Getting Started with Oracle Process Cloud Service by Andreas Chatziantoniou

October 9, 2017 Leave a comment

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Coming from a Business Process Management (BPM) environment, the Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) certainly looks and feels different, and has a number of merits that might go unnoticed. This article shows how to discover the potential of PCS and put it to good use in your projects.

The World We Live In

For a number of years, budgets   having been moving away from IT departments and into the business organization.   This has led to a situation in which we encounter "citizen developers," typical business users who (at least in theory) write their own application.

Because many services now reside in the cloud, these citizen developers can start right away and do not need to wait weeks for the IT department to provision the systems. These cloud services are immediately accessible and provide an easy-to-use development environment for the quick release of small business applications.

So let’s have a look how a citizen developer might use PCS.

The Interface

As with all Oracle Cloud Services, you will see a somewhat technical dashboard when first logging in to your domain. This is definitely aimed for developers and cloud administrators.

For somebody who has dealt with the typical Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, this certainly looks very dressed down. Remember that we are not — I repeat: NOT — managing the environment, which is in the cloud. What you see here is all you need to see — uptime and the number of instances/conversations/documents, etc.– that make up your cloud service. Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Service: New Features by Antonis Antoniou

October 8, 2017 Leave a comment

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Introduction

Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) started a year ago as a lightweight process automation cloud tool that very quickly picked up momentum, adoption and technical capabilities. With Oracle adopting a cloud-first release approach, PCS quickly closed the gap with Oracle BPM Suite, with the majority of the on-premise features being ported to the cloud counterpart.

Released in September 2016, Oracle PCS  v.16.3.5 introduced some new features and enhancements to existing capabilities for all personas (Developer, Administrator, End User).

This article explores these new features and enhancements in detail and assumes prior basic knowledge of Oracle PCS.

New Forms Editor

The latest release introduced an entirely new web forms functionality called Web Forms, an alternative to its existing Frevvo web forms (renamed "Basic Forms"). The new Web Forms functionality is more business-user-friendly, promoting important development principles like multiple views, re-use, branding, list of values, and fetching data using REST connections.

The new Web Forms groups its functionality into three areas; the left area includes the Properties and Data sections, the right area includes the palettes (basic, advanced, forms and business types), and the main area is the drawing canvas.

Using drag-and-drop, you can design your form using any components from all four palettes.

  • Basic Palette: Basic components like the input text, button, checklist, radio button, date, etc.,
  • Advanced Palette: Includes components like image, video, section, tab, table, etc.
  • Forms Palette: Re-use previously created forms
  • Business Type Palette: Create a user interface using a "data-first" approach (Oracle PCS will automatically create a form using the data definitions of the business type)

Enabling Auto Binding will automatically create linked data attributes for each component you drag on your canvas under the Data section. You can also follow a Manual Binding approach, in which you manually create attributes (either simple or based on a business object) and then bind controls to them. Read the complete article here.

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PaaS Summer Camp training material

October 5, 2017 Leave a comment

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The training material from the PaaS Summer Camps 2017 is available at our community workspaces (membership required):

· Integration API training 08.2017

· PCS Bootcamp 08.2017

· Integrate & extend SaaS Bootcamp 08.2017

· AppDev Bootcamp 08.2017

· Content Cloud Service training 08.2017

· Management Cloud Service Bootcamp 08.2017

· Chatboot Bootcamp 08.2017

· Virtual Builder Cloud Service Bootcamp 2017

Free PaaS trial services are available via Demo.Oracle.com. Questions? Send us a message via Facebook here.

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Latest news from Oracle OpenWorld 2017?

October 5, 2017 Leave a comment

Full week of exiting announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2017 – want to understand what is new?

Follow us on twitter and watch the webcast on-demand here and see the Amit Zayery’s keynote highlights here.

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The next Big Things in PaaS – full house at Amit Zavery’s PaaS Oracle OpenWorld keynote

October 3, 2017 Leave a comment

imageDuring his keynote Amit Zavery and the PaaS team launched a series of new services and cloud capabilities including an AI platform, serverless functions and blockchain. The line to enter the session was long and the Yerba Buena Center was fully packed.

