What is the Value of Robotic Process Automation in the Process Automation Space? by Eduardo Chiocconi

During the last two decades, much of the Process Automation efforts concentrated on using Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) as a means to document and digitize business processes. This technology wave helped the Process Automation space make a significant step forward. BPMS tools armed with Integration capabilities allowed organizations (and their business and IT stakeholders) visualize the processes they wanted to automate. From this initial business process documentation phase, it was possible to create a manageable digital asset to help “orchestrate” all business process steps regardless of its nature (people and systems). Without risking to exaggerate, most of Process Automation (or Business Process Management) practitioners would agree, that one of the hardest implementation areas is integrating with systems of information that the business process needs to transact with. BPMS vendors offered a wide array of application integration capabilities, usually in the form of application adapters, to integrate with these Enterprise and Productivity Applications. As more systems needed to be integrated from the business process, the hardest the implementation phase became. As much as we would like for Applications to enable all transactions via publicly available APIs, this is not the case and limits what integration service capabilities can do to integrate in an automated and headless manner.

Simplification in the integration space helps!

New Enterprise and Productivity Applications have started to really invest early in Application Programming Interfaces (API). REST based Web Services as an implementation mechanism and an API-First approach to offer Application functionality, certainly offered a simpler consumption of Application functionality and by transition it simplified the Process Automation implementation projects “hardest” last mile: integration. Integration vendors can leverage these APIs and offer a direct and easy way to transact against these Applications.

But is this not well enough?

Well… if your business processes create logic around new SaaS Applications you may be lucky. But for many organizations (and specially those that have gone the path of merger and acquisitions) it is not. Whether we like it or not, there are still many systems that are very hard to transact or interact with. This category of Applications include mainframe systems and homegrown to Enterprise Applications. But also, any kind of application that has gone some kind of customization where this functionality is only available through the application user interface (UI).

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): The new kid on the block!

What exactly is Robotic Process Automation? These questions may have many different answers. But to me, RPA offers a new mechanism to integrate and transact against Applications using the same UI that their users use. And via this non intrusive approach, it is possible to interact with the application as if it would be done by an person, but rather than a person doing the clicks and entering data, it is an automated application that we call a robot. Period!

Why do we talk about RPA in the context of Process Automation?

My first observation is that these two technologies are not the same. Secondly, that if you combine them to work together, it is possible to take Process Automation to the next level as RPA offers new ways to integrate with systems of record that could not be integrated before. The simplicity of the way in which it transacts with Applications also offers a first step of automation while a more robust and throughput optimal adapter or API approach is used. Read the complete article here.

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Oracle SOA 12c Principles SOA Dehydration stores – Useful SQL Queries by Sanae BEKKAR

I share my main returns as part of a client request to extract the payloads of the instances in a given time interval, with payloads of instances in CLOB format. It’s an opportunity to explore the main SOA dehydration stores and queries the most used in 12c, and share them with you for such requests, I hope it will be useful,

I. Description  of the principal’s tables  used

Below mentioned tables are the important ones that will be used to locate the instances.

CUBE_INSTANCE
COMPOSITE_INSTANCE
SCA_SENSOR_VALUE

COMPOSITE_INSTANCE

Below are the important columns in composite instance tables.

ECID: Unique values for one end-to-end transactions across several tables.
ID: Instance ID that is visible in Enterprise Manager Console
PARENT_ID: This will be null for initiator composite and child composite will have the value of parent composite
COMPOSITE_DN: Composite name along with partition name
STATE: State of the instance like completed, running etc which is explained in details
CREATED_TIME: Creation time of an instance

List of states and its description: Read the complete article here.

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Integration Insider Guide to Oracle OpenWorld’19

Oracle OpenWorld 2019 is just around the corner. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco from September 16-19, 2019. Whether you are looking to learn about Oracle’s latest technologies, product roadmaps, customer implementations, get hands-on learning, dive into product demonstrations and/or networking with your peers, we are confident that this year’s conference will not disappoint!

Thanks for spending the week with Oracle. 

Good trip to San Francisco

Jürgen Kress

Cloud Platform and Middleware Strategy and Roadmap with Edward Screven Tuesday 12:30- 1:15 p.m YBCA Theater

Conversational AI for Enterprise Apps with a Chatbot Assistant  with Suhas Uliyar

Tuesday 1:45-02:30 p.m.´ Moscone South – Room 209

PaaS Focus on Docs: Guide your customers to sessions most relevant to THEIR cloud journey.

