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SOA PARTNER COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2011

Dear SOA Partner Community,

Jürgen Kress
Oracle SOA Partner Adoption EMEA

Do you want to learn about how to sell the value of Fusion Middleware by combining
SOA and E2.0 Solutions?

We would like to invite you to become updated and trained at our SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum March on 15th and 16th 2011 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Keynote: Andrew Gilboy and David Shaffer The Oracle SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum is a wonderful opportunity to: learn how to sell the value of Fusion Middleware by combining SOA and E2.0 solutions meet with Oracle SOA and E2.0 Product management exchange knowledge learn from successful SOA, BPM, WebCenter and UCM implementations understand Oracle's Fusion Applications Strategy network within the Oracle SOA Partner Community and the Oracle E2.0 Partner Community

During this highly informative event you can learn about partner success stories, participate in an array of break out sessions, exchange information with other partners and enjoy a vibrant panel discussion.

Additionally to the SOA and E2.0 Partner Community Forum, you can participate in technical hands on workshops on March 17th and 18th. The goal of these workshops is to prepare you for customer implementations.

For more information, please visit our website. The agenda can be found here.

We look forward to meeting you in Utrecht, The Netherlands!

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We continue to support your efforts to SOA Specialization in 2011, therefore we again we are offering free vouchers:

For SOA Partner Community members we offer 50 free Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist assessment vouchers!
If you'd like to get a free voucher please show us proof of your SOA knowledge by sending us a screenshot of your Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist certificate - free of charge at the OPN Competency Center.

To request the free voucher please send an e-mail with the screenshot to brigitte.felisaz@oracle.com including your Name, Company, E-mail, Country and the subject SOA free voucher!

For details on the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist and the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist, please read the SOA & Application Grid Specialization Catalog. For support with your accounts please contact the Partner Business Center.

For details on Specialization please see the SOA & Application Grid Specialization Catalog and the SOA & Application Grid Specialization Checklist.

For preparation and feedback please read the blog from Roger van de Kimmenade.

Oracle SOA Foundation Practioner exam
The Oracle Middleware Fusion 11g stack has a certification path for SOA:
1Z0-451 Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner.

When you pass this exam you may call yourself an: Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Infrastructure Implementation Certified Expert.

Today I passed the exam with 81% but I must say the questions were pretty detailed.
So you really must have practical experience with the Oracle SOA Suite 11g, but this is a good thing because that is where Certification is for.

Suggested preparation:

• Follow a SOA Suite 11g Bootcamp (or follow the book: Getting Started with Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1)
• Play with the product at home
• Follow the recommended learning path as mentioned here (for this you must be a registered Partner).

The questions are of high level and detailed level, with Choose Applicable, True/False, and Select Correct type of questions.

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With BPM Suite 11g, Oracle became one of the first vendors to support the new BPMN 2.0 standard notation for business process modeling.

• Gartner Ranks Oracle as a BPM Leader: In Gartner's October 2010 Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites, Gartner places Oracle in the coveted Leaders quadrant thanks to its BPM Suite 11g product offering. See CMSWire's synopsis of the report.

We are working on the BPM Specialization, as a first step we made available:

• BPM knowledge zone
• BPM Bootcamp
• BPM Sales Guidebook
• Oracle Business Process Management 11g PreSales Consultant
• Oracle Business Process Management 11g Sales Person
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g PreSales Specialist Assessment
• Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Sales Specialist Assessment

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Dates: 31st January - 4th February
Location: Woodmead North Office Park (Johannesburg) 54 Maxwell Drive Jukskeiview Sandton, 2195 Map to Woodmead.
Cost: Free of charge, cancellation or no-show fee 2.000€
Bootcamp is limited to 12 people on a first come first serve basis
Follow-up: Become SOA Specialized mandatory SOA Implementation assessment and register your OMM SOA opportunity

Interested? Apply for attendance please send an E-Mail to Jürgen Kress with the following details.
Name, Title, Company, E-Mail, Country, realized Oracle SOA projects, SOA Suite 11g opportunities.

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Call for Presentations
At the last SOA & Cloud Symposium by Thomas Erl the SOA Partner Community had great presence. The next conference takes place April 2011 in Brazil, make sure you submit your papers.

For additional call for papers please visit our SOA Community Wiki.

