| January Edition Oracle Integration Partner Community Newsletter #226 |
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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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Get started hands-on with Agentic AI in Oracle Integration. Master Agentic AI fundamentals: Learn how AI agents use Large Language Models to reason adaptively and orchestrate multiple integrations based on clinical context, unlike traditional fixed workflows. Attend a free hands-on training:
• NAS & LAD: February 18th 2026 8:00-10:00 am PST
• EMEA & APAC: February 19th 2026 9:00-11:00 AM CET
• NAS & LAD: May 6th 2026 8:00-10:00 am PST
• EMEA & APAC: May 7th 2026 9:00-11:00 am CET
Please visit the registration page here. |
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| In this month’s community webcast Antony Reynolds will present “Best Practices for Securing an Oracle Integration Instance and Monitoring Usage”. Please join the Partner Community Webcast on January 27th 2026. In case you missed it please watch part 1 here. On-demand webcast recordings are available at the Oracle Video Hub. |
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| Table Of Contents |
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Community Announcements
Integration Section
Additional new material PaaS Community
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| Best Practices for Securing an Oracle Integration Instance |
| Oracle Integration Partner Community Webcast |
| Learn how to secure access to the different components of Oracle Integration, including File Server, Design Time and Run Time for Integrations. |
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We will look at ways to highly control access based on IP addresses and show how access control can be applied to an individual integration instance or project. We will also talk about some best practices for monitoring your fleet and individual integration instances.
Schedule: January 27th 7.30 – 8:30 PST (Los Angeles time) 16:30 - 17:30 CET (Berlin time) 20:00 - 21:00 IST (Bengaluru time). |
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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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| 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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| Partner Community |
| Join the community Newsletter, webcast, slack channel. |
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| Integration Section |
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What’s New in Oracle Integration 26.01 by Niall Commiskey
Introduction
Solidifying the power of AI in OIC is a big focus of our 26.01 release, along with constantly enhancing our core iPaaS offering. Before looking at 26.01 in detail, here’s a quick recap of the plethora of AI driven features we released in 2025.
AI Features released in 2025
AI Assistant
Use our AI Assistant to auto-create projects and integrations. Creating and maintaining good documentation is not one of your fortes? Then let our AI Assistant do that for you. This turbocharges your business automation development.
Having issues sometimes deciphering technical error messages at runtime? Then let out Assistant translate such into natural language.
Agent Tools
During 2025, we gave you the ability to expose OIC Project Integrations as AI Agent Tools. With just one click that integration that creates purchase orders in Fusion ERP can be exposed as a tool to third party Agents via MCP. This is a huge value add, the ability to easily expose your enterprise systems of record processes to 3rd party AI Agents.
AI Agents
Also during last year, we included the ability to create your own AI Agents in OIC Projects. This was another major milestone on or continuing AI journey; another of which was the introduction of Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) – In Oracle Integration, human in the loop is designed as an approval orchestration tool to obtain human approval, feedback and oversight in agentic AI powered automation solutions. Human in the loop supports agentic AI by involving humans at critical decision points.
New Adapters and Connectivity Enhancements in Oracle Integration 26.01 by Madhav Poosarla
Oracle Integration advances enterprise connectivity in this release with AI-powered capabilities that simplify and accelerate integration development. Using natural language prompts, Oracle Integration can assist in designing integrations, automatically configuring REST endpoints, and enabling intelligent, semantic search through the AI vector search in the Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) Adapter.
This release also introduces the OpenSearch, NetSuite REST Adapter and the Google Sheets Adapter, expanding connectivity across ERP and productivity applications. In addition, it delivers enhancements across SaaS, database, messaging, and GraphQL-based integrations, including stronger OAuth security with PKCE support, enhanced query customization, and improved runtime response handling.
What’s New in Oracle Integration – Process 26.01 by Stan Tanev
The 26.01 release of Oracle Integration is now available. This release focuses on bringing improvements to process life cycle management tasks and improving the user experience across instance tracking.
Unified Identity Application
Starting from this release, new process instances provisioned through Oracle Integration will no longer have a separate identity application.
This will remove additional configuration requirements needed to access the service and eliminate the ongoing burden of role membership synchronisation.
Existing instances created prior to this release will not be affected. They will continue to use a separate identity application for process.
How It Works
For administrators managing Oracle Integration, here’s what changes:
No separate Process application – Newly provisioned process instances share the Oracle Integration identity application. You’ll no longer see a separate Process Automation application listed under Oracle Cloud Services
Action Required: Migrate WSDL-Based Salesforce Connections in Oracle Integration by Madhav Poosarla
As part of ongoing improvements in Oracle Integration, support for WSDL-based connections in Salesforce Adapter integrations is being deprecated, with enforcement beginning in 26.02 for Development instances and 26.03 for Production instances. Customers must migrate affected integrations to the new Salesforce connection type within the announced timelines to avoid integration disruption.
Attention Oracle Integration Customers Using Salesforce Adapter
This applies to integrations that use WSDL-based Salesforce connections created by uploading Enterprise WSDL files.
Problem Statement
WSDL-based Salesforce connections increase ongoing maintenance overhead. To simplify integration maintenance and improve overall usability, Oracle Integration is deprecating support for these connections.
Impact on Existing Integrations
Integrations using WSDL-based Salesforce connections must be migrated to Salesforce Adapter connections that do not rely on uploaded WSDL files. Failure to complete this migration before the deadline may result in integration disruption.
Required Action
Customers must migrate all WSDL-based Salesforce connections to ensure uninterrupted integration flows.
Object Storage Native Action in Oracle-Managed Disaster Recovery by Vernon Saldanha
Native actions for OCI services such as object storage, functions, and AI features provide great capabilities that allow you to develop seamless, complex integrations that leverage the benefits of these OCI services. However, these actions are configured within an integration and are usually tied to a region.
Due to this, these actions do not play well with the Oracle-Managed Disaster Recovery automation, which is meant to provide seamless business continuity in the event of a disaster. While this is an important topic for us to automate as part of our disaster recovery story, here is a recommended solution that should be part of your post failover standard operating procedure (SOP).
In this blog, we focus on a solution for integrations that implement object storage.
What This Is Not
• This is not meant to define a disaster recovery strategy for these region-specific OCI services.
• Object storage, which is the focus of this blog – Users should create a separate object storage bucket in a DR region.
Current state
Here is how an integration that uses object storage looks. Notice that the Resource URI is tied to the object storage resource in the region where the integration was developed.
Automate Oracle Integration Project Deployment by Pradyumna Kodgi
Building on Streamline Your DevOps, I will demonstrate how to automate integration promotion between two Oracle Integration 3 instances using Jenkins as the DevOps tool for automation. Note that you can use any DevOps tools with the Oracle Integration API for this automation.
Prerequisite:
• Generate a token for your OIC3 environments by following this step-by-step video guide, which explains the process in detail. Be sure to generate tokens for both the source and target environments. To ensure the process works, test it using a tool like Postman to verify token generation.
• Develop integrations in a Project. Developing integrations is highly recommended in OIC3.
• Create a deployment configuration file. You can find a sample deployment file here. In my example, I placed deployment file in Git Hub.
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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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| PaaS free trial Accounts |
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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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| Thanks for another excellent year. What’s next? Oracle Integration will connect AI join us and become an AI Agent expert in 2026! Thanks Jürgen Kress |
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