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Challenges and Remedies of Oracle Fusion Cloud Integrations
Challenges and Remedies of Oracle Fusion Cloud Integrations

August 16, 2022

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How can Oracle Fusion Cloud Integrations help organizations implement business workflow?

In the age of digital transformation, new applications are being adopted within organizations at a rapid, and at times, at an uncontrolled pace. There is a growing shift from on-prem applications to cloud, or hybrid, with both cloud and on-prem components causing significant challenges for organizations to build an integrated enterprise. An organization that has procured or migrated to Oracle Cloud encounters various challenges integrating a wide range of Oracle Fusion Application suites with external on-prem and cloud applications. Although there are various tools within Oracle Fusion for data export or other import purposes, IT Consultants and Businesses still face a major challenge in designing a robust, scalable, and easier integration solutions for specific needs.

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As you can see in the picture below, an enterprise may need to connect Oracle Fusion Applications with many cloud applications, on-prem applications, business partners, and various business divisions, etc. Here we see a need to not only connect applications and systems but, also implement business workflows, synchronize data across the enterprise, setup the right security for internal and external stakeholders, and so on.

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What are the major challenges in integrating Oracle Fusion Cloud with other enterprise and legacy applications?

The major challenges are:

  • Having the Right Integration Competencies: Due to the unique architecture and wide range of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, there is a need for a high number of complex REST/SOAP – Led connectivity, which requires highly skilled technical resources.
  • Understanding Oracle Fusion Architecture: There are many tools for importing and exporting data for various needs. It requires deep understanding of these tools to choose the right one for a particular use case.
  • Multi-Step Invocations: An integration process or flow mostly needs to perform multiple steps in a single flow to perform a particular use case with Oracle Fusion Cloud. For example, if you want to automate the File Based Data Import (FBDI) process to load a single record or bunch of records to Oracle Fusion Cloud from an external system, you will have to perform multiple steps such as calling webservice to Load the file in UCM, then submit ESS job to load the interface table, and submit ESS job to load the base table.

  • Processing High-Volume Data: Being a leading large Enterprise ERP product, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Software typically needs to connect with a wide range of other enterprise applications. Connectivity with other non-Oracle applications and handling high-volume data processing is very challenging.
  • Build a Scalable Future-State Architecture: Considering the future process, the state is of paramount importance because we must evaluate all integrations in the future. Considerations such as whether certain integrations could become obsolete or need any rework attention.
  • Transform Complex Data: Traditional Complex Data Transformation leads to massive coding and results in poor performance and high cost in maintaining systems.
  • Select the Right Integration Platform: There are various integration tools and platforms on the market, choosing the right one that fits the organization's requirement is another big challenge.

We must decide on all these factors. Even though there will be some unavoidable complexities while implementing integration processes, we need to decide on the right strategies of integrations to mitigate risk and the cost of re-building the integrations, testing all integrations, and re-validating all business processes.

What are the main methods available for Inbound and Outbound Integrations within Oracle Fusion Cloud?

There are mainly two categories of Integration methods:

  • Inbound Integration Methods
  • Outbound Integration Methods

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Inbound Integration Methods: The three most used inbound methods are:

  • File-Based Data Import (FBDI): Oracle provides a method to load data using a pre-generated CSV format. The right automation of this process, using the right integration platform can derive the maximum value out of this method.
  • Web Services: There is a massive list of web services to perform various tasks. Although it provides a standardized way to integrate two web applications and establish communication, it is very important to have the right architecture to simplify the overall process. If you need to call multiple web services for a particular use case, you should implement the web services calls in the proper sequence for better performance, you should have an easy re-processing logic for failed records, and a robust error and exception handling mechanism.
  • Spreadsheet Data Loader (ADFdi): These are part of the ADF Framework that enables desktop integration with Excel spreadsheets. It can help manage large volume data uploads into Oracle cloud applications.

Outbound Integration Methods: The three most used outbound integrations methods are:

  • BI Reporting Tools: It can be used to extract data from Cloud applications for further analysis and to import into external systems via XML, Excel, CSV, or other file types. Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) can be used to export data for import into external systems. OTBI provides the ability to build custom queries on transactional data where the output can be downloaded to Excel, and you can configure an OTBI or BI Publisher Report and generate the output based on your organization's specific requirements. Report output extraction can also be automated using the report service, and if BI reports can be automatically pulled and loaded to external systems as per business needs, it can help an organization save a lot of time and money.
  • Web Services: There are web services available to extract data out of Oracle Fusion Cloud, but the areas where web services are not available, generating BI Publisher or OTBI reports can be used for integration, and may suffice, depending on what is being integrated.
  • Financial Extracts: The Financial Data Extracts empowers business enterprises with the capability to extract financial data from the Oracle ERP Cloud and seamlessly integrate with on-prem systems, legacy systems, and other cloud systems. The data extract is provided in an XML or CSV format for end-user review and for direct automated integration with other systems. Users can incrementally extract data, and these data extracts are performed as scheduled processes in cloud financials and can be used to support co-existence scenarios. These financial data extracts can also be automated with the help of the right integration platform like Oracle fusion cloud financials. The seeded Financial data extracts were introduced in R12.

As we understand, there are many methods of integration with Oracle Fusion Cloud. The right architecture, the right low-code integration platform, and the right skillset can help to automate each of these methods for a faster and more efficient integration of Oracle Fusion Cloud with external Cloud and on-prem applications.

 

This blog was originally posted by Jade Global at Challenges and Remedies of Oracle Fusion Cloud Integrations (jadeglobal.com


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