Why and How to Integrate Oracle Policy Automation with Oracle Integration by Cristian Silipigni

Oracle Integration has recently introduced new functionalities to extend its connection capabilities.

I’m especially talking about the enhanced Oracle Policy Automation adapter which is often used in integration projects when it’s required to extend SaaS applications.

The Oracle Policy Automation (OPA) adapter is available in Oracle Integration to address different scenarios allowing to OPA decisions to be invoked at any point of the integration flows. For example, when a Service Cloud Incident is created for a medical device manufacturer (for instance a hearing aid), an integration instance can be triggered by OPA used to find out what to do with this particular type of incident and routing properly the managed information. The integration layer (in this case OIC) performs all necessary actions saving the decision somewhere, invoking other processes / web services or pushing data to multiple applications Cloud and / or on-premise.

By using Oracle Integration we can easily integrate the OPA decisions logic into any enterprise application without the need to build a custom connector. There are some use cases where OPA is used in an integration scenario:

• Auto-triage incidents to ensure service-level agreements are met
• Calculate benefit payments using data stored in a legacy system
• Recalculate leave entitlements when regulations changes
• Calculate complex sales commissions

The Oracle Integration adapter today enables bidirectional communications allowing inbound and outbound communication patterns. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite 12.2.1.4 / OIC interoperability by Niall Commiskey

Hybrid integration architectures can be easily implemented, leveraging OIC and SOA Suite. This will be very interesting for existing SOA Suite customers who are moving to the cloud. For example, a customer could have existing integrations running on SOA Suite on-premise that implement orders 2 cash use cases. The customer may adopt a cloud based CRM e.g. Oracle Engagement Cloud or SFDC. She can now leverage OIC and SOA Suite to implement an Opportunity to Cash scenario. OIC responds to the event – new Opportunity created and calls the on-premise integration to do the rest.
Naturally, the interoperability between OIC and SOA Suite is bi-directional. Let’s begin with OIC invoking composites, running on SOA Suite.

OIC invoking SOA Suite Composites

My setup for this example is as follows –

1. OIC in the Oracle Cloud

2. SOA Suite installed on my laptop – JDeveloper 12.2.1.4 Quickstart. Read the complete article here.

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Empower your Business Owners and Executives – Integration Insight PaaS Partner Community Webcast May 26th 2020

Attend our May edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on May 26^th 2020 at 16:30 CET.

Today’s competitive market demands that stakeholders understand, monitor, and react to changing conditions. Businesses need flexible, dynamic, and detailed insight – and they need it as it happens.

Collecting, storing, visualizing, and reporting on business metrics in real time has traditionally been a costly undertaking, requiring significant investment of capital and engineering resources. Software is typically developed to meet the unique needs of business applications. In today’s sophisticated enterprise software environment, many businesses use multiple integrated systems, provided by a variety of vendors, further complicating the task of collecting business metrics.

Integration Insight dramatically simplifies the process of modeling and extracting meaningful business metrics to help you understand, monitor, and react quickly to changing demands.

Presenter: Simone Geib Director Product Management Oracle HQ

Schedule: Tuesday May 26^th 2020 16:30 CET (Berlin time)

Register for the webcast here.

Take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand:

· Innovate HCM with Chatbots

· ERP Integration with Application Adapters

· HCM Integration with Application Adapters

· Extend SaaS with Visual Builder Cloud Service

· Integration Adapters

· Integrate SaaS

· Digital Assistant Update

· SOA Cloud Service

· PaaS Overview Webcast

· Process Cloud Service Update

· Integrate ERP Cloud

· Integrate HCM Cloud

· Functions and Cloud Native

· Blockchain

· API Platform Cloud Service part 2

· 3^rd Generation API Gateways part1

· Oracle JET

· Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service

· Container Native Application Development Platform

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (Community membership required).

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Integration Cloud customer success!

Tweet about key Oracle Integration Cloud customers success by Western Digital & Generali & National Pharmacies & Dubai Airports & CIMA & GE Digital & Orange.

Thanks to all partners supporting successful customer implementations! We want to promote your customer success! Have you implemented successful a solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform? Submit your success story via the customer reference program.

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On the #12DaysofIntegration my ERP said to me… by Daryl Eicher

We’re excited to celebrate our customers’ game-changing innovations and give you the gift of best practices, tips, and tricks with #12DaysofIntegration starting December 14. In 2019, application modernization, digital transformation, and emerging technologies such as conversational AI, Blockchain, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have set the integration and automation world on fire.

The disruptors and digital leaders who changed the game for their businesses with Oracle Integration have navigated the journey from concept to go live in record time. They’ve learned important lessons that can help you and your team think differently about your integration, API, and digital business development strategy.

Innovating is easy. Scaling innovation isn’t.

While technical innovation has become an essential element to growing small businesses and global enterprises alike, the risks of data leakage, performance bottlenecks, and brand-battering headlines remain real and present dangers. APIs and intuitive mobile apps help simplify and accelerate end-to-end processes but protecting sensitive enterprise data and scaling performance when the business demands it requires a hybrid cloud platform and next-generation infrastructure. 

