You are working on large Fusion Middleware & PaaS opportunities & projects? Oracle is pleased to invite you to the PaaS & Fusion Middleware Summer Camps 2016.

For technical experts we offer five days hands-on trainings in Lisbon or live virtual classes:

For sales managers and marketing experts we offer two Webcasts on-demand

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For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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You are working on large Fusion Middleware & PaaS opportunities & projects? Oracle is pleased to invite you to the PaaS & Fusion Middleware Summer Camps 2016.

For technical experts we offer five days hands-on trainings in Lisbon or live virtual classes:

For sales managers and marketing experts we offer two Webcasts on-demand

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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Attend our August edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on August 30^th 2016 at 16:00 CET.

Learn about the API Platform Cloud Service, built for modern API Management!
Come learn about our new API Platform Cloud Service and how it provides the modern API Management Experience!  Robert Wunderlich, PM for API Management and Integration will join us to discuss this new offering that is coming soon!

• API Management Service on Oracle Public Cloud
• Developer Portal that is fully customizable with company branding
• Integration with an API Design leader
• Industry proven gateway that can run on Oracle Public Cloud, other clouds and on-premises

Robert Wunderlich

Senior Principal Product Manager

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Visit the registration page here.

Call ID: 5566478 Call Passcode: 333111

Schedule:

August 30^th 2016 at 16:00-17:00 CET

Visit the registration page here.

Missed our SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast? – watch the on-demand versions:

·Integration Cloud Service June 28th 2016

·Sales Plays Webcast June 9th 2016

·Real-Time Integration Business Insight May 31st 2016

·Integration Strategy sales and marketing campaign update

·Microservices

·Stream Explorer

·Process Cloud Service V2

·SOA Suite 12.2.1

·Oracle OpenWorld 2015 update

·SOA & API Cloud Service

·Solutions Catalog & Cloud Marketplace

·GSE demo systems

·Hybrid sales plays

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (SOA Community membership required).

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Oracle ACE Mike Riley, asks OTN Architect Community Manager, Bob Rhubart about his podcasts, 2MTT videos, and about community.oracle.com. 

Happy Monday everyone, 

As we start our countdown to Oracle OpenWorld  which will take place in San Francisco on September 18-22, 2016 we want to highlight keynotes and our general sessions in this second blog. 

General Session: Oracle Linux, Virtualization, and Networking Power the Cloud  

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Next-generation cloud data centers require robust, secure, and flexible infrastructure to support a huge variety of cloud applications and use cases, and developers need cutting-edge tools to create dynamic applications. In this Oracle executive session, learn how Oracle Linux, virtualization, and software-defined networking products power the needs of the modern cloud data center, from development to deployment. 

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance: Directions in Converged Infrastructure

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A converged infrastructure simplifies the way customers install, deploy, and manage their cloud. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance is a turn-key cloud-in-a-box solution at an industry-leading price point that goes from power-on to production in just a few hours. In this Oracle executive session, learn how Oracle is bringing popular new management technologies such as OpenStack and Ksplice to deliver scalable yet easy-to-manage infrastructure for private clouds. In addition, get a preview into the roadmap for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance.

The speaker will be Ajay Srivastava, SVP, Linux & Virtualization Engineering  for both general sessions.

Please bookmark and add these to your agenda.

The keynotes are scheduled :

• Sunday, Sept. 18th, 5pm
• Monday, Sept. 19, 8:30am
• Tuesday, Sept. 20, 8:30am and 2:00pm 
• Wednesday, Sept 21, 9:25am

Visit the and bookmark the Session catalog link for access to list of general sessions, conferences and demos.

Bookmark this blog to see what else is coming up in Oracle Openworld. 

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community,

Get trained on the latest PaaS and Middleware sales plays to increase your service and reselling business. For an overview watch the PaaS & Middleware Sales Kits for Oracle Partners – grow our joint business! on-demand webcast.Sales plays for three categories: SOA and BPM and PaaS for SaaS are available at the SOA Community Workspace (membership required): Cloud and On-Prem Integration: Extend SOA to the Cloud and Cloud and On-Prem Integration: Integrate CRM SaaS Apps with On-Premises ERP and Integrate HCM Cloud with on-premises ERP and Digital Engagement and App Development and Deployment in the Cloud: SaaS Extensions and Cloud and On-Prem Integration: Integrate CRM SaaS Apps with On-Premises ERP. All sales kits contain material to prepare, attract, engage, present and demo PaaS and Middleware solutions. Especially I would like to highlight the cheat sheets. This one page overview contains key information to position the cloud services at our joint customers. Get this sales kits, adopt them with your service offerings and references, and forward them to your sales and marketing teams.

