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SOA Cloud Service and API Manager Cloud Service are available!

September 28, 2015 Leave a comment

SOA Cloud Service provides an integration platform as a service so that you can quickly provision your new platform, and then start developing and deploying your APIs and integration projects to enable your business to transition into Digital Business.

SOA CS presentation, whitepaper, video, datasheet & marketing kit At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted

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ppt customer presentation SOA CS

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YouTube videos Vika’s announcement & cloud integration video

Cloud Integration marketing kit

SOA CS demo system: We are in process to make the PaaS Services available via GSE. Please make sure that you request our GSE access here. SOA Specialized Partners and member of the SOA & BPM Partner Community can request demo accounts here and access SOA CS demo viewlets here.

SOA CS Partners: Looking for a SOA Specialized Partner which can support you with your ICS implementation? Visit the solutions catalog here, and search for your local SOA Specialized partner have trained & certified consultants and implemented successful SOA customer projects. Across EMEA more than 1000 companies are Specialized in SOA! Find local Specialized partners by product www.oracle.com/specialized & learn more about ICS here

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For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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First impressions of Process Cloud Service

September 23, 2015 Leave a comment

Watch the short videos to get a first impression of Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS):

eProseed Digitizes with Oracle Process Cloud Service – YouTube
AVIO Empowers Business with Oracle Process Cloud Service – YouTube
Flextronics Speeds Up BPM with Oracle Process Cloud Service – YouTube
Land O’ Lakes Extends SaaS with Oracle Process Cloud Service – YouTube
Sofbang Extends SOA with Oracle Process Cloud Service – YouTube
Hitachi Manages Contracts with Oracle Process Cloud Service – YouTube

To learn more about PCS please visit the PCS tag at the SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required)

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SOA Cloud Service update September 29th 2015 16:00 CET

September 21, 2015 Leave a comment

This month we invite Yogesh Sontakke, Oracle Integration Product Manager to share with us two of Oracle’s exciting upcoming Cloud Services in the Oracle Integration portfolio.

Oracle SOA Cloud Service, a comprehensive service in the cloud with the core SOA Suite including Service Bus, BPEL and more, with flexible deployment options and lift-and-shift capabilities with existing SOA Suite environments. Together with the recently released and already popular Integration Cloud Service, this new Cloud offering enriches Oracle’s Hybrid Integration capabilities to a new level providing business speed, agility and flexibility leveraging Cloud and on-premise like never before.

Oracle API Manager Cloud Service, the API platform for innovation and speed in the Digital business. With this new Cloud Service, businesses can get API visibility in the Cloud, protection for their backend services and the ability to expose and manage their on-prem as well as Cloud APIs. Running on a robust, well-proven platform with low maintenance and all benefits of the Cloud, the API Manager Cloud Service brings API Management to the Cloud for businesses, developers and IT operations.

Make sure you are signed up and tuned in to hear the latest and to be prepared ahead of the rest for these two very important Oracle Cloud Integration Services!

Yogesh Sontakke is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle Corporation in the PaaS and Fusion Middleware group, leading Oracle’s Integration portfolio – Integration Cloud Service, SOA Suite, API Management, Stream Explorer and MFT – in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. Prior to joining the Integration Product Management team, Yogesh worked in various roles in Development, Post-Sales and Pre-Sales where he gained his experience architecting, developing, integrating and enabling technology as a key driver to businesses. Yogesh is based in the UK, and tweets at @yogesh_sontakke.

Attend our September edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on September 29^th 2015 16:00 CET.

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Missed our SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast? – watch the August edition here, July edition here, June edition here and May edition here . For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (SOA Community membership required).

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Virtual Technology Summit September 16th 2015 – free Cloud training including Process Cloud Service!

September 12, 2015 Leave a comment

The Oracle Technology Network invites you to register for our new Virtual Technology Summit – September 16^th, 9:30 am to 1:00 pm PT. It’s all about the Cloud! Hear from Oracle ACEs, Java Champions and Oracle Product Experts, as they share their insights and expertise through Hands-on-Labs, highly technical presentations and demos that enable you to master the skills you need to meet today’s IT challenges.

