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Bringing Cloud Native to a world of SaaS
Robert Wunderlich, Product Strategy Director at Oracle
apidays LIVE Paris - Bringing Cloud Native to a world of SaaS by Robert Wunderlich
1. Bringing Cloud Native to the World of SaaS
Our Journey with API Management
Robert Wunderlich
Product Strategy Director
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
10 December 2020
The goals should not really surprise you all that much since we are seeing the same challenges as you do. How can you evolve from a product company into a services company, how we seek to benefit from innovation every quarter as new features become available instead of very complex upgrade cycles every few years.
How we seek for our customers, partners and employees in very different forms, by cutting forms, accelerate the buying experiences, the provisioning experiences, the employee engagement experiences e.g. having just rolled out the Digital Assistant for Expenses
How can we anticipate challenges our customer will have to become a business partner – not just a technology partner and put the customer at the very heart of ongoing relationships and we hope you experience this change.
Oracle runs a large scale operation from hardware, to on-premise software to subscription models to operating in 175 countries, a very large customer base (thank you for being one of them), to managing a 140K workforce, and being very active in M&A.
Here are some the results we have seen along this journey so far
Here are some the results we have seen along this journey so far
Kubernetes, specifically Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE): an enterprise grade, developer friendly container orchestration service based on open source Kubernetes. It is Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) conformant and provides cloud portability. OKE is provided at no cost – you only pay for infrastructure resources consumed. OKE runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which provides superior price and performance as documented here: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/economics/.
Registry or OCI Registry: 100% Docker v2 compliant registry to push and pull container images using the Docker v2 API. Each region can host upto 500 repositories, each with 500 images, and limits can be increased for larger needs. Use registry to deploy images quickly into Kubernetes.
Functions: Oracle’s serverless offering, to automatically package your code and run it. It is an elastic service (scales automatically) and ideal for intermittent and spiky workloads. It is based on the open source Fn Project, which can be deployed on Oracle Cloud, on your laptop or anywhere else.
API Management: Easily design, build, promote and secure application programming interfaces (APIs). Use these offerings to validate API blueprints (API mockups), deploy APIs for backend services, manage API policies, and monetize your APIs.
Events: Track changes to your resources with events that are compliant with the CNCF CloudEvents standard. Create rules to take action in real time by triggering functions, writing to stream, or sending notifications. For example, you can use Events to receive a text message (a Notification) after a resource on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, such as a compute instance, is created successfully.
I’d like to conclude by summarizing what makes DX4C uniquely suited to help you in your transformation.
First, it’s based on experiences. It’s based on Oracle’s Redwood user paradigm and provides the tools for you to easily design and deliver your own experience. Conversational Uis and intelligent search provide the benefits of a digital first experience. And as we talked about earlier, the Industry Fabric provides the tools to quickly innovate at the experience level.
Second, it is built specifically for the needs of the comms industry, taking into account specific requirements of complex, long-lived orders, digital channels, real time charging, massive scalability and more. We are using and contributing back to the TM Forum Open APIs and building on a strong heritage of leadership in this industry.
Next, this is a complete solution marrying back office and front office capabilities. Many software providers only deliver a portion of this stack, whereas we have integrated these components so that, for example, the billing system surfaces relevant data into the care experience and the launch experience publishes to sales catalogs and the billing system.
Our adherence to the TM Forum Open Digital Architecture through our Industry Fabric makes DX4C very easy to adopt. You can co-exist with your existing solutions and have the flexibility to transform at your own pace.
Last but not least, we offer simple and flexible consumption whereby the experiences each contain all core functional needs and are delivered by Oracle to you as a service.
All of this combines to provide you with an entirely new paradigm cloud solution that can enable you to innovate, engage and transform your business for the experience economy.
Let’s take a closer look at what Oracle’s Digital Experience for Communications solution offers that enables you to innovate quickly, engage with your prospects and customers in highly contextual ways at their moments of need, and transform your customers’ experiences.
We provide comprehensive end-to-end experiences to manage the entire lifecycle of your customers from Digital Acquisition to Frictionless Buying to Proactive Care. These highly personalized experiences are delivered for easy omnichannel consumption, and the experiences are highly interconnected so that you can combine them as needed – as an example you can provide a buying experience while delivering care via the same channel and user interface.
These customer experiences are supported by operational processes related to intelligent product and offer launches, dynamic order fulfillment to modern monetization of all types of products and services. All customer experiences are delivered on Oracle’s cloud fusion platform on top of Oracles Gen 2 cloud infrastructure that is highly performant, secure, scalable, and available in multiple data centers around the world.
Let’s take a closer look at each of these capabilities.
The secret sauce of this DX4C solution that is why we can deliver such high degrees of IT and business agility is our adherence to the TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture, which is brought to life in what we call the Industry Fabric. The central idea here is that you need the ability to very quickly innovate at the experience level – for example launching a new channel or digital skills- while at the same time you have very mature, mission critical systems of record that are slower to change. This approach decouples the two, so you can quickly innovate on experiences in response to fast changes in your markets without being constrained by systems of record. This means that you can very quickly deploy new services and significant lower your IT costs through this agility.
Any app talk to any other via standard APIs
Eliminates complexity of multiple data models
Design led by experiences vs. feature/function
Add-on what is needed on top of existing