Likelihood to Recommend The Amazon SNS service is well suited to support event notifications, monitoring applications, workflow systems, time-sensitive information updates, and mobile applications that generates or consumes notifications. It can be used to relay time-critical events to mobile applications and devices. It provides significant advantages to developers who build mobile applications that rely on real-time events. It is not well suited for hybrid cross platform mobile application frameworks at this juncture. An optimal version to meet the needs of a cross platform mobile developer is needed as generally the frameworks are not meant to manage real-time events. It is also not suited for cases where the queue management needs improvement or requires special workflows/tooling.
Read full review For all type of integration except those with a huge volume. It can deal with 20MB of transactions and processing of 1GB file when a file is being read using file or FTP adapters. It cannot be used for EDI as this support is not there. OICS is a perfect fit for other integration and is best when a customer has Oracle applications in the landscape. It is even greater if you have a requirement to create a custom form and make use of Process Cloud. All of these work very well together seamlessly. API needs can be handled by APIary.
Read full review Pros Built in for quicker setup within AWS ecosystem. Trusted as you control the users and configuration via IAM and easy access controls. Can be sent to S3 simple storage or for long term storage if required. Can be used in many regions, same configs. Read full review Auto-association of Oracle applications prepopulates the application connector select box and preconfigures Oracle Integration (OIC) using secure credential access for faster integration. Various other system connectors are available to use readily. User-intuitive experience--Connectors, integrators, and dashboard can be seen on one page. Read full review Cons At times you receive access denied errors which are annoying. Rarely do you receive internal failure errors where you can't access the information. It is rare but it does happen. You are required to add an MWS Authentication Token every so often. I wish it would pull that information automatically for you so you don't have to go searching for it. Read full review Currently, it is not retaining the logs for more than 3 days, which it needs to address. We also need some functionality inside the interface to re-push the same transaction again so that it will be helpful while testing and fixing the issue. Also, some log errors are not giving the correct details. Oracle needs to rectify those. Read full review Usability It is useful for applications developed using event driven architecture. It helps in tracking and logging the events in a very timely and efficient manner. The dashboards are a little difficult to implement. But overall it is very easy to integrate with other AWS services like Lambda, API GW, S3 and DynamoDB. The permissions to access should be resolved before using it.
Read full review Support Rating Amazon Simple Notification Sevices (SNS) support depends on your usage pattern and definitely on your support plan as an enterprise with AWS. Before reaching out to support you should read their documentation, as they have mentioned almost all the common issues and their solutions there. However, for specific issues, they generally respond in 1-2 business days.
Read full review The team is proactive and takes the issue up for resolution, they follow continuous development and release.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Amazon’s SNS is incredibly easy to set up compared to the more powerful, but complex, Kafka flavours. SNS’s core advantages are – · no setup/no maintenance · either a queue (SQS) or a topic (SNS) · various limitations (on size, how long a message lives, etc) · limited throughput: you can do batch and concurrent requests, but still achieving high throughputs would be expensive · SNS has notifications for email, SMS, SQS, HTTP built-in. · no "message stream" concept Overall, it would be the best choice to get into the concepts of Pub/Sub concepts as although it has limitations it can provide significant capabilities and solutions
Read full review The nearest thing I have used to OIC is UiPath, as it is often used as a tool to integrate software together. However, it is much more suited to legacy software which have little to no API endpoints. If the infrastructure already exists I understand why people use RPA for integration, however for when API's are easily accessible and you're using Oracle tools, OIC is better.
Read full review Return on Investment Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) saved us a lot of extra coding time by providing straightforward functionality we needed in our ad campaign automation tool. Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) allows us to maintain a consistent, serverless model within our applications. Read full review Created a solution for unique business integration with minimal processing times Saves my team about 7 hours per week because of how it communicates with all the information. Because it communicates faster, and because there's a lot of information to communicate with, another solution might not work. Read full review ScreenShots Oracle Integration (OIC) Screenshots