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Blockchain announcement by Joost Volker

December 8, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle’s announcement of the new Blockchain Cloud Service at OOW17 was very well received by our customers, partners and analysts. This came shortly after the August announcement that Oracle has joined the Hyperledger project, which provided clear directions that Oracle embarks on open source collaboration, modular architecture, horizontal/cross-industry technology support, and support for enterprise needs. (see Oracle announcement: Oracle Cements Interest on Blockchain: Joins Hyperledger). The Hyperledger project is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, IoT, supply chain, manufacturing and technology

Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service is a new offering that is part of Oracle’s comprehensive platform-as-a service, more particularly part of our modern Application Development portfolio. In alignment with Oracle PaaS strategy, each new service can be deployed in its own right to deploy for customer projects, but is very much designed to deliver best value add in combination with other Oracle PaaS, SaaS and on-premise Applications, leveraging our IaaS components and choice of deployment.

Two other key capabilities of Oracle Blockchain Cloud Services are the possibility to set up a turn-key sandbox environment for corporate IT developers and ISVs and the ease of on-boarding and connecting members and creating and supporting smart contracts. Both will enable you as a partners and your customers to kick off internal projects very easily and promote these to a production environment quickly and at scale.

To get you up to speed on blockchain, we would recommend the following article: What Is Blockchain Technology? A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners. And visit the Blockchain pages on oracle.com for technical explanation and listing of different use cases.

Interested to learn more about Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service and what it could mean to your customers? Stay tuned as we will release more in-depth and technical documentation soon. For further information please contact:

Joost Volker, Director Cloud Platform for Connect & Extend, running Blockchain Incubation Programme
Thrasos Thrasyvoulou, Business Development Dir, Cloud Platform for Application Development

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Oracle’s integration-centric PaaS portfolio is flourishing as a unified hybrid integration platform – an Ovum report

December 7, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle OpenWorld 2017 provided a good opportunity to gain insight into the level of success of Oracle’s integration-centric PaaS portfolio in a competitive middleware-as-a-service (MWaaS) market. It is evident that within a period of just three years, Oracle has achieved rapid business growth for this set of PaaS products and a critical market momentum that has resulted in several thousands of customers for individual, integration-centric PaaS products. This is a good case in point for demonstrating how effective execution against a progressive PaaS product strategy can drive rapid adoption, business growth, and penetration into new enterprise user bases. Oracle has ensured uniformity in user experience (UX) and integration at platform/component API level to deliver a well-integrated set of MWaaS products. Get the report here.

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Some random thoughts on OOW17 by Arturo Viveros

December 6, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle Open World 2017 has come and gone already, but it left behind some really interesting points worth revisiting.

The conference spans so much, but I want to focus mainly on the topics related to my own expertise (Integration, Java, Application Development). So let’s cut to the chase and take a look at the highlights:

· Focus is on Developers – the Java & Open Source movements seem stronger than ever, with JavaOne recovering a leading role this year and OracleCode summoning enthusiastic crowds on its first appearance at Open World. Also, Oracle has visibly placed a lot of importance on programs such as the Developer Community space, Developer Champion award, etc.

Oracle PaaS has finally broken through – with increased maturity in most of the services, plenty of customer success stories and some nice improvements to the licensing model, PaaS adoption has become increasingly viable. This is an especially important moment for integration-focused partners, as in my opinion those who are able to better cope with the paradigm shift will be able to take full advantage of the growing market.
Modern Architectures are at the Center of Innovation Read the complete article here. & Get the Oracle OpenWorld presentations and demos here.

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Oracle Developer Meetups in Utrecht, London and Oslo

December 5, 2017 Leave a comment

During our last PaaS Partner Community Forum we announced the initiative to host local Oracle Developer meetups. The first three locations are up, make sure you register for:

· Utrecht, Netherlands

· London, UK

· Madird, Spain

· Oslo, Norway

Please let us know in case you want to run an event at one of this location or you want to start your local meetup. We are looking forward to support you and sponsor the event with pizza and beer!

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My key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne 2017 by Luis Augusto Weir

December 4, 2017 Leave a comment

I’ve just literally arrived from Oracle Open World and JavaOne 2017 and my head still hurts with so many interesting announcements and cool new things I want to get my hands on and learn. This blogpost provides a short summary of my impressions and key takeaways from both events.

General overview:

This year OOW and JavaOne was full of changes from previous ones. For starting most of the sessions took place between Moscone South, Moscone West and the Marriot Marquis, as opposed to all over the place. I understand that this was mainly due to renovations that took place in Moscone which meant that more rooms were available.
JavaOne this year took place in Moscone West (as opposed to Hilton Union Square). First thing that really stroke me was the vast amount of people that seemed to have attended the event (see below tweet from Adam Bien). Not sure if more people attended JavaOne than OOW, but my first observation is that sessions in JavaOne were better attended than those in OOW (at least in the areas am interested on and from what I could see -this is a personal view so don’t get offended if you disagree).
My second observation from this year’s event was the increased focus to the Developers audience. A clear change of direction from previous years (in my view for good), and it shows that Oracle is committed and trying hard to engage the broader developer communities (not just Oracle’s traditional one). In my view Oracle is taking solid and promising first steps towards achieving this goal and hopefully this article highlights some of them. Read the complete article here. & Get the Oracle OpenWorld presentations and demos here.

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Amis Oracle Open World highlights

December 3, 2017 Leave a comment

· Oracle Open World 2017; day 1 observations

· Oracle Open World; day 2 – highlights

· Oracle Open World; day 3- some highlights

· Oracle Open World; day 4 – almost done

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My Oracle Open World 2017 contributions in a nutshell by Sven Bernhardt

December 2, 2017 Leave a comment

OOW 17 is behind us and is was again an amazing and informative experience to attend one of the world biggest and relevant IT conferences.