Middleware: Middleware in the Cloud: PaaS Gets Real – The middleware track puts the spotlight on Oracle’s Mobile Cloud Service (MCS), Process Cloud Service (PCS), and Java Cloud Service (JCS), three of the more than two dozen new services available on the Oracle Cloud Platform. In each of the three deep-dive sessions a recognized expert from the OTN community demonstrates how you can use these PaaS services, and compares each to its on-premise counterparts. PaaS services loom large in the future for developers and architects, so if you’re developing enterprise mobile applications, or working with Oracle BPM or WebLogic, you’ll want to make sure these #OTNVTS sessions are on your calendar.

For details please visit the registration page here

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What is the Power of Cloud? (to the Business) By Dave Berry

September 10, 2015 Leave a comment

Of course many readers, technologists and businesses are acutely aware of the value prop of the cloud but what about the rest of the "majority" of people who don’t? If you do a search on this topic, you will mostly get links to marketing materials that are fairly high level and full of the usual buzzwords with more links to lengthy case studies. As a business technology enabler, there needs to be a simpler message or elevator pitch that is easy to understand yet convincing. Ah, the simplicity or less is more approach rears it’s beautiful head once again. Below are some recipes to draw from for an elevator ride of any duration.

The Enterprise Cloud Reduces Business Outages Increasing Customer Satisfaction

Put simply and avoiding technical acronyms, can the business rely on 99.99+% availability from the cloud? Look no further than Netflix as an example because yes the cloud is certainly up to the task.

Immediate Availability Gives You a Your Competitive Edge (for now)

Back in the day, Dell drove industry change by assembling computers on demand reducing inventories and wrecking havoc on computer storefronts. Well the cloud equivalent is to be able to go to the cloud store, answer a few questions, enter your credit info and within 1 hour or less you are up and running.

A Right Sized Business Reduces Time, Headaches and Cost

You may wonder what this is? It takes many forms but to me you have to ask does the business get what it paid for? No more shelf ware and complicated upgrade processes. You need more capacity for certain business cycles, zoom it’s there. You need more storage, of course that is automated. You think Apple and other retailers have to turn on any switches to increase capacity? Maybe they do now but they shouldn’t.

Business Friendly User Interfaces Decreases Time to Market

Your thinking mobile and that is certainly true but it is much more than that. This is the type of disruptive technology that could put technologists like me out of work. Non-technical end users must be able to build and deploy apps that previously required a CS degree and many years of experience. Consider how Smart Data cloud initiatives are disrupting Big Data. Nate Silver, beware.

Build a Nimble Business by Thinking Small

The cloud is all about modularity, extensibility and continuous release cycles. A/B testing drives micro feature planning rendering the traditional roadmap virtually useless. In a fully optimized environment, features will show up before you even have a chance to request them. Social tools will drive this change more than traditional communication channels and you have to be on top of it because your competition sure is. Read the complete article here.

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Want to run a joint PaaS customer pre-view event?

September 10, 2015 Leave a comment

For Specialized partners we do offer marketing kits and support to run joint customer pre-view events for Process Cloud Service (PCS) and Integration Cloud Service (ICS). Campaign kits include presentations, agenda, demos, follow-up material and event promotion. At the SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted the:

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Cloud Resell Program Oracle Partner Network

September 9, 2015 Leave a comment

For partners interested in building recurring revenue selling Oracle Cloud services, the Oracle Cloud Resell program enables partners to participate in the lifetime value of the subscription including add-on, upgrade and renewal opportunities.

The Oracle Cloud Resell program offers recurring revenue from the ongoing Cloud Service that your resell. In the resell program, you – the partner, own the relationship and you participate in the entire lifetime value of the contract. You also benefit from delivering implementation and consulting services with the knowledge obtained through the Oracle specialization program. This is revenue direct to your bottom line and can be seamlessly bundled in the Cloud Service subscription price to the end customer.

