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Integration Cloud Service 16.4.1 Fall Release available including free trials for Partners

November 29, 2016 Leave a comment

We are pleased to announce the availability of 16.4.1 – Fall release of Integration Cloud Service (ICS) .

This October release continues to broaden it’s connectivity portfolio in various segments. These include:

Oracle Utilities – New Adapter
Oracle Eloqua – Inbound (Trigger) Support

New Oracle Utilities Adapter:

A recent survey of 100 North American electric, water and gas utility industry executives completed by Zpryme and Oracle Utilities GBU shows that Utility Companies are embracing the Cloud. With 45% of organizations using the Cloud in some form today and another 52% planning to move to the Cloud. Nearly 97% of interviewees told us they have become involved with Cloud technologies or applications and computing resources delivered as services over a network connection instead of through in-house resources at a utility. This means integration is imperative to all Utility customers without doubt!

This release introduces the new Oracle Utilities adapter taking the list of total adapters closer to 50! This adapter enables you to easily integrate with Oracle Utilities applications that use Oracle Utilities Application Framework v4.3.0.0 or later and supporting Web Services.

For those Utilities Applications using JMS or DB integration services, you can continue to leverage the generic ICS adapters instead.

New Status and Usage APIs:

The brand new /status API is now available that can be queried for system health status (runtime, storage, messaging, and security services). Similarly, the new /usage API returns metrics for system design-time (adapters, agent, application instances, lookups, integrations, packages, and runtime – messages and messaging system). Refer to the REST API documentation for more details.

Support for Service Callbacks:

Starting this release, you can configure outbound SOAP invocations to specify callback ICS flows for asynchronous conversations with external systems/web services.

For example, if you are invoking a credit rating service that responds to you asynchronously (One-Way with Async Call back), you can receive that callback as a delayed response. Remember that the callback flow will be specified within the SOAP adapter design-time as a separate ICS flow.

Learn More: More details on what’s new is available here. Learn more about Oracle Integration Cloud Service at http://cloud.oracle.com/integration

Want to try ICS Cloud Service? Get access here.

Partner Resources (community membership required):

Sales kit for partners: Cloud and On-Prem Integration: Integrate CRM SaaS Apps with On-Premises ERP & Integrate HCM Cloud with on-premises ERP

Marketing kit for partners: SOA Campaigns

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SOA Cloud Service 16.4.1 is available–including free trials for Partners

November 28, 2016 Leave a comment

The Oracle SOA Cloud Service Help Center was refreshed on October 10th, 2016 for the 16.4.1 release.

New Features:

Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, available as part of the Integration Analytics Cluster service type, is now certified for production use. See What’s New for Oracle SOA Cloud Service for details.

Updates to the Service Guides:
Using Oracle SOA Cloud Service (12.2.1)

Detailed Updates to the product in this release:

Want to try SOA Cloud Service? Get access here.

Partner Resources (community membership required):

Sales kit for partners: Cloud and On-Prem Integration: Extend SOA to the Cloud

Marketing kit for partners: SOA Campaigns

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November 27, 2016 Leave a comment

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For additional BPM and ACM books please visit our wiki here.

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Oracle provides beacon of hope to American Heart Association event by Edith Mireles

November 27, 2016 Leave a comment

Oracle’s investment in emerging technology is nothing new. We want to bring the best in user experience to the Oracle Applications Cloud, and emerging technology like wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) are part of that strategy as they come more to the fore.

So it was no accident when Oracle, a major sponsor of the Bay Area Heart Walk in September, looked to the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team to lead a project to build a smartphone application that used IoT-style beacons around the course.

Photo by DJ Ursal, Oracle Applications User Experience

Participants start off on the Bay Area Heart Walk Event.

Working with Oracle Volunteers, DJ Ursal, Senior Director, Product Management User Experience, led the cross-functional, cross-organizational team that developed the app, which communicated with the beacons placed at strategic points to show users where they were on the course and other pertinent information. He developed the app with constant thought about how user experience translates to the overall business of Oracle. “You have to look in a very strategic way as to where ideas can translate and what use cases we can come across,” he said. “It’s not just coming up with ideas and use cases; the challenge is finding the real value and viability of it.”

Seems simple, right? OAUX Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley takes it a step further, saying the real problem facing potential users of IoT was not being able to set up a beacon easily. “A very simple and direct app like Heart Walk allowed you to get a beacon, place it somewhere, and be able to program it with an iPad,” he said. “Anybody could walk around with the tablet, put [a beacon] in place, program it, and connect it to an enterprise system.”

The team worked off the American Heart Association’s well-received mobile app presented at Oracle OpenWorld 2014, which bounced off a beacon at the OAUX demo station to give customers information about the demos and an interactive map as they walked around the conference. Ursal’s team delivered the components for the beacons to be integrated into the cloud platform for Heart Walk. Read the complete article here.

