SOA Suite 12c – What You Need to Know by Matt Brasier

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Complete webinar series now available to watch on-demand!

Oracle SOA Suite 12c has changed many of the components of SOA Suite and introduced some completely new ones. This webinar, delivered by the Oracle SOA Suite expert Matt Brasier, will take a look at Oracle SOA Suite 12c, focussing on the new and changed features and which of these really matter for a new or existing SOA infrastructure.

The pace of new business projects continues to grow; from increasing customer self-service to seamlessly connecting all your back office and in-the-field applications. At the same time, there is an urgency to mobile-enable existing applications, integrate with the cloud and begin development on the latest trend of connecting Internet of Things (IoT) devices to your existing infrastructure. When companies address each of these new integration challenges independently, using a patchwork of niche specialty integration toolsets, the original goals of faster business integration, increased application infrastructure flexibility, and reduced costs are no longer achievable.

This is why Oracle SOA Suite 12c was developed – to simplify IT by unifying the disparate requirements of mobile, cloud, and IoT integration into one unified and standards-based platform.

Oracle SOA Suite 12c enables you to:

Watch the on-demand webcast here

For more information please visit: Oracle SOA Suite 12c Upgrade Roadmap & Oracle SOA Suite Resources Library & C2B2 Oracle SOA Suite Case Study – Leading UK Insurance Company

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Eine für alles: Cloud Integration statt Anwendungs-Chaos

OpitzDie IT eines Unternehmens wächst mit dessen Bedürfnissen, nicht nach einem Masterplan. Klar, dass dann irgendwann jeder Unternehmensbereich mit eigenen, speziellen Anwendungen arbeitet – von lokalen Business-Applikationen bis zur SaaS-Lösung in der Cloud. Probleme entstehen dann, wenn der Austausch zwischen all den Systemen nicht reibungslos läuft: das kostet unnötig Zeit, Nerven und Geld.

Viele Firmen nutzen bereits Integrationsplattformen als Schnittstellen zwischen einzelnen Systemen. Aber kann eine solche verzweigte Integrationslandschaft in Sachen Datenvolumen und Dynamik mit den neusten Entwicklungen mithalten?

Wie Sie sich den Überblick zurückholen, ihre Prozesse optimieren und bei der Integration wieder auf eigenen Beinen stehen können – darüber informiert Opitz Consulting ganz aktuell unter http://www.auf-eigenen-beinen.de. Neben einem Überblick zu möglichen cloud-basierten Integrationslösungen, zum Beispiel zur Oracle SOA-Suite, haben Sie dort auch die Möglichkeit, einen individuellen Beratungstermin mit den Integrations-Experten von Opitz zu vereinbaren. Ein kleiner Schritt für Ihre IT-Fachleute – vielleicht aber ein großer für Ihr Unternehmen!

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Stream Explorer – configuring REST target By Jernej Kaše

 

clip_image002I’ve blogged about how to consume REST with Oracle Stream Explorer in previous posts Exploring data streams with Oracle Stream Explorer – part 1 and Exploring data streams with Oracle Stream Explorer – part 2.

This time we are going to take a look how to configure stream explorer to send events to a REST service.

We’ll start by creating an exploration which summarizes tweets per minute per each of the keywords we have: Configuring a REST target

Configuring a target is as simple as a few clicks. Just click the "Configure a target" button, select REST from the dropdown and enter your REST service url. Note that building the service is not in the scope of this blog, suffice to say it should expect parameters which your exploration emits. Read the complete article here.

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Stream Explorer and JMS for both inbound and outbound interaction by Lucas Jellema

 

clip_image002In this article, we will look at the very common interaction between Stream Explorer and JMS. JMS is a commonly used channel for decoupled exchange of messages or events. Stream Explorer can both consume messages from a JMS destination (through Stream) and publish findings to a JMS destination (with a target). The use case we discuss here is about temperature sensors: small devices distributed over a building, measuring the local room temperature every few seconds and reporting it over JMS. The Stream Explorer application has to look out for rooms with quickly increasing temperatures and report those over a second JMS queue. Note: this article describes the Java (SE) code used for generating temperature signals. This class generates temperature values (in Celsius!) for a number of rooms, and publishes these to the queue temperatureMeasurements. At some random point, the class will start a fire in a randomly selected room. In this room, temperatures will soon be over 100 degrees. Also in this article is Java class HotRoomAlertProcessor  that consumes messages from a second JMS Queue. Any message received on that queue is reported to the console.

