Oracle PaaS Summer Camp August 27th – 31st Lisbon Portugal

June 12, 2018 Leave a comment

clip_image002The PaaS Summer Camp is a one week training for cutting-edge software consultants, engineers and enterprise-level professionals. The #PaaSSummerCamp brings together the world’s leading Oracle experts in the fields of integration, API management, process management, microservices, mobile, chatbot and blockchain.

Trainings:

· Integration & API Management 

· Chatbot & APIs

· Application Development with Microservices and Containers

· Innovation: blockchain and robotic process automation

· Integrate & Extend SaaS: CX & ERP & HCM

· Hackathon build a PaaS solution

Location & Schedule: August 27th – 31st 2018

Lagoas Park Hotel
Lagoas Park – Oeiras 
2740-245 Porto Salvo
Portugal

For details please visit the registration page here.

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Connect Everything Extend Your Reach free eBook

June 11, 2018 Leave a comment

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Read this e-book now and learn how the Oracle Cloud Platform for innovation will give you the edge your apps need to make digital business work for you in today’s always-on expectations. Get the eBook here.

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Solve digital transformation challenges using Oracle Cloud

June 10, 2018 Leave a comment

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Digital transformation is an omnipresent topic today, providing a lot of challenges as well as chances. Due to that, customers are asking about how to deal with those challenges and how to leverage from the provided chances. Frequently asked questions in this area are:

  • How can we modernize existing applications?
  • What are the key elements for a future-proven strategy IT system architecture?
  • How can the flexibility as well as the agility of the IT system landscape be ensured?

But from our experience there’s no common answer for these questions, since every customer has individual requirements and businesses, but it is necessary to find pragmatic solutions, which leverage from existing best Practices – it is not necessary to completely re-invent the wheel.

With our new poster „Four Pillars of Digitalization based on Oracle Cloud“ (Download it here) , we try to deliver a set of harmonized reference models which we evolved based on our practical experience, while conceiving modern, future-oriented solutions in the area of modern application designs, integrative architectures, modern infrastructure solutions and analytical architectures. The guiding principle, which is the basis for our architectural thoughts is: Design for Change. If you want to learn more, you can refer to our corresponding Ebook (find the Ebook here, only available in German at the moment).

Usually the technological base for modern application architectures today is based on Cloud services, where the offerings of different vendors are constantly growing. Here it is important to know which Cloud services are the right ones to implement a specific use case. Our poster „Four Pillars of Digitalization based on Oracle Cloud“ shows the respective Cloud services of our strategic partner Oracle, which can be used to address specific challenges in the area of digitalization. Get the poster here.

 

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Why are Universal Cloud Credit and Bring Your Own License a great opportunity for Oracle Partners?

June 9, 2018 Leave a comment

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Oracle simplified buying and consuming for PaaS and IaaS Cloud. Customer can purchase now Universal Cloud Credits. This universal cloud credits can be spend for any IaaS or PaaS service. Partners can start a PoC or project e.g. with Application Container Cloud Service and can add additional service when required e.g. Chabot Cloud Service. The customer can use the universal cloud credits for any available or even upcoming IaaS and PaaS services.

Thousand of customers use Oracle Fusion Middleware and Databases today. With Bring Your Own License they can move easy workload to the cloud. As they already own the license the customer needs to pay only a small uplift for the service portion of PaaS. This is a major opportunity for Oracle partners to offer services to this customers.

To learn more about Universal Cloud Credits and Bring Your Own License Attend the free on-demand training here

 

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Additional new content PaaS Partner Community

June 8, 2018 Leave a comment

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· FAQ: Integrating E-Business Suite using Integration Cloud Service What a coincidence! You have questions about integrating E-Business Suite using Oracle ICS, and solution architect Naveen Nahata has answers. Read the article.

· Expose a Database to an Oracle BPM 12c Process Using Oracle SOA Database Adapter his 4-part step-by-step article by Oracle ACE Dan Atwood explains how to expose a database to an Oracle BPM 12c process using the Oracle SOA Database Adapter and a Mediator. Read the article.

· Video: Transport Layer Security in Oracle ICS and MCS How secure is your connection to your Oracle Mobile Cloud or Integration Cloud service? Ramp it up with this tip from AMIS Services senior integration consultant and Oracle ACE Associate Maarten Smeets. Watch the video.

· Developer Platforms: As Diverse as Development Teams Today’s developers can get a lot of benefit from a diverse ecosystem of products, cloud services, and open source projects that support modern, cloud-native application development. Read the article.

