The webinar discussed Oracle SOA Suite and process-centric integration approaches. It highlighted the need for integrating applications through shared business processes rather than point-to-point integrations. Aspire Systems' Oracle SOA framework was presented as providing pre-built reusable components and services to reduce development efforts for implementing integrations on Oracle SOA Suite by 30%. A customer success story demonstrated how the framework established integration standards and delivered automated exception handling, auditing, and notifications.

1. Webinar Featuring Process-Centric Integration Approach
Achieve Oracle
Apps Process
Integrations
using Oracle SOA
Suite.

2. Housekeeping Instructions
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chat window located beside the presentation panel.
 We will have 10 minutes for Q&A at the end where we will try to answer all the
questions
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3. Hariharan V Ganesarethinam
Senior Architect – SOA / EA Solutions
Aspire Systems Inc.
 15 years of experience in defining Enterprise Architecture and
SOA solutions
 Subject Matter expert on Enterprise Architecture, IT Portfolio
Management, SOA Architecture, IT Strategy and Roadmap,
Governance etc
 Oracle certified SOA Architect Expert
 Author of “Oracle AIA foundation pack: 11gR1” and Service
Technology Magazine
Tim Hall
Sr. Director, Product Management
Oracle Corp
 Leading product management team for Oracle integrations
 Background in SOA, Product Management, Integration and
Enterprise Software
 Expertise in technologies includes BPM, SOA, AIA, OER and
Service Registry.
Speaker’s Profiles

4. Aspire Systems - Corporate Overview
 Been in IT service business for over 15 years
 Niche Enterprise IT Services Provider
 60+ active engagements; 1000+ Aspirians TM
 Core Competencies: SaaS, Mobile, Test
Automation, Infrastructure Management,
SOA/BPM, Enterprise Architecture
 Gartner listed Product Engineering Provider
 ISO 9001:2008 certified
Awards
Ranked among the Top 20
Global R&D Service
Providers by Zinnov
Consulting

5.  Challenging Business Expectations
Agenda
 Need of Process Collaboration
 Oracle Fusion Applications – Quick View
 Oracle SOA, AIA and Governance - Overview
 Aspire’s Oracle SOA Framework for Rapid Adoption
 Customer Success Story – Case Study
 Process Integration Best Practices
 Traditional Integration Vs. Modern Approach
 Process Integrations with Human workflow

6. Challenging Business Expectations

7. Traditional Spaghetti Integrations
Manufacturing
HR & Finance
CRM
Partners Social
Highly Complex Integration Infrastructure

8. Need for Mature Application Integration
Business Expectations Spaghetti Integrations
 Seamless Data Flow
 Shared Application Processes
 Reduce Duplicate Entry
 Process Improvements
 Data Availability
 Data Integrity
 Process Alignments
 Reduce IT OpEx budget
 Process Optimization
 Faulty Data Flow
 Point 2 Point Integrations
 Data Duplications
 Silos of Application Functions
 Data Unavailability
 Non-Standard Data Format
 Higher Response Time
 Additional IT OpEx budget
 Lack of Monitoring
Need for a mature integration strategy SOA

9. Oracle’s Approach for Application Integration
Data + Functions + Process Integrations = Collaboration

10. Oracle’s Approach for Enterprise Collaboration
Multi-channel,
Collaborative,
Rich User Interface
Cross-Application
Business Process
Automation
CRM SCM FinancialsProcurement
MAINFRAME
Optimal
Integration
Actionable
Intelligence
?
?
?
Application and Database Grid Foundation
Platform Services on
Demand
Common
Information

11. Oracle’s Integration Solutions – Analyst Reports (Gartner)
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Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application
Infrastructure for Systematic Application
Integration Projects”
by Jess Thompson, Yefim V. Natis, Massimo
Pezzini, Daniel Sholler, Ross Altman, Kimihiko
Iijima , June 2012.
http://www.gartner.com/reprints/oracle?id=1
-1B1W7CR&ct=120625&st=sb
Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Application
Infrastructure for Systematic SOA
Infrastructure Projects”
by Massimo Pezzini, Yefim V. Natis, Jess
Thompson, Daniel Sholler, Ross Altman,
Kimihiko Iijima, June 2012
http://www.gartner.com/reprints/oracle?id
=1-1AZW1P3&ct=120621&st=sb
Gartner “Magic Quadrant for
Application Infrastructure for
Systematic SOA Application Projects”
by Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini,
Jess Thompson, Daniel Sholler, Ross
Altman, Kimihiko Iijima , June 2012
http://www.gartner.com/technology/r
eprints.do?id=1-
1AZW1P6&ct=120621&st=sb

12. Need for Process-Centric Application Integration
 Promote discrete functional organization to mature process oriented
organization.
 Align business processes quickly when business wants to change.
 Secure data hand over through
processes.
 Rapid process execution result
business efficiency
 Opportunity to monitor and optimize
processes
 Transparency and Visibility

