Oracle Integration Cloud Service - Overview
Software as a Service(SaaS):
We're using cloud applications
more and more. Software as a service, or SaaS, adoption rates are increasing
all the time. SaaS is simple and hence its usage is increasing. It's orders of
magnitude are easier than deploying on premise software. You need new SaaS
applications to be integrated with your existing SaaS applications and you're
on premise applications. Cloud integrations should be as simple as SaaS and
should be able to integrate your applications in minutes not months.
Platform as a Service(PaaS):
This is a service on which
software can be developed and deployed. It is little above SaaS. The vendors of
platform maintain the application servers, databases etc., and let the client
focus on the development of application code. One of the example of PaaS is
Oracle BICS.
Oracle BI Cloud Service Overview:
Oracle BI Cloud Service is the
first Oracle's PaaS offering. BI Cloud Service is a proven enterprise-class BI
platform on Oracle data centers and completely operated, managed by oracle. It
helps to consolidate the data from any source and quickly create BI
applications for agile analysis. Oracle handles all the patching, upgrading
activities. The service can be either used on web browser or any mobile
devices. All the interactive capabilities of doing analysis on the clouds like
pivoting, doing all up style selections and groupings are available. And the
ability to surface events analytics metrics, the ability to do time series
analysis, hierarchical navigation, all available as BI cloud service user
experience.
Integration Challenges:
Cloud integration can be very
challenging. That is the reason so many companies have experienced cloud
integration problems. IT needs to understand
various integration options supported by Cloud applications. Developers often
need to be trained on Cloud applications and their integration technologies.
Security is an issue. And there are usually multiple integration options. This
results in a lot of manual development effort which increases cost and time to
market. When what you really need is agile delivery of integrations between
your Cloud applications and between your Cloud and on premise applications.
Solution:
The solution is Integration Cloud
Service which integrates applications across clouds and on premise. It
simplifies connectivity between key enterprise applications like Fusion
Applications, Rightnow, E-Business Suite, and other third party SaaS and on
premise applications.
Benefits:
With integration Cloud Service
you get automated backup, path updates and upgrades leaving you to concentrate
on the tasks of creating and integrating applications. Also there's no data
mapping from scratch. In fact, no hand coded integration is required. Integration
cloud service gives you an intuitive point and click experience to create your
integrations. And you get enterprise grade security and governance
capabilities. Integration cloud service comes with a library of adapters for
Oracle and 3rd party applications. And you can purchase pre-built
integrations for common scenarios. All this means you can integrate your
applications faster thereby increasing your business agility.
Development Life cycle:
The first step in integration
design is to identify the applications you want to integrate, and then
configure the connection details for these applications. You do this by
creating connections which are based on pre-built adapters. After your
connections are in place, you create integrations by dragging and dropping
these connections into the designer. You use the graphical mapper to tell
integration cloud service how to map data between your applications. Then
you're ready to activate, test and use your integration. To see how well how
your integrations are running you use the monitoring dashboard. Here you can
pinpoint the bottlenecks, monitor errors, and see details of each running
integration.