| June Edition Oracle Integration Partner Community Newsletter #219 |
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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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| Thanks and congratulations for an fantastic fiscal years ended May 2025. Oracle Integration is a rock solid product driving innovation for a huge & growing 6000+ customer base with a Billion transactions per week, supported by 10000+ trained and certified consultants. In the last 12 months more than 4000+ persons attended 29 partner webcasts & bootcamps. System Integrators offer services to connect and extend Oracle SaaS (HCM, CX, ERP). To up-sell into the Oracle customer baser, Independent Software Vendors can built adapters for their own applications, and connect to Oracle SaaS. Celebrate your success and nominate your achievements for the Oracle Partner Awards 2025. |
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| For a short summary of our monthly key information watch the PaaS Partner Updates on YouTube. The June video highlights Oracle Partner Awards and a comprehensive demo which highlights the Oracle Integration 3 capabilities and innovations. An excellent example for your next customer presentation. |
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| Table Of Contents |
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Community Announcements
Integration Section
Additional new material PaaS Community
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| Connect your ISV application with Oracle ERP/HCM/CX |
| Oracle Integration Partner Community Webcast |
| With Oracle Integration Independent software vendors can built adapters for their own applications to connect to Oracle SaaS. |
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Discover the latest advancements in the Rapid Adapter Builder and Prebuilt Solutions enablement program, designed to accelerate partner success. This session highlights key updates that streamline adapter development using the RAB framework, improve prebuilt solution development and extensibility, and reduce time-to-market for partners
Speakers: Prakash Masand & Jürgen Kress
Schedule: Tuesday June 24th 16:30-17:30 CET (Berlin time) |
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| Cloud Platform Partner YouTube Update June 2025 |
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The June video includes three topics:
• Nominations Partner Awards
• Overview Oracle Integration 3
• 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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| 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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Oracle Integration - preparing your AI innovation journey by Nathan Angstadt
Oracle Integration (OIC) has been an industry-leading Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) product for many years. Throughout this time, the product has evolved to meet the dynamic needs of modern businesses. Starting as a robust Integration platform that helped customers eliminate data silos and ensure data consistency across the enterprise, OIC stands today as a unified Business Automation platform helping customers connect apps and data, automate business processes, and innovate with AI.
Oracle Integration includes a comprehensive portfolio of business automation tools and technologies that help accelerate innovation. Its key automation capabilities include:
• Application Integration: eliminate data silos and ensure data consistency across the enterprise.
• Prebuilt Connectivity: lower the technical barriers to connecting Oracle and third-party Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises applications, databases, internet technologies, and AI services.
• Prebuilt automation solutions: accelerate innovation through a marketplace of supported, extensible, and upgradable automation solutions for common horizontal and vertical business processes.
• Process Automation: engage human workers for approvals, exception handling, and AI human-in-the-loop oversight.
• Robotic Process Automation (RPA): automate manual repetitive tasks where you can't use APIs.
• Decision Service: automate the enforcement of business policies and rules.
• Business to Business (B2B): automate business partner transactions and processes.
With the rapid emergence of new automation opportunities brought about by artificial intelligence (AI), businesses are once again faced with the challenge of remaining competitive as they navigate and capitalize on the promise of these transformative technologies. Building on our proven history of empowering customers through dynamic market changes, Oracle Integration is ready to deliver pragmatic solutions, leveraging our foundation of robust integration and automation capabilities, to help drive your AI innovation.
To that end, we are pursuing an AI strategy that delivers value across two pillars of innovation. First, we are bringing AI to Oracle Integration by embedding AI directly into the product to create intelligent features that enhance usability, increase productivity, and simplify operations. Second, we are bringing Oracle Integration to AI to help accelerate your AI innovation journey through our comprehensive portfolio of business automation tools and technologies.
What's new in Oracle Integration 25.06 by Niall Commiskey
Automation Core
Bringing the power of AI to OIC is a big focus of our 25.06 release. We have a host of new features; the big-ticket items include AI-driven integration generation as well as native actions for OCI AI Services. Naturally, there are also many other value-added features coming in this release, including the ability to push project artifacts to your Git repository.
But first, a quick overview of what's new in the AI space with 25.06.
AI Driven Integration Generation
Now you can generate an integration from natural language: Here you can express your integration requirements in natural language, for example:
"Create an order in the NetSuite on closure of opportunity in the Salesforce. Make sure customer exists in the NetSuite before creating an order, if customer does not exist, get the customer details from salesforce and then create the customer in the NetSuite. Also add the fault handler that sends an error notification to the integration owner."
