Estafet Opinion on the new Integration Cloud Service from Oracle

December 9, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Integration Expert Phil McLaughlin takes a look at the new cloud solution from Oracle.

Last week Oracle announced its long awaited iPaaS Integration Cloud Service (ICS) and Process Cloud Service (PCS). As integration experts, Estafet looked at these exciting new products and assessed how they will affect the integration market.

If you are interested in finding out more, come along to our event on the 24th July at the Royal Exchange London. We will delve deeper into the technology, including a live demo of ICS

The iPaaS market has been dominated by providers such as Dell Boomi, Snaplogic and Mulesoft all taking slightly different approaches towards integrating SaaS applications in the cloud. Oracle has now entered this market providing a comprehensive set of solutions of its own.  In this blog we examine Integration Cloud service (ICS), in later blogs we will look at some of the others.

So how does Oracle ICS fare against the competition?

Oracle ICS makes most sense if you already have Oracle SaaS applications that need point-to-point integrations in the cloud, or integrations to on-premise solutions (ideally using OSB) to form a hybrid cloud solution.

Many companies have one or two SaaS applications that require linking either to each other, or to existing service bus-based backend systems, and ICS is ideal for this. The Oracle SaaS endpoints that belong to the company are made available in the development environment, meaning the development of the integrations are quick and simple. Read the complete article here.

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Integration Cloud Service Campaign by IPT

December 8, 2015 Leave a comment

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Thanks to our Swiss partner IPT for the excellent Cloud Integration Campaign. Great blog articles in German:

Cloud Integration CH

Oracle sagt dem Silo-as-a-Service den Kampf an – Teil 1

Oracle sagt dem Silo-as-a-Service den Kampf an – Teil 2

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The Top Five Roadblocks to Cloud Integration by Carol Hildebrand

December 5, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002In the digital economy, integration is no longer a technology term—it’s a business imperative. After all, when your business strategy depends on how quickly you can analyze and act upon data, building a clear and consistent flow of information is more than just a lifestyle choice.

But it’s not simple. Information must move across myriad applications from mobile and cloud-based apps to on-premises systems. Add in factors like the explosive growth of the Internet of Things (Gartner predicts 30 billion devices by 2020), and it’s pretty safe to assume that integration requirements are only going to get more complex.

“As companies respond to demanding customer expectations and unprecedented changes in the competitive landscape, integration has become a priority on the business side as well as IT,” says Amit Zavery, Oracle’s senior vice president of development, integration products. “In fact, nearly 80 percent of respondents to a recent Computerworld survey rated ease of integration with external data and apps as a top priority.” Read the complete article here

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Alternative Cloud Models for Partners

December 3, 2015 Leave a comment

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Summary: Did you know that Oracle actually offers four different application cloud models? Use your cloud model choice to differentiate from your competition by providing a unique value proposition your competitors are not selling.
Take Action: Watch this short video then schedule a cloud model choice workshop and learn how to optimize model features and deliver a solution with greater value.

Oracle has cloud model options where partners can market end of term perpetual license rights, products not on the Oracle Cloud price list, hybrid op-ex/cap-ex structures, a “bring your own license” solution, or spread the partners upfront services costs over the solution term even while the partner recovers these fees upfront.  Take advantage of these features now to win more business.

Watch the video: Alternative and Hybrid Cloud Model Choice for Partners

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Finance private cloud solutions at your customers

December 2, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Create Competitive Advantage with Financing

Summary: Midsize accounts are often the most price sensitive customers, and software financing is the best sales tool for increasing solution affordability and removing closing obstacles related to budgetary, accounting treatment or internal approval issues.
Take Action: Create competitive advantage with software financing and leasing by selling a pricing and payment structure that differentiates your solution. As a best practice, proactively offer a financing proposal and create a competitive trap.

Partner can use financing to:

  • match solution cost to project deployment and ROI stream
  • create an operating expense solution
  • change an account’s internal approval path
  • spread the partner’s implementation fees

For more information click here

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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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