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UKOUG Technology Conference & Exhibition 2016 5th – 7th December, ICC Birmingham

November 26, 2016 Leave a comment

This year’s conference keynote will be Neil Sholay, Oracle Vice President Digital Business, EMEA, who will be speaking on Data Driven Business. Also on the educational agenda will be further Oracle keynotes and the following SOA content.

Application Container Cloud Service: Backend Integration Using Node.js

Mr Maarten Smeets

How SOA CS is Being Used by an End User Organisation & the Lessons & Benefits Learnt

Mr Phil Wilkins

Handling Large File With Managed File Transfer & Oracle’s Cloud Services

Dr Robert van Mölken

Getting the Most Out of Oracle Service Bus – 10 Things you Should do & Shouldn’t do

Dr Paddy Spencer

Software Development Lifecycle Management for Cloud & On-premise FMW Applications

Mr Bruno Alves

Empower Your Business Owners With Integration Analytics and Real-Time Insight

Ms Simone Geib

Experiences at CIMA Implementing the UK’s 1st Production SOA Cloud Service

Mr Kiran Tailor

Help! What Integration Solution is Best for me?

Mr Ronald van Luttikhuizen

For details please visit the registration page here.

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

November 25, 2016 Leave a comment

· Profit Magazine: Collaboration in the Cloud: New Zealand Department of Conservation embraces content as a service to engage and empower its broader community.

· Oracle Cloud Integration The first two parts of this four-part series are now available. Written by Oracle ACE Director Joel Perez and Oracle ACE Associate Arturo Viveros, this series focuses on cloud integration and is directed towards IT managers and architects. Read the article.

· Integrating Oracle API Gateway 11gR2 (11.1.2.4.0) with Microsoft Azure AD To demonstrate the integration between API Gateway and Azure, author Ricardo Guiterrez provides the technical details of a scenario in which a company exposes on-premise web services with a partner company. Read the article.

· SOA Cloud Service in a Nutshell Written by Oracle ACE Associates Arturo Viveros and Robert van Molken, and Oracle ACE Rolando Carraso, this article discusses Oracle SOA Cloud Service in detail, together with its implications, possible use cases and scenarios. Read the article.

· SOA Suite 12c: Startup and Shutdown This 18-page sample chapter from the Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator’s Guide (2015, Packt Publishing) focuses exclusively on the startup and shutdown of the Oracle SOA Suite infrastructure and how to verify the completion of each component. Read the chapter.

· Podcast: Author Roundtable: SOA Suite 12c Administration What’s the role of the SOA Suite Administrator? What are the key responsibilities and challenges? These and other questions are addressed in the latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast in a wide-ranging discussion with Arun Pareek, Oracle ACE Ahmed Aboulnaga, and Oracle ACE Associate Harold Doist, the authors of the Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator’s Guide (2015, Packt Publishing). Listen to the podcast.

· Industrial Adoption of the Internet of Things “To capture the value of IoT, companies should keep in mind that IoT data analytics is not big data analytics,” says Harshad Khatri, Oracle Insight.

· IT Governance Will Determine the Success of Cloud Projects “Cloud allows you to add new capabilities to your IT landscape much faster, but it also amplifies any weaknesses in your security and other internal processes,” says Oracle ACE Director Sten Vesterli.

· The Top 10 Strategic CIO Issues For 2016 As Oracle CIO Mark Sunday says, “This is the most challenging time in history to be a CIO, because in order to survive, organizations need to embrace new technologies at an unparalleled pace.”

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PaaS4SaaS Developers’ Code Is Always ‘On’: OAUX is on OTN and GitHub by Ultan O’Broin

November 24, 2016 Leave a comment

Boom! That’s the sound of thunder rolling as PaaS and SaaS developers work as fast as lightning in the cloud. The cloud has changed customer expectations about applicationstoo; if they don’t like their user experience (UX) or they don’t get it fast, they’ll go elsewhere.

PaaS4SaaS developers know their code is always ‘on’.

But you can accelerate the development of your PaaS4SaaS solutions with a killer UX easily by now downloading the AppsCloudUIKit software part of the Cloud UX simplified UI Rapid Development Kit (RDK) for Release 10 PaaS4SaaS solutions from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) or from GitHub.

The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team’s Oracle Cloud UX RDK works with Oracle JDeveloper 11.1.1.9.0, 12.1.3.0.0 and 12.2.1.0.0. The kit downloads include a developer eBook that explains the technical requirements and how to build a complete SaaS or PaaS solution in a matter of hours.

The AppsCloudUIKit software part of our partner training kit is on OTN and GitHub and is supported by video and eBook guidance.

The developer eBook is part of the AppsCloudUIKit downloads on OTN and GitHub.

Read the complete article here.

