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

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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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SOA Suite 12.2.1 is available for download

SOA Suite 12.2.1 is available for download.

SOA Suite 12.2.1 presentation

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) we posted:

WhatIsNewInSOASuite12.2.1.pptx will details about the new features.

Partner Quotes SOA Suite 12.2.1

  • clip_image002[3]With the release of SOA Suite 12.2.1, the flagship integration platform from Oracle for Cloud, On-Premise, Mobile and IoT integration is enhanced even more. The release includes new features and improvements for operations as well as development and performance. On the operations side, Integration Workload Statistics (IWS) reporting provides your operations team with even better insight in SOA metrics while Failure Resiliency enables the platform to temporarily suspend message and event processing in case of endpoints that are down. Performance gains can be obtained through the SOA In-Memory feature while developers can leverage improved debugger features and native REST and JSON support. All in all, exciting new features for a leading, complete and mature integration platform ! Ronald van Luttikhuizen, eProseed
  • clip_image003With this 12.2.1 release of SOA Suite, following hot on the heels of the launch of the SOA Cloud Service, Oracle demonstrates a strong commitment to the SOA Suite, both on premises and in the cloud. The evolution of the product focuses on cloud integration scenarios, public and private cloud deployment and further industrial robustness. The end to end support for JSON and JavaScript opens up the SOA Suite to an even wider community of developers – and brings elegance, productivity, reuse and performance to a number of key scenarios. It is great to see how this key product for our customers keeps evolving in a direction that provides even more and broader value. Lucas Jellema, Amis

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  • SOA Suite 12.2.1 is completing the REST enablement which started in 12.1.3. Allways looking forward to new SOA Suite releases – this time also with features making us more productive or more succesful in administering critical integrations. Jon Petter Hjulstad, Sysco
  • clip_image007With 12.2.1 SOA Suite will become even more resilient and supports users to further optimize their applications. Great features like the Curcuit breaker, more insights into internal processing, using IWS, and the E2E JSON support makes this new release even more valuable. From my perspective a further step into the right direction. Sven Bernhardt, Opitz Consulting

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  • Continued investment on REST and valuable improvements on existing features give customers even more choices – Bruno Santos, eProseed
  • One of the stand-out features for me in SOA Suite 12.2.1 from an operations perspective is Integration Workload Statistics (IWS). Active Session History has transformed how we clip_image011diagnose application performance problems with the Oracle database and I anticipate IWS will become a key tool for SOA too. This will be especially relevant to SOA Cloud Service as we will have more time to concentrate on tuning and improving the service to our customers. Simon Haslam, Veriton.

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  • Release 12.2.1 can get your organization to a different level of process optimization with tools like IWS and Resilience. Having performance problems? Use IWS to quickly gain insight into potential culprits. Is your system slowing down, caused by temporary malfunctioning parts? Resilience can prevent this for you. Marcel van de Glind, myFMW.

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  • 12.2 steps up the game with improved mobile support and new clever administration and monitoring features. Carlos Pona, Link Consulting.
  • clip_image017[4]Improved existing features, added many new future prove features for developers and prepared even more for the cloud. That is SOA Suite 12.2.1. Carsten Wiesbaum, esentri

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IoT PaaS showcase for Predictive Maintenance by HCL at Oracle OpenWorld2015

imageWant to see a showcase of the brand new Oracle Internet of Things (IoT cloud service consuming Mobile & Process and Integration Cloud Service? Make sure you visit the Samsung & HCL Demo center at Moscone Center South Exhibition Hall – Booth 1221.

The use case includes the complete flow from fault recognition, gather and diagnose information, repair and settle and schedule preventive maintenance. The whole show case was build on the Oracle PaaS Platform. For more information or in case you can not make it to San Francisco please contact Luis Weir here.

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Introducing the Integration Cloud Service by Robert van Molken

 

clip_image002Oracle released some more Cloud offerings and in this article we introduce the Integration Cloud Service. This cloud service lets your organization create integrations between cloud application, but also between cloud and on-premise applications. Create connections to well known and less known SaaS applications using a bunch of cloud adapters, publish or subscribe to the Messaging Cloud Service, or use industry standards like SOAP & REST. The available set of cloud adapters will certainly grow in the future when the marketplace is fully up-and-running.

