Oracle introduces API Manager! By Maarten Smeets

 

clip_image001Oracle has introduced a new product; API Manager (you can find the official documentation here). API Manager is an important addition to the already impressive Oracle SOA stack. In this article I’ll explain what this new product does and how it helps in managing your API’s. I will focus on the features and benefits you can have of this product and also elaborate a little about my current experiences with it.

API Manager

What does API Manager do?

API Manager is a product which extends the Service Bus functionality and provides an API Manager Portal to manage API’s and browse analytics. API Manager allows you to save certain metadata as part of a Service Bus proxy service. This metadata is used to allow access to an API and provide data on their usage. SOAP and REST API’s are supported (HTTP API’s). Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Service event by Link Consulting July 9th 2015 Lisbon Portugal

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Vamos apresentar o Oracle Process Cloud Service e estratégias para adoptar uma abordagem hibrida (on premisse / cloud) na sua organização.
Link Consulting is proud to present Oracle Process Cloud Service, Oracle’s cloud solution build BPM applications very easily and fast, and to present strategies and solutions based on PCS to achieve more value for your organization.

For details please visit the registration page here.

Oracle partners who wants to learn more about PCS & host similar events please get our PCS partner kit here.

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Partner Webcast: Integration Cloud Service July 8th 2015

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Guest Speakers – Vikas Anand and Ram Menon

Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) is a simple and powerful integration platform in the cloud to maximize the value of customer’s investments in SaaS and on-premise applications.

Oracle Integration Cloud Service is Oracle’s integration platform as a service (iPaas) and includes an intuitive web based integration designer for point and click integration between applications, a rich monitoring dashboard that provides real-time insight into the transactions, all of it running on a mature runtime platform on Oracle Cloud. ICS will help customers accelerate their integration projects through its portfolio of pre-built integrations built by Oracle and its partner ecosystem, its broad and rich connectivity to several SaaS and On-premise Applications, its intelligent data mapping capabilities and several more value added capabilities.

This session will provide a unique opportunity to understand how you can position the Oracle Integration Cloud Service to help customers simplify and accelerate their SaaS and On-premise Integrations today.

This Webcast is the fourth in a monthly series of Oracle PaaS Webcasts, specifically for Partners – upcoming topics include:

  • Mobile Cloud Service – August
  • Java Cloud Service – September

For all the details and to register for the upcoming PaaS Partner Webcast Series click here.

Speakers Bio:

Vikas Anand is Senior Director, Integration Products at Oracle. He leads overall product management & strategy for Oracle SOA Suite and Integration Cloud Service. Mr. Anand leads a team of seasoned Product Managers in charge of Oracle Fusion Middleware integration products:Integration Cloud Service, SOA Suite, BPEL, Service Bus, B2B, Stream Explorer, MFT, API Management, Oracle SOA Suite for Healthcare, Adapters for Cloud and Applications integration etc.

Since joining Oracle in 2003, Mr. Anand has held various positions in product development, product management and strategy positions in different geographies. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Anand has worked in product & project development, and IT in Fortune 100 firms. In these roles he worked across diverse domains like Supply Chain Integration, Sales & Marketing Automation, Global Marketplaces & Industry verticals. He also developed software products as a part of a startup.

Ramkumar Menon has over 15 years of experience with Oracle in various roles in Engineering, Consulting and Product Management for Oracle’s integration products including Oracle SOA Suite. Ram is currently the Product Manager for Oracle’s integration platform in the cloud – Integration Cloud Service, and the connectivity adapters for SaaS and On-premise Applications

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Stream Explorer article series by Niall Commiskey

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Thanks to Niall for the first blog posts:

· Stream Explorer Installation Get the Software
· First steps with Oracle Stream Explorer
· Oracle Stream Explorer / OEP basics
· Stream Explorer – References

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Setting up Oracle Stream Explorer 12.1.3 by Patrick Sinke

 

clip_image001Oracle Stream Explorer is available now for download. For those unfamiliar with the product, it is a new tool based on Oracle Event Processing (OEP, formerly known as Complex Event Processing). It’s a graphical interface on OEP, hiding the rather daunting CQL (Continuous Query Language) from the user. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Stream Explorer by Andreas Chatziantoniou

 

At the recent Oracle SOA Suite community forum in Budapest I had a hands-on experience with the Oracle Streams Explorer. Having worked with the Oracle Complex Event Processing and also some hands-on exercises with the new
Oracle Event Processing, the Oracle Streams Explorer is a very easy to handle and useful addition to the area of near-real-time data insight and analysis.
The user interface comes along in the new Oracle look-and-feel. You can select a number of areas like IOT, Risk and Fraud Management, Transportation and Logistics, Customer Experience and Analysis and Telecommunications.
Within that you get a number of predefined patterns and resources. Defining your own solution can therefore be based on an existing solution in your catalog or simply by combining input streams and defining filters on them.
Now plenty of examples can (and will) be named.
The essence for me – and this is a message that I will convey to customers – is the fact that by using Oracle Streams Explorer you can get a very tangible feeling of SOA environments.
A lot of data comes along, and you might want to be alerted when a certain event occurs. For example a RFID tag of a valuable item leaving the warehouse is something you want to know right away.
Put this into an HTTP Publisher or call a REST service that in effect sends out a notification to your smartphone will be a nice goodie for any logistics company. The beauty of the Oracle Streams Explorer
is the ease with which you can build such an application. Read the complete article here.

