Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

When talking with customers and prospects, I often hear about two requirements; converting REST to SOAP or SOAP to REST and Caching of data for performance. These are great opportunities for an API Gateway, but should be used with extreme caution. Misuse of either of these features can cause performance problems in your gateway or even worse, putting your sensitive data at risk! Using an Integration Platform with an API Platform provides the opportunity to follow some...

After Oracle Open World 2015 I wrote a blog about ABCS, ABCS is Oracle Application Builder Cloud Services, a tool that helps you to rapidly create and host engaging business applications with a visual development environment right from the comfort of your browser. Now it is time to take the next step and actually build an application with ABCS. In this blog series about ABCS I will build an Conference Application for the OGh, this is an unofficial website, the information...

  Oracle has  release of Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. This new platform -not to be confused with Oracle's previous solution, has been built almost entirely from the ground up to satisfy modern API management requirements.I have been lucky enough to be part of the beta programme and have actually been implementing the product for the last 4 months or so (but trying it for almost a year now). In this blog post I share some of the insight and experiences I've gained in...

In this blog we look at the specific aspects of Chatbots and elaborate on its four integration parts. Read our previous blogs in this series: Why Chatbots, Maturity levels and Intelligence. Chatbots are like any other application; they have a need for integration. In basic form the Chatbot integrates with the Channels, the Intelligence Providing systems, Backend systems  and it offloads Usage information for later improvements and intelligence determination. All four...

You want to get the most out of your digital transformation initiatives. But if you lack visibility and access to key information assets and functionality across your operations, these initiatives can be severely limited. To deliver the omni-channel customer and employee-centric solutions you desire, all your information and functionality must be accessible in a consistent way throughout all your channels. The only way to attain this is with comprehensive and matured APIs,...

Snapchat, Instagram, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, cloud image recognition services, and more. Designers and developers of chatbots are surrounded by the atomic unit of images, their combined storytelling power, and the innovative possibilities imaging technology presents for conversational interface solutions at work and play. A smartphone sans camera today is the exception to the norm, and the means to take pictures with your device is more powerful than ever in...

For Oracle Partners we offer an API Platform Cloud Service resource kit (community membership required): · Sales kit · Online training and certification: API Platform Cloud Service Partner Sales Rep GLP and API Platform Cloud Service Partner Sales Consultant GLP · API trial service · API CS Whitepaper & API Platform Cloud Service Data Sheet & Apiary Data Sheet · API Platform Cloud Service Documentation · Upcoming API hands-on trainings · API CS website & OTN page SOA &...

Dear WebLogic & Developer Partner Community, Registration for the PaaS Partner Community Forum 2018 is open. This year we offer four conference tracks Enterprise Process & Integration and API Management, Application Development with Microservices and Containers, Mobile & Chatbot & Content Management and Innovation: blockchaine and machine learning. As part of the conference we also give you as a partner to exhibit solutions based on the Oracle cloud. In case you are...

  · Automating Oracle SOA Deployment with Maven and Oracle Developer Cloud Service Learn how Oracle Developer Cloud Service's Maven plugin enhancement can provide access to the Oracle Maven repository, simplifying build and deployment of SOA composites on Oracle SOA Cloud Service. Read the article. · Podcast: 10 Services, 5 Developers, 1 Hour - A Cloud Integration Story Five developers integrated ten Oracle Cloud PaaS services in one hour in front of a live conference...