Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Introduction One of the most common tasks performed during the creation of integrations in ICS (Integration Cloud Service) is the implementation of mappings. In a nutshell, mappings are the resources that ICS uses to allow messages coming from the configured source application to be sent to the configured target application. Failure in properly defining and configuring these mappings directly impacts how integrations are going to behave while sending messages downstream. In...

We used to have heated debates whether to use SOA Suite or Service Bus. With the release of Oracle’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) products like Integration Cloud Service (ICS) and SOA Suite Cloud Service (SOA CS), this discussion is fueled with even more options. In this session we will explain Oracle integration solutions like ODI, SOA Suite, etc. and compare ICS, SOA CS, Oracle Service Bus and Oracle SOA Suite with each other. All these options are illustrated with a use...

Today, most companies are still overwhelmingly on-premise. However, enterprises are turning more and more to the cloud in an effort to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of IT architectures. Many hope to offload non-value adding processes and applications to the cloud, whilst others are looking to migrate fully to the cloud as part of their digital transformation journey. For SaaS applications to provide real value to businesses however, they need to integrate with other...

We have a lot of developers who are using JDeveloper to develop applications with Oracle SOA Suite, and in this blog I wanted to show them how the combination of JDeveloper along with Oracle Developer Cloud Service can help automate their whole development and delivery lifecycle. One unique aspect of Developer Cloud Service is that it has an instance of JDeveloper available in the build environment. This allows customers who are building Oracle SOA artifacts to leverage the...

Introduction: Oracle’s iPaaS solution is the most comprehensive cloud based integration platform in the market today.  Integration Cloud Service (ICS) gives customers an elevated user experience that makescomplex integration simple to implement. Oracle Sales Cloud (OSC) is a SaaS application and is a part of the comprehensive CX suite of applications. Since OSC is usually the customer master and is the center for all Sales related activities, integration with OSC is often a...

Developer Cloud Service 16.3.1 is now live and includes new features for deployment, agile planning, builds, and more. Agile Sprint Reports and Burndown Charts A new Reports option in the Agile tab provides analysis at each point of a sprint cycle. During a sprint, graphically track team progress with new Burndown Charts. Once the sprint completes, analyze team performance with the Sprint Reports. When planning the next sprint, use Sprint Report data to adjust the parameters of...

In this series we will walk through different cloud products and how SaaS and PaaS can be combined together and their use in different projects. In this podcast we discuss the Oracle Integration Cloud (ICS), part of Oracle PaaS Cloud and focused on delivering integration in Cloud. We emphasis on one specific discussion, with the move to the Cloud, and inclusion of SaaS applications, where do we place the center of gravity for integration, in the Cloud, on-premise or...

We previously showed you how to create an Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service application that reference Oracle Sales Cloud data and create additional custom UIs and objects. The next logical step that you might want to do is include that application as an integral part in your Oracle Sales Cloud application. You can actually embed the full ABCS app as either its own menu option, or even as one more tab on an existing object like this: Below we have a video that shows you...

· New Features in Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1 Written by SOA architect and Oracle ACE Associate Sandra Flores, this article presents an overview of key new features in Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1. Read the article. · Where is SOA Going? Oracle ACE Director Luis Weir and ACEs Rolando Carrasco and Arturo Viveros, the authors of Oracle API Management 12c Implementation (Packt Publishing) share their insight on the evolution of service oriented architecture in this article from Oracle...