An Introduction to Oracle’s Integration Cloud Service (ICS) by Jennie DeRosa

December 11, 2015 Leave a comment

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Last month, Oracle made available their latest tool within their integration cloud strategy, Integration Cloud Service (ICS).  With the number of SaaS applications growing, the need to integrate is becoming more important, making ICS even more relevant.

The intended usage of ICS are implementations of simple, light weight integrations between SaaS applications.  It resides within the cloud, is built off the Oracle Service Bus, and is available on a monthly subscription basis.

Pre-built solutions will be available in the marketplace (think app store), allowing for reusable integrations to be purchased, implemented in an accelerated manner. This will provide the option to reuse existing integrations as-is, or build on top of the existing, customizing for your business integration needs. If the pre-built solutions don’t meet your integration needs, the capability to develop your own from scratch is always on option. Either way, the development of an integration within ICS can be done using the capabilities detailed in this article.

Within ICS, there are 4 aspects: Integrations, Connections, Lookups, and Packages. Each of these will be discussed in further detail.

Integrations

Developing integrations between SaaS applications is done in ICS via a web based tool. Using drag and drop capabilities, an integration can easily be defined. Since the tool is built on top of OSB, the functions defined within the VETO (validate, enrich, transform, and operation) integration design pattern are available for implementation: Read the complete article here.

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Upgrading to Oracle SOA Suite 12c – What you need to know by Matt Brasier

December 11, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Matt Brasier, Head of Consulting at C2B2 and author of the ‘Oracle SOA Suite 11g Cookbook’, recently delivered a series of webinars giving an overview of Oracle SOA Suite 12c, and what viewers need to know about it.

Background

Matt is a Professional Services Consultant and has over 13 years experience in tuning enterprise Java applications. Having worked on jobs from small in-house solutions to large Government projects, Matt has experience of working across a broad range of industries.

As Head of Consulting at C2B2, Matt works alongside a number of certified SOA Suite Consultants. C2B2 are Oracle Gold partners and deliver expertise through a combination of consulting and remote support. The company have a lot of experience working with WebLogic, Oracle SOA Suite stack and Oracle integration stacks.

What’s new in Oracle SOA Suite 12c?

The improvements and new features in Oracle SOA Suite 12c have been split into 3 core areas;

1. Productivity improvements have been made across the whole range of SOA Suite components and services, with the biggest developments being around jumpstart templates, lightweight footprint and unified design tools.

2. Cloud integration has also been a big driver for change. Users now have the ability to not only integrate their own on premise applications, servers and components using SOA Suite, but can also bring in their Software as a Service providers (SaaS).

3. Another key area that Oracle have focused on in this release is mobile integration and mobile devices.

Productivity Improvements

Productivity improvements are the key reasons why Oracle SOA Suite 12c is important. These improvements allow users to do what they need to with Oracle SOA Suite, but quicker and more efficiently.

The biggest productivity improvement is the jumpstart distribution for developers. These are single bundle installations that contain Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus or Oracle BPM in a single archive, containing a tool that builds a WebLogic domain. All components are preconfigured and plugged into a database that’s already been created and has all of the data already. Users can simply get up and running and start developing applications without needing to do large amounts of deploying, patching or adding products on top of products.

Test build environments are also easier to get up and running. These are small, single server domains that aren’t designed for production use, but are a good way of getting developers started and getting people up-skilled in Oracle SOA Suite. These quick start distributions make a big difference to training purposes.

Unified design interface is another useful improvement in Oracle SOA Suite 12c – it’s about ensuring the user interface looks and behaves the same across the various tools available; web interfaces and the Oracle J Developer interface in particular.

There are also a number of enhancements to testing and debugging, making it easier to debug things going on in Oracle SOA Suite in case something’s not behaving as expected.

Cloud Integration

Cloud Integration brings a lot of crucial business benefits, making it one of the key areas for growth in Service Oriented Architecture, and integration in general. Read the complete article here.

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SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast – December 15th 17:00 CET: Get a Process Cloud Service V2 update

December 10, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Attend our December edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on December 15th 2015 17:00 CET. Chris Peytier will give an update on the brand new Process Cloud Service version 2.

Visit the registration page here.