A great example of a PaaS showcase is the integrated cloud demo for air pollution control from S&P. Make sure that you promote your services and application in the Solutions Catalog and Cloud Marketplace. Let us know in case you have similar plans! Another highlight is the Red Summer School by Link Consulting. Four student teams got hands-on trained on the PaaS solutions.

One of the next cloud services to become available is API Cloud Platform Services. Watch the video why API Management matters and attend the community webcast to get an API Cloud Platform introduction by Robert Wunderlich on August 30^th 2016. The API Management is a key component of a Microservices Architecture, read the SOA Mythbusters article to understand the difference to a SOA Architecture.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles:

An Introduction to Stream Analytics& Accessing and Analyzing Twitter Feeds & CI, DevOps and ALM for SOA Suite& Real-Time Integration Business Insight tutorial& Publishing SOA Maven plugin& SOA Suite Unit test with Groovy& SOA Suite Code Quality& Configuring Amazon RDS as the SOA Suite Database& More chaos as an OWSM policy. In this month’s newsletter edition multiple service bus articles are published: Servicebus 12c: Using configuration files for customizing service deployments& Error in JDeveloper 12.2.1 – OSB project with XQuery changes to SOA project & Restoring OSB 12.2.1 Maven Functionality&5.000.000 Messages per Day Handled by Oracle Service Bus 11g.

Process Cloud Service and BPM Suite play a key role in Digital Engagement. The sales kit includes four sample use cases for sales performance, new hire on-boarding, marketing asset management and business service portal. Antonis started a new blog series how to integrate PCS with external applications with REST and SOAP. Stefan published a new video of a PCS process for real estate valuation including a mobile app. In case you are working on an Adaptive Case Management project, make use of the ACM Methodology that I published in the book Best Practices for Knowledge Workers (digital edition).

Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: Recovering an Asynchronous Callback in BPM Suite& Human Workflow: Working with Collections and Repeating Stages& BPM 12c Migration - A Deep Dive into a Simple 10g Process Migration& Sending Dynamic HTML-based Emails for SOA and BPM Projects.

In our last section Architecture & PaaS4SaaS the UX team focus this month on the extension and integration of SaaS applications. In the first article how to use Application Builder Cloud Service and in the second article Ultan gives an update how startups can make use of PaaS4SaaS.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The August edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains the PaaS Sales Kits, Internet of Things Cloud Service free trial and the upcoming community webcast about API Cloud Platform Services takes place on August 30^th 2016.

See you in Lisbon!

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/SOAnewsAugust2016  (OPN Account required)

Jürgen Kress

Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA
Tel. +49 89 1430 1479
E-Mail: juergen.kress@oracle.com
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Are you toying with the idea of investing in IT training, but you're not quite sure if it's really worth it?

Here are five solid reasons to invest in Oracle University training.

1. Technology is rapidly changing.

We all know that as every day passes, change is the only constant when it comes to technology. 

"Every 12 to 18 months, computers double their capabilities, and so do the information technologies that use them."

To keep up with these changes, take hands-on training courses that teach you exactly what you need to know to do your job effectively.

2. Oracle Certificationhelps you stand out.

Earning a certification doesn't do your job effectively for you; however, it does demonstrate your desire to learn the scope of a technology or field.

When potential employers see that you've taken the time to become Oracle Certified, this validates your commitment to continuously learning and bettering your skills.

These qualities are attractive in job candidates - especially when you're competing against multiple people who would also like to be hired!

3. WithTraining On Demand, learn any time, anywhere.

If you feel like your life is way too busy for scheduled classroom courses, this doesn't have to stop you from learning new skills.

With Oracle University's Training On Demand courses, you can learn 24/7, when it works best for you. Pause, rewind and fast-forward course material to learn at your own pace.

