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Call ID: 5566478 Call Passcode: 333111 and WebEx Session Number: 592619237

UK: +44 (0) 208 118 1001 & United States: 140 877 440 73

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Schedule:

April 23^rd 2017 at 17:00-18:00 CET

· Drive DevOps Agility and Operational Efficiency with Oracle Management Cloud April 25^th 2017

Missed our SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast? – watch the on-demand versions:

· Implementing DevOps and Agile Methodologies in Oracle Projects March 21st 2017

· Mobile Cloud Service & Chat Bots February 28th 2017

· b2b January 31^st 2017

· Community Resources & free Cloud trails December 20^th 2016

· SOA 12 & BPM Suite 12c Roadmap update November 29th 2016

· Microservices October 25th 2016

· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 update September 27^th 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

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (SOA Community membership required).

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Process Cloud Service update – DMN capabilities SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – May 23rd 2017

May 16, 2017 Leave a comment

Attend our May edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on April 23^rd 2017 at 17:00 CET.

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Call ID: 5566478 Call Passcode: 333111 and WebEx Session Number: 592619237

UK: +44 (0) 208 118 1001 & United States: 140 877 440 73

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Schedule:

April 23^rd 2017 at 17:00-18:00 CET

· Drive DevOps Agility and Operational Efficiency with Oracle Management Cloud April 25^th 2017

Missed our SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast? – watch the on-demand versions:

· Implementing DevOps and Agile Methodologies in Oracle Projects March 21st 2017

· Mobile Cloud Service & Chat Bots February 28th 2017

· b2b January 31^st 2017

· Community Resources & free Cloud trails December 20^th 2016

· SOA 12 & BPM Suite 12c Roadmap update November 29th 2016

· Microservices October 25th 2016

· Oracle OpenWorld 2016 update September 27^th 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

For the latest information please visit Community Updates Wiki page (SOA Community membership required).

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PaaS free trial accounts ICS and PCS, IoT and PaaS for SaaS

February 27, 2017 Leave a comment

As part of our communities we do offer free PaaS accounts (only for partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa. In case you are not part of EMEA please contact your local partner manager):

· Integration Cloud Service & Process Cloud Service & SOA Cloud & IoT & PaaS for SaaS Service PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required)

· Java Cloud Service & Application Cloud Container Service & Mobile Cloud Service PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required)

Watch the GSE Overview Video! Get an overview of what GSE is and how you can use GSE to help you sell. You can also get long running dedicated PaaS instances, therefore please send us details about your use cases. For instant access please request a sandbox demo

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Integrating with Oracle Cloud to Streamline Business Processes

February 20, 2017 Leave a comment

Redstone is a Platinum level system integrator and value added reseller focusing on Oracle’s Digital Experience and Cloud solutions.

Client Testimonial

"The Oracle Cloud has enabled us to better connect many facets of our business and expand our use of technology. We are now able to seamlessly integrate our web experience management solution with our cloud-based document storage solution. Additionally, we are able to expand the solution footprint by connecting third-party applications through a RESTful API. We have always utilized Oracle products to improve our customer’s businesses, and now we have modernized our own business with Oracle Cloud.”
~John Klein, Redstone Content Solutions, United States.

Challenges Facing Redstone

Maximize productivity and streamline workflow by enabling internal staff, customers and partners to easily and securely sign documents in the cloud through a web interface
Empower project teams and sales reps with anywhere/anytime/any device content access to enhance customer and partner collaboration
Improve business productivity by enabling web development team to access, store, and host web content in a ‘single source of truth’ repository

Benefits Provided by Oracle Cloud

Implemented Oracle Documents Cloud, Oracle Sites Cloud, Oracle Process Cloud and Oracle Application Container Cloud in order to maintain compliance and adhere to security regulations
Improved business process efficiency with the ability to create web content in Oracle Sites Cloud and storing in Oracle Documents Cloud. This enhancement has eliminated the risk of duplicate content and prevents incorrect data from being shared with the public via our website. Read the complete case study here.

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Process Cloud Service –> Quickstart apps by Niall Commiskey

February 19, 2017 Leave a comment

Nice feature this…
As the docs says –
Choose a QuickStart App to quickly create an application and learn about Process Cloud Service. QuickStart Apps include all the implementation details needed to play and deploy them. Use these applications as a ready-to-use application to deploy or as a starting point to adapt by making changes such as editing task titles, modifying the web form, or adding new task actions. Read the complete article here.

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Process Cloud Service – Web Form Design Approaches by Antonis Antoniou

February 18, 2017 Leave a comment

Oracle Process Cloud Service uses a standards-based technology called "Web Forms" for defining the user interface in business processes. It’s based on standards such as XHTML, CSS and JavaScript and allows business analysts and developers to create an end-user interface by just using the browser.
There are three approaches that can be employed when designing web forms:
Form-First: You can follow a "Form-First" approach where you create the form first before any data elements are defined and you let PCS by just drag and dropping components from the component palette to the page. Oracle PCS will automatically generate the schema that defines the data required by the web form.

