Vivek Acharya is an Oracle Consultant working as a professional freelancer. He has been a part of the design, development, consulting, and architect world for approximately 7 years, working in Oracle Practice at GE, IBM, HP. He is an Oracle Certified Expert as Oracle Fusion—SOA 11g Implementation Specialist and Oracle BPM 11g Implementation Specialist. He has experience and expertise in Oracle Fusion—SOA, BPM, BAM, Mediator, B2B, BI, AIA, WebLogic, workflow, Rules, WebCenter, ECM, IDM, Oracle fusion applications, SaaS, On Demand, and so on. He loves all things to do with Oracle Fusion Applications, Oracle SOA, Oracle BPM, cloud computing, salesforce, SaaS, and BSM.

He has authored a couple of books on distributed systems, Oracle BPM, and many others. He likes to play Synthesizer and loves travelling. You can add him to your LinkedIn list by going to the link http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vivek-acharya/15/377/26a, write to him on <[email protected]>, and read about him and his works at http://acharyavivek.wordpress.com/.

Daniel Amadei is a Senior Principal Consultant working for Oracle Consulting Services in Brazil and has more than 10 years of experience in IT market being a specialized consultant and solutions architect for SOA and Enterprise Applications. He has strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with solid experience in development and architecture of applications.

He is a specialist in SOA and EAI Oracle middleware products, web services and related technologies and the Java Platform, especially Java EE. He has been working with Java since 1999 and SOA/EAI since 2007 and has, at the time of this book' s writing, 8 certifications related to his specialties, including Oracle Certified SOA Architect, Oracle SOA Foundation Practitioner and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE.

You can write to him on <[email protected]>, and read about his works at http://www.amadei.com.br.

Wickes Potgieter has worked as a product specialist for over 12 years. His main focus was on the BEA WebLogic suite of products, and after the Oracle acquisition of BEA Systems, focused on the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite of products. His experience ranges from Solution Architecture, Infrastructure Design, administration, development, presales, and training to performance tuning of the Oracle Fusion Middleware products, JVM, and custom applications. He specializes in Oracle WebLogic Server, JRockit, Service Bus, SOA, AIA, BPM, BAM, Enterprise Manager 11g/12c, WebCenter, Identity and Access Management, and Application Performance Management.

He formed a specialized consulting company in 2003 with offices in the United Kingdom and South Africa, covering customers in the EMEA region. His company is an Oracle Gold partner and has a team of specialized Oracle Fusion Middleware consultants servicing customers both onsite and offsite.

You can visit the TSI-Systems website at www.tsisystems.co.uk, and Wickes can be contacted on <[email protected]>.