Oracle Fusion Middleware for PeopleSoft

We are seeing rapid growth in the adoption of concepts like Business Process Management (BPM), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 by many IT departments to reduce complexity and to evolve to the next generation of IT capabilities and services.

Hence, in this customer (NetApp) case study presentation, we address:

• How users of Oracle applications (such as PeopleSoft) can further improve agility, business value delivered by IT and reduce total cost of ownership.
• How to optimize and extend the self-service capabilities of PeopleSoft HR module, using a SOA composite application. We present an actual customer implementation for an end-to-end solution and highlight key considerations for human workflow design.
• How to bridge the gap between business and the IT users: business analysts are unable to understand the implementation life cycle and IT developers make inaccurate interpretations of the process models. Oracle BPM bridges this gap by enabling the creation of standards based processes and providing a tight integration with Oracle BPEL PM and JDeveloper, via the shared business process repository.

The Web Service Data Control (WSDC) in ADF 11g provides an easy and convenient interface to incorporate web services in an ADF application. The data control abstracts the implementation of a business service (such as a web service) thus providing a consistent mechanism for the ADF pages to access the data.

This tutorial shows how to develop an ADF 11g based UI for PeopleSoft HCM using WSDC. The ADF client invokes PeopleSoft CI using the appropriate web service and displays the resulting output records in a JSP page.

The supporting file (RefreshCondition.txt) used to specify the iterator properties (on page 26 of the the tutorial) is located here.

Oracle Business Rules (OBR) is a component of both SOA Suite and BPM Suite and offers seamless integration with BPEL processes in SOA applications via rules and decision tables. This integration is achieved via the use of JDeveloper as the single tool for modeling business terms, rules and processes.

A business rule has an IF part and a THEN part. The IF part tests one or more business terms. If the tests pass, one or more actions are performed in the THEN part, such as adding or changing business terms, setting an appropriate flag etc. For example, suppose a rule states enable security check only for employees who are resident in the USA.

Using OBR Designer, you can model this rule as shown:

In this tutorial, we show how to integrate OBR into a PeopleSoft SOA application that retrieves employee information via a PeopleSoft CI lookup. The employee's country of residence is then extracted from the output and a business rule is invoked to set the SecurityCheck flag if required.

The supporting files needed to run the tutorial are here. The tutorial assumes these files will be extracted to c:\FMW4Apps\LabFiles\PeopleSoft.

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.

In this tutorial, we show how to implement native web services integration to PeopleSoft HCM from Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1.

There are several new features in Fusion Middleware 11g that enable the creation of Service Oriented Architectures with PeopleSoft applications and to develop business processes and composite applications using the relevant Fusion Middleware technology.

New features include:

• Simplified development experience via support for Service Component Architecture and the SOA Composite Editor (JDeveloper)
• Enhanced human workflow offers new JSF based rich client framework, ADF task flow forms and integration with Microsoft Office
• WebCenter Spaces to facilitate efficient interaction and collaboration among project teams
• Unified management and monitoring capability, including end-to-end instance tracking across all service engines
• Automated upgrade path from 10g
• Robust performance and scalability via the underlying WebLogic Application Server infrastructure

While a detailed discussion (or the list) of the new features is outside the scope of this discussion, this whitepaper talks about "What's new in Oracle SOA Suite 11g".

Continue reading "Service-enable PeopleSoft HCM with Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1" »

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.

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 PeopleSoft and Oracle E-Business Suite, to improve service levels, reduce the cost and complexity of compliance, and accelerate your business, using Oracle Identity Management.

Leverage - Your existing PeopleSoft investments to streamline security-related activities across your enterprise.
Extend - PeopleSoft 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 - PeopleSoft "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 PeopleSoft. The Best Practice Center provides technical, hands-on content geared to PeopleSoft Developers and Technologists to show you how to start creating SOA with your PeopleSoft applications today. (This Center is on the Oracle OTN website, and no additional registration is required).

We illustrate the progression of a business process from the initial modeling to the eventual creation of the executable software using Oracle BPA Suite, Oracle SOA Suite and PeopleSoft HCM.

Oracle BPA Suite provides a standards based approach for the modeling, analysis and simulation of business processes. Sharing these process models with the development team is as easy as clicking a button that reads “Share Blueprint with IT” which then exports the process metadata to the Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle BPEL PM, Oracle JDeveloper). The development team integrates the resulting BPEL model with the backend PeopleSoft HCM to create the executable software.

Continue reading "Integrating PeopleSoft HCM with BPA Suite and SOA Suite" »

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 PeopleSoft:

S298507: Electronic Invoice Processing with PeopleSoft Financials, Imaging and Workflow

S299076: PeopleTools Security

S299097: Using Oracle SOA Suite and BPEL to Integrate and Extend PeopleSoft Financials

S299249: PeopleSoft with ECM - An Integrated Solution for Higher Ed

S299693: Oracle AIA for PeopleSoft

We hope you find these useful.

For those of you that couldn't join us this week for the Webcast "Consuming PeopleSoft Pages using WSRP in WebCenter", the replay is now available on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center for PeopleSoft.

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