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· Article Series: Industrial SOA Written collaboratively by eight acknowledged SOA experts, this article series explores the steps necessary to service oriented architecture to the next level: industrialized SOA. The first two articles in this 14-part series are now available on OTN. Read the articles.

· On the Integrity of Data An introduction to the basics of data integrity enforcement in a variety of environments by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. Read the article.

· Creating a Cloud Roadmap The latest addition to the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this Oracle Practitioner Guide describes a robust process for creating a roadmap for adoption of Cloud Computing within an enterprise. Read the white paper.

· Cookbook: Middleware as a Service Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Step-by-step instructions for provisioning an Oracle WebLogic domain using Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Read the white paper.

· Podcast: The State of SOA SOA is alive and kicking and more important than ever. A panel comprised of four of the experts behind the Industrial SOA article series explains why. Listen to the podcast.

· Oracle Service Bus PS6 (11.1.1.7) available for downloadHighlights of this new release include a new config tool to package resources, T2P plugin; WS-Security with MTOM and SwA; SFTP specify Cipher Suite, Hash, Key; OWSM Policy for RESTful services, and more. Read the article.

· Cloud Integrations with Oracle SOA Suite This Oracle Learning Library video demonstration shows you how to connect with the RightNow CX Cloud Service using Oracle SOA Suite. Watch the video.

· Oracle Fusion Middleware Tech Talk: Business Process Management Amit Zavery, vice president of product management for Oracle Fusion Middleware, discusses the importance of business process management and how Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite is benefitting customers across all industries

· Oracle SOA Suite Team Blog: Latest Release – Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7

· Oracle Magazine, May 2013: Integrate and Mobilize – SOA Bridges the Past and PresentInterested in more content from Oracle Magazine? Get your free subscription today.

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Empower Knowledge Workers to Manage Unstructured Processes–Webcast with Bruce Silver and Ajay Khanna on August 7th 2013

More and more business users are taking the driver’s seat in business process management (BPM) initiatives. To ensure flexibility, productivity, and success, their BPM suites must make it easy to design, manage, improve, and control business processes—even unstructured ones.
In this webcast, leading industry analyst Bruce Silver will discuss what the term business-driven means and how case management and support for unstructured processes help organizations better serve their customers.

Join this webcast and learn about:

  • Oracle Business Process Management Suite and how it enables business managers and analysts to easily design and manage process
  • The capabilities that make Oracle’s BPM solution more business-driven, flexible, and agile
  • The addition of adaptive case management and how it now enables users to manage unstructured processes, covering all possible process usage patterns and scenarios

Register now.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013  10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET

Presented by:

Bruce Silver

Bruce Silver

BPM Industry Analyst and Author

Ajay Khanna

Ajay Khanna

Director, Product Marketing, Oracle

Join us for this webcast and live Q&A.

Webcast. Business-Driven BPM for Case Management. The Foundation for Innovation. Oracle Fusion Middleware

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Business Process Management (BPM) Resource Kit

Business processes are increasingly becoming more and more complex – full of deep interactions across systems and dependent on collaborative activities between business users and IT. To manage them successfully companies now need a sound BPM strategy and the right set of tools. Oracle provides leading BPM solutions for process excellence, which can facilitate modeling, management, execution, automation and measurement of end-to-end business processes – all through a single unified platform.

Find out what kinds of processes are best solved using BPM tools and learn how you can optimize them for your competitive advantage. This BPM resource kit offers insight and expertise that will help your organization drive up efficiency and agility, as well as improve compliance and quality of service while lowering your costs.
The Oracle BPM resource kit includes:

  • White papers, data sheets, analyst reports, Industry Solution Briefs and customer success stories
  • Webcasts, podcasts and other interactive resources
  • Software downloads from Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
  • Additional information from Oracle.com and OTN

Click here to access the resource kit.

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BPM PS6 video showing process lifecycle in more detail by Mark Nelson

imageIf the five minute video that I shared last week has whet your appetite for more, then this might be just what you are looking for!

The same international team who made that video – Andrew Dorman, Tanya Williams, Carlos Casares, Joakim Suarez and James Calise – have also created a thirty minute version that walk you through in much more detail and shows you, from the perspective of various business stakeholders involved in process modeling, exactly how BPM PS6 supports the end to end process lifecycle. The video centres around a Retail Leasing use case, and follows how Joakim the Business Analyst, Pablo the Process Owner, and James the Process Analyst take the process from conception to runtime, solely through BPM Composer, without the need for IT or the use of JDeveloper.