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• By Jurgen - yet another AMIS colleague doing SOA (Suite) The Inbound File Adapter – Use trigger file
• By Theo: Oracle 11g SOA Suite – Service-enable a Query Using the Database Adapter’s Execute Pure SQL Option
• Thought Process on Upgrading WebLogic Server to 11g, #weblogic
• New blog : Oracle Service Bus Using External Domain Value Mappings (DVM), #osb #oracleservicebus #dvm
• My SOASymposium presentation on video via InfoQ
• BPM: Top Seven Architectural Topics in 2010
• Virtual Developer Day: Oracle WebLogic Server & Java EE (#OTNVDD), interesting! #weblogic
• Matjaz B. Juric, Marcel Krizevnik: WS-BPEL 2. 0 for SOA Composite Applications with Oracle SOA Suite 11g eBook.
• Oracle Certification - Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner(1Z0-451)
• Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2011
• New blog post: Book Review: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook
• Oracle Certification - Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner(1Z0-451)
• Using WebLogic as a Load Balancer, #weblogic
• Srinivasan Sundara Rajan: SOA Design Patterns in the Cloud | SOA World Magazine
• Naill Commiskey: Canceling a running composite in SOA Suite 11g.
• Bought the eBook 'Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns' for reading on my newly bought iPad
• Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog: Oracle UCM 11g Access From ADF 11g Table Row andrejusb.blogspot.com/2010/12/oracle…
• Written by my colleague Marcel: Obtain a BPEL process model out of a history log - Very interesting
• It's the season for wishlists; what do you want from ADF? Oracle is asking - join the discussion
• Nice report on J2EE productivity - whether it's accurate, I don't know, but it's interesting
• #SOA App #Integration: 2011 plans? 2010 struggles? #Oracle - #Infosys webcast 16-12-10 at 8am Pac webcast
• The Popularity Of Java EE 6 In China Or Java EE 6 At JavaOne Beijing: I was warned that chinese audience isn't i...
• wikipedia writes: #JavaOne 2011 is scheduled for October 2-6, 2011. again together with #oow - is this confirmed?
• The track page for the #SOACloud symposium is released. Visit http://ow.ly/3pjwG for more information.
• New blog post: ADF: changing your application's URL (or what on earth is a context-root anyway?)
• Chris Muir: Installing OSB 11.1.1.3.0 on Windows

Please feel free to send us your news! And add your blog to our SOA blog wiki.

