Quarterly Updates by Phil Wilkins

February 11, 2022 Leave a comment

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The update regime for Integration Cloud is well established in its quarterly pattern, but within that pattern are two update cycles, separated by two weeks. It is possible to choose which cycle your OIC instance update will be executed in. If you don’t specify which cycle then by default you will be put into the second cycle.

For production deployments of OIC that makes a lot of sense. But we would recommend that your non-production instance be part of the 1st update cycle. This allows you two weeks to validate and fix any issues in the event that the upgrade breaks any of your integrations. While that shouldn’t happen if you are exploiting an undocumented behaviour or something reported as a bug there is always a risk.

So the obvious question is how to define which update cycle should be used. For OCI Gen 2 (the majority of users should have migrated to now), the control is achieved by setting a freeform tag on the OIC instance. The tag needs to be called OIC_UPDATE_WINDOW1 (note – if you don’t read the Oracle documentation carefully you could end up omitting the numeral) and the value can be left blank. The tags are set on the OCI view for your OIC instance, which has a tabbed view as you can see below. Once the value is set then the OCI view will show an Updating status – this is not to be confused with the OIC instance being updated with the latest quarterly changes.

All of this shows up in blog (here and script fragment here) and a documentation (here). What is less apparent is the lead time needed for the tag to be in place. This is in the order of 7 or more weeks. This means you need to have your OIC dev instance in place almost a full quarter before the opportunity is available, and spinning up a new OIC instance and expecting it to immediately adopt the latest version during the maintenance window isn’t going to solve any problems.

How to confirm the instance version

The related question is where to look for the version of OIC is running. The information is only provided in the instance console rather then the OCI View of OIC. The version information is available as part of the drop down visible on the question mark icon at the top right of the UI, as the following screenshots show: Read the complete article here.

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Integration & Process Partner Community Newsletter February 2022

February 10, 2022 Leave a comment

Dear PaaS Partner Community

Every day we publish a blog post with the latest integration and process automation news. Subscribe to our blog to receive the updates. You want to share your best practices and success stories? Please send them via twitter #PaaSCommunity. We will like and retweet and promote them here in our monthly newsletter. Thanks for all your excellent contributions in 2021! Our top content last year:

· Blog post: Get started with your free Oracle Application Integration Learning Subscription and schedule your free certification exam!

· YouTube video: Chatbot introduction and hands-on Workshops with Oracle Digital Assistant part 1 of 4

· Tweet: ODTUG Kscope22 Abstract Submission is Open!

For the latest Oracle Integration Update and roadmap please register for the Partner Technical Forum, our annual conference for consultants, developers and architects. The goal is the update you on the last Oracle Cloud Platform services. You can choose between 9 tracks including Integration to connect SaaS and Conversational AI to build bots with Oracle Digital Assistant. The online conference will take place March 22nd, 23rd and 24th 2022.

To get started with Oracle integration we will offer 10 hands-on bootcamps in the next 5 months. Registration is open for the trainings in US & Canada, Asia, Brazil, EMEA and India. For additional workshops please visit our community website here (free membership required).

Thanks to the community for sharing all the integration articles: Barrick Gold modernizes HCM with Oracle Integration – Webcast February 16th 2022 & SOA 2022 Modernization Overview & Oracle Hospitality from Reservation to Check In – Part I & Oracle Hospitality from Reservation to Check In – Part II & Build retry logic in Oracle Integration & OCI Anomaly Detection Service & OIC – Part I & Call VB Business Objects from Oracle Integration & Oracle Integration invoking OCI Functions (python) – Part 1 Creating the python function & Oracle Integration invoking OCI Functions (python) – Part 2 – Creating the OIC Integration Speed up your Accounting Closing Cycle with automated loading of Payable Invoices into Oracle ERP Cloud, using Oracle Integration Cloud & Using FlexDeploy with Oracle Integration Cloud A Customer Success Story & Book Birthday.

In the process & innovation section we published the getting Started with Oracle Process Cloud Service online course!

For a short summery of our monthly key information watch the PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The February edition highlights the Oracle Technical Forum and how Barrick Gold modernizes HCM with Integration. In this month’s community webcast Juan Carlos Gonzalez Carreroe & Thrasos Thrasyvoulou will present Multi-Cloud Integration between Oracle SaaS and MS Azure using Oracle Integration. Please join the PaaS Partner Community Webcast February 22nd 2022. On-demand webcast recordings are available at the Oracle Video Hub.

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Oracle Named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service for the Fifth Year in a Row by Amit Saxena

February 9, 2022 Leave a comment

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We are proud to announce that Oracle has been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service” report for five consecutive years.