Our objective in this article is to read the temperature measurements from the JMS Queue into a Stream Explorer application, calculate the average value per room and then detect the room on fire. This hot room should then be reported to the JMS Queue.

Open Stream Explorer and from the Stream Explorer Catalog page, create a new item of type Stream. Select JMS as the source type. Read the whole article here.

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Stream Explorer 8 new videos at YouTube

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Oracle Stream Explorer is a business user friendly tool enabling you to create innovative, sophisticated, real time, streaming analytics applications in minutes. This playlist will give you an introduction to Oracle Stream Explorer as well as taking you through some basic and more advanced tasks. Watch the videos here.

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Boost Sales Productivity and Lead Generation with Oracle Cloud Adapters for Sales Cloud and Eloqua by Rajesh Kalra

 

clip_image002With the mission to drive sales results, and sell anywhere and anytime, many organizations are adopting Oracle Sales Cloud, a key component of Oracle Customer Experience Solution.  The deal velocity increases along with the productivity of the sales teams with modern selling tools using Oracle Sales Cloud.

For customers to confidently and conveniently convert more pipelines into error free quotes, and progress them into orders in the back office, as well as to collaborate more with other applications in the Customer Experience stack via rich set of integrations, Oracle Cloud Adapter for Oracle Sales Cloud is being introduced.

Oracle Eloqua, Oracle’s leading Cross-Channel Marketing Solution, enables marketers to plan and execute automated marketing campaigns.  Integration between Oracle Eloqua Marketing Cloud and any SaaS or on-premise CRM application is enabled by the new Oracle Cloud Adapter for Oracle Eloqua Cloud Service, driving faster progression of marketing leads to sales opportunities, and unified customer data management.

These all new cloud adapters for SaaS applications – Oracle Sales Cloud Adapter and Oracle Eloqua Cloud Adapter provide rich and intuitive design time capabilities as well as run time efficiency.   Oracle is extending its Cloud to on-premise integration solution portfolio by releasing these cloud adapters on its premier integration platform Oracle SOA Suite 12c.

The Sales organizations will also benefit from their investment in the Oracle Sales Cloud application in various other integrated business processes by leveraging the Oracle Sales Cloud Adapter, such as:

  • Closed Loop Analysis for Marketing campaigns:  The integrated marketing with Eloqua for progression of leads can be extended to analysis of marketing campaigns and responses.
  • Sales and Service co-ordination:  The customer information can shared across with service teams, as well as visibility to the service requests can be provided to the sales teams for better account management.
  • Lead to Order:  The leads/opportunities can be progressed to orders in the back office order management systems (viz. E-Business Suite, SAP).

You can access the datasheets, documentation, and more information on this website.

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Provisioning Oracle Service Bus on Oracle Java Cloud Service – free online training

 

clip_image002Creating an Oracle Java Cloud Service instance and extending the Oracle WebLogic Server domain with Oracle Service Bus. To get information about licensing, see Leveraging On-Premises Licenses in the Oracle Public Cloud. To Learn more about Java Cloud Service, see the documentation. Get the free online trainings here.

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Integration Success Workshops generate additional consulting business!

 

clip_image002The Integration Success Workshops are technical workshops you can run with your customers. You can generate additional consulting business with existing customers e.g. SOA Suite customers with MFT, API Catalog & Manager or Stream explorer. Or You can use the excellent content to win new customers. We highly encourage you to make use of the ISW content at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required).

