Robotic Process Automation and AI – Webcast December 5th 2017

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a hot topic because its easy record and playback capability enables you to deliver immediate results while putting you on the fast-track to AI-powered recommendations and Adaptive Case Management. If you’ve got legacy systems of record, dashboards, or spreadsheets you manage manually, RPA’s computer vision technology with Oracle Cloud Platform for Integration and Automation can take on mundane tasks and free up critical resources to help you grow your business.
Join Oracle’s Vikas Anand, VP Product Management, and Bobby Patrick, UiPath’s CMO on this webcast as we discuss how Oracle Integration Cloud with RPA can help you:

Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2017 by Juliana Button

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Returning from the excitement of Oracle OpenWorld, it’s good to pause and reflect on the highlights of the major Oracle event of the year. There were a significant number of key announcements across the entire product stack – IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and DaaS. With our focus on IaaS and PaaS we have shared a few of the key take-aways below.

What was also noticeable this year, was the level of engagement from partners and customers talking about their use-cases and implementations, sharing their findings and experiences with Oracle Cloud PaaS. It is exciting to see the momentum building and the great value customers are starting to derive from their cloud-based implementations.

  • Key Announcements
  • Session Replays
  • Rubicon Red @ Oracle OpenWorld
  • Other Interesting Articles
KEY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Oracle Container Native Application Development Platform

Early adopter availability was announced for the new Oracle Container Native Application Development platform to simplify building, deploying and operating container-based applications in the cloud.

  • Oracle Container Engine – a managed Kubernetes service to create and manage Kubernetes clusters
  • Oracle Container Registry Service – a private container registry service for storing and sharing container images across multiple deployments
  • Oracle Container Pipelines – a full container lifecycle management service based on the Wercker acquisition, for continuous integration and delivery of microservice applications

More info:

Blockchain

Oracle announced Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service – an enterprise-grade, fully-managed blockchain solution to help organizations rapidly get started with blockchain. Oracle recently joined Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Read the complete article here. & Get the Oracle OpenWorld presentations and demos here.

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Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is available

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Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) brings together all the capabilities of Application Integration, Process Automation, Visual Application Building and Integration Analytics into a single unified cloud service. Oracle Integration Cloud now brings real-time and batch based integration, structured and unstructured processes, case management, stream analytics and integration insight allowing customers to service all their end to end integration needs in one cohesive platform so that all users can now build and deliver capabilities needed to realize true Digital Business Transformations.  Billing is simplified with a single metric of OCPUs per hour (no more connection or user counting!!).  Natively discover and invoke integration flows from processes in OIC and vice versa. Customers can configure and schedule patching according to their own schedule, and they can scale the Database to accommodate their business’s retention policy.  The Integration Cloud runtime can be scaled out to meet the most demanding customer volumes, and VPN is now available so customers can choose to use the Connectivity Agent, API Platform, or VPN for on-premises application connectivity.

Oracle Integration Cloud Overview Video (YouTube)

Key Features:

· SaaS and On-Premises Integration: Quickly connect to 1000s of SaaS or on-premises Applications seamlessly through 50+ native app adapters or technology adapters. Support for Service Orchestration and rich integration patterns for real-time and batch processing.

· Process Automation: Bring agility to your business with an easy, visual, low-code platform that simplifies day to day tasks by getting employees, customers, and partners the services they need to work anywhere, anytime, and on any device. Support for Dynamic Case Management

· Visual Application Design: Rapidly create and host engaging business applications with a visual development environment right from the comfort of your browser.

· Integration Insight: The Service gives you the information you need — out of the box, with powerful dashboards that require no coding, configuration, or modification. Get up and running fast with a solution that delivers deep insight into your business.

· Stream Analytics: Stream processing for anomaly detection, reacting to Fast Data. Super-scalable with Apache Spark and Kafka.

Key Differentiators:

Oracle Integration Cloud is an industry recognized leader in Application Integration and Process Automation. Both Gartner and Forrester have recognized Oracle iPaaS as a Leader for its vision and strategy in their respective reports for the year 2017.   Oracle Integration Cloud is the only product on the planet that brings together all key elements of SaaS Extension and Integration under one product. The service also seamlessly integrates with Oracle API Platform Cloud Service for API first design and/or exposing Integrations as APIs.

