In this post, I am covering an overview of Oracle Integration Insight.
Oracle Integration Cloud is a lightweight service that can achieve simple, lightweight integrations without requiring much complexity.
With OIC, you can integrate your cloud and on-premises applications, automate business processes, gain insight into your business processes, and develop visual applications all in one place.
Oracle Integration Insight is the capability of Oracle Integration that has recently been released a few months back. It’s only available on OIC Generation 2.
Let’s go through the topics of discussion:
- Insight Integration
- Key Features
- Benefits
- Oracle Integration Insight Capabilities
- Oracle Integration Insight Roles
- Oracle Integration Insight Terminology
- Integration Insight End-to-End Workflow
- Navigate to Integration Insight
- FAQs
- Conclusion
Insight Integration
In today’s competitive market, the demand for stakeholders is to understand, monitor, and react to changing market conditions. Businesses need flexible, dynamic, and detailed insight, and they need it as it happens.
The goal for Oracle Integration Insight is to provide real-time business visibility and analytics for your executives by allowing business milestones and metrics to be defined and visualized with no coding required at all as it is all just a drag and drop and visual.
Key Features
Let’s see some of the key features of Integration Insight.
- Business Monitoring of Integration Cloud applications and heterogeneous cloud and on-premises environments.
- Define Business Milestones and Metrics from your browser with no coding.
- Identify problems when they happen.
- Facilitate business to IT communication.
Benefits
Now we will see the benefits of Integration Insight.
- Real-time visibility into digital processes for business owners to innovate smarter.
- Visually define operational business metrics via dashboards without the need for scarce IT resources.
- Drag and drop key business milestones to coordinate activities in the context of SLAs.
- Prevent business failures and delayed tasks with early warnings and actionable insights.
Oracle Integration Insight Capabilities
As we discussed above, Oracle Integration Insight in Oracle Integration Cloud provides a very business-friendly experience, allowing users to model, collect, and monitor metrics for their business processes. Metrics can be collected from either Business processes (using Integration ) or Processes, or both. If we talk about high level, Integration Insight provides the following things at a high level:
- It provides a web-based interface to Model a business process, including milestones and indicators defined to extract specific metrics. Map milestones to a business process implementation. Monitor business process status and activity in real-time
- Efficient workflow requiring no development effort and minimal impact to runtime.
- Advanced analytics presented in both preconfigured and custom dashboards. Dashboards can be viewed in Oracle Integration or embedded in external applications in many ways, as described in Embed Integration Insight Dashboards in Other Applications.
Oracle Integration Insight Roles
In Oracle Integration Insight, permissions are defined by roles called Oracle Integration roles. The roles that you are assigned define all tasks a user can perform in Integration Insight.
The following table lists predefined roles available in Oracle Integration and the Integration Insight tasks that personas associated with those roles can perform.
Check out: Create OIC Instance: Step-by-Step
Oracle Integration Insight Terminology
It is important to understand the different Integration Insight terminologies as these terminologies are used by the Insight Administrator, Integration Architect, or Business User/Analyst may not be well understood by the Business Executive.
So here are some important terminologies which an Insight Administrator, Integration Architect, or Business User/Analyst uses and how a Business Executive interprets them.
- Model: business process, an Oracle Integration Insight model provides a grammar for describing the milestones of a business process that are key for tracking business performance.
- Instance: Business transaction
- Unique instance identifier: A business transaction identifier
Oracle Integration Insight End-to-End Workflow
Whenever you need to monitor any business process in Oracle Integration, there are a couple of tasks to accomplish beforehand.
The high-level workflow is mentioned below:
- You must create a model by defining milestones, a unique instance identifier, indicators, and alerts.
- Now associate the model to a business process implementation. To accomplish it, you need to map model milestones to the business process implementation.
- Now you need to activate the model so that your business executives can view and analyze business processes using dashboards in real-time.
