| April Edition Oracle Integration Partner Community Newsletter #217 |
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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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| Oracle Integration offers hundreds of adapters to connect applications. Any custom built solution can be connected via REST or technology adapters e.g. for databases. With Rapid Adapter Builder partners can create their own adapters and publish team in Oracle Integration and Oracle Cloud Marketplace. For example System Integrators (SI’s) who want to productice their consulting services. Or Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s) who want to upsell into the Oracle SaaS customer base. Rapid Adapter Builder t provides all the necessary infrastructure to build adapters for Oracle Integration. The Rapid Adapter Builder is available as a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension, which helps you generate the code required to build an adapter. Using this extension, you can iteratively develop your adapter and publish it to Oracle Integration. Interested to built your own adapter? Access the RAB kit. |
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| For a short summery of our monthly key information watch the PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The April video highlights Rapid Adapter Builder. In this month’s community webcast Antony will present Best Practices for Oracle Integration. |
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| Table Of Contents |
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Community Announcements
Integration Section
Additional new material PaaS Community
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| Partner Community Webcast |
| Oracle Integration Partner Community Webcast |
| Join the experts and learn all the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) best practices, including design and development, operations and monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance management. |
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Meet the product management team and product experts and learn from the best.
Speakers: Antony Reynolds & Jürgen Kress
Schedule: Tuesday April 29th 2025 16:30-17:30 CET (Berlin time) |
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| Cloud Platform Partner YouTube Update March 2025 |
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The April video includes three topics:
• Rapid Adapter Kit
• 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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| Oracle SaaS hands-on trainings |
| Oracle SaaS: HCM, SCM, ERP |
Our live implementation workshops cover the following product areas:
- ERP Cloud
- SCM Cloud
- HCM Cloud
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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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| Integration Section |
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Careem cut their invoice processing time 70% by Harris Qureshi & Niall Commiskey,
Delivery apps such as Careem are a key part of how consumers and businesses operate globally. Since 2012, Careem has simplified the lives of over 50 million customers. Careem was founded with a mission to simplify transportation and create earning opportunities as a ride-hailing marketplace. It has since expanded to serve its customers in many more ways, including food and grocery delivery, payments, and more. Today the Careem Everything App is a pioneering multi-service platform that provides over a dozen digital services to customers across the wider Middle East.
In 2019, Careem was acquired by Uber. With a subsequent $400 million investment in the Careem Super App by global technology investor e&, the company is building category-leading digital services and scaling the Everything App across their key markets. Careem Groceries, the Q-commerce service within the app, completes deliveries of everyday groceries and household goods such as electronics in minutes, thanks to a network of strategically located “dark stores” (microwarehouses) that enable precise and efficient order and delivery to meet rising customer demands. Their goal was to simplify back-office payment processing to efficiently scale operations while providing exceptional value to customers.
Understanding of Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB) | Oracle Integration by Ankur Jain
Oracle Integration offers numerous adapter to connect to various applications and simplify your application integrations.Those adapters are written using Software Development Kit (SDK) which is time consuming activity.
What is Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB)?
To simplify the development and bring new Adapters into market faster, OIC has launched a new feature called RAB that allows quickly to build new Adapters. The good news is, that RAB is available to every customer/partner/developer to build custom Adapters to meet their specific application integration requirements. With the Rapid Adapter Builder in Oracle Integration, anyone can build their own adapters for any application that exposes RESTful APIs, without having to write complex code from scratch.
In case Oracle doesn’t provide an Adapter for your applications, you can build your own application adapter using the REST APIs provided by the application team. RAB offers all the necessary infrastructure to build your own adapters for Oracle Integration. Your own custom adapter offers the same capabilities as an Oracle-provided adapter. You can implement behaviors similar to those available in the existing adapters on Oracle Integration.
OIC offers a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension, which helps you generate the code required to build an adapter. Using this extension, you can iteratively develop your adapter and publish it to your own Oracle Integration instance without any downtime.
