Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns

Today's businesses operate in a rapidly changing climate that demands an unprecedented level of adaptation and innovation. These conditions place equally unprecedented burdens on IT departments, which must now deliver solutions in months rather than years. And those solutions must themselves be flexible enough to support continuous adaptation to an ever-evolving, ever-expanding marketplace. The Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns article series was created to provide architects and IT leaders with an up-close and personal view of ten real-world IT solutions that meet those criteria. (Continued below)

Pattern

Real World Solution

Identity Management
User Interaction
Content Management

Building Enterprise 2.0 Applications
Wind River used Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Universal Content Management, and Oracle Identity Management to create a self-service, personalized, and collaborative customer support website.

by
Nam Doan-Huy, YiHong Xu, Narshimha Rao Kondapaka, and Melody Wood

Development Tools
SOA and BPM

Process-Driven SOA Development
Elektro Slovenija transformed its procurement process using Oracle BPA and Oracle SOA Suite

by
Matjaz B. Juric, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor
Harish Gaur, Director, Product Management, Fusion Middleware, Oracle

Enterprise Performance Management
Business Intelligence

Achieving Business Insight by Integrating Relational and Multi-Dimensional Data
Knowledge Global built a carbon footprint monitoring and forecasting solution (EMMA) by integrating OBIEE with Oracle Essbase.

by
Ross Sharman, Technical Director, Knowledge Global
Juliana Button, Director, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware

Business Intelligence
SOA and BPM

Building Intelligent Processes with Insight-Driven Agility
Using OBIEE, BPEL PM, and Business Rules, Motability Operations is creating a platform to monitor and improve vehicle remarketing efforts across multiple channels.

by
Matt Miller, Head of Business Analysis and Quality Assurance, Motability Operations
Mark Simpson , SOA Practice Director, Griffiths Waite

SOA and BPM
Application Grid

Data Tier Caching for SOA Performance
A major pharmaceutical company delivers a real-time 360-degree view of customers to its sales force using Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Coherence.

by
Kiran Dattani, Director of Global Architecture for a major pharmaceutial company
Milind Pandit, Oracle Consulting Service
Markus Zirn, VP, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware

User Interaction
Business Intelligence
SOA and BPM

Code-Free Application Extensions and Integrations
Using a real-life customer example, the authors illustrate how to use SOA, BPM, Web 2.0 and BI to extend and integrate Oracle applications without writing a single line of code.

by
Sandeep Banerjie, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle Fusion Middleware
Srikant Subramaniam, Product Manager, Oracle Fusion Middleware
Nikhilesh Chitnis, Senior Sales Consultant, Oracle Fusion Middleware

User Interaction
Application Grid
SOA and BPM

Integrated Real-Time Intelligence Using Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Coherence, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
This article describes a reference architecture for contextual, real-time business insight that uses BI and E2.0 to combine information management and analytics in the same context and transaction.

by
Mark Farabaugh, VP of IT, DJO
Sri Ayyeppen, CTO, Keste
Harish Gaur, Director, Product Management, Fusion Middleware, Oracle

User Interaction
Business Intelligence
SOA and BPM

Automating Enterprise Reporting with SOA and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
This article illustrates how to build an automated reporting platform with SOA, an enterprise reporting tool, and a portal.

by
John Chung, VP, IT, Arcturus Realty
Harish Gaur, Director, Product Management, Fusion Middleware, Oracle

Development Tools
User Interaction
Enterprise Performance Management
Content Management
SOA and BPM

Building Agile Applications using Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Principles
Real-world examples of Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture as implemented at British Telecom and Pardee Homes.

by
Mike Blackmore, Enterprise Architect, British Telecom
Hamza Jahangir, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle
Harish Gaur, Director, Product Management, Fusion Middleware, Oracle
Basheer Khan, President/Founder, Innowave Technology, Oracle ACE Director

User Interaction
Identity Management
Portals

A Role-Based Approach to Automated Provisioning and Personalized Portals
This article demonstrates how an organization can take a role-based approach to automate provisioning and personalize a portal.

by
Rex Thexton, Managing Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Nishidhdha Shah, Sr. Associate at PwC Consulting
Harish Gaur, Director, Product Management, Fusion Middleware, Oracle

The articles in this series reflect the experiences of businesses that have met today's challenges by adopting a new style of development through the use of the integrated tools in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite. Written by the people in the trenches, each article offers the first-hand technical details of how these IT professionals assembled their respective solutions by combining multiple components of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite, rejecting the old-school strategy of writing thousands of lines of code to build solutions from the ground up.

We hope you and your organization will benefit from the experiences of these pioneering customers who are already practicing Fusion Style development.

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