Oracle Integration Cloud
Author: Silvia Domínguez
Cloud Consultant @Quistor
Solution Overview: Automate, Integrate and Transform data
Oracle Integration Cloud is a cloud-based unified integration platform. It is designed to perform seamless data integration between various on-premises and cloud-based applications. By leveraging this comprehensive set of tools, companies can optimize their data management processes, improve operational efficiency, and facilitate digital transformation.
In short, it is a suite that provides organizations with connectivity to multiple applications, services, and data sources (in the cloud and on-premises) to streamline business processes and processes. In this topic, we will focus on integration (also known as application integration).
Over 90 adapters: Large prebuilt adapter library
Oracle Integration Cloud allows you to easily integrate applications and data by providing an extensive library of pre-built adapters to facilitate the connectivity between technologies, services, and applications.
The October 2023 release of Oracle Integration Cloud is now available, and Oracle has added a variety of new adapters including GraphQL, Azure AD, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, GCP Storage, GitHub, Confluent, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM, MLLP Adapter, all added to the great list of adapters (OIC 23.10 version 98) such as Apache Kafka, IBM MQ Series JMS, Oracle WebLogic JMS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Streaming Service, ERP/SCM Adapters (Oracle Cloud EPM, Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle NetSuite, SAP, Workday...), Productivity and Social Adapters (Adobe sign, Box, Eventbrite, Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack …), CX Adapters (HubSpot, Marketo, Oracle Cloud Commerce, Salesforce, PayPal among others).
Accelerators and Recipes: the powerful magic of prebuilt integrations
Accelerators and recipes are pre-built solutions that group all the resources necessary for our integration, such as connections and lookups, within the same package. They are ready to configure and activate. The differences between accelerators and recipes are as follows:
Accelerators are run-ready business integrations or technical patterns that you can configure and activate. Recipes are templates or samples that give us what we need to run our integrations, like a cooking recipe. At the time of writing this topic (mid-October 2023), version 23.10 was already available, which includes 186 recipes and accelerators divided into 4 business accelerators, 3 technical accelerators (alert notifications or failures), 170 recipes, and 9 Marketplace listings (recipes offered by partners).
Versions Enhancements: continuously improving features
The project continuously improves its features with each new version. Among the latest improvements of the project, the following stand out:
Call enhancement with OIC Storage Native:
OIC Gen 3 Flavors: Standard and Enterprise Editions
Oracle Integration 3 is a well-organized and structured environment that allows you to connect your cloud with on-premises applications, automate business processes, create optical applications, use a file server that provides SFTP to store and retrieve files, and change business documents with a B2B business partner.
Editions
Oracle Integration Gen 3 is available in two editions: Standard or Enterprise. The difference between OIC Standard and OIC Enterprise depends on the needs of your organization and their complexity. In the standard edition, like in OIC Gen 2, the B2B feature set and enterprise adapters such as SAP adapter, Oracle JD Edwards Enterprise One, Oracle Siebel, and Oracle E-Business Adapter are included. Regarding AS2 adapter, if we want to use it with features like B2B Action, we must use Enterprise edition.
Instances and Updates
Each instance has a development or production mode, which you choose when you create the instance. Both sessions have the same service level agreement (SLA); the only difference is the time the update works. The production mode is updated two weeks after the development shape. Oracle Integration 3 service updates occur every two months and do not include downtime. Oracle does all the update work on your behalf, without the need for intervention on your part.
The new generation: OIC Gen 3
Oracle announced the release of their latest version of Oracle Integration Cloud OIC Gen 3 in August 2022. Its look and feel are based on the Oracle Redwood theme (the latest UX development within Oracle), which is more intuitive, fresh, and has an improved user experience. Regarding OIC Gen 2, it brings, among others, the following changes:
The main menu has been substantially reorganized. Focusing on integrations, the integration menu is now called Design and brings two important new features: Events and Projects.
- Events (starting from 23.06): are equivalent to and improved versions of the publisher and subscriber model in OIC Gen 2. In the new OIC, there will be only three integration styles: App Driven Orchestration, Scheduled orchestration, and Events. An event is a JSON payload. You can create events in Oracle Integration and then publish those events in integrations. Once published, you can create an integration that subscribes to the events. The maximum number of integrations that can subscribe to events is 20 integrations per service instance.
- Projects: OIC 3 22.12 introduces a new player called “Projects” that allows us to have applications and scheduled integrations, connections, JavaScript libraries, and Lookups all-in-one that can be managed and monitored independently. You can have per project 70 integrations, 20 connections, 20 lookups, and 20 JavaScript libraries with a maximum of 50 deployments. All the resources mentioned above are only visible within the project, focusing the user on a single space without having to go to the main menu. Another interesting thing is that you can configure the accessibility of your project with role-based access control (RBAC).
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