#12DaysofInnovation will help you chart your course for 2020 with insights from your peers who are shaping the future of work with intelligent automation. You’ll gain actionable insights into how Oracle Integration can help you build your digital business like a boss with:

1. Agility ​so when opportunity knocks you can get from the whiteboard to the boardroom 6-10X faster
2. Security across any SaaS or on-premises application including custom apps
3. Scalability to ensure that when your customers demand it, you’re built for speed
4. Phased modernization of applications and data centers to limit risk and leverage existing IT assets
5. Future-proof automation that limits application upgrade headaches and puts you on the fast track to AI

Explore what it takes to make a quick win scale and how to leverage initial successes into strategic innovation at the enterprise level.

To learn more about Oracle Integration try your avatar-led demo now.

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How to become a SaaS Integration Expert?

Want to connect HCM, CX and ERP applications with each other and on-premises? For SaaS consultants we offer free SaaS Integration partner kit to become a hands-on expert:

Free on-demand training

Attend the free on-demand training:

· Oracle Application Integration Cloud Platform 2019 Sales Specialist including free online exam!

· Oracle Application Integration Cloud Platform 2019 Solution Engineer Specialist including free online exam!

Live Webtraining

For Oracle partners we offer free on-line classes to Integrate SaaS:

· Virtual web training India April 13th-15th 2020

· Virtual web training EMEA May 4th-6th 2020

For additional location please visit our website here.

Training material

At our community workspace (membership required) we published the latest training material OIC Bootcamp 04.2020

Cloud Trial:

Please request your free Oracle cloud trial here. To attend the hands-on trainings please make sure you have access to the Oracle cloud platform. You need to create a Service Request to provision Oracle Integration.

Documentation

Get Started documentation is published here.

Sales kit

Our Sales Central pages are loaded with new content to equip our sellers with all the materials they need. Sales kits include elevator pitch, cheat sheet, reference and customer presentation in ppt format: Connect and Extend Apps with PaaS & Integration

Certification

Get recognized become a certified Oracle expert:

· Oracle Application Integration Cloud Platform 2019 Sales Specialist free online exam!

· Oracle Application Integration Cloud Platform 2019 Solution Engineer Specialist free online exam!

· Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration 2019 Associate | 1Z0-1042

Questions?

Please post your questions in the community discussion forums:

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API Platform – Developer Portal Delegated Authentication by Phil Wilkins

The API Platform when you configure IDCS to provide the option to authenticate users against a corporate Identity Provider such as Active Directory will automatically update the Management Portal Login screen accordingly. However today it doesn’t automatically update the Developer Portal login page.  Whilst perhaps an oversight, it is very easy to fix manually when you know how. As result you can have a login that looks like:

The rest of this blog will show what’s needed to fix the problem.

The behaviour of the API Platform’s login pages for the Management and Developer Portals are controlled from the Oracle Cloud Management tier (rather than the API one specifically). Therefore you’ll need to login to your Identity Cloud instance and navigate to the management console and open the side bar.

With that we need to open up the details about the applications. When you select the applications menu you’ll get something like this: Read the complete article here.

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Notifications from Oracle API Platform Cloud Service by Phil Wilkins

There are circumstances in which notifications from the Oracle API Platform CS could be seen as desirable.  For example, if you wish to ensure that the developers are defining good APIs and not accidentally implementing APIs that hit the OWASP Top 10 for APIs. Then you will probably configure things such that developer users can design the APIs, configure the policies, but only request an API to be deployed.

However, presently notifications through mechanisms such as email or via collaboration platforms such as Slack aren’t available.  But implementing a solution isn’t difficult.  For the rest of this blog we’ll explore how this might be implemented, complete with a Slack implementation.

The execution of any such activity effectively needs to follow the basic pattern of …

1. detect the condition requiring a notification, such as a deployment request,
2. gather the information so we can provide a meaningful request, for example, the API name being requested. Read the complete article here.

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API Management for Cloud Native Development by Robert Wunderlich

We’re pleased to announce the Limited Availability (LA) release of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure API Gateway service.

This service is a highly available, fully managed gateway that enables developers to create governed HTTP/S interfaces for other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, including Oracle Functions, Container Engine for Kubernetes, and Compute.

The API Gateway service supports the delivery of APIs declaratively, as specified in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s definition of cloud native. In addition, this service provides support for the API Gateway pattern in a microservices context.

Cloud Native API Management Platform

The API Gateway service provides the following features:

• HTTPS endpoint for Oracle Functions, which lets you write Oracle Functions and provide access to your users via RESTful API
• RESTful APIs for any other HTTPS backends that you develop on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
• Resource server for AuthN/AuthZ that leverages functions to use any authorization server
• Rate-limiting to protect your backends from spikes in volume
• Interface filtering to protect your backends from unintended requests
• Logging for monitoring your services by using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure common logging features

Common Use Cases

You can use the API Gateway service to address these common use cases:

• Expose Oracle Functions as APIs: Applications built on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and distributed applications on other clouds can access your Oracle Functions via RESTful APIs served by API Gateway. Using the gateway, you can provide an OAuth2 authenticated RESTful API for an Oracle Function. Read the complete article here.

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