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.

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.

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.

- 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.

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).

This tutorial demonstrates some of the core ESB features.

The core OSB features showcased are:

• Connectivity, via the ability to access and integrate applications using a standards based approach (SOAP).
• Messaging and Routing: Once connectivity is established, incoming data and messages are routed to their appropriate destination. Routing decisions are usually based on headers, content or other external rules.
• Transformation: As data flows between services, it needs to be transformed to match the format that target services expect to receive.

We show how an outbound SOAP message generated by PeopleSoft Integration Broker can be consumed by the Oracle Service Bus. OSB then transforms the message using XQuery and routes it to the appropriate business service, using content based routing (CBR). This is a typical business scenario -- where events are generated in a PeopleSoft module and then published to various external applications.

Use case

PeopleSoft CRM generates a single purchase order containing multiple line items, and no single vendor is capable of supplying all the line items. As a result, the purchase order needs to be split (transformed) into several individual orders containing the respective line items. The individual purchase orders will also need to conform to the schema of the respective vendor business services before they can be routed onwards. The tutorial defines two business services: "Vendor A" to supply product IDs 0-10100 and "Vendor B" for the remaining products.

The individual purchase orders contain the following fields:

• Order number
• Product ID
• Quantity
• Total price

Purchase orders for Vendor B contain an additional field:

• Business unit

Implementation details

The main steps in the process are:

1. Configure PeopleSoft CRM to publish an outbound event message via the Integration Broker.
2. Implement CBR (in the Oracle Service Bus) and define the relevant business services (Vendor A and Vendor B). This tutorial uses a file system to represent the different vendors.
3. Route the incoming messages using CBR to the appropriate business service, while ensuring that the payload conforms to the expected format (i.e: invoke the appropriate transformation logic)
   

Upon successful execution, the incoming purchase order from PeopleSoft CRM is transformed and routed to the two business services.

As a follow-up to OpenWorld, for those of you that could not attend, we are hosting a live Webcast on:

Tuesday, 14-October 9AM PDT "Consuming PeopleSoft Pages using WSRP in WebCenter".

See the invite for all the details.

We hope you can join us.