Oracle PaaS, a racecar placed at pole position by Leon Smiers

December 1, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001With the announcement on June 22nd of Larry Ellison around Oracle SaaS, PaaS and IaaS we are left with the question, where are we now in Oracle PaaS and what can we expect the coming year(s)? 
Oracle is moving at a rapid pace from an ‘on-premise’ software/hardware provider to everything-contained-in-the-cloud; and is now embracing the Cloud. There is some humor in it since not so long ago back in 2009, Larry was still bashing the cloud, as being water vapor. "All it is, is a computer attached to a network…”. Up until 2013, the large yearly conference, Oracle Open World was dominated with Larry’s hobby, covering Oracle hardware EXA machines, and making them run faster with every release. But last year we began to see the first outlines of what Oracle really planned to do in the cloud. And, as always, if Oracle has set their mind on something, every means available are set in place to reach that goal. In my direct contacts with the Process Cloud team, 70% of that specific team was dedicated to put BPM in the cloud.
All middleware and database related software, that we are accustomed to run ‘on-premise’ at our customers, will now be made available in the cloud. This, of course, is not an overnight job. The first releases of the PaaS Cloud will contain base functionality, as Larry phrased it ‘I’m not saying we have no things to be improved. The beauty of the Cloud is that, since Oracle is responsible for the environments, releases with new / improved functionality will be made available at a faster pace. One outstanding feature compared to the on-premise software is the simplicity of using the product. The product development team has moved a lot of complexity to the background, enabling speed for development and deployment. Another advantage for partners and customers is that flaws in the software are now also obvious to Oracle themselves in a much faster manner than we were used to with the on-premise stack. So apart from the movement towards the cloud, Oracle is now also dedicating their time to improving quality of the software. Read the complete article here.

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Key take-aways from the Oracle PaaS Cloud announcements – Integrate, Accelerate, Lead by Lucas Jellema

December 1, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Monday June 22nd was the launch date for Oracle for 24 (and more) Cloud Services. June is traditionally an important month for Oracle when it comes to product launches and important announcements. This year is the same in that respect. The announcements came in a many-hour live webcast including a 45 minute presentation by Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (see videos from Oracle Cloud Platform Launch). I have harvested some of the most relevant slides from this presentation – that capture the essence from his announcements (or at least the things that stood out to me).

See some other relevant resources regarding these announcements:

Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Cloud Platform: Development Workshop for Partners – Paris December 14th – 18th 2015

November 30, 2015 Leave a comment

imageThe Oracle team is pleased to invite your java developers and consultants to a 5-days hands-on workshop on how to develop, deploy and manage Java applications on Oracle Cloud platform. We invite you to join the workshop In-Class or Remotely (avoid travel time and travel costs by joining remotely).

These Invite-Only hands-on workshops will be delivered by Oracle Development at No-Fee to Partners. A workshop consists of live presentations, live demos, and hands-on laboratory exercises.

Agenda

This 5-day workshop will cover the following topics:

»   Oracle Java Cloud Service

· Develop and Manage Enterprise Java applications

· Oracle Java Cloud Administration – configure, scale, backup

· Migrate existing on-premise Java application to Oracle Java Cloud

»   Oracle Java Cloud Service – SaaS Extension

· Build Java application to seamlessly extend Oracle Cloud Applications

»  Oracle Developer Cloud Service

· Develop, Collaborate, Manage, and Deploy Code using Developer Cloud Service

»  Oracle Mobile Cloud Service

· Building Mobile Backend, Implementing Custom APIs (Node.JS)

· Offline Data Storage, Notifications, Connectors, Analytics, SDK and Mobile Application Framework Utility

Schedule & Location

December 14th – 18th 2015

Oracle Paris

15, boulevard Charles De Gaulle

92715 Colombes, France

For details please visit our registration page here.

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Business Rules in Oracle Process Cloud Service by Herman Brunnekreef

November 16, 2015 Leave a comment

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In this post I will show an overview of Business Rules in the Process Cloud Service.