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• The Perfect Cloud
  “The whole cloud must be fault tolerant. Single parts might break, or a single application running in the virtual machine might cause problems, but the cloud would not stop working,” says Thomas Oestreich, chief Enterprise Performance Management strategist for Oracle.
• Outperform Your Competitors with Oracle WebLogic Suite
  January 18, 2011 at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET
  Increasing the performance of mission-critical applications can help you meet your Service Level Agreements, boost customer satisfaction, outperform your competitors and increase revenues. Discover how – with the world's #1 application server, Oracle WebLogic Suite. Register Now...
• Arch2Arch Podcast: Architects in the Cloud (Part 3 of 4)
• Please feel free to add your SOA blog to our wiki #soacommunity
• Five Key Strategies in Master Data Management - Here is a very interesting Profit Magazine article on MDM: A recent ...
• The Value of SOA Specialization – Fujitsu - #soacommunity
• Active Data Service Sample –Twitter Client
• Dear Jan and Thomas please make sure that you add your blog to our wiki
• Gathering Clouds: #Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud advances datacenter consolidation efforts
• ADF Faces' Active Data Service works fine on iPad as well ( )
• Happy holiday! Thanks for making the SOA Partner Community a superb success in 2010!
• ADF Code Corber Oracle JDeveloper OTN Harvest Dec 2010 released: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
• Oracle Forms 11g Customer Upgrade Reference - We have just published a reference to an Oracle customer, Callista, ta...
  • JAX & JSF Summit 2011 Call for papers -submit your SOA success & best practice #soacommunity
• Arch2Arch Podcast: Architects in the Cloud (Part 2 of 4)
• Virtual Developer Day: Oracle WebLogic Server & Java EE (#OTNVDD) (Oracle Technology Network Blog (aka TechBlog))
• Oracle Announces Availability of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X2-2
• The Aquarium: Oracle WebLogic Server & Java EE Developer Day. 2/1/2011.
• Interesting piece on how OnStar used SOA to launch new features faster (from last month's Profit Magazine)
• Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0 is released! Read about it, or download it
• I Didn’t Get You Anything… (ArchBeat)
• Newsletter SOA Partner Community December 2010: SOA Cloud & Specialization & Sales Kits
• SOA Specialization update - SOA Specialization is taking off, more and more customers ask for Specialized Partners
• Migrating Java Applications from Weblogic Server 8.1 to Weblogic Server 10.3 « itspice.net
• Polish farmers use Oracle SOA Suite #soa #farming
• www.texas.gov uses Oracle SOA Suite and writes business rules in MS Word & Excel #soa #texas #gov
• Premium Wines Brand launches "App Store" with Oracle SOA Suite and ADF #soa #wine
  • Migrating Java Applications from Weblogic Server 8.1 to Weblogic Server 10.3 « itspice.net
• SOA Design Principles - reference architecture: Thomas Erl uses the following eight (8) principles to discuss SO...
• Oracle BPM + SOA = agility in front office, reuse in middle office, and rationalization in back office
• Opitz Consulting wins the Oracle SOA Partner Community Award:
• easiest way to find the SOA exams is in opn via the soa knowledge zone in the specialize tab
• Porus Homi Havewala: Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Packs
• Article on OTN: Overview of Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Packs
• Very much enjoying our Q2 earnings call...Oracle's new software license revenue up 21%, database and middleware new license revenue up 21%
• Had a full house on the SOA roadmap session..lots of interest and some very interesting (cont)
• Arch2Arch Podcast: Architects in the Cloud (Part 1 of 4)
• New! Oracle Business Process Management Knowledge Zone Get the latest information on BPM!
• A SOA Safari (Antony Reynolds' Blog)
• How to become specialized - SOA & Application Grid Specialization Catalog #soa
• The Perfect Cloud: What 6 benefits should a cloud model deliver?
• Interested in Oracle Cloud partnership? Complete the Cloud Computing Partner Survey
• Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Office and Oracle Open Office 3.3
• Duncan Mills shows off Oracle development tools at the Develop Keynote - #oow10 #oowbeijing
• BPM Portal - How To Configure Oracle BPM 11g Process Portal on Oracle WebCenter Spaces 11g
• Pat Shepherd: IT Strategies from Oracle – Great EA Library (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle)
• Java Champion Matjaz B. Juric on Cloud Computing, SOA, and Java EE 6
• Customer Spotlight: BT - Hear how BT uses Oracle Fusion Middleware to innovate, improve and transform business proce...
• Call for presentations for the SOA + Cloud Symposium 2011 by Thomas Erl
• Learn how Oracle WebLogic is Empowering the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud – Live Webcast this Wednesday
• 42 Real Life Examples of Fusion Middleware-White Paper #soa
• Global Transactions and Quality of Service with Oracle Service Bus #soa
• New Article: Implementing Business Agility using BPM & SOA #soa
• Internode consolidates, reduces technical call times by up to 80% with #OracleCoherence.
• Oracle Rolls Out Private Cloud Architecture And World-Record Transaction Performance | Forrester Blogs.
• Marc Kelderman: Scripting your Oracle SOA 11g Cluster.
• Live Oracle WebLogic webcast w/Mike Lehmann and Will Lyons. 12/16 10am PT 1pm ET.
• Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog: JSF Page Template for JSF Page Fragment In Oracle ...

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• Business Driven Application Management
• BPM11g
• Application Grid
• GoldenGate
• Fusion Middleware Pricing
• OC4J to WebLogic
• Next Generation SOA
• Fusion Middleware in Utility
• Fusion Middleware in Communications
• Fusion Middleware in Public Services
• Fusion Middleware in Financial Services

Please visit our SOA Partner Community Website for more details about: Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite & Oracle Business Process Management.

Country Corners
Visit the country corners for news and events, product information, analyst reports, education, marketing and sales:

• France
• Germany
• UK
• Denmark
• Portugal

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• 11-13.01.11: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Levallois, France
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 11-14.01.11: ADF Bootcamp, Brussels, Belgium
  Contact: PTS, Focus: Tech
• 17-19.01.11: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Espoo, Finland
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 17-19.01.11: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Ballerup, Denmark
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 17-19.01.11: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, München, Germany
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 17-19.01.11: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Madrid, Spain
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 19-20.01.11: JCAPS to SOA Suite Bootcamp, Munich, Germany
  Contact: PTS, Focus: Tech
• 24.01.11: Virtual OPN Day, Webcast
  Focus: Business & Tech
• 31.01-04.02.2011: SOA Blackbelt Training, Johannesburg, South Africa
  Contact: Product Management & Jürgen Kress, Focus: Tech
• 01.02.2011: Virtual Developer Day A New Breed of Events for Java developers, Webcast
  Contact: OTN Team, Focus: Tech
• 01-03.02.2011: Oracle AIA Implementation Bootcamp, Live Virtual Class
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 04.02.2011: Oracle Coherence 3.5 Bootcamp, Live Virtual Class
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 18-21.02.2011: BPM 11g Bootcamp, Paris, Grance
  Contact: PTS, Focus: Tech
• 21-23.03.2011: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 21-23.03.2011: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, München, Germany
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 21-23.03.2011: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Madrid, Spain
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 22-24.02.2011: SOA Suite - Hands On, Frankfurt, Germany
  Contact: Corry Weick, Focus: Tech
• 15-16.03.2011: SOA & E2.0 Community Forum, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  Contact: Jürgen Kress, Focus: Tech
• 17-18.03.2011: Bootcamps, SOA 11g, BPM 11g, WebCenter 11g, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  Contact: Jürgen Kress, Focus: Tech
• 16-17.03.2011: BPM Suite 11g Technisches Training, Oracle München, Heimstetten, Germany
  Contact: Corry Weick, Focus: Tech
• 30.03.2011: Installation & Konfiguration der SOA Infrastruktur, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Contact: Corry Weick, Focus: Tech
• 28-30.03.2011: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Madrid, Spain
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 11-13.04.2011: Oracle SOA Suite 11g Implementation Bootcamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech
• 12-14.04.2011: SOA Suite Hands On, Berlin, Germany
  Contact: Corry Weick, Focus: Tech
• 27-29.04.2011: Oracle AIA Implementation Bootcamp, Live Virtual Class
  Contact: Oracle University, Focus: Tech:

