| March Edition Oracle Integration Partner Community Newsletter #216 |
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| Connect HCM, CX, ERP with Oracle Integration |
| Grow the Oracle Cloud business and connect, extend & innovate Oracle SaaS solutions. |
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| Dear Integration Community, |
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| Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is general available with the Oracle Integration 25.02 release. RPA is a technology that uses robots to interact with legacy application user interfaces. RPA supplements integration where no application programming interfaces are available. RPA is part of Oracle Integration an automation platform to connect, extend and automate processes. Oracle is the only vender who offers a unified platform with RPA and Integration functionality. A sales kit is available at our new community workspace. For more information and a live demo please join our Partner Community Webcast March 25th 2025. |
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| For a short summary of our monthly key information watch the PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The March video introduces Robotic Process Automation. Which will be also the topic In this month’s community webcast. |
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| Table Of Contents |
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Community Announcements
Integration Section
Additional new material PaaS Community
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| Robotic Process Automation (RPA) |
| Oracle Integration Partner Community Webcast |
| Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is general available with the Oracle Integration 25.02 release. RPA is a technology that uses robots to interact with legacy application user interfaces. RPA supplements integration where no application programming interfaces are available. |
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RPA is part of Oracle Integration an automation platform to connect, extend and automate processes. Oracle is the only vender who offers a unified platform with RPA and Integration functionality.
Speakers: Sandhya Lakshmi Gopalan & Nathan Angstadt
Schedule: Tuesday March 25th 2025 16:30-17:30 CET (Berlin time)
For details please visit the registration page here.
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| Cloud Platform Partner YouTube Update March 2025 |
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The March video includes three topics:
• Robotic Process Automation
• Hands-on trainings
• Community webcast |
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| Integrate SaaS Hands-on Bootcamps Webtraining |
| Connect HCM, CX, ERP with Oracle Integration |
Oracle Product Management is pleased to invite Oracle Partners to attend a 3-days hands-on workshop on how to integrate SaaS (e.g ERP & HCM) applications using Oracle Integration Cloud.
It will consist of presentations, demos and hands-on labs. |
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Training is free of charge for Oracle partners (OPN membership required):
Schedule:
• India June 3rd, 5th, 10th 2025
• Brazil May 6th, 8th, 13th 2025
• EMEA April 15th, 17th, 22nd 2025
• Bangalore (in-class) March 18th& 19th 2025
• US March 4th, 6th, 11th 2025
• Latin Americas February 18th, 20th, 25th 2025
• Asia February 4th, 6th, 11th 2025
For additional locations please visit our website here (community membership required). |
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| Certifications Oracle Integration |
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Enablement and certification are key to cloud success.
At the Oracle Learning Center partners can attend free online classes and certifications.
Additional we offer the latest implementation exams ($245 or OPN vouchers) for: |
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- Oracle Integration Cloud 2025 Sales Specialist This learning path is an update inclusive of Oracle Integration Cloud Gen 3 for Oracle partner sales representatives. It covers customer need, messaging, and how to compete, and a high level technical overview of product capabilities for app integration and process automation on OCI.
- Oracle Integration Cloud 2025 Solution Engineer Specialist
Customers want a deeper understanding of how OCI services can resolve their hybrid and multi-cloud integration and process automation issues. This learning path covers Gen 3 technical features of Oracle integration and process automation on OCI along with a customer integration demonstration.
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Application Integration Professional | 1Z0-1042-25: This exam is intended for application integrators who have a year or more of experience implementing OIC integrations or have completed the Become an Application Integration Professional Learning Path training.
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| Resources Oracle Integration Partner Community |
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Want to attend an event, receive a newsletter, collaborate via cloud customer connect or ask your questions?
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| Resources |
Links, certifications, events & training calendar.
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| Join the community Newsletter, webcast, slack channel. |
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| Integration Section |
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New Adapters and Enhancements in Oracle Integration 25.02 by Madhav Poosarla
Welcome to Oracle Integration's 25.02 release! This update introduces powerful new adapters and significant enhancements across our existing portfolio, ensuring seamless integration, advanced connectivity, and enhanced productivity for diverse use cases.
New Adapters:
• RabbitMQ Adapter: Expands Oracle Integration’s messaging capabilities with robust support for publishing, consuming, and managing messages through RabbitMQ exchanges and queues.
• Asana Adapter: Elevates project management and collaboration by enabling direct integration with the Asana platform, offering CRUD operations, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and support for Personal Access Tokens (PAT).
Partner Developed-Adapters Using the Rapid Adapter Builder
Oracle Integration (OIC) is expanding with a growing number of partner-developed adapters built using the Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB), enabling seamless integrations with enterprise applications. As part of this release, we offer three adapters delivered by partners:
FHIR Adapter - Support for FHIR Profiles by Steve Tindall
In August 2024, we released the first version of the OIC FHIR Adapter. In that initial release, we only supported the base FHIR resources as described in the HL7 FHIR specification. With the February release of OIC (version 25.02), we now support the ability to upload package files so you can use FHIR profiles.