New Adapters and Connectivity Enhancements in Oracle Integration 25.06 by Madhav Poosarla
We’re excited to share what’s new in the Oracle Integration 25.06 release! This update introduces powerful innovations, starting with the all-new OpenAI Adapter and Native action support for OCI Generative AI, Language, Speech, Vision, and Generative AI Agent (RAG) — enabling smarter, AI-powered solutions.
We’ve also added new adapters like Microsoft SharePoint and Infovity OANDA Exchange Rates Adapter, and delivered key enhancements to popular adapters such as NetSuite, GCP Pub/Sub, and FTP, helping you streamline integration development and improve enterprise connectivity.
New Adapters
• OpenAI Adapter: Integrate directly with OpenAI’s LLMs for advanced content generation, intelligent summarization, contextual classification, and conversation handling.
AI-Powered Prebuilt Solutions with Oracle Integration 25.04 by Prakash Masand
Oracle Integration is a robust platform that allows enterprises to connect and automate business processes across various industry use cases. To help customers jump-start the business automation journey, Oracle Integration provides a rich prebuilt solution library. You can find more information about the prebuilt solution library here. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a plethora of compelling AI services that can be further used to automate and streamline business processes. In this blog, I will talk about some of the use cases that you can automate using Oracle Integration and OCI AI services. The best part is that these solutions are already available in the form of prebuilt solutions for easy consumption. Let's now dive deeper into AI-powered business automation solutions.
Automate Invoice Processing
Do you have the tedious task of reviewing documents such as invoices, driving licenses, and others, and manually entering data into back-end ERP applications? If the answer is yes, this prebuilt solution is a game-changer for you. Let's say you receive a vendor invoice through an email, and have a user (buyer persona) manually enter the invoice as received on the backend ERP application. Once the invoice is created, it goes through approval from different teams and is later released for payment.
Agentic AI Workflows in Oracle Integration: Unlocking the Power of Generative AI by Harris Qureshi
We’re entering a new era of automation—one where AI doesn’t just assist, but acts autonomously. Agentic AI is redefining how systems operate by making real-time decisions, invoking tools, and coordinating complex workflows without manual triggers. Instead of static, rule-based automation, we now have dynamic agents that understand intent and execute actions across enterprise systems. With Oracle Integration and OCI Generative AI, these capabilities are no longer futuristic—they're deployable, scalable, and transforming the enterprise landscape today.
One of the key enabler in this is the LLM's capability to reason and tool calling. In this article, I will showcase a working example of such an agent: an Order Assistant Agent built using Oracle Integration and OCI Generative AI with tool calling utilizing Cohere Command R models. This AI-powered agent intelligently responds to user queries by invoking APIs to check order status or estimate delivery timelines—no manual configuration, no static flows. Through seamless orchestration between integration flows and Gen AI prompts, the agent behaves autonomously, executing the right action based on user intent.
Developer Coaching Session: Unlocking Robotic Process Automating In Oracle Integration for Developers by Harris Qureshi
Join us for our Developer Coaching Session "Unlocking Robotic Process Automation with Oracle Integration for Developers", where we explore the full spectrum of capabilities offered by Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This powerful platform seamlessly combines integration, process automation, low-code visual development, and advanced Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to empower developers and streamline business processes. This session will focus on Robotic Process Automation. Learn how to automate repetitive tasks, orchestrate end-to-end workflows, and accelerate productivity using RPA tailored for modern development needs. Whether you're scaling applications, optimizing business operations, or innovating digital solutions, this session will provide you with the expertise and practical insights to harness the full potential of RPA within OIC. Don’t miss this chance to elevate your automation strategy!
Implement FinOps best practices by Optimizing Underutilized Resource Cost with Oracle Integration Recipe by Gaurav Mahna.
In today's cloud-infrastructure driven landscape, managing operational costs along with FinOps team is paramount. Unmanaged and ungoverned IaaS & PaaS services can lead to significant cost over runs. One area often overlooked is the expenditure associated with non-production (non-prod) instances / services that remain idle or underutilized. Lots of companies have dedicated FinOps teams and working on frameworks to untap this cost saving. This blog delves into the business implications of underutilized non-prod instances, strategies for cost optimization, and how Oracle Integration's prebuilt recipe offers an effective solution to adhere to one of Finops best practices.
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The Business Challenge: Idle Non-Prod Instances Costs
Non-prod environments—such as development, testing, and staging—are essential for application lifecycle management. However, these environments often run continuously, even during off-peak hours, leading to unnecessary costs.
Key Cost Factors:
• Continuous Resource Consumption: Idle instances still consume compute resources (OCPU and memory), leading to ongoing cost.
