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Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2017 by Juliana Button

December 1, 2017 Leave a comment

Returning from the excitement of Oracle OpenWorld, it’s good to pause and reflect on the highlights of the major Oracle event of the year. There were a significant number of key announcements across the entire product stack – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and DaaS. With our focus on IaaS and PaaS we have shared a few of the key take-aways below.

What was also noticeable this year, was the level of engagement from partners and customers talking about their use-cases and implementations, sharing their findings and experiences with Oracle Cloud PaaS. It is exciting to see the momentum building and the great value customers are starting to derive from their cloud-based implementations.

Key Announcements
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KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Oracle Container Native Application Development Platform

Early adopter availability was announced for the new Oracle Container Native Application Development platform to simplify building, deploying and operating container-based applications in the cloud.

Oracle Container Engine – a managed Kubernetes service to create and manage Kubernetes clusters
Oracle Container Registry Service – a private container registry service for storing and sharing container images across multiple deployments
Oracle Container Pipelines – a full container lifecycle management service based on the Wercker acquisition, for continuous integration and delivery of microservice applications

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Blockchain

Oracle announced Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service – an enterprise-grade, fully-managed blockchain solution to help organizations rapidly get started with blockchain. Oracle recently joined Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Read the complete article here. & Get the Oracle OpenWorld presentations and demos here.

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Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is available

November 30, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) brings together all the capabilities of Application Integration, Process Automation, Visual Application Building and Integration Analytics into a single unified cloud service. Oracle Integration Cloud now brings real-time and batch based integration, structured and unstructured processes, case management, stream analytics and integration insight allowing customers to service all their end to end integration needs in one cohesive platform so that all users can now build and deliver capabilities needed to realize true Digital Business Transformations. Billing is simplified with a single metric of OCPUs per hour (no more connection or user counting!!). Natively discover and invoke integration flows from processes in OIC and vice versa. Customers can configure and schedule patching according to their own schedule, and they can scale the Database to accommodate their business’s retention policy. The Integration Cloud runtime can be scaled out to meet the most demanding customer volumes, and VPN is now available so customers can choose to use the Connectivity Agent, API Platform, or VPN for on-premises application connectivity.

Oracle Integration Cloud Overview Video (YouTube)

Key Features:

· SaaS and On-Premises Integration: Quickly connect to 1000s of SaaS or on-premises Applications seamlessly through 50+ native app adapters or technology adapters. Support for Service Orchestration and rich integration patterns for real-time and batch processing.

· Process Automation: Bring agility to your business with an easy, visual, low-code platform that simplifies day to day tasks by getting employees, customers, and partners the services they need to work anywhere, anytime, and on any device. Support for Dynamic Case Management

· Visual Application Design: Rapidly create and host engaging business applications with a visual development environment right from the comfort of your browser.

· Integration Insight: The Service gives you the information you need — out of the box, with powerful dashboards that require no coding, configuration, or modification. Get up and running fast with a solution that delivers deep insight into your business.

· Stream Analytics: Stream processing for anomaly detection, reacting to Fast Data. Super-scalable with Apache Spark and Kafka.

Key Differentiators:

Oracle Integration Cloud is an industry recognized leader in Application Integration and Process Automation. Both Gartner and Forrester have recognized Oracle iPaaS as a Leader for its vision and strategy in their respective reports for the year 2017. Oracle Integration Cloud is the only product on the planet that brings together all key elements of SaaS Extension and Integration under one product. The service also seamlessly integrates with Oracle API Platform Cloud Service for API first design and/or exposing Integrations as APIs.

Learn more about Oracle Integration Cloud here

Partner Resource kit: Presentation, faq, click-through demo, documentation and decision matrix published at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required):

· Oracle Integration Cloud Overview (PPT)

· Frequently Asked Questions

· Oracle Integration Cloud Click-through Demo

· Oracle Integration Cloud Documentation

· Cloud Integration Decision Matrix

· Overview Video YouTube

· Oracle Integration Cloud product page

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PaaS (Process & Integration) Partner Community Newsletter November 2017

November 29, 2017 Leave a comment

Dear PaaS Partner Community,

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) was announced during Oracle OpenWorld. OICs a comprehensive offering for integration, processes and to build user interfaces. An OIC partner resource kit including presentations in ppt format, demos, faq and documentation is available for community members. To get all OIC details please join our monthly PaaS Partner Community Webcast – November 21st 2017. The latest Ovum report highlights Oracle leadership in cloud integration.

