Oracle SAAS - Integration, Configuration and Extension

  Summary There are a lot of approval flows that come out-of-the-box with Oracle's SAAS applications. Just think of the AP Invoices or Purchase Order approval flows in Oracle ERP Cloud. These flows are implemented by Oracle development in Oracle BPM. Most of the times a user-friendly user interface is also delivered allowing users to customize the approval flows without having to write code. Because as soon as you write code you lose upgradeability. But this user-friendliness comes at a cost: you do not have access to all the nice state-of-the-art features of Oracle BPM. Although you can implement 99% of your requirements using the delivered screens in an update-safe way, you might have a mandatory requirement that is not covered by what is available out-of-the-box. This blog explains a way to externalize some approval processes allowing you to use an external business process engine such as Oracle Process Cloud ( https://www.oracle.com/cloud/integration/process-cloud-service/ ) or...

Summary This blog explains how to setup Oracle’s API Gateway – a serverless component from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – to directly call Oracle Cloud Applications REST APIs. I will show how it is done for Oracle ERP Cloud – but this applies to any API exposed by Oracle’s Cloud Applications. I will not only explain how the setup is done, but I will also explain why you would do this. This blog is not a tutorial on OCI or Oracle's API Gateway. Why? So, let’s start with the ‘Why’ question. What value can be derived from using Oracle’s API Gateway in front of Oracle Cloud Applications REST APIs? Quite a lot of value it seems. First of all, you need to know that Oracle Cloud Applications expose literally hundreds of REST APIs which can be called by other SAAS services, mobile apps, chat-bots and so on. The amount of innovation that can be created using those REST APIs is only limited by your imagination. But you don’t want to forget about security, right? The innovation you want ...