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These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Public PaaS Oracle Special Edition by Lawrence C. Miller, CISSP These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Public PaaS For Dummies®, Oracle Special Edition Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030‐5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. 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ISBN: 978‐1‐119‐18583‐3 (pbk); ISBN: 978‐1‐119‐18584‐0 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Publisher’s Acknowledgments Some of the people who helped bring this book to market include the following: Project Editor: Carrie A. Johnson Business Development Representative: Editorial Manager: Rev Mengle Karen Hattan Acquisitions Editor: Katie Mohr Production Editor: Selvakumaran Rajendiran Oracle Acknowledgments Oracle would like to thank the following people: Rimi Bewtra, Carlos Chang, Amritesh Chaudhuri, Gene Eun, Moe Fardoost, Ayalla Goldschmidt, Dain Hansen, Eric Jacobsen, Peter Jeffcock, Monica Kumar, Julie Miller, Ram Narayanan, Patricia Nishiyama, Doan Nguyen, Kim Olsen, Alina Pavel, Madhu Raviendran Nair, Ruma Sanyal, Tanu Sood, Bruce Tierney, Maxine Tingley, José Villacis, and Rex Wang These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................. 1 About This Book ............................................................2 Foolish Assumptions .....................................................2 Icons Used in This Book ................................................3 Beyond the Book ............................................................3 Where to Go from Here .................................................4 Chapter 1: Driving Innovation and Business Transformation with Platform as a Service ............ 5 What Is PaaS?..................................................................5 What’s Driving the Need for PaaS? ............................10 Chapter 2: Exploring PaaS Use Cases ................... 13 Developing and Testing New Applications ...............13 Moving Applications to the Cloud .............................14 Extending SaaS Applications ......................................15 Analyzing Business Data from Any Source ...............16 Sandboxing for Testing Platform Upgrades..............17 Chapter 3: Introducing Oracle Cloud Platform ..... 19 Oracle Cloud Platform for Application Development ..............................................................20 Oracle Cloud Platform for Data Management ..........22 Oracle Cloud Platform for Integration.......................25 Oracle Cloud Platform for Business Analytics .........28 Oracle Cloud Platform for Mobile ..............................30 Oracle Cloud Platform for Content and Collaboration .............................................................32 These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. iv Oracle Cloud Platform for IT Operations Management...............................................................33 Chapter 4: Oracle Cloud Platform Success Stories ......................................................... 37 Zamil Industrial — Moving to the Cloud with Zero Code Changes ..........................................38 Challenges ...............................................................38 Solutions ..................................................................39 Results .....................................................................40 Avaya — Extending and Integrating SaaS with PaaS ...........................................................40 Challenges ...............................................................41 Solutions ..................................................................41 Results .....................................................................41 DX Marketing — Accelerating New Application Development and Time to Market ..........................42 Challenges ...............................................................42 Solutions ..................................................................43 Results .....................................................................43 Land O’ Lakes — Integrating Cloud and On‐Premises ...............................................................44 Challenges ...............................................................44 Solutions ..................................................................45 Results .....................................................................45 Skanska — Growing the Business with Analytics ............................................................45 Challenges ...............................................................45 Solutions ..................................................................46 Results .....................................................................46 These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. v Unisul — Driving Growth and Innovation in the Cloud ....................................................................46 Challenges ...............................................................47 Solutions ..................................................................47 Results .....................................................................49 Chapter 5: Five Best Practices for PaaS Success ............................................................. 51 Leverage Existing Investments in Technology and Skills ....................................................................51 Choose a Comprehensive and Integrated PaaS .......52 Demand Enterprise Capabilities ................................53 Ensure Portability with Standards‐Based PaaS ........54 Move Application Development and Testing to PaaS First .................................................56 These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. vi These materials are © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Introduction loud transformation has created massive change Cfor businesses and changed the way people work. Millennials, for example, have different expectations of the workplace than previous generations. Digital inno- vation is making new business models possible, like Uber, Airbnb, and Spotify. This kind of change creates disruption in many markets. Organizations can lead the transformation of