Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

“Stakeholders are the invisible third rail of user requirements gathering and successful IT adoption in the enterprise. Forget about them and you may be badly shocked!” Ultan O’Broin (@ultan) looks at suitable chatbot use cases for the cloud enterprise and then how to approach designing them right. Image licensed from iStock Chatbots: Your New #BFF in Work OK, let’s nail this one. Chatbots are not about automating humans out of the #lovemyjob world of job satisfaction. But, they ar...

When working with Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) SOAP Connections, it is common to upload a WSDL file when configuring the Connection Properties: The focus of this blog is how to retrieve/recover the WSDL in the event the original file is not available. This can be accomplished in several ways that include an on-line and/or off-line approach. Regardless of the approach, it is important to understand that when the WSDL file is uploaded it is added to the connection as...

Oracle Intelligent Bots with Oracle Mobile Cloud Services gives you the ability to create an artificially intelligent bot that can converse with your users, to determine their intent and perform actions. This playlist covers everything you need to know to start building your own bot. Watch the videos here. Developer Partner Community For regular information become a member in the Developer Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN...

Introduction Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) provides file handling capabilities through technology adapters and other application-specific adapters. This post focuses on the most commonly used file handling methods in ICS, using FTP, File and REST adapters and some techniques to tackle advanced file handling requirements. Information in this post is applicable to release 17.2.5 of ICS. File handling in ICS FTP adapter is widely used for transferring and process files. It...

For the passphrases, use the passphrases used earlier.Thinking about TLS (Transport Layer Security, the succesor of Secure Socket Layer, SSL) and WebLogic and Oracle HTTP Server, allways gave me Cold Water Fear. You have to create keystores with keys, wallets, certificate signing requests, import signed and trusted certificate chains. Not to mention the configuration of WebLogic and OHS.Now, creating keystores with the Java Keytool turns out not that hard. And generating the...

  “Just like lighthouses have helped sailors navigate the world for thousands of years, electronic beacons can be used to provide precise location and contextual cues within apps to help you navigate the world.” (The Google Beacons development team) What I find thrilling about beacons is that in their simplest sense they are unaware of themselves or any devices around them and we – humans – are not aware of them. So how is possible that these tiny transmitters are being used to...

Some external components require some form of authentication before allowing their services to be accessed. Developing components or applications often comes with the question of where to store the respective credentials needed to connect those external services. Oracle FMW provides a Credential Store in which these credentials can be managed in a central and secure place. It also provides a set of functions that can be used with WLST to create, list and edit those...

For SaaS partners we offer two days hands-on trainings to extend and integrate SaaS with Oracle PaaS: Dubai, June 25th & 26th 2018 In case you can’t attend watch thee Partner Overview Webcast on-demand here and get the partner resource kit here. PaaS Partner Community For regular information on business process management and integration become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you...

Build and deploy mobile apps and intelligent chatbots that connect to any backend system - fast, secure and easy. A few years ago, Oracle unveiled Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS), the first step in our ambitious mobile-first strategy. Right off the bat MCS enjoyed tremendous success, in some cases helping customers garner industry accolades for their mobile apps. Experts in the mobile app dev space sat up and took notice too: both Forrester and Gartner recognized MCS as an...