Please check your local OPN Training Calendar for additional training and locations here.

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The SOASchool.com SOA Certified Professional (SOACP) program is dedicated to excellence in the field of SOA and service-oriented computing. Through a series of seasoned course modules and exams, IT professionals have the opportunity to obtain a number of different certifications to recognize their accomplishment of gaining "project ready" SOA proficiency. This comprehensive and strictly vendor-neutral program was developed in cooperation with best-selling SOA author Thomas Erl and several major SOA organizations and academic institutions.

Through the involvement of the SOA Education Committee, course content and certification requirements are constantly reviewed and revised to stay current with developments in the service-oriented computing industry. The program is currently comprised of 12 course modules and 5 certifications and is expanding to 18 course modules and 8 certifications throughout 2009. For more information, visit www.soaschool.com and www.soacp.com.

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Promote your Success with Oracle!

Have you Implemented Oracle BPA Suite for a Customer?
If yes, great! We are offering you the chance to generate reference material with us about your customer and your success! Nominate your BPA Suite implementations, get a free of charge customer snapshot reference document and see your reference, including your company name and logo published on oracle.com! For nominations please send a mail with some details about the customer and products in use to wolfgang.muecke@oracle.com.

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Have you Published a SOA Article or Book?
With the use of our blogs, we would like to invite you to become interactive in the community:

• What is the next SOA & Fusion Middleware Event? Do you want to promote your event to Oracle customers and partners? Visit and contribute to our SOA Event Wiki.
• Have you published a SOA article or book? Do you want to promote your publication? Visit and contribute to our SOA Publication Wiki.
• Do you write your own SOA Blog? Would you like us to promote your blog? Visit and contribute to our SOA Blog Wiki. If you send us the link to your blog we will add it to the SOA Partner Community website. It would also be appreciated if you could link your blog to ours.
• We look forward to receiving your comments and posts on the SOA Partner Adoption Blog.

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Are you Certified?
In becoming a mature Oracle SOA Partner Community, we urge you to become Oracle SOA certified. Hundreds of consultants became Oracle SOA certified this month! - Are you certified?

• Oracle SOA Sales Champion
• Oracle SOA Pre-Sales Champion
• Oracle SOA Implementation Champion
• Oracle BPA Suite Pre-Sales Champion

Assessments to become certified:

• SOA Sales Assessment
• SOA Presales Assessment
• SOA Implementation Assessment
• BPA Suite PreSales Assessment

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mix.oracle.com

Join our new networking tool mix.oracle.com and link the profile of Jürgen Kress and Wolfgang Mücke. At mix you can find Oracle customers, partners and employees sharing information, ideas and answering questions.

Recommended Oracle Mix Groups:

• Oracle BPA Suite
• Oracle BPM
• Oracle SOA Suite
• Application Integration Architecture

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Publishing Your Stories
We would like to invite our partners to publish information on our SOA Community portal. We are looking for your real life SOA technology experiences. Please send your stories to Jürgen Kress. We look forward to receiving them!

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Do you want to chat to experts, including partners and Oracle SOA Product Development? Do you want to get the latest information about our SOA solutions and events?

Attend our private online SOA Discussion Forum at OTN. Please send your OTN forums user name to Brigitte Felisaz. You must be a registered user to access the SOA Discussion Forum.

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Please feel free to invite your colleagues to join the SOA Community and to participate in the SOA Assessment tests. For registration please login the Oracle PartnerNetwork and go to: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

For any questions on the above or concerning SOA and Oracle in general please contact the Oracle EMEA Alliances & Channels SOA Team.

Best regards
Oracle EMEA SOA Team
Jürgen Kress