We just updated the ISW content with industry specific value propositions with focus on B2B and Stream Explorer:

New ISW Vertical Plays! all content here

Industry specific modules to target specific vertical customers

Module 

Business Benefits 

B2B for Airlines

  • Reduce complexity, bring down costs and increase flexibility by modernizing PSS systems
  • Exchange business information such as reservations and inventory securely with outsourced vendors
  • Increase visibility and manageability to reduce errors/risk

B2B for Supply Chain

  • Lower cost of operations by replacing outdated mechanisms of interacting with supply chain partners
  • Exchange business information such as purchase orders and invoices with manufacturers, suppliers and customers
  • Increase visibility and manageability to reduce errors and improve trading partner relationships

B2B for Retail

  • Increase margins, top line revenue and lower cost of operations by automating B2B integration with retail partners
  • Exchange business information such as purchase orders with retail partners using a secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure capable of handling variable transaction volumes
  • Increase visibility and manageability across diversified retailing channels to increase revenue and improve trading partner relationships

SOA for Healthcare

  • Build healthcare application for latest IOT and mobile trends
  • Sync up your healthcare device data into back end systems ( EHRs) for proactive patient engagement and analytics
  • Easy click through endpoint configurations, managing healthcare systems and SLAs remotely using Healthcare Console

Stream Explorer for Telecommunications

  • Address challenges such as Predictive/Silent Failures and Congestion Detection, detection of network elements, Topology Aware Traffic and Trend Analytics for Better Capacity Planning, Real-time Usage Monitoring and improving Traffic Control User Experience Management for User Satisfaction (QoS to QoE)
  • Reduce costs by optimizing and expanding existing infrastructure bandwidths by wi-fi offloading, charging for greater bandwidth at special events and using networks with a lower cost of operation
  • Increase profits by using Real Time Streaming Analytics to understand and capitalize on individual customer activity, uniquely identified by their lifestyle preferences

Stream Explorer for Financial Services

  • Process large volumes of financial data in real-time
  • Proactively manage indications of interest or detect fraud
  • Reconcile enormous amounts of trading data

Stream Explorer for Transportation

  • Reduce complexity, bring down costs, dynamically increase flexibility in exiting transportation services infrastructure
  • Deliver high quality, critical information to the traveling public in real time to improve the journey experience, reducing frustration and increasing productivity
  • Use leading Geo-spatial, real time capabilities to take immediate advantage of location-based opportunities and threats driving revenue and elevating customer satisfaction

Stream Explorer for Retail

• Increase Customer Engagement & Drive Demand by understand customers, anticipate their needs, deliver personalized, timely, relevant information, improve targeting/ROI, empower customers to control own experience; Increase customer loyalty & lifetime value
• Optimize Market Execution by ensuring consistent consumer engagement through mobile to in-store integration which enrich the in-store experience with optimized assortments & programs
• Improve Planning & Execution by enabling on-demand/real-time product availability, Improve proper branding/pricing, enable continuous improvements by providing real-time audit and compliance information

Stream Explorer for Utilities

• Solve Demand and Response power grid monitoring challenges with real time automation management and predictive analysis
• Mange SmartMeter and SmartGrid solutions using a proven real time streaming analytics infrastructure
• Ensure the right personnel are in the right place at the right time with an efficient mobility workforce

Stream Explorer for Oil, Gas & Mining

• Automated Monitoring and responding to Drilling Activity by understand the real time nature of the information from next generation sensor drill bits to evaluate opportunities immediately saving man-power & equipment costs. Engineers no longer have to travel to monitored sites as often and receive immediate notification when a specific parameter has been breached
• Tracking Trucks & Heavy Equipment (Logistics) by collecting data to make intelligent fleet management decisions. Locate missing equipment, distribute vehicle usage across the entire fleet and plan for maintenance activities. This will positively impact capital expenditures, as well as overall cost savings and operational efficiencies
• Improve Operational Efficiencies Reducing data by monitoring curve values for changes within defined tolerances, Identify trends in curve values – pressure, temperature, resistivity, etc, Correlate values across related curves to anticipate failures – pump intake/out-take pressures, motor temperature, fluid rates, Monitor curve value thresholds to identify conditions indicating safety/quality concerns and correlate curve values from multiple wells to identify relationships

