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The Oracle Policy Automation knowledge zone on the Oracle Partner Network site has a wealth of information about learning and implementing Oracle Policy Automation. Not a member of OPN? Join today!
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Tips and Techniques
Oracle Policy Modeling Best Practice Guide (November 2011) New!
A clearly laid out paper that walks through a series of valuable recommendations. It will help you to design and model rules that maximize the advantages of using Oracle Policy Automation's unique natural language approach. Leverages more than 10 years of practical experience in designing and delivering enterprise policy models using OPA. Highly recommended reading for all skill levels.
 
Tips for Polishing a Policy Modeling Project (November 2011) New!
This presentation contains dozens of useful tips for delivering rich and natural-feeling interactive interviews and other decision-making experiences with OPA.
 

Tutorials
Tutorial - Siebel Order Line Item Validation (July 2011)
This tutorial for OPA 10.2 shows how to use OPA to perform complex Order Line Item validation for Siebel. This can be useful when using OPA as part of the Siebel Warranty Management solution, for example.
 
Tutorial - Interview Portlet (January 2011)
This tutorial for OPA 10.2 provides an example of how to create a standards-compliant Java portlet using the OPA 10.2 Interview Service API.
 
Tutorial - OPA 10.1 How to Integrate Web Services with Oracle Web Determinations (June 2010)
This tutorial for OPA 10.1 provides an architectural overview, tutorial and walkthrough of integrating Web Services with Oracle Web Determinations for saving and loading data used during an interactive interview. It includes detailed steps on how to use BPEL Process Manager to integrate OPA with Oracle E-Business Suite for determining loan eligibility. 
 
Tutorial - Make Decisions Using a JAX Client for OPA Determinations Server (December 2009)
This tutorial for OPA 10.0 is a walkthrough of the direct integration of OPA Determinations Server running a rulebase with a simple Java application. The JAX-WS client creates the request, makes the web service call, and interprets the response. Download sample code
 
Tutorial - Make Decisions Using a .NET Client for OPA Determinations Server (December 2009)
This tutorial for OPA 10.0 is a walkthrough of the direct integration of OPA Determinations Server running a rulebase with a simple .NET client application. The .NET web service client creates the request, makes the web service call, and interprets the response. Download sample code
 
Tutorial - Make Decisions Using OPA Determinations Engine for Java (December 2009)
This tutorial  OPA 10.0 is a quick walkthrough the Java API, and will demonstrate how to integrate a rulebase with a very simple command line application. Download sample code
 
  Note: While many of these tutorial were written for earlier versions of Oracle Policy Automation, most will continue to run in later versions of OPA by following a couple of simple steps. Firstly, make sure to recompile the included project in the version of Oracle Policy Modeling that corresponds to the OPA runtime version you are targeting (e.g. OPM 10.3 if targeting OPA 10.3). Secondly, if the tutorial uses OPA Determinations Server, be sure to alter the SOAP end point to use the URL for the appropriate backward compatibile WSDL that corresponds to the OPA version for which the tutorial was developed.

Whitepapers
Whitepaper - Oracle Policy Automation Performance and Scalability (June 2010)
This whitepaper provides an overview of how the Oracle Policy Automation family of products architecture is designed for enterprise level scalability, and provides measured performance results for several deployment methods and policy model scenarios. 
 
Performance Whitepaper - Linear Inferencing (February 2009)
This whitepaper provides background of the linear inferencing technology which lies at the heart of Oracle Policy Automation Determinations Engine and is responsible for the outstanding performance and scalability characteristics of OPA.