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SOA Community Newsletter June 2013

June 27, 2013 2 Comments

Dear SOA partner community member

Thanks for showing us your interest to rerun the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps! After knowing your suggestions we are happy to announce the 3rd edition of our advanced Fusion Middleware training. The camps will take place from August 26th – 30th 2013 in Lisbon Portugal. Topics will include Adaptive Case Management (ACM) as part of BPM Suite, b2b, Advanced SOA and SOA Governance. Please make sure you plan and book your seat in advance – (Booking is on the basis of first come first seat!).

Thanks for all your efforts to become certified and Specialized. For all the experts who achieved the SOA Suite 11g Essentials or BPM Suite 11g Certified Implementation Specialist, you can download a logo for your blog or business card at the Competence Center. For all the companies who achieved a SOA or BPM specialization you can request a nice Plaques for your office.

As part of our Industrial SOA article services we published “Canonizing a Language for Architecture” in the Service Technology Magazine and on Oracle Technology Network. If you write books or a blog – make sure you share it with us!

Cloud Computing is the hottest topic in IT, specially as an architect you should be aware of the concepts and technology, therefore I highly recommend you Thomas Erl’s latest book named “Cloud Computing”.

In the BPM space, Adaptive Case Management (ACM) is the hottest topic, with BPM PS6 the backend ACM functionality and an ACM sample application are available. You can even combine this hype with Customer Experience. The BPM section in this newsletter reflects the high importance of the topic and includes BPM PS6 video showing process lifecycle,BPM Resource Kit, Functional Testing, Introduction to Web Forms, Customized Workspace Application and Instance Patching Demo.

B2B also become more and more popular in the Oracle SOA Suite. If you could not attend the training organized in the month May, we offer you an additional B2B training as a part of the Summer Camps or you can download the B2B training material from our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required).

Thanks to all for sharing the valuable SOA content with our community! Special thanks to ec4u for the new reference of SOA Suite and AIA Foundation Pack at a Swiss insurance company. It is time to submit a SOA and BPM reference request today!

In this edition of the newsletter you will see Guido and Ronald’s second part of OSB article series and Kathiravan Udayakumar’s published an exclusive article on SOA Suite best practice. If you want to submit your content for the next edition of the Newsletter then please feel free to submit it to myself.

The A-Team is an excellent contributor to the best practice – make sure you visit the new A-Team page and read their articles such as Getting to know Maven.

Also on the SOA side, we have published many new articles from the community Oracle SOA Suite for the Busy IT Professional by Frank Munz, SOA Suite Knowledge – Polyglot Service Implementation with Groovy by Alexander Suchier, QA82 Analyzer – Automated Quality Assurance for Oracle SOA Suite Projects, Verifying the Target by Anthony Reynolds and a new book called Oracle SOA Governance 11g Implementation book by Luis Augusto Weir.

Two new SOA on-demand training courses NEW – Oracle Business Rules Self-Study Course & Introduction Human Workflow online course are available now!

Make use of the Summer Time and get trained – hope to see you in Lisbon for the Summer Camps!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsJune2013 (OPN Account required)

To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://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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SOA Community Newsletter May 2013

May 29, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Oracle’s fiscal years ends in May – let us know if you need any support to close your SOA or BPM opportunity! We are happy to arrange a conference call or visit with you and your customer. May is the last chance to get a free voucher to be Oracle certified Expert in SOA & BPM!

Together with a team of SOA experts, including Dr. SOA, we publish a 14th articles series about Industrial SOA OTN and the Service Technology Magazine. We are keen to discuss your experience and to
share your best practice, please send us your feedback @twitter/soacommunity #industrialSOA!

Like the past years, we want to bring the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation home to Europe! Let us know if you want to submit a nomination, we are happy to support it and write a nice quote for you.

This month’s newsletter key topic is Adaptive Case Management (ACM), which is one of the key new features of BPM PS6. Danilo Schniedel, Leon Smiers and Mark Foster published excellent articles about ACM. To get a good impression of BPM PS6 watch the video from the A-Team or attend the on-demand seven Webcasts Series. At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can test and BPM iPad mobile worklist demo application.

You can find the latest presentation about Oracle Event Processing PS6 Enhancements & Quick Start Guide to build fast data solution for big data environments also at our Workspace. For Device to Device (D2D) solutions and integrations we published D2D Executive Overview & D2D Value Proposition.