4. Learning is good for your brain and overall health.

According to NPR, "So how does learning a new skill help ward off dementia?

By strengthening the connections between parts of your brain, says cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman...challenging activities strengthen entire networks in the brain."

Your brain will thank you for taking good care of it!

5. Developing new skills promotes job security.

While no job is one hundred percent secure, there are certainly things you can do to promote job security - and learning a new skill is one of them!

In fact, 80 % of Oracle Certification holders reported a promotion, salary increase or other career improvements. 

Want to experience these benefits?

Explore Oracle University training courses today!

I wrote a bash script to deploy a war file to ALL managed servers in a Weblogic domain. You should be able to modify it to work for your needs.

Overview

Please note that this appliance is for testing purposes only, as such it is unsupported and should not to be used in a production environment.

This VirtualBox appliance contains a fully-configured, ready-to-use SOA Suite 12.2.1.1.0 installation.

All you need is to install Oracle VM VirtualBox on your desktop/laptop and import the SOA Suite appliance and you are ready to try out SOA Suite 12.2.1.1.0 -- no installation and configuration required!

The following software is installed in this VirtualBox image:

Please check the Introduction and Readme document for detailed instructions on downloading and importing the VirtualBox image. Get the download here.

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Creating robust and long lasting automated test scripts generally require programming skill sets with ability to read & write code. With the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Script Builder, you can now enable your functional users and business analysts to create most of the automated test scripts.

Attend this session to learn more.

Session details here. 

Attend our August edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on August 30th 2016 at 16:00 CET.

Come learn about our new API Platform Cloud Service and how it provides the modern API Management Experience!

Robert Wunderlich, PM for API Management and Integration will join us to discuss this new offering that is coming soon! 

For more information please visit the registration page here.

Approvals for EBS 1.5 is part of a coordinated release of 18 E-Business Suite mobile apps.  These apps are designed to work with EBS 12.1.3 and 12.2 and are available for iOS and Android. 

This is our sixth set of updates to this family of EBS smartphone apps (a.k.a. "Release 6"). For details about the entire set of EBS mobile apps, see:

• Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Apps, Release 12.1 and 12.2 Documentation Index (Note 1641772.1)
  

What's New?

Updates to our Approvals for EBS 1.5 app include:

• New approval types for:
• Human Resources (person status change)
• Projects (projects, budgets)
• Service Contracts
  
• Ability to customize seeded metadata
• Enhancement to Quoting approvals to support customization
  
• Mobile Foundation
  
  • Ability to open links to external websites within the app on Android
    
  • Updated look and feel, including native look and feel for action sheets on iOS
    
  • Ability to easily clear user credentials on the Sign-In page
    
  • Use of Oracle Mobile Application Framework (MAF) 2.3.1

Some of these new features require EBS server-side patches.  See the documentation above for details.

Related Articles

• Approvals 1.4 for E-Business Suite Now Available
  

The full article is here on JAXenter: https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/yesaya-athuman-my-five-favorite-netbeans-features

Through the years, a recurring request by developers everywhere—not least among NetBeans users—is a facility for collaborative development. In a new article on JAXenter, I share info on two platforms for snippet sharing and how neatly they integrate into NetBeans IDE.

Some extracts: 

The full article: https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/code-sharing-for-netbeans-developers

What are your favorite NetBeans features? Damir Demirović from Serbia answers that question today in a new article on JAXenter. An extract:

Read the article here: https://jaxenter.com/netbeans/damir-demirovic-my-five-favourite-netbeans-features

A lot of work has gone into the preparation of something completely different—an enterprise JavaScript MOOC (massive open on-line course) via Oracle JET, which will start coming Monday, 22 August. Oracle JET is a set of best practices, recommendations, architectures, templates, and components for enterprise JavaScript applications.

There are over 1,000 subscribers to the MOOC so far. The MOOC will take 3 weeks of your time, the first week starting on Monday, 22 August. Each week is defined by one lesson, which is in 10 parts, each part consisting of a YouTube clip, each clip lasting no longer than about 10 minutes, together with self-study and homework assignments. Each of the two following weeks a new lesson will be made available. Each lesson ends with a quiz. Successful completion of all quizzes results in a certificate of completion. 

