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Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Preview” by The SOA mythbusters

October 29, 2015 Leave a comment

INTRODUCTION.

So, do you really like SOA? That’s great because so do we, and we’ve been working with it every single day since a long time ago. As Oracle professionals, we’ve seen the SOA stack grow, change, incorporating new products and technology with each version, from 10g to 12c.

We’re Rolando Carrasco and Arturo Viveros, the SOA Myth Busters from Mexico, and as we go with this series we will put to the test a number of questions, myths and urban legends regarding integration, SOA & the Oracle FMW Platform in seek of finding out which myths are true and which are not.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

In this short episode, we will preview the imminent (and much awaited) launch of Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS).

In this era of digital disruption, Cloud Integration is and will keep being one of the hottest and most relevant topics in the SOA / Middleware realms.

So, as we usually do, let’s identify a bunch of questions which we will attempt to clarify throughout this article:

Why is Oracle bringing to the table an iPaaS offering of its own?
What is the difference between ICS and SOA Suite in the Cloud?
Where does this leave my on premise SOA Suite implementation?
What is running underneath the curtains and how does Oracle ICS stack up against its main competitors?
Which business scenarios would be better suited for the implementation of such a tool?
What benefits can organizations expect to achieve by leveraging this kind of offering?
What about common concerns such as performance, security, ease of adoption / use, portability, standardization, etc.?
Are there any clear guidelines for ICS’s implementation / adoption from an architectural standpoint?
Can I do SOA with ICS?
Is ICS suitable for on premise integrations?

Let’s get started

Since the product has yet to hit the market, this time around we don’t have a de-facto myth revolving around it; but don’t worry, the myths will surely come swiftly and we will be there to tackle them whenever they arise.

For now, let’s focus on the questions at hand. It seems to us that a good way to get started in the matter is by going over some elemental definitions and concepts:

First things first

Oracle ICS is an integration product in the cloud. Let’s first nail this.

ICS stands for Integration Cloud Services. Oracle has addressed a strong Cloud need: the integration among Cloud based Applications. Oracle has been very active to become a Cloud type of monster. If we go back five years ago, maybe Oracle was not perceived as a strong Cloud player, but those days are very far away now. Oracle has a very clear cloud offering in the different recognized flavors: PaaS, SaaS and IaaS.

A set of Cloud based applications, such as: Taleo, Right Now, Big Machines (Oracle CPQ) are very well-known in the market. A very large set of customer around the globe use them.

But what about having to integrate those different Clouds? Or even more, what about integrating an Oracle Cloud with a different vendor Cloud? (e.g. Salesforce.com or Success Factors).

There is where we meet with our first question: Read the complete article here.

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Europe leads in Oracle PaaS adaption driven by Oracle Partners!

October 28, 2015 1 Comment

It’s a pleasure to work with the Oracle EMEA SOA & BPM and WebLogic & Developer Partner Community and see the success in our cloud adoption. The latest press release proves that our EMEA partners lead adoption. Oracle provides the same technology in the cloud as on-premises. This enables partners to secure their investment in knowledge and skills and rapidly build cloud applications for our joint customers.

Partners who can support your cloud adoption

Looking for a Middleware Specialized Partner which can support you with your cloud adoption? Visit the solutions catalog here, and search for your local Middleware Specialized partner have trained & certified consultants and implemented successful Middleware customer projects. Across EMEA we have thousands of Middleware Specialized partners! Find local Specialized partners by product www.oracle.com/specialized here.

In case you are not yet a member in the EMEA Middleware Partner Communities feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

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SOA Suite 12.2.1 is available for download

October 27, 2015 2 Comments

SOA Suite 12.2.1 is available for download.

SOA Suite 12.2.1 presentation

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted:

WhatIsNewInSOASuite12.2.1.pptx will details about the new features.

Partner Quotes SOA Suite 12.2.1

With the release of SOA Suite 12.2.1, the flagship integration platform from Oracle for Cloud, On-Premise, Mobile and IoT integration is enhanced even more. The release includes new features and improvements for operations as well as development and performance. On the operations side, Integration Workload Statistics (IWS) reporting provides your operations team with even better insight in SOA metrics while Failure Resiliency enables the platform to temporarily suspend message and event processing in case of endpoints that are down. Performance gains can be obtained through the SOA In-Memory feature while developers can leverage improved debugger features and native REST and JSON support. All in all, exciting new features for a leading, complete and mature integration platform ! Ronald van Luttikhuizen, eProseed

