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Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is over – what was important what did you miss?

New version of BPM suite 11.1.1.5 feature pack released

Process value accelerator - rapid start datasheet – oracle

Oracle BPM suite 11g handbook released

Virtual developer day: SOA development (on demand)

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Updated Oracle Material

Keynotes: Best of Oracle OpenWorld keynotes and general session is available on-demand. We recommend you to watch:

Oracle Cloud Computing	Middleware General Session
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Watch full-length keynote	Hasan Rizvi, SVP, Oracle Watch full-length general session

Presentations: All presentations are available online at the OpenWorld Content Catalog

For detailed Oracle OpenWorld reports please visit e-vita SOA-team @ OOW 2011 & Vennster @ OOW 2011 & Oracle SOA Team @ OOW 2011.

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For all SOA & BPM experts, we offer free vouchers worth $195 for the Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture Certified Implementation Specialist & Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g Essentials (1Z0-560) assessment! To demonstrate your SOA & BPM knowledge you first have to pass the free online assessment Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture 11g PreSales Specialist & Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g PreSales Specialist Assessment.

For free vouchers please send an e-mail with the screenshot of your PreSales certirficate to brigitte.felisaz@oracle.com including your Name, Company, E-mail and Country with the e-mail subject free SOA & BPM voucher! *(offer is limited to partners from Europe Middle East and Africa. Partners from other countries please contact their region Oracle partner manager).

If you have problems with your Pearson VUE account and to link your certifications to the Oracle Partner Network; please read the document “Accounts for implementation assessment”. Vouchers are limited to persons based in Europe, Middle East and Africa. If you are outside this region, please contact your local partner manager

BPM Sales Plays FY12
BPM continues to be our focus area in Fiscal Year 2012. The analyst feedback is excellent and thanks to you the community, more than 7 customers are in EMEA in production on BPM Suite 11g.

To enable your sales team we published our Oracle internal sales kits.Please find them here.

Please use this material to update your account managers and do not publish this material externally. For any questions and personal sales training, please contact Mike Connaughton Director, Business Process Management.

Our product management team and development team is keen to support you to make your BPM Suite 11g implementation successful!

The development are keen to track:

• prospects so that we can directly support you
• customers development to ensure a smooth transition to production.

Please contact James Allerton-Austin if you need support with customers or prospects for FY12.

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by Manoj Das: The BPM product team is very pleased to announce that BPM Suite 11.1.1.5 Feature Pack, publicly available now. This feature pack includes many significant enhancements and new features. Some of the highlights of this release are:

More Business Friendly

Significantly Enhanced Process Composer

• Versions and Snapshots: From process composer, you can create and manage snapshots and see who changed what and when.
• Sharing and Collaboration: An enhanced project-level sharing model and collaboration features, shows who else is working on the project at any time
• Improved Ease of Use: A new project home that makes managing project and its artifacts much more intuitive. Also includes, improved properties window, editing cues, and many other enhancements targeted at business analysts.

New Business Analyst Features

• Documentation (Report) Generation: Generate process documentation as HTML or XML. XML format may be used to create custom outputs.
• BPMN 2.0 Collaboration View: Provides a collaboration diagram view based on BPMN 2.0 specification; available in both Composer and Studio.

More Agile

• Alter Flow: Alter Flow allows an appropriately privileged user to alter the execution of a process by changing the process data and/or moving it to a different activity.
• Instance Patching: Change the definition of process and patch in-flight instances to the new definition

More Complete

• Broader UCM Integration: Process and task attachments can be easily managed in UCM and related metadata can be set from BPM.
• Advanced Services Integration: Some of the more advanced services integration capabilities available in our BPEL product such as message based correlation and ability of a process instance to converse with multiple instances of another process or service are now available in BPMN. (The BPMN features are Correlations and Conversations).
• Richer Human Workflow: New features including parametric roles, organization unit based role selection, sticky-user based assignment, and support for 4-eye principle (if a person did one task exclude them from another task) were added.

Richer Process Analytics

• Round-trip Simulation – Create simulation scenarios based on run time data.
• BI Integration: Process specific views are automatically created on top of the process STAR schema to facilitate analysis using Oracle BI or any other BI tool.

Something for Developers

• Draft Mode: Develop process incrementally by marking activities as draft or test a process while a service is offline.
• Custom Log: Add custom messages to be added to the BPM log and audit trail.
• Rule Test Framework: Easily create and run test cases for testing business rules (see chapter 8 of doc).
• Enhanced Rule Audit Trail: Rule audit trail shows much more information including state of facts, rule stack, etc.
• Workspace Customization: Easier customization of Workspace including skinning, disabling standard tabs, more fetaure rich custom tabs, custom links, and ability to customize Inbox.
• Documented BPM APIs: In addition to the fabric and workflow APIs, BPM APIs are also documented (see javadoc).

