Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Oracle ICS is a solution that facilitate the integration between SaaS x SaaS and SaaS x On-Premise solutions. It has a lot of connectors to help you to create your integrations throught configuration. Two examples are Oracle Sales and Oracle Service (formerly Oracle RightNow) connectors.For some Business Objects of Oracle Sales and Oracle Service you can use a feature called Event Subscription, and it means that if you create, update or delete a registry of this objects,...

Chatbots are a new channel opening up for customers (and potentially employees) to interact with companies and/or government organizations. Since only ‘text’ is available for interacting with the user, the quality of the conversation is key. As discussed in the last blog titled: How can Chatbots meet expectations? Introducing the Bot Maturity Model , Artificial Intelligence & Language Processing capabilities are crucial in the conversation with the customer.  In this blog, we...

If words “Cloud” and “Integration” are something you are interested in and you are in search of some products/services in this area, then this book review is for YOU! This is a book review on the book “Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud Service” written by Robert van Mölken and Phil Wilkins – on PACKT. For more information visit this link. Book Details: ISBN 139781786460721 Paperback 506 pages Book contains the following chapters: Read the whole review here. SOA & BPM Partner...

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As part of the Soaring through the Clouds demo of 17 Oracle Public Cloud services, I had to integrate SOA CS with both ACCS (Application Container Cloud) and ICS (Integration Cloud Service). Calls from Service Bus and SOA Composites running in SOA Suite 12c on SOA CS to endpoints on ACCS (Node.js Express applications) and ICS (REST connector endpoint) were required in this demo. These calls are over SSL (to https endpoints) and for ICS also require basic authentication (at...

Thursday June 1st – yet another community event at AMIS. This one dedicated to Microservices. What are microservices, why do we think they are interesting? How are they different? How can they be implemented and how do you deploy them? What is a microservices platform and what generic capabilities should such a platform offer? How can we make microservices act together – to perform a workflow – if they are to be isolated and unaware of each other? These are some of the...

Dear PaaS Partner Community, Once a year we host the PaaS Partner Community Forum, your opportunity to become a champion in the latest PaaS cloud services from Oracle. On the first conference day the ACEs and the community will share best practices and customer success stories. During keynotes including live demos the Oracle team will introduce PaaS innovations like blockchain or machine learning. On the third day you can choose between four conference tracks Enterprise...

  Tight integration between Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Database provide a strong infrastructure to develop, and test application with improved availability, better resource sharing, ease of configuration and automated management facilities. When both of these products are running in Docker containers we can take advantage of Docker’s benefits of container isolation, container portability, packaging, instant replay and reset to provide the ability to automate the...

  Good development practises such as  configuration management and naming conventions have been a topic of conversation a number of times recently for us when it comes to ICS. In this post we will look at what configuration management means to ICS and the application of naming standards. Why Configuration Management? So why do we need configuration management with a tool such as ICS? The question depends on what stage of the software lifecycle you are, but a few reasons: As a...