Read the Press Release: Oracle Named a Leader Five Years Running in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service.

According to Gartner, “Enterprise integration platform as a service (EiPaaS) is a combination of integration technology functionalities that are delivered as a suite of cloud services and designed to support enterprise-class integration initiatives. An EiPaaS provider offers high availability, disaster recovery, security, SLAs and technical support. It also enables users to develop and execute multiple integration scenarios by providing support for multiple personas. The EiPaaS vendor must fully manage platform operations, patching and upgrades.”

We are grateful to our global ecosystem of customers and partners for helping us deliver what it takes to speed time to value and increase the collaboration between technical and business experts with rapid iteration. Speed, reliability, scalability, and cost reduction are what we’ve heard matter most to enterprise modernization success.

  • “There were 2,000+ applications across these three companies. Being able to leverage out-of-the-box was a key factor for us.” – Bill Roy, Senior Director of EPM and Business Intelligence at Western Digital
  • “Point to point integrations were taking us 31 days, and that’s a significant amount of software development and engineering time. After Oracle Integration, that whole process is down to one or two days and it’s repeatable and it’s scalable.” – Marc Murphy, CEO at Atlatl Software
  • “All the data flow between stores and manufacturing is much easier because the systems know each other very well.” – Luca Del Din, Senior Vice President Retail EMEA at Luxottica. Read the complete article here.

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Cloud Platform Partner YouTube Update February 2022

February 8, 2022 Leave a comment

 

The February video includes three topics:

• Partner Technical Forum

• Barrick Gold modernizes HCM with Integration

• Multi-Cloud Integration Webcast

For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. Thanks for your likes and sharing the video on YouTube and LinkedIn. For the latest integration & process information please join the PaaS community.

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My private corner – Top content 2022

February 7, 2022 Leave a comment

imageThanks to the community for your wonderful contribution in 2021. Every day we publish a blog post with your best practices articles & customer success. Subscribe to our blog to receive the latest integration & process automation updates. Want to share & promote your posts? Please send them via twitter at #PaaSCommunity!

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Additional new content Cloud Platform Partner Community

February 6, 2022 Leave a comment

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Synchronous versus Fire-and-Forget Process to Process Invocation by Jan Kettenis

February 5, 2022 Leave a comment

imageIn the following article I explain why you should implement a Structured to Structured Process call as synchronous when you need that call to be recoverable in case of an issue.

To call a Structured Process (that is initiated by a Message Start event) from another one, there are 2 ways to do so (actually there are 3 if you count in the Micro Process feature but that is a variation of one of these, I suspect the first):

  • Using the /ic/api/process/v1/processes API
  • Using the WSDL of the called process

I typically do the latter, as I find it to be simpler than using the API because importing the WSDL involves an automatic import of the XSD schema containing the request definition. Copy & paste of the WSDL URL and you’re done and when the interface changes, all I have to do is re-import the schema (in contrast, when using the API I have to manually figure out the proper JSON sample).

However, whichever way you use both concern a web service based interface, which you can configure to invoke in one of two ways:

  • As Fire-and-Forget
  • As synchronous (request/response)

Question is which one to use? The answer is simple: use synchronous in case there is no callback and you want to be sure the invocation either succeeds or can be recovered when it fails. If you don’t care, use Fire-and-Forget. Read on to find out why.
First let me point out the Fire-and-Forget Enterprise Integration Pattern. As it will tell you, in case of Fire-and-Forget error handling is not possible and you would need some Guaranteed Delivery mechanism to prevent the risk of losing messages. Mind that web service based invocation is not message based (which would involve using a Message Channel and with that typically an Invalid Message Channel to capture bad messages). So, in case of Fire-and-Forget there will be the risk of running into a non-recoverable error (hence the conclusion). OIC has no "magic feature" supporting recovery from failed invocations to Fire-and-Forget web services. And mind you, this is consistent with the pattern. Read the complete article here.

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Partner Technical Community Forum 2022 Connect & Extend SaaS with Oracle Integration March 22nd – 25th 2022

February 4, 2022 Leave a comment

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For the latest Oracle Integration Update and roadmap please register for the Partner Technical Forum, our annual conference for consultants, developers and architects. The goal is the update you on the last Oracle Cloud Platform services. Why should you attend?

