The Official AIA Blog

Welcome to our blog! We are the development team responsible for the Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA). Being the Oracle SOA Implementation for integrating all our applications (not a simple feat, considering the number of acquisitions), we obviously have a strong view point on SOA and Enterprise Application Integrations in general.

Through this blog we will discuss these perspectives, and provide practical guidance on architecture, development and implementation of AIA. We will do this through regular feature articles on the various components, best practices and design patterns, and implementation tips and tricks. The blog will also allow us to share with you interesting viewpoints from other blogs, which we hope you will find relevant. If you have any specific topics you would like us to discuss, do communicate that through the comments.  And for those who are wondering what AIA is all about, read about it here.

This blog is just one of the ways we would like to connect with the AIA community. For detailed technical discussions, you can visit our discussion forum; and to discuss innovative ideas, experiences, project or strategy questions, join the AIA group on Oracle Mix.

- The AIA Team

Note: The authors of this blog follow the code of ethics set forth by Oracle, as well as our other blogging colleagues. The views expressed on this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle.

Oracle is hosting a free virtual conference, Wed, March 11. It's a really interesting concept. Attendees will be able to "attend" keynote and track sessions, visit booths, talk to product teams, etc. just like at a real conference, except all online.

The theme of the event is "Turning Challenges into Opportunities: New Strategies for a New Global Economy"

If you're interested in learning more about AIA, please join us online. We will have sessions and product teams available for you to interact with.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009
8:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. PST

Register today!
https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=132016&sessionid=1&key=74FD72AB4B173B9EC4EB82C0051CDA35&partnerref=oracleevite1&sourcepage=register

The Agile PLM to SAP: Design to Release PIP was released as part of the AIA Release Vehicle 2.3. More details can be found in this datasheet.

From an AIA perspective, this PIP only goes to prove the value proposition of the architecture. The PIP was built based on the existing Agile PLM to EBS PIP based on the best practice “Design to Release” process. There was >70% reuse of the services that was created for the E-Business Suite PIP. The remaining 30% were specific to E-Business Suite and not relevant for the SAP integration, and only those specific SAP connectors had to be built. It took a partner only four months development time to build out those connectors and deliver this integration.  This not only reduced the cost of developing this integration but drastically reduced the execution risk by reusing services and following the design patterns using the AIA reference architecture.

It's that time of the year again. Be sure to visit Oracle OpenWorld 2009 at San Francisco October 11-15, 2009. There is going to be a lot of focus on AIA (see this pdf containing a list of all AIA focused sessions), so do schedule this during your visit.

Shameless plug: I will be covering the AIA implementation best practices in a session entitled "Jedi Masters Reveal: Foundation Pack Best Practices--Building Process Integrations" at Moscone West (L3) Room 3008 on Tuesday, Oct 13 @5:30pm. Search for it on the site using the Session IDS311197 to pre-register.

See you there!

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