Recent Posts by Shreenidhi Raghuram

Introduction The aim of this blog is to guide customers when they set out to migrate their integration solutions from SOA to Oracle Integration (OIC).  The focus in this blog is to help customers during the creation, configuration of Oracle Integration service instances, and also provide best practices for choosing the right OIC features and integration patterns when developing SOA equivalent integrations on Oracle Integration Cloud. The existing SOA workloads could be running...

Introduction Often there are requirements from customers to connect their Oracle Digital Assistant (ODA) skills running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to an on-premise API endpoint.  This could be required for various use cases like  An ODA Skill to fetch user information from on-prem HRMS system like Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) A chatbot to interact with on-prem ERP system like Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Integrate ODA Skills with APIs secured behind customer...

Introduction In my earlier blog - OIC Error Handling Guide, we read about essentials of Oracle Integration Cloud(OIC) Error handling. We also saw that by using additional components like Database or FTP server along with OIC it is possible to build robust error handling solutions to suit different custom requirements. In this blog, I would like to illustrate a simple practical example of using the parking lot pattern with OIC. The example will use ATP database for a parking lot...

Introduction This blog will discuss various options available to integration developers for error handling using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). This blog does not aim to substitute the documentation, but aims to act as a ready reckoner when questions arise regarding OIC Error handling. The OIC official doumentation has more details on some of these topics and should be used as the final reference. Refer here - OIC Documentation Broadly, we will look at the below categories of...

Introduction In this blog we will see some common issues that could be faced, the recommended fixes and best practices when integrating with Oracle Logistics Cloud using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). Oracle Logistics Cloud comprises of these below components Oracle Transportation Management Cloud(OTM) Oracle Warehouse Management Cloud (WMS) This blog discusses issues encountered during a customer engagement using pre-built integrations. However, the principles of this blog are...

ICS Connectivity Agent Concepts and Best Practices Introduction The on-premises connectivity agent enables you to create integrations between on-premises applications and Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Read all about agents in the documentation link below - Integration Cloud Service (ICS) Connectivity Agent In this blog, I wish to explain some problems that may be encountered when running on-premise integrations, which use connectivity agent. We will see some important...

Introduction The objective of this blog is to introduce to the reader all available file-based options in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). The blog will cover the various tools and techniques available for developers for designing file-based integration solutions The Integration Cloud documentation does contain these in relevant sections. This blog intends to present only the file-based tools and techniques of Integration Cloud as a single point of easy reference. Note that most...

Introduction This blog details the solution using Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and Integration Cloud Service(ICS) for file based integrations using Universal Content Management (UCM) Webservices for Oracle HCM Cloud integration. Deprecation of SaaS sFTP servers for Oracle HCM Cloud and other Oracle Cloud applications was announced recently. Refer to the below MOS Support Doc Note for the announcement and related articles.    Oracle Applications Cloud Hosted SFTP...

Introduction This blog introduces a few useful Python scripts written to repeatedly perform common administrative tasks and development operations on an API Platform Cloud Service instance. The scripts are written in Python and can be executed on all Python 3.6+ supported platforms Why These scripts are written keeping in mind a few real life use cases, such as - Migration of API Platform artifacts between different API server environments Export of API Platform artifacts for...