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Your friend in the business.
How to Use The Free Integration
Tools That Come with Oracle E-
Business Suite

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Topics for Today
Problem Statement
Overview of Integration Options
EBS Web Service Integration Web
Service Demonstration
Questions
Agenda
Customers that run the
E-Business Suite have been
challenged trying to get these
systems to work seamlessly with
internal and external systems.
This webinar talks about the
integration tools that are
available in Oracle EBS that you
can use today and in the future.

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EBS is Your Primary ERP System
You run other systems
• Disparate Technologies
• Inside and Outside the
Firewall
• SaaS and In House
Business Needs have Changed
• Need them to Talk to
One Another
• Need these systems to work
well together as a single system
Problem Statement
Custom
System
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How do we get them to all work together?

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What are my Options?
Point-to-Point
This is the traditional method of sending integrating two systems through file transfers
and the loading of data for a specific purpose. Since many SaaS solutions do not support
this method, it is not an option for this discussion.
Option 1 – EBS SOA Gateway (SOAP & REST Web Services)
EBS SOA gateway provides hosting for “out-of-the-box” Web services from Oracle E-
Business Suite. It provides capable integration functionality, but only for a defined set of
integration points. Also, there are licensing changes that will be in effect as you move
your environment to 12.2.
Option 2 – Oracle RESTful Data Services (ORDS)
REST is fast becoming the de facto standard for providing data for easy consumption by
mobile apps, web apps as well as for in house and cloud based applications. ORDS is a
new product from Oracle which allows us to quickly and securely host REST web services
Option 3 - Middleware (Full SOA Integration)
Full SOA integration through middleware is the most robust and comprehensive solution
for developing an integrated application architecture.

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Comparison Chart
Scenario EBS SOA
Gateway
ORDS Middleware
Solution
Limited orchestration required
Limited routing or queuing required
Web Services primarily REST based
Limited orchestration required
Limited routing or queuing required
Need to host SOAP web services
Significant orchestration required
Need for off-line queuing and throttling
Need for routing of messages
Multiple consumers of the data
No Cost Option for 12.2.X
* SOA Gateway REST is No Cost SOAP is Not
No Cost for 12.1.X
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Maybe Maybe
Maybe
Yes
No
YesNo No
Yes Yes No

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• Standards Based
• REST, SOAP (http, https)
• Real-Time Integration
• Immediate results
• Interoperable
• Platform and Language Agnostic
• Versatile & Accessible
• Easier to consume and access
• Promote Re-Use
• One service consumed by multiple clients
• Mobile, Web Site, Cloud Saas System
• New Technology
• Google, PayPal, AWS, Twitter
• SaaS systems primarily support web services
Options 1&2 – Simple SOAP & REST Services

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Option 3 – Middleware Solution
• Routing
• Mediation
• Monitoring
• Connectivity
• Transformation
• Business Rules
• Service Orchestration

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• Can be Overkill
• Expensive
• Complex to Manage
• Specialist Resources
Option 3 – Middleware Solution

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How can I
integrate my
systems today
(without spending
a fortune) and still
enable the
business to grow in
the future?
Down The Road

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• Gain immediate benefits
• Consume data from other systems
• Expose your data to SaaS systems, other corporate systems,
mobile applications etc.
• Start with Simple Web Services
• Depending on your Integration requirements, move to full
Middleware Integration
• Preparation for middleware integration
• Services 100% re-usable in middleware solution
• Build your service catalog
• Ease into middleware integration solution
Service Enablement Strategy:
Option 1 and/or 2 – depending on your needs

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EBS Web Service
Integration Options

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• No cost option in 12.1.3.
• Note: For 12.2+ you need a separate license for
SOAP based services.
• Oracle Integration Repository
• Large repository of existing services
exposed by applications within EBS
• Produce and consume web services
• REST and SOAP
• Build in PL/SQL or Java
Integrated SOA Gateway

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SOA Gateway Scenario
EBS to RightNow
• SOA Gateway SOAP Service
• Create Customer
• Get Customer
• RightNow calls EBS to create
new customer
• RightNow calls EBS to get
customer details
• Build in PL/SQL
• Expose as Web-Service
• Register in Repository

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• No Cost Option
• Host REST web services
• Consume SOAP & REST
• Build in PL/SQL
• Authenticate (oauth2)
• Authorize via PL/SQL
• Json & XML payloads
• Certified with R11 & R12
• 5 click Web Service!
Oracle REST Data Services

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• ImageNow calls Service to create
AP invoice in EBS
• Service hosted by ORDS
ORDS Scenario
EBS & ImageNow
• ORDS
• Exposes URL to Client Applications
• Accepts inbound http request
• Parses http variables into PL/SQL
• Executes PL/SQL block (Web service
program logic)
• Returns http response back to client
(200, 400 etc.)

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ORDS Scenario
REST Service Anatomy
• Module
• Collection of related resources
• Template / Resource
• Object with data, relationships to other resources and methods
• Handler/Method
• Action to perform on Resource, GET, POST, PUT etc.

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ap/invoice Resource (Method: POST)
• URI (portion of http URL) ap/invoice
• Method (GET, DELETE, PUT, POST)
• Source Code Type PL/SQL
• MIME Type / Message Format XML
• PL/SQL Block / Web Service Program Logic
ORDS Scenario

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ORDS Scenario
Sample REST Web Service Call

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/customer
Demonstration

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Comparison Chart
Scenario EBS SOA
Gateway
ORDS Middleware
Solution
Limited orchestration required
Limited routing or queuing required
Web Services primarily REST based
Limited orchestration required
Limited routing or queuing required
Need to host SOAP web services
Significant orchestration required
Need for off-line queuing and throttling
Need for routing of messages
Multiple consumers of the data
No Cost Option for 12.2.X
* SOA Gateway REST is No Cost SOAP is Not
No Cost for 12.1.X
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Maybe Maybe
Maybe
Yes
No
YesNo No
Yes Yes No

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Things to Remember
• Customers that run EBS have powerful
integration tools available to them at no
additional cost.
• These tools can provide a simple and
robust integration to SaaS and other
external systems.
• These tools can be used to quickly build
connectors between E-Business Suite to
third party or SaaS Solutions.
• Once you build these connectors, they
can be reused later as your environment
changes and you evolve to a fully
integrated application architecture.
“Let’s Get Started”

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Let’s get started.