Robotics Process Automation & Process Cloud Service partner resource kit (by UiPath & Oracle)

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Overview

Useful links:

And here 5 steps the download the latest Community Edition of our Studio + Robot and get some hands on experience

  1. Download community edition of UiPath
  2. Sign up for our UiPath Academy and take all free online courses
  3. For any support and help use the UiPath forum
  4. When you have installed the Studio Community Edition register your first tenant in our Azure UiPath Orchestrator version.
  5. Once you have undergone the core trainings and you have set up your Studio and Robot for the community Edition, registered your orchestration tenant in the Azure Orchestrator version. You can start testing the REST API to the orchestrator to activate the robots. Here is the detailed API documentation.

Get the complete kit here.

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How robotics can humanise your workforce by Barry O’Reilly

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Previously in this blog series, we’ve explored some examples of how businesses and software vendors are using automated intelligence (AI) and application programming interfaces (APIs) to innovate with disparate data sources—combining them to deliver greater value for customers and workforces.

Another area of innovation that’s improving the way organisations go about their business and the way they serve their customers is robotic process automation (RPA). For many, when they think of RPA, they think of large, cumbersome mechanical processes augmented by robots and industrial machinery. But take a moment to consider how many repetitive, low-value, mechanical and time-consuming—yet essential—tasks are carried out by members of your workforce.

What is RPA?

For some time, one of the main barriers to automation has been the ability to replicate human operations for repetitive tasks. RPA bridges this gap with robots that are easy to train, don’t require changes to your underlying legacy systems, and—crucially—can execute flawlessly. Beyond the physical robotic applications that we’re perhaps more familiar with, software robots can also be trained to log into a system, enter information, port data between SaaS and on-premise applications, and commit transactions—just as human operators would do.

So what about your business? How many of your daily business operations—the tasks and processes you perform routinely—could now be taken over or enhanced with RPA? And if your workforce was relieved of the burden of those tasks, how would you take advantage of the extra resource made available?

RPA in action

Consider these two cases in point. US-based broadcast group, Sinclair, implemented its ‘One Sinclair Experience’ transformation after a period of major merger and acquisition activity. Their aim was to provide a simple, tablet-based interface for marketing consultants to sell their national solutions at a local level—comprised of offerings from across all the newly acquired companies. The resulting tablet-ready experience uses RPA as part of a solution that’s drawn together back office services from across all the companies, resulting in 12x faster process and 45% lower total costs. Read the complete article here.

 

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Webcast Series: Oracle Cloud Integration: What’s New for Oracle SaaS

Pimagelease join the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) product development team for the next in a series of partner webcasts to review our Brand New offering of Oracle Integration for Oracle SaaS, as an evolution of Oracle’s leading enterprise integration offering.
Leaders from OIC Product Management will highlight the hottest integration topics including prebuilt recipes and proven patterns with Oracle SaaS, our new offering and pricing, and customer use cases.

Schedule: Tuesday April 30th 2019

For details please visit the registration page here.

 

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PaaS Partner Community Award Winners 2019

As part of the emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019 we announces the annual community award winners. Congratulations and thanks to all partners for their contribution & Oracle cloud projects. The awards are an opportunity for all partners to learn from successful customer projects and to developer & publish new services offerings. Congratulation to the 2019 winners!

Integration Contribution 2019 boxfusionimage

API Contribution 2019 Luis Weir

Developer Contribution 2019 eProseed

Digital Assistant Contribution 2019 contribute

Innovate SaaS Contribution 2019 Evosys

VBCS Contribution 2019 Red Samurai

Application Development Contribution 2019 Charles Taylor

PaaS Contribution 2019 Capgemini

Community Support 2019 Ed Zou & Team

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Read XML file using Oracle ICS / OIC FTP adapter by Ankur Jain

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This article will show you another capability of Oracle ICS / OIC FTP adapter to Read XML files. After this article, you will be learned how to parse XML files which reside FTP location.