Lesson 1, entitled "Taking Off with Oracle JET", takes you on a tour of the reasoning behind Oracle JET and an exploration of its underpinnings. By the end of that lesson, you're able to create Oracle JET applications. You'll have learned about Oracle JET modules, components, and layouts. You'll have a really great basis for creating enterprise JavaScript applications. Lesson 2, entitled "Exploring the Skies with Oracle JET", gives you a structured approach to learning from the Oracle JET Cookbook, which is filled with a range of enterprise components, e.g., graphs and tables, and shows you how to use them and integrate them into your Oracle JET applications. Lesson 3, entitled "Into the Clouds with Oracle JET", shows you how to integrate with the world around Oracle JET, i.e., 3rd party components, internationalization, accessibility, security, etc.

Want to get a quick feel for how the MOOC will be? Part 1 (of 10 parts, which will be released next week) of the first lesson is already available:

Sign up here!

Are you ready to adopt Oracle Linux 7. If you already have knowledge of:

• Installing Oracle Linux 5 or 6
• Configuring and managing services in Oracle Linux 5 or 6
• Configuring networking in Oracle Linux 5 or 6
• Configuring storage in Oracle Linux 5 or 6

then you are ready to acquire the skills to become an excellent Oracle Linux 7 system administrator by taking the Oracle Linux 7: What's New for Administrators course.You can take this course in the following formats:

• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk, no travel required. Events are put on the schedule to suit different time-zones.
• In-Class Event: Travel to an education center to attend an event. In-class events on the schedule include Paris, France on 23 November 2016 in French and Hamburg, Germany on 24 October 2016 in German.

To register for an event, request an additional event, or learn more about the Oracle Linux curriculum, go to http://oracle.com/education/linux.

Want to recruit new employees? Want to try PaaS? Run a Summer School training like Link Consulting.

Link Consulting’s Red Summer School on Oracle technologies on the Cloud is on! Teams Alfa, Beta and Delta have been working hard, mentored by our BPM and ECM business manager, Oracle ACE Associate and founder of Red Mavericks, José Rodrigues.

Earlier on this week they learnt the concept of REST APIs using Postman and SoapUI and testing interaction with Twitter API.

They then started working on Database Cloud Service, creating the data model that supports the voting application they’ve started working on today (that allows people to choose the artists that will be performing at a given event – cool, right?) and displaying the REST services on the transactions of these data.

During the last couple of days José introduced students to Oracle ICS and PCS. They built integration between Custom REST API and Gmail API and also with Twitter, this time based on Oracle ICS, and created a simple business process for car loan approvals.

José is satisfied with his students’ motivation: “The students are experimenting these platforms for the first time and really seem to enjoy what they’re doing. At the moment they are starting to connect the pieces and are truly enthusiastic about it.”

You go, teams! It’s been a close race so far. Who will win it? Read the complete article here.

Interested to run a Summer School for your university or customer? Feel free to contact myself.

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Register now for the OPN Test Fest and you can take up to two certification exams at no cost.

The OPN Test Fest takes place at the Courtyard San Francisco Downtown Hotel, Soma 3 Room, 299 2nd Street, San Francisco, USA, from Monday, September 19th until Thursday, September 22nd, 2016 and comes with 70+ exams and ten testing sessions to select from.

The selection contains industry recognized partner certification exams focused on (but not restricted to) Cloud Solutions. By passing successfully any of the offered exams, you will  earn the OPN Certified Specialist recognition along with helping your employer toward the OPN Specialization Program.

OPN Test Fest Schedule

Day 1 - Monday, 19th September

Session 1: 10:30 - 12:30
Session 2: 13:00 - 15:00
Session 3: 15:30 - 18:00

Day 2 - Tuesday, 20th September

Session 4: 10:30 - 13:00
Session 5: 15:45 - 17:45

Day 3 - Wednesday, 21st September

Session 6: 10:30 - 12:30
Session 7: 13:00 - 15:00
Session 8: 15:30 - 17:30

Day 4 - Thursday, 22nd September

Session 9: 10:30 - 13:00
Session 10: 13:30 - 15:30

Check the event page for the complete list of exams, study materials and to register now!

We look forward to meeting you in San Francisco,

Oracle Partner Enablement Team