Oracle® Retail Enterprise Integration Overview Guide – RICS Release 16.0.040 F23331-01 |
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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.
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
Designed using latest industry best practices
Canonical objects for retail domain that have been built from integration experience with hundreds of customer use cases
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