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Oracle API Platform: Design-first Thinking for the API Economy Webcast June 15th 2017

June 9, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle API Platform: Design-first Thinking for the API Economy Webcast
Date: Thursday, June 15, 2017 Time: 10:00 AM PDT

Join this webcast to meet the new Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. In this short session, you will learn how a sleek, intuitive full lifecycle API Platform built on Oracle’s proven gateways will improve productivity and effectiveness in your business.
Learn how you can leverage this true hybrid offering to:

Focus on the full API lifecycle, starting with Design & Governance, all the way through Security, Discovery & Consumption, Monetization, and Analysis, to develop APIs and create modern applications and user experiences.
Develop an API-First strategy to accelerate digital transformation, safely extend the reach of intellectual property, and create new revenue streams.
Leverage an open, heterogeneous environment with an easy-to-use platform that is compatible with open standards

Vikas Anand
Vice President Product Management, Oracle

Amit Zavery
Senior Vice President,
Oracle Cloud Platform and Middleware Products

Jakub Nesetril
Founder, Apiary, Vice President, Product Development, Oracle

Register today.

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Mobile Applications Cloud User Experience Design Patterns free eBook

June 8, 2017 Leave a comment

This eBook contains design patterns that Oracle Applications teams use to design and build modern, cutting-edge, stunning mobile application user experiences that simplify and empower the lives of everyday users. Get the free eBook here.

RELEASE 11 WEBINARS: Get a comprehensive summary of the new UX highlights of various product families in the Oracle Applications Cloud Release 11 user experience in these Customer Connect webinars. The webinars are also available from the Usable Apps For Partners page (look for Release 11 UX highlights). You must be a member of Applications Customer Connect to access these webinars.

Ø Increasing Participation in the Oracle ERP Cloud Release 11 User Experience

Ø Increasing Participation in the Oracle Sales Cloud Release 11 User Experience

Ø Increasing Participation in the Oracle HCM Cloud Release 11 User Experience

Ø Extending a Consistent Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience in Release 11

WHAT ANALYSTS ARE SAYING: Read this new ebook from Ventana Research, which says modern HCM applications must be simple and effective to have a good user experience. Take their messages and connect the dots for Oracle customers, showing them that Oracle HCM Cloud’s user experience absolutely fits the bill.

Show your customers why Nucleus Research expects the Oracle Sales Cloud user experience to be a key differentiator by increasing both user productivity and participation in this ebook.

Both reports live on Oracle.com’s Analyst Relations page, providing easy access to these two ebooks and more.

FOR PARTNERS: Ultan O’Broin and his team, from the OAUX Communications & Outreach arm, have been busy over the summer cranking away on an update to the Cloud user experience Rapid Development Kit (RDK). While we can’t tell you what’s in the update until OpenWorld, we’d suggest you take a look back at the blog posts published this summer. You’ll see RDK updates including:

As usual, you can also find Ultan’s musings on the Usableapps blog. This summer’s posts included his thoughts on wearables and smart user experiences.

MORE FROM AROUND THE WEB:

Jeremy Ashley, OAUX Group Vice President, discusses the offices of the future and Oracle’s own user experience research in a recent article in TechRepublic, “How smart offices of the future can make companies more intelligent.”

A recent article discusses the OAUX team’s long relationship with UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) members in Oracle Scene, an online magazine published by UKOUG, in “A Decade with UKOUG.”

We are so happy to be talking about what’s new in the Oracle ERP Cloud’s user experience. Get the highlights from the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog in “Welcome to the Fold: Oracle ERP Cloud Release 11 UX Highlights.” This is all the stuff that Oracle’s Terrance Wampler told you was coming in “5 Reasons to Take a New Look at Oracle ERP Cloud” last April.

While we’re talking about financial applications, here’s a post about Timecard Humor: A First-Timer’s Perspective on PaaS4SaaS Partner Enablement from Vikki Lira, who took part in a workshop recently where the OAUX team helped Oracle partner Knex Technology as they designed a payroll Cloud UX solution for a customer in the entertainment industry. If you don’t know about our partner enablement activities, this will help you understand what’s available.

