Oracle Again a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service

May 17, 2019 Leave a comment

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Report solidifies Oracle’s leadership in execution and vision for enterprise customers. For the third straight year, Oracle was named a Leader in Gartner’s 2019 “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)” report. Special thanks to the PaaS Partner community to deliver successful customer projects.

iPaaS offerings are crucial for the modern enterprise to adopt hybrid digital transformation strategies, making this recognition a testament to Oracle’s continued success in delivering value to its large enterprise customers.

“Successfully transforming into a digital business requires putting into place the foundation of agile connectivity spanning any combination of cloud-native and on-premises,” said Bruce Tierney, director of product marketing for Integration, Oracle. “Being recognized as a Leader for the third year in a row demonstrates our ability to help customers innovate now and in the future.”

According to the report, Oracle’s strong global presence is a major benefit for end users. Oracle’s broad network enables them to use Oracle Integration Cloud locally, whether directly or through Oracle’s SaaS and PaaS channels, almost anywhere in the world. Its offerings in PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS technology sectors make Oracle one of the most cohesive and versatile enterprise iPaaS suites on the market.

Oracle’s iPaaS services include Oracle Integration Cloud and Oracle SOA Cloud Service and eliminate barriers between business applications through a combination of machine learning, embedded best-practice guidance, pre-built integration, and process automation. Oracle Integration Cloud is an easy to use and powerful integration platform targeting ad hoc integrators with tools such as process automation, while Oracle SOA Cloud delivers a high-control platform for specialist integrators. With more than 100 adapters, customers can quickly integrate and scale Oracle, third-party, and on-premises applications, APIs, people and devices. Additionally, Oracle has many other cross-PaaS offerings that can be combined with Oracle’s iPaaS services to deliver greater productivity. Those services include data integration to support real-time data streaming, batch data processing, and enterprise data quality and governance; Oracle API Platform Cloud Service for API first design and management; and Oracle Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Service for IoT integration. Oracle API Platform Cloud, leveraging the unique API-first design tool from Apiary that is used by over 300,000 developers and 400,000 APIs, is designed to eliminate the complexities associated with transforming on-premises API solutions into the cloud so companies can thrive in the digital economy.

Download a complimentary copy of Gartner’s 2019 "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service" here.

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Evolution of Business Process Modeling by Eduardo Chiocconi

May 16, 2019 Leave a comment

imageIt has been a while since I wrote about the different process types, and why there is not a single silver bullet process modeling styles. If you want to read more about my first write up, you can follow this link to read more: Not all processes are created the same.

Structured Business Processes

In the early days of our business process automation space, the incumbent process modeling experience was mostly using flow diagrams. These flow models layed out a well defined set of business process steps (aka: activities) whose primary purpose was the capture best practices and standard procedures. These procedures needed to be followed in the organization that adopted them. When these structured business process models were implemented in a BPMS (Business Process Management Systems) solution, the implementing organization got a means to digitize these standard procedures and how they wanted to run their business processes and enforce execution all across. Not only business processes followed a very strict recipe, but in highly regulated industries, it offered the a way to check the audit trail records for each business process transaction, helping reduce risk and enforce compliance to policies and regulations. As structured flow diagrams became more mainstream and multiple products offered their own flavor of notation (also with their own notation interpretation), the BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) standard offered a common and agreed way to document business processes. This important standardization step also brought some order in the space, and helped BPMS vendors to focus efforts in supporting this business process modeling de-facto standard (or a good subset of it really!). Examples of these business process type include onboarding new customers (this is an across the board use case but very common in finance and insurance), managing approvals across different domains like order discounts and performing the multiple necessary validation steps before some coverage can be granted. Bottom line, examples exists in every industry and with varied complexities.

