API Management Implementation 12c Book Overview by Luis Augusto Weir

April 1, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Digital transformation is at the core of every business strategy regardless of what type of business an organisation is in. Companies that embark on a on a digital transformation journey are able to create innovative and disruptive solutions that are capable of delivering a much richer, unified and personalised user experience, at a lower cost. They are able to engage the customer in a seamless fashion through many channels such as mobile apps, responsive websites and social media. Organisations that adopt innovative digital business models gain considerable competitive advantage over those that don’t.
The fundamental driver for digital transformation is the ability to unlock key information assets and business functionality, which is often hidden inside an organisation’s enterprise systems and in SOA based web services which are only internally accessible. To materialise these assets, organisations need to build web based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that not only provide standard, lightweight web access to these assets but also do so in a secured and controlled fashion. The lightweight nature and ease of use of these web APIs, ensure that they soon become the main mechanism for accessing information and functionality that is needed to build mobile applications, responsive websites and other cloud based solutions.
API management is the discipline that governs the software development lifecycle of APIs. It defines the tools and processes needed to build, publish and operate APIs including the management of the community of developers around it. Read the complete article here.

 

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Podcast Show Notes: Oracle API Management Implementation by Bob Rhubart-Oracle

March 31, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001This 4-part OTN ArchBeat Podcast brings together the authors of the upcoming Packt Publishing book Oracle API Management 12c Implementation for a discussion of what has changed in Enterprise IT to make APIs so important, and what architects and developers need to know to take advantage.

  • Listen to Part 1: APIs have been around forever. So why has API Management become so important?
  • Listen to Part 2: API management and service management are two different things. it’s important to understand the differences.
  • Listen to Part 3: What API developers need to know in order to take advantage of the growing market for APIs.
  • Listen to Part 4: The authors of Oracle API Management 12c Implementation talk about what they know now that they didn’t know when they started work on the book.
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Upgrading Oracle SOA Suite to 12c Videos

March 30, 2016 Leave a comment

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Microservices and the Integration Platform by Robert Wunderlich

March 29, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002In case you have not already heard of microservices, yet another evolution is upon us in the world of software development. A microservice is the antonym of the monolith and is a relatively new name for some concepts that have been around for some time. Microservices push us further toward the dream of decoupling with a promise of simpler, easier and cheaper services that are more reusable. As we get started, you can find a great primer on microservices through Martin Fowler’s blog at http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html

Before I continue, I should point out that I am the Product Manager for Oracle Service Bus and that may cause you to wonder why I would be talking about microservices. As a matter of fact, Martin Fowler in his blog states “The microservice community favours an alternatitive approach: Smart endpoints and dumb pipes”. Others position microservices as an alternative to SOA even going as far as saying that microservices can be SOA done the right way.

You might think that as a product manager for an enterprise service bus product, I might be inclined to defend my product against this movement, but I don’t think that is necessary. I think this is not an either-or question, but rather a hybrid approach to integration and service delivery is a more realistic direction to take. Quite simply we will need to leverage microservices, and SOA and we can learn and apply principles from both.

In this post, I’ll very briefly discuss the evolution from the monolith to services. I’ll compare and contrast SOA and microservices, mainly because of how monolithic elements have grown in SOA over the years. I’ll point out some of the pain-points of both SOA and microservices and will conclude with how choosing a hybrid approach can realize the benefit of both SOA and microservices while helping to reduce the pain-points.

Our long journey in software development began with the mega-monolith, the mainframe. From the very beginning, business rapidly came up with new requirements for software and the need to bring new features to production faster continues to grow every day. In the early days, when mainframes ruled, the change cycles were extremely long.

An example of this comes from very large insurance company that I worked for. Just to make a small change in their claims processing system would take from months, up to a year or longer, and would be exceptionally expensive to complete. That change never happened because even though it would have helped the “human workflow”, it was just too expensive to implement. In those days of the mega-monolith, human users simply had to adapt to the machine even if it was not the most efficient approach, rather than to incur the cost of changing the system.

Our approach has evolved quite a bit since the early days of the mainframe. We determined that rather than change a large monolith, we could make incremental changes and integrate systems together in order to support business processes more rapidly. From the early integration patterns, we progressed to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

Over the years however, we have witnessed SOA implementations that have taken on a more monolithic approach so some observers have associated SOA itself as being monolithic.

I do believe that there is a place for monoliths and it is important for the practitioner to strike a balance of when to use a monolithic approach, and when to use a microservice approach. While we may be more familiar with SOA, let’s discuss some of the characteristics of MSA.

Microservice Architecture (MSA) is mostly an organizational approach to developing and delivering discrete functionality that is highly de-coupled. If anything is tightly coupled, it is the functions of development and operations which we will talk more about shortly. Read the complete article here.

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Evaluation of Oracle Integration Cloud Service by Estafet

March 25, 2016 Leave a comment

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The new Oracle Integration Cloud Service is useful in many scenarios, and provides new integration capabilities. You can get an idea of what ICS is capable of online, but can you apply it to your own business?

To understand the true TCO and to demonstrate to your stakeholders that this is a viable solution to your cloud integration challenges, we recommend a proof of concept (PoC).

Cloud Integration Proof of Concept

Our Cloud Integration Proof of Concept, takes advantage of the free trial subscription, using our experienced integration consultants delivers real integrations between existing on-premise or cloud solutions (depending on your existing estate). We believe that ICS can deliver real value in a very short space of time. That is why we timebox this PoC to 20 days.

For more details please visit the Estafet page here

Customer who want to find a local SOA partner please visit the Solutions Catalog here.