Why should organizations consider the Cloud?
Let’s get started with the key benefits and features before diving into them more detailed. Why should organizations consider the Cloud?
In this day and age more and more software is going into the cloud, maybe they’re even developed with a cloud-first strategy. Thinks of your CRM, ERP of your HCM application. These applications do not do standalone business they communicate with each other, they exchange information. The Integration Cloud (fno ICS) provides this integrations and does it simplified.

The Cloud has a lot advantages, it is probably the most cost efficient method to use, maintain and upgrade an enterprise service bus.  It is available at much cheaper rates and hence, can significantly lower the company’s IT expenses. Besides, there are many pay-as-you-go and other scalable options available, which makes it very reasonable for your organization. Since all your data is stored in the cloud, backing it up and restoring the same is relatively much easier than storing the same on a physical device. Once you register yourself in the cloud, you can access the information from anywhere, where there is an Internet connection.

So what has the Integration Cloud Service to offer to meet these demands?

Simplified UI
ICS gives a web-based, point & click integration experience where you can easily create integrations between Cloud applications, public web services and on-premise applications.

Rich Connectivity
ICS has a standard library of Cloud & On-premise connectors which includes Oracle SaaS applications, but also connectors for the Messaging Cloud Service and industry standards like SOAP and REST.

Recommendations
The mapping builder to create the necessary mappings between the adapter connections has a build-in recommendation engine for guidance how to best map source to target fields.

Visibility & Error Detections
ICS as build-in a rich monitoring and error management. With advanced tracking you can easily spot inconsistencies and monitoring the usage and performance of integrations. It generates alerts, and even emails them, when connections fail to work. With the guided error handling the errors are easy to repair.

Overview of the Integration Cloud Service
Because it is fully web-based you only need to open a browser and go to the URL you received after creating your ICS instance. After signing in to the Integration Cloud Service you are welcomed by the home page. Read the complete article here.

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SOA Magazine V all about PaaS

 

clip_image002Welcome to the fifth edition of the SOA Magazine by SOA Community. This edition is focuses on Cloud Computing. More precisely, it highlights Platform as a Service (PaaS). Oracle is in process to launch three new PaaS Cloud Services: Process Cloud Service (PCS), Integration Cloud Service (ICS), and Java Cloud Service (JCS). JCS is the underlying foundation and enables you to build, deploy and run Java Applications. With ICS, partners and customers can build integrations between Applications. For example, an integration between Eloqua marketing and Salesforce CRM including an on-premises SAP system. PCS is the platform to build and execute BPMN process in the Cloud. Oracle’s key unique selling point is that the same software is available as on PaaS as on-premises. For example, you can start building your process in PCS export your application and run it on Oracle BPM Suite on-premises in a private Cloud. This enables customers to start and try a service in PaaS and, if required, move it to a data center of their choice.

The second major trend in IT besides Cloud Computing is Mobile. In this Magazine edition, Luca Jellema published an Tutorial to build a Flight application including mobile integration and application. This application is a great example for the complete Red Stack and we want to encourage your to make use of it! It includes all key components from the underlying WebLogic Server, SOA Suite and Service Bus for IT driven integration and BPM Suite for human based processes up to mobile integration with REST. With this application you will learn to utilize the stack and to gain productivity.

This quarterly newsletter is for both customers and partners who are active in the SOA space. The content includes articles for IT decision makers, architects and developers. The goal of the newsletter is to update you on the latest SOA technologies, market studies, trainings & certifications and conferences. We publish the newsletter in English and some articles will be in Portuguese especially for the Brazilian marketing, thanks to Ricardo Puttini and his team. Contribution is open for everybody! We want to publish your content! Like case studies, best practice, technical examples and solutions and conferences. Feel free to submit your content to Jürgen Kress.

Get the SOA Magazine V here & visit the SOA Community

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