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Chris Peytier

clip_image003BPM Specialist – EMEA Technology Specialist Group.
Providing help and support to the BPM presales team accross EMEA
Topics include
– How PCS is altering the BPM selection procedures with our customers
– Going through some of the use cases that we see now with PCS
PaaS4SaaS integration: How PCS can be an instrument to extend functionalities of Oracle applications.

Schedule:

December 15th 2015 17:00-18:00 CET

Visit the registration page here.

If you have difficulty logging in using the above link please go to: http://ouweb.webex.com/meetingcenter and join with session id: 595638481

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

• SOA Suite 12.2.1

• Oracle OpenWorld 2015 update

• SOA & API Cloud Service

• Solutions Catalog & Cloud Marketplace

• GSE demo systems

• Hybrid sales plays

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How to integrate and extend Oracle CX Cloud solutions? A special webinar for EMEA partners on Dec 17th 2015

December 10, 2015 Leave a comment

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Maximize the Value of Your CX Investments with Oracle Cloud Platform

With Oracle CX Cloud, companies not only get the most comprehensive CX offering, but also an innovative and powerful cloud platform to extend, analyze and integrate these applications with the rest of the enterprise resources, as well as to optimize them for every user. 

This session outlines the Cloud Platform (PaaS & IaaS) solutions that Oracle provides to streamline cloud development and empowers you to deliver enterprise-grade solutions rapidly and cost effectively. Join this event if you are interested in the most advanced way to extend, analyze and integrate the Oracle CX solutions. In subsequent webinars, we will drive you through further Integration Solutions’ details.

Agenda:

  • Oracle Cloud Platform Overview
  • Practical use case to extend, analyze and integrate Oracle CX Cloud
  • CX extension & integration demo
  • Partner resources
    Schedule:
    December 17th 2015 10:00 am CET

For details please visit our registration page here!

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Oracle Cloud: ICS by Frank Munz

December 9, 2015 Leave a comment

clip_image002Quite a while ago (a year before Larry announced the Oracle Public Cloud) I wrote about SaaS applications and a service bus PaaS to interconnect services: “… services are integrated and virtualized by a service bus in the cloud and orchestrated by a workflow system in the cloud [Oracle Middleware and Cloud Computing] “.

Back then it almost seemed like building castles in Spain. Indeed it took several years to build the PaaS service – yet today Thomas Kurian and Larry Ellison announce Oracle’s ICS. Now it’s out there with all the agility that comes with a cloud based solution.

It’s the cloud! So get a test account, play with it, scale it and try to break it!

Let me know what you think using @frankmunz and add: @soacommunity.

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Estafet Opinion on the new Integration Cloud Service from Oracle

December 9, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001Integration Expert Phil McLaughlin takes a look at the new cloud solution from Oracle.

Last week Oracle announced its long awaited iPaaS Integration Cloud Service (ICS) and Process Cloud Service (PCS). As integration experts, Estafet looked at these exciting new products and assessed how they will affect the integration market.

If you are interested in finding out more, come along to our event on the 24th July at the Royal Exchange London. We will delve deeper into the technology, including a live demo of ICS

The iPaaS market has been dominated by providers such as Dell Boomi, Snaplogic and Mulesoft all taking slightly different approaches towards integrating SaaS applications in the cloud. Oracle has now entered this market providing a comprehensive set of solutions of its own.  In this blog we examine Integration Cloud service (ICS), in later blogs we will look at some of the others.

So how does Oracle ICS fare against the competition?

Oracle ICS makes most sense if you already have Oracle SaaS applications that need point-to-point integrations in the cloud, or integrations to on-premise solutions (ideally using OSB) to form a hybrid cloud solution.

Many companies have one or two SaaS applications that require linking either to each other, or to existing service bus-based backend systems, and ICS is ideal for this. The Oracle SaaS endpoints that belong to the company are made available in the development environment, meaning the development of the integrations are quick and simple. Read the complete article here.

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Integration Cloud Service Campaign by IPT

December 8, 2015 Leave a comment

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Thanks to our Swiss partner IPT for the excellent Cloud Integration Campaign. Great blog articles in German:

Cloud Integration CH

Oracle sagt dem Silo-as-a-Service den Kampf an – Teil 1

Oracle sagt dem Silo-as-a-Service den Kampf an – Teil 2

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Integration Success Workshop updated Cloud material – generate additional consulting business!