13. Typical Use Case for Process-Centric Integration
Customer
Management
Order
Management
Order
Fulfillment
Payment
Processing
E-Commerce Portal (B2C)
Traditional Point to Point Integrations
Middleware

14. Process Integration with Human Workflow
Customer
Management
Order
Management
Order
Fulfillment
Payment
Processing
E-Commerce Portal (B2C)
Traditional Point to Point Integrations
Middleware
HumanWorkflow
Order
Approver
Credit
Approver
Warehouse
Manager
HumanWorkflow

15. Oracle SOA Suite – Technical Overview

16. Unique Differentiators of Oracle SOA Suite
 Complete – Integrated – Best of Breed – Standards-based
 Single package that brings all SOA capabilities.
 Tight integration between components reduce R&D efforts.
 Oracle Apps adapters enables quick SOA integrations.
 Developer friendly drag-n-drop implementation approach.
 Highly scalable WebLogic Application Server platform.
 Supports Service Virtualization, BPEL Orchestration, Event
Processing, and B2B approaches in single platform.
 Built-in BAM capabilities enables user specific reporting.
 Applications and Middleware from single product vendor

17. Not just tools: Guidance & Governance
Jump-start Projects, Reduce Risks, Lower Costs
 Foundation Pack Content
 Integration Assets & Enterprise
Object Library Solution Pack
 Application Content
 JDE Solution Pack, E-Business
Solution Pack (Targeting 12.2)
 Design-Time & Run-Time Harvesting
 Foundation Pack Harvester
 Harvesting Best Practices
 When to harvest in Development
Lifecycle
 Harvesting Configuration Samples

18. SOA Suite: at the core of Oracle Fusion Applications
Micro Patterns

19. App to App - Integration Best Practices
 Point-to-point integrations in 1:m or m:m
scenarios
 Blindly adopt a single approach to
integration (i.e. all data or all SOA)
 Pure API-only integrations
 Integration specific XML schemas
 Single point of failure
 Application to application integration
approach
 Short-term focused integration
architecture
 Define enterprise wide integration
architecture standards & criteria
 Define canonical schemas messages
exchanged between 1:m and m:m
 Follow layered-based integration
approach
 Make use of application interfaces
 SOAP / REST standard interfaces
 Automatic transaction auditing
 Transaction persistence model

20. Aspire’s Oracle SOA Framework – Fast Track ApproachAspire’s Oracle SOA Suite Framework – Fast Track Approach
Integration Flow
Exception Flow
Notification – Send Email
Auditing Flow
Oracle SOA - Composite Application Package
Business Requirement:
Promote sales through Amazon Sales and
Fulfillment Services
Data
Services
Data
Services
Integration Business Service
Exception Handler Services
Notify Service
Delivery Failure Repo
Business Rules Services
BAM Auditing Services
Service Virtualization Email Services
Auto Recovery Service
Business Process Orchestration
Exception Handler Services
Notify Service
Delivery Failure Repo
Business Rules Services
BAM Auditing Services
Email Services
Auto Recovery Service
Pre-built Framework Services

21. Aspire’s SOA Reference Architecture (ASRA) Framework

22. Why Aspire’s Oracle SOA Framework?
 Pre-built framework of components for Oracle
SOA Suite
 100% reusable services and components
 Data-driven architecture model
 Reduce development efforts minimum of 30%
 Fasten the SOA ROI % at the earlier phase of
implementation
 Level 3 SOA maturity standards
 Purely built for Oracle SOA Suite and Service Bus
 Designed as per Oracle’s integration guidelines
 Pre-defined document templates and
Implementation methodology

23. Success Story
Customer Global branding & digital publishing service provider
Business Operations North America, UK, Europe, Asia, China and Australia
Current Integration
Issues
• Legacy applications
• Migration to Oracle Agile, PeopleSoft Finance and HR
• BU specific scripts and processes
• 60+ Point-to-point integrations
• lack of enterprise IT standards, guidelines etc.
• Lack of expertise in SOA
Application Integration
architecture Solution
• Enterprise Architecture standards and principles
• SOA-based Service Enabling Infrastructure
• Business Canonical XML based messaging
• Message Delivery Guarantee
• Transaction Auditing and Tracking
• Automated Fault Handling
• Automated Notification
• KPI / SLA Reporting
Oracle SOA Suite
Components Used
• Oracle Service Bus
• Oracle BPEL
• Oracle BAM
• Oracle Adapters
• Oracle Business Rules
• Event Delivery Network

24.  Integrate legacy systems using legacy and application adapters.
 Layered architecture for maximum reusable components, quick alignments
 Oracle SOA Suite based service-oriented integration approach.
 Automated exceptional handling, auditing and self-intelligent notification services.
 Business dashboard to quickly view various business performance reports.
EAI Integration SOA Integration
Success Story…. approach

25. Success Story…. results

26. Check out Aspire’s SOA ROI calculator
@
http://www.aspiresys.com/soaroicalculator/
Questions & Answers

27. To know more about our offerings and
solutions, please contact us -
soa@aspiresys.com