Applications User Experience OpenWorld 2016 results

December 4, 2016 Leave a comment

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See what the Oracle Applications User Experience (#OAUX) team did during Oracle OpenWorld 2016 in San Francisco in September on the Voice of User Experience blog, or VoX, where we’ve reposted our most recent Storify collection. Here’s a short summary of the big stuff:

 The OAUX Cloud Exchange, where the OAUX team demos near-future and future concepts, was extended to three days this year. Participants included Oracle partners, industry analysts, private customer tours, global media, legislators learning about technology, and a robot, which was part of an emerging technologies demo on virtual reality.

 Several Cloud UX demos and messages popped up in general sessions, like the Oracle ERP Cloud. The simplified UI designs central to the Cloud user experience were a new and exciting story to share with ERP customers, so we saw it in several sessions. For more user experience excitement, this time in the Oracle HCM Cloud general session, check out this tweet showing a voice demo from the OAUX team. (The audience actually applauded.)

 About 250 people came through lab tours at Oracle Headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., and nearly 100 customers and partners participated in customer feedback sessions, focus groups and a design jam at the onsite lab.

 A new UX Rapid Development Kit (RDK) was also announced in time for OpenWorld. Read about what’s available now in this post on the Usable Apps blog.

 The OAUX IoT workshops, a joint project with the Oracle Technology Network (OTN), pulled in about 200 people who attended workshops during three days at both JavaOne and OpenWorld conferences. More tweets are on Twitter, including a short video by ACE Director Tim Hall, who is using the chip that the AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, provided post-show. He also wrote about it in this post. The AppsLab team wrote about their experiences on their blog as well.

ORACLE HCM CLOUD: In September Aylin Uysal, Senior Director, HCM User Experience, was part of an Oracle Partner Network Partner Cast. She discussed Oracle’s HCM UX strategy with host Jonathan Vinoskey, Director of Global Partner Enablement, HCM Cloud, Oracle Sales and Partner Academy.

Aylin also points to a recent video from industry analyst Holger Mueller from the Constellation Group, where he talks about what makes a great user experience.

STRATEGY DAY WITH ACE DIRECTORS: During OpenWorld, the OAUX team held a special Strategy Day for several hand-picked ACE Directors who are interested in the Oracle cloud user experience. For a look at what they took away from that daylong meeting, read these posts:

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Red Summer School is on! – run a PaaS workshop for your university!

December 3, 2016 Leave a comment

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Want to recruit new employees? Want to try PaaS? Run a Summer School training like Link Consulting.

Link Consulting’s Red Summer School on Oracle technologies on the Cloud is on! Teams Alfa, Beta and Delta have been working hard, mentored by our BPM and ECM business manager, Oracle ACE Associate and founder of Red Mavericks, José Rodrigues.

Earlier on this week they learnt the concept of REST APIs using Postman and SoapUI and testing interaction with Twitter API.

They then started working on Database Cloud Service, creating the data model that supports the voting application they’ve started working on today (that allows people to choose the artists that will be performing at a given event – cool, right?) and displaying the REST services on the transactions of these data.

During the last couple of days José introduced students to Oracle ICS and PCS. They built integration between Custom REST API and Gmail API and also with Twitter, this time based on Oracle ICS, and created a simple business process for car loan approvals.

José is satisfied with his students’ motivation: “The students are experimenting these platforms for the first time and really seem to enjoy what they’re doing. At the moment they are starting to connect the pieces and are truly enthusiastic about it.”

You go, teams! It’s been a close race so far. Who will win it? Read the complete article here.

Interested to run a Summer School for your university or customer? Feel free to contact myself.

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Podcast Show Notes: Building a Real Cloud Solution by Bob Rhubart

December 3, 2016 Leave a comment

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This program was recorded on Wednesday, September 21, 2016, during Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. "During" is the operative word, since the podcast was actually recorded in my hotel room, several blocks from Moscone Center, where OOW16 was held. The topic was suggested by Oracle ACE and frequent OTN contributor Arturo Viveros, who, along with other panelists, was in town for the big Oracle event. Listen.

The Panelists

Oracle ACE Arturo Viveros
Principal Architect, SYSCO AS, Norway

Oracle ACE Director Ron Batra
Senior Director, Innovation, CTO Office, Equinix, USA

Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans
Managing Partner, eProseed, Netherlands

Oracle ACE Director Sten Vesterli
Principal, More Than Code, Denmark

Oracle ACE Rolando Carrasco
Co-Owner, SOA Principal Architect, Services & Processes Solutions, Mexico

Oracle ACE Director Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Managing Partner, eProseed, Netherlands

Oracle ACE Director Simon Haslam
Technical Director, Partner, eProseed, UK
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Integration Cloud Service 16.4.1 Fall Release available including free trials for Partners

November 29, 2016 Leave a comment

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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:

imageA 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:

imageThe 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

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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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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

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

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Vice President Product Management

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Visit the registration page here.

