Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
We made the decision to move away from a third party integration product and centralize all of our integrations around Oracle Integration Cloud Doug Berringer Business Solutions Architect Calix ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 22 When we rolled out Oracle Commerce Cloud one of the requirements was that it needed to be very tightly integrated with Oracle CPQ Cloud Salesforce and ultimately our Oracle E Business Suite ERP enterprise resource planning system to streamline these processes explains Berringer We made the decision to move away from a third party integration product and centralize all of our integrations around Oracle Integration Cloud Now Oracle Integration Cloud manages the exchange of data between Oracle Commerce Cloud and Oracle CPQ Cloud as customers configure quote and price their orders via a nimble self service environment Oracle Integration Cloud references customer relationship management data from Salesforce and will soon log orders in the Oracle E Business Suite system as part of a complete quote to order process Previously Calix used legacy on premises integration technology from a third party vendor but Berringer says it was slow and inflexible The software could talk to Salesforce through a built in connector but we couldnt use it to create arbitrary REST endpoints he explains And because it could only do scheduled integrations quotes were transmitted in batch mode every 20 minutes rather than in real time and on the fly Using Oracle Integration Cloud Berringers team consolidated the interfaces created by that vendor and two other third party integration tools into a single cloud based integration platform They used the prebuilt adapters in Oracle Integration Cloud to create new interfaces in just a few hours versus weeks for similar development projects in the past
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