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter November 2016

November 23, 2016 Leave a comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community,

On our journey towards the cloud it is key to present a roadmap for our on-premises customers. As a first step the upgrade to the latest Fusion Middleware 12c release ensures a smooth journey. Customers benefit also from new functionalities e.g managed file transfer in the latest releases of SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c. Make use of the integration success workshop (community membership required) material to demonstrate your customers the advantages. The latest release of Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2. shows the continues improvements. In a second step customers can extend their integration platform for cloud integration. Cloud adapters can be deployed on premises or in the cloud. Workloads can be shifted to SOA Cloud Services, new process can be built in Process Cloud Service. Regular updates of the cloud services e.g. SOA Cloud Service 16.4.1 introduce new functionality. Get the latest update on the Oracle SOA Suite and BPM Suite on-premises roadmap and cloud transformation by Vikas Anand in the Community Webcast on November 29^th 2016.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: Podcast Show Notes: Building a Real Cloud Solution & Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.2.0) is available for download & SOA Cloud Service 16.4.1 is available & Integration Cloud Service 16.4.1 Fall Release available & REST API for Integration Cloud Service & The API Platform Service – launch date Winter 2016/17 & Oracle API Management in the Year 2016 by Luis Weir & Integration Platform Portfolio as per OOW 2016 – on premises and primarily in the cloud & Cloud Integration Part 2: Cloud to Cloud by Joel Perez and Arturo Viveros & Integration Cloud Service LinkedIn adapter & Integration Design Pattern – Synchronous Facade for Asynchronous Interaction & Installing SOACS Hybrid Agent EM13C & & 5 Days of Oracle training on Summer Camp in Lisbon & OTN Appreciation Day: Error Hospital / Resiliency in SOA 12c & Advisor Webcast: SOA and SOACS Upgrade Best Practices and Roadmap December 6^th 2016 & SOA Suite 12.2.1 bug – No view permission on soa-infra dashboard & OWSM and WS-Security: Username Token Authentication for SOAP and REST Services in OSB 12c & SOA Suite 12.2.1 – OWSM WSM-02084 issue & WS Security – enabling passwordDigest authentication & Managed File Transfer for SOA Customers & SOA 12c Migration & Workshop: Oracle FMW Administration Foundation – SOA & OS & Creating a Platform Blueprint from an Existing SOA / BPM Domain & Internet of Things Cloud Service 16.4.1 available.

With Process Cloud Service new processes can be quickly build and deployed in the cloud. The customer has the choice to run the same process on premises on BPM Suite 12c. Andre published a post how to deploy your BPM Suite 12c process on Process Cloud Service. Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: Cloud based Human Workflow and Business Process automation – PCS, BPM Suite on the Cloud, BPM Suite on Premises & Process Cloud Service: new features and improvements & Using Process Cloud Service REST API Part 1 & PCS Connectors (Part 2 of 2): REST Service Connector & PCS 16.3.5 administration.

In our last section Architecture & PaaS4SaaS the UX team highlights the OpenWorld 2016 results and 5 things you should know when you start using PaaS for SaaS.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The November edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains the new Managed Service Partner Program, community resources including free PaaS partner trial services and the upcoming community webcast about on-premises roadmap & the journey to the cloud which takes place on November 29^th 2016. For the latest news on Oracle PaaS visit the UKOUG tech conference December 5^th – 7^th in Birmingham.

To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soaaNewsNovember2016 (OPN Account required)

Jürgen Kress

Fusion Middleware Partner Adoption
Oracle EMEA
Tel. +49 89 1430 1479
E-Mail: juergen.kress@oracle.com
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How to Auto Dismiss an Oracle BPM FYI Task by Vikram

November 22, 2016 Leave a comment

The FYI Task in Oracle BPM 12c can be used to notify a task recipient by displaying a task on the BPM worklist without holding up the business process, it just continues to the next activity in the process flow. But for the task to go away, it has to be specifically dismissed by the task recipient by clicking on the “Dismiss” button under the Actions menu.

But what if we wanted these tasks to go away automatically or be auto-dismissed by the system? To Demonstrate this we created a simple BPM process that contains an FYI Task and a second task.

The human tasks are assigned to swim lane roles “FYIRole” and “ReviewerRole”. After deploying this BPM process, we startup an instance using the Test feature in Enterprise Manager to invoke the message start.

When we startup the process instance, we can login as a member of the “FYIRole” to see that the task exists in the Swim Lane role inbox. Read the complete article here.

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SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – November 29th 2016 SOA Suite 12c and BPM Suite 12c roadmap and journey to the Cloud.

November 22, 2016 Leave a comment

Attend our November edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on November 29^th 2016 at 16:00 CET.

Vikas Anand

Vice President Product Management

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Schedule:

November 29^th 2016 at 16:00-17:00 CET

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Missed our SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast? – watch the on-demand versions:

· Microservices October 25th 2016

· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 update September 27^th 2016

· API Cloud Platform Service August 30th 2016

· BPM Suite & PCS Update July 26th 2016

· Integration Cloud Service June 28th 2016

· Sales Plays Webcast June 9th 2016

· Real-Time Integration Business Insight May 31st 2016

· Integration Strategy sales and marketing campaign update