What is the Power of Cloud? (to the Business) By Dave Berry

September 10, 2015 Leave a comment

 

Of course many readers, technologists and businesses are acutely aware of the value prop of the cloud but what about the rest of the "majority" of people who don’t? If you do a search on this topic, you will mostly get links to marketing materials that are fairly high level and full of the usual buzzwords with more links to lengthy case studies. As a business technology enabler, there needs to be a simpler message or elevator pitch that is easy to understand yet convincing. Ah, the simplicity or less is more approach rears it’s beautiful head once again. Below are some recipes to draw from for an elevator ride of any duration.

The Enterprise Cloud Reduces Business Outages Increasing Customer Satisfaction

Put simply and avoiding technical acronyms, can the business rely on 99.99+% availability from the cloud? Look no further than Netflix as an example because yes the cloud is certainly up to the task.

Immediate Availability Gives You a Your Competitive Edge (for now)

Back in the day, Dell drove industry change by assembling computers on demand reducing inventories and wrecking havoc on computer storefronts. Well the cloud equivalent is to be able to go to the cloud store, answer a few questions, enter your credit info and within 1 hour or less you are up and running.

A Right Sized Business Reduces Time, Headaches and Cost

You may wonder what this is? It takes many forms but to me you have to ask does the business get what it paid for? No more shelf ware and complicated upgrade processes. You need more capacity for certain business cycles, zoom it’s there. You need more storage, of course that is automated. You think Apple and other retailers have to turn on any switches to increase capacity? Maybe they do now but they shouldn’t.

Business Friendly User Interfaces Decreases Time to Market

Your thinking mobile and that is certainly true but it is much more than that. This is the type of disruptive technology that could put technologists like me out of work. Non-technical end users must be able to build and deploy apps that previously required a CS degree and many years of experience. Consider how Smart Data cloud initiatives are disrupting Big Data. Nate Silver, beware.

Build a Nimble Business by Thinking Small

The cloud is all about modularity, extensibility and continuous release cycles. A/B testing drives micro feature planning rendering the traditional roadmap virtually useless. In a fully optimized environment, features will show up before you even have a chance to request them. Social tools will drive this change more than traditional communication channels and you have to be on top of it because your competition sure is. Read the complete article here.

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Want to run a joint PaaS customer pre-view event?

September 10, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002For Specialized partners we do offer marketing kits and support to run joint customer pre-view events for Process Cloud Service (PCS) and Integration Cloud Service (ICS). Campaign kits include presentations, agenda, demos, follow-up material and event promotion. At the SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted the:

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Cloud Resell Program Oracle Partner Network

September 9, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002For partners interested in building recurring revenue selling Oracle Cloud services, the Oracle Cloud Resell program enables partners to participate in the lifetime value of the subscription including add-on, upgrade and renewal opportunities.

The Oracle Cloud Resell program offers recurring revenue from the ongoing Cloud Service that your resell. In the resell program, you – the partner, own the relationship and you participate in the entire lifetime value of the contract. You also benefit from delivering implementation and consulting services with the knowledge obtained through the Oracle specialization program. This is revenue direct to your bottom line and can be seamlessly bundled in the Cloud Service subscription price to the end customer.

Requirements to Resell Cloud Services
  1. Be an Oracle PartnerNetwork member in good standing (Gold or higher) with a valid OPN Agreement
  2. Meet the resale competency criteria set forth within each of the Knowledge Zones (listed below)
  3. Execute a Full Use Program Distribution Agreement (FUDA) from the Oracle Partner Store
  4. Execute a Cloud Services Distribution Addendum (CSDA) to the FUDA by contacting a Partner Business Center representative

Read more about the OPN Cloud program here.

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September 7, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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PaaS and SaaS: Perfect Together by Debra Lilley

September 6, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Platform as a service, or PaaS, is exciting a lot of our customers—not just those who want to move to the cloud, but also those who see PaaS as a way to build applications faster and more efficiently. As Oracle releases more development tools in the cloud, I believe that PaaS will become the de facto way to extend software as a service (SaaS).

First, let’s explore some of the major benefits of PaaS. With PaaS, you no longer have to worry about the cost and time associated with maintaining hardware or a data center. By bypassing the setup required for a development environment, your organization will achieve faster time to value on projects. Most PaaS offerings are on a consumption model: Much like buying gas, you fill up only when you need to, and you pay for only what you use. Finally, the quick-start, user-friendly, cloud-based development tools enable and foster continuous innovation.