The schema that is automatically generated by Oracle PCS is based on the web form controls added to the web form and can be located under "Business Types" section.

When you assign the web form to a human task activity, the schema generated by Oracle PCS will automatically be used to define the human task data structure.
Data-First: A data-first approach implies a bottom-up approach where you create a web form based on data sources or business objects by just drag and dropping the objects on the form to create controls.

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PCS, MCS and MAF Integration by Rubén Rodríguez Santiago

January 27, 2017 Leave a comment

I have just published my first OTN Tech Article where I present a use case that demonstrates how Oracle Process Cloud Service (Oracle PCS), Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (Oracle MCS) and Oracle Mobile Application Framework (Oracle MAF) can be use together to expose an Oracle PCS process instance as a web service and consume it from an external system, web application or mobile application.
"Oracle Process Cloud Service is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) provided by Oracle Cloud, allows you to rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes in the cloud."

"Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is Oracle’s Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) and enables companies to create and deploy scalable, robust, and secure mobile applications quickly and easily."

"Oracle Mobile Application Framework is a hybrid mobile framework that provides a visual and declarative development experience for the rapid development of multi-platform applications" You can check the full article here.

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PCS 16.4.5 New Features incl. Quickstart Masters, Automated Archive & Purge, REST connectors… by Niall Commiskey

January 20, 2017 Leave a comment

Lots of great new features, just in time for the Holiday Season.
Thanks to my colleague Kathryn L.
I will be adding to this post over time, so, currently, it is not an exhaustive list.

1. Ability to see Conversations in Tracking

Note: the second icon on the right, under the docs icon.

2. Quickstart Master new functionality

For those of you who have yet to meet a Quickstart Master – here’s a quick intro.

I take an existing process and convert it to a Quickstart Master. Read the complete article here.

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What’s New for Process Cloud Service 16.4.5

January 17, 2017 Leave a comment

Learn More: More details on what’s new is available here. Learn more about Oracle Process Cloud Service at http://cloud.oracle.com/process

Want to try Process Cloud Service? Get access here.

Partner Resources (community membership required):

Sales kit for partners: Digital Engagement

Marketing kit for partners: BPM Campaigns

Learn about the new and changed features of Oracle Process Cloud Service.

Feature	Description
Documents and Conversations	On the Workspace Tracking page, administrators can now click the Conversations icon in addition to the Documents icon and view conversations associated with a selected instance. On the Configure UI Customizations page, an option that lets you hide comments displayed on the Tasks page and Tracking page has been added. This option is valid only if you integrated Oracle Documents Cloud Service with Oracle Process Cloud Service, and you enabled conversations.
QuickStart Master	On the Personalize page, the options for the Item field have been improved. · You can now customize the activities in a subprocess. · The list is now organized by swimlane followed by all the activities for that lane. If there is a subprocess, then the list expands to show all activities for the subprocess as well. An option to search the list has also been added. These new features make it easier to find the element you want to customize. See Decide What Settings Users Can Customize in Using Oracle Process Cloud Service.
Embeddable Process UI Components	The embeddable UI components feature includes several enhancements: · Reorganized the toolbar and grouped UI components into cookbook. · Added support for web forms in task details. · Added support for conversations. · Added the DevTool option, which lets you bring up the REST API in an interactive format so you can enter and test your code. Read the complete article here.

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Best practice for calling web services from Oracle Process Cloud Service by Lykle Thijssen

December 26, 2016 Leave a comment

More often than not, you will want your processes to interact with other services or processes inside or outside your enterprise. Since integration options are rather typical in Oracle Process Cloud Service, this article will help you to apply best practices for creating and managing your connections in a sustainable fashion.

Process Cloud integration points

Let’s say you have modelled a process in Oracle Process Cloud Service (PCS) for a private home loan application. Chances are quite high that this process will need some extra information to make the right decisions, like a credit check or a risk assessment and you will want to store the result of the application somewhere, for example in a database.
This requires several integration points in your PCS application. Now if you would directly import the WSDLs of those web services that you need to integrate with, it’s most likely not going to work. For example, Oracle Policy Automation, which you can use for risk assessment, has a highly generic interface and without XSLT support in PCS, you can’t make a proper request. Other services might require WS-Addressing or other technical aspects that PCS doesn’t support, so you need to put something in between. For this something, you can use various SOA and Service Bus products or Oracle’s Integration Cloud Service, once it has matured some more to deal with web services properly.

Creating the interface – challenges

So, you have decided to put one or more layers of services between PCS and the web services that you need to invoke. Regardless of your architecture, you need to keep some considerations in mind: Read the complete article here.