  • The #PaaSForum is a must! Rob de Gouw, Darwin IT-Professionals
  • It’s better than going to OOW. José Rodrigues, Link Consulting
  • Excellent content & speakers to become a PaaS expert. Sanae Bekkar, Easyteam
  • Four days of amazing insight & info from the top Oracle talent not just from EMEA but globally. Phil Wilkins, Capgemini
  • One event you can’t miss if working on PaaS. Atul Kumar, K21 Academy
  • The partner community forum is the place to be! It’s a must for partners. James Neate, Capgemini
  • 3rd year attending and will be back. Mark Squires, BPI On Demand Ltd

Please join the Connect & Extend SaaS with Oracle Integration track as part of our Partner Technical Forum.

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) offers Integration, Process Automation and Visual design capabilities that help business analysts and IT specialists to automate end-to-end business processes across departments. Oracle Integration Cloud offers a simple recipe to be successful in this application integration and process automation journey: Build, Integrate and Engage.

Agenda

March 22nd 2022 8:00-11:00 PST

8:00 Welcome & partner success – Jürgen Kress

8.15 Cloud Platform keynotes

9:15 Wrap-up and introduction breakout sessions

March 23rd 2022 8:00-11:00 PST

8:00 Welcome & introduction – Jürgen Kress

8:15 Next Generation Oracle Integration – Suhas Uliyar & team

9:15 Coffee break

9:30 Integrate SaaS (ERP, HCM, CX, 3rd party and custom applications) – Antony Reynolds & Niall Commiskey

11:00 Summery & wrap up day 1 – Jürgen Kress

March 24th 2022 8:00-11:00 PST

8:00 Welcome Day 2 – Jürgen Kress

8:05 Adapters & Accelerators & Recipes – Michael Meiner

9:00 Business Process Management – Arvind Venugopal

9:30 API Management – Robert Wunderlich

10:00 Coffee break

10:05 Data integration platform – Peter Inzana

10:30 Extend SaaS with Visual Builder – Shay Shmeltzer

11:00 Summery & wrap up – Jürgen Kress

March 25th 2022 8:00 – 11:00

Oracle Integration hands-on live labs, Nathan Angstadt & team

For details please visit the registration page here.

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Multi-Cloud Integration between Oracle SaaS and MS Azure using Oracle Integration Join the PaaS Partner Community Webcast February 22nd 2022

February 3, 2022 Leave a comment

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In this session, we are going to see a short brief of multi-cloud integration use cases/patterns that we have worked on with some customers, and a live demo story showing how we can feed an Azure Datawarehouse with data coming from an Oracle SaaS (ERP Cloud, Eloqua Cloud), using the pre-built connectors & low-code integration features of Oracle Integration Cloud, and the low-code streaming approach of Oracle Cloud Streaming.

Speakers: Juan Carlos Gonzalez Carreroe & Thrasos Thrasyvoulou

Schedule: February 22nd 2022 16:30-17:30 CET (Berlin time)

For details please visit the registration page here.

Take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand:

· DevOps with FlexDeploy for Oracle Integration LHR customer case study

· Advance your Career! How to become a certified Oracle Cloud Platform expert?

· Connect Opera Cloud to the World

· Helping you build awesome digital assistant experience

· Innovate PeopleSoft with an intelligent chat assistant

· Adapters Oracle Integration & Advantco

· How to connect your B2B ecosystem using Oracle Integration

· Connect, Innovate & Extend SaaS Partner Launch

· Oracle Cloud Platform Partner Launch Webcast on-demand

· Oracle Visual Builder What’s New

· Accelerate your chatbot projects with Oracle Digital Assistant Templates

· Identity Propagation call from Integration Cloud to Oracle SaaS Applications

· Extreme Scalability and Enhanced Resilience for OIC

· SOA Modernization

· How Process Workflow can extend the role of Integration

· Innovate Service Cloud with Chatbots

· Chatbot Design best practices for Conversational UX

· Integration Insight

· Innovate HCM with Chatbots

· ERP Integration with Application Adapters

· HCM Integration with Application Adapters

· Extend SaaS with Visual Builder Cloud Service

· Integration Adapters

· Integrate SaaS

For the latest information please visit Community Website (Community membership required).

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Integrate SaaS hands-on Bootcamps Webtraining: Europe Middle East & Africa February 15th, 17th & 22nd 2022

February 2, 2022 Leave a comment

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Oracle Product Management is pleased to invite Oracle Partners to attend a 3-days hands-on workshop on how to integrate with ERP & HCM applications using Oracle Integration Cloud. This Invite-Only hands-on workshop will be delivered at No-Fee to Partners. It will consist of presentations, demos, and hands-on labs.

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) offers Integration, Process Automation and Visual design capabilities that help business analysts and IT specialists to automate end to end business processes across departments. Oracle Integration Cloud offers a simple recipe to be successful in this application integration and process automation journey: Build, Integrate and Engage.

Schedule:

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