Integrating Oracle Data as a Service for Customer Intelligence (DaaS for CI)...
Introduction This article provides a set of sample code snippets for loading data from Oracle Data as a Service for Customer Intelligence (DaaS for CI) into an Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud...
View ArticleAccessing Fusion Data from BI Reports using Java
Introduction In a recent article by Richard Williams on A-Team Chronicles, Richard explained how you can execute a BI publisher report from a SOAP Service and retrieve the report, as XML, as part of...
View ArticleBest practice for Inventory Management with Oracle Fusion Applications
Introduction The Oracle Inventory stores information about all Oracle software products installed in all the Oracle homes on a host provided the product was installed using Oracle Universal Installer...
View ArticleTransport Level Security (TLS) and Java
Know Which Versions of TLS are Supported in Recent Java Versions In the twenty-plus years of the Internet’s interaction with the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Level Security (TLS) protocols,...
View ArticleCreating custom Fusion Applications User Interfaces using Oracle JET
Introduction JET is Oracle’s new mobile toolkit specifically written for developers to help them build client slide applications using JavaScript. Oracle Fusion Applications implementers are often...
View ArticleFusion Applications : Priming the Server Startup
Introduction After restart of the Fusion Applications (FA), the very first clicks can at times get slow responses compared to subsequent clicks to the same pages, as a result of cache’s not being...
View ArticleHow to change the nodemanager password on a machine with no AdminServer...
Introduction In a Fusion Applications environment where a machine has been provisioned with no AdminServer it is not possible to change the node manager password using the console. For security and...
View ArticleOracle Sales Cloud REST APIs – Handling Child Objects
Introduction Oracle Sales Cloud provides a comprehensive set of customization tools and configuration options to implement customer-specific business cases. In this article I would like to put a spot...
View ArticleCloud Security: Using Fusion Application Web Services with Message Protection
Introduction Oracle Fusion Applications offers a number of WebServices to allow other applications to incorporate the Fusion Applications functionality. To prevent data leakage, these WebServices...
View ArticleCloud Security: Seamless Federated SSO for PaaS and Fusion-based SaaS
Introduction Oracle Fusion-based SaaS Cloud environments can be extended in many ways. While customization is the standard activity to setup a SaaS environment for your business needs, chances are that...
View ArticleIntegrating Microsoft SharePoint Document Management with Oracle Sales Cloud
Overview Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software, now referred to more often as Customer Experience (CX) software, tends to be customized or extended more often than HCM, ERP, or SCM...
View ArticleLoad Balancer Configuration for Fusion Applications
Background The Fusion Applications installation guide describes how load balancers are used and which features are required when planning a highly available Fusion Applications environment. The Oracle...
View ArticleMigrating your Fusion Applications Auth OHS to a DMZ server
Introduction There maybe a need to expose your application to non-employees outside of your organization such as suppliers who make use of supplier portal. This article is intended to describe how you...
View ArticleBI Cloud Connector – Download Data Extraction Files
Introduction The Oracle Fusion based SaaS offerings provide an interesting tool to extract data and to store them in CSV format on a shared resource like the built-in UCM server or a Storage Cloud: BI...
View ArticleTransport Layer Security (TLS) and Web Service Connections in SaaS Integrations
A Checklist for Success with TLS Why We Need This Despite the full feature sets and capabilities that Oracle builds into their software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud applications, there are still going to...
View ArticleDiscover Utility : A Tool to Collect Comprehensive Configuration Details of a...
Introduction Oracle Fusion Applications is a large collection of artifacts at various levels – from Application Modules,URLs and Web services at the top levels to storage, hostnames and IPs at the...
View ArticleUsing Date Based Partitioning for OTBI Extracts with Data Sync to Improve...
For other A-Team articles about BICS, OAC, and Data Sync, click here Introduction The Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data...
View ArticleAdding New Fusion Applications Product Offerings using Incremental Provisioning
Introduction A product offering is a logical grouping of features and functionality of Oracle Fusion Applications. Customers who have excluded certain product offerings during their base installation...
View ArticleIDCS Integrations Series Part II:Integrating Fusion Application with IDCS
Overview Just like every other application, Fusion applications have also moved to cloud. So far large number of fusion deployments in the cloud are OMCS (Oracle Managed Cloud Services) deployments...
View ArticleUsing Business Events in Fusion-based SaaS with Oracle Integration Cloud...
Following the overview in Part 1, I will now show detailed steps how to create the event subscriptions. In our example, we will use an “Item Creation” event (from SCM cloud). Prerequisite: Register CSF...
View ArticleUsing Business Events in Fusion-based SaaS with Oracle Integration Cloud...
Introduction For integration with all Oracle Fusion based Cloud services – like Oracle Sales Cloud and Oracle SCM Cloud, each service provides Business Events which external applications or...
View ArticleEnabling SSL for Fusion Applications Login Pages
Introduction During IDM provisioning you can enable SSL for all external traffic as per the diagrams below. If you need to enable SSL post provisioning then read through the remaining steps in this...
View ArticleGetting Credentials in Fusion Applications
Introduction Oracle Fusion Applications is configured to save normal user names and credentials in Oracle Internet Directory (OID) and used for authentication purposes. Many of the applications store...
View ArticleApplying P4FA using FASPOT on Fusion Release 12
Introduction Patches for Fusion Applications (P4FA) are collections of one-off fixes and tech stack updates (e.g. Fusion MiddleWare, Database, Weblogic Server, etc.) compiled and certified for Fusion...
View ArticleBI Cloud Connector – Deletion of Data Extract Files on UCM
Introduction This blog post is the continuation of the formerly shared article about BI Cloud Connector (BICC) Data Extraction File Downloading. In the previous blog post I gave an introduction into...
