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Chapter 1: The Integration Quandary

Chapter 2: Cloud and On-Premises Integration

Chapter 3: Mobile Enablement

Chapter 4: Real-Time Events, Fast Data, and IoT

Chapter 5: Management, Security, and Performance

Chapter 6: Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 12c

Resources

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Chapter 1: The Integration Quandary

Private clouds and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications arebecoming pervasive across the corporate computing landscape.The sun is rising on a new era of enterprise computing, butintegration challenges are casting a shadow on many otherwisesuccessful projects. Dynamic Markets conducted a survey withmore than 1,300 senior business managers to uncover trends inthese technology implementations. The researchers came awaywith some alarming statistics. Frustration is rampant, especiallywhen trying to integrate cloud apps from multiple vendors.

Global Insights: More than 1,300 executives report on thechallenges associated with cloud application deployments.

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Escalating DifficultyEven in the precloud era, when software integration mainlyinvolved linking on-premises applications along with some B2Bconnections, integration was a complex undertaking. Standardssuch as web services and Business Process Execution Language(BPEL) helped standardize these integration projects, but therewas still a great deal of variability in how these standards wereimplemented by each application vendor. It has never been easyto support many different enterprise applications across severaldifferent hardware and software platformsplus develop andmaintain separate interfaces among them.

Yesterdays on-premises integration challenges remain, and nowthey include a broad array of new applications, deploymentstrategies, interfaces, and business rules as well. Each SaaS

vendor and cloud provider enforces unique API frameworks,security standards, session management practices, andmaintenance procedures. Its no wonder that one out of every twocompanies have abandoned the use of at least one departmentalcloud application in the last three years due to integrationproblems, according to Dynamic Markets.

Making a Smooth TransitionCloud integration is just one of the complexities facing todays ITmanagers. How do you make a smooth transition to a hybridmodel that incorporates cloud and on-premises informationsystems, new types of mobile access mechanisms, and a growingset of intelligent devices within the Internet of Things?

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Many companies are wrestling with these questions. They mayfind themselves in the early phases of these transitions butstruggling to keep up with the changes. Its important to establishan agile yet comprehensive foundation for current and futureintegration projects. In the remainder of this e-book, well show youhow to develop a cohesive integration strategy that upholds yourhard-won security policies, development standards, anddeployment options while opening the door to a new world ofopportunities in the future.

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Chapter 2: Cloud and On-Premises Integration

The collision of cloud and on-premises information systems hasintroduced new layers of complexity for IT professionals. Mostorganizations still depend on well-entrenched enterpriseapplications in their data centers, but they are graduallysupplementing them with software as a service (SaaS)applications. These organizations are also starting to utilize publiccloud services for some IT functions, and private cloud models fornew enterprise deployments.

New business ventures can cause rapid change for ITdepartments. For example, an enterprise that relies on anon-premises customer relationship management (CRM)application might acquire a company that uses a cloud-basedCRM application. Account managers need to be able to accessdata from both systems cohesively, share data between thesesystems, and ultimately establish an authoritative system ofrecord. HR systems, payroll systems, and incentive compensationsystems also need to work in unison and exchange information sothat employees are properly compensated and paid. Putting all thisinformation together in

a unified way is essential to delivering a consistent experience foremployees, customers, partners, and citizens.

Unfortunately, there is typically very little standardization amongcloud application vendors, which means developers have tocontend with unique toolkits and application programminginterfaces (APIs) to connect all the pieces. Each vendor enforcesits own mechanisms for security, message delivery, metadatadefinitions, query criteria, object semantics, and object schema.Some of these vendors dont maintain rigorous securityrequirements, which makes it difficult for customers to uphold

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Chapter 2: Cloud and On-Premises Integration

their service level agreements or comply with industry andgovernmental regulations.

Ricoh Americas Corporation used middleware technology throughthe Oracle AppAdvantage program to create a unified integrationplatform that spans cloud, mobile, and on-premises applications.Leveraging Oracle SOA Suite to integrate its information systemsbrought new efficiencies to Ricohs sales, service, finance, supplychain, and HR departments. Ricoh now has a flexible architecturethat reduces the overall time and cost of creating applicationinterfaces.

Adapting to ChangeBrocade Communications choseOracle SOA Suite to integrate itson-premises and cloud-based

services, and is planning to use Oracle Cloud Adapters to simplifythese interfaces. Oracles ready-made connectors mask thedifferences between applications and data models, simplifyingsession management, user authentication, and all types ofmaintenance procedures.