Unstructured Business Processes

But not all processes are the same! While structured flow-based business processes are indeed a great tool in the toolbox, this notation does not serve well other types of business processes that are completely unstructured or follow a more relaxed set of dependencies. The sequence and order in which process steps or activities are executed is determined every time there is an event in the process and this really goes against the structured and deterministic model we talked on the first section. In this unstructured modeling style, business process steps or activities are not connected via arrows or transitions. Each activity has an activation and termination expression or rule. These rules can refer to other activities or also make reference to the specific data defined for this business process (for example service type, place of origination, specific SLAs, etc). This new way of defining dependencies really allow a BPMS engine to execute following an event drive mode since each time something happens to the process (for example another step is executed), the BPMS engine needs to determine which activities need to be activated (and also likely terminated). As certain events occur for a process instance, the process has the ability to reconfigure itself and determine a new path. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Suite on containerized platform – Docker by Michel Schildmeijer

May 15, 2019 Leave a comment

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In this post I am exploring the sense of configuring and running an Oracle SOA Suite 12.2 domain on docker and managed by Kubernetes, to discover if SOA is a good candidate to run on Docker.

The server where I will install it is running Oracle Linux 6.8; unfortunately Kubernetes now is supported on Linux 7, so my next post will handle that subject.

First of all here are my install bits and experiences.

Setting up Docker

Before installing I had to add some YUM repo to get the right docker package:

  1. export DOCKERURL="https://yum.dockerproject.org/repo/main/oraclelinux/6" 
  2. rm /etc/yum.repos.d/docker*.repo 
  3. yum-config-manager –add-repo "$DOCKERURL/oraclelinux/docker-ce.repo" 
  4. yum-config-manager –enable docker-ce-stable-17.05 
  5. Read the complete article here.

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Robotic Process Automation for ERP Modernization – Webcast May 16th 2019

May 14, 2019 Leave a comment

imageOracle Integration and RPA working together May 16, 2019 10:00 am PST

Join Glenn Hoormann, Executive Vice President, eAlliance and Eduardo Chiocconi, Director Product Management for Oracle Integration to get the inside track on how RPA robots and employees can work together to automate end to end business processes such as Order to Cash and Quote to Order.
Learn how you can:

  • Take your RPA strategy from good to great with Robotic Service Orchestration to bring human decision making to your digital workforce
  • Visually design end to end processes with the ability to quickly and easily switch out manual steps for RPA robot execution 
  • Tame legacy complexity for repetitive and complex activities including bank statement reconciliation, customer on-boarding, and opportunity to order

For details please visit the registration page here.

 

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UiPath leverages Oracle Cloud Platform for Robotic Process Automation by Arijit Chakraborty

May 13, 2019 Leave a comment

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UiPath is a leading provider of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions to efficiently automate business processes. UiPath allows organizations to be more productive and achieve better business outcomes through workflow and business process automation leveraging RPA, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

UiPath was looking for a robust integration solution with end-to-end process design capability for automating business processes. UiPath chose Oracle Integration Cloud and Oracle Process Cloud for addressing their hybrid cloud integration and workflow automation requirements. This also allowed them to add artificial intelligence into their automations to drive additional workflow efficiencies.

Listen to Bobby Patrick, Chief Marketing Officer at UiPath, talk about how with Oracle Cloud Platform they have been able to dramatically improve job satisfaction of their employees while helping their clients achieve improved business outcomes. Read the complete article here.

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Road to Oracle Cloud by Markus Lohn

May 12, 2019 Leave a comment

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In this blogpost, I want to share my experience of migrating an Oracle SOA solution from on-premise to the cloud. But why was it necessary to think about this possibility? More than two years ago, our customer launched a comprehensive program to to make sales fit for the future. A huge area also covered IT support and automation of sales business processes. The solution introduced the use of different cloud system that have to be integrated. The integration part was achieved with the Oracle SOA platform. The SOA platform connects internal IT systems with external business partners and customers. The SOA platform is operated on-premise in the customer’s DMZ zone.