The comprehensive, open and integration Oracle Cloud Platform drives innovation for our joint customers. Thanks to the partner community adaption is growing rapidly with more than 14.000 customers. Analyst recognize the platform as a leader in 19 categories.

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Here are the key announcements by service category:

Application Development

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Integration

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Content and Experience

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Analytics and Big Data

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Security and Management

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For more information watch the on-demand webcast here.

For PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017 read the blog post here.

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

October 2, 2017 Leave a comment

imageOracle 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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Oracle OpenWorld The Next Big Things

October 1, 2017 Leave a comment

    imageWant to use a comprehensive, open and integrated platform to develop and deploy applications? Attend the Amit Zavery keynote on Monday to launch the innovations like Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Internet of Things.

    Oracle Cloud Platform Strategy and Roadmap [GEN7119] Amit Zavery, Senior Vice President, Fusion Middleware and PaaS Development, Oracle, Monday, Oct 02, 1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Theater

    For more information please see:

  • What are the key PaaS announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2017?

  • PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

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What are the key PaaS announcements at Oracle OpenWorld 2017?

September 29, 2017 Leave a comment

Watch the on-demand webcast for Oracle partner to get insights about Oracle OpenWorld 2017. Ed Zou and myself will update you what PaaS activities you should not miss during the conference. For more information see also the blog post PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017.

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Watch the on-demand webcast here.

 

Missed our PaaS Partner Community Webcast? – watch the on-demand versions:

· Cloud Compliance & Certification

· Wercker July 21st 2017

· Sales Play webcast June 28th 2017

· Process Cloud Service update – DMN capabilities May 23rd 2017

· Drive DevOps Agility and Operational Efficiency with Oracle Management Cloud April 25th 2017

· Implementing DevOps and Agile Methodologies in Oracle Projects March 21st 2017

· Mobile Cloud Service & Chat Bots February 28th 2017

· b2b January 31st 2017

· Community Resources & free Cloud trails December 20th 2016

· SOA 12 & BPM Suite 12c Roadmap update November 29th 2016

· Microservices October 25th 2016

· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 update September 27th 2016

· API Cloud Platform Service August 30th 2016

· BPM Suite & PCS Update July 26th 2016

· Integration Cloud Service June 28th 2016

· Sales Plays Webcast June 9th 2016

· Real-Time Integration Business Insight May 31st 2016

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (SOA Community membership required).

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PaaS Partner activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2017

September 28, 2017 Leave a comment

Dear PaaS Partner Community

Are you ready for Oracle OpenWorld 2017? Below all details to plan your PaaS conference schedule. In case you can’t attend many of the keynotes will the streamed live!

Looking forward to celebrate your success at our PaaS Partner Community Reception on Monday October 2nd in San Francisco.

Good trip to San Francisco

Jürgen Kress

Oracle OpenWorld At A Glance

Each year at Oracle OpenWorld, we drive the best and most innovative sessions for our attendees. This year is no different. With numerous speaking sessions reflecting strategy, vision and perspectives from our executives, technology experts, customers, partners, user groups and industry thought leaders; live product demos; and hands-on-labs devoted to Oracle PaaS Solutions, we are excited to showcase our product innovations, customer successes, and strategy and vision at OOW 2017! Please read this special edition newsletter and keep this handy as your one stop for all things related to Oracle PaaS Solutions at Oracle OpenWorld 2017!

