Oracle sponsored the recently concluded CloudCon Virtualization online event.

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Jyothi Swaroop, Product Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware – talked about the need to "bullet-proof" your Cloud and SOA in a couple of webcasts at the event.

Abstract:Cloud computing is changing how enterprises
look at end-to-end IT operations. As cloud adoption soars, CIOs want to
“bullet-proof the cloud” to ensure business-critical manageability and
governance. Watch this webcast to learn how SOA Governance is being tuned for
Cloud Governance, including security, policy compliance and even SLAs.

View the webcasts here

Oracle
is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2012 Oracle
Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards. Jointly sponsored by Oracle, OAUG,
QUEST, ODTUG, IOUG, AUSOUG and UKOUG, the Oracle Fusion Middleware
Innovation Awards honor organizations using Oracle Fusion Middleware to
deliver unique business value. This year, the awards will recognize
customers across eight distinct categories:

• Oracle Exalogic
• Cloud Application Foundation
• Service Integration (SOA) and BPM
• WebCenter
• Identity Management
• Data Integration
• Application Development Framework and Fusion Development
• Business Analytics (BI, EPM, Exalytics)

If you consider yourself a pioneer, using these
solutions in innovative ways to achieve significant business value,
submit your nomination for the 2012 Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation
Awards by Friday, July 17th, 2012, for a
chance to win a FREE registration to Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San
Francisco, California.   Top customers will be showcased at Oracle Open
World 2012, get a chance to mingle with Oracle executives, network with
their peers and be featured in Oracle Magazine.

For additional details, go here.

Oracle Enterprise Repository serves as the core element to the Oracle SOA Governance solution.

An industry-leading metadata repository, Oracle Enterprise Repository provides a solid foundation for delivering governance throughout the service-oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle by acting as the single source of truth for information surrounding SOA assets and their dependencies.

For Fusion Applications, the use of OER has been extended to include other integration asset types such as interface tables and other technical information such as data models, tables, views, lookups, profile options, et cetera. E-Business Suite users familiar with iRepository or eTRM will recognize the functionality in Fusion Applications OER.

Oracle Enterprise Repository for Fusion Applications provides a common catalog of technical information, searchable using many different mechanisms. Customers can locate technical information by the name, description or keyword of the information they are looking for. They can also search by the type of asset they are trying to locate and/or where the asset sits in the product taxonomy. They can also see the how the asset dances in the choreography of some illustrative co-existence scenarios. These scenarios are laid out as both functional flow diagrams as well as technical interaction diagrams.

Rajesh Raheja, software architect at Oracle, has recently posted an article on this topic: visibility and control are the key tenets to SOA governance, and the first step in integrating with Oracle Fusion Applications is to find out what are the integration options available. Oracle Enterprise Repository, an industry-leading metadata repository, provides this visibility.

You can
find his full blog post here.

At Oracle OpenWorld, more than a thousand people demonstrate their mastery and expertise by leading sessions on a vast array of Oracle technologies and products.
Now’s the time to submit your SOA Governance success story presentation abstract for review by the selection panel.
Don’t delay—submit your abstract now as the Call for Papers is open through next Monday,  April 9th.
The competition is strong: roughly 18% of entries are accepted each year from more than 3,000 submissions. Review panels are made up of experts both internal and external to Oracle. Successful submissions often (but not exclusively) focus on customer successes, how-tos, or technical topics.
What’s in it for you? Recognition, for one thing. Accepted sessions are publicized in the content catalog, which goes live in mid-June, and sessions given by external speakers often prove the most popular.
Plus, accepted speakers get a complimentary pass to Oracle OpenWorld with access to all sessions and networking events─that could save you up to $2,595!
For more information, please look here.

Re-posting Bruce Tierney’s original post – albeit a day late:

I reckon this is Oracle’s most interesting launch this year. Enjoy!

The World’s First Human Scale Body
Surface (HSBS) Designed to Toughen Spineless Wimps

April 1, 2012

• Building on the success of Oracle Exalogic, Oracle Exadata,
  and Oracle Exalytics, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle
  Exaskeleton, toughening up spineless wimps across the globe through the
  introduction of extreme scalability over the human body leveraging a revolutionary
  new technology called Human Scale Body Surface (HSBS).