• Underutilization: Instances with low CPU, memory, and network usage contribute to inefficiencies.
• Lack of Automation: Manual management of instance uptime increases the risk of human error and inconsistent practice.
Action Required - Enable MTOM for the SOAP Adapter with ERP Endpoints by 25.08 in Oracle Integration by Madhav Poosarla
As part of ongoing improvements to Oracle Integration, we are making crucial updates to the SOAP Adapter configuration for Fusion ERP endpoints. These changes are designed to optimize performance and improve the reliability of integrations handling large responses.
Attention Oracle Integration Customers using the SOAP Adapter with Fusion Endpoints:
• ErpIntegrationService
• ErpObjectAttachmentService
• GenericSoapService (UCM Service)
Problem Statement:
We have identified instances where large response payloads are being processed through the SOAP Adapter without enabling MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) attachments, even though the services support this feature. This practice can lead to performance bottlenecks. Therefore, we are requesting that you perform these changes.
Impact on Existing Integrations:
For integrations where the MTOM attachment feature is not enabled, SOAP invocations may start to fail due to exceeding the response size limits defined in the service limits section. To avoid integration failures, we strongly recommend that customers review and update their SOAP invocations, enabling MTOM attachments to handle large responses as attachments, rather than base64-encoded data by 25.08. By making these updates, you’ll prevent service disruptions and ensure that your integrations continue to run smoothly beyond the 25.08 update.
From Prompt to Payload: Using JSON Response Format in OCI Gen AI with Oracle Integration by Harris Qureshi
In today’s AI-driven landscape, it’s no longer enough for models to simply generate answers—they need to generate structured, usable outcomes. With OCI Generative AI supporting JSON-formatted responses, teams can unlock smarter, more reliable integrations across enterprise workflows. In this post, I’ll share how you can configure a JSON response schema using Cohere LLM via OCI Gen AI and seamlessly connect it with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This approach not only simplifies downstream processing but also accelerates the path from insight to action—making AI integration more robust, predictable, and scalable.
Convert UTC to Local Timezone using Oracle Integration by Biman Day Sarkar.
Business Requirements:
Oracle Integration provides date and time data in UTC format, which is the standard time format used across different systems and platforms. But UTC timestamps are not easily understandable by most users or operators unless they are familiar with time zone offsets. Troubleshooting and debugging can be slower if team members constantly must convert times to local zones. This is particularly challenging for countries that observe daylight savings time. If the logs contain UTC timestamps, you lose the context of local time where events occurred. Thus, many customers prefer to maintain their local time zone while doing any kind of auditing. As a result, developers and system administrators working in a single region benefit from not having to convert from UTC every time they read logs. This blog will help you convert UTC to local time zones around the world while taking daylight saving time into consideration.
Technical Approach:
There are two approaches to handle this depending on the situation:
1. Time Zone Handling without Daylight Saving Time:
Those countries do not follow daylight savings time; for them, approaches are quite straight forward. For examples anyone can create one variable in assign activity & used below expression to get IST from UTC. You also can get desired format using below expressions.
Setting up Oauth with JWT User Assertion in OIC: Identity propagation from VBCS,OIC and OPA by Harris Qureshi
In this step-by-step tutorial, you'll learn how to set up OAuth 2.0 using JWT User Assertion in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) to enable secure identity propagation from Oracle Visual Builder (VBCS) and OIC to Oracle Process Automation (OPA).
Decisions in Oracle Integration by Stan Tanev
Introducing Decisions in Oracle Integration
We're excited to announce the addition of Decisions as a native capability within Oracle Integration Projects.
This powerful new technology enables organizations to centralize business rules and policy enforcement logic directly within the business automation platform — eliminating silos and accelerating time-to-market for critical business initiatives.
What Are Oracle Integration Decisions?
Decisions provide a structured way to define, manage, and automate business rules that determine outcomes such as eligibility, pricing, discounts, and compliance requirements. With this new capability, business analysts can create decision models using intuitive interfaces while IT teams can seamlessly incorporate these rules into broader automation solutions.
Why This Matters for Your Business
Organizations implementing complex business processes often struggle with scattered decision logic that's difficult to maintain, update, and govern. By embedding Decisions directly into Oracle Integration, organizations can: |
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| Thanks – for an excellent FY25 |
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| Your investment in time, effort and dedication is key for the Oracle Integration success. Trained & certified partners implement Oracle Integration projects, replicate customer success and drive adoption & innovation. Successful customers expand their footprint and adopt new functionality. Oracle Integration is an enterprise connectivity and automation platform for quickly modernizing applications, business processes, APIs, and data. Tell us your success story here! |
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