BEA Middleware Strategy Briefing to July 1 Webcast

In recent weeks, you have increasingly expressed your interest in Oracle’s acquisition of BEA and what it means for the go-forward strategy of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. On July 1, 2008, at 9 a.m. PDT, Oracle will host a live webcast to welcome BEA customers and partners and announce middleware product updates.
The [...]

Do you use Oracle Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware?

Once again, Oracle customers who are using Oracle Fusion Middleware to extend the business value of Oracle applications (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards etc.) in innovative, exciting ways can win a free registration to Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2008 by submitting their nominations for the Oracle Excellence Awards by August 8, 2008.

Sample Use Cases:

Streamline [...]

Oracle/SAP integration

Oracle Applications InterConnect was the solution designed to manage Oracle to SAP integration. This component was part of the Oracle9i Application Server and provided standard adapters for Oracle E-BS and SAP R/3 (details here).
The new Oracle integration tool generation is based on SOA Suite and Application Integration Architecture (AIA) framework. Oracle Process Integration Packs [...]

ADF JHeadstart Workshop: June 16-20 2008 in The Netherlands

Last December, Oracle had another successful ADF JHeadstart Workshop in the Netherlands, that teaches ADF Faces, ADF Business Components and JHeadstart. The approach is hands-on experience, running into and solving practical problems that you would also encounter in real ADF projects. Some quotes of the Oracle employees that attended in December (click here for more):

“An [...]

Oracle Data Integrator Demo Webcast on May 22/23, 2008

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is a comprehensive data integration platform that covers all data integration requirements — from high-volume, high-performance batches, to event-driven, trickle-feed integration processes, to SOA-enabled data services.

Oracle Data Integrator’s Product Management team will be hosting a demonstration webcast every 2 weeks. They will be showing baseline functionality, and drilling [...]

AIA Foundation Pack Training Available through Oracle University

Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) provides an open standards based framework for creating cross-application business processes that support the way you run your business today, while paving the way for your long term, strategic, business transformation plans. Application Integration Architecture is powered by Oracle Fusion Middleware.
The Oracle Application Integration Architecture Foundation Pack Release 2.0 [...]

Oracle Debuts Enhanced Preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Building on the November 2007 preview, Oracle previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
“As SOA, Web 2.0, and Rich Enterprise applications continue to evolve in sophistication, Oracle is committed to helping insulate developers and customers from the complexity and pitfalls that accompany the vast combination of potential underlying technologies,” said Thomas [...]

An “Oracle WebCasts and Podcasts of the week” list…

I found this morning some interesting Oracle WebCasts and Podcasts. You can join these series of FREE Web conferences in order to discover the following solutions:

Enterprise Manager: Free Enterprise Manager Webcasts: Optimize Service, Minimize Downtime, and Better Utilize Resources
E-Business Suite & SOA: SOA and E-Business Suite Technical Webcast Series.
PeopleSoft & SOA: SOA and PeopleSoft Technical [...]

A new Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications Best Practices Center!

Are your Oracle Applications customers asking for “how to” information? Oracle created brand new Best Practice Centers on OTN featuring 15 step by step tutorials:

E-Business Suite technology leads can learn how to service-enable Oracle E-Business Suite business services, workflows, and business components. “How-to” sessions cover technology areas such as BPEL, ESB, BAM, ADF, and WebCenter: [...]

Oracle Completes Acquisition of BEA Systems

Oracle Corporation announced today that it had received approval of the European Commission and subsequently completed its acquisition of BEA Systems, Inc.
“The addition of BEA will accelerate innovation by bringing together two companies with a common vision of a modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure,” said Oracle President Charles Phillips. “Together, Oracle and BEA will provide [...]