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UK OUG Conference is Europe's largest independent applications and technology event for the Oracle community. The conference is being held at Birmingham’s ICC between 14th and 17th November and Griffiths Waite has been selected to present four presentations:

• Using Oracle BAM to Close the Loop of BPM
• Empowering Business with Oracle Business Rules
• A Year in the life of a BPEL Developer
• Oracle Forms : The Road to Fusion

"BAM – The Visibility into SOA"

The APP Server SIG is a popular forum to learn how application server and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies can be most effectively employed to support applications and business.

Griffiths Waite are presenting on the 12th October at Oracle’s office in Blythe Valley Park, West Midlands.

The presentation titled 'BAM – The Visibility into SOA' provides an overview of what BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) brings to SOA and this will be demonstrated through a number of case studies.

Casewise a recognised leader in the BPA market invites Griffiths Waite to present at their Global Annual Conference in September at DisneyLand Paris on the 28-29th September.

BPA (Business Process Analysis) is a combination of tools and methodologies that are used to save cost, add value, reduce time and reduce risk. The presentation titled 'How to kick start SOA' provides an insight into starting a successful SOA Project and demonstrates how BPA is a vital ingredient.

Master Classes are high-level seminars, at which Butler Group analysts present insight on topics pertinent to corporate IT and business management.

Following the success of Griffiths Waite's presentation in April's Master Class Butler Group invites Griffiths Waite back to present another example of SOA in practice.

Butler Group Strategy Briefings are high-level, business-to-business events that bring leading IT suppliers and solution providers together with senior-level decision makers from end-user organisations. The format is quite unique, consisting of a keynote introduction by Butler Group, followed by presentations from the Primary Sponsors and other participating sponsors. The day concludes with a Forum Debate, chaired by Butler Group, which have representatives from the Primary Sponsors.

Oracle is a primary sponsor and invites Griffiths Waite to provide SOA expertise on Oracle’s stand with a live demonstration of Oracle SOA Suite – BAM, BPEL, Rules and ESB.

At Information Age’s Future of the Data Centre 2006, speakers and delegates explored how the data centres of the next 10 years are changing to support increasing demands and how they will provide Resilient services for the responsive business. Griffiths Waite’s presentation covers topics of interest such as SOA and Grid Virtualisation.

IDC's Dynamic IT Conference 2006 Ireland: From Dynamic Infrastructure to SOA has been specifically developed to inform and update senior IT professionals on the latest trends and deployments of infrastructure technologies.

Griffiths Waite presents a working example of SOA in action and sits on advisory panel.

Oracle and Griffiths Waite co author an article entitled 'Using Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Close the Loop'. The article describes how BAM adds continuous improvement to Business Process Management capabilities. PDF of article is available.

Master Classes are high-level seminars, at which Butler Group analysts present insight on topics pertinent to corporate IT and business management.

Griffiths Waite was invited to present an example of SOA in practice. This event was attended by leading Financial Institutions, Central Government, Communications and Media companies.

Griffiths Waite presents an SOA Case Study to Oracle’s Global Staff. The presentation is available through Oracle University.

The event was organised by Intellect UK with material provided by Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and BT. Griffiths Waite represented Oracle with a presentation of SOA in action. The presentation by Griffiths Waite was quoted as 'the highlight of the day' by the organisers. Microsoft makes favourable comment about the deployment of Oracle SOA!

Griffiths Waite presents a working example of SOA in practice to Oracle sales personnel as part of an SOA workshop. This further demonstrates Griffiths Waite’s commitment to the Oracle SOA initiative and its position as a leading technology partner.

Griffiths Waite discusses with a leading BAM Analyst Bill Gassman from Gartner the benefits of deploying Oracle BAM. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) provides instant visibility of business processes in real time, identifies bottlenecks, and uncover opportunities to optimise the workflows for better performance.

"BPEL - A Lifeline for Legacy"

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the next evolutionary step in producing a technology infrastructure that will allow IT to give true competitive advantage to the business, providing flexible systems aligned with their business needs. Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is the standard for modelling and orchestrating business processes in this Service Oriented world and can help unleash the value from existing legacy applications.

Griffiths Waite will demonstrate how processes within a legacy system were automated and orchestrated with the Oracle BPEL tools to expose legacy functionality to new channels.

The demo will show how the BPEL solution interacts with external partners, internal PL/SQL packages, existing Oracle Forms and JSP screens to provide agile long running services spanning multiple business areas and IT systems.

"Oracle BAM - Turning the Light On"

Business Activity Monitory (BAM) provides instant visibility into business operations, enabling managers to proactively monitor and analyse their business processes in real time, identify bottlenecks, and uncover opportunities to optimise the workflows for better performance.

Griffiths Waite will introduce Oracle’s new BAM tool – demonstrating its use on the BPEL project introduced earlier, and discussing the crucial benefits given by Oracle BAM as part of any Business Process Management (BPM) solution.

Griffiths Waite have been nominated and shortlisted for the prestigious Oracle Partner Innovation Award 2005. This nomination recognises the success of Griffiths Waite in the area of Business Process Management utilising Oracle Fusion Middleware.

"A Financial Services Case Study focusing on the use of BPEL, Rules and BAM to provide BPM"

Volatile market forces, strengthening competition, escalating costs and increased government compliance are forcing the Financial Services Industry to shorten time to market through the adoption of agile business practices.

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is the industry standard for business process orchestration. The Oracle BPEL Process Manager enables organizations to model, deploy and rapidly change business processes.

The Case Study demonstrates how Oracle BPEL and BAM were used to automate the complete loan processing lifecycle from Application Processing through to Sales Follow Up.

A demonstration will present the benefits of the Oracle toolset in delivering business agility through a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

"Delivering the Adaptive Enterprise, Build to Adapt, not just to Last"

Griffiths Waite and Oracle will talk through the Oracle SOA approach and technologies and discuss the practicalities of such an approach by introducing a real world case study. The day will cover Oracle BPEL, Oracle BAM and Oracle Web Services Manager.

BPM - "Putting Theory Into Practice"

A case study will demonstrate how Griffiths Waite have utilised BPM technologies to re-engineer and manage complex business processes for a financial services institution, enabling rapid responses to new business initiatives which doubled turnover within four years without any deterioration in profit margins.

The core elements of the BPM solution; BPEL within JDeveloper, Oracle BAM and a pl/sql based Business Rule Engine will be discussed in detail along with the delivered benefits.

"Seizing the Initiative in Consumer Credit Management"

Griffiths Waite, Forrester and Telelogic join Oracle in presenting this Oracle Workshop in Business Process Management for Financial Services.

The Griffiths Waite case sudy will demonstrate how a leading Times 250 Consumer Credit Company has utilised BPEL and BAM technologies to re-engineer and manage complex business processes enabling rapid responses to new business initiatives. In a highly competitive market the solution has made a significant impact on business performance, credit quality and customer service. Griffiths Waite and their client will describe the key elements of their solution, its rapid implementation and the benefits it has delivered to the business.