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| April 2020 Edition Oracle PaaS Partner Community Newsletter |
| Dear PaaS Partner Community, |
Since December 2017 Oracle Integration is updated on a monthly schedule. Support our partners to deliver cloud innovation for our joint customer base. The Oracle Integration release March 2020 provides many new features to connect SaaS and extend SaaS with custom build processes.
Watch Filip Huysmans, Contribute generating Business with Digital Assistants. We want to promote also your customer success, submit your story via the customer reference program.
How to become a SaaS Integration Expert? We updated the SaaS Integration partner resource kit. More than 10.000 hits proof the value, get the content and start your journey to become a certified Oracle expert today!
In the process & innovation section we published the March release announcement. Ankur Jain released the latest video to enable process notifications. To build user interfaces part of a BPMN process, OIC offers WebForms, which now includes a new expression builder. Special thanks to Ralf for part III of his machine learning in digital process automation series. |
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| How to become a SaaS Integration Expert? |
| Want to connect HCM, CX and ERP applications with each other and on-premises? For SaaS consultants we offer free SaaS Integration partner kit to become a hands-on expert: |
Live Webtraining
For Oracle partners we offer free on-line classes to Integrate SaaS:
• Virtual web training India April 13th-15th 2020
• Virtual web training EMEA May 4th-6th 2020 |
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Cloud Trial:
Please request your free Oracle cloud trial here. To attend the hands-on trainings please make sure you have access to the Oracle cloud platform. You need to create a Service Request to provision Oracle Integration. |
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Documentation
Get Started documentation is published here. |
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| Integrate SaaS hands-on Bootcamps Webtraining |
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Do you want to find out why Gartner named Oracle as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for three years in row? Are you able to innovate quickly in the new digital world? Are you looking for ways to integrate systems and data faster using a modern cloud integration platform? Attend the Oracle Integration Bootcamp, a three days hands-on training for Oracle partners!
Schedule:
• Virtual web training India April 13th-15th 2020
• Virtual web training EMEA May 4th-6th 2020 |
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| Innovate HCM with Chatbots PaaS Partner Community Webcast April 28th 2020 |
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Attend our April edition of the PaaS Partner Community Webcast live on April 28th 2020 at 16:30 CET.
Presenter: Martin Jarvis Director Product Management Oracle HQ
Chatbots have quickly become a critical platform for interacting with users, customers, and prospects. Organizations can now engage customers and employees in a proactive, personalized way, at scale across web, mobile, and messaging platforms. In Human Capital Management chatbots improve access to employee resources and automate talent acquisition and onboarding procedures. |
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| Free on-demand PaaS Partner Community Webcasts |
| Thanks for attending our monthly community webcasts. Every monthly a speaker from the Oracle product management teams presents the latest updates on the Oracle Cloud Platform. In case you missed one of them take the opportunity to watch our community webcasts on-demand: |
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| Watch Filip Huysmans, Contribute generating Business with Digital Assistants |
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Filip is talking about the different success his team has made with ODA in Belgium. Not only from a technical standpoint, but certainly also from a business one. Looking how ODA can drive sales for your business and how to use it for point-in-time marketing events. Besides ODA, other cloud services are helping business gaining their momentum through savings and availability. For more information please visit the solution catalog.
We want to promote your customer success! Have you implemented successful a solution based on the Oracle Cloud Platform? Submit your success story via the customer reference program. |
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| New Oracle Implementation Certifications |
| Enablement and certification is key to cloud success. |
At the Oracle Competence Center and Online Learning Library partners can attend free on-line classes and certifications. Additional we offer the latest implementation exams ($245 or free vouchers) for:
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| Oracle Integration release March 2020 |
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What’s New for Oracle Integration? Learn about the new and changed features of Oracle Integration:
-- Oracle NetSuite Adapter - Asynchronous API support
-- Apache Kafka Adapter - Mutual TLS and TLS security policy support
-- Connectivity Agent - Automatic upgrade on Windows
-- REST Adapter - Multiple resources and verbs support
-- Oracle Asserter - Integration testing framework support
-- Notification actions - Attachment support |
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| OIC --> Netsuite adapter - processing Customers by Niall Commiskey |
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Simple example - let's start by creating a customer. I'm not a Netsuite expert - so I begin by creating a Customer in Netsuite
Ok, now I've seen the mandatory fields -
So now off to OIC. I create a simple REST based integration that leverages the Netsuite adapter to create a customer in Netsuite. |
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| Use Global Variables and Data Stitch to log request payloads by Thomas Hora |
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In this blog, we will look at 2 new Integration features Global Variables, and Data Stitch. Data Stitch allows us to make assignments to complex type variables. We will show how the features can be leveraged to log invoke request payloads in case of fault.
