#484 PCS 16.2.1. New Features

Composer

Note the new menu option - Indicators.

Business indicators are process data objects you use to store the value of the key performance indicators of your process.

For those who are BPM on prem savvy, this is nothing new.

BPM Designer

Note the new Document Start Event.

Now to the design of a simple process - a simple Order Process

Note the new menu format.

Note the new Output Mapping option.

As you can see, the output variable has already been populated.

We also have the ability to create Transformations.

We now also have the ability to import and manage Certificates.

#483 ICS / SOA CS Cloud adapter SDK 16.1.1. available for Oracle partners

Here is the Link

#482 - Oracle Partner Webcast on ICS and SOA CS

Calling all ORCL partners in EMEA -

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Simply have your credit card number, or that of your better half, ready.

Here is the IaaS offering - metered / unmetered

So now there is no excuse...

#480 ICS 16.2.1. New Features --> New Adapters & Orchestration Pattern

16.2.1 has been released with new adapters and a new integration pattern - Orchestration.

New Adapters -

We now have 40 adapters -

Orchestration Pattern -

Here you begin by adding the Trigger that kicks off the integration.

I have a Sale Cloud Connection I use here -

Here we see the available actions - Switch and Map.

Invokes List - provides access to our ICS connections.
Here I drop my ERP Connection

I can leverage the whole canvas -

Now I add a SWITCH activity -

Here I want to update a Contact on one of two Sales Cloud instances.
Irish contacts --> Irish Sales Cloud, others --> UK Sales Cloud.

Simple stuff!

#479 ICS release 16.1.5 new features

Introduction

More exciting value add with the latest release of ICS.
Not just in respect of new adapters, also in monitoring.

Also, we have a new naming convention in ICS integrations.
We no longer have Source and Target; we now say, Trigger and Invoke respectively.

The what's new doc is available here

New Adapters

Yet more adapters with the latest release - now we have 35 in all.

You see the inclusion of more typical on prem tech adapters such as File and JMS.
So how do they work?

ICS File Adapter

The file adapter works via the ICS Agent.
i.e. the agent is installed on Prem, where the directory to be read is located.

The Connectivity Agent is discussed in detail here

Same procedure for the JMS adapter, you specify the Agent Group, the Host and Port.

ICS FTP Adapter

Another cool addition is the support for file processing via FTP.

I choose my ftp adapter connection

Now, for those used to working with the tech adapters in SOA Suite, the target could be anything.
For example, I could read in the file via ftp and then write it to a DB, using the database adapter.

This is currently not supported in ICS.

If you have ftp as a source, then it requires ftp as a target.
You get the following error message, if you try to leverage any other connection type.

Invoke must be FTP adapter because FTP adapter is selected as Trigger and currently only FTP adapter as invoke allowed if trigger is FTP adapter.

This limitation will be addressed in a future release.

But, in the meantime, I use the same connection for this simple example.

Note the OOTB encryption support.

Monitoring

Note the new submenu items - Design Time Metrics etc.

Also, more in-depth error monitoring -

#478 It's that time of the year again...OFM Partner Forum

Looking forward to meeting many of you at the forum this week in Valencia.

My main themes for the forum are Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and
Platform as a Service (PaaS).

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