December 8, 2015 Leave a comment

 

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 Cloud: all content here

Module  Business Benefits  Presentation  Viewlets  Labs/Demos 
Integration with Salesforce
  • FASTER TIME TO MARKET for enterprise business processes (e.g. Lead to Order) via rich design time features – intuitive object/service discovery wizards, credential management, and SOQL support for integration developers
  • IMPROVE SALES PRODUCTIVITY — by enabling integration between standard/custom Salesforce objects and other cloud/enterprise systems
  • IMPROVE TCO with Intelligent Salesforce session management, support for multiple SFDC versions, and certification with multiple SOA components
 Prospecting and Positioning Sales Deck
Integration with Salesforce		 EBS SFDC Integration
Runtime – Click-through Demo (Play the HTML)
Design-time Click-through Demo (EXE)
SAP – Salesforce Integration (Videos)
Account Sync Opp to Order		 SFDC JDeveloper Design-time Demo Script
EBix SFDC Runtime Demo script
Integration with RightNow
  • STREAMLINE DEVELOPMENT with rich design time features – intuitive object/service discovery wizards, Bulk/Batch/Chain operation support , and credential management for integration developers
  • FASTER TIME TO MARKET for enterprise business processes (e.g. Agent to Field Service ), and thus improved Customer Service productivity by enabling integration with standard/custom RightNow objects with other cloud/on-premise systems
  • IMPROVE TCO with Intelligent RightNow session management, support for multiple RightNow versions, and certification with multiple SOA components
 Integration with RightNow RightNow Adapter DesignTime Viewlet
Win Mac
Integration with Oracle Sales Cloud
  • FASTER TIME TO MARKET for enterprise business processes (e.g. Lead to Order) via rich design time features – intuitive object/service discovery wizards, credential management, and extensive mapping support for integration developers
  • IMPROVE SALES PRODUCTIVITY — by enabling integration between standard/custom Oracle Sales Cloud objects and other cloud/enterprise systems
  • IMPROVE TCO with rich bi-directional integration for Sales Cloud and certification with multiple SOA components
 Integration with Oracle Sales Cloud Sales Cloud Adapter DesignTime Viewlet (coming soon)
Integration with Eloqua
  • FASTER TIME TO MARKET for “Integrated Marketing Lead Flow” via rich design time features – intuitive object/service discovery wizards, credential management, and bulk API support for integration developers
  • IMPROVE Marketing Reach — by enabling integration between standard/custom Eloqua objects and other cloud/enterprise systems
  • IMPROVE TCO by syncing large data sets with Eloqua, and certification with multiple SOA components
 Integration with Eloqua Eloqua Adapter DesignTime Viewlet
Win Mac
Integration in the Cloud (iPaas)
  • Simplified and AcceleratedSaaS to SaaS and SaaS to On-Premise Integration in the Cloud
  • Highly Intuitive Browser based designer for modeling your Integrations
  • Pre-built integration flows to kick-start your SaaS Integrations
  • Intelligent Mapping Recommendations to accelerate and bring down costs of building transformation maps
 Integration Cloud Service(OOW Presentation)
Cloud Adapter Roadmap		 Click-though Demo for RN to EBS Field Service Integratiom via ICS
Order Management System for Li-Ning – based on Cloud Integration
  • Effectively integrate resources and enhance competitiveness
  • Reduce decline in revenues and increase in deficits
  • Satisfy customer specific requirements
 Presentation Viewlet Demo Assets

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Middleware Update December 2015

December 7, 2015 Leave a comment

 

The December edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics:

  • Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum
  • PaaS Industry Showcases
  • SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast

For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here.

For the latest SOA & BPM Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required)

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My private Corner – last OpenWorld 2015 with friends

December 6, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Thanks for the great time during OpenWorld 2015. To spend time with the community always feels like being at home with friends. Last OpenWorld was excellent enjoyed the workshops with the partners and also our bike ride and networking during the reception. Want to see some impression? Visit our Facebook page here. For 2016 all is booked #jkwc

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