Create a Model
Any user who has the service Developer role like Analyst/Integration Architect or a Business role first needs to create a model of the business process in the insight.
In simple terms, models consist of the characteristics that stakeholders care about, also include milestones and indicators abstractions.
- Milestones show progression through various business activities like a Problem is received, a Ticket is created for this problem, and the Problem is Resolved.
- Indicators show metrics for tracking the business process such as Total resolution Cost, Country, Region, and customer status.
Associate the Model to a Business Process Implementation
When you are done with defining the business process model, your next step is to associate the model with a business process implementation. Now, the Integration Architect maps model milestones to the business process implementation in integration flow in Oracle Integration.
Analyze Business Processes using Dashboards
After associating the model to a business process implementation, you now need to activate the business process and model to start gathering metrics data from the business process as the milestones are passed. You can notice that these metrics are instantly available in the form of an interactive dashboard.
Navigate to Integration Insight
There are very simple steps to navigate to Integration Insight.
Step1) When you open the Oracle Integration console, click on the Hamburger menu as shown in the image.
Step 2) Now click on the Insight option as shown in the image.
Step 3) Clicking on Insight will let you use consoles.
Step 4) You can also make use of the models option present below the consoles.
Let’s quickly go through the Most Frequently Asked questions.
FAQs
Q1. What is Insight in OIC?
Ans: Oracle Integration Insight provides a very business-friendly experience that allows users to model, collect, and monitor metrics for their business processes.
Q2. What is an Integration insight Model?
Ans. An Integration Insight model provides a grammar for describing the milestones of a business process that are key for tracking business performance.
Q3. What is the use of the Consoles Page?
Ans. When a model that defines a business process is activated, Insight automatically creates an associated console. The Consoles page shows the status of all business processes and includes a high-level visualization of the metrics collected over the past day for all activated business processes.
Conclusion
Oracle Integration Cloud provides a lot of features for users’ convenience. Hence, Oracle Integration Insight is one of the greatest features of OIC that adds great value to integrations and processes. It makes everything transparent, whatever is going on in Integrations and Processes, whether in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid. You can make use of this for real-time business visibility.
Related Links/References:
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) For Beginners Overview
- 1Z0-1042-21 Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration 2021 Specialist
- OIC Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise
- Oracle Integration Cloud (ICS, PCS, VBCS) Console Walkthrough
- Process large files in OIC
- Check out Official Docs for Integration Insight
Next Task For You
Integration Insight has been recently added to the 1Z0-1042 certification. Register for the Free Class on Oracle [1Z0-1042] Certified Cloud Integration Expert, which will help you better understand and choose the right path and clear the OIC certification exam.
Eswar says
I want to create a dashboard of the status of few concurrent programs. Can we use Insight in OIC to build this? Let me know how to go on this thru ur academy.
Rahul Dangayach says
Hi Eswar,
To create a dashboard for monitoring the status of concurrent programs, you can leverage tools like Tableau, Excel, or Google Sheets. Dashboards are essential for providing a comprehensive overview of data from various sources, making them useful for monitoring, measuring, and analyzing relevant data in key areas such as customer metrics, financial information, sales data, web analytics, and more.
Dashboards work by aggregating data from different sources and presenting it in a way that is easy to read and interpret for non-technical users. They include interactive elements that help users better understand the data, explore areas of interest, and derive key insights or make informed decisions.
When creating a dashboard, it is crucial to define your audience and goals to ensure the dashboard meets their specific needs and requirements. Understanding key performance indicators (KPIs) is essential for building an effective dashboard that provides actionable insights[3].
In summary, dashboards are powerful tools that enable users to make informed, data-driven decisions by presenting data in a clear and interactive manner. By utilizing tools like Tableau, Excel, or Google Sheets and following best practices in dashboard design, you can effectively monitor the status of concurrent programs and extract valuable insights from your data.
Hope this helps.
Thanks and Regards
Rahul Dangayach
Team K21Academy