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Instance Archiving and Purging in Oracle Process Cloud Service by Antonis Antoniou

December 27, 2017 Leave a comment

Archiving and purging your process instances systematically can improve drastically the performance of your processes. This task has been simplified in Oracle Process Cloud Service that gives you the option to run archives on demand or automate this task via scheduled jobs.

All archived instances (data) are stored in the Oracle Cloud Storage Service that is bundled with your Oracle Process Cloud Service. Archived instances are compressed in a zip file and once an archive task is processed, you will receive an email that will contain the link to the zip file that you can click on it to download the archived instances.

Purge will remove the BPM runtime information. Purge runs as a separate job and runs directly on the database. So when you configure archiving and purging, then two separate jobs will be executed independently of each other. So let’s see how you can schedule instance archiving and purging.

Configuring instance archiving and purging is an administrative task, therefore from the Oracle Process Cloud Service home page click on the “Configure” banner to go to the application settings. Read the complete article here.

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An IoT Asset Monitoring Experience

December 26, 2017 Leave a comment

Boost your supply chain effectiveness by quickly blending powerful insights from IoT devices with business applications to create next-generation services. Watch the video here.

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IoT in 2017: Things as Apps, Low Power Networks, Edge Computing, and More by Bob Rhubart

December 25, 2017 Leave a comment

The Internet of Things continues to generate its share of buzz in the world of enterprise IT. But what’s happening beyond the buzz? What impact is IoT having in the real world? How is it shaping the future of enterprise IT?

This program explores those and other IoT questions from the perspectives of three IT professionals who are no strangers to IoT projects.

This program was recorded on January 9, 2017. Listen to the podcast here.

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Connect Sales and Service with ICS by Waslley Souza

December 21, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle ICS is a solution that facilitate the integration between SaaS x SaaS and SaaS x On-Premise solutions.
It has a lot of connectors to help you to create your integrations throught configuration.
Two examples are Oracle Sales and Oracle Service (formerly Oracle RightNow) connectors.
For some Business Objects of Oracle Sales and Oracle Service you can use a feature called Event Subscription, and it means that if you create, update or delete a registry of this objects, the integration inside ICS will start automatically.
Today, this feature is only enabled for Contact and Account in Oracle Sales.

And only enabled for Contact, Organization and Incident in Oracle Service. Read the complete article here.

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Noobs notes (or another "expert" opinion) – “Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service” book review by Sergei Kosolapov

December 20, 2017 Leave a comment

If words “Cloud” and “Integration” are something you are interested in and you are in search of some products/services in this area, then this book review is for YOU!

This is a book review on the book “Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service” written by Robert van Mölken and Phil Wilkins – on PACKT. For more information visit this link.

Book Details:

ISBN 139781786460721

Paperback 506 pages

Book contains the following chapters: Read the whole review here.

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Oracle Public Cloud – Invoking ICS endpoints from SOA CS – configure SSL certificate and basic authentication. By Lucas Jellema

December 19, 2017 Leave a comment

As part of the Soaring through the Clouds demo of 17 Oracle Public Cloud services, I had to integrate SOA CS with both ACCS (Application Container Cloud) and ICS (Integration Cloud Service).

Calls from Service Bus and SOA Composites running in SOA Suite 12c on SOA CS to endpoints on ACCS (Node.js Express applications) and ICS (REST connector endpoint) were required in this demo. These calls are over SSL (to https endpoints) and for ICS also require basic authentication (at present, ICS endpoints cannot be invoked anonymously).

This article shows the steps for taking care of these two aspects:

ensure that the JVM under SOA Suite on SOA CS knows and trusts the SSL certificate for ACCS or ICS
ensure that the call from SOA CS to ICS carries basic authentication details

The starting point is a SOA Composite that corresponds with the preceding figure – with external references to DBaaS (through Database Adapter), ICS (to call an integration that talks to Twitter) and ACCS (to invoke a REST API on NodeJS that calls out to the Spotify API): Read the complete article here.