  • Joakim, the Business Analyst, models the process, designs the user interaction forms, and creates business rules,
  • Pablo, the Process Owner, reviews the process documentation and tests the process using the new ‘Process Player’,
  • James, the Process Analyst, analyses the process and identifies potential bottle necks using ‘Process Simulation’. Read the full article here

 

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Case Management Sample Application for BPM Suite 11.1.1.7

Do you want to try the new adaptive case management (ACM) functionality in BPM Suite? Our product management team just published a sample application.

Case management is a solution for non structures processes. With the new functionality BPM Suite can do now both structured and un-structured ad-hoc processes. If you work on an ACM opportunity please make sure you attend the BPM training part of the OFM Summer Camps and contact us to get dedicated ACM support!

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Cloud Computing Concepts, Technology & Architecture

Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & ArchitectureDuring my holiday I read a book on “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture”. I found this book as an excellent resource for IT professionals and managers who want to learn and understand cloud computing, and who need to select or build cloud systems and solutions. It lays the foundation for cloud concepts, models, technologies and mechanisms. As the book is vendor-neutral, it will remain valid for many years. I will recommend this book to Oracle customers, partners and users for their journey towards cloud computing. This book has the potential to become the basis for a cloud computing manifesto, comparable to what was accomplished with the SOA manifesto – Jürgen Kress.

Clouds are distributed technology platforms that leverage sophisticated technology innovations to provide highly scalable and resilient environments that can be remotely utilized by organizations in a multitude of powerful ways. To successfully build upon, integrate with, or even create a cloud environment requires an understanding of its common inner mechanics, architectural layers, and models, as well as an understanding of the business and economic factors that result from the adoption and real-world usage of cloud-based services.

In Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture, Thomas Erl, one of the world’s top-selling IT authors, teams up with cloud computing experts and researchers to break down proven and mature cloud computing technologies and practices into a series of well-defined concepts, models, technology mechanisms, and technology architectures, all from an industry-centric and vendor-neutral point of view. In doing so, the book establishes concrete, academic coverage with a focus on structure, clarity, and well-defined building blocks for mainstream cloud computing platforms and solutions.

Subsequent to technology-centric coverage, the book proceeds to establish business-centric models and metrics that allow for the financial assessment of cloud-based IT resources, and their comparison to those hosted on traditional IT enterprise premises. Also provided are templates and formulas for calculating SLA-related quality-of-service values and numerous explorations of the SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS delivery models.

With over 260 figures, 29 architectural models, and 20 mechanisms, this indispensable guide provides a comprehensive education of cloud computing essentials that will never leave your side.

The book is available at Service Tech Books or at Amazon. Looking for additional SOA books or if you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

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Canonizing a Language for Architecture: An SOA Service Category Matrix Published at Service Technology Magazine Issue LXXII

Services have to meet different architecture and governance requirements and their relevance is determined by how the services are reused. The arrangement and structure significantly affect the analysis and design of the services, which in turn determine the level of granularity. Categorizing services makes it easy to arrange them according to service usage in the procedural landscape, which helps prevent unwanted entanglements.

SOA architectures that have not undergone categorization quickly become “adapter” SOAs that lack a clear division of responsibilities. The orchestration of business processes in these architectures is interspersed with technical service calls that can lead to unaccountable call sequences.

To tackle these challenges, a vocabulary that SOA professionals can use to describe different types of services has been developed. We explore the various possibilities for categorizing SOA services in this article, before introducing the range of service categories that we have successfully implemented in projects. The SOA service categorization matrix in Figure 1 contextualizes the concepts that are presented.

Read the full article at the Service Technology Magazine or Oracle Technology Network

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We created a SOA Community board at Pinterest. Feel free to pin your latest blog posts & information to one of our boards!

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Read about the Cloud and the Oracle user experience

Consumers have already seen the benefit of a cloud approach with tailored, consumer-driven experiences. Find out what that means for Oracle’s enterprise applications on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog.

Want to hear more about the Oracle Cloud and other UX innovations? UX architect Misha Vaughan writes about what Oracle Apps UX is sharing with the team’s Sales Ambassador (SAMBA) representatives in this post on VoX.

Spot the Oracle user experience design pattern Visit this post by Ultan O’Broin, Director of User Experience, to go design-pattern spotting in the Oracle Fusion Mobile Expenses app. O’Broin also takes a different angle on design patterns and talks with Oracle partner Innowave Technologies about how they used design patterns in this post on the Usable Apps blog.

Watch this interview with Oracle’s Apps UX VP ACE Director Debra Lilley interviews Apps UX Vice President Jeremy Ashley about the new, simplified UI for Oracle Fusion Applications in this video, courtesy of the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG).

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BPM for Customer Experience screencast went live

Customer Experience + Social + Mobile + BPM – what is this hype? Watch our Youtube video to understand why BPM & SOA is the enabler for all of this new hypes!

“Customer Experience” assets as well as other valuable BPM resources:

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