View ArticleAdding FA AppIDUsers to the no password expiry policy in R12
Introduction During provisioning of a new FA instance the passwords for FA AppIDUsers like FUSION_APPS_PROV_PATCH_APPID or similar users will expire after 120 days which is the standard value for...
View ArticleMonitoring SaaS Application Performance in EM using RUEI
Introduction Performance and efficiency are essential to having a positive user experience and the diagnosis of click and flow activities can be a complex task in a SaaS environment where access to...
View ArticleUsing Data Sync to Extract and Load Data from Fusion SaaS using the BI Cloud...
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Oracle Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into Oracle...
View ArticleExtracting Data from Fusion SaaS via View Objects with Data Sync
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction The Oracle Data Sync tool provides the ability to extract from both on-premise, and cloud data sources, and to load that data into Oracle...
View ArticleEngagement Cloud – an Introduction to calling REST Services
Introduction This article gives a brief introduction to calling REST services from Oracle Engagement Cloud. It assumes a basic understanding of Groovy, Application Composer, and the requirements of the...
View ArticleOnline document signing using Oracle Integration Cloud and Adobe Sign
Introduction Here is a typical process for document signing: The document is downloaded and sent via an email. The recipient then prints, signs, scans and emails the document back. The document is...
View ArticleExtending Oracle Commerce Cloud Functionality – Server-side Extension
Introduction Oracle Commerce Cloud functionality can be extended through widgets, REST APIs, webhooks and Server-side extensions. For user interface customization and/or extensions, widgets and...
View ArticleFusion SaaS – Finding The View Object You Need for Data Extracts
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction For good reason, the database of Fusion SaaS products is not available for ETL tools to work directly against. The recommended approach to...
View ArticleSaaS Data Replication in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC, and OAAC)
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction In the recent Oracle Analytics Cloud release, exciting new SaaS data replication functionality was added. This allows Oracle Analytics...
View ArticleSet up Fusion SaaS BI Cloud Connector (BICC) to use Cloud Storage
For other A-Team articles by Richard, click here Introduction This article walks through the steps to set up a Cloud Storage Container, for use with the Fusion SaaS BI Cloud Connector. This may be of...
View ArticleCloud Security: User Provisioning to Fusion Applications Cloud
Introduction The notion of a user is the most common reason for misunderstanding and confusion. When we mention a user, we often think of the person who is allowed to use an application. However,...
View ArticleBest practices to model prospects, customers, suppliers, partners in an...
Introduction Three major entities of every business/enterprise in most industries, are Customers, Suppliers and Products. In reality, customer, supplier and product data is required to be stored in all...
View ArticleBest Practices to model customer, supplier, and partner hierarchies in Oracle...
Introduction In continuation to my previous blog on Best Practices to model parties in Oracle Fusion Cloud, I will discuss common use cases, design considerations, and options around managing...
View ArticleCreating a Dashboard Landing Navigation Page in Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC)...
Background Dashboard Landing Navigation Pages can be used to enhance the user experience. As the number of analytics artifacts...
View ArticleNetwork separation of Production and Non-Production Environments using the...
Overview We are currently seeing rapid adoption of Fusion Applications in the SaaS@Customer model. This and the strong Fusion Applications On-Premise installation base have been further secured by...
View ArticleAdvanced HCM data loader (HDL) processing using OIC HCM adapter.
Introduction Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) Integration provides adapter for most popular SaaS applications, including Oracle HCM Cloud. This post focuses on integrating with HCM data loader (HDL)...
View ArticleEngagement Cloud – outbound REST using IDCS OAUTH
Introduction Engagement Cloud 19A introduces the ability to call IDCS oauth protected REST services. This article explains the setup required in IDCS and Engagement Cloud, using Oracle Blockchain as...
View ArticleUsing Expression Language (EL) in Page Composer to Mask Data based on a...
Introduction Oracle provides features and functionality to secure and mask sensitive information such as Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Information. There are instances where...
View ArticleBest Practices for Configuring and Extending Fusion Applications Cloud
Introduction Oracle’s Fusion SaaS applications cloud is built on a single data model that connects end-to-end business processes across Human Capital Management (HCM), Enterprise Resource Planning...
View ArticleIntegrating Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud...
Introduction This article provides a fresh approach on the subject of integrating Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service (BICS). Integrating Oracle Sales Cloud with Oracle...
View ArticleTuning Asynchronous Web Services in Fusion Applications Part II
Introduction In a series of earlier blogs we have covered in detail several aspects of asynchronous web services in Fusion Applications including the general implementation, how to monitor, and also...
View ArticleUsing Oracle BI Answers to Extract Data from HCM via Web Services
Introduction Oracle BI Answers, also known as ‘Analyses’ or ‘Analysis Editor’, is a reporting tool that is part of the Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI), and available within the Oracle...
View ArticleUsing Oracle BI Publisher to Extract Data From Oracle Sales and ERP Clouds
Introduction Many Cloud products such as Oracle Sales Cloud, and Oracle ERP Cloud come packaged with Oracle Transaction Business Intelligence (OTBI). OTBI allows users to create and run reports against...
View ArticleCloud Security: Federated SSO for Fusion-based SaaS
Introduction To get you easily started with Oracle Cloud offerings, they come with their own user management. You can create users, assign roles, change passwords, etc. However, real world enterprises...
View ArticleIntegrating Oracle Sales Cloud (OSC) with Oracle Database as a Service...
Introduction This article describes how to integrate Oracle Sales Cloud (OCS) with Oracle Database as a Service (DBaaS) using PL/SQL.The code snippet provided uses the REST API for Oracle Sales Cloud...
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