Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 20 I ntegration technology is fundamental to business operations but connecting information systems is becoming progressively more complicated as data pours in from so many types of systems applications and devices from on premises data centers as well as from an incredible variety of third party applications and services Todays IT professionals must contend with everything from legacy applications to IoT Internet of Things sensors to mobile messaging apps using chatbots points out Amit Zavery senior vice president of integration products at Oracle Companies need a centralized well architected integration hub to deal with it all as both structured and unstructured information flows from multiple sources to multiple targets Today the most versatile integration hubs reside in the cloud For example Oracle Integration Cloud simplifies the creation of application to application A2A and business to business B2B interfaces Zavery explains Developers can use this cloud service to develop new interfaces and upload existing ones but they dont have to deal with maintaining and managing the integration platform itself not to mention keeping it current and scaling it as traffic increases Oracle handles the infrastructure so customers can focus on core integration tasks and scale their systems as needed Zavery adds Hybrid Cloud Integration Calix For many Oracle customers part of the journey to the cloud involves figuring out how to connect on premises enterprise systems with new cloud services from Oracle and other vendors Consider Calix a provider of broadband communications access systems and software When this US 500 million telecommunications product and solutions company set out to create a self service ecommerce environment that would allow telecommunications companies and other service providers to easily order their communications equipment and software it used Oracle Integration Cloud to tie it all together According to Doug Berringer business solutions architect at Calix these telecommunications companies and other service providers need to obtain price quotes before they can purchase Calix communications gear Calix existing commerce tools did not allow customers to self serve and required the Calix sales team to be involved in every transaction leaving the
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