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PaaS (Process & Integration) Partner Community Newsletter December 2017

December 18, 2017 Leave a comment

Dear PaaS Partner Community,

Once a year we host the PaaS Partner Community Forum, your opportunity to become a champion in the latest PaaS cloud services from Oracle. On the first conference day the ACEs and the community will share best practices and customer success stories. During keynotes including live demos the Oracle team will introduce PaaS innovations like blockchain or machine learning. On the third day you can choose between four conference tracks Enterprise Process & Integration &API Management and Application Development with Microservices & Containers and Mobile & Chatbot & Content Management and Innovation: blockchaine & machine learning. The last two days of the conference you can code & try the cloud services hands-on! Most important the conference is an excellent networking opportunity with Oracle partners, ACEs, product development and the A&C team. Since we host the Partner Community Forum the conference was always booked out, secure your seat today!

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) including a partner resource kit. Special thanks to Niall Commiskey for the nice OIC articles series Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) – the Grand Tour & Integration Insight in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) & Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) – the cloud platform for Integration and Automation. OIC pricing is based on OCPU want to know much it is? Try the Cloud cost estimator which also provides sample configurations.

There are more than five reasons why our joint customer base should choose Oracle’s PaaS. One of them is Oracle’s third generation API Platform cloud service. Another reason is Oracle’s support of standards also for APIs.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the Integration articles: Integrate Sugar CRM & Eloqua in few hours using Oracle Integration Cloud Service & Create Connection using external WSDL in Oracle Integration Cloud Service & PaaS – How to setup an Oracle Integration Cloud instance & Enable WebService test client on SOA/BPM production mode environments & Good SOA Pipeline Plumbing Gregory Hughlett & SOASuite 12c: keep running instances using ANT & OSB: Disable Chunked Streaming Mode recommendation & Oracle Management Cloud: Find SOA Suite issues quick and easy

We all like Pizza, now we also understand the process how to make and deliver Pizza. Special thanks to Richard & Marcel for the latest posts Different presentations for the same WebForm & Notification Task in PCS & Human Tasks: Design First WebForms in PCS & Workaround for XSD list-element issue in WebForms & Deploying and Reverting to Snapshots. Defiantly will service you a pizza one day! User Interfaces are key for user adoption, as BPM is about human based processes it’s even more important. Thanks to the Mark for Best Practices in UI and Process Designs. With the BPM 12c REST APIs an customized UI can be build easily.

In our last section is it all about the future and innovation. Machine learning is at the forth front of innovation. Another example are innovative use cases of IoT, Mexico City is a great example. To achieve innovation our UX team released new UX tools.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The December edition highlights the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) Partner Resource kit and the PaaS Partner Community Forum. To access our free PaaS trial services and get a community update please join our monthly PaaS Partner Community Webcast – December 15th 2017.

Want to publish your best practice article & news in the next community newsletter? Please feel free to send it via Twitter @soaCommunity #PaaSCommunity!

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/PaaSNewsDecember2017 (OPN Account required)

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Applying configuration management and related dev practises – ICS Definitive Guide #3 by Phil Wilkins

December 17, 2017 Leave a comment

Good development practises such as configuration management and naming conventions have been a topic of conversation a number of times recently for us when it comes to ICS. In this post we will look at what configuration management means to ICS and the application of naming standards.

Why Configuration Management?

So why do we need configuration management with a tool such as ICS? The question depends on what stage of the software lifecycle you are, but a few reasons:

As a developer there have been occasions where we have tried to optimise something and then decided to reverted back to the last secured state in configuration control.
Deleted something and then regretted it, whilst desktops have the concept of paper basket to recover from, not so in ICS.
If your providing packages of ICS functionality you may have different released versions – so need to keep master copies of every version available to refer to.
Sometimes we get ‘configuration drift’ – and therefore need to have a reference point to compare to. This allows us to determine the drift and if it is appropriate to reset an environment. Whilst this may sound less significant, it is enough of a problem for tools like Puppet to incorporate the ability. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Integration Adapters Certification

December 16, 2017 Leave a comment

This section provides certification information for the Integration Adapters on the Oracle Integration Platform including Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle SOA Cloud Service and Oracle Integration Cloud Service.

Oracle Integration Adapters Certification Matrix