Prerequisite
Enable following features:
• oic.ics.console.integration.stitch-action
• oic.ics.console.integration.complex-variables |
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| Oracle Field Service Adapter by Niall Commiskey |
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Like all OIC adapters, the OFS adapter has comprehensive documentation. The users guide is available here.
Pre-requisites
There are some pre-requisites, which are discussed in the aforementioned doc. |
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| See How Easily You Can Access Integration's metadata by Venkatesh Mohanram |
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| Many times we may want to use the name of the integration, its version inside the OIC integration flow and we may not want to hardcode the values. And also we may want to access dynamic value like runtime instanceId, invoked by etc., inside the integration flow. All these are possible now with the introduction of a new feature called 'Integration Metadata Access' and it allows access to most of the commonly useful metadata. In this blog, we will see what are the metadata that we can access and how we can use it in the integration flow. |
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| Subscribe Oracle ERP Business Events in Oracle Integration by Ankur Jain |
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| Subscription of Business Events is one of the crucial scenarios in the today’s world irrespective of the application. In this article, we will look at how to Subscribe Oracle ERP Business Events in Oracle Integration. The subscription of events makes the real time based integration between Oracle ERP and other SaaS based or on-premise applications. |
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| Processing an Incident in ServiceNow by Niall Commiskey |
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One thing that hit me on logging in to ServiceNow was the plethora of functionality on offer.
Introduction to the ServiceNow adapter
ServiceNow provides platform-as-a-service (PaaS) enterprise service management software for human resources, law, facilities management, finance, marketing, and field operations. ServiceNow specializes in IT service management (ITSM) applications and automates common business processes. ServiceNow contains a number of modular applications that can vary by instance and user. ServiceNow contains many modules/plugins and our adapter gives you access to the following – |
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| ERP Adapter in Oracle Integration Cloud by Ankur Jain |
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Oracle ERP adapter in Oracle Integration Cloud is one of the most critical adapters which allows us to create inbound and outbound integration. The adapter simplifies the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) communication with other SaaS and on-premise applications.
In the latest release of Oracle ERP adapter, the connection creation with ERP is very simple. |
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| Weblogic JMS adapter by Niall Commiskey |
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Here is a simple example of using the Weblogic JMS adapter in OIC -
I began by setting up the JMS artefacts in Weblogic -then created a simple JMS client to sanity test - Weblogic is running on my laptop, so I have installed the OIC Connectivity Agent there as well. It is up and running - I now create the Weblogic JMS connection in OIC. |
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| Invoke a Co-located Integration from a Parent Integration by Daniel Martins Teixeira |
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The capability to ‘Invoke an Integration from another Integration’ is now GA – in other words, the ability to easily implement Modular Design is now GA.
This topic has already been covered some time ago here, but now the feature is GA, available to every OIC user, and it’s worthwhile a refresh!
What did it really change?
Before this feature, we could achieve the same result, but that would require to expose the desired Integration with a REST Trigger and we would need to create a Connection to enable calls to that Integration. |
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| OIC Space Management simplified by Sindhu Suresh |
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| OIC empowers customers to create numerous integration/process flows and send multiple requests to each one of them, all within one instance of OIC, creating a considerable amount of runtime data. And the space within said instance that holds the runtime data and makes all of this possible is, although substantial, not unlimited. Therefore managing the runtime data within an instance, so it continues to function at a optimal level, is a key requirement. With the help of this blog, I would like to illustrate how easily one can achieve ideal data/space management for any OIC instance. |
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| Use Data Stitch to simplify integrations by Thomas Hora |
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In this blog, we will look at a new integration feature, Data Stitch, and show how it can simplify integrations to help us reduce maintenance costs. Data Stitch allows us to make assignments to complex type variables.