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Video: BrocadeCommunications andOracle partners RubiconRed and Bluenog describehow Oracle SOA Suite caneliminate the cloud/on-premises applicationdivide.

Maulik Shah, TechnicalLead, Oracle SoftwareIntegration Team, BrocadeCommunications

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Chapter 2: Cloud and On-Premises Integration

B2B Integration via Managed File TransferFile transfer technology streamlines the process of passing filesfrom one application to another. Widespread adoption of internetservices simplifies these activities, even as it creates aperformance bottleneck for exchanging large files. Governmentregulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley require manyorganizations to document, audit, and account for theseexchanges, making managed file transfer (MFT) technologies anincreasingly important part of an overall integration strategy.

Oracle SOA Suite 12c enables dynamic, just-in-time exchange offiles of all sizes with many types of payloads, and includescomplete, built-in auditing and security functions. This mature MFTutility automates many aspects of this process, includingencrypting-decrypting files and configuring the associatedmetadata.

MFT is a popular method for simplifying business-to-businesscommunications scenarios, especially within industries thatare moving away from legacy electronic data interchangesystems.

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Chapter 3: Mobile Enablement

Todays business systems are no longer tied to the desktop. Manyemployees want to use their smart phones and tablets to accesscorporate data and applications. However, some IT departmentsare having a hard time accommodating requests for unique mobileinterfaces while preserving enterprise computing standards. Inresponse to specific requests from individual lines of business,there is a tendency to implement unique mobile applications thatare tactical in nature and that solve very specific problems. Thishas created a separation between new mobile architectures andthe prevailing enterprise systems of record.

Rather than continuing to develop applications first for the desktopand then again for mobile devices, forward-thinking organizationsare establishing a consistent IT architecture that accommodates allpossible channels in a cohesive way. These companies requirestandardized access management and governance procedures forsingle sign on, authentication, and provisioning, so they createtheir own services-based architecture that leverages reusableintegration components.

One such company, Agilent,used Oracle FusionMiddleware to create a

personalized portal that enables customers to utilize their mobiledevices to check orders, peruse products, and participate indiscussion forums. Agilent depends on Oracle SOA Suite andOracle Identity and Access Management Suite to integrate itsenterprise systems with mobile services such as field sales andpurchase approvals.

Oracle SOA Suite reduced the time it takes Agilent to build newinterfaces and lowered the IT budget devoted to interfacemaintenance by 60 percent. In addition, Agilent acceleratedbusiness transaction processing by 20 percent and increasedthroughput by 30 percent. Over the long term, Agilent plans to useits SOA platform to streamline business-to-business and partnerintegrations as well.

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Video: Agilent transformsIT with Oracle SOA Suite.

Rajesh Gathwala,Enterprise Architect, AgilentTechnologies

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Chapter 3: Mobile Enablement

Cisco Systems used Oracle SOA Suite tointegrate two different order entry systemsfollowing its acquisition of WebEx. Rather thantreating mobile applications as a new

development and deployment channel, developers were able totreat mobile integration as an extension of the SOA integrationmethods they already had in place.

As your organization embraces mobile computing, instead ofadopting a new mobile integration platform, take the time toestablish one centralized platform that can handle disparateinterfaces and automate both inbound and outboundcommunications. Having a universal way to mask technicaldifferences among mobile platforms simplifies development andlowers long-term maintenance costs.

One new area to consider is API management, a rapidly growingoption for mobile enablement. API management involves exposingenterprise applications as representational state transfer (REST)JavaScript object notation (JSON)based APIs for developers tobuild mobile applications. Oracle SOA Suite provides nativesupport for REST/JSON. In addition, Oracle Service Bus canexpose the underlying enterprise applications through a mediationlayer so that the back-end services can change independently ofthe front end apps. This solution forms the basis of a write once,run anywhere model for Java front ends on iOS or Androiddevices. To find out more about Oracle Mobile Suite visitoracle.com/mobile.

Case Study: Agilent cutsintegration costs by US$1million per year.

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Video: Cisco mobile-enables enterpriseapplications.

Paras Jain, Senior Managerof IT, Cisco

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Chapter 4: Real-Time Events, Fast Data, and IoT

As the volume, variety, and velocity of data increasesand thenumber of intelligent devices proliferatesit becomesprogressively more difficult to maintain effective communicationamong all elements of the architecture. The growing base ofintelligent devices, from thermostats to cardiac monitors, requiresnew types of event-processing capabilities. Can your integrationplatform accommodate the many combinations and permutationsof the Internet of Things (IoT)?

