| February Edition Oracle Integration Partner Community Newsletter #227 |
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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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| In this month’s community webcast Antony Reynolds will present “Best Practices for Projects in Oracle Integration”. Please join the Partner Community Webcast on February 24th 2026. In case you missed it please watch part 1 here and part 2 here. On-demand webcast recordings are available at the Oracle Video Hub. |
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Community Announcements
Integration Section
Additional new material PaaS Community
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| Best Practices for Projects in Oracle Integration |
| Oracle Integration Partner Community Webcast |
| You can design, manage, and monitor integrations from a single, self-contained workspace known as a project. |
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Projects of the heart of developing business automation solutions in Oracle integration. In this session, we will explore how projects provide an organizing principle, as well as allowing targeted deployment to occur. We will explore all the new capabilities of Oracle integration that are only available through projects.
Schedule: February 24th 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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| Get started hands-on with Agentic AI in Oracle Integration |
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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.
Schedules:
February 18th & 19th 2026
May 6th & 7th 2026 |
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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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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.
What’s new in Oracle Integration RPA 26.01 by Sandhya Lakshmi Gopalan
Resiliency was a key focus area for the Oracle Integration RPA 26.01 release. Based on customer feedback and real-world deployment scenarios, we introduced several enhancements to make Robot execution more reliable, observable, and easier to manage. Below are some of the key features that strengthen Robot resiliency in this release.
1. Support for Secured VM Setups with Limited Internet Access
Several customers deploy Robot agents in highly secured VM environments with limited or no access to the public internet. To address this requirement, we enhanced our support for such setups and documented all the necessary steps to ensure successful Robot agent installation and execution in restricted network environments. This enables customers to meet strict security and compliance requirements without compromising automation reliability.
2. Adaptive Polling for Optimized Robot Execution
We introduced adaptive polling to provide greater control over how frequently a Robot agent polls Oracle Integration for new work requests. This configuration can be managed through the installerProfile.cfg file, allowing customers to define polling intervals that best suit their environment and workload patterns. Optimizing the polling frequency will positively impact overall Robot execution time
3. Robot Environment Diagnostics Script
Troubleshooting Robot agent issues can often be time-consuming, especially when prerequisite configurations are missing. To simplify this process, we introduced the rpaAgentEnvDiagnosis script. This script performs a comprehensive check of the Robot execution environment and flags missing or misconfigured prerequisites on the VM. As a result, customers can quickly identify what needs to be fixed, significantly reducing setup and troubleshooting time and helping get Robot agents up and running faster.
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
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 by leveraging Oracle ATP’s native AI Vector Search through the ATP Adapter, alongside the new OpenSearch Adapter that enables secure, seamless connectivity between enterprise data and AI agents for vector search and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases.
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.
Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and MCP Protocol: Benefits and Feasibility in ERP, CRM, EPM and HCM scenarios by Cristian Silipigni
Introduction
For several months now, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) has provided native support for the MCP protocol through an embedded MCP server. This enhancement represents a relevant step toward simplifying the development and exposure of AI applications, making easier the integration of intelligent tools and services into business processes .
Why MCP Helps in OIC
1. Standardization and Interoperability
MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides an open and structured standard that facilitates communication between applications and services, reducing integration costs and the risk of errors caused by proprietary formats.
2. Simplicity and Speed of Integration
With MCP embedded in OIC, new AI tools can be exposed as MCP services without the need for additional gateways, enabling rapid integration with existing systems.
3. Security and Governance
OIC provides centralized authentication, authorization, and logging capabilities, ensuring traceability and security even when implementing new AI services via MCP.
4. Scalability and Orchestrated Management
OIC enables dynamic management and scaling of MCP server instances in the cloud, adapting to growing enterprise volumes and requirements.
5. Open to the AI Ecosystem
Exposing AI tools via MCP makes it possible to easily integrate both Oracle services and third-party solutions, offering maximum flexibility in building digital processes.