Thanks to the partner community for the excellent Oracle OpenWorld summaries. Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2017 & My key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne 2017 & Amis Oracle Open World highlights & My Oracle Open World 2017 contributions in a nutshell & Some random thoughts on OOW17. Please use the material to update yourself, and our Oracle OpenWorld in a box kit (community membership required) to update your customer base.

Cloud hands-on training is key to deliver successful customer projects. For SaaS partners we offer a two days hands-on training to integrate and extend SaaS at 8 location across EMEA For details please visit the registration page here. Specially for SaaS partners an updated ICS pricing was announced. ICS is now available on the SaaS price lists for Oracle SaaS to SaaS integration. For details please get the latest price list here. For middleware partners we offer a one day hands-on training to build Microservices architectures based on API Platform Cloud Service at 5 locations across Europe. For details please visit the registration page here. In case you can’t attend one of this training watch the Microservices and API Management video here. Read the article about innovative disruption and the API article series (part 1, part 2, part 3) from Onkar Shoper.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the Integration articles: Integration Cloud Service, SOA Cloud Service or Integration Cloud, are you confused? & Seamless SaaS Integration using Oracle Integration Cloud Service & ICS Best Practices : Before going live and post go-live & ICS –> NetSuite to Zendesk integration & ICS Netsuite adapter configuration & Provisioning Oracle SOA Cloud Service & Fixed SOA Suite CS Error in Oracle Cloud: Validation Failed – Unable to Create Service / Invalid Storage Container

Thanks for Richard and Marcel about the excellent Jarvis Pizzeria article series! The latest publications include: Handling SOAP Faults in PCS & Testing in PCS against the Development or Production environment & Using an imported XSD in PCS & Deployment and using the workspace & Using the REST interface to start a Process

Thanks to the community for sharing all the business process management articles: Using a Multi-Instance & Subprocess as a Complex Gateway in Oracle PCS & Process Cloud Service (PCS) System Error Exception Handling & Oracle BPM 12.2.1 ADF Auto-Generation Issue Solutions.

Platform as a service is driving innovation at our customers. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Blockchain are the newest service part of the Oracle PaaS platform. Therefore we will add this topics to the Architecture section of this newsletter. We start with the Blockchain announcement and a first Blockchain impression from Lonneke.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The November edition highlights the Oracle OpenWorld kit Universal Cloud Credits and hands-on trainings to integrate & extend SaaS and API Platform Cloud Service. To get an update on Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) please join our monthly PaaS Partner Community Webcast – November 21st 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/PaaSNewsNovember2017 (OPN Account required)

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle Process, Document, and Social Cloud Services

November 24, 2017 Leave a comment

This video shows how you can take advantage of collaboration capabilities to remove friction, spanning multiple systems in your enterprise by leveraging Oracle’s Process Cloud to share documents and Oracle’s Social Network Cloud to manage notifications. You will see a demonstration of how these capabilities can help remove the “friction” from the Engineering Change Process.
Disclaimer: The capabilities shown in this video are possible, but not delivered as generally-available (GA) integrated products. Consulting services would be required. Watch the video here.

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Oracle Cloud World – SaaS momentum continues by Den Howlett

November 23, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle believes the current enterprise cloud wars are being fought at the application or SaaS level. This is an arguable position given that some commentators believe that Amazon dominates the cloud world by some orders of magnitude. More on that in a later story but for now I’m concentrating upon the momentum Oracle is gaining based upon the presentations we saw at Oracle Cloud World last week.

