The Triora Group

With my new role at SSG Limited, I’m attending some sessions at OAUG that are related to the Telecom marketplace.  SSG Limited has over 10 years of experience with Oracle’s Communications Billing and Revenue Management (previously Portal).
Oracle also offers Metasolv (purchased in 2006) which is an Operations Support System (OSS) for the communications and media [...]

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We just returned from a great week in Denver where Collaborate 2008 was held. This annual gathering of the IOUG, OAUG and Quest user groups was a great opportunity for learning and networking.
I chose to attend a lot of sessions on E-Business Suite R12 upgrades and integration. There was a lot of discussion [...]

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This post is more technical and will drill down into the various Enterprise artifacts that come with the Foundation Pack.
The first are the Enterprise Business Objects (EBO). There are about 30 of these in v2.01 but new ones will be added in subsequent releases. EBO’s are define for Customer, Supplier, Invoice and other [...]

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The Foundation Pack provides a foundation for those wanting to start building their own custom integrations. There have been a number of challenges for organizations wanting to use SOA. These challenges according to InforWorld, include:

1. Lack of Architectural Blueprint
2. Inconsistent Business Semantics
3. Lack of standardized Business Service Definitions
4. Ensuring Compliance and Mitigating Risks
5. [...]

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It is important to note that Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a product from Oracle and is available in Releases. The current release is 2.01. Release 2.1 is planned in the next several months.
Here’s a graphic looking at what AIA consists of and how it relates to the SOA Suite.
This shows all [...]

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The Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a product from Oracle and is available in Releases. The current release is 2.01. Release 2.1 is planned in the next several months.
Here’s a graphic looking at what AIA consists of. I’m going to focus on the bottom of the diagram initially.

Starting at the bottom, [...]

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AIA and SOA are all based on industry standards that have developed over the last 10-15 years. Several of the key standards were Java and XML.
With the advent of the World Wide Web there was a whole new emphasis on sharing information through the Internet. Everywhere developers were trying to come up with [...]

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Let’s look at how AIA fits.
Here’s a diagram of a typical architecture using Oracle’s E-Business Suite. I’ve broken out the AIA components to provide more detail. I apologize in advance for combining both physical an logical tiers in this diagram but I’m hoping it will help those who are less technical about E-Biz.The lowest layer [...]

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Oracle announced today that a new release of the AIA Foundation Pack is available. Release 2.01 works with Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3.3.
If you are wondering what the Foundation Pack is I’ll be providing more information in some following posts since I just returned from some training. At a high level, the Foundation [...]

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