Partners who want to developer similar service offerings please visit the community blog here.

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Integration Cloud Service (ICS) whitepaper, data sheet, eBook, articles, demos, webcasts

March 24, 2016 Leave a comment

 

  • clip_image002Documents:
    • Whitepaper: Five Ways to Simplify Cloud Integration – PDF
    • Data Sheet: Oracle Integration Cloud Service – PDF
    • eBook: Integration Cloud Service – PDF
    • Infographic: Cloud Integration Survival Guide – PDF
    • Forbes – How Your Organization Can Avoid and IT Integration Debacle – Q&A with Amit Zavery – Article
    • Oracle Delivers “Hybrid Integration” with Latest Oracle Cloud PaaS Updates – Article
    • Ovum: Oracle Integration Cloud Service is well placed to exploit hybrid integration market opportunity – AR-Blog | PDF
  • Demos
    • Animated Demo: Connect Your Business with Oracle Cloud Integration – Video
    • ICS (HTML click-through) – PPT (Community membership required)
    • GSE Demo Notice: PaaS – Integration Cloud Service (ICS) demo now Available – Details
  • Customer and Partner Webcasts
    • Gartner – Best Practices for Adopting a Successful Cloud Integration Strategy using iPaaS – Replay
    • CLOUD-CON idevnews – Introducing Oracle Integration Cloud Service – Replay
    • Customer Advanstar Features Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com – Replay
    • Oracle Integration Cloud – Simplified for Cloud and On-Prem – YouTube
    • Oracle’s Vikas Anand introduces Oracle Integration Cloud Service – YouTube
    • Land O’Lakes on Oracle Integration Cloud Service – YouTube
    • PwC Insights into Oracle Integration Cloud Service – YouTube
    • Leader CIO on Faster Decisions with Cloud Integration – YouTube
    • Vale Enterprise Architect on Ease of Use of Oracle Integration Cloud Service – Video

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SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c Live virtual classes free of charge starting March 7th 2016 !

March 4, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002SOA Suite 12c CIS TOD

    • Requirement for soon to be announced PaaS Specializations – “SOA Cloud Service” and “Integration Cloud Platform"
      • Specialization to support the following product/cloud services: SOA 12c, SOA Cloud, Integration Cloud
    • Lab format: hosted, 07Mar16 – 01Apr16
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Subversion revision of a deployed BPM/SOA composite? By Luc Gorissen

March 2, 2016 Leave a comment

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So there you are: a production error was reported … in your code (of all places) … but no one knows what release the code came from?

Wouldn’t it be great if it was easy to link deployed composites to their Subversion location and revision?

This article show an approach based on ‘Subversion keywords expansion’. This is illustrated with the following steps:

  1. Add properties to the composite.xml file
  2. Set Subversion keywords for composite.xml
  3. Query the deployed composite with wlst
  4. Solve the limitations in Subversion keyword expansion

Let’s get started:

Step 1: add properties to the composite.xml

In composite.xml, add the below lines after the properties for productVersion and compositeID that JDeveloper already added: Read the complete article here.

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Integration Cloud Service – free hands-on Bootcamp for Oracle Partners – April 4th-5th 2016 Munich Germany

February 25, 2016 Leave a comment

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To become an Oracle PaaS expert we do offer a free hands-on Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Bootcamp in Munich. Make advantage and register now!

Integration Cloud Service Bootcamp April 4th – 5th 2016

Simplify Integration.

Maximize the value of your investments in SaaS and on-premises applications through a simple and powerful integration platform in the cloud. clip_image002

  • Fast. Get started in minutes!
  • Simple. Build SaaS to SaaS and SaaS to on-premises integrations in just a few clicks.
  • Enterprise-Grade. A secure, performant and highly available platform for your mission-critical integrations.
  • Integrated. Pre-integrated with your Oracle SaaS applications.

Attend a free hands-on workshop to learn Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) hands-on- Goal of the workshop is to build SaaS and on-premises integrations as well your own cloud adapters with the SDK.

Target audience:

Integration Developers, Solution Architects, Technology Consultants

Tainer:

Niall Commisskey

Registration is free of charge, except in case of cancellation fee € 150 or no-show fee €2000! Please read the registration page very careful before you register here: München April 4th- 5th 2016

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7 Important Points In Preparing For The Internet of Things by John Soat

February 20, 2016 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The Internet of Things sounds more like J.J. Abrams’ next sci-fi thriller than a major inflection point in business technology. Which makes the fact that IoT is about to invade the business landscape on a massive scale somewhat ironic—and wholly appropriate.

Enterprises have been tossed by some momentous technology waves in the last few years, such as big data, the cloud, mobility, and social networking. Yet the Internet of Things—connected, data-generating devices embedded in everyday objects—is more than just another wave.

“IoT means that all of the physical infrastructure, the whole world around us, is going to be connected to the internet,” says Oracle Vice President of Product Management Peter Utzschneider, who’s been evangelizing IoT for several years. “IoT is like those other profound technology changes we’ve already experienced, only on steroids—it’s that big,” he says.

Business executives and technology managers need to comprehend the implications and open their minds to the possibilities of IoT for their organization, Utzschneider advises, and prepare accordingly. To that end, he offers seven important points in considering the Internet of Things.

1. Take the long view.

“People need to be prepared that this is a long-term proposition,” says Utzschneider. “They have to understand that IoT means fundamental change for business,” he adds.

The Internet of Things is in its early days, and most implementations are still relatively simplistic—but that’s changing fast, as IoT technology, from end-point devices to data integration and analytics platforms, increase in number and improve in capability. Read the complete article here.

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