This comprehensive guide explores Oracle Cloud Integration, a robust platform designed to streamline workflows, enhance connectivity, and empower businesses with agile cloud solutions. The article covers key features, benefits, use cases, and step-by-step implementation strategies to help organizations maximize their digital transformation efforts.
Disparate systems can lead to data silos that eventually lead to inefficiencies. Integrating standalone applications can perfectly address these issues to enhance the overall performance of the organization.
Oracle Cloud Integrations are some of the highly talked about integrations in the industry. In this blog, we will discuss their needs, why they are important for your organization, and what testing has to do with them.
Why is there a need for integration?
Within an organization, critical business processes are often time-consuming and inflexible. A perfect example of this is the Lead to Opportunity to Quote to Order process. This process includes four or more applications along with human exception management at every step. Lack of integration between departments can cause delays which lead to lost revenue, frustrated customers, and high costs.
Integration establishes connections among people and applications.
When people and technologies are closely integrated, new business demands can be met up easily and efficiently.
Stakeholders will get a 360-degree view of business. They can easily monitor everything related to business.
How does Oracle support integration?
Oracle Cloud Integration takes place in the following manner:
Oracle Cloud Applications: It is a suite of applications that are offered as SaaS (software-as-a-service). These applications include enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, human capital management, advertising, and customer experience. Oracle offers pre-built integration within its services. Since Oracle Cloud Applications support native integration, there is no need for manual development to interconnect these applications.
Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC): It is a lightweight solution to facilitate integration. Different SaaS applications from Oracle such as Oracle Cloud, Oracle RightNow Cloud, and so on can be connected natively using OIC while popular applications such as Salesforce, SAP, Workday, Coupa, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 can be integrated with the help of pre-built connectors. Here, development and coding is required to facilitate integration.
Application Programming Interface (API): Leveraging Oracle’s RESTful APIs, third-party apps such as Salesforce, SAP, Shopify, Snowflake, and Workday can be integrated. Since these are custom integrations, they require development efforts and can be used to cater unique business needs.
Benefits of Oracle Cloud Integration
Decentralized data: Applications integration eliminates data silos. Thus, data stored across disparate systems and databases can be made available across multiple departments in a unified manner.
Eliminate data inconsistencies: Since the same data flows across multiple systems, the issues related to data inconsistency can be addressed.
Enhanced productivity: As there is no need to copy duplicate data from one system to another, it will save time and effort, leading to enhanced efficiency.
Why is testing critical for robust integration?
Whether you opt for pre-built integration or use APIs to integrate Oracle Cloud Apps with third-party applications, you need robust testing. It ensures that data is transferring flawlessly from one application to another. Testing also ensures that critical business processes are working as per your unique business needs.
Since manual testing isn’t a viable solution, we recommend test automation. Not only does it speed up the testing process but also ensure adequate risk coverage. With too many test automation tools available in the market, we recommend you to follow the given below tips.
Always look for the tool that supports end-to-end coverage. Tools like Opkey supports 12+ enterprise apps and 150+ technologies to ensure risk-free integrations.
Oracle apps are highly dynamic in nature and even a slight change in UI can break automation scripts. Always opt for a test automation platform that minimizes test script maintenance effort.
Testers are not programmers so code based test automation platforms will not help them. Opt for no-code test automation platforms that require minimum training to operate.
Reporting plays a critical role in software development. Always opt for a test automation platform that offers robust reporting capabilities. This will bring transparency in the testing process.
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