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10 unique architecture patterns powered by Oracle Fusion Middleware  First-hand technical solutions utilizing the complete and integrated Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite  From-the-trenches experience of leading IT Professionals  Learn to combine the integrated tools of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite and do away with thousands of lines of code In Detail Enterprise Architecture is seldom simplistic enough to be built on a single technology - it generally encompasses a wide array of technologies, including SOA, Identity Management, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Web 2.0, Content Management, BPM, Distributed caching, Data Integration, and Application Server. What are the key business drivers where you need mix of multiple technologies? What are the best practices (organizational as well as architectural) to meet enterprise needs? How do other organizations approach enterprise challenges that transcend technology and product boundaries? IT Leaders, CIOs, Enterprise Architects are searching for proof-points. This book is an attempt to answer these questions by illustrating ten unique enterprise solution patterns to solve business needs in 3 specific areas: process improvement, business visibility and collaboration & security. Each chapter will introduce a new pattern, along with an architectural overview of a real-world customer solution developed with Oracle Fusion Middleware. What you will learn from this book Examine the key building blocks of Enterprise 2.0 architectures and then outline important integration considerations. Align IT with business processes that benefit from process-driven SOA development Create a unified platform for fast, flexible data analysis by integrating relational and multi-dimensional data. Combine SOA and BI to build intelligent processes with insight-driven agility. Inject high performance into data services by using data-tier caching for SOA performance. Bring about change without developing code for application extensions and integrations. Provide next generation integrated real-time intelligence using Oracle Web Center, Oracle Coherence, and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring. Build an automated reporting platform with SOA and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher. Govern business demands and requirements by building agile applications using Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Principles. Approach This book is a compilation of ten real-world case studies, originally published on Oracle Technology Network, and shows how to design and develop business processes efficiently. Throughout the book the authors discuss the revolutionary solutions that are behind the changing face of enterprises. Who this book is written for This book is aimed at Architects and IT managers involved in the design, implementation, and integration of composite applications and end-to-end business processes. About the Author Harish Gaur has more than 13 years of experience in the enterprise software industry including 7+ years at Oracle. He is currently the Director of Product Management for Fusion Middleware at Oracle. In his current role, he works closely with strategic customers implementing SOA & BPM using Oracle Fusion Middleware. He is co-author of BPEL Cookbook (2007) and Fusion Middleware Patterns (Sept 2010) Before Oracle, he worked as a Solution Specialist with Vitria Technology educating customers about the benefits of Business Process Management. Prior to that, he helped Fortune 500 companies architect scalable integration solutions using EAI tools like webMethods and CrossWorlds (now IBM). Harish holds an engineering degree in Computer Science and is an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Markus Zirn is a Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. In this role he heads the Strategic Customer Program, where he works with Oracle's leading and most innovative middleware customers. He has been part of the Enterprise Software industry for more than 10 years, including roles as Vice President of Product Marketing and part of the founding team of QUIQ and as a Management Consultant of Booz Allen & Hamilton's Silicon Valley High Tech Practice. Markus' passion for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and BPEL stems both from practical experience designing and optimizing business processes as part of process reengineering projects and from being part of the advent of "software as a service" before web services became mainstream. He holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and is an alumnus of the Tripartite program, a joint European degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the University of Southampton, UK, and ESIEE, France. Contact Markus Zirn. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Building Agile Applications using Fusion Development and Oracle Enterprise Architecture Principles Chapter 2: Process-driven SOA Development Chapter 3: Code-free Application Extensions and Integrations Chapter 4: Data Tier Caching for SOA Performance Chapter 5: Integrated Real-time Intelligence with Oracle's WebCenter, Coherence, and Business Activity Monitoring Chapter 6: Achieving Business Insight by Integrating Relational and Multi-dimensional Data Chapter 7: Building Intelligent Processes with Insight-driven Agility Chapter 8: Building Enterprise 2.0 Applications Chapter 9: Automating Enterprise Reporting with WebCenter, SOA, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Chapter 10: A Role-based Approach to Automated Provisioning and a Personalized Portal Index