Now that several systems have already been operated in the cloud and due to limited resources available to operate the SOA platform, the customer considered to move the platform into the cloud. The primary goal of a cloud deployment was to relieve the operations team. This allows the operations team to focus on functional monitoring. Furthermore, the following objectives were important:

  • The manufacturer ensures the best support for the operation of the platform, e.g. load balancing and clustering.
  • Installation of patches or new versions performed by the software provider.
  • HA capabilities are already firmly integrated in the cloud service and the system is continuously protected by backups against failure.
  • Additional resources can be easily requested or returned on demand. Read the complete article here.

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Lift and Shift SOA 11G to Oracle SOA Cloud Service by Matt Wright

May 11, 2019 Leave a comment

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Watch the video here.

 

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Leverage Microsoft Email Adapter to send email using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) (Part-1) by Ankur Jain

May 10, 2019 Leave a comment

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Though Oracle Integration Cloud provides Notification Activity which is used to send an Email notification to any number of recipients at a time. However, there is such a situation where the Notification activity doesn’t full fill the purpose. For example: If there is a requirement where the email notification is required along with attachment then in that case, Notification activity will not full fill the purpose. In such scenarios, the MS email adapter will help to send an email along with Attachments.

We are splitting the article into two parts:
In the first part, we’ll show how to send email notification using the MS email adapter
In second part, we’ll show how to send email notification along with attachment using MS email adapter. In the first part, we’ll create scheduler integration which will send a notification to the single recipient.
Below are the high-level activities which need to perform  to achieve the use case

  • Configure MS Email adapter in Oracle Integration Cloud
  • Create Scheduled Integration

Important Blogs to learn more about Oracle ICS / OIC. Read the complete article here.

 

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OIC integration with Fusion HCM & the efficacy of BI reports & HCM REST APIs by Niall Commiskey

May 9, 2019 Leave a comment

imageI am not a HCM expert, but playing around with the Oracle HCM adapter did force me to dig a bit deeper into how HCM works. It all began with a relatively simple file based integration that "imported" a worker into HCM. The integration had a REST trigger and leveraged the Oracle HCM adapter as well as the technical SOAP adapter.

I ran a test from Postman, with, what a colleague told me was, a valid REST payload, one of the attributes being BusinessUnitID.

{ "PersonNumber":"77012", "StartDate":"2014/01/01", "DateOfBirth":"1988/05/23", "LegislationCode":"US", "FirstName":"FirstName0112", "LastName":"LastName0112", "LegalEmployerName":"US1 Legal Entity", "BusinessUnitId":"458", "JobId":"300100003260508" }

I tested the integration and then went into Fusion HCM to validate what I had done. From an OIC perspective, the integration flow had executed successfully. So off I ventured into HCM. Read the complete article here.

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Migrate Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Integrations to Integration Cloud (OIC) by Ankur Jain

May 8, 2019 Leave a comment

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This article is written to show how to migrate ICS artifacts including Integrations, Connections, Lookups, packages, libraries etc. to OIC. Since, ICS /OIC provides the export and import feature but this is limited to single integration at a time. What about, if there are 100’s of integration which are there in the ICS and wanted to migrate all integrations once.

To do so, there is Clone utility which is provided for bulk export all the integrations, connections, packages, libraries and other artifacts from ICS to OIC. This clone utility is the set of REST APIs in ICS / OIC. ICS provides REST APIs to bulk export ICS artifacts and OIC provides REST APIs to import these exported artifacts.

Prerequisites:

  • Oracle Cloud Storage Container with create / update permissions
  • Existing ICS service with Admin role access to the service
  • OIC service with Admin role access to the service
  • A feature flag has to be enabled on OIC to enable clone utility. To turn on the feature flag, open a Service Request with Oracle support

Artifacts, which can be exported using the Clone Utility:

  • Integrations
  • Connections including credentials
  • Lookups
  • Libararies
  • Certificates
  • Packages

Note: Agent groups can not be exported, this need to be created manually

Below is the pictorial representation, which will give a high level, thought on how migration works

Let me explain the diagram in more detail

  • Execute the export API to export ICS artifacts
  • The first steps will create the archive file automatically and save into Oracle Storage Cloud container. Read the complete article here.

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