With this 12.2.1 release of SOA Suite, following hot on the heels of the launch of the SOA Cloud Service, Oracle demonstrates a strong commitment to the SOA Suite, both on premises and in the cloud. The evolution of the product focuses on cloud integration scenarios, public and private cloud deployment and further industrial robustness. The end to end support for JSON and JavaScript opens up the SOA Suite to an even wider community of developers – and brings elegance, productivity, reuse and performance to a number of key scenarios. It is great to see how this key product for our customers keeps evolving in a direction that provides even more and broader value. Lucas Jellema, Amis

SOA Suite 12.2.1 is completing the REST enablement which started in 12.1.3. Allways looking forward to new SOA Suite releases – this time also with features making us more productive or more succesful in administering critical integrations. Jon Petter Hjulstad, Sysco

With 12.2.1 SOA Suite will become even more resilient and supports users to further optimize their applications. Great features like the Curcuit breaker, more insights into internal processing, using IWS, and the E2E JSON support makes this new release even more valuable. From my perspective a further step into the right direction. Sven Bernhardt, Opitz Consulting

Continued investment on REST and valuable improvements on existing features give customers even more choices – Bruno Santos, eProseed

One of the stand-out features for me in SOA Suite 12.2.1 from an operations perspective is Integration Workload Statistics (IWS). Active Session History has transformed how we diagnose application performance problems with the Oracle database and I anticipate IWS will become a key tool for SOA too. This will be especially relevant to SOA Cloud Service as we will have more time to concentrate on tuning and improving the service to our customers. Simon Haslam, Veriton.

Release 12.2.1 can get your organization to a different level of process optimization with tools like IWS and Resilience. Having performance problems? Use IWS to quickly gain insight into potential culprits. Is your system slowing down, caused by temporary malfunctioning parts? Resilience can prevent this for you. Marcel van de Glind, myFMW.

12.2 steps up the game with improved mobile support and new clever administration and monitoring features. Carlos Pona, Link Consulting.

Improved existing features, added many new future prove features for developers and prepared even more for the cloud. That is SOA Suite 12.2.1. Carsten Wiesbaum, esentri

Can’t resist SOA 12c maturity. Easy upgrade! Fevzi Korkutata

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IoT PaaS showcase for Predictive Maintenance by HCL at Oracle OpenWorld2015

October 26, 2015 Leave a comment

Want to see a showcase of the brand new Oracle Internet of Things (IoT cloud service consuming Mobile & Process and Integration Cloud Service? Make sure you visit the Samsung & HCL Demo center at Moscone Center South Exhibition Hall – Booth 1221.

The use case includes the complete flow from fault recognition, gather and diagnose information, repair and settle and schedule preventive maintenance. The whole show case was build on the Oracle PaaS Platform. For more information or in case you can not make it to San Francisco please contact Luis Weir here.

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Introducing the Integration Cloud Service by Robert van Molken

October 25, 2015 Leave a comment

Oracle released some more Cloud offerings and in this article we introduce the Integration Cloud Service. This cloud service lets your organization create integrations between cloud application, but also between cloud and on-premise applications. Create connections to well known and less known SaaS applications using a bunch of cloud adapters, publish or subscribe to the Messaging Cloud Service, or use industry standards like SOAP & REST. The available set of cloud adapters will certainly grow in the future when the marketplace is fully up-and-running.

Why should organizations consider the Cloud?
Let’s get started with the key benefits and features before diving into them more detailed. Why should organizations consider the Cloud?
In this day and age more and more software is going into the cloud, maybe they’re even developed with a cloud-first strategy. Thinks of your CRM, ERP of your HCM application. These applications do not do standalone business they communicate with each other, they exchange information. The Integration Cloud (fno ICS) provides this integrations and does it simplified.

The Cloud has a lot advantages, it is probably the most cost efficient method to use, maintain and upgrade an enterprise service bus. It is available at much cheaper rates and hence, can significantly lower the company’s IT expenses. Besides, there are many pay-as-you-go and other scalable options available, which makes it very reasonable for your organization. Since all your data is stored in the cloud, backing it up and restoring the same is relatively much easier than storing the same on a physical device. Once you register yourself in the cloud, you can access the information from anywhere, where there is an Internet connection.

So what has the Integration Cloud Service to offer to meet these demands?

Simplified UI
ICS gives a web-based, point & click integration experience where you can easily create integrations between Cloud applications, public web services and on-premise applications.