· Oracle Code Online Session Replays The complete list of session videos from the Oracle Code Online event in June is now available. Choose from among 17 complete sessions in 5 tracks: Full Stack, Mobile, Server-side, Database, and DevOps/Systems. View the complete session playlist

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An Introduction to Jarvis Pizzeria! By Richard Olrichs & Marcel van de Glind & Marc Kuijpers

June 7, 2018 Leave a comment

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In the summer of 2017, three enthusiastic Oracle Consultants decided to join effort and start their own business. Not all developers love the cloud (just yet), but we all love pizza, so what better than to start our own pizzeria; Jarvis Pizzeria!  Besides that, pizza is the new EmpDept for developers, so two birds with one stone. Where better to explore the Oracle Cloud, more specific Oracle Process Cloud (PCS), than within the walls of our own beloved pizzeria.

Since an Iron Man reference is always a good idea for anything Oracle related, Jarvis Pizzeria is born!

Now, before we tell you all about our automated pizza process, let’s take a moment to introduce the team.

Marcel van de Glind

The Cloud Architect of MyFMW

https://myfmw.wordpress.com
Marcel is a familiar face within the Oracle Community, his expertise on BPM & SOA (plus more) is shared on MyFMW. Besides preparing pizzas, Marcel is also preparing for the Cloud, will PCS be the new BPM?

Marc Kuijpers

Cloud Ninja @RubiX

http://rubix.nl/blogs
Marc knows the BPM Suite and all its pros and cons from his time at Oracle. However, now that he’s left the mothership to consult at RubiX, it is time to challenge the Cloud proposition of Oracle. What better way than looking at PCS to see how this Cloud solution fits within the PaaS offerings.

Richard Olrichs

Oracle Early Adopter @The Future Group
http://www.olrichs.nl
Richard is always looking for an excuse to play around with the newest Oracle Technology products to stay on the edge of what is happening within the Red Cloud. Can the Oracle PaaS deliver like Jarvis delivers pizzas?

So that is the team! In the time to come, we will start automating our pizza process with the help of Oracle PCS. One of the goals for this project is very selfish, we want to explore PCS and familiarize ourselves with the tool and technology. We joined effort to discuss our findings, ask questions and motivate each other. However, now it is also time to share our experiences with the Community. This will happen in a blog series on our sites as well as via implementation examples and presentations at Oracle related Events.

In essence we have cut the automated pizza process in a couple of separated, decoupled steps; the preparation, the payment & the delivery. Within these steps we will use several familiar techniques, like Human Tasks and Business Rules. We will compare the PCS options to their BPM counterpart and share our findings from a level of ‘MyFirstPcsProcess’ to a more in-depth analysis of the tool and product.

As you can see, our use case reflects upon the process, how PCS relates to BPM, how easy it is to implement a business process, the usage of gateways, business rules and other features we know from BPMN. As a result, our focus has been on Oracle PCS and Oracle PCS alone. This means our lessons learned will also be focussed on PCS and probably will not translate one on one to a real business case.

For example, we use the integration within PCS, to directly call REST and SOAP endpoints, while for a critical, core business system, it is wise to let this integration go through the Integration Cloud as abstraction layer from the process.

We hope you enjoy our blog series, happy readings!

Blogs in this series:

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Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform: The Vision for Efficient and Productive Enterprise–Webcast June 7th 2018

June 5, 2018 Leave a comment

Join us in our ongoing ‘Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform’ webcast series to learn more about the transformative Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) based cloud platform services. The first presentation of the series will cover the vision of the Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform and the value it adds to your business.

In this session you will learn about:

  • The vision for Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform that extends Autonomous capabilities across the entire Oracle Cloud Platform 
  • How Oracle is applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Machine Learning (ML) to its entire next-generation Cloud Platform services to help customers lower cost, reduce risk, accelerate innovation, and get predictive insights
  • Get guidance on how to get started with Oracle Autonomous Cloud Platform

For details please visit the registration page here.

 

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Setup of PaaS Computes (SOACS/MFTCS/DBCS) over IP Network for VPN Connectivity by Shub Lahiri

June 4, 2018 Leave a comment

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Executive Overview

PaaS customers, in the past, have been able to provision their instances only over the flat network of Oracle Public Cloud (OPC). However, at present, support for PaaS computes with IP networks has been released. As a result, customers now have a choice to provision PaaS instances, e.g. SOA Cloud Service (SOACS), MFT Cloud Service (MFTCS) or Database Cloud Service (DBCS), using IP networks.