In my work for Certus Solutions, a leader in Oracle Cloud implementations in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, I have been particularly interested in “PaaS4SaaS,” which is the ability to extend Oracle’s cloud platform and applications with our own mini applications and have them seamlessly co-exist. Here are a few points I’ve observed for Oracle customers looking to do the same. Read the complete article here.

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Fusion HCM Cloud Bulk Integration Automation by Jack Desai

September 5, 2015 Leave a comment

 

Introduction

clip_image002Fusion HCM Cloud provides a comprehensive set of tools, templates, and pre-packaged integration to cover various scenarios using modern and efficient technologies. One of the patterns is the bulk integration to load and extract data to/from cloud. The inbound tool is the File Based data loader (FBL) evolving into HCM Data Loaders (HDL). HDL supports data migration for full HR, incremental load to support co-existence with Oracle Applications such as E-Business Suite (EBS) and PeopleSoft (PSFT). It also provides the ability to bulk load into configured flexfields. HCM Extracts is an outbound integration tool that let’s you choose data, gathers and archives it. This archived raw data is converted into a desired format and delivered to supported channels recipients.

HCM cloud implements Oracle WebCenter Content, a component of Fusion Middleware, to store and secure data files for both inbound and outbound bulk integration patterns. This post focuses on how to automate data file transfer with WebCenter Content to initiate the loader. The same APIs will be used to download data file from the WebCenter Content delivered through the extract process.

WebCenter Content replaces SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server in the cloud as a content repository in Fusion HCM starting with Release 7+. There are several ways of importing and exporting content to and from Fusion Applications such as:

  • Upload using “File Import and Export” UI from home page navigation: Navigator > Tools
  • Upload using WebCenter Content Document Transfer Utility
  • Upload programmatically via Java Code or Web Service API

This post provides an introduction, with working sample code, on how to programmatically export content from Fusion Applications to automate the outbound integration process to other applications in the cloud or on-premise. A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) composite is implemented to demonstrate the concept.

Main Article

Fusion Applications Security in WebCenter Content

The content in WebCenter Content is secured through users, roles, privileges and accounts. The user could be any valid user with a role such as “Integration Specialist.” The role may have privileges such as read, write and delete. The accounts are predefined by each application. For example, HCM uses /hcm/dataloader/import and /hcm/dataloader/export respectively.

Let’s review the inbound and outbound batch integration flows.

Inbound Flow

This is a typical Inbound FBL process flow: Read the complete article here.

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Managed File Transfer (MFT) free hands-on workshops September USA

September 4, 2015 Leave a comment

Oracle Managed File Transfer (Oracle MFT) enables secure file exchange and management with internal departments and external partners. It protects against inadvertent access to unsecured files at every step in the end-to-end transfer of files. It is easy to use especially for non technical staff so you can leverage more resources to manage the transfer of files. The built in extensive reporting capabilities allow you to get quick status of a file transfer and resubmit it as required.

This FREE hands-on workshop covers all the capabilities you need to build robust, reliable and agile managed file transfers.

Sept 10th &11th at Redwood Shores, CA

Sept 17th  and 18th  at Reston, VA

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Fusion HCM Integration by Kiran Mundy

September 4, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Because of frequent questions from HCM customers on how they can use BPEL to integrate with Fusion HCM, I’ve put together the details here

Your orchestration layer is the software [such as Oracle’s SOA BPEL or BPM Studio] you currently already use, to wire together Fusion HCM Loader/Extract programs to other apps.

SOA/BPEL
Companies already using SOA/BPEL can just add Fusion HCM into the mix.
Steps to accomplish this are below:.

