Vivek Acharya is an Oracle Consultant working as a professional freelancer. He has been in the design, development, consulting, and architect world for approximately seven years working in Oracle Practice at GE, IBM, and 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, Web logic, 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, Sales force, SaaS, and BSM.

He has been the author of a couple of books on distributed systems, Oracle BPM, and so on, and keeps an interest in playing synthesizer and loves travelling. You can add him at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vivek-acharya/15/377/26a, write to him at <[email protected]>, and read him at http://acharyavivek.wordpress.com/.

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, he focused on the Oracle Fusion Middleware suite of products. His experience ranges from solution architecture, infrastructure design, administration, development, pre-sales, 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, BPM, BAM, Enterprise Manager 11g/12c, WebCenter, Identity and Access Management, and Application Performance Management.

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

TSI-Systems website: www.tsisystems.co.uk and Wickes can be contacted at <[email protected]>.