If you want to demo BPM Suite PS6 and SOA Suite PS6 make sure you use the hosted demo services. To get access to the demo environment please contact OPN! At the demo environment you will find a starter kit as well as customizable demos.

Shanny Anoep published an article” What’s new in Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1 PS6”, and Mark Nelson about SOA Version Control. The Amis team published a SOA Suite definitive guide to: The UMS adapter (11.1.1.7). To size your SOA solution we published SOA performance on SPARC T5 benchmark results. Make sure you also use the SOA Suite Tuning Guide for SPARC. A great feature to discover in SOA Suite 11g is the b2b functionality, to learn more attend our b2b training on 21-22 May in Amsterdam.

In the Service Bus section of the newsletter we feature the Fault Handling and Prevention (II) by Ronald van Luttikhuizen & Guido Schmutz and Building OSB projects with Maven and removing the eclipse dependency by Mark Nelson.

Do you want to speak about your success and best practices? Submit your paper for the UKOUG Technology Conference 2013 which will be taking place on 2nd – 4th December at the Manchester Central Convention Complex. For additional call for papers please visit our C4P wiki. Please feel free to add yourself to the conference!

Wish you great success to close all your SOA & BPM opportunities! And thanks for the collaboration & success in fiscal year 2013!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter April 2013

April 25, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community members,

Happy Easter! I hope the Easter bunnies left you good wishes and success!

Both the SOA and BPM Oracle product management team released great PS6 surprises for you! You can find both the latest SOA PS6 and BPM PS6 product overviews at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required. On the BPM side PS6 comes with major updates for Composer, Workspace, Revisioning and most important in Adaptive Case Management Support. If you have written a blog post about the new solutions – please feel free to share it with us via twitter @soacommunity!

If in case you work on a BPM 11g opportunity please share it with us! – we want to support you and will make sure we both win!

If you work on a BPM 11g projects – make sure you read the BPM 11g performance tuning whitepaper! and for SOA Suite – read the SOA 11g performance tuning whitepaper! I would also recommend you to subscribe to the A-Team SOA blog. The Cattle Crew recently posted a SOA performance blog post, please take out some time to read it..

At theOracle Learning Library you can get instant on-demand trainings for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite. With the new release of SOA Suite, we are planning to provide training to all SOA Governance experts. If you want to be trained in it please add your name to our community wiki!

Thanks to our partner C2B2 who offers an on-demand training series for SOA Suite high performance & tuning. We will offer an SOA blackbelt training intended for all Oracle SOA Suite experts in the month of June. For registration please contact myself.

Thanks for the excellent new books SOA Made Simple & “Geschäftsprozesse automatisieren mit BPEL“. If you have published a book, please feel free to add it to our publications wiki!

If you want to become an Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) 2013 speaker make sure you follow the tips from Demed. Feel free to submit your middleware papers for DOAG 2013 . In addition to this call for papers are posted in our wiki!

You can find the latest SOA & BPM Industry Presentations for defense, automotive, financial services, healthcare, oil & gas, public sector and utilities at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required). These presentations include many industry specific references, which you can also position to your customers. At last but not least I would also ask you to submit a SOA and BPM reference request!

Best regards

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter March 2013

March 27, 2013 Leave a comment

Thanks to everybody who attended the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013. With 125 attendees the event was booked out. Special thanks to all presenters for the great presentations and workshops. In the case you could not make it to Faro, all the presentations from the keynotes, general sessions and the 3 tracks: SOA, BPM and WebLogic & ADF are available at our community workspace, except the SOA Suite 12c beta demo – what you missed!

Congratulations to the winners of the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Awards – Jon, Leon, Hajo, Simon and Jan! It was very hard to choose – for me YOU the whole Community is the winner.
Based on your feedback our wikis: bpm blogs& call for papers & soa blogs & soa books are back online – please contribute!

Oracle is keen to run joint Middleware marketing events. At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find new kits for SOA “Brave New Integration World” & Achieving Greater Responsiveness with Oracle BPM” As a Specialized partner you should also take advantage of our benefits.
On the BPM side new Process Accelerators are available with release 11.1.1.6.3, make sure you try them e.g. for your next BPM customer demo. Additional several white papers are available Transforming Financial Services with BPM & Process Accelerators: Business Account Opening & Process Accelerators: Financial Services Loan Origination. A must read is the new A-Team paper BPM 11g Performance Tuning.

