This document provides an overview of Oracle Service Bus. It discusses key SOA concepts like service enablement, mediation, and orchestration that can be addressed using a service bus. It describes the target audience for learning about OSB and provides a roadmap for the course content, which will cover the OSB architecture, proxy service development, and service management and monitoring capabilities. It also gives examples of how a service bus can provide location transparency, backwards compatibility, message enrichment, and service orchestration.