Learn more about Oracle Integration Cloud here

Partner Resource kit: Presentation, faq, click-through demo, documentation and decision matrix published at our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required):

· Oracle Integration Cloud Overview (PPT)image

· Frequently Asked Questions

· Oracle Integration Cloud Click-through Demo

· Oracle Integration Cloud Documentation

· Cloud Integration Decision Matrix

· Overview Video YouTube

· Oracle Integration Cloud product page

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PaaS (Process & Integration) Partner Community Newsletter November 2017

Dear PaaS Partner Community,

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) was announced during Oracle OpenWorld. OICs a comprehensive offering for integration, processes and to build user interfaces. An OIC partner resource kit including presentations in ppt format, demos, faq and documentation is available for community members. To get all OIC details please join our monthly PaaS Partner Community Webcast – November 21st 2017. The latest Ovum report highlights Oracle leadership in cloud integration.

Thanks to the partner community for the excellent Oracle OpenWorld summaries. Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2017 & My key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne 2017 & Amis Oracle Open World highlights & My Oracle Open World 2017 contributions in a nutshell & Some random thoughts on OOW17. Please use the material to update yourself, and our Oracle OpenWorld in a box kit (community membership required) to update your customer base.

Cloud hands-on training is key to deliver successful customer projects. For SaaS partners we offer a two days hands-on training to integrate and extend SaaS at 8 location across EMEA For details please visit the registration page here. Specially for SaaS partners an updated ICS pricing was announced. ICS is now available on the SaaS price lists for Oracle SaaS to SaaS integration. For details please get the latest price list here. For middleware partners we offer a one day hands-on training to build Microservices architectures based on API Platform Cloud Service at 5 locations across Europe. For details please visit the registration page here. In case you can’t attend one of this training watch the Microservices and API Management video here. Read the article about innovative disruption and the API article series (part 1, part 2, part 3) from Onkar Shoper.

Thanks to the community for sharing all the Integration articles: Integration Cloud Service, SOA Cloud Service or Integration Cloud, are you confused? & Seamless SaaS Integration using Oracle Integration Cloud Service & ICS Best Practices : Before going live and post go-live & ICS –> NetSuite to Zendesk integration & ICS Netsuite adapter configuration & Provisioning Oracle SOA Cloud Service & Fixed SOA Suite CS Error in Oracle Cloud: Validation Failed – Unable to Create Service / Invalid Storage Container

Thanks for Richard and Marcel about the excellent Jarvis Pizzeria article series! The latest publications include: Handling SOAP Faults in PCS & Testing in PCS against the Development or Production environment & Using an imported XSD in PCS & Deployment and using the workspace & Using the REST interface to start a Process

Thanks to the community for sharing all the business process management articles: Using a Multi-Instance & Subprocess as a Complex Gateway in Oracle PCS & Process Cloud Service (PCS) System Error Exception Handling Oracle BPM 12.2.1 ADF Auto-Generation Issue Solutions.

Platform as a service is driving innovation at our customers. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Blockchain are the newest service part of the Oracle PaaS platform. Therefore we will add this topics to the Architecture section of this newsletter. We start with the Blockchain announcement and a first Blockchain impression from Lonneke.

For a short summery of our key monthly information watch the Fusion Middleware & PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The November edition highlights the Oracle OpenWorld kit Universal Cloud Credits and hands-on trainings to integrate & extend SaaS and API Platform Cloud Service. To get an update on Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) please join our monthly PaaS Partner Community Webcast – November 21st 2017.

Want to publish your best practice article & news in the next community newsletter? Please feel free to send it via Twitter @soaCommunity #PaaSCommunity!

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Additional new content SOA & BPM Partner Community

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· Oracle Process Cloud Service: New Features Oracle ACE Director Antonis Antoniou guides you on a detailed exploration of recent new features and enhancements for developers, admins, and end users. Read the article.

· APIs: Yesterday and Today Today’s APIs bear only a passing resemblance to those of decades past, and the differences have made APIs a major factor in today’s software solutions. Read the article.

· Getting Started with Microservices This series by Boris M. Scholl (VP Development, Microservices Oracle Cloud) aims to increase your understanding of what microservices are and how to work with them productively. Read Part 1: Advantages and Considerations. & Read Part 2: Containers and Microservices.

· Video: Managing Oracle SOA Projects with Developer Cloud Service Did you know that Oracle Developer Cloud Service has features specifically designed for SOA developers? Shay Shmeltzer explains. Watch the video.
Video: Infrastructure as Code with Oracle Stack Manager and Oracle Developer Cloud Service Learn how to manage and automate infrastructure provisioning end-to-end with Oracle Stack Manager and Oracle Developer Cloud Service. Watch the video.