Back on the VoX blog, read Misha Vaughan’s post on “What I’ve Learned from 3 weeks with Pokémon GO, and How to Apply Augmented Reality to the Enterprise” for a viewpoint on how augmented reality might shape future user experiences.

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RAMP UP Cloud Implementation Success Webcasts for Partners June 2017

June 3, 2017 Leave a comment

To help you compete more successfully in the implementing of cloud solutions we continue our series of webcasts for you. As a follow- up to the recent“Oracle Implementation Best Practices” training workshop delivered by the Implementation Success Team from our Oracle Customer Success Organization, we are pleased to offer 2 RAMP UP webcasts in June 2017.

Change Management in Cloud Implementations, 6 th of June 2017, 10:00-11:00 am CET time Register here

Managing & Dealing with Multi-pillar Cloud Environments, 27 th of June 2017, 10:00-11:00 am CET time

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PCS 16.3.5 New Features Part 1 –> Introduction to Web Forms by Niall Commiskey

June 2, 2017 Leave a comment

Your starting point should be the What’s New doc for PCS 16.3.5. Click here to read it.
One of the most interesting additions is the new web forms functionality.
Let’s be honest, the previous Frevvo based forms were rather basic, they’ve even been renamed Basic Forms. So now you have the choice, you take either the basic forms – very effective for eGov style forms based apps – or else the new web forms with their richer UI. So let’s take a look.

Web Forms

From the docs –
This release introduces a powerful and intuitive new forms editor for creating forms without rules scripting. The editor lets developers create multiple views (presentations) for a single form, reuse forms within forms, brand them by uploading a CSS stylesheet, create list of values (LOV) tables, and fetch data using REST connections.The new forms editor is called Web Forms, and the existing forms editor is now called Basic Forms. Read the complete article here.

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Creating and editing forms in Process Cloud Service by Patrick Sinke

June 1, 2017 Leave a comment

For whom is PCS?

Oracle Process Cloud Service is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering which centers around designing and managing (stand alone) business processes in the cloud. The focus is once again on business analysts and other non-technical people to automate business processes. Oracle has keyed them “citizen developers”. One of the features is the option to create forms that fulfill the “human task” interaction in the BPM process.

A walkthrough for creating a form

For the sake of ease, login to the Process Cloud BPM Composer. Create a new app and choose “Quickstart App”. Select the Travel Approval.

The process is displayed. Drag a human task type “Submit” into the process.
Now click on the app and a blue “hamburger icon” appears. When you click on it the detail view is displayed:

Now press on the + icon to go to the Form page.
Creating a new input form is childishly easy; drag and drop the elements of choice to the canvas and enter the name, description and other basic properties. It’s all very very straightforward. Read the complete article here.

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Smart Buildings — the silent ‘killer app’ of IoT

May 31, 2017 Leave a comment

The trifecta of IoT, Cloud and Analytics have been transforming many aspects of our lives and business. Cities, healthcare, transportation, farming, fitness, home, manufacturing and utilities have been the key beneficiaries of this fast-emerging paradigm.

While consumer devices like Fitbit and Amazon Alexa get lot of attention from the media, the commercial buildings have been quietly turning into Software Defined Buildings (SDB). By doing so they are not only lowering the operational cost of the building, but also foster smarter cities, better safety, and occupant comfort. As such they have become an important market segment in the IoT space.

Before delving into the details of smart buildings, here is some context into why buildings are getting the attention of IT vendors lately.

· According to DOE there are about 4.8 million commercial buildings and 350,000 industrial facilities in the U.S., which together account for about half of the country’s total energy use.

· United Nations Environment Program estimated that buildings consume 40% of global energy, 25% of global water, 40% of global resources, and 60% of world’s electricity.

Read the complete article here.