Time to give you an overview on contributions and outcomes I was involved in. In total, I delivered 4 sessions:

Modernize Your IT Landscape with API-Driven Architectures (delivered 2 times, once at OOW and once at JavaOne Oracle Code track)
- Slides: Slideshare, Conference site
- Session recording JavaOne Oracle Code (from 0:00 to ~45:00)
Strategies for Efficient Delivery with APIs, Containers, Microservices, DevOps
- Slides: Slideshare, Conference site
Soaring Through the Clouds: Live Demo of 17 Oracle PaaS Services Working Together
- Slides: Conference site

In addition, my colleague Danilo Schmiedel and me did an Dev interview with Bob Rhubart about APIs and Microservices and it’s meaning with respect to modern software architectures. Read the complete article here. & Get the Oracle OpenWorld presentations and demos here.

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Robotic Process Automation and AI – Webcast December 5th 2017

December 1, 2017 1 Comment

Simplify Legacy Complexity to Turbo Charge Digital Transformation

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a hot topic because its easy record and playback capability enables you to deliver immediate results while putting you on the fast-track to AI-powered recommendations and Adaptive Case Management. If you’ve got legacy systems of record, dashboards, or spreadsheets you manage manually, RPA’s computer vision technology with Oracle Cloud Platform for Integration and Automation can take on mundane tasks and free up critical resources to help you grow your business.
Join Oracle’s Vikas Anand, VP Product Management, and Bobby Patrick, UiPath’s CMO on this webcast as we discuss how Oracle Integration Cloud with RPA can help you:

Build your digital workforce by automating manual, repetitive tasks
Simplify legacy complexity with intelligent integration and automation
Support API-first design to speed and monetize continuous innovation

Speakers:

Vikas Anand

Vikas Anand VP, Product Management, Oracle

Bobby Patrick

Bobby Patrick CMO, UiPath

Attend the webcast on December 5, 2017 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PST

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Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2017 by Juliana Button

December 1, 2017 Leave a comment

Returning from the excitement of Oracle OpenWorld, it’s good to pause and reflect on the highlights of the major Oracle event of the year. There were a significant number of key announcements across the entire product stack – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and DaaS. With our focus on IaaS and PaaS we have shared a few of the key take-aways below.

What was also noticeable this year, was the level of engagement from partners and customers talking about their use-cases and implementations, sharing their findings and experiences with Oracle Cloud PaaS. It is exciting to see the momentum building and the great value customers are starting to derive from their cloud-based implementations.

Key Announcements
Session Replays
Rubicon Red @ Oracle OpenWorld
Other Interesting Articles

KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Oracle Container Native Application Development Platform

Early adopter availability was announced for the new Oracle Container Native Application Development platform to simplify building, deploying and operating container-based applications in the cloud.

Oracle Container Engine – a managed Kubernetes service to create and manage Kubernetes clusters
Oracle Container Registry Service – a private container registry service for storing and sharing container images across multiple deployments
Oracle Container Pipelines – a full container lifecycle management service based on the Wercker acquisition, for continuous integration and delivery of microservice applications

More info:

Blockchain

Oracle announced Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service – an enterprise-grade, fully-managed blockchain solution to help organizations rapidly get started with blockchain. Oracle recently joined Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Read the complete article here. & Get the Oracle OpenWorld presentations and demos here.

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Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is available

November 30, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) brings together all the capabilities of Application Integration, Process Automation, Visual Application Building and Integration Analytics into a single unified cloud service. Oracle Integration Cloud now brings real-time and batch based integration, structured and unstructured processes, case management, stream analytics and integration insight allowing customers to service all their end to end integration needs in one cohesive platform so that all users can now build and deliver capabilities needed to realize true Digital Business Transformations. Billing is simplified with a single metric of OCPUs per hour (no more connection or user counting!!). Natively discover and invoke integration flows from processes in OIC and vice versa. Customers can configure and schedule patching according to their own schedule, and they can scale the Database to accommodate their business’s retention policy. The Integration Cloud runtime can be scaled out to meet the most demanding customer volumes, and VPN is now available so customers can choose to use the Connectivity Agent, API Platform, or VPN for on-premises application connectivity.

Oracle Integration Cloud Overview Video (YouTube)

Key Features:

· SaaS and On-Premises Integration: Quickly connect to 1000s of SaaS or on-premises Applications seamlessly through 50+ native app adapters or technology adapters. Support for Service Orchestration and rich integration patterns for real-time and batch processing.

· Process Automation: Bring agility to your business with an easy, visual, low-code platform that simplifies day to day tasks by getting employees, customers, and partners the services they need to work anywhere, anytime, and on any device. Support for Dynamic Case Management

· Visual Application Design: Rapidly create and host engaging business applications with a visual development environment right from the comfort of your browser.

· Integration Insight: The Service gives you the information you need — out of the box, with powerful dashboards that require no coding, configuration, or modification. Get up and running fast with a solution that delivers deep insight into your business.

· Stream Analytics: Stream processing for anomaly detection, reacting to Fast Data. Super-scalable with Apache Spark and Kafka.

Key Differentiators:

Oracle Integration Cloud is an industry recognized leader in Application Integration and Process Automation. Both Gartner and Forrester have recognized Oracle iPaaS as a Leader for its vision and strategy in their respective reports for the year 2017. Oracle Integration Cloud is the only product on the planet that brings together all key elements of SaaS Extension and Integration under one product. The service also seamlessly integrates with Oracle API Platform Cloud Service for API first design and/or exposing Integrations as APIs.

Learn more about Oracle Integration Cloud here

Partner Resource kit: Presentation, faq, click-through demo, documentation and decision matrix published at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required):

· Oracle Integration Cloud Overview (PPT)