Developer Coaching - From Build to Insight Oracle Integration’s Embedded AI Features by Harris Qureshi
Join us for a Developer Coaching session to explore how Oracle Integration’s embedded AI transforms the way you design, build, and optimize integrations. See how AI-assisted capabilities accelerate development, simplify error resolution, and extend intelligence into business workflows using OCI AI Services. Whether you’re creating new integrations or enhancing existing ones, you’ll gain practical skills to deliver smarter, faster, and more impactful outcomes. What You’ll Learn 1. Accelerated Development with Embedded AI – Learn how Oracle Integration auto-generates integrations to speed up design. 2. Smarter Error Handling & Recommendations – Discover how AI assists with resolving errors, with actionable guidance. 3. Extending with OCI AI Services – See how to connect with OCI Generative AI and AI Services to add advanced intelligence into business workflows. 4. Expose Integrations as MCP Tools: Understand how to publish OIC integrations as MCP tool endpoints, allowing AI agents to call them directly—enabling agentic automations that trigger, orchestrate, and enrich data across systems. Presenters and contributors:
Multi Org Setup in OIC B2B – Outbound EDI Exchanges by Vernon Saldanha
In today’s dynamic business environment, organizations often manage multiple subsidiaries, business units, or legal entities under a single enterprise umbrella. With Oracle Integration (OIC) B2B, businesses can seamlessly orchestrate and automate interactions with trading partners while supporting complex multi-organization structures.
In this blog, we’ll explore how Multi-Org capabilities in OIC B2B empower businesses to efficiently scale their integration landscape while maintaining clarity and control across the organization.
This is especially required when there is a need to send the same EDI document to 2 different Subsidiaries or Business Units of a Trading Partner dynamically.
For instance, we have a requirement to send a Purchase Order to procure a Laptop and Mouse from the Trading Partner Dell. However, the PO must be sent to different departments.
Let’s look at how this can be set up.
B2B Identifiers
All subsidiaries or units within an organization typically have a unique identifier that is used for EDI exchanges. OIC B2B accommodates such requirements by allowing you to create multiple identifiers for both the HOST profile and Trading Partner profiles.
CI / CD Approaches for Oracle Integration by Ankur Jain
As enterprises increasingly adopt Oracle Integration (OIC) to streamline end-to-end business solutions, the need for a robust CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) strategy becomes essential.
CI/CD for Oracle Integration is not just about automating deployments—it’s about:
• Ensuring consistency across environments
• Reducing manual errors
• Accelerating release cycles
• Enabling scalable integration governance
This article explains all major CI/CD approaches available for Oracle Integration, tools involved, pros & cons, and when to choose each approach.
Apporach-1: Using Oracle Integration factory REST APIs
The REST API–driven CI/CD approach is the most powerful and enterprise-ready method for implementing CI/CD in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). Oracle Integration exposes a rich set of REST APIs that allow teams to programmatically control the entire integration lifecycle, eliminating manual steps and enabling repeatable, reliable deployments across environments.
Oracle Integration REST APIs can be leveraged to fully automate CI/CD for individual integrations, bulk deployments, and environment-specific configurations such as connections and lookups. These REST APIs can be invoked using any scripting language (for example, Java, Python, or Shell) and seamlessly integrated with popular CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and OCI DevOps.
In this model, CI/CD pipelines interact directly with Oracle Integration using REST APIs to:
• Create and Retrieve a Deployment in a Project
• Import(Add) a Project
• Update a Connection in a Project
• Test a Connection in a Project
Replacing AWS Step Functions with OCI Functions and Oracle Integration by Lavanya Siliveri
Recently, Oracle published an architectural guide on Replacing AWS Step Functions with OCI Functions and Oracle Integration Cloud. AWS Step Functions are powerful, but they lock your logic into proprietary Amazon States Language (JSON).
The strategy is to decouple the Workflow (using Oracle Integration) from the Work (using open-standard OCI Functions).
In this post, I want to show a hands-on example leveraging the resources from my previous blog, to build a modern Event-Driven Order Fulfillment system.
Use case: Order Fulfillment
We will build a workflow that accepts an Order from a user and asynchronously processes it in a downstream ERP system running on Kubernetes.
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