This option clearly comes with 2 distinct advantages. Firstly, there is no need to configure GRE tunnels between PaaS compute and the VPN Gateway running in OPC. Secondly, the customers have the flexibility of defining their own network subnet and topology for their PaaS instances running within OPC.

Since this feature is recently released, this blog is an attempt to provide guidance with the basic setup and configuration of PaaS computes using IP networks.

Solution Approach

To demonstrate the use case, a 2-node SOACS cluster, with an Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) serving as the load balancer, is provisioned first with IP networks. The steps outlined here are conceptually the same for an MFTCS cluster as well. The cluster is then connected to an on-premises private network over VPN.

The overall solution architecture with the network topology and VPN connectivity is shown in Fig. 1 here.

Fig. 1 PaaS Computes over IP Network with VPN connectivity to on-premises network

Solution Architecture

Before provisioning of the SOACS cluster, it is necessary to create a DBCS instance for the SOA Infrastructure repository.

Therefore, in summary, 5 compute instances are provisioned in the identity domain within OPC, as listed below.:

  • Database Cloud Service (DBCS)
  • SOA Cloud Service – Node 1 (SOACS-1)
  • SOA Cloud Service – Node 2 (SOACS-2)
  • Load Balancer (OTD)
  • Corente Service Gateway (CSG) – VPN Gateway (Oracle Public Cloud) Read the complete article here.

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ICS SOAP Connection – Retrieve File Uploaded WSDL by Greg Mally

June 3, 2018 Leave a comment

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When working with Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) SOAP Connections, it is common to upload a WSDL file when configuring the Connection Properties:

The focus of this blog is how to retrieve/recover the WSDL in the event the original file is not available. This can be accomplished in several ways that include an on-line and/or off-line approach. Regardless of the approach, it is important to understand that when the WSDL file is uploaded it is added to the connection as an attachment.

On-Line WSDL Retrieval via REST AP

ICS provides a set of REST APIs for managing and monitoring integrations, adapters, connections, lookups, and packages (https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/integration-cloud-service/rest-api.html). One of these APIs can be used to retrieve the attached WSDL for the SOAP connection and interestingly enough, it is called Retrieve an Attachment. There are quite a few ways to work with REST APIs that include tools like SoapUI, browser add-ons like Postman/RESTClient, or linux commands like cURL. For this blog, we will be using linux cURL (https://curl.haxx.se/).

The Retrieve an Attachment API requires three pieces of information to construct the URL for the REST call:
1.  ICS host name ([domain].integration.[region].oraclecloud.com … the first part of the ICS Console URL)
2.  ICS Connection ID:

3.  ICS Connection Property Name (targetWSDLURL). Read the complete article here.

 

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ICS File handling options and tips by Mani Krishnan

June 2, 2018 Leave a comment

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Introduction

Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) provides file handling capabilities through technology adapters and other application-specific adapters. This post focuses on the most commonly used file handling methods in ICS, using FTP, File and REST adapters and some techniques to tackle advanced file handling requirements. Information in this post is applicable to release 17.2.5 of ICS.

File handling in ICS

FTP adapter is widely used for transferring and process files. It provides ability to read, download, write and delete files at an FTP/SFTP location.  Size limits apply to files read via FTP, 2MB for “Read” operation and 10MB for “Download to ICS” operation. Files could be decrypted, unzipped upon Read and zipped, encrypted during Write operation. Refer to the guide about using FTP adapter for more information.

File adapter allows file polling, read and write operations on an on-premise location, using ICS connectivity agent.  The target and source directories are locally accessible from the server where ICS connectivity agent is deployed.  Refer to the guide about using File adapter for more information.

REST adapter allows receiving files as HTTP multipart attachments, and sending file as attachments, given that the target endpoint is capable of processing files sent as attachments. Incoming HTTP requests are limited to 10MB in size. In an upcoming release (currently 17.2.5) , REST adapter will be capable of receiving and sending files in raw form in HTTP body using content type “application/octet-stream”. This will allow uploading to and downloading files to content servers, such as Microsoft SharePoint.

Finally, StageFile action, allows reading, writing, listing, zipping and unzipping of files within ICS. It allows reading and processing files previously downloaded into ICS or created by StageFile write action.  Note that the files handled by StageFile are temporary in nature, accessible only during execution of an integration instance.

Base64 encoding and decoding

File content that’s binary, not readable or non-conforming (to XML schema, for example) need to be converted to base64-encoded string so that web services can handle them. Likewise, web services return such content as base64-encoded string that need to be converted to files. ICS FTP adapters allow this through a schema shown below. Read the complete article here.

 

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