Stream Explorer for Public Sector

• Establish a City Wide Nervous System, enabling the Citizens and the City to share responsibilities while offering maximum control at the lowest level in the Community
• Provide a Sentient City Infrastructure through intelligent controls that sense and action on the Real Time Streaming Analytics offered through connected sensors
• Maximize the reuse of existing infrastructure, allow future sources to be added and offer full independence towards additional solutions, disciplines and appliances

Stream Explorer for Healthcare

• Apply Streaming Analytics for Improving Healthcare Outcomes
• Extend Point of Patient Care
• Ensure Compliance & Reduce Cost of Care
• Improve Operational Efficiency and Population Health

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Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Preview” by The SOA mythbusters

 

clip_image001INTRODUCTION.

So, do you really like SOA? That’s great because so do we, and we’ve been working with it every single day since a long time ago. As Oracle professionals, we’ve seen the SOA stack grow, change, incorporating new products and technology with each version, from 10g to 12c.

We’re Rolando Carrasco and Arturo Viveros, the SOA Myth Busters from Mexico, and as we go with this series we will put to the test a number of questions, myths and urban legends regarding integration, SOA & the Oracle FMW Platform in seek of finding out which myths are true and which are not.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

In this short episode, we will preview the imminent (and much awaited) launch of Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS).

In this era of digital disruption, Cloud Integration is and will keep being one of the hottest and most relevant topics in the SOA / Middleware realms.

So, as we usually do, let’s identify a bunch of questions which we will attempt to clarify throughout this article:

  • Why is Oracle bringing to the table an iPaaS offering of its own?
  • What is the difference between ICS and SOA Suite in the Cloud?
  • Where does this leave my on premise SOA Suite implementation?
  • What is running underneath the curtains and how does Oracle ICS stack up against its main competitors?
  • Which business scenarios would be better suited for the implementation of such a tool?
  • What benefits can organizations expect to achieve by leveraging this kind of offering?
  • What about common concerns such as performance, security, ease of adoption / use, portability, standardization, etc.?
  • Are there any clear guidelines for ICS’s implementation / adoption from an architectural standpoint?
  • Can I do SOA with ICS?
  • Is ICS suitable for on premise integrations?

Let’s get started

Since the product has yet to hit the market, this time around we don’t have a de-facto myth revolving around it; but don’t worry, the myths will surely come swiftly and we will be there to tackle them whenever they arise.

For now, let’s focus on the questions at hand. It seems to us that a good way to get started in the matter is by going over some elemental definitions and concepts:

First things first

Oracle ICS is an integration product in the cloud. Let’s first nail this.

ICS stands for Integration Cloud Services. Oracle has addressed a strong Cloud need: the integration among Cloud based Applications. Oracle has been very active to become a Cloud type of monster. If we go back five years ago, maybe Oracle was not perceived as a strong Cloud player, but those days are very far away now. Oracle has a very clear cloud offering in the different recognized flavors: PaaS, SaaS and IaaS.

A set of Cloud based applications, such as: Taleo, Right Now, Big Machines (Oracle CPQ) are very well-known in the market. A very large set of customer around the globe use them.

But what about having to integrate those different Clouds? Or even more, what about integrating an Oracle Cloud with a different vendor Cloud? (e.g. Salesforce.com or Success Factors).

There is where we meet with our first question: Read the complete article here.

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Europe leads in Oracle PaaS adaption driven by Oracle Partners!

imageIt’s a pleasure to work with the Oracle EMEA SOA & BPM and WebLogic & Developer Partner Community and see the success in our cloud adoption. The latest press release proves that our EMEA partners lead adoption. Oracle provides the same technology in the cloud as on-premises. This enables partners to secure their investment in knowledge and skills and rapidly build cloud applications for our joint customers.

Partners who can support your cloud adoption

Looking for a Middleware Specialized Partner which can support you with your cloud adoption? Visit the solutions catalog here, and search for your local Middleware Specialized partner have trained & certified consultants and implemented successful Middleware customer projects. Across EMEA we have thousands of Middleware Specialized partners! Find local Specialized partners by product www.oracle.com/specialized here.

In case you are not yet a member in the EMEA Middleware Partner Communities feel free to register at www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

 

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