Important Blogs to learn more about Oracle ICS / OIC

In the previous article we have showcased how to create FTP adapter.In the example, an ICS scheduled will be developed which will read an XML file from SFTP location and logs the data in logs file.
Below is the sample file which we’ll use to read Let’s have a look how to achieve the use case step by step

  • Create an FTP connection. Please go through the article to see how to create FTP connection
  • Create a Scheduler integration. Have a look on how to create Scheduled integration
  • Drop the FTP adapter on Integration canvas and go through the wizard
  • Enter the Endpoint name as per your choice and Click Next button. Read the complete article here.

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Thanks for attending the Oracle Emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019

imageThanks for your huge investment to spend a week attending the Emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019 in Spain. Partners are key for Oracle’s PaaS & Fusion Middleware growth – Thanks for your Specialization & Contribution. Special thanks to all presenters and trainers your content rocks! With 785 attendee days the conference is the largest PaaS partner event in EMEA.

During the community day partners and ACEs presented best practices and customer success stories. As part of the business & OPN track partners received the latest updates on cloud pricing, marketing services to promote your service offerings, and the WEDO showcases. On Tuesday Ed Zou and Martijn Vlek introduced in their keynote the Oracle Cloud Platform including a blockchain and a visual builder live demonstration. The Oracle product management team updated you on the latest PaaS innovations like processes with embedded machine learning, integration SDK, digital assistant, content and experience cloud with embedded virtual reality and APIs. On Wednesday attendees could choose from four different track: Enterprise Process & Integration or Development tools & DevOps or Application Development or an Innovation track. For SaaS partners we offer a virtual Innovate, Extend and Integrate SaaS tack. Special thanks to Lucas Jellema and the ACE team who wrapped up the conference with a showcase using multiple PaaS services to build a shopping solution live on stage. Within the last two days different hands-on trainings take place. A two days integrate, innovate and Extend SaaS workshop. A two days Hackathon to build a rapid prototype. Or 12 different half day labs where attendees could make their own choice.

As a summery and call to action we would like to invite you to:

For some impressions please see twitter here and visit our Facebook page.

In case you could not attend in Spain all presentations and training material will become available at our community workspace (membership required).

 

Thanks for attending the conference & labs and a good trip home.

Jürgen Kress

 

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Welcome to the emerging PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019

clip_image002When you read this you arrived in Majorca and we would like to thank you and your management for investing the time to attend the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019.

There will be more than 200 delegates from more than 45 countries, which will give you the opportunity to learn from other cloud minded partners and network with partners from Europe and different regions as we also have representation from Africa, Asia, North America, South America and the Middle-East. Many Oracle employees will attend and we would like to invite you to challenge them how we can support you to grow your business and maintain profitability on your investment with Oracle.


Oracle Cloud Platform Transform Your Business with Innovation
Focus of the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2019 will be the Oracle Cloud Platform to transform the business, of our joint customer base, with innovation. Key accomplishment, driven by you as a partner and resulting in cloud utilization, are successful cloud projects. Successful customers grow their Oracle cloud footprint and purchase additional consulting services. With the Oracle Cloud Platform you can proof innovation, in a rapid prototype. The cloud test drive material, is available via Github, is a blueprint for your workshops. Access to the latest cloud services is an essential part of the sales cycle. Trained and certified partners are the road to success. Each conference attendee was granted access to free PaaS demo service before, during and after the conferences. As an Oracle partner you can request free PaaS demo services via demo.oracle.com or our partner communities any time – make use of it!

Oracle PaaS creates many new opportunities for partners to build, customize and integrate applications in a public cloud environment. Our joint customers will benefit from this new cloud offering by faster time to market, higher availability and flexibility, lower project cost and risks. Universal cloud credits (UCCs) empower partners to deploy customer projects agile. Hybrid cloud computing offers like Helidon and Project FN are a unique value proposition for customer and partners. You can choose where to host and manage your cloud solution in the data center of your choice. Cloud marketplace gives you as a partner new opportunities to build, deploy and promote and market offerings on the Oracle PaaS Cloud. The Oracle Cloud Excellence Implementer (CIE) and Oracle Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP) programs reflect the focus on cloud computing.