Requirements to Resell Cloud Services

Be an Oracle PartnerNetwork member in good standing (Gold or higher) with a valid OPN Agreement
Meet the resale competency criteria set forth within each of the Knowledge Zones (listed below)
Execute a Full Use Program Distribution Agreement (FUDA) from the Oracle Partner Store
Execute a Cloud Services Distribution Addendum (CSDA) to the FUDA by contacting a Partner Business Center representative

Read more about the OPN Cloud program here.

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Finally My PaaS4SaaS Workshop Blog by Debra Lilley

September 3, 2015 Leave a comment

I know this posting is a bit late but at the end of January I took part in a proof of concept workshop for PaaS4Sass and it’s been a rollercoaster ride ever since.

When I was thinking about moving to Certus one of the things that attracted me was there intent to write extensions for Oracle’s CloudApplications using the just announced PaaS4SaaS solution.

I attended Oracle Open World with an open mind and trying to learn as much as I could about the solutions. The Larry Ellison demo was really impressive but then Oracle has always been a brilliant marketing company.

I came back to UK and set about validating what was available, some of the components Database and Java Cloud had been available for a while but I wanted or would want to also use the Process and Integration Cloud offerings.

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am an OracleApplications User Experience advocate and am very committed to the user experience work that goes into Oracle Cloud Applications. Extensions delivered by Certus will have this same user experience and I made this video on the half of Certus.

The user experience team have been given funding by Thomas Kurian who is personally committed to making PaaS4SaaS work, to carry out a number of proof of concept workshops with Oracle partners. The UX team asked Certus to be part of this. Certus have not been a development company and so in the same way customers come to us because we are the best at implementing cloud applications we looked for a partner to help us with development, and weselected eProseed who have the same commitment to UX as we do.

The workshop took place in London at the end of January with four people from each of Oracle UX, eProceed and Certus taking part. We work through a use-case taken from an existing Application from one of our customers who is considering modernising this and moving it to the cloud. In three days we were able to build a working application and prove to ourselves that when the customer says, “go” we will be able to deliver what they need.

Oracle UX team have in their blog already covered the workshop and I have also written about it in the AppAdvantage blog I am a guest author for. The following month I took part in the Partner SOA Community Forum in Budapest when we had the opportunity to work with product management teams of both the Process and Integration Cloud offerings and further validate our approach, understanding the possibilities and the constraints. The UX team also had a stand there. I was very pleased on behalf off both Certus and eProceed to accept the first Community Cloud award. These awards are a bit like the Oscars and awarded to individuals Lonneke from eProseed and myself, however we had a similar thank you to all those involved in our acceptance speech. The Community Leader Jurgen Kress said: I awarded my first SOA Community Outstanding Contribution for Cloud to Debra Lilley of Certus Solutions and Lonneke Dikmanns of eProseed because they not only took on board the messaging of PaaS 4 SaaS from the last Oracle Open World, but also their collaboration between an Applications partner and a Middleware partner, sought out answers and training and with Oracle Development giving feedback and validating their approach in this area. All good things but bringing that back to the community and sharing is the outstanding contribution. Read the complete article here.

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Provisioning Oracle BPM Suite on Oracle Java Cloud Service free Tutorial

August 30, 2015 Leave a comment

This tutorial describes the process for extending an Oracle WebLogic Server domain on an Oracle Java Cloud Service instance with Oracle Business Process Management Suite (Oracle BPM Suite).

Oracle BPM Suite provides a complete set of tools that you can use to create, execute, and optimize business processes. Oracle Java Cloud Service enables you to use an Oracle WebLogic Server domain and set up your Oracle BPM Suite environment without worrying about the infrastructure or platform components. All Oracle Java Cloud Service instances are preconfigured to use your Oracle Database Cloud Service instance and an object storage container that you create in Oracle Storage Cloud Service.

Oracle Java Cloud Service provides a platform to develop and deploy business applications in the cloud. Oracle Java Cloud Service provides instant access to a cloud environment with Oracle WebLogic Server, integrated security, and database access.

What Do You Need?

To create a storage container, an Oracle Database Cloud Service instance and an Oracle Java Cloud Service instances, ensure that you have a subscription to each of the following: