Process Cloud Service: new features! By Lykle Thijssen

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During Oracle Open World 2016, the latest release of Oracle Process Cloud Service got presented. The product has been making huge progress in all aspects, so here’s an overview of all the new and improved features.

Oracle Process Cloud Service

For those of you unfamiliar with the product: Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) is Oracle’s BPM solution for the cloud. While development on Oracle BPM Suite has pretty much come to an end, Oracle Process Cloud Service is the way forward and the platform for all new features related to Business Process Management. This meant that the product that was originally positioned as BPM for the citizen developer had to improve and mature to a full-blown BPM solution. It needs to support long running processes, improve its integration strategy and support case management, to mention some important subjects. While case management is not there yet, it will certainly come to Oracle Process Cloud Service and many other features are already there with the latest release.

Modelling Processes

As it used to be, modelling processes is done in the browser. This makes it easy for business and IT to collaborate on processes, because you only need an internet connection to get access. No need for development tools, code repositories and a powerful work station to get started. The main improvement in the process modelling is that Oracle has abandoned the usage of Flash. This makes the process modeller faster and easier to use, creating a far more pleasant and performant development experience.

Selecting integrations

When creating a Service Call, whether it’s synchronous or asynchronous, you can now select an Integration from Oracle Integration Cloud Service. Obviously, this is much more practical than dealing with WSDL imports and all the technical stuff related to that, but it also has a bigger meaning. It’s clearly showing that Integration Cloud Service has been strategically positioned as the way to go for process integrations. It’s putting the technical know-how of integration where it belongs, so you will no longer feel tempted to take that kind of complexity into a business process. Therefore, I strongly recommend following this approach as suggested by Oracle, instead of trying to work out your own integrations in PCS. Use these products for their purpose. Read the complete article here.

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Building a Future Proof Integration Platform by Bob Rhubart

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Oracle ACE Directors Ronald van Luttikhuizen and Luc Bors, both from eProseed, team up to explain how Oracle Mobile Cloud Service and Oracle Service Bus can work together to create an integration platform that won’t turn into a dinosaur. Watch the video here.

Additional Resources

Oracle Cloud Integration Part 1: Introduction [Tech Article]

Hybrid IT Integration PaaS Patterns Poster

Mobile by Design: Developing with the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

Manipulating a REST Service Header Using OSB 12.2.1

Oracle MAF Consuming Rest Services using Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS)

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Automated Deployment to SOA Cloud Services using Developer Cloud Services by Roland Koenn

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Introduction

The process of deploying SOA Projects to Oracle SOA Cloud Services (SOACS) can be significantly simplified and streamlined using the Oracle Developer Cloud Services (DevCS) by facilitating the inbuilt Maven and GIT repositories. This article is a walk-through on how create a SOA Project in JDeveloper and get it deployed on SOACS using DevCS. It is based on Windows, but other operating systems work in a very similar way. The following graphic shows the simplified process.

Prerequisites

JDeveloper: Download and install SOA Suite 12.1.3 QuickStart from OTN. This contains the JDeveloper version required for this example. Please note that this example will work for SOA 12.2.1 as well, but you will additionally need to follow the steps described in My Oracle Support (MOS) note2186338.1

Maven: Download and install Maven from here.

Access to a Oracle SOA Cloud Services 12.1.3 instance. Details can be found here.

Access to Oracle Developer Cloud Services – this comes as part of the SOA Cloud Services subscription. You will receive an email with details on how to login with the subscription activation.

Creating the GIT repository

Login to the Oracle Developer Cloud Services and Select Create New Project. I am going with a Private Project, but using the Shared project is identical. Make sure to select an Empty Project and select your favourite Wiki Markup. Read the complete article here.

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SOA and Integration On-Prem and in the Cloud Video with Vikas Anand

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Vikas Anand (Senior Director, Product Management, SOA Suite/Integration Cloud Service, Oracle) and Ram Menon (Product Manager, Oracle Integration Cloud Service) join OTN TechCast host Bob Rhubart for a discussion about meeting SOA and integration challenges on-prem and in the cloud. Watch the video here.