Thanks to all the excellent blog posts from the community like Using the MetaData Services (MDS) in a SOA environment & From the Trenches | Patching OSB and SOA Suite to PS5 & Authorization Model in SOA Suite 11g & SOA and Oracle Fusion Middleware for the Busy IT Professional & Lucas Jellema: SOA, Events, BPM, and Oracle ADF make sure you share yours @soacomunity!

Special thanks also to our User Experience team who shares great content every month, in this edition you can read more about Fusion Applications & mobile & user experience concepts.

Like every month at the end of the newsletter you get the top tweets and the upcoming trainings – make sure you attend them!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter February 2013

February 28, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

In this newsletter edition we highlighted many new online demos for SOA, BPM and OEP. Being a partner, you can use the same demo systems that Oracle pre-sales consultants use every day for customers. Out of the box demos including a flow & script have been updated. Demos are key in the sales process! To access the DSS demo systems please visit OPN and feel free to talk to your Partner Expert!

With the rise of big and fast data SOA and pattern matching can play a key role, make sure you attend our webcast and get the latest whitepaper. To design SOA architectures, OASIS published a SOA reference architecture and EAIESB a SOA BPEL 2.0 Poster. If you work on SOA project make sure you follow the C2B2 SOA Tuning webcast series and I recommend you to try the SOA Testing utilities.

In the BPM section we published new papers such as Transforming Customer Experience,Cooking Up Successful BPMand BPM in Utilities. In addition to this the BPM DSS Demos to extend Siebel are available. Mark Nelson published a blog post about Collecting diagnostic information for BPM and Jan van Zoggel about Integration of Oracle BPM and Oracle UCM/WCC. Please read these publications and make yourself updated from these shared knowledge.

I will be looking forward to see you all in Portugal for the Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013.

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter January 2013

January 31, 2013 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Happy holiday and have a great start in the year 2013!

To make your New Year successful, we would like to invite you to our Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2013. This is the best platform to learn and become certified on middleware. Our major tracks include SOA, BPM and ADF & WebLogic. If you are also an expert in middleware, you can learn more about new products and features like BPM PS6 or b2b and event processing. The event is also a great opportunity to network within the partner community and with the Oracle product management team. Make sure you register asap – as only 120 seats are available this year!

In this newsletter edition you will find two major topics: b2b and cloud computing. On the b2b side Martien van den Akker and the A-Team published a series of articles. Additional we made the latest b2b samples and training material available at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required.

On the cloud side Bruce Tierney published an article on "Cloud Integration in Minutes” – True or False? and at the OTN Architect Day a series of podcasts was recorded: Dude, What’s My Role? and Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud and All Clouds Are Not Equal and Cloud Security and Auditing.
In our monthly BPM section Ajay Khanna shared insight on what will happen in the BPM space in 2013. Geoffroy de Lamalle published a video “eProseed Delivers Processes Skillfully with Oracle BPM Suite" Want to promote your BPM success – submit a BPM eference request!

If you are working on SOA projects, make sure you use the RDA Health Checks for SOA and read the SOA Suite 11g Developer’s Cookbook by Anthony Reynolds.

See you in Portugal!

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter December 2012

December 26, 2012 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Happy Holiday! Thanks for a great 2012! Thanks for all the joint business and your community support. We wish you and your family a great holiday season!

We have a huge back of presents for you: Our Fusion Middleware Community Forum is planned for February 19th & 20th and the Bootcamps 21st & 22nd 2013. For details please visit our registration page!

Winter time is training time – we offer many on-demand trainings and assessments to become Specialized. A SOA, BPM or ADF certified Implementation is the best for a great start in 2013.

Thanks for the excellent middleware track at the UKOUG conference, we posted all presentations at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required). Thanks also to the DOAG team for the conference, you can find most of the presentations and a nice report on the Vennster blog At the community workspace you can also find a big BPM update including papers for BPM design best practice & industry papers & process accelerators demos.