• First Customer Ship (FCS) was received by the little known
  and mostly unsuccessful superhero Awkwardman. After applying Oracle Exaskeleton with extreme scale, he has
  since rebranded himself as Aquaman. Said Aquaman, “I used to feel so helpless in my skin…now I feel
  like…well…a highly scaled Engineered System thanks to Oracle!”

• Thousand of meek and mild individuals eagerly lined up
  outside Oracle Corporation’s Redwood Shores office to purchase the new Oracle
  Exaskeleton, with the hope of finally gaining the spine they never had. Unfortunately for the individuals, a
  bully was spotted allegedly kicking the sand covering the beaches of Redwood
  Shores into the still spineless Exaskeleton hopefuls.

Supporting Quotes

• “Industry analysts are inquiring if Oracle Exaskeleton is a
  radical departure from Oracle’s traditional enterprise focus into new markets”,
  said Oracle representative Sabrina Twich, “Oracle has extensive expertise in
  unified backbone solutions for application infrastructures…this is simply a new
  port to the human body combining our Business Intelligence (BI) and RDBC (Remote
  Direct Brain Cell) technologies.”

• “With this release of Oracle Exaskeleton, Oracle has
  redefined scalability. Software
  and hardware vendors had it all wrong” said the Director of Oracle Exaskeleton,
  “Scalability for hardware is like…um…you know…so scale-ful. No, wait…can I say that again? I didn’t get that right…Scalability is
  hardware-on-demand with public and private…hybrid clouds, no…<long pause>…Scalability
  for… nevermind, I don’t want to be in this stupid press release anyway”

Releases

• An upcoming Oracle Exaskeleton service pack release will
  include a new datasheet with an extensive library of three-letter acronyms
  (TLAs) as well as the introduction of more four-letter acronyms (FLAs) since
  technologies vendors have used up almost all of the 17,576 TLA permutations
  (TLAPs).

About Oracle

• Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in
  the cloud and in your data center. It would be an amazing coincidence if any of this is true in some secret
  Oracle lab, but I doubt it.

Trademarks

• Really…you’re still reading this? Cool!

Listen to Lalit Ahuja from Pacific Life talk about how Oracle SOA Governance has increased visibility and control of their SOA infrastructure.

An article titled "Solving the SOA
Governance puzzle: Taking a "Bite-Sized" approach" authored by Oracle’s Jyothi Swaroop was published as the
cover story in the December issue of Service Technology Magazine.

Abstract:
SOA Governance initiatives help organizations optimize their service-oriented architecture (SOA) by providing a means to reduce risk, maintain business alignment and show the business value of SOA investments. But all too often these initiatives can be seen as daunting projects that are overly broad and complex, require too many resources and are too time consuming.  In this article, Oracle’s Jyothi Swaroop will explain how organizations can take an incremental approach to SOA governance initiatives to meet their specific needs. This will include an overview of how SOA governance technologies can support specific tactical level projects and yet ensure the organization is able to optimize the entire lifecycle of its SOA.

Read the complete article

Here’s an excerpt from a very interesting article on CIO update titled "Finding the value in SOA" by Stephen Bennett of Oracle

"Because of this, SOA must not be seen as a solution development approach that starts and ends once a solution is delivered. It must be seen as an on-going process that, when coupled with a strategic framework, can change and evolve with the business over time. Unfortunately, many enterprises adopt SOA without utilizing a strategic framework, causing a host of challenges for their business.

Just a few of the challenges I have seen include:

• More complexity and moving parts
• Increased costs
• Projects taking longer than before
• Solutions more fragile than ever
• Little or no agility
• Difficulty identifying and discovering services
• Exponentially growing governance challenges
• Limited service re-use
• Duplication of effort leading to service sprawl
• Multiple siloed technology focused SOAs
• Funding for service oriented projects being cut"

Read the complete article

Here’s a video of how Delta Dental of Michigan streamlined their IT with Oracle SOA Suite, Weblogic and Webcenter technologies.

Oracle Enterprise Manager SOA Management Pack EE is the ONLY solution available in the market that can help you assess the business impact of transaction anomalies and fix hung transactions. Watch this demo on Oracle’s Business Transaction Management to learn how.