Download and More Info

You can check for a more complete article on the new features in this release, link to the documentation, as well as instructions on downloading here What’s New in BPM Suite 11.1.1.5 Feature Pack.

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With the Oracle Process Value Accelerator, we will help you to analyze your current business processes, and provide an actionable roadmap targeting process implementation improvement with measureable Return on Investment (ROI).The Oracle Process Value Accelerator uses Business Process Management (BPM) tools and techniques combined with standard architectures that leverage existing information, help to document your business processes, and provides the underlying reference architectures needed to support your BPM initiatives.

The first two processes that will be available are a travel request and a document approval process. We are very interested to develop additional process templates with YOU! We will be pleased to know your interest on it!

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Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Handbook published by McGraw Hill is now available at McGraw Hill's website as well as at Amazon.com. If you are attending Oracle OpenWorld at San Francisco, you can also buy (or browse) it at the Oracle Publisher's booth at the second level of Moscone West.

Table of contents

• Part I: Introduction
  • Chapter 1: BPM – Background
  • Chapter 2: Standards in BPM
  • Chapter 3: BPM Suite 11g – Overview
• Part II: Mastering Oracle BPM 11g
  • Chapter 4: Quick Learners Guide to Oracle BPM 11g
  • Chapter 5: Business Process Modeling and Implementation using BPMN 2.0
  • Chapter 6: Mastering Business Rules
  • Chapter 7: Advanced Human Tasks
  • Chapter 8: Developing Rich User Interfaces for BPM with ADF
• Part III: Essentials of Oracle BPM Methodology
  • Chapter 9: Planning a BPM Adoption
  • Chapter 10: Strategic Analysis, Process Selection and Design
  • Chapter 11: Technical Design and Project Delivery Strategies

"Chapter 3: BPM Suite 11g – Overview" and "Chapter 8: Developing Rich User Interfaces for BPM with ADF" are available for free download (Chapter 3 and Chapter 8) from McGraw Hill's website.

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With this online, hands-on workshop you will be on the path to Oracle SOA Suite knowledge and expertise. There is no faster or more efficient way to jumpstart your learning through these developer-focused product presentations and demonstrations. You'll learn how an SOA approach can be implemented, whether starting fresh with new services or reusing existing services.

Using Oracle SOA Suite 11g components, participants can explore, modify, execute, and monitor an SOA composite application. The topics includes: SCA, BPEL process execution, adapters, business rules and many more.

Note: Oracle VM VirtualBox (free) is required for the VM-based hands-on lab; you can download it here

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• Podcast: Paul Preiss on Architecture as a Profession IASA CEO and founder Paul Priess talks about the origins, background, and mission of his global organization for IT architects, and discuss the future of IT architecture and the role education and certification plays in defining and refining the profession.Listen Part 1 & Part 2. A small sampling of vendor neutral career enhancement resources: TOGAF® Certification Program & Iasa: An Association of IT Architects & Arcitura Education Inc
• Article: Caching Strategies for Oracle Service Bus 11g The right caching strategy can make a big difference in application performance. William Markito Oliveira offers tips on how to speed up Web Services and prevent production outages. Read here.
• OTN TechCast - Oracle SOA Governance demystified for Architects: Here's an OTN TechCast video recorded during Oracle Open World featuring Cathy Lippert, Director of Product Management interviewed by Bob Rhubart from OTN. Cathy and Bob discuss why SOA Governance is important to different aspects of IT including on-premise applications and the cloud. For more information visit the SOA Governance blog.
• Oracle unified method level 2: Gathering requirements classes available
  This course is designed to provide an overview of gathering requirements using the Oracle Unified Method. It will demonstrate how business process models and use cases can make effective tools while gathering and defining requirements. You will learn how to employ business process models and use cases to elicit requirements, at the business and system level. It employs an interactive case study with developing various models and artifacts related to the techniques that OUM employs for gathering business and system requirements. Pre-registration is required. For more information and registration, click here

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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 check your local OPN trainings calendar for additional training dates and locations.

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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 contents 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.comand www.soacp.com.

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Publishing Your Stories
We would like to invite our partners to publish information in the newsletter or on our SOA Community portal. Especially we are looking for your real life experience with our SOA technology. Please send your documents to Jürgen Kress. We look forward to getting your suggestions!

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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 PartnerNetworkand 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