On the SOA suite our product management team published a series of new articles. One of our partners Gebhart offers tooling for Quality Analysis for SOA and Cloud. On the cloud side E-Book: Cloud Architecture for Dummies & Cloud Considerations & Connectivity papers are available. And our friends from EAIESB papers offers a whole series on Healthcare & OSB & B2B & BPM & SOA

Happy holiday and a great start in 2013

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter November 2012

November 30, 2012 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Too many different product from Oracle, no idea how do they fit together? Get a copy of the Oracle catalog, an excellent overview of the Oracle middleware portfolio. BPM is a key solution to this portfolio. To position BPM to your customers you can find many use case ideas in the paper BPM 11g Patterns and industry specific value propositions for Financial Services & Insurance & Retail. Many more Process Accelerators (11.1.1.6.2) have become available. It is an excellent demo and starting point for BPM projects.

Our SOA Suite team published the most important OOW presentation at the OTN website. The Oracle SOA proactive support team is running a series of blog posts about SOA and JMS Introductory. To become an expert in SOA, Bob highlighted the latest list of SOA books. For OSB projects we recommend the EAIESB OSB poster.

Thanks to all the experts who contributed and shared their SOA & BPM knowledge this month again. Please feel free to send us the link to your blog post via twitter @soacommunity:

Hope to see you at the Middleware Day at UK Oracle User Group Conference 2012 in Birmingham.

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter October 2012

October 26, 2012 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

In this edition of the Newsletter you will find many key updates and information from Oracle OpenWorld and the SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Forum with many product updates and highlights.

Make sure you download the presentation from our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) to train yourself and for your next customer meeting. Thanks for all the tweets tweets #soacommunity, the pictures at our facebook page and the nice blog posts from Guido & Lucas.

Many new books have been published: Industrialized SOA – topic of Business Technology Magazine & Oracle Service Bus (OSB) in 21 days: A hands on guide by ESB & Experience the eBook – “Oracle SOA Suite – In the Customers’ Words” & Administer, manage, monitor, and fine tune the performance of your Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Please feel free to let us know if you have published a book or article! We would like to publish it as well.

This month in our Specialization benefit series we highlighted the opportunity to promote your SOA & BPM services by google ads.
On the BPM side we uploaded many new documents like: BPM Center of Excellence, First 100 Days and BPM preview of Oracle BPM PS6.ppt and (Oracle partner confidential) to our community workspace. The Oracle BPM partner solution Catalog is live now, Make sure you add your process templates!
Two new SOA demos 11.1.1.6 became available at the hosted demo environment, if you like to use them please visit OPN and talk to your partner Expert

Hope to see you at the Middleware Day at UK Oracle User Group Conference 2012 in Birmingham.

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA

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SOA Community Newsletter September 2012

September 27, 2012 Leave a comment

Dear SOA partner community member

Are you ready for Oracle Open World 2012? If you are planning to attend, make sure that you prepare your trip to San Francisco. If you could not make it, watch the keynotes live on-demand. You can also plan and decide to visit the SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Symposium 2012 and meet Tim Hall and Demed Lher from our product management team in London. As an Oracle partner you will get 50% discount on the conference pass, please use the code DJMXZ370 and avail your discount.

The BPM Solution Catalogue is now live, make sure you use the process examples and contribute your processes.

SOA Proactive support is the best resource to support your SOA implementations. To administrate your SOA systems Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is the best tool, you can now attend thefree on-demand training.

EM12c, Real User Experience Insight 12R1 gives you all the details, checkout our new demo. The BPM11g demo for Oracle E-Business Suite has become available. A wonderful SOA demo case is the Fusion Order Demo, Antony Reynolds posted an article how to update it on SOA Suite PS5. If you do use Coherence e.g. for SOA Suite, checkout the extension from our partner CloudTran.

In this edition to this you will also find articles from: Automatically Disable Proxy Service to avoid overloading OSB By Jian Liang & Storing SCA Metadata in the Oracle Metadata Services Repository by Nicolás Fonnegra Martinez and Markus Lohn & Exploring MDS Explorer by Mark Nelson & Using Cloud OER to Find Fusion Applications On-Premise Service Concrete WSDL URL by Rajesh Raheja & Oracle Service Bus duplicate message check using Coherence by Jan van Zoggel & Installing Oracle SOA Suite10g on Oracle Enterprise Linux Lonneke Dikmans & Generating an EJB SDO Service Interface for Oracle SOA Suite by Edwin Biemond.