Process of Building Adapter using Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB) | Oracle Integration by Ankur Jain
This article demonstrates the process of building an Adapter using Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB).
The previous article describes what is Rapid Adapter Builder. Please refer to the previous article, before you get into this article.
1. Get the OIC credentials:
o Create a confidential application in the identity domain with grant type as client credentials.
o Assign the ServiceDeveloper role to the confidential application.
o Obtain the client id, client secret, and scope from the generated confidential application.
o Obtain the OAuth token URL.
2. Ready with the POSTMAN collection:
o Collect the Open API document / REST APIs of the application you want to develop an adapter for.
o Postman collection for the operations you want to encapsulate in the adapter.
o Save sample responses of all the APIs in POSTMAN.
o Export the collection.
What is the Adapter Document Definition (ADD)? by Ankur Jain
The previous article explains the complete process of building a custom adapter using RAB in Oracle Integration. This article focuses on Adapter Document Definition (ADD), the only file where you define your adapter’s design and runtime implementation.
To publish an adapter to Oracle Integration, you must define the specifications and functions of your adapter in a JSON metadata file, termed the Adapter Document Definition.
An adapter definition document typically describes the design and implementation of an adapter and contains information about its behavior and properties.
Using the RAB extension, you can quickly create an ADD from a Postman collection of an application’s APIs (or an OpenAPI document describing a set of application APIs), and then you can modify the adapter definition document manually according to your requirements.
The ADD file contains multiple sections the describe the design and implementation of your adapter.
The following section explains all the sections contained in the ADD:
Step by Step process to create custom adapter | Oracle Integration by Ankur Jain
Have you ever needed an adapter for your application but couldn’t find one that is ready-made? With Oracle’s Rapid Adapter Builder, you don’t have to wait or rely on complex coding. This tool lets anyone—whether you’re a customer, partner, or developer—create custom adapters for any application that uses RESTful APIs.
Before diving into how you can create a custom adapter using Rapid Adapter Builder, take a moment to explore the series of articles listed below to gain a deeper understanding of what Rapid Adapter Builder offers:
1. Understanding of Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB)
2. Process of Building Adapter using Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB)
3. Understanding of Adapter Document Definition (ADD)
Now, look at the following video for step by step process of building and registering the custom adapter using Rapid Adapter Builder (RAB) using Oracle Integration.
OIC Projects - Copying Integrations by Niall Commiskey
Starting point is two projects, A and B. Both projects are private. Project A contains 1 integration, that is not available to other projects -
I select the Copy Integration option in Project B -
I return to Project A and make the integration shareable - then back to Project B -
Logging Analytics Dashboards for OIC - more details by Niall Commiskey
I go into a bit more detail here - based on the following Billing Dashboard. The first section looks at linking a new widget to the dashboard filter. There are 4 dashboards for OIC, delivered OOTB with OCI Logging Analytics. Each of these dashboards has the following filters - The OIC Environment Filter enables fleet management and the ability to drill down into individual OIC instances. So how do I link a new widget to this filter? Let's look at a simple example; I'll begin with the following widget, based on the OCI Service Metric , Consumed messages (Billed Messages for Integration). I save the query for future use, but first, I add a new widget to my dashboard.
New Features - Decisions in Projects by Niall Commiskey
Decisions, previously only available in Process Automation, can now be created within the context of an OIC Project. Naturally, this also includes the ability to invoke a Decision from an integration - Let's try this out with the following simple scenario - apply a discount to an order, based on product ordered. The logic is banal -
• product iBike - 10% discount
• product iCar - 15% discount
First step is to define the input data, in my case, the product ordered - I define the input, i.e. product as type Text. I now add a Decision Table - this is where I will define the discount rule - |
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| Use dynamic connections in the FTP Adapter to sync items from a product lifecycle management (PLM) system to multiple hospitals. |
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| Use a scheduled integration to import a file containing invoice data from an FTP server to Oracle ERP Cloud for processing. |
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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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