ICS

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• OIC - Oracle Integration Cloud, a PaaS software from Oracle
• Integrate the Cloud and on premise applications
• Automate business processes
• gain insight into business processes
• develop visual user interfaces
• Why OIC
• 70+ adapters connecting different platforms
• Goes well with Oracle ERP applns
• Integrate cloud and 
• Integration Methods in Fusion
• OIC to Fusion SaaS
• FBDI -> file based data import for bulk data
• SOAP web service -> for real time data import
• REST web service -> for real time data import
• File Based loader -> non fbdi based bulk data import
• SaaS to OIC
• Business Events
• SOAP
• REST
• BI Publisher reports

Cloud Computing

• Delivery of on demand resources including computing power, database storage, applns etc over internet on pay as per usage pricing model
• Types of Cloud Services
• IaaS -> IT Professional
• Organizations are provided with Servers, networking storage, data centers
• PaaS -> for Developer
• Organizations are provided with Cloud based env to control entire dev life cycle of an appln
• SaaS -> End User
• Complete product
• Advantages
• IaaS
• No need to invest in IT infra
• Flexibility
• scale up/down infra as required
• pay as per use
• PaaS
• Focus on application dev
• Easy deployment and monitoring
• no worries to upgrade resources, and infra
• lower cost
• SaaS
• Access to wide variety of complete packaged applns with customizations feature
• Easily accessible from any where thru internet
• no risk of data loss
• no burden of maintenance and support
• Oracle IaaS Offerings
• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• Security
• Governance
• Database
• load balancing
• Edge Services
• Containers
• Container pipelines
• Architecture
• Oracle PaaS Offerings
• Data Management
• Appln devlopment
• Integration
• Management
• Content & experience
• Business Analytics
• Security
• Oracle SaaS Offerings
• HCM
• ERP
• EPM
• Customer Experience
• Industry Solutions
• SCM
• IOT apps
• AI apps

Integration Styles

• App driven
• Expose REST/SOAP connection as OIC integration endpoint which can be invoked by 3rd party or programming language  
• scheduled
• To trigger at specific data/time
• file transfer
• one ftp location to another
• basic
• where there is requirement to connect one system to another
• eg: HCM system will send employee details to Fusion HCM
• publish to oic
• When invoke publishes message to Oracle Managed Topic at OIC
• Suitable for EDN based design
• subscribe to oic
• Subscribe to OIC Managed Topic and push messages to Database Table

Each appln has its own unique feature

• Orcl in ERP
• Salesforce CRM
• Workday - hrms

ICS integration

• It is to data transfer/communication from one system to another
• Source system -> business logic -> target system
• Source connection -> mapping -> Target connection

Development Lifecycle

• Create Connections 
• Create Integrations
• Map data
• For Async/one way operations - only request mapping 
• For sync/two way operations - define request & response mapping 
• Fault mapping is created when both trigger & invoke connections define faults
• Activate integration
• Monitor integration

Connections

• It defines the appln that you want to integrate with 
• Each connection can be used for both inbound and outbound
• There are 4 cetegories
• SaaS adapters
• Technology adapters
• Social adapters
• onpremise adapters

Adapters

• Business logic available to invoke a particular service

Configuring SOAP Adapters

• Trigger(ICS entry point for an integration)
• Create and upload wsdl
• select port type
• select operation
• Invoke(invoke existing soap operation)
• upload wsdl
• select service
• select port type
• select operation

Basic Routing

• REST to REST
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