Oracle Integration Cloud pricing explained – OCI vs Classic by Robert van Molken

Last week at AMIS we had the task of estimating costs of a proposed iPaaS solution for one of our customers that runs on a fully managed cloud. As AMIS is mainly an Oracle partner we looked at how competitive we could make the pricing of the solution using Oracle Cloud compared to other vendors. In this blog I will not go into much details of this vendor compare matrix, as I want to focus on the pricing of Oracle and how it has changed over time. Bottom-line: for our use-case I was positively surprised by the outcome.

Let’s start by looking at the pricing of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), the licensing options and estimation rules belonging to each options. Currently the pricing page lists two main service types; Oracle Integration and Integration Classic. The difference between the two is that classic uses the OCPU metric, whereas the updated pricing uses a messages/hour metric. Both options are still available for you to purchase. For each service type you can choose between standard and enterprise package and two payments methods, pay-as-you-go and monthly flex. Optionally you can bring your own (existing on-premises) license to get some mayor price cuts. In the next paragraphs I will go over the differences in more details. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Integration – Get Started free hands-on training labs from Oracle OpenWorld

In these hands-on labs, you’ll be working with two of the key capabilities of Oracle Integration; application integration and process automation.

The labs are broken into two parts. Part one will cover application integration where you’ll create an integration to update subscription usage data in Oracle Engagement Cloud. Part two will cover process automation where you’ll create a Process App to automate the self service collection of usage data and update that subscription usage data in Oracle Engagement Cloud Subscription Management. While you will benefit from completing both labs in order, the labs are designed such that you can work on them independently.

The business scenario is to create a self-service Subscription Management application that allows subscribers of a good or service to self report subscription usage. Once subscription usage data is reported, the application will automate the review and approval of that data, and if approved, automate updating Oracle Engagement Cloud Subscription Management with the usage data. This scenario represents a common business process where requests are made, reviewed, approved, and result in updates to an enterprise application. Digitizing and automating these types of business process can yield significant benefits.

Labs

Access to Oracle Integration is secured through Oracle Identity Cloud Service. Users may be granted access to all the Oracle Integration environments in a cloud tenancy, or they may be restricted to specific environments. They may be assigned different roles in each environment.

1. Integration Lab
2. Process Lab

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Free online training including certification for Oracle Integration

Critical business processes — especially those related to human capital management, customer experience, and enterprise resource planning — are frequently slow and inflexible. There’s a lack of connectivity between applications and people to support the business process life cycle. Oracle Application Integration provides a unified platform where customers can integrate apps, automate processes, provide business visibility and create applications. Take the free online training including certification Oracle Application Integration Cloud Platform for Solution Engineer

Modules include:

· Oracle Application Integration: Market, Trends And Drivers

· Oracle Application Integration: Strategy And Messaging

· Oracle Application Integration: Technical Features And Architecture

· Oracle Application Integration: Competition

· Oracle Application Integration: Product Demo, Part 1

· Oracle Application Integration: Product Demo, Part 2

· Oracle Application Integration: Product Demo, Part 3

· Oracle Application Integration: References And Resources

· Oracle Application Integration Cloud Platform 2019 Solution Engineer Specialist Assessment

In case you can not access the online guided learning path and a free online assessment please contact the OPN team here.

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Accelerate ERP Integration with Application Adapters PaaS Partner Community Webcast March 25th 2020

Attend our March edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on March 25^th 2020 at 16:30 CET.

Integration to applications is dramatically simplified by the use of application adapters that eliminate the complexity associated with web services and other connectivity methods. Simplify your integration to connect with virtually any application, service, or data store. Oracle offers a library of these adapters to provide you with a standardized way to rapidly connect the various protocols required by each application vendor. In addition to application connectors for CX, ERP, and HCM, there are database, productivity, social, RPA, and technology adapters.

Presenter: Niall Commiskey Director Product Management Oracle HQ

Schedule: Wednesday March 25^th 2020 16:30 CET (Berlin time)

Register for the webcast here.

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

· Accelerate 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

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What Is API-Led — An Architectural Approach by Luis Weir

Let’s look at this excerpt to find out what API-led means and explore the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and more.

As APIs open doors to information and functionality, they move well beyond being merely technical interfaces to becoming central actors in new digital business models. However, for such business models to be effective and successful, technical teams are confronted with the unique challenge of API-enabling systems that weren’t necessarily built to provide real-time access. Because of this, there are several implementations beyond the obvious that must be catered for in order to create APIs that are easy to use and can truly scale to handle the sort of volumes expected from real-time systems.

This article is an excerpt from the book Enterprise API Management written by Luis Weir. This book explores the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and management practices for successful enterprise APIs. This article elaborates on the core concepts and capabilities required to implement API-led architectures. Read the complete article here.

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OIC AQ adapter by Niall Commiskey

Queue Setup in Oracle Advanced Queuing

First step was to set up the Q in AQ.
CREATE type Message_typ as object (
subject     VARCHAR2(30),
text        VARCHAR2(80)); 
EXECUTE DBMS_AQADM.CREATE_QUEUE_TABLE (queue_table => ‘objmsgs80_qtab’,queue_payload_type => ‘Message_typ’);
EXECUTE DBMS_AQADM.CREATE_QUEUE (queue_name => ‘msg_queue’,queue_table => ‘objmsgs80_qtab’);
EXECUTE DBMS_AQADM.START_QUEUE (queue_name => ‘msg_queue’);
I then created a procedure to create a message –

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Call Business Intelligence API in Oracle Integration Cloud by Ankur Jain

This is a frequent requirement to call Business Intelligence (BI) service in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This article focuses on how to call BI SOAP API in OIC scheduler process and extract data.

See useful links

How to create a SOAP connection
How to create a Scheduled Integration

First, have a look at the sample request and response of BI SOAP API

BI SOPA Endpoint: https://ef-dev1.af.em1.oraclecloud.com/parser/services/v2/ReportService?wsdl

Method: runReport Read the complete article here.

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Downstream Throttling in Oracle Integration Cloud via Parking Lot Pattern by Chelsea Zhang

Background

Parking lot pattern is a mature design to store the data in an intermediate stage before processing the data from the intermediate stage to the end system based on the required rate. The detailed implementation of the parking lot pattern can be done in a variety of  storage technologies but strongly recommended a database table to be used for simplicity. In this blog, we will use the parking lot pattern in the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) to explore a solution in the downstream throttling.

Problem Definition

In OIC, the downstream throttling was often mentioned as there might be an influx of data that overwhelm the slower downstream systems. Even though, it might be accomplished by the tuning knobs within OIC and WebLogic Server, but when the built-in tuning cannot be adjusted enough capacity to stop flooding the slower system. The parking lot pattern will enable to provide a solution to attend to this scenario.

Design Solution

1. Process the input data/message based on the order they come in
2. Each message will be parked in the storage for x minutes (parking time) so the system has a chance to throttle the number of messages processed concurrently. Read the complete article here.

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