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Schedule:

November 29th 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 27th 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

· Microservices

· Stream Explorer

· Process Cloud Service V2

· SOA Suite 12.2.1

· Oracle OpenWorld 2015 update

· SOA & API Cloud Service

· Solutions Catalog & Cloud Marketplace

· GSE demo systems

· Hybrid sales plays

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PaaS Podcast Series – The Oracle Process Cloud by Leon Smiers and Jeroen van Essen

November 19, 2016 Leave a comment

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In this series we will walk through different cloud products and how SaaS and PaaS can be combined together and their use in different projects.
In this podcast we would like to introduce you to Oracle Process Cloud to a wider audience. Oracle Process Cloud is the part of Oracle PaaS Cloud and it focuses on delivering processes in Cloud.

This episode features Leon Smiers, Solution Architect in Capgemini and Oracle ACE and Jeroen van Essen, Capgemini BPM Specialist. Listen to the podcast here.

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Process Cloud Service (PCS) – Release 16.1.3 (February) and Process Mobile App 2.0 is available

November 18, 2016 Leave a comment

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What’s New!

  • New Pricing Metrics
  • Sample Apps
  • Process Conversations
  • Enhanced Local and Remote App Deployment
  • New Tablet App
  • Start Process App from Mobile

New Pricing Metrics:

PCS pricing has moved to a 3-tier hosted named user model to accommodate varying levels of process service interaction from those who require full access to composition and management capabilities, to participants assigned review and approval tasks, to those whose interactions are limited to making service requests. This new pricing model helps maintain competitive pricing in use cases where there are large numbers of casual users. Below are the subscription pricing details. Metered pricing uses the same metrics at 2x the cost.

Oracle Process Cloud:

· $100 per Hosted Named User per Month

· Defined as a named user who can access analytics, compose applications and manage lifecycle

· Required minimum of 10 Users, 12-Months minimum contract

· Requires Oracle Process Cloud – Participant User

Oracle Process Cloud – Participant User:

· $30 per Hosted Named User per Month

· Defined as a named user who can participate in process approvals and tracking

· Required minimum of 10 Users, 12-Months minimum contract

· Requires Oracle Process Cloud

Oracle Process Cloud – Invocation User:

· $3 per Hosted Named User per Month

· Defined as a named user who can initiate a process and query status and notifications

· No minimum required – minimum of 100 Users if purchased, 12-Months minimum contract

· Requires Oracle Process Cloud

Sample Apps:

Sample Apps provide a quick and easy way to create and configure fully functional Process Apps with minimal technical knowhow. PCS includes a catalog of predefined ready to run Sample Apps that can be used both to provide first time designers a quick introduction to creating Process Apps and Business IT users easy to configure tailor made apps for a variety of use cases. IT and partners can publish their Process Apps as Sample Apps with specific pre-defined configurations allowing Business IT to quickly create, configure and deploy tailor made Process Apps.

Process Conversations:

Process Apps now support the addition of a process level conversation within the context of assigned tasks to allow stakeholders and participants to collaborate and streamline getting work done. Process Conversations also support various options to configure process activity stream messages that automatically update the conversation with process milestones.

Enhanced Local and Remote App Deployment:

Process App deployment has been enhanced to support complete segregation of test and production data. Test and Player functionality has been simplified to allow designers to either step through the Process App one activity at a time or run the Process App from the Workspace in Test Mode to experience the app from the perspective of an end-user. Production deployment has been enhanced to support deploying the Process App to the local environment or directly to remote environments.

New Tablet App:

A new universal Process Mobile App now supports native tablet form factors for both iOS and Android platforms. The tablet app takes advantage of the larger screen real-estate to provide an improved experience for managing tasks and initiating process requests.

Start Process App from Mobile:

Process participants can now remotely initiation process requests directly from their mobile App. Onboard camera support allows the user to capture pictures that are uploaded to Documents Cloud Service and displayed in context to downstream task participants.

Learn More:

Learn more about Oracle Process Cloud Service at https://cloud.oracle.com/process

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Salesforce to SAP Integration with Oracle ICS

October 30, 2016 Leave a comment

 

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Preparing & installing the ICS on-premises Connectivity Agent by Robert van Molken

October 29, 2016 Leave a comment

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In this second article about the Connectivity Agent we deep-dive into the details. We take a look in preparing and installing the agent. This is done in combination with Integration Cloud Service. For more information about the architecture and inner workings of the agent I recommend to read this article first.

What is the Connectivity Agent?

Basically it is a gateway between cloud and on-premises. The Agent eliminates common security and complexity issues previously associated with integrating on-premises applications from outside the firewall. With the agent it is possible for example to connect with an on-premises database or ERP application using the existing JCA adapter framework.

Downloading the Connectivity Agent

There are a few steps in installing the agent. First the installer can only be downloaded from your Integration Cloud Service instance. Secondly the installer can only be run on a linux environment. Thirdly some settings can be tuned / changed after installation.

Downloading the Agent

The agent first need to be downloaded from Integration Cloud Service. Login into your ICS instance and navigate to the Agents page.


At the top-right corner the user can find the “Download Agent installer” button. When clicking on the button it will show two options; the connectivity and execution agent. This article describes the first option. The second agent is evenly interesting, because it will install an instance of Integration Cloud Service on-premises. More details on this agent at a later time. Read the complete article here.

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