To innovate, extend and integrate SaaS initiative is designed for Oracle applications partners. The underlying PaaS platform enables customers to enrich and differentiate SaaS solutions. Connect SaaS solutions with other SaaS solutions and on-premises, analyze data, secure and extend applications. As part of the conference we introduced a SaaS track on Monday, multiple session and a two days hands-on training are offered specifically for SaaS partners to enrich SaaS solutions with PaaS.

During this event you will see presentations from Product Management, Pre-Sales Consultants and Partners, that will share their real life experiences with you how to implement Oracle PaaS solutions and to see the business drivers behind these projects.

The Partner Community Forum offers six different tracks:

· Enterprise Integration & Process

· Application Development with Microservices, Containers and Serverless

· Innovate, extend and integrate SaaS

· Development tools, digital assistant & DevOps

· Innovation with blockchain, machine learning, IoT & content

· Best practices from partners & ACE team

The conference starts on Monday with the community day to present success stories and best practice. This year we offer additional sessions for SaaS partners and around the Oracle Partner Network.

We are excited to welcome again Andrew Sutherland and Ed Zou at the conference, who will highlight in their keynote the Oracle Cloud Platform including live demos. PaaS is the platform you can build new digital solutions to drive customer innovation. Thanks to our product management team you will get updates and roadmap details including demos for our Integration, Digital Assistant, Microservices, Machine learning and Content & Experience cloud services.

Congratulations to the annual winners of the PaaS Partner Community Awards. You will have the opportunity to learn direct from them, why they have won the awards. On Tuesday evening during our social event you will have plenty of chance for deep discussion within the community and speakers.

On Wednesday you can choose between four breakout tracks: Enterprise Process & Integration or Development tools & DevOps or Application Development or an Innovation track. For SaaS partners we offer a virtual Innovate, Extend and Integrate SaaS tack. We will keep our tradition to wrap up the conference with the legendary ACE demo – special thanks to Lucas Jellema and team!

Thursday and Friday four different hands-on trainings take place. A two days integrate, innovate and Extend SaaS workshop. A two days Hackathon to build a rapid prototype. Or 12 different half day labs, you can build your own agenda by choosing each session.

During the conference we host run multiple information points. Please take the opportunity to talk to the product management teams and business development teams. Two partners will exhibit their solutions. APIMatic API tools for API developers and Flexagon a devops tool. The Oracle User Experience team invites you participate in usability tests.

We also want to give a special thank you to our Specialized partners that have been able to differentiate themselves in their local markets by showing their experience and commitment in Oracle PaaS & Fusion Middleware solutions. To continue your road to success please ensure that you align with our local cloud sales teams and use our marketing services including the marketing campaigns kits.

From previous conferences we received the feedback that networking is key, it is always a challenge to keep the balance between more exiting live demos and networking breaks. Take the opportunity to connect via twitter and Facebook. Many of the conference speakers arrive on Monday and are available for 1:1 meetings!

We would like to encourage you to network within the community using our web2.0 features. For twitter please use the event hashtag #PaaSForum:

http://www.twitter.com/soacommunity @soacommunity

http://www.twitter.com/wlscommunity @wlscommunity

Like our Facebook pages and post comments and pictures at: http://www.facebook.com/DeveloperCommunity & http://www.facebook.com/soacommunity

It’s the first time that we hosted a PaaS Partner Community Forum in Majorca. Take the opportunity and spend some time at the beach.

The conference, Oracle OpenWorld and the Summer Camps are part of the annual community highlights. It’s exciting to see the community to get together full of energy and to develop new ideas. Special thanks to my management for the trust and freedom to host this conference – thank you!

Thank you for attending the conference and your Oracle PaaS & Middleware Partner business.