First let’s create a new application on the start window of the Process Composer
After the creation of the application you see the Application Home. At the left side you see the following options.
Let’s select Business Types to create Business Objects

Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Composer Tour by Gregory Hughlett

November 15, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002There are many good reasons for business to look very seriously at the Oracle Process Cloud Service as a way to provision a fully managed BPM environment that lets the business focus on process improvement.  Previous releases of Oracle BPM admitedly have focused on the technologist and not the business user.  However, the evolution to the Process Cloud has been underway since 11g via the Process Composer tool.  Process Cloud now makes it available to everyone.

For the business, there are many reasons to move to the Oracle Process Cloud: 

  • It wlll lower start-up and upfront costs for both IT infrastructure and software licenses. 
  • Cloud implementations reduce risks associated with large capital investment with smoother predictable operational expenditures. Large one-time software upgrade costs are also eliminated.
  • Cloud customers benefit from using the latest product version and can rapidly leverage new feature capabilities. 
  • Requires the business to pay only for what they need, rather than over or under engineering an on premise business application.  "Elastic scalability’ ensures the business only pays for the capacity that is needed when it is needed.
  • Provides high performance and continuous availability: automatic load balancing and failover provide continuous availability.

The first release of the Oracle Process Cloud provides a full lifecycle, soup to nuts process management tool.  The Process Cloud user interface is fast, modern, and designed for the business. It isn’t designed for the IT types (although us IT types will enjoy using them too.)  This topic is a tour through many of the Process Cloud screens at a high level so you can get a feel for how complete it is.  Many of the features you’ll see here can also be found in the on-premise Process Composer tool, a web-based tool, also oriented to business users.      

Process Composer Home

Depending on your role in the Process Cloud environment, you will have different options available on the Process Composer main page. Read the complete article here.

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A quick look at Process Cloud Service by Laurens van der Starre

November 14, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Oracle Process Cloud Service is Oracle’s rapid process automation in the Cloud. It is more or less BPM in the cloud. This service allows you to quickly and easily create business processes like you are used to with Oracle BPM, only now in the cloud. In this post I’ll give a quick tour of this service.

So let’s start with the Process Cloud Service. The landing page already gives you loads of features.

The landing page of the Process Cloud

Here you have your spaces in which your processes will be saved, and where you start building new applications. So let’s create a new one. Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud – first impressions by Luc Gorissen

November 13, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002As of this week, Oracle has released the Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS): https://cloud.oracle.com/process. This PaaS cloud service offers a development platform for implementing business processes. Underpinning technology for this cloud service is the Oracle Fusion Middleware BPM stack. As a result, using the Process Cloud Service should be easy for people that are already familiar with Oracle Fusion Middleware BPM. For example, familiar platform components like BPM Composer and BPM WorkSpace are also present in PCS. With that in mind, we decided to give it a go!

This article outlines the steps for implementing a simple process in the Oracle Process Cloud Service. We were inspired during a discussion with a customer on SOA Governance, more specifically: how to handle/grant access to specific services. The customer mentioned that ‘he had people were complaining that it was unpredictable how long it took before access to a specific service in a specific environment was granted’. These types of processes can be handled very well within the Oracle Process Cloud. So, the ‘ServiceAccessApproval’ process will be shown in this example.

Sample process ServiceAccessApproval

The process ServiceAccessApproval in short consists of the following steps: Read the complete article here.

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IoT Cloud Service – Driving value in the connected world–Webcast Wednesday, November 18th

November 12, 2015 Leave a comment

imageWednesday, November 18th @ 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PT

Speakers:

Harish Gaur, Senior Director Product Management for Internet of Things Product Group

Simon Nicholson, Senior Director, Product Management for the Internet of Things Product Group

IoT presents a huge opportunity to transform and differentiate your business—whether you are in manufacturing, logistics, infrastructure, or other verticals. Companies are looking to deliver business benefits from the Internet of Things (IoT) around reduced operational costs and enhanced customer experience, and by improving products. If this is done right, returns can be significant and rapid. By leveraging large volumes of sensor data, analyzing this data, and connecting this data with back-end applications, customers and partners are realizing the full potential of IoT for digital transformation.