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When to Use Oracle SOA Cloud Service by Bob Rhubart

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Decisions, decisions. Can’t figure out whether to go with Oracle SOA Cloud Service or Integration Cloud Service? No worries! Oracle ACE Robert van Mölken helps you sort it out in this informative 2 Minute Tech Tip. Watch the video here.

Additional Resources

SOA Cloud Service in a Nutshell [Article]

Help! What Integration Solution is Best for Me?

Choosing the Right Integration PaaS | Robert van Mölken [Video]

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Integrate & extend SaaS – free hands-on Oracle Partner training Paris September 4th & 5th 2017

 

Free hands-on trainings – integrate & extend SaaS

You are working on Oracle SaaS implementations like CX, HCM or ERP Cloud and want to integrate and extend them?

Attend our hands-on training to understand how to use Oracle PaaS service like Integration Cloud Service, Mobile Cloud Service or Process Cloud Service in combination with Oracle SaaS solutions like Order Management or Digital Field Service. The training is most suitable for developer and consultants with SaaS experience who want to learn more about PaaS.
clip_image002Free hands-on in-class training takes place on September 4th & 5th in Paris

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Partner Resource kit to Enrich SaaS with PaaS (community membership required) Sales Kits: Connect and Extend SaaS & Use Case Integrate and Automate across Oracle and non-Oracle SaaS

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Employee Enablement with Oracle PaaS for SaaS – Human Resources by Mitchell Palski

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The employee experience of your organization is more transparent than ever. If Public Sector agencies are expected to compete with Commercial employers, they have to make strong first impressions on their new-hires. By improving the employee’s initial experience, your Human Resources department can have an immediate influence on employee productivity and retention.

What do employees care about?

I wrote a blog post back in April 2016 called “Recruit Millennials with Innovative Oracle Cloud Projects” highlighting the fact that the younger generations of the American workforce are attracted to innovative projects that give them the chance to get visibility for their achievements. In a 2015 NY Times article, Swarthmore Professor Barry Schwartz writes:

“But most important, we need to emphasize the ways in which an employee’s work makes other people’s lives at least a little bit better (and, of course, to make sure that it actually does make people’s lives a little bit better).”

More so than commercial industries, the social impact of a Government job has to be evident and visible in the outcomes of every day responsibility. The perennial value of our work is that it supposed to be a dedication to the citizen. The more often your employees are reminded of the imperishable effects they are having on your organization’s beneficiaries, the more motivated they will be to succeed.

There is an important accompaniment to “visibility”, which is of course recognition and reward. Tony Scwartz – Chief Executive of The Energy Project – worked with The Harvard Business Review to conduct a study of +20,000 employees across the globe to inspect which components contribute to a retentive workplace (among other things: Read the complete article here.

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PaaS free trial accounts ICS, SOA CS, API CS, PCS, IoT and PaaS for SaaS

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As part of our communities we do offer free PaaS accounts (only for partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In case you are not part of EMEA please contact your local partner manager):

· Integration Cloud Service & Process Cloud Service & SOA Cloud & API CS & IoT & PaaS for SaaS Service PaaS Demo Accounts  (Community membership required)

· Java Cloud Service & Application Cloud Container Service & Mobile Cloud Service PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required)

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Integration & Process and IoT Partner Advisory Council Workshop Friday September 29th 2017 San Mateo CA

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Registration for the annual PaaS Partner Advisory Council is open here. You are invited to attend the Integration, Process and API Management (SOA & BPM) or Internet of Things (IoT) workshops. As part of the workshops you will learn more about the latest cloud services and roadmaps. It is your opportunity to give feedback direct to the Oracle product management team. For details please visit the registration page here.

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Oracle PaaS Partner YouTube Update August 2017

The August edition of the PaaS & Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics:

· Integrate and Extend SaaS kit for partners

· Oracle OpenWorld 2017 tips & networking reception

· Community Webcast about Cloud compliance on August 17th 2017

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