SOA PARTNER COMMUNITY NEWSLETTERAUGUST 2012
Dear SOA partner community member
Have you submitted your feedback on SOA Partner Community Survey 2012? This is
the last chance to participate in
the survey. We recommend you to complete
the survey and help us to improve our SOA Community.
Thanks to all attendees and trainers for their participation in
the excellent Fusion Middleware Summer Camps held in Lisbon and Munich. I would also like to thank you for
the great feedback and
the nice reports provided by AMIS Technology Blog & Middleware by Link Consulting.
Most of our courses have been overbooked, if you did not get a chance or missed it, we offer a wide range of online training and
the course material. Key take-away from
the advanced BPM course is to become an expert in ADF. Here is
the course from Grant Ronald Learn Advanced ADF online available.
The Link Consulting Team became experts in SOA Governance with EAMS and Oracle Enterprise Repository! We always encourage our community members to share their best practices and are very keen to publish it. Please let us know if you want to share your best practices through this medium.We encourage you to make use of
the Specialization benefits - this month we are giving an opportunity to Promote Your SOA & BPM Events.
Jürgen KressOracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA
NEW CONTENT
Presentations & Training material OFM Summer CampsPromote Your SOA & BPM Events Advanced ADF Online, For Free By Grant
BPM 11g Customer Stories & Solution Catalog & Process Accelerators
Delivering SOA Governance with EAMS by Link Consulting Team
WebLogic Server Provisioning and Patching
News from our Partners & CommunityUpdated material by Oracle
Connect and Network
SOA Blogs
SOA on Facebook
SOA on LinkedIn
SOA on Twitter
Mix
SOA Forum
SOA Workspace
PRESENTATIONS & TRAINING MATERIAL OFM SUMMER CAMPS
Thanks to all attendees who invested their time and utilized
the opportunity to attend
the Summer Camps! Due to high demand of our most of
the trainings, we had a long waiting list with more numbers of partners who are keen to attend it. We would like to give our special thanks to all trainers, who delivered excellent workshops!
Most of
the presentations and course material have been posted on our SOA Community Workspaceand WebLogic Community Workspace. You can access
the content only if you are a registered community member. To register for
the SOA Community please click here. You can register for
the WebLogic Community here.
To find out
the first impressions of
the event please visit our Facebook pages:www.facebook.com/WebLogicCommunity &www.facebook.com/soacommunity or Picasa AlbumThanks for
the excellent blog posts from AMIS Technology Blog & Middleware by Link Consulting. Let us know if you published a twitter blog on@soacommunity & @wlscommunity. We will be pleased to publish it in our Newsletters.
BPM Course Quotes
“Its always easy, if you know, what you are doing” - Torsten Winterberg, Opitz“
The best ideas are
the ideas from
the best” - Filipe Sequeria, Primesoft
“Best invest in
the education in
the last 12 months” - Richard Schaller, IPT
“Practice best practice with
the best instructor” - Graham Lamond Capgemini
“If you have basic BPM knowledge, this is
the course to really mater it” - Diogo Henriques Link Consulting
“Very good trainers lot of work. Lot of fun as well” - Matthias Gris Workflow Factory
“If you like to accelerate in Oracle come to
the training to bring it all together” - Marcel van der Glind, Amis
ADF Course Quotes
"Excellent training, great opportunity to network!" - Frank Houweling, Amis
"Lots of fun and good ideas" - Ana Santiago, GFI
"Learn ADF, worth it Fusion Apps is
the future" - Miguel Delgadillo, STO Consulting
"The best way to learn Fusion Middleware from
the #1" Alexandro Montantes, STO Consulting
"Be advanced to to be
the first” - Dimitar Petrov Fadata
"Great opportunity to suck all
the knowledge out of some very experienced product managers” - Wilfred von der Deijl,
The Future Group
WebLogic Course Quotes
“Oracle trainings are
the best” - Pedro Neto Novobas“
"Excellent training, well organized” - Pedro Antunh, Capgemini
“This course dives you into Oracle WebLogic giving you a quick start on benefiting from Fusion Apps” - Leonardo Fernandes, Outsystems
Additional Quotes
“Thanks a lot again for organizing such a great and informative Summer Camp. Both training and networking were organized very professionally. I have gained tons of very useful Info, which will definitely help to increase quality of our future projects.” - Daniel Fasko fss-group.com
I didn’t get
the chance yesterday to thank you for a most enjoyable and thoroughly educational time I had in Munich over
the last few days.” - Jeroen Bakker Ordina
“Just to congratulate you on a great event, not only today but also in
the previous days of training.
As we know, a very good organization and, as a native Portuguese that knows Lisbon very good, a nice choice of places to visit. Looking forward to come again next year.” Pedro Miguel Neto, Novobase
PROMOTE YOUR SOA & BPM EVENTS
The Partner Event Publisher has just been made available to all SOA & BPM specialized partners in EMEA. Partners now have
the opportunity to publish their events to theOracle.com/events site and spread
the word on their upcoming live in-person and/or live webcast events.
See
the demo below and click here to read more information.
ADVANCED ADF ONLINE, FOR FREE BY GRANT
The second part of
the advanced ADF online eCourse is Live now! This covers
the advanced topics of region and region interaction as well as getting down and dirty with some of
the layout features of ADF Faces, skinning and DVT components.
The aim of this course is to give you a self-paced learning aid which covers
the more advanced topics of ADF development.
The content is developed by Product Management and our Curriculum development teams and is based on advanced training material we have been running internally for about 18 months. We will get started on
the next chapter, but in
the meantime, please have a look at chapters one and two.