Join this session to understand Oracle IoT Strategy and a phased approach to ROI with the Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Service, making IoT implementation straightforward, simple and effective. In this session, you will learn how the feature set will help you to quickly build IoT applications, connect and manage devices, configure and monitor security policies, manage and analyze massive amounts of data and integrate with your business processes and applications. You will also see examples of out-of-the-box integration with other Oracle Cloud services and applications, showing the unique value through end-to-end integration that Oracle provides.

This is the link to the registration page that displays all webcast details!

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Eine für alles: Cloud Integration statt Anwendungs-Chaos

November 4, 2015 Leave a comment

OpitzDie IT eines Unternehmens wächst mit dessen Bedürfnissen, nicht nach einem Masterplan. Klar, dass dann irgendwann jeder Unternehmensbereich mit eigenen, speziellen Anwendungen arbeitet – von lokalen Business-Applikationen bis zur SaaS-Lösung in der Cloud. Probleme entstehen dann, wenn der Austausch zwischen all den Systemen nicht reibungslos läuft: das kostet unnötig Zeit, Nerven und Geld.

Viele Firmen nutzen bereits Integrationsplattformen als Schnittstellen zwischen einzelnen Systemen. Aber kann eine solche verzweigte Integrationslandschaft in Sachen Datenvolumen und Dynamik mit den neusten Entwicklungen mithalten?

Wie Sie sich den Überblick zurückholen, ihre Prozesse optimieren und bei der Integration wieder auf eigenen Beinen stehen können – darüber informiert Opitz Consulting ganz aktuell unter http://www.auf-eigenen-beinen.de. Neben einem Überblick zu möglichen cloud-basierten Integrationslösungen, zum Beispiel zur Oracle SOA-Suite, haben Sie dort auch die Möglichkeit, einen individuellen Beratungstermin mit den Integrations-Experten von Opitz zu vereinbaren. Ein kleiner Schritt für Ihre IT-Fachleute – vielleicht aber ein großer für Ihr Unternehmen!

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Boost Sales Productivity and Lead Generation with Oracle Cloud Adapters for Sales Cloud and Eloqua by Rajesh Kalra

November 1, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002With the mission to drive sales results, and sell anywhere and anytime, many organizations are adopting Oracle Sales Cloud, a key component of Oracle Customer Experience Solution.  The deal velocity increases along with the productivity of the sales teams with modern selling tools using Oracle Sales Cloud.

For customers to confidently and conveniently convert more pipelines into error free quotes, and progress them into orders in the back office, as well as to collaborate more with other applications in the Customer Experience stack via rich set of integrations, Oracle Cloud Adapter for Oracle Sales Cloud is being introduced.

Oracle Eloqua, Oracle’s leading Cross-Channel Marketing Solution, enables marketers to plan and execute automated marketing campaigns.  Integration between Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud and any SaaS or on-premise CRM application is enabled by the new Oracle Cloud Adapter for Oracle Eloqua Cloud Service, driving faster progression of marketing leads to sales opportunities, and unified customer data management.

These all new cloud adapters for SaaS applications – Oracle Sales Cloud Adapter and Oracle Eloqua Cloud Adapter provide rich and intuitive design time capabilities as well as run time efficiency.   Oracle is extending its Cloud to on-premise integration solution portfolio by releasing these cloud adapters on its premier integration platform Oracle SOA Suite 12c.

The Sales organizations will also benefit from their investment in the Oracle Sales Cloud application in various other integrated business processes by leveraging the Oracle Sales Cloud Adapter, such as:

  • Closed Loop Analysis for Marketing campaigns:  The integrated marketing with Eloqua for progression of leads can be extended to analysis of marketing campaigns and responses.
  • Sales and Service co-ordination:  The customer information can shared across with service teams, as well as visibility to the service requests can be provided to the sales teams for better account management.
  • Lead to Order:  The leads/opportunities can be progressed to orders in the back office order management systems (viz. E-Business Suite, SAP).

You can access the datasheets, documentation, and more information on this website.

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