Implementing Oracle Integration Cloud

Understanding Integration Cloud and how to get the most out of your implementation

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: May 2025

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On May 25, 2025

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May 2025 showcases Oracle’s deepening commitment to intelligent, modular, and cost-aware integration solutions. With a strong focus on AI, developer extensibility, and FinOps, this month’s blog content empowers teams to work smarter—while staying aligned with best practices in automation, optimization, and strategic architecture.

Leading the conversation is Oracle’s official AI strategy for Integration Cloud, accompanied by the 25.04 release that introduces enhancements like AI document understanding, object storage actions, and new file server capabilities. Amy Simpson-Grange and the Oracle Integration Team break down these new features, offering practical examples to get started.

From the A-Team and Niall Commiskey, we see powerful use cases for invoking OCI GenAI agents, language services, and transforming flat JSON payloads into hierarchical data structures—enabling richer automation and smarter data flows. The A-Team also explores Fusion Apps divestiture strategies and jumpstarting serverless with Cloud Shell.

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AI Agents in Oracle Integration Cloud

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On May 25, 2025

In Agentic AI, Definitive Tips

In today’s enterprise world, digital transformation no longer means just automating repetitive tasks — it means building systems that can think, adapt, and learn. As organizations face increasing complexity and faster data cycles, there’s growing demand for smarter systems that go beyond static workflows.

Enter AI agents — autonomous, intelligent digital entities that can observe their environment, make decisions, and act without constant human intervention. While traditional integrations operate like scripted flows, AI agents introduce flexibility, learning, and context-awareness into business automation.

Oracle is also making the shift with its Oracle Integration AI Agents, bringing AI natively into Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). These agents enhance integrations with real-time intelligence, helping organizations transition from rule-based automation to adaptive, outcome-driven processes.

What Are AI Agents?

At a high level, AI agents are intelligent software components that can perceive, reason, and act — often with little to no human intervention. But let’s go a bit deeper.

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Introduction to Oracle Cloud’s Generative AI Services

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On May 24, 2025

In Definitive Tips, General Integration

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a comprehensive suite of Generative AI services designed to enhance enterprise applications and workflows. These services provide scalable, secure, and customizable AI capabilities that can be integrated into various business processes. This article provides an overview of the key Generative AI services available on OCI, highlighting their functionalities and use cases.

1. OCI Generative AI Service

A fully managed service providing access to state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) for tasks such as text generation, summarization, and embedding creation.

Key Features:

  • Pretrained models for immediate use.
  • Custom model fine-tuning on dedicated AI clusters.
  • Integration via API, CLI, or OCI Console.
  • Supports use cases including chatbots, content creation, and semantic search.

Use Case Example: Implementing a customer support chatbot that provides accurate and context-aware responses by leveraging pretrained LLMs.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: April 2025

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On May 4, 2025

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April 2025 highlights Oracle’s commitment to enhancing automation, user experience, and AI integration across the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) landscape. With the release of version 25.04, users benefit from powerful new features in process automation, file server management, error handling, and GenAI services.

One of the standout updates this month is the introduction of email-based approvals in Oracle Integration Process, enabling more seamless human interaction in automated workflows. The file server also receives major improvements, with event-based triggers and expanded integration capabilities.

AI continues to play a central role, with Oracle’s AI-powered prebuilt solutions and new tools for document processing, auto-retry mechanisms, and GenAI integration directly from OIC. These capabilities are thoroughly explored in updates from Oracle and community experts like Niall Commiskey and Amy Simpson-Grange.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: March 2025

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On April 6, 2025

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March 2025 delivers another robust wave of enhancements and practical insights across the Oracle Integration Cloud ecosystem. With the release of version 25.04, Oracle continues to expand its low-code automation, connectivity, and decision-making capabilities — all while helping teams transition from Gen2 to Gen3 with clarity and confidence.

This month’s spotlight includes the official 25.04 release, featuring updates to RPA, new adapters, and improved project-level decisioning tools. The Oracle A-Team and community experts offer guidance on CPQ integration patterns, OCI Logging Analytics dashboards, and copying integrations across projects — making solution reuse and troubleshooting more accessible.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: February 2025

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On March 2, 2025

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February 2025 continues Oracle’s strong momentum in integration and observability, with new tools, dashboards, and architectural strategies aimed at delivering smarter, more secure, and more resilient cloud integrations.