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Top tweets SOA Partner Community – November 2017

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My private Corner – Congratulations to Your success – Bavarian beer with friends

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Our PaaS Partner Community brought multiple prices from Oracle OpenWorld home to Europe. Thanks and congratulations! We are very proud of your customer achievements. After hard work we should find time to celebrate and enjoy the success. An outstanding example is the Capgemini API Platform Cloud Service success for which their customer received the Oracle global innovation award. Let me know in case you pass by Munich, would be great to tour the city and drink a Bavarian beer!

Jürgen Kress

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Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team has new content to share for partners, developers, and those interested in learning more about extending the Oracle Applications Cloud.

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· Oracle Partner Network (OPN) webinar replay: In “HCM Cloud UX Extensibility: Making The Mojo,” members of the Oracle Partner Network can learn how easy it is to make some UX mojo by extending the Oracle HCM Cloud. Longtime UX advocate Floyd Teter shares his wisdom and insights with the viewer. Starting with an overview of the strategy behind the HCM Cloud UX, viewers will then learn about extending that strategy to their own specific needs. From integrating a brand, logo and artwork to providing contextual information with infolets, learn to leverage the HCM Cloud UX to improve user adoption. Replay

· Partners, learn how to sell the Oracle SaaS User Experience: Get up to speed on the Oracle UX via the UX Guided Learning Path on the Oracle Partner Network with this course, Oracle Applications Cloud User Experience Implementation Specialist. This path helps Oracle Applications Cloud partners in sales and presales roles sell the cloud. It discusses Oracle’s UX investment in the cloud and offers guidance on positioning the benefits. This path is current through Release 11 and will soon be updated with R12. The updates only cover the difference, release to release, so it’s best to stay current with what’s coming.

· Partners, learn how to personalize the Cloud UX for customers: Learn about everything from customizing the appearance to integrating pages using PaaS4SaaS. Learn about key tools that help you package, preview, and publish customizations safely without affecting users in this guided learning path, Oracle Applications Cloud Extensibility Implementation Specialist. Understand how the simplified UI improves cloud extensibility while preserving the UX.

The OAUX team also takes this learning on the road for workshops with Oracle partners. Read about a recent workshop in the U.K. in this post, “Designing and Building Oracle PaaS Cloud Applications: Never the Same Experience Twice.”

IN NEW YORK: Oracle hosted its annual Cloud Analyst Summit for 35 industry analysts on Jan. 17 in New York. The OAUX team showcased Smart UX, one of the team’s key FY17 initiatives. (For more on that strategy and how keywords “automate, advise, and discover” fit in, read this post on the VoX blog.) Later in the day, Oracle Executive Vice President Steve Miranda gave a nod to the evolution of the Cloud Applications UX in his “Oracle SaaS Momentum and Roadmap” presentation. Analyst Dennis Howlett, from Diginomica, blogs about the presentation and the Oracle UX in this recent post.
A SPECIAL REQUEST: We’ve launched a new set of social channels that will focus on sharing the OAUX strategy and what drives the evolution you see in the Cloud UX. To keep up with what’s new, we encourage you to like and follow our new OAUX Facebook page and OAUX on Twitter.

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne with Oracle Process, Document, and Social Cloud Services

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This video shows how you can take advantage of collaboration capabilities to remove friction, spanning multiple systems in your enterprise by leveraging Oracle’s Process Cloud to share documents and Oracle’s Social Network Cloud to manage notifications. You will see a demonstration of how these capabilities can help remove the “friction” from the Engineering Change Process.
Disclaimer: The capabilities shown in this video are possible, but not delivered as generally-available (GA) integrated products. Consulting services would be required. Watch the video here.

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Oracle Cloud World – SaaS momentum continues by Den Howlett

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Oracle believes the current enterprise cloud wars are being fought at the application or SaaS level. This is an arguable position given that some commentators believe that Amazon dominates the cloud world by some orders of magnitude. More on that in a later story but for now I’m concentrating upon the momentum Oracle is gaining based upon the presentations we saw at Oracle Cloud World last week.

The journey

Oracle’s SaaS journey is now more than 10 years old. If that seems like a lifetime then you’d not be wrong but it gives an indication of just how hard it is to build well formed enterprise class applications. For its part, Oracle has faced numerous challenges but from what we saw and heard from customers, it is well on the road to fueling the all important pipeline that replaces the on-premises revenue with cloud subscriptions. This is far from trivial. Mark Hurd, co-CEO Oracle pegs the company’s SaaS revenue at 95% of all cloud revenue.

As we have come to expect, Steve Miranda, EVP Application Development at Oracle was bubbly and confident, bringing on customers who spoke freely about their experience, detailing developments and discussing the momentum behind Oracle SaaS apps. Read the complete article here.

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