Welcome to Spain

Learn, Share and Connect

Your conference chair

Jürgen Kress

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OIC Integration 101 Part II by Niall Commiskey

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In this post I will cover Orchestrations and the whole area of Monitoring.
This  post pre-supposes you are familiar with the basics of OIC, covered in the previous post.

So what do Orchestrations offer me?
More flexibility, when it comes to integration design.

Let’s look at the 2 patterns currently available –
App Driven Integration – here is a simple scenario –

The API (Trigger) accepts in an Organization object.

The Integration logic is as follows –

1. Check if the Organization already exists

1.1. If Yes – then return a message with the existing Organization ID.

1.2. If No – then create the Organization and return a message with the new Organization ID.

Simple stuff – I will re-use the Service Cloud Connection from the previous post. Read the complete article here.

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OIC Integration 101 Part I by Niall Commiskey

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Many folks have been asking me for introductory/basic OIC labs.
Here is the first of a series.
I begin with integration – OIC’s integration component has a few basic concepts.

Connections: to the apps I want to integrate. We can connect to apps via app specific adapters, e.g. Fusion ERP adapter, SAP adapter, SFDC adapter. If OIC does not provide an app specific adapter then you can look at using one of the technical adapters e.g. SOAP, REST, FTP adapters etc.

Integrations: The leveraging of those connections to implement an integration flow.

A simple example – I need to keep the sales account object from Sales Cloud synced with the Organization object from Service Cloud. Both essentially refer to a customer albeit in pre-sales and post-sales mode. Ergo, I sell something to a customer via Sales Cloud, now I want to service that something via Service Cloud.

Now to some OIC speak –
An integration starts with a Trigger and usually end with an Invoke.
In the above example, the Trigger could be a SOAP or REST request that has a Sales Cloud Sales Account object as its payload. The Invoke would then leverage the Service Cloud Adapter to Create an Organization in Service Cloud. Read the complete article here.

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ICS to OIC Migration by Abhay Kumar

 

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Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Integration Cloud Service (ICS) are iPaaS offerings from Oracle. ICS was released back in 2015 has now been superseded by OIC. Customers on ICS can choose to be on ICS or migrate to OIC to take advantage of new features and services built into OIC. The comparison of ICS and OIC is out-of-scope of this blog post.

This blog post describes migration steps from ICS to OIC. Customers who have a implemented ICS can make use of this blog post to migrate from ICS to OIC.

Migration from ICS to OIC

Currently ICS has a feature to export one ICS integration flow/interface at a time from ICS UI. After a flow is exported from ICS, this flow can then be imported into OIC using import functionality on OIC UI. This should allow an integration flow to migrate from ICS to OIC. However, this approach is cumbersome when there are many flows in ICS that are to be migrated to OIC since every flow needs to be exported and imported one by one.

Thankfully there is Clone Utility provided for bulk export of all the integrations, connections, packages, libraries and other artifacts from ICS to OIC. The Clone Utility is a bunch of  REST APIs in ICS and OIC. ICS provides REST APIs to bulk export ICS artifacts and OIC provides REST APIs to import these exported artifacts.

Prerequisites

1. Existing ICS service with Admin role access to the service.

2. Provisioned OIC service with Admin role access to the service.

3. The Clone Utility feature is NOT Generally Available(GA) yet. A feature flag has to be enabled on OIC to enable this feature. To turn on the feature flag, one should open a SR with Oracle support.

4. Access to create and update a container on Oracle Storage Cloud

 

What can be Exported?

The clone utility helps export all ICS/OIC artifacts expect the agent and agent groups. The agent and agent groups need to be created manually. Here are the list of items the clone utility exports and imports –

    1. All integration flows of all patterns

    2. All connections including url, username and password credentials

    3. All packages

    4. All Libraries

    5. All certificates configured in ICS

    6. All Lookups

High Level Steps

The following picture provides the high-level steps involved.

Detailed Steps

STEP 1: IDENTIFY STORAGE URL Read the complete article here.

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