Featured Sessions

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General Sessions

Oracle Cloud Platform Strategy and Roadmap [GEN7119]

  • Amit Zavery, Senior Vice President, Fusion Middleware and PaaS Development, Oracle
  • Monday, Oct 02, 1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) Theater

Building Modern Applications Using Microservices, Containers, APIs, and Chatbots [GEN7158]

  • Siddhartha Agarwal, Vice President, Product Management and Strategy, Oracle; Diby Malakar, Vice President, Product Management, Public Cloud Platform Development, Oracle; Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, Product Management, Mobile Cloud Service, Oracle
  • Monday, Oct 02, 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Marriott Marquis (Golden Gate Level) – Golden Gate A

Oracle Cloud – A Platform and a Path to Cloud [GEN1799]

  • Steve Daheb, Senior Vice President, PaaS and IaaS Business Groups, Oracle
  • Monday, Oct 02, 4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Marriott Marquis (Yerba Buena Level) – Salon 7-9 (Yerba Buena Ballroom)

Conference Sessions

Oracle Integration, API, and Process Strategy [CON7118]

  • Vikas Anand, VP, Product Management, Oracle
  • Monday, Oct 02, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3005

Content and Experience Management: Roadmap and Vision [CON7107]

  • David Le Strat, Senior Director, Product Management, Oracle
  • Monday, Oct 02, 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Moscone West – Room 3003

Oracle Data Integration Platform Cloud Strategy and Roadmap [CON6646]

  • Connie Yang, eBay Inc.; Christian Cachee, VP Data Management & Analytics, Paysafe Group PLC; Jeff Pollock, Vice President of Product, Oracle
  • Monday, Oct 02, 12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3024

The New Frontier: AI-Powered Chatbots [CON7150]

  • Suhas Uliyar, Vice President, Product Management, Mobile Cloud Service, Oracle; Carolyn Ortega, Chief Officer, Enterprise Applications, MTA; Ryan Klose, National Pharmacies
  • Monday, Oct 02, 2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Moscone West – Room 3024

You can also view the Session Catalog to browse for additional sessions

Focus On Guides

Showcases / Demo Grounds

The Exchange at Moscone West
Come to The Exchange to meet with technology experts, see new cloud capabilities in action, and see how you can best leverage these new approaches to cloud. See how to Develop and Deploy Modern Cloud Applications, and how to Connect and Extend Your SaaS and On-Premises Systems.

Innovation Showcase in Moscone North
From student to start up to enterprise.
Come to the Innovation Showcase and see emerging technologies around AI, Chatbots, and Machine Learning.  View the Integrated Chatbots demo including a hospitality-like experience.

Test Fest

Want to become a certified Oracle expert free of charge? Schedule your Oracle OpenWorld implementation exam test here.

1:1 meeting & Community Reception

Want to discuss how to grow your business and transform to the cloud? Feel free to schedule a personal meeting with myself during Oracle OpenWorld.

Want to network with partners & the Oracle product management team? Attend our annual networking event! The PaaS Partner Community reception takes place on Monday October 2nd 2017 – registration is open here.

 

Good trip to San Francisco!

Jürgen Kress

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Getting the best Oracle API information with Swagger and a pinch of NodeJS by Léon Smiers

September 26, 2017 Leave a comment

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In a world full of API’s we need to have a way to understand the functionality and meaning of an API before we can start using it. In the Oracle Cloud world (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) all (or at least most) API’s are defined as REST services, based upon a JSON structure.
Since there is no conformed standard between API delivering parties, different design frameworks are used, with OpenAPI Specification (Swagger), RAML and API Blueprint the most popular ones. Oracle is opting for the OpenAPI Specification, with the accompanying design tool Swagger, as the standard for their products.

Oracle combined all the tools and resources for Cloud and On-prem software in a developers website. On this website the API descriptions for all PaaS products can be found. Unfortunately the information provided in the API overviews are pretty minimal. The online Swagger editor is not helping either, with all sorts of warnings popping up. The Swagger locally used UI tool requires CORS enabled calls, so out-of-the-box is offering the support we need.

This blogpost is about adding the last step in order to get insight in the Oracle PaaS API definitions with the Swagger UI tool. With the help of NodeJS CORS is added to the PaaS API call, and delivers the insight we want!

OpenAPI specification and Swagger

The OpenAPI specification is described on the http://swagger.io/specification/ website and unfolds how both Design elements and Documentation are used to define an API. The entire structure of the API design is based upon JSON, though also YAML can be used as the underpinning language. Swagger supports this specification with a bunch of tools, that can be used both in-line and locally installed. Read the complete article here.

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