Prerequisite
Enable following features:
• oic.ics.console.integration.stitch-action
• oic.ics.console.integration.complex-variables
To enable feature flags – Refer to Blog Enabling Feature Flags in Oracle Integration
The minimum Oracle Integration version required for the feature is 200113.1400.33493
Use case:
• We have deployed 3 instances of the application service in 3 regions (APAC, EMEA, AMER).
• 3 separate REST connections are used to handle 3 separate endpoint URIs and credentials for each region. |
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| Announcing Early Access of SOA Suite for Kubernetes by Ravi Pinto |
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The SOA Suite Team is excited to announce the early access availability of Oracle SOA Suite on Containers and Kubernetes. This program will lead to certification of SOA Suite deployment using Containers on Kubernetes in Production environments
Scope
The scope of eventual deliverable is as follows
• Provide Container images for Oracle SOA Suite including Oracle Service Bus
• Certify these Container images for deployment on Kubernetes for Production workloads |
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| Expose T3 protocol for managed servers in SOA Domain on Kubernetes by Ravi Pinto |
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T3 ports for Managed Servers in Oracle SOA deployed in WebLogic Kubernetes operator Environment are not available by default.
This document provides steps to create T3 channel and the corresponding Kubernetes Service to expose the T3 protocol for Managed Servers in SOA Domain.
Exposing SOA Managed Server T3 Ports
With the following steps you will be creating T3 port at 30014 on all Managed Servers for soa_cluster with below details: |
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| Oracle Integration release March 2020 |
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What’s New for Oracle Integration? Learn about the new and changed features of Process Features:
-- Header support in SOAP connectors
-- Web form events
-- New translation framework for multi language support
-- Micro process |
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| Boost Your WebForm Productivity with our New Expression Builder Features by Nicolas Damonte, and Kalyn Chang |
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We're introducing several new Oracle Integration improvements we hope will markedly boost your web form expression productivity. These enhancements are an example of our ongoing efforts to address your feedback!
Expression Editor Redesign
We've redesigned the form expression editor to make it easier to build and keep track of event logic. The expression editor content is now cleaner, more compact, and easier to understand. Many of the changes were made in response to feedback from customers and the User Assistance team. For example, function variables are now aligned, and expression summaries are now clearly differentiated from input fields. |
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| Machine Learning in Digital Process Automation — Part III by Ralf Mueller |
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A lot has happened since the publishing of Part II of this article series. Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) has advanced and on the process side we’re working on a truly multi-tenant, OCI native offering. As part of this, we’re re-architecting parts of the Machine Learning capabilities for Digital Process Automation and we will talk about this in a later article. In this article though, we’d like to demonstrate how ADW and Oracle REST Data Services can be used today for the consumption of Machine Learning models in Business Processes or any other component that supports RESTful Services.
Use Case
For this article we’re considering a Rental Car Use Case. We pick this use case for various reasons:
• Renting a car is well understood by many people, almost all of us went through some great or miserable experience while renting a car.
• We have a great formal description of the case in the form of EU Rent, which was originally developed as a challenge for Business Rules implementations. |
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| Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups |
We launched three new local Meetup locations in Cairo, Frankfurt and Porto! Want to learn more about developing Enterprise-grade Cloud Native applications on the Oracle Cloud Platform, covering topics like Microservices Architecture, developing in Node, Python and PHP, using Low Code development tools to build Mobile apps, and much more?
Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups if you want to follow Oracle’s solutions in this area, or participate in the events and hands-on labs we organize: |
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| PaaS free trial accounts OIC & SOA CS and PaaS for SaaS at Demo.Oracle.com |
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As part of our communities we do offer free PaaS accounts.
To request a free 30 days cloud trial, which can be extended or an additional month, please add yourself to our community wiki:
PaaS Demo Accounts (Community membership required). |
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| My private Corner – send us a picture! |
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Currently all our activities are virtual like our webtraining’s and monthly webcasts. Always enjoyed meeting the #PaaSCommunity during our conferences and trainings to network, chat and spend time together. To keep the community together send us a picture of your good memories via twitter.
As I take care of my family, bandit and my love are not with me. It’s time to welcome Flocke – locking forward to see your pictures & keep safe! |
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| Invite your colleagues to join the PaaS Partner Community |
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