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IoT Help Center 16.3.3.1.1 update

May 29, 2017 Leave a comment

The IoT Cloud Service Help Center was refreshed on Sep 09, 2016 for the 16.3.3.1.1 release.

Oracle Help Center page improvements:

The OBE Tutorials on the Tutorials page are grouped into five categories (Get Started – Connect a Device, Run the Client Software Library Samples, Connect Using the Gateway Software, Analyze and Manage Data, and Integrate with Other Services and Enterprise applications).
Added a new IoT Applications section which showcases videos of how to use the Asset Monitoring Application.

New OBE tutorials:

Updated OBEs:

Updated the Tutorials and Guides to support the 16.3.3.1.1-25 Client Library, which is currently available for download on OTN

Updated the IoT Getting Started Video to include the Asset Monitoring Application

· Substantial updates to:

· REST API Reference for Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Service v2

o The Methods of the IoT Application Task has been divided into the following tasks:

§ IoT Application

§ IoT Application Integration

§ IoT Application Analytics

o New Examples for:

§ Activation

§ IoT Application Integration

§ IoT Application Analytics

§ Resource Request

§ Monitoring

§ Software Artifact Repository

o `New sub topics under the Get Started Section:`

§ Terminology

§ Using mongoDB Query Syntax

o Fixed the summary and description information Monitoring and IoT Application.

o Fixed bugs for existing examples of Messages and Activation.

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API Management in the Year 2026 by Luis Weir

May 25, 2017 Leave a comment

We all hear about automation, bots, IoT, self-driving cars, microservices, and cyborgs, but how could this all work without APIs? APIs will continue to play an increasingly important role in making this world a reality. Come hear from our team of futurists about their vision of how the digital landscape will evolve and the role that API Management will have in this brave new world. Presented by Luis Weir, Principal, Oracle Ace Director, Capgemini, at Oracle OpenWorld 2016. Get the presentation here.

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Demystifying API Management: Concepts and Demarcations By Sven Bernhardt

May 24, 2017 Leave a comment

Digital transformation is on it’s way and the industry is required to adopt the new concepts and techniques, like the Internet of things (IoT), Cloud and Enterprise Mobility. Due to the chances provided by that, new business models arise, which need to be evaluated by company’s to not lose valuable market shares and to stay in touch with the competitors. One topic, which is essential and thus is a key enabler in the context of a successful digital transformation strategy, is API management.

Why that?

To be able to keep up with competitors from a long-time perspective, companies need to focus on their core business. As a result of the progressive digitalization, the value of information will become more and more important for businesses; information will become the new currency! Since companies start focussing on their core business, external services are used in the context of information gather, which are e.g. needed to support business decisions. To guarantee a consistent and secure exchange of data over corporate boundaries, stable and robust APIs are needed. To manage those APIs is one key area of an API management approach.

At this point an experienced developer would say: “Stop! We are using and developing APIs for years now, why should there be any new challenges today?”. Good point! But when digging deeper and asking questions about what managing an API means, the answer is usually closely related to API lifecycle management. It’s an important topic that’s for sure, but API Management in today’s digital business is much more than that and this is what I want to outline within this blog post.

API Management

To make it clear from the beginning: API management is not just introducing a tool respectively a piece of software. It is also not just versioning and documentation of an API. API Management is a complex discipline, which needs a proper, long-term strategic planning. Oracle ACE Director Luis Weir gives a very good definition, on what API management really is about: Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Service update – DMN capabilities SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – today 17.00 CET

May 23, 2017 Leave a comment

Attend our May edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on April 23^rd 2017 at 17:00 CET.

Oracle DMN is one of the first DMN cloud-based services to come to market. In addition to adhering to the DMN standard and its cloud-based provisioning mechanism, users and developers can assemble decisions that are accessible anywhere and anytime. Come to this session to learn more about Oracle’s DMN service and its capabilities and how it can be easily leveraged within Oracle Process Cloud Service.