingModelHTTPTransport_1.1

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Luis Weir: Challenges to Implementing SOA Governance by Bob Rhubart

December 13, 2013 Leave a comment

"Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation" co-author Luis Weir discusses his book, his Oracle OpenWorld session, and a project that required him to set things right after a customer botched their original SOA Governance implementation. Interested ? read the – Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation book? For additional SOA books please visit out wiki.

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Introducing Oracle Enterprise Repository Express Workflows – Simplified Lifecycle Management by Yogesh Sontakke

December 12, 2013 Leave a comment

As announced at Oracle Open World 2013 last week, we are delighted to introduce an exciting, new feature for Oracle Enterprise Repository 11g PS6 – Express Workflows.

OER provides a set of features and options for moving an asset from an initial to a final lifecycle state. Express Workflows are a mechanism for    automating these asset lifecycle approval processes in OER.
Express Workflows help automate this process for any given type of assets that are produced by your project(s). It allows you to easily assign approvers and define the flow of approvals from one approver to the next.
You can use Express Workflows to pre-define, automate and ensure that assets submitted or harvested into your OER projects go through as much or as less of an approval process as per your requirement – in a few, simple steps.

Download the OER 11g Express Workflows here – requirements and detailed instructions are available in the PDF bundled within the patch.

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