Rich Connectivity
ICS has a standard library of Cloud & On-premise connectors which includes Oracle SaaS applications, but also connectors for the Messaging Cloud Service and industry standards like SOAP and REST.

Recommendations
The mapping builder to create the necessary mappings between the adapter connections has a build-in recommendation engine for guidance how to best map source to target fields.

Visibility & Error Detections
ICS as build-in a rich monitoring and error management. With advanced tracking you can easily spot inconsistencies and monitoring the usage and performance of integrations. It generates alerts, and even emails them, when connections fail to work. With the guided error handling the errors are easy to repair.

Overview of the Integration Cloud Service
Because it is fully web-based you only need to open a browser and go to the URL you received after creating your ICS instance. After signing in to the Integration Cloud Service you are welcomed by the home page. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Magazine V all about PaaS

October 24, 2015 Leave a comment

Welcome to the fifth edition of the SOA Magazine by SOA Community. This edition is focuses on Cloud Computing. More precisely, it highlights Platform as a Service (PaaS). Oracle is in process to launch three new PaaS Cloud Services: Process Cloud Service (PCS), Integration Cloud Service (ICS), and Java Cloud Service (JCS). JCS is the underlying foundation and enables you to build, deploy and run Java Applications. With ICS, partners and customers can build integrations between Applications. For example, an integration between Eloqua marketing and Salesforce CRM including an on-premises SAP system. PCS is the platform to build and execute BPMN process in the Cloud. Oracle’s key unique selling point is that the same software is available as on PaaS as on-premises. For example, you can start building your process in PCS export your application and run it on Oracle BPM Suite on-premises in a private Cloud. This enables customers to start and try a service in PaaS and, if required, move it to a data center of their choice.

The second major trend in IT besides Cloud Computing is Mobile. In this Magazine edition, Luca Jellema published an Tutorial to build a Flight application including mobile integration and application. This application is a great example for the complete Red Stack and we want to encourage your to make use of it! It includes all key components from the underlying WebLogic Server, SOA Suite and Service Bus for IT driven integration and BPM Suite for human based processes up to mobile integration with REST. With this application you will learn to utilize the stack and to gain productivity.

This quarterly newsletter is for both customers and partners who are active in the SOA space. The content includes articles for IT decision makers, architects and developers. The goal of the newsletter is to update you on the latest SOA technologies, market studies, trainings & certifications and conferences. We publish the newsletter in English and some articles will be in Portuguese especially for the Brazilian marketing, thanks to Ricardo Puttini and his team. Contribution is open for everybody! We want to publish your content! Like case studies, best practice, technical examples and solutions and conferences. Feel free to submit your content to Jürgen Kress.

Get the SOA Magazine V here & visit the SOA Community

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Want to run a event on Integration Cloud Service and Process Cloud Service for your customers?

October 23, 2015 Leave a comment

We offer marketing kits to run Integration Cloud Service and Process Cloud Service pre-view events for your customers. This kits include agenda, ppt presentations, marketing support, follow-up material, demo, event promotion. The marketing kits are available at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required):

ICS marketing kit

PCS marketing kit

To promote your event please make sure the you make use of the marketing services and collaborate with your local Oracle partner manager and the whole team including middleware sales, presales, Oracle direct and A&C marketing,

Special thanks to the Amis team who did run the first Hybrid Cloud event end of May in the Netherlands. You can find all details at the Oracle registration page here. Thanks for sharing the Amis keynote slides here and ICS slides here and PCS slides here.

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

October 22, 2015 Leave a comment

· Introduction to Oracle Stream Explorer This white paper presents an introduction to the main features in Oracle Stream Explorer, and provides step-by-step instructions for using Stream Explorer to build a basic sample application. Read the white paper.

· Video: Reusable Templates in Oracle SOA Suite 12c Oracle University senior principal instructor Joe Greenwald delivers a 2 Minute Tech Tip focused on the reusability of templates in Oracle SOA Suite 12c. Read the article.

· Reminder: Upgrade EBS 12.2 to FMW 11.1.1.7 Oracle periodically produces Fusion Middleware patchsets — cumulative collections of fixes — between major product releases. All Oracle customers have 24 months to upgrade from the prior patchset when a later patchset is released. This is called the "grace period." You cannot request new patches for the prior patchset after the grace period ends. Get the details.

Cloud Platform Online Forum On demand

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On Wearables

October 21, 2015 Leave a comment

See how wearables like the smartwatch fit into Oracle’s user experience strategy — specifically our “glance, scan, commit” design philosophy — from the Usable Apps blog.

Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley also comments on wearables for Oracle’s Profit magazine in “Sensing the Future.”

Gurbinder Bali from the JD Edwards team offers up a whitepaper on wearables.

And for more on “glance, scan, commit” design philosophy, head to the UKOUG’s online magazine, Oracle Scene, for “A User Interface Philosophy.”

ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: Get your monthly dose of emerging technology excitement from the AppsLab team with several posts on what we’re doing next. Notice the research on wearables, including the Apple Watch:

UX EVENTS: Visit the Usable Apps blog to find out where we’ve been lately, and what you can expect if you attend an event that features the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team!

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SOA & BPM Community Newsletter October 2015

October 20, 2015 1 Comment

Dear SOA & BPM Partner Community member,

Are you ready for Oracle OpenWorld 2015? In this newsletter you find same tips to prepare OOW 2015. Highlights are the middleware & cloud demo grounds and our Community Reception. At the cloud demo you can get your first impression of the brand new SOA Cloud Service or you request your cloud Paas demo via our community workspace (membership required).

With the launch of SOA Cloud Service the Oracle PaaS platform get’s more and more complete. You as a partner can choose what fits best for your use case. E.g. for SaaS and applications Integration Cloud Service (ICS) and cloud adapters are a good fit. In case you need more SOA Suite functionality e.g. BPEL for orchestration in the cloud, SOA Cloud Service is a good fit. Or in other words if you know Clemens Utschig-Utschig it’s SOA Cloud Service… Keep in mind the Oracle USP is the choice of location, a hybrid approach if development & test systems in the cloud and production on-premises might be the best fit. In this scenario you as a partner can offer managed service for the complete on-premises platform. Make sure You get trained on SOA Cloud Service and develop your consulting service offerings based on Oracle PaaS. A great example is the HCL paper Successfully Migrating to the Oracle Cloud.Thanks for the community and product management to share the initial impressions of SOA Cloud Service: Scott Haaland, Simon Haslam and Gene Eun.

Demos are key within the sales process. Make use of our free hosted SOA Suite 12c free demo service at GSE, use the VirtualBox VM for SOA Suite 12.1.3 or go for the Docker option. At GSE demo.oracle.com you can also request your PaaS demo service! A great service revenue opportunity for you as a partner is to upgrade existing customers to SOA Suite 12.1.3. The integration success workshop material includes industry value propositions and demos to showcase the new features like Stream Explorer, Managed File Transfer and API Management. For Managed File Transfer new samples and demos are available and two free partner workshops in Munich and London are open for registration.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the SOA articles: BAM 12c Series & SOA Top Tips #1 – Using a common XQuery Function Library & Apply SOA/BPM Bundle Patch 3 & Configuration Plans for SOA Suite 12c & OSB 12Bus performance management & monitoring & IoT Is Already Here & IoT hands-on workshop.

In the BPM Section Oracle OpenWorld is also the highlight which will focus on Process Cloud Service (PCS). In case you want to learn more about PCS and how to position it attend our PCS free online sales training and thanks to Dan the getting Started with PCS. For the hands-on training you can request a PCS GSE demo server here. PCS is a great start for new customers to start with process documentation & reporting. In a second step you can sell more consulting services by building executable processes and when the customer grows to build a hybrid process solution where you can run the same processes on an on-premises BPM Suite instance. Want to get more new ideas how to sell BPM Suite and generate more service revenue? Take a look at the BPM Suite customer success deck and get our BPM sales kit.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the BPM articles: BPM Bundle Patch 12.1.3.0.4 released & Case management supporting re-landscaping & Business Architecture Demo for BPM Suite 12c & Eliminating Configuration Drift for Oracle SOA and BPM Projects & BPM 12c Subprocesses (Part 1 of 3): Reusable Subprocess.

In our last section Architecture & AppAdvantage is also about our new PaaS for SaaS Demos. And we know you Partners ♥ UX Innovation Events. Make sure you visit the UX team during OOW!

Thanks to you the community for3 new books full of middleware knowledge sharing: API Management Implementation 12c & Design Principles for Process-driven Architectures Using Oracle BPM and SOA Suite 12c and

Oracle Case Management Solutions. For additional books about middleware please visit our SOA wiki and BPM wiki.

Yes this newsletter is again long – make sure you read it! For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware Partner Updates on YouTube. The October edition of the Middleware Partner Update is all about Oracle OpenWorld 2015. For the latest news from Oracle OpenWorld join our Community Webcast October 27^th 2015.

See You in San Francisco!

Jürgen Kress

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