Just as you expose and orchestrate application interfaces asservices, you can model your IoT architecture as a set of layeredservices that can be combined to create business applications orsimply trigger business events. For example, dozens of sensors ina shop-floor automation system might relay status updates suchas temperature fluctuations or oil pressure variations to a datawarehouse. Or a telemedicine application might collect real-timedata from thousands of patients wearing cardiac monitors, andthen correlate the results to spot patterns that impact treatments.A complete middleware platform combines all the elements ofdata connectivity and integration into a unified environment thatsupports real-time and bulk data movement, data synchronization,big data transformation, and fast data. To learn more aboutOracles fast data solutions please visit oracle.com/fastdata.

Canon created a remote diagnosticssystem to collect maintenanceinformation from more than 1 million

multifunction printers. Created with Oracle SOA Suite and hostedon Oracles engineered systems, the diagnostics system gatherstens of millions of transactions from devices all over the world,with intelligent filtering through Oracle Event Processing.

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From real-time marketing to fraud detection, organizations aremaking split-second business decisions by detecting rapidlychanging situations from the massive volumes and varioussources of big data. Your integration platform needshigh-performance event processing and filtering capabilities totake advantage of these business opportunities.

Video: Canon delivers onthe Internet of Things.

Greg Ryan, SeniorMarketing Director, CanonInformation and ImagingSolutions

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Analyst Video: JamesTaylor discusses how toseize new opportunitieswith fast data.

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Chapter 5: Management, Security, and Performance

Consistent ManagementCreating seamless integration betweenapplications is just one of many challengesfacing todays IT professionals. With the

majority of IT budgets devoted to maintenance activities, ITleaders need universal management solutions that simplifytroubleshooting, monitoring, and administration of theseapplicationsas well as the interfaces between them. As themiddleware administrators at IDEXX learned, having a commonmanagement layer minimizes the time spent on maintenanceactivities, and enables one consistent view of the front, middle,and back ends of the technology stack.

Secure APIsDeploying interconnectedweb services increasesflexibility and simplifies

integration, but proper attention must be given to security. Itsimportant to have an API gateway that can secure these servicesat each phase of the request/response cycle, both internallyamong clients and externally with service providers. Beachbodyestablished multiple channels to reach different types ofconsumers with unique offers and promotions. Having a robustAPI gateway helps connect these channels to Beachbodysback-end information systems in a secure and consistent way,reducing integration costs and minimizing deployment risks.

Video: IDEXX gainscontrol with OracleEnterprise Manager.

Brett Curtis, Senior SystemAdministrator, IDEXXLaboratories

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Video: Beachbody getssecurity, scalability, andflexibility to simplifyintegration with Oracle APIGateway.

Arnaud Robert, CTO,Beachbody

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Chapter 5: Management, Security, and Performance

Exceptional Runtime PerformanceTraditional IT architectures may not be sufficient to accommodatethe diversity and complexity of todays integration scenarios, whichoften entail processing huge volumes of data at high speeds togain actionable insight or generate events. The underlying runtimeplatform must ensure low latency, high throughput, andtremendous scalability to meet these demanding requirements.

By leveraging an engineered system that has been optimized fromthe hardware layer to the application layer, customers often see a2x performance improvement when processing large filesand15x throughput gains are not uncommon for complex orchestrationscenarios. SOA performance on a virtual node closely matches theperformance on a physical node. A preintegrated environmentspeeds up the process of migrating to a virtual environment, andprebuilt templates simplify application deployment and lifecyclemanagement. Oracle Event Processing ensures very highthroughput and low latency to deliver on fast data businessimperatives.

These business dynamics have led customers such as Emdeonand NCS to adopt Oracles engineered systems to run theirapplications.

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Rapidly Deploy and Manage Your Platform as aService

Middleware environments often grow in unpredictableways, causing administrative and compliancechallenges. The use of home-grown, ad hocmanagement scripts increases maintenance costs

and makes it difficult to deploy new middleware environments.Developers need a shared, consolidated platform that dramaticallysimplifies provisioning. 7-Eleven used Oracle SOA Suite, OracleExalogic, and Oracle Exadata, with Oracle Enterprise Manager topower it all as a platform as a service.

Video: 7-Eleven goesmobile with platform as aservice.