INBOUND TO FUSION HCM

  1. BPEL’s "File Adapter" to read the data in.
  2. BPEL’s Transform Activity with Domain Value Maps to transform the data.
  3. You need to get the UCM Service exposed externally (In Rel10 it will be exposed, but on Rel9, you’ll need to do the following):
    1. File an SR requesting Fusion HCM to perform a Key Exchange – Aside from allowing you to send "encrypted" files into Fusion, this step will also result in the UCM Service being exposed externally.
      • Ensure you file the SR under Oracle Cloud Global Human Resources Cloud Service.
      • Choose Hosting Services – Application -> Encryption Key Exchange
  4. Use BPEL to Invoke the UCM Soap Service to write the File into UCM.
  1. Invoke the HCM Loader Programs passing them the encryption parameter along with other required parameters.
    • FBL wsdl is the following form: https:// <Hostname>/LoaderIntegrationService?WSDL
    • HDL wsdl is the following form: https:// <Hostname>/hcmCommonDataLoader/HCMDataLoader?wsdl
  2. Find out which user privileges you must assign to the users who call these web services in OER: https://fusionappsoer.oracle.com
  3. Sample Payloads for the above services are available here. [You can enter comments into the sample payloads doc if you find any issues].
  4. Later when REST Services are available (Release 9 Patch Bundle 6 under "controlled availability" most likely), for your lighter weight inbound integrations, such as Fusion/Taleo, you will have the option to switch #3/4/5 to a REST service call to create/update the employee in Fusion. NOTE: Cco-existence scenarios should continue to use batch loaders because:
    • Performance Reasons – services won’t perform as well under heavy loads
    • The breadth of data needed for co-existence isn’t covered (or intended to be covered) by the REST Services.

OUTBOUND FROM FUSION HCM Read the complete article here

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Finally My PaaS4SaaS Workshop Blog by Debra Lilley

September 3, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002I know this posting is a bit late but at the end of January I took part in a proof of concept workshop for PaaS4Sass and it’s been a rollercoaster ride ever since.

When I was thinking about moving to Certus one of the things that attracted me was there intent to write extensions for Oracle’s CloudApplications using the just announced PaaS4SaaS solution.

I attended Oracle Open World with an open mind and trying to learn as much as I could about the solutions. The Larry Ellison demo was really impressive but then Oracle has always been a brilliant marketing company.

I came back to UK and set about validating what was available, some of the components Database and Java Cloud had been available for a while but I wanted or would want to also use the Process and Integration Cloud offerings.

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am an OracleApplications User Experience advocate and am very committed to the user experience work that goes into Oracle Cloud Applications. Extensions delivered by Certus will have this same user experience and I made this video on the half of Certus.

The user experience team have been given funding by Thomas Kurian who is personally committed to making PaaS4SaaS work, to carry out a number of proof of concept workshops with Oracle partners. The UX team asked Certus to be part of this. Certus have not been a development company and so in the same way customers come to us because we are the best at implementing cloud applications we looked for a partner to help us with development, and weselected eProseed who have the same commitment to UX as we do.

The workshop took place in London at the end of January with four people from each of Oracle UX, eProceed and Certus taking part. We work through a use-case taken from an existing Application from one of our customers who is considering modernising this and moving it to the cloud. In three days we were able to build a working application and prove to ourselves that when the customer says, “go” we will be able to deliver what they need.

Oracle UX team have in their blog already covered the workshop and I have also written about it in the AppAdvantage blog I am a guest author for. The following month I took part in the Partner SOA Community Forum in Budapest when we had the opportunity to work with product management teams of both the Process and Integration Cloud offerings and further validate our approach, understanding the possibilities and the constraints. The UX team also had a stand there. I was very pleased on behalf off both Certus and eProceed to accept the first Community Cloud award. These awards are a bit like the Oscars and awarded to individuals Lonneke from eProseed and myself, however we had a similar thank you to all those involved in our acceptance speech. The Community Leader Jurgen Kress said: I awarded my first SOA Community Outstanding Contribution for Cloud to Debra Lilley of Certus Solutions and Lonneke Dikmanns of eProseed because they not only took on board the messaging of PaaS 4 SaaS from the last Oracle Open World, but also their collaboration between an Applications partner and a Middleware partner, sought out answers and training and with Oracle Development giving feedback and  validating their approach in this area. All good things but bringing that back to the community and sharing is the outstanding contribution. Read the complete article here.

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How to fix java.io.InvalidClassException error when accessing Oracle ACM Case API via Jdeveloper by Vikram Bailur

September 2, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Here is a quick and useful tip. This was an error I got when I was running a custom java client to query the Oracle Adaptive Case Management API.

From a sort-of related metalink on Oracle which says :

Although the problem couldn’t be recreated by the development team on demand, from the exception is clear that the root cause of the problem is the differnce of the version of the org.eclipse.persistence jar distributed with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle WLS.

I figured this was something to do with the version of eclipselink libraries currently running on the soa server were different from Jdeveloper install.

In my JDeveloper project, I had some libraries and classpath pointing to my JDeveloper install and some others pointing to my SOA middleware home install for example. Read the complete article here.

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