The journey

Oracle’s SaaS journey is now more than 10 years old. If that seems like a lifetime then you’d not be wrong but it gives an indication of just how hard it is to build well formed enterprise class applications. For its part, Oracle has faced numerous challenges but from what we saw and heard from customers, it is well on the road to fueling the all important pipeline that replaces the on-premises revenue with cloud subscriptions. This is far from trivial. Mark Hurd, co-CEO Oracle pegs the company’s SaaS revenue at 95% of all cloud revenue.

As we have come to expect, Steve Miranda, EVP Application Development at Oracle was bubbly and confident, bringing on customers who spoke freely about their experience, detailing developments and discussing the momentum behind Oracle SaaS apps. Read the complete article here.

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Enrich SaaS with PaaS updates presentations for CX, ERP and HCM

November 21, 2017 Leave a comment

At the SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) the latest Enrich SaaS with PaaS material is available:

· Leverage Oracle PaaS to Enrich Your Oracle and Non-Oracle SaaS.pptx

· Leverage Oracle PaaS to Enrich Your CX Cloud.pptx

· Leverage Oracle PaaS to Enrich Your ERP Cloud.pptx

· Leverage Oracle PaaS to Enrich Your HCM Cloud.pptx

· Enrich SaaS with PaaS technical patterns.ppt

For additional Enrich SaaS with PaaS information please visit the wiki and the tag.

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PCS 17.1.3 leveraging ICS by Niall Commiskey

November 18, 2017 Leave a comment

Now we have even tighter integration between PCS and ICS. Together they provide us with an unbeatable process and integration platform.
Let’s start with a simple example –
Here is my ICS process – all it does is create an organization in Service Cloud.

Now to PCS – I can "register" my ICS environment in Workspace (Administration – Services).

Now to my process – this is a simple order process. The order comes from an organization.
A confirmation email is sent to the Org email address, once the order has been approved. Read the complete article here.

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Migrating your Oracle BPM assets into Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) by Andre Boaventura

November 17, 2017 Leave a comment

If you are already an Oracle BPM user, it is likely that you might have heard or even ventured in its respective cloud version called Oracle Process Cloud Service (aka PCS). Essentially, Oracle PCS is a solution that enables you to rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes, as well as it is done with Oracle BPM, however the major advantage is that you can do everything in the cloud, without any concerns with infrastructure installation, setup and provisioning while keeping IT teams focused on high-value projects rather than endless tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting and workarounds, as regularly it is required to be done for on-premise projects, which in turn, allows you to focus on the business value of your solution, that is what really matters whenever we talk about Business Process Management.

I have been working with several Oracle BPM customers in the last few years in my current role as Senior Principal Product Manager, and I have seen along these years, an increasing demand of Oracle customers wishing to move to cloud as soon as possible, given all the very known benefits that are spurring adoption such as lower costs, greater agility, improved responsiveness and better resource utilization among other technical and business drivers.

Also, there are lots of new customers that want to get started with a streamlined solution to model, design, implement, run and monitor their processes. Thus, as you can notice, Oracle PCS is the perfect match to address all of these customer requirements mentioned above. Read the complete article here.

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Delivering the Enterprise to the Edge

November 16, 2017 Leave a comment

Introducing an integrated, end-to-end solution for the Internet of Things (IoT) from Oracle and Wind River^®. Extend the enterprise to the edge.

Industrial companies can now spend less time managing device connectivity, manageability, and security.

Oracle IoT Cloud Service has integrated with Wind River Helix^™ Device Cloud to automate the contextualization of sensor data at the edge with enterprise applications. Device data can be quickly connected to back-end ERP, CRM, and asset management, and other domain-specific enterprise applications. This integration offers a simple configuration and deployment experience, so customers can power-on a device and have it securely direct data to their enterprise applications.

This new integrated platform for industrial customers reduces time spent on infrastructure construction and device management, so more focus can be placed on realizing IoT business outcomes. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) – PaaS Partner Community Webcast – November 21st 2017

November 14, 2017 Leave a comment

Attend our November edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on November 21^st 2017 at 16:30 CET. In the webcast Niall Commiskey will update you on the new Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) service.