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BPM 11G CUSTOMER STORIES & SOLUTION CATALOG & PROCESS ACCELERATORS
Stories
Everyone loves a good story on planning or implementing a BPM strategy. Everyone wants to hear how it was done before?, what worked?, what was achieved? If you have achieved success with BPM, we are very keen to hear your stories and examples of how your customers use it. We receive lots of requests from people who are thinking of using BPM to solve a specific problem or in combination with a specific technology to talk to someone who has done it before. These stories are invaluable. Drop down
the details of anything you think is relevant with a bit of detail and we will follow up on it. As one good deed deserves another, we will do our best to give you stories if you need them to show that where you are going, others have treaded before. Send your stories to us using this e-mail link and we will share them among other like minded people.
Solution Catalogue
This summer, Oracle is launching a solution catalogue specifically intended for partners. If you have delivered a successful implementation in BPM and think it could be reused and applied again in a similar scenario in
the same industry or in a similar environment, then we ware keen to know about it and will add it to
the solution catalogue.
The solution catalogue will showcase successful BPM solutions both inside and outside Oracle. Be in touch with us on this e-mail link and we will make sure to add your solution.
Process AcceleratorsFinally if you have specific processes that you are expert on, you have implemented at a customer and you want to work with us on getting these productised, then we would love to know about it.
The process accelerator programme is explained in
the most recent SOA/BPM Community Newsletter but again feel free to contact us if you want to get involved.
Good luck with BPM and let us know how we can help. Barry O'Reilly Director BPM
[email protected]
DELIVERING SOA GOVERNANCE WITH EAMS BY LINK CONSULTING TEAM
In
the last 12 years Link Consulting has been making its presence in specific areas such as Governance and Architecture, both in terms of practices and methodologies, products, know-how and technological expertise.
The Enterprise Architecture Management System - Oracle Enterprise Edition (EAMS - OER Edition) is
the result of this experience and combines
the architecture management solution with OER in order to deliver a product specialized for SOA Governance that gathers
the better of two worlds in solution that enables SOA Governance projects, initiatives and programs.
Enterprise Architecture Management System
Enterprise Architecture Management System (EAMS), is an automation based solution that enables
the efficient management of Enterprise Architectures.
The solution uses configured enterprise repositories and takes advantages of its features to provide automation capabilities to
the users. EAMS provides capabilities to create/customize/analyze repository data, architectural blueprints, reports and analytic charts.
Oracle Enterprise Repository
Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) is one of
the major and central elements of
the Oracle SOA Governance solution. Oracle Enterprise Repository provides
the tools to manage and govern
the metadata for any type of
software asset, from business processes and services to patterns, frameworks, applications, components, and models. OER maps
the relationships and inter-dependencies that connect those assets to improve impact analysis, promote and optimize their reuse, and measure their impact on
the bottom line. It provides
the visibility, feedback, controls, and analytics to keep your SOA on track to deliver business value.
The intense focus on automation helps to overcome barriers to SOA adoption and streamline governance throughout
the lifecycle.
Core capabilities of
the OER include:
Asset Management
Asset Lifecycle Management
Usage Tracking
Service Discovery
Version Management
Dependency Analysis
Portfolio Management
EAMS - OER Edition
The solution takes
the advantages and features from both products and combines them in a symbiotic tool that enhances
the quality of SOA Governance Initiatives and Programs.
EAMS is able to produce a vast number of outputs by combining its analytical engine, SOA-specific configurations and
the assets in OER and other related tools, catalogs and repositories.
The configurations encompass not only
the extendable parametrization of
the metadata but also fully configurable blueprints, PowerPoint reports, charts and queries.
The SOA blueprints
The solution comes with a set of predefined architectural representations that help
the organization better perceive their SOA landscape. More blueprints can be easily created in order to accommodate
the organizations needs in terms of detail, audience and metadata.
Charts & Dashboards
The solution encompasses a set of predefined charts and dashboards that promote a more agile way to control and explore
the assets.
Time Based Visualization
All representations are time bound, and with EAMS - OER you can truly govern SOA with a complete view of
the Past, Present and Future;
The solution delivers Gap Analysis, a project oriented approach while taking into consideration
the As-Was, As-Is an To-Be.
Time based visualization differentiating factors:
Extensive automation and maintenance of architectural representations
Organization wide solution.
Easy access and navigation to and between all architectural artifacts and representations.
Flexible meta-model, customization and extensibility capabilities.
Lifecycle management and enforcement of
the time dimension over all
the repository content.
Profile based customization.
Comprehensive visibility
Architectural alignment
Friendly and striking user interfaces
For more information on EAMS visit us here. For more information on SOA visit us here.
WEBLOGIC SERVER PROVISIONING AND PATCHING
For access to
the Oracle demo systems please visit OPN and talk to your Partner Expert.SOA Suite and BPM Suite runs on WebLogic! We are pleased to announce
the availability of a WebLogic Server Management demo that showcases some of
the key provisioning and patching capabilities of WebLogic Server Management Pack Enterprise Edition (EE). To learn more about these features - as well as other features of
the pack - please visit
the pack's saleskit page.Demo Highlights
The demo showcases
the following capabilities:
Patching Oracle WebLogic Servers
Standardizing WebLogic Server Patch Rollouts
Creating a WebLogic Domain Provisioning Profile
Cloning a WebLogic Domain from a Provisioning Profile
Deploying a Java EE Application
Scaling Out an Oracle WebLogic Cluster
Demo Instructions Go to
the DSS website for Oracle Partners. On
the Standard Demo Launchpad page, under
the “Software Lifecycle Automation” section, click on
the link “EM Cloud Control 12c WLS Provisioning and Patching” (tagged as “NEW”). Specific demo launchpad page contains a link to
the detailed demo script with instructions on how to show
the demo.