· Oracle Integration

· Oracle Cloud Platform for Oracle SaaS

· Oracle Digital Assistant

· Oracle Content and Experience

·  Visual Builder Cloud Service

PRO5871 – Oracle Integration Strategy & Roadmap – Launch Your Digital Transformation

Monday, September 16, 12:15 PM – 01:00 PM | Moscone South – Room 156C

Join this session to hear exciting innovations coming to Oracle Integration. See a live demonstration of next-generation machine learning (ML) integration enhancements and robotic process automation, all seamlessly connected into a hybrid SaaS and an on-premise integration. Learn how customer Vertiv successfully delivered its digital transformation with Oracle Integration Cloud by connecting Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PRM, Oracle ERP Cloud, and Oracle HCM Cloud for real time collaboration and faster business agility. Jumpstart your future today.

PRO5873 – Oracle Integration Roadmap

Wednesday, September 18, 12:30 PM – 01:15 PM | Moscone South – Room 156B

In this session explore the product roadmap for Oracle Integration including new and exciting initiatives such as AI/ML-based capabilities for recommending best next actions for integration and process, intelligent recommendations on mappings, a new UI with recipes for integration and process, anomaly detection, and enhanced connectivity to Oracle and third-party apps. This session also covers new process automation capabilities such as robotic process automation adapter (RPA-UiPath) and ML-driven case management process execution.

CAS2657 – Compliance and Risk Management Realized with Analytics and Integration Services

Monday, September 16, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM | Moscone South – Room 155B

In modern global companies it is important to make sure that customers, suppliers, and (prospective) employees are not on a sanction list. Of course, this can be checked manually at onboarding, but what if a relation is added to a list after onboarding, while you are in business with them? Skanska and eProseed built a solution that fetches data from source systems and matches them with data from the Dow Jones Watchlist. This is done daily, minimizing the risk and increasing efficiency through automation. In this session see the solution and learn about the benefits of this cloud solution for Skanska, as well as the lessons learned.

PRO5805 – Oracle Integration: Monitoring and Business Analytics on Autopilot

Wednesday, September 18, 04:45 PM – 05:30 PM | Moscone South – Room 156B

Ever wondered how the crucial connections and processes in your environment are behaving? In this session learn to monitor and track your integrations and processes in real time. It is not enough to know things are running smoothly; business analytics are driving the evolution and growth of every industry as never before. Today’s competitive markets demand that stakeholders be able to understand, monitor, and react to changing market conditions in real time, and business owners require more control and expect more visibility over their processes. This session showcases how operational monitoring empowers IT while integration insight empowers executives with real-time insight into their business process, allowing IT and executives to take immediate action.

Hands on Labs

If you want to do more than listen to presentations and get your hands on Oracle Integration, sign up for one of our two Hands on Labs:

HOL6041 and HOL6043 – Connect Applications, Automate Processes, Gain Insight with Oracle Integration

Monday, September 16, 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM | Moscone West – Room 3022A and

Wednesday, September 18, 09:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Moscone West – Room 3022A

These 2 hands on labs provide a unique opportunity to experience Oracle Integration. Learn how to enhance process and connectivity capabilities of CX, ERP, and HCM applications with Oracle Integration Cloud. Create a forms-driven process to extend existing applications, discover how to synchronize data by integrating with other applications, and learn how to collect business metrics from processes and integrations and collate it into a dashboard that can be presented to business owners and executives. This session explores the power of having a single integrated solution for process, integration, and real-time dashboards delivered by Oracle Integration. Discover how the solution provides business insight by collecting and collating business metrics from your processes and integrations and presents them to your business owners and executives.

Demos

In between sessions, you should consider a stroll to The Exchange in Moscone South at the Exhibition Level (Hall ABC) and stop by our demo pods to see to see real world examples of how Oracle Integration future proofs your digital journey with pre-built application adapters, simple and complex integration recipes, and process templates. Stop by to discuss how integration is more than connecting applications, it is also about extending applications in a minimally invasive fashion. Visit us to see how to gain visual business insight from your integration flows.

Oracle Integration Product Management and Engineering will be there to answer your questions and brainstorm about your integration use cases.

We have 2 demo pods at The Exchange:

INT-008 – Connect Applications, Automate Processes and RPA Digital Workforce, Gain Insight

INT-002 – Leverage Oracle Integration to Bring Operations and Business Insight Together

And an additional demo pod at Moscone West – Level 2 (Applications)

ADM-003 – Connect Cloud and on-prem Applications with Adapters, B2B, MFT, SOA and hybrid solutions

Oracle Integration and Digital Assistant Customer Summit

Last, but not least, there is still time to register for the Oracle Integration and Digital Assistant Customer Summit on 19-September-19 at the W Hotel San Francisco, followed by our Customer Appreciation Dinner.
For more information, visit You’re Invited: Oracle Integration and Digital Assistant Customer Summit at Oracle OpenWorld 2019

Quick Links: Everything you need to navigate OOW’19!

·       OOW’19 Homepage

·       OOW’19 Session Catalog

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