OOW 2013 is over and we’re heading home, so it is time to lean back 
and reflecting about the impressions we have from the conference.
  First
 of all: OOW was great! It was a pleasure to be a part of it. As already
 mentioned in our last blog article: It was the biggest OOW ever. 
Parallel to the conference the America’s Cup took place in San Francisco
 and the Oracle Team America won. Amazing job by the team and again 
congratulations from our side
  Back to the conference. The main topics for us are:
  
    Oracle SOA / BPM Suite 12c
    Adaptive Case management (ACM)
    Big Data
    Fast Data
    Cloud
    Mobile
  
  Below we will go a little more into detail, what are the key takeaways regarding the mentioned points:
  Oracle SOA / BPM Suite 12c During
 the five days at OOW, first details of the upcoming major release of 
Oracle SOA Suite 12c and Oracle BPM Suite 12c have been introduced. Some
 new key features are:
  
    Managed File Transfer (MFT) for transferring big files from a source to a target location
    Enhanced REST support by introducing a new REST binding
    Introduction of a generic cloud adapter, which can be used to connect to different cloud providers, like Salesforce
    Enhanced analytics with BAM, which has been totally reengineered (BAM Console now also runs in Firefox!)
    Introduction of templates (OSB pipelines, component templates, BPEL activities templates)
    EM as a single monitoring console
    OSB design-time integration into JDeveloper (Really great!)
    Enterprise modeling capabilities in BPM Composer
  
  These
 are only a few points from what is coming with 12c. We are really 
looking forward for the new realese to come out, because this seems to 
be really great stuff. The suite becomes more and more integrated. From 
10g to 11g it was an evolution in terms of developing SOA-based 
applications. With 12c, Oracle continues it’s way – very impressive.
  Adaptive Case Management Another
 fantastic topic was Adaptive Case Management (ACM). The Oracle PMs did a
 great job especially at the demo grounds in showing the upcoming Case 
Management UI (will be available in 11g with the next BPM Suite MLR 
Patch), the roadmap and the differences between traditional business 
process modeling. They have been very busy during the conference because
 a lot of partners and customers have been interested 
  Big Data Big
 Data is one of the current hype themes. Because of huge data amounts 
from different internal or external sources, the handling of these data 
becomes more and more challenging. Companies have a need for analyzing 
the data to optimize their business. The challenge is here: the amount 
of data is growing daily! To store and analyze the data efficiently, it 
is necessary to have a scalable and flexible infrastructure. Here it is 
important that hardware and software are engineered to work together. 
Therefore several new features of the Oracle Database 12c, like the new 
in-memory option, have been presented by Larry Ellison himself.
  From
 a hardware side new server machines like Fujitsu M10 or new processors,
 such as Oracle’s new M6-32 have been announced. The performance 
improvements, when using one of these hardware components in connection 
with the improved software solutions were really impressive. For more 
details about this, please take look at our previous blog post.
  Regarding Big Data, Oracle also introduced their Big Data architecture, which consists of:
  
    Oracle Big Data Appliance that is preconfigured with Hadoop
    Oracle Exdata which stores a huge amount of data efficently, to achieve optimal query performance
    Oracle Exalytics as a fast and scalable Business analytics system
  
  Analysis
 of the stored data can be performed using SQL, by streaming the data 
directly from Hadoop to an Oracle Database 12c. Alternatively the 
analysis can be directly implemented in Hadoop using “R”. In addition 
Oracle BI Tools can be used to analyze the data.
  Fast Data Fast
 Data is a complementary approach to Big Data. A huge amount of mostly 
unstructured data comes in via different channels with a high frequency.
 The analysis of these data streams is also important for companies, 
because the incoming data has to be analyzed regarding business-relevant
 patterns in real-time. Therefore these patterns must be identified 
efficiently and performant. To do so, in-memory grid solutions in 
combination with Oracle Coherence and Oracle Event Processing 
demonstrated very impressive how efficient real-time data processing can
 be.
  One example for Fast Data solutions that was shown during the
 OOW was the analysis of twitter streams regarding customer 
satisfaction. The feeds with negative words like “bad” or “worse” have 
been filtered and after a defined treshold has been reached in a certain
 timeframe, a business event was triggered.
  Cloud Another
 key trend in the IT market is of course Cloud Computing and what it 
means for companies and their businesses. Oracle announced their Cloud 
strategy and vision – companies can focus on their real business while 
all of the applications are available via Cloud. This also includes 
Oracle Database or Oracle Weblogic, so that companies can also build, 
deploy and run their own applications within the cloud. Three different 
approaches have been introduced:
  
    Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
    Platform as a Service (PaaS)
    Software as a Service (SaaS)
  
  Using
 the IaaS approach only the infrastructure components will be managed in
 the Cloud. Customers will be very flexible regarding memory, storage or
 number of CPUs because those parameters can be adjusted elastically. 
The PaaS approach means that besides the infrastructure also the 
platforms (such as databases or application servers) necessary for 
running applications will be provided within the Cloud. Here customers 
can also decide, if installation and management of these infrastructure 
components should be done by Oracle. The SaaS approach describes the 
most complete one, hence all applications a company uses are managed in 
the Cloud. Oracle is planning to provide all of their applications, like
 ERP systems or HR applications, as Cloud services.
  In conclusion 
this seems to be a very forward-thinking strategy, which opens up new 
possibilities for customers to manage their infrastructure and 
applications in a flexible, scalable and future-oriented manner.
  As
 you can see, our OOW days have been very very interresting. We 
collected many helpful informations for our projects. The new 
innovations presented at the confernce are great and being part of this 
was even greater! We are looking forward to next years’ conference! Links:
  
    http://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html
    http://thecattlecrew.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/first-impressions-from-oracle-open-world-2013
  
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