This month’s highlights include major advancements in monitoring and analytics, such as new OCI Logging Analytics dashboards for OIC and expanded access to OCI Monitoring APIs. These tools give integration architects deeper visibility into system behavior and performance, while also streamlining operational monitoring in Gen3 environments.

The release of Oracle Integration Process 25.02 brings functional improvements and usability enhancements for process automation. Alongside this, the new Projects API makes project provisioning and deployment in OIC Gen3 easier and more automatable than ever.

High availability and private network access also take center stage, with detailed walkthroughs on setting up geo-routing in active-active OIC configurations and configuring private endpoint outbound connectivity. These insights are especially valuable for enterprise architects managing distributed and secure deployments.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: January 2025

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On February 2, 2025

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The new year kicks off with a powerful lineup of updates and deep-dive tutorials for Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). January 2025 is all about enhanced automation, AI integration, stronger security, and improved tooling — setting the tone for a forward-looking, innovation-driven year.

This month’s highlights include the release of Oracle Integration 25.02, featuring new capabilities like the File Server REST API, enhancements to FHIR Adapter profiles, and advanced designtime debugging for the Rapid Adapter Builder. Oracle’s continued focus on healthcare, adapter development, and modular prebuilt integration is evident across several posts.

The Oracle A-Team dives into practical applications of OCI Generative AI across networking, security, and supply chain, while also guiding developers on cross-domain authentication for Visual Builder and Fusion Applications.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: December 2024

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On January 5, 2025

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As 2024 comes to a close, Oracle Integration Cloud continues to evolve with powerful new features, strategic announcements, and practical enhancements. December’s blogs provide a well-rounded perspective—from versioning best practices and robust error handling to prebuilt solution publishing, AI integration, and the sunset of legacy automation services.

This month marks the official end-of-life announcement for OCI Process Automation, prompting many to explore Oracle’s prebuilt program as a modern alternative. Developers are also guided through the process of publishing their own prebuilt integrations, unlocking opportunities to accelerate project delivery.

Key technical highlights include working with the OIC Factory API, deploying and versioning projects in OIC Gen3, integrating with OCI Generative AI, and invoking Oracle Visual Builder within integration flows. Niall Commiskey’s annual review summarizes 2024’s most impactful updates, while Soalicious delivers insights on error handling and version control within Gen3.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: November 2024

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On December 1, 2024

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November 2024 has been a rich month of innovation, technical deep dives, and critical platform guidance in the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) space. Whether you’re securing endpoints, adopting RPA, or exploring new observability features in OIC Gen3, this roundup offers a wealth of practical knowledge from Oracle experts and the broader integration community.

One of the central themes this month is platform security and connectivity. From configuring approved TLS cipher suites to understanding OIC’s internal network flows, Oracle and A-Team blogs deliver vital insights for enterprise architects and DevOps teams. Generative AI also takes the spotlight with a detailed guide on integrating OCI AI services directly into Oracle Integration flows.

For those focused on automation and RPA, new resources from TechSupper, Biman Dey Sarkar, and Niall Commiskey cover topics such as installing the connectivity agent in Gen3, polling ATP for changes, recording bots using Microsoft Edge, and handling fault variables and errors effectively. TechSupper’s contributions further enhance the lineup with real-world guidance on configuration, integrations, and testing strategies.

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Exploring Oracle Integration Cloud: October 2024

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On November 3, 2024

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October 2024 brings a diverse collection of updates, migrations, and integration strategies within the Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) ecosystem. This month’s roundup showcases both strategic platform transitions and hands-on technical insights to help Oracle users and developers stay on the cutting edge of cloud integration.

Among the most critical announcements are the transition to updated Concur and Shopify GraphQL adapters, along with an urgent configuration requirement for MTOM support with ERP SOAP endpoints. In addition, Oracle has released version 24.10 of Oracle Process Automation, further enhancing low-code workflow capabilities.

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