With this new feature, you can now use customized resources defined in a profile with your integration flows. If you are not familiar with the OIC FHIR Adapter and want to see an introductory demo that shows how to use it, I've put a link to another video at the end of this blog.
New FHIR Profile Support
In this latest release, you can upload a FHIR NPM package (explained here) that contains the customized profiles that you want to work with in your integrations. We have tested the packages listed below with OIC, but feel free to try any package. We want to reach the point where you can upload any FHIR profile into OIC. However, due to the many different variations that can exist in the way profile customizations are made and packaged, some profile packages currently do not work. You can upload a package into OIC project by clicking the stethoscope icon and then the '+' button in the FHIR profiles section. See the screenshot below.
If there is a specific FHIR profile that you want to use with OIC, and it does not work for some reason, reach out to me (click my avatar at the top of bottom of this blog) and we will see what we can do to add support for your package. As I mentioned, we want to eventually support all packages that are created according to the standard.
Logging Analytics Dashboards for Oracle Integration (OIC) by Niall Commiskey
OCI Logging Analytics Dashboards for OIC
Introduction
OIC includes comprehensive observability functionality, which is sufficient for most customers. However, there are other OCI services that give us access to OIC service metrics and activity streams. Tools such as OCI Metrics Explorer, OCI Logging, and OCI Dashboards provide great added value in this space. This post covers OCI Logging Analytics and how you can easily create a compelling dashboard based on OIC service metrics, a dashboard your OIC admins will love!
This post is more high level, showing you the value added with OCI Logging Analytics Dashboards for OIC. The dashboard I have created is one I feel could be very useful for OIC admins. You can, of course, create your own, depending on your specific requirements.
There is an accompanying "low level" post, for those interested in the "How?" part. A link to this more technical post can be found in the Summary section.
OCI Logging Analytics
According to the public page, "Logging Analytics is a cloud solution in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that lets you index, enrich, aggregate, explore, search, analyze, correlate, visualize, and monitor all log data from your applications and system infrastructure."
So, let's apply this to OIC. There are essentially two sets of "log" data: OCI Service Metrics for OIC and the OIC activity stream. This post will focus on creating a dashboard based on the former.
OCI Service Metrics for OIC
There are many metrics currently rendered on the OIC instance page in OCI:
Monitoring API for OIC Service Metrics by Niall Commiskey
Introduction
OCI provides a rich set of Service Metrics for OIC. You can check them out on the OCI page for your OIC instance - This post doesn't discuss the individual metrics. Check out another post of mine for details on each of these. A second, more recent post, discusses the new consumption metrics. You can check it out here. What this post does cover is using the OCI Monitoring api to retrieve OIC Service Metrics. This api is documented here. Oracle make it very easy to check out these apis, all I needed to do was download the oci collection and environment from postman -
Logging Analytics Dashboards for OIC by Niall Commiskey
Starting off with a screenshot that is indecipherable may seem strange, but please humour me.
The screenshot shows some of the widgets from an OCI Logging Analytics Dashboard I created specifically for one of my OIC instances.
My goal was to give OIC admins the salient data they need in one dashboard. You can decide whether my "salient" applies to you, if not, you can certainly extrapolate from what I did. I'll go through the widgets one by one, starting off with Billed Messages - As you can see, I don't have many messages here. This is because I'm using one of my test instances. But, anyway, I see my exact billed message consumption.
Let's look into what's powering this widget -
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| Look! New Videos! |
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| Learn how to make FHIR profiles available so that you can use their resource definitions with the FHIR Adapter. |
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| Use Oracle Integration's B2B features to send batched EDI transactions to trading partners. |
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| Use robotic process automation (RPA) to create user groups and the add users to them in Oracle SaaS applications. |
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| Resources Integration |
| Customer and partner resources overview: |
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| Community Website |
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| Join the Oracle Developer Meetup groups |
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| 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: Utrecht, Netherlands, Brussels, Belgium, Cairo, Egypt, Lisbon, Portugal, Lille, France, London, UK, Madrid, Spain, Istanbul, Turkey, Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
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Free Oracle Cloud Accounts 30 days cloud trial are available here. Your Oracle partner manager can extend this trails.
For SaaS trials please visit this page. For support please contact the OPN Team. |
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| Oracle Integration an unified platform to connect, extend and innovate includes Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the 25.02 release. For partners a great opportunity to built automations for repetitive manual tasks without APIs. A great example is the KNEX Fusion Testing Suite. What's your next automation? Let us know! |
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