Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

During the course of this month, Gartner published a new research (MQ) about Robotic Process Automation (aka: RPA). You can get this report directly from Gartner or get one of the approved distributed reprints from the RPA leads in the Magic Quadrant (UiPath, BluePrism, etc). Gartner indeed warrants the RPA technology the merits of being the fastest growing technology in the last couple of years and I am a witness in first person of this fact. In the Integration space, RPA has...

I’m delighted to announce experimental support for OpenAPI 3.0 in Apiary. OpenAPI 3 is the new major version of the OpenAPI Specification, the successor to OpenAPI 2 (or formerly known as Swagger 2). While we are not yet supporting all of the new features added OAS 3 such as callbacks and links , we’ve built a solid foundation of our parser which will allow us to incrementally roll out support for new features across our entire product line. Whether it be in our mock server,...

I have only touched on this feature superficially in previous posts - now to some more detail! Again, all quotes lifted from the docs are in italics.Decisions is a very powerful feature in OIC. Rules can be created within OIC Process applications, and are easily leveraged within your processes, via the Decision Activity. Not only that, Decisions can operate standalone; you can expose your Decision Model as a REST service to the outside world. Ergo, you can leverage rules from...

In the April release of Oracle Developer Cloud, we introduced a feature you can use to protect a specific branch of a Git repository hosted by Oracle Developer Cloud. This blog should help you understand the options we introduced. What does the branch protection do? Git Branch Protection feature enforces that the collaborators on the Git repository cannot commit changes to a branch by bypassing the set development process. Who has access to branch protection? The only one allowed...

This blog will show the step-by-step process on how to create a process which involves a start activity, decision flow, human task, end event, etc in Oracle Process Cloud. We will use the "Form Approval Pattern" to develop the process and edit it as per our business need. In this article, we will create a Loan Processing application in which user fills the loan application which goes to the approver if the loan amount is greater than >100 else the loan application will be...

The combination of Visual Builder and Oracle Developer Cloud Service (DevCS) gives your team a complete platform for managing and automating your application's development to deployment lifecycle. In the video below you can see an example development project and see how you can achieve a faster release cycle by leveraging this combination. Developer Cloud Service contains feature that include: · Git version management repositories · Issue tracking system with Agile dashboard to...

This is the first of a multi-part series of articles on how to use Machine Learning (ML) in Digital Process Automation and Integration applications in Oracle Integration Cloud. For this series, we’re using a mix of Oracle Cloud Services and implement a couple of use cases step by step. The first article (this one) focuses on setting up the Machine Learning environment and implementing the Machine Learning Model for our first use case. Example Use Case Approval Workflows are...

Progressive Web Apps (or PWA for short) combine the advantages of on-device mobile app experience with the distribution simplicity offered by regular web applications. The latest version of Oracle Visual Builder offers a very easy way to create and distribute your PWAs in a visual cloud development environment. PWA apps can work offline, leverage device features such as access to the camera, photo gallery, and location information. The app is downloaded to the device,...

· Download VNC Server to the device you want to control. By default it is installed in Oracle cloud SOACS & DBS machine. Simple run vncviewer command to verify vnc server installation by login into maching using putty. · Make sure you've installed VNC Viewer Client on the personal computer · Verify "ssh" command running in windows command prompt. If not found then install Cygwin by running setup-x86_64.exe (64-bit installation) which can be download from https://www.cygwin.com/ ·...