2 Introduction To Oracle Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS)

The Retail Integration Suite of Products

The Suite is a set of integration infrastructures that are specifically designed to solve retail enterprise integration use cases.

The Suite is made up of hundreds of Pre-built Business Processes that work out of the box for retailers. The process is made up of hundreds of Pre-built Business Objects that are fully tested and supported in end-to-end integration flows for specific to the retail industry.

Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS)

The Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS) is a SaaS Cloud deployment of the full Retail Technology's Enterprise Integration Product Suite and the out-of-box GA application integration flows.

• RICS assumes and supports hybrid cloud topologies; cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-premise and premise-to-cloud.

• RICS has been in production since January 2017 along with Merchandise Foundation Cloud Service.

All of the integration styles and products and the applications supported by RICS are all integrated via web services.

• Built using standard Oracle technologies

• Fully web services-based API's to all integration products

• Provides third party integration API's to all integration products

Figure 2-1 Retail Integration Cloud Services Hybrid Integration

Key Benefits

• Designed using latest industry best practices

• Canonical objects for retail domain that have been built from integration experience with hundreds of customer use cases

  Table 2-1

  	RIB	RSB	BDI
  Business Entities	67	92	49
  Business Objects	641	302	51
  Integration Flows	69	87	159
  Connected Apps	13	24	13

  
  

• Intended to work out of the box for customers without needing development effort between supported products

• Only one instance of RICS is required for a customer instance

• Mature Robust Software - running at hundreds of retailers

• Backward and forward compatible Integration APIs - Upgrade Ready

• Mixed version integration capable, tools provided

• Third-party integration ready with build in extension/customization hooks

• Security, monitoring, alerts, logs and so on.

• Strong focus on customer self-service

Retail Integration Cloud Services Architecture

Figure 2-2 RICS Architecture