Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Services (RICS)



The Retail Integration Cloud Services is a SaaS Cloud deployment of the full Enterprise Integration Products and out-of-box GA application integration flows. All of the integration styles and products supported (RIB, RSB, BDI) are not only deployed in the SaaS Cloud, but are accessable to On-Premise and other cloud applications through service APIs.

Retail Integration Cloud Services RICS) is a SaaS offering, so it assumes and supports hybrid cloud  topologies; cloud-to-cloud and prem-to-cloud.

RIB-EXT

The RIB has been enhanced by adding additional web services within a RIB component call RIB-EXT.  In a hybrid cloud scenario customers will not have access to RIB’s JMS server. The RIB-EXT app is designed to fill that gap by exposing customer facing SOAP and REST Web Service APIs to RIB-EXT that then publishes and subscribes to RIB’s JMS.    

FileIO

The FileIO app has been enhanced to fill a gap by exposing customer facing SOAP Web Service APIs to FileIO that publishes and subscribes flat files to RIB-EXT that then pub/subs to the RIB's JMS.  FileIO works in conjunction with the new RIB-EXT component. The RIB-EXT server side component exposes customer facing SOAP Web Service APIs. FileIO publishes or subscribes using flat files to RIB-EXT that then pub/subs to the RIB's JMS. The files are not moved by ftp. RICS transmits the data via web services.

BDI


Batch (Bulk) data is still a predominant integration style within Oracle Retail and its customers. BDI productizes the Oracle Retail bulk data flows for delivery to customers and provides the tooling that is required to automate the creation and packaging of the configurations and to manage the full life cycle.

BDI-EXT


BDI-EXT is a client-side component that functions the same as the OOB BDI receivers.  All data that is made available to any receiver is available to the client-side BDI-EXT receiver.  It is up to the client to provide the functionality to pull data from the interface tables to the customer data model(s).