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.