Oracle Fusion Middleware for E-Business Suite Blog

Oracle Fusion Middleware enables you to build services that enable interactive dashboards, collaboration, data transformation, and integration with applications. In the Oracle Fusion Middleware for Applications hands-on labs, experience firsthand how you can build new services and integrate with applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications using Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Application Development Framework and Oracle Application Integration Architecture.

Are you interested in Oracle’s Middleware, AIA or BI Apps offerings together with Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, Siebel)? Join us for one of our FREE Hands-on Workshops at Collaborate 09, to learn how you can leverage Oracle Fusion Middleware, AIA and BI Apps in your existing Oracle Applications environments today. We have 8 different hands-on labs, led by Oracle Experts, including:

- Service-enable Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- Service-enable PeopleSoft with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- Service-enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- Service-enable Siebel CRM with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
- AIA: Best Practices Integration to Oracle Applications using AIA Foundation Pack
- BPA: Model and Automate Oracle Applications' Processes using BPA Suite
- BI Apps: Dashboard and Reports using Oracle Business Intelligence Applications for E-Business Suite
- IdM: Automate, Secure, and Audit Your E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Applications with Oracle Identity Management

The hands-on labs are offered Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (9 total sessions), and are open to all registered Collaborate attendees but require additional reservations here.

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/dialogue/dlgpage.jsp?p_ext=Y&p_dlg_id=4136274&src=2931347&Act=69

Come along, and you will also have a chance to win an iPod Shuffle at each Workshop.

Regards
-Juliana Button

Please join us for a live Webcast on Wednesday, March 18th 2009 @ 9AM PDT, "Identity Management for Oracle Applications". In this Webcast, we will show you how you can leverage your existing enterprise applications, with specific focus on Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft, to improve service levels, reduce the cost and complexity of compliance, and accelerate your business, using Oracle Identity Management.

Leverage - Your existing Oracle E-Business Suite investments to streamline security-related activities across your enterprise.
Extend - Oracle E-Business Suite's capabilities to drive enterprise-wide user on-boarding, transfers and off-boarding from HR and Single-Sign On.
Automate - Costly and time-consuming User Management, Password Management and Access Review processes.
Protect - Oracle E-Business Suite "To The /Core" with Separation of Duties enforcement, strong access controls, and auditable request workflows.

See the invite for all the details.

Also, just a reminder to make use of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center for E-Business Suite. The Best Practice Center provides technical, hands-on content geared to E-Business Suite Developers and Technologists to show you how to start creating SOA with your E-Business Suite applications today. (This Center is on the Oracle OTN website, and no additional registration is required).

For those of you that couldn't make it to OpenWorld we have published some of the papers most relevant to using Oracle Fusion Middleware with E-Business Suite:

S298388: Using Oracle Application Server with E-Business Suite

S298466: Oracle E-Business Suite SOA Implementation: Customer Success Story

S298922: Identity Management for E-Business Suite

S299102: Using Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL to Integrate and Extend E-Business Suite

S299149: End-to-End Business Process Optimization for a Procure-to-Pay Process with E-Business Suite

S299172: ROI of Service Enabling Applications

We hope you find these useful.

For those of you that couldn't join us last week for the Webcast "Leveraging the Enterprise Service Bus with E-Business Suite", the replay is now available on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center for E-Business Suite.

You can access the slides and replays from here The Conference Key is "Oracle".

We hope everyone survived OpenWorld last week.
It was great to meet many of you at the Hands-on Labs, which both ended up being full events.
In the next week or so, we will be posting the presentations from some of the OpenWorld sessions on the Best Practice site.

As a follow-up to OpenWorld, for those of you that could not attend, we are hosting a live Webcast next week on
Tuesday, 7-October 9AM PDT "Leveraging the Enterprise Service Bus with E-Business Suite".

See the invite for all the details.

We hope you can join us.

As we are all running around for OpenWorld this week, just wanted to take the opportunity to share with you some of the highlights to book into your OpenWorld schedule from a Fusion Middleware/E-Business Suite perspective.

Hands-On Labs
The following sessions give you an opportunity to get some hands-on experience with E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware. These sessions were a hit at the OAUG Collaborate conference earlier this year, in Denver.

Hands-on Lab: Service-Enable E-Business Suite with Oracle SOA Suite BPEL Process Manager
· Session S299795 Monday, September 22: 11:30 - 12:30 PM
· Session S299795 Wednesday, September: 24 9:00 – 10:00 PM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate A3

Hands-on Lab: Integrating E-Business Suite with Capture, Imaging, and Workflow

· Session S299239 Wednesday, September 24: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate A3

Hands-on Lab: Adapters for Service-Oriented Architectures
· Session S299048 Sunday, September 21: 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
· Session S299048 Monday, September 22: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
· Location: Marriott Golden Gate C2

Sessions
Session: Oracle BI Publisher Automation: Bursting and Document Delivery in E-Business Suite
· Session S300603 Mon, Sept 22: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
· Location: Moscone West Room 3003

Session: Oracle Business Intelligence for Oracle E-Business Suite
· Session S299552 Mon, Sept 22: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
· Location: Moscone West Rm 2022

Session: Identity Management for Oracle E-Business Suite
· Session S298922 Tue, Sept 23: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
· Location: Marriott Salon 10/11

Session: What Oracle E-Business Suite Customers Can Do with Oracle Fusion Middleware Today
· Session S298386 Wed, Sept 24: 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
· Location: Moscone West 2007

Session: Using Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite
· Session S298388 Wed, Sept 24: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
· Location: Moscone West Rm 2007

Session: Using Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL Process Manager to Integrate and Extend E-Business Suite Applications
· Session S299102 Wed, Sept 24: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
· Location: Marriott Nob Hill AB

Session: Using BPEL/SOA in K - 12 School Districts to Integrate Processes and Student Information Systems with Oracle E-Business Suite
· Session S299810 Wed, Sept 24: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
· Location: Westin SF Market Street Stanford

Session: End-to-End Process Optimization for Procure-to-Pay with Oracle E-Business Suite
· Session S299149 Thur, Sept 25: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
· Location: Marriott Salon 07

Session: Oracle E-Business Suite SOA Implementation: Customer Success Story
· Session S298466 Thur, Sept 25: 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
· Location: Moscone West Rm 2007

We look forward to meeting you in person at one of the sessions, or stop by the Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications Demo Pod in the Exhibition Hall.

Welcome! In this blog we will bring together experts from E-Business Suite and Fusion Middleware to help you understand how to enhance and extend E-Business Suite applications using Fusion Middleware today. Togethor with the Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center for E-Business Suite this blog will help provide insight into how to service-enable Oracle E-Business Suite via Open Interface Tables, Concurrent Programs, PL/SLQ APIs, and Business Events, using the Oracle E-Business Suite Adapter, and then build integrations, business processes and composite applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware technology such as BPEL Process Manager, Enterprise Service Bus, Business Activity Monitoring, Application Development Framework (ADF) and WebCenter.
For information on the vision for the Best Practice Centers, check out the AppCast hosted by Cliff Godwin SVP Application Development, Oracle.