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A First Glance at Oracle Stream Explorer 12c by Arturo Viveros

 

clip_image002The brand new Oracle Stream Explorer 12c has been released today. The idea behind this product, which gives it a lot of relevance, is to bring simplicity, usability and enterprise readiness to Event Processing.
We have talked before about Industrial SOA, and the impact that such concepts as: IoT, Social Media, Mobile, Fast Data bring to the table. With this in mind, we have to acknowledge that enterprises nowadays, constantly find themselves dealing with huge, endless amounts of data in motion.
Oracle’s pitch in this sense, with Oracle SX, is to put this Real Time Streaming Intelligence in the hands of Business Users and Integrators, who can instantly determine the business value of the information and its relevance as business opportunities and threats.
So let’s take a look at the product istself:

As you can see, Oracle SX looks really cool!!, and the first thing we must say in this regard, is that the product’s user interface has been entirely built using Alta UI. Hence we are practically guaranteed a very favorable user experience which is not only nice, but will also help us position the tool in our clients.
Functionality-wise, SX abstracts event processing capabilities to a degree in which the user requires no knowledge whatsoever of Real Time Event Driven Architectures, Continuous Query Language (CQL), Java Event Server or the semantics of Event Stream Processing Application Models.
Basically, Stream Explorer introduces three main concepts that we must understand in order to configure the scenarios we want: Read the complete article here.

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Oracle Cloud Integration Event – 24th July 2015 London UK

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Oracle has now launched its new Cloud Integration Solution. As integration experts, we want to know whether this will help customers avoid the frankencloud.

At Estafet we strive to provide the best integration solutions. We have been trying the with new Oracle technology and it looks good:  it addresses the issues of data security and focuses on bringing cloud applications back into the fold of the IT infrastructure.

To delve into the detail and provide you with best practice cloud integration advice, we are holding a free event on Friday 24th July at the Arrow ECS Auditorium, The Royal Exchange, London, EC3V 3LN.

For details please visit the registration page here.

 

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Quick Introduction to Oracle Stream Explorer Part Two– Business User friendly processing of real time events (enrichment, calculation) by Lucas Jellema

 

clip_image002Very recently, Oracle released the Oracle Stream Explorer product, available from OTN. With Oracle Stream Explorer, business users and citizen developers as well as hard core developers can create explorations on top of live streaming data to filter, enrich, aggregate, inspect them and detect patterns. Stream Explorer provides a business user friendly browser based user interface in which streams are configured, explorations are composed, enrichment is set up and publication to external consumers is defined. Note that Stream Explorer is built on top of Oracle Event Processor – any Stream Explorer exploration is in fact an OEP application. It can be exported as such and refined in JDeveloper. As such, Stream Explorer is also a great way to get going with OEP.

In a previous article, I introduced the very first steps with Stream Explorer. In this article, I set up a stream of events that report people entering or leaving the rooms of a small conference event. The use case is: we are organizing a small conference. In three rooms, sessions take place simultaneously. Our attendees are free to decide which session to attend. We would like to know at virtually any moment how many people are in each room. We have set up simple detectors at the doors of the rooms that produce a signal whenever someone enters or leaves the room. This signal consists of the room identifier (1,2 or 3) and an IN/OUT flag (values +1 or -1). Read the complete article here.

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Quick Introduction to Oracle Stream Explorer – Business User friendly processing of real time events by Lucas Jellema

 

clip_image002The new Oracle Stream Explorer provides us with a [business]user friendly facility to process real time events. Through visually appealing and functionally intuitive web wizards, Stream Explorer has us construct explorations that consume events from streams, process these events through filtering, aggregation, pattern matching and enriching and deliver these events to downstream destinations.

Using Stream Explorer, we can tap into streams of events – frequently JMS messages and alternatively HTTP PUB/SUB, SOA Suite EDN events or REST calls. For testing and demo purposes, we can use an CSV file as the source for a stream exploration. A stream is fed into one or more explorations that do the interpretation and processing of the events. A target can be associated with an exploration to have the outcomes of the exploration – which are also events, at a more elevated level after all the processing has taken place – delivered for subsequent action or communication. Destination types available for targets are JMS, REST Service, HTTP Pub (channel) and the EDN of SOA Suite. Again, for development, testing and demonstrations, a CSV file can be set as the target.

In this first introduction to Stream Explorer, we will discuss a very simple challenge: we are organizing a small conference. In three rooms, sessions take place simultaneously. Our attendees are free to decide which session to attend. We would like to know at virtually any moment how many people are in each room. We have set up simple detectors at the doors of the rooms that produce a signal whenever someone enters or leaves the room. This signal consists of the room identifier (1,2 or 3) and an IN/OUT flag (values +1 or -1).

We will use Stream Explorer to process these events and produce an aggregate per room of the net number of people that entered or left the room. In subsequent articles we will do more advanced explorations in this same setting – looking at prematurely concluded sessions, jammed doors, overflowing rooms etc.

Preparation

The preparation consists of the installation of Stream Explorer on top of an OEP domain. Start the OEP Server. The Stream Explorer can be accessed at http://host:port/sx. Login using the same user used for the OEP Events Visualizer web application: wlevs. Read the complete article here.

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