Enterprise Integration Guide

Oracle Retail Enterprise Integration

There is no one integration approach that addresses all criteria equally well. Therefore, multiple approaches for integrating applications have evolved over time. Oracle Retail has focused on three main integration styles.

Asynchronous JMS Pub/Sub Fire-and-Forget (Messaging-RIB)
Request/Response (Web Services-RSB)
Bulk Data (BDI)

New in V16.0.21. The Retail Integration Cloud Service (RICS). RICS became a certified SaaS offering on the Oracle Cloud for Industries (OCI) with the internal release of V16.0.0. With Release V16.0.21 RICS is now a GA offering of the cloud deployment of the full Enterprise Integration Products (RIB, RSB, BDI) and out-of-box GA application integration flows. RICS also includes the new in 16.0.21 RIBforExt..

The Retail Integration Bus (RIB)

The Oracle Retail Integration Bus (RIB) is a fully distributed integration infrastructure that implements messaging using Asynchronous JMS Pub/Sub Fire-and-Forget.

RXM is now a RIB attached application - New in V16.0.0

RXM is only a subscriber and subscribes to:

- Items
- ItemLoc
- Diff
- DiffGrp
- MerchHier
- Stores
- WH

New in V16.0.21

RIBforExt. is a new RIB application component for 3rd Party integrations to the RIB in hybrid cloud topolgies. It deployment time configuratble.

The Retail Service Backbone (RSB)

Oracle Retail Service Backbone (RSB) is the productization of a set of Web Services, ESBs and Security tools that standardize the deployment and run time of Web Service Request-Response flows within Oracle Retail Suite of applications and exposed to external applications.

New in V16.0 - RMX RSB Web Service Transformations to ROB, ORCE, ROMS

Bulk Data Integration (BDI) - New in V16.0.0

Bulk Data Infrastructure (BDI) is the new Oracle Retail Enterprise Integration Infrastructure product designed to address the complexities of the movement of bulk data between Oracle Retail applications and between Oracle Retail Applications and 3rd Party applications.

BDI is designed to provide the bulk data integration to meet the modern needs of cloud and premise movement of large data sets in the deployments of the Oracle Retail applications and support both fully on-premise configurations and on-cloud configurations in a hybrid cloud-premise deployment.

Retail Business Objects (RBO)

The Oracle Retail Business Objects (RBOs) are the names given to the logical representation of Oracle Retail Business Entities and transactions about them. The definition of these object are in the form of an XML Schema (XSD).

The schema represents the common object definition for business concepts, such as account, supplier, purchase order, and item.