Item: Oracle Integration (OIC)
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

OIC is being used as a replacement for our enterprise integration bus. It manages data flow between our on-premise applications and ten cloud software vendors into our data warehouse. We are currently in planning for OIC to be the external interface to pure public data feeds as well. OIC provides our organization with a data flow management platform that is scalable and robust enough for our needs with a lower learning curve than other comparable integration packages.

Pros and Cons

Easy to learn and develop basic integrations.
Built-in connectors for our existing suite of Oracle ERP implementations.
Allows for our organization to have a robust environment that handles failover without the need to engineer and support a full SOA implementation.

OIC documentation can sometimes be difficult to follow and not explain all the necessary steps in order to set up some of the more complicated integrations.
The management interface could use some improvement, it does not recalculate statistics based on its retention period
Scheduled integrations are limited to a 10-minute frequency.

Return on Investment

In being able to rapidly develop integrations we have been able to discontinue expensive outsourcing contracts.
The secure first approach of OIC has allowed us to develop with security in mind.

Alternatives Considered

TIBCO Enterprise Message Service

OIC has allowed us to decommission our Tibco environment and migrate from outsourced integration development to in house where costs are lower and time to development has increased in some cases from months to days or weeks.

Key Insights

Do you think Oracle Integration (OIC) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Oracle Integration (OIC)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Oracle Integration (OIC) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Oracle Integration (OIC) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Oracle Integration (OIC) again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

As a cloud-first organization, we contract with numerous providers that require we ingest data feeds 24x7. OIC allows us to quickly develop new feeds quickly and efficiently. We make extensive use of CSV and SFTP data feeds to load data from cloud-based call centers and on-premise applications into our data warehouse in order to provide up to date data-driven decision making.

Integrating at a cloud-first organization

Overall Satisfaction with Oracle Integration (OIC)