With this being the last post of a very strange year, we wish all our readers a very Happy New Year and hope that 2021 brings a transition to normality.
| Article / Link | Author | Subject Matter | Connecting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microprocess Consequences | Jan Kettenis | OIC | |
| Oracle Developer Meetups – Gone Virtual | Phil Wilkins | OIC & PCS | Various |
| Invoking Oracle Functions from OIC | Niall Commiskey | OIC | Functions |
| OIC Backups | John Graves | OIC | |
| Data Stitch Append for Complex Content Elements | Jorge Herreria | OIC | |
| OIC –> Insight –> embeddable Dashboards | Niall Commiskey | OIC, Insights | |
| Using Oracle Integration Cloud to integrate SAP & Oracle SaaS | Martijn de Grunt | OIC | SAP |
| Oracle JET or Oracle VBCS For Your Next Web App | Andrej Baranovskij | VBCS | |
| OIC –> EPM adapter setup | Niall Commiskey | OIC | EPM |
| Identity Propagation – VBCS > IC > Fusion Apps | Greg Mally | OIC | VBCS, Fusion Apps |
| Fault Actions Behavior in OIC | Greg Mally | OIC | |
| Archiving and Purging Process Automation Data in Oracle Integration | Arvind Venugopal | PCS | |
| OIC Twilio Adapter – send SMS / WhatsApp from Oracle Integration | Niall Commiskey | OIC | Twilio |
This month’s articles …
| Article / Link | Author | Subject Matter | Connecting |
|---|---|---|---|
| OIC REST API for Lookups | Niall Commiskey | OIC | |
| OIC 4 Netsuite – Polling for New / Updated Customers | Niall Commiskey | OIC | Betsuite |
| Oracle Integration – Adapter Enhancements to Non Oracle Applications | Arvind Venugopal | OIC | Non Oracle |
| Security Improvements for Database & FTP Adapters | Michael Meiner | OIC | DB & FTP |
| November 2020 Update | Antony Reynolds | OIC | |
| Oracle Integration November 2020 update for Oracle Applications Adapters | Prakash Masand | OIC | Oracle Apps |
| How to use the OCI Object Storage from the Oracle Integration Cloud | Daniel Martins Teixeira | OIC | OCI Object Store |
| Choosing Your Update Window | Antony Reynolds | OIC | |
| Announcing The Visual Builder Cookbook | Shay Shmeltzer | VBCS | |
| Connecting to API Gateway from Visual Builder with Authentication | Aparna Gaonkar | VBCS | |
| Global Variable and Data Stitch in OIC | Amit Kumar Suman | OIC | |
| Configure OTM connection in OIC | Amit Kumar Suman | OIC | OTM |
| Send attachment in OIC notification | Amit Kumar Suman | OIC |
Despite it being traditionally holiday season, there have been lots of articles written about OIC, including the prolific Niall Commiskey covering a lot of new OIC features …
Its been a busy month when it comes to blogging for the folks at Oracle, as July saw a new quarterly release with new usability improvements and connectors.
Handling integration between Oracle SaaS applications and modules has been something of an evolutionary journey. A couple of years ago if you wanted to intgrate say HCM and ERP you needed to ICS or OIC to perform the integration.
In many respects this wasn’t such a terrible thing. Technically as it meant that the back end database schema development for each app was not going to be slowed by needing to be mutually dependent with each other. As a result avoiding the complexities of managing a canonical model and ensuring any changes to that model are delivered in a manner that aligns across multiple development teams plans.
Although you can see from a marketing position it might not have seemed so great, as the customer incurs more cost and development effort to realize a process of managing people (HCM) and paying them (ERP) for example.
Things have moved on, and as long as SaaS apps reside in a Global Single Instance (GSI) (i.e. same region, account and deployment) then for the major products (e.g. ERP, CX, HCM, etc) are internally integrated so a person change in HCM will propagate to ERP as necessary. This certainly reduces the need for integration, saving effort (and the cost of needing OIC).
The problem now is understanding which entities in the SaaS apps are integrated out the box if you deploy using the GSI manner. If you have been working from an integration/technology view point with ICS and OIC for a while it is very easy to get sucked into thinking you need to repeat the integration. After all explicitly integrating the apps is how we started out.
Oracle also want to make it very easy for non Oracle products to integrate, so OIC documentation and the many very good blogs from product management and the engineering team focus on external integration which does (for me atleast) lead to thinking about the older way of working.
Recommendation
Look to see if you’re working with GSI deployment or not. If it isn’t a GSI setup then the old way of working is required. If it is, then determine whether the entity or processes are out the box integrated. This is probably best approached from the SaaS documentation today.
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Plenty of good articles published in the last month …