Ronald Clanton, DGEProgram ManagerInformation Technology,7-Eleven, Inc.

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Chapter 6: Introducing Oracle SOA Suite 12c

The new integration demands of cloud, mobile, and IoTtechnologies require a unified approach to integration that spansmultiple integration channels. Oracle SOA Suite 12c addressesthese challenges with a standards-based platform. RESTfulservices simplify mobile and IoT integration, and Oracle CloudAdapters streamline web servicesbased integration.

Oracle SOA Suite 12c works with components of the OracleFusion Middleware family to create a cohesive middlewareplatform that minimizes the complexity associated with managingAPIs from many different applications, service providers, and cloudvendors. Oracle also simplifies connections to mobile applicationsand social networks, and automates event-processing activities toaccommodate all types of intelligent devices. For example, OracleSOA Suite 12c enables developers to use the same service bus tointegrate messages for all types of applications, channels, andparadigms, including on-premises, cloud, mobile, andIoTregardless of the types of applications in question or wherethose applications are deployed.

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Boost ProductivityWhen it comes to building processes and service abstractions,Oracle offers SOA templates to jumpstart productivity. Oracle SOASuite 12c also features a single package installer, improveddebugging capabilities, a lighter footprint, quicker startup, andoptimized database profiles. Oracle Cloud Adapters mask thetechnical differences between applications and data models, whichdramatically streamlines connectivity, session management,authentication, and authorization. The SOA environment comeswith a highly available managed file transfer (MFT) infrastructurewith integrated security and advanced workflow formats. SOAmanagement packs for Oracle Enterprise Manager provide JavaVM diagnostics on an as-needed basis.

Leverage a Unified Integration SolutionApplication integration projects often require complementarymiddleware components for business activity monitoring, eventprocessing, business rule creation, and B2B integration. Oracleoffers a unified development, runtime, monitoring, andmanagement environment that incorporates all these components.

In addition, customers can use Oracle SOA Suite 12c with OracleBusiness Process Management Suite 12c to build workflow andprocess extensions to extend the value of their applicationswherever they reside: on-premises, on mobile devices, or in thecloud.

Oracle SOA Suite 12c runs natively on Oracle WebLogic Server12c and supports in-memory computing with OracleCoherencea proven combination for customers that requireextreme performance and scale. Oracle SOA Suite 12c is themiddleware platform your organization needs to resolve a widevariety of integration challenges, now and in the future.

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Resources

Webcast: Introducing OracleSOA Suite 12c

White Paper: Oracle SOASuite 12c - A Detailed Look

White Paper: A Brave NewIntegration World

White Paper: SimplifyingCloud Integration

White Paper: NextGeneration ServiceIntegration Platform

Booklet: Oracle ServiceIntegration CustomerReference

Webcasts

White Papers

Video: Bluenog on WhyOracle SOA Suite 12c Is aGame Changer (3:28)

Video: ComResource on HowOracle SOA Suite 12cElevates Productivity (2:18)

Video: Eaton Corp. on MobileIntegration and More inOracle SOA Suite 12c (3:33)

Video: Imperial CollegeLondon on Ease of Use withOracle SOA Suite 12c (1:43)

Video: LCN Services onOracle SOA Suite 12c forHealthcare Integration (1:18)

Video: Rubicon Red on HowOracle SOA Suite 12cSimplifies Cloud and Mobile(2:40)

Video: AMIS Services onFaster Development withOracle SOA Suite 12c (1:54)

Video: Ingersoll-Rand onFaster Integration with OracleSOA Suite 12c (1:25)

Video: Extending YourEnterprise to Your Partnerswith Oracle B2B (2:02)

Video: Regaining Control withOracle Managed FileTransfer (1:36)

Website: More customersuccess stories and videos...

Customers and Partners Talk aboutOracle SOA Suite 12c

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Resources

Data Sheet: Oracle SOASuite 12c

Data Sheet: Oracle ManagedFile Transfer

Data Sheet: OracleEnterprise Repository

Data Sheet: Oracle EventProcessing

Data Sheet: Oracle ServiceBus

Data Sheet: MobileIntegration Using OracleService Bus

MP3: Introducing Oracle SOASuite 12c (12:54)

MP3: Oracle Cloud Adapters(11:10)

MP3: Faster Time toIntegrate (8:40)

MP3: Oracle Service Bus(9:13)

MP3: Introducing OracleManaged File Transfer (8:48)

MP3: Oracle B2B Integration(9:42)

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