Simplify development with full life cycle management in OCI Integration (OIC) Project

May 26, 2023 | 4 minute read
Antony Reynolds
Senior Director Integration Strategy
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Integration is about more than connecting applications. It is about automating business processes through multiple technologies, tools, or platforms. This approach is commonly referred to as Hyperautomation. Developers using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) know the importance of efficient integration development and management. That's where OCI Integration (OIC) Project comes in. It provides a powerful solution for complete life cycle management of your integration components to streamline your work and deliver high-quality results. OIC is an iPaaS leader in integration development that automates end-to-end business processes such as Opportunity to Order. 

Why use OIC Project?

Enterprises often have hundreds of integrations to manage and monitor. Developers want to focus on specific integration components involved with an automated business process. With OIC Project, all related integrations and their components are in a single unified workspace. Additionally, projects provide robust life cycle management and risk-free updates to prebuilt integrations.

OIC Project provides logical groups

A project keeps related integrations and their components in a single workspace. The number of projects you create and the integrations you include in each project is up to you. 

  • Organize the work around lines of business 
    You can have one or more projects for ERP related integrations, while a separate set of projects hold your HCM related integrations. How you organize depends on your needs. For example, all your sales-based integrations may be placed in a sales project.
  • Keep all components related to a single solution together
    Create projects focused on automating business processes that include systems, people, and AI components. For instance, you can combine all integrations and components to synchronize Salesforce opportunities with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications in a single project. 

What are the benefits of OIC Project?

Comprehensive life cycle management

Enable enterprise developers to develop, deploy, and monitor all integration components for a specific automation solution. Having everything in one place makes it easy to focus on what is relevant.

Unified workspace

By consolidating all automation assets such as integrations, connections, lookups, and JavaScript libraries, a project helps you get started quickly. No more navigating through multiple tools or interfaces to find what you need. You have everything you need within your project, including the ability to monitor your integrations. Having everything in one place makes it easier to collaborate with other developers because it is clear which resources are being worked on.

Image of Project Design tab

Simplified delivery management

Project deployment profiles help developers define the asset versions required for a specific release, simplifying the task of choosing the right integrations to promote. A deployment can have your customized pick of integration versions or even exclude an integration completely. When exporting a deployment, you can be sure that it includes only the assets you want to promote. This feature makes promoting integrations from development to test and production more manageable and ensures consistency.

Image of Project Deployment tab

Focused observability

Take advantage of unified observability in your project to focus only on integrations for a specific automated business process. This feature makes it easier to identify problems, drill down quickly, and make data-driven optimizations. For example, when looking at a project's scheduled runs, the operator stays focused on the schedules of interest. 

Image of Project Observability tab.

Faster time to value

Prebuilt accelerators, provided by Oracle and its partners, are delivered as projects that implement common use cases. These projects are supported, extensible, and upgradeable. Accelerators can be extended to meet the unique needs of a business process. When a new version of an accelerator is available, your extensions will automatically be applied to the new version. 

Projects page showing the extend accelerator versions window

Scale and adapt

Take advantage of new artifact types as Oracle adds them to OIC Project. For example, future project releases will manage additional automation technologies such as RPA, B2B, and Events. You can update your solution within the project to meet evolving business requirements and quickly respond to changing market dynamics.

Intelligent assistance

Oracle Assistant, a conversational AI, is always available to provide contextual help about all aspects of OIC. Developers use Oracle Assistant to learn how to get started with projects, troubleshoot problems, and find links to relevant technical resources. 

OIC assistant answering question about OIC project

Conclusion

OIC Project is designed with the developer in mind. It offers a unified workspace, comprehensive control, and efficient management throughout the integration life cycle. It simplifies integration development and helps developers to collaborate more effectively. Try OIC Project today and see what it can do for you.  

Want to learn more?

Antony Reynolds

Senior Director Integration Strategy

Antony Reynolds is the senior direct of product management responsible for core integration runtime functionality and security of Oracle Integration. He has worked in the integration product management team for 5 years. Prior to joining the PM team he worked as a sales engineer in the US and the UK, being involved in the largest Oracle deals including the UK NHS, British Telecom and DirectTV in the US. He started working with integration and BPEL Process Manager in 2005 and has written three books on Oracle SOA Suite. He is dedicated to technical excellence and customer satisfaction. Living in the Colorado Rockies Antony is a regular hiker along the many beautiful trails of his home state. When not improving Oracle Integration or hiking he spends his time reading and playing games from his extensive boardgames collection.

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