Cloud Essentials
Application Development
with Oracle Cloud
When technology visionary Marc Andreessen
penned his famous essay “Why Software Is Eating
the World,” businesses everywhere acknowledged
the importance of developing software applications
that can accelerate business processes and
differentiate services. Today, cloud computing can
provide much of the infrastructure and platform
services required for software development.
Therefore, it’s no surprise that software is
increasingly developed and deployed in the cloud.
Businesses value the ability to develop and test
their apps in the cloud, and then run production
workloads on premises. In addition to shifting
development and testing (DevTest) to the cloud,
some of these businesses have made the decision
to migrate applications to the cloud as well—
including on-premises apps, packaged apps, web-
based apps, Java Enterprise Edition apps, open
source-based apps, and many other traditional
applications. Once migrated, these applications
can be integrated with other on-premises and
cloud apps.
Businesses are also choosing to mobile-enable
and extend their existing apps. In addition, many
businesses are building new applications in the
cloud—commonly called cloud-native applications.
Typically, these apps are developed based on
microservices architecture and run in containers.
Moreover, many IT shops have formed DevOps
teams in which application developers collaborate
with operations personnel to create, test,
troubleshoot, and improve applications as part
of a continuous application development and
deployment process through the entire application
lifecycle. In conjunction with these initiatives, line-
of-business owners and citizen developers are
demanding a development and publishing platform
that allows them to create new web and mobile
applications and extend SaaS applications.
This brief explains how you can utilize Oracle Cloud
to accelerate the development of web, mobile, and
enterprise applications while dramatically simplifying
your IT environment. Oracle’s subscription-based
cloud services require minimal investment and
deliver maximum productivity and speed. Read on
to learn how you can leverage Oracle’s complete,
open, and integrated cloud portfolio to meet your
current and future application development needs.
Are You Confronting These
App Development Challenges?
If you think your organization might be a candidate for
application DevTest in the cloud, ask yourself these questions:
• Does it take too long to set up and provision your
development environment, including application
servers, server infrastructure, storage, databases,
and management tools?
• Is lack of development agility affecting your ability
to respond quickly to business needs?
• Is your data center too large, needlessly complex,
or expensive to maintain?
• Do your development and operations teams
have difculty coordinating their activities to
properly support production applications?
Accelerate Application Delivery with DevTest on Oracle Cloud
Oracle Cloud represents the industry’s most
comprehensive cloud-based application development
offering. It spans the infrastructure (IaaS), platform
(PaaS), and application (SaaS) layers and includes private,
public, and hybrid cloud deployment options, with the
same underlying technology in each category for easy
interoperability among them. Oracle Cloud supports many
different applications, languages, operating systems, tools,
utilities, and data types, including open source technology.
It’s ideal for developing and deploying both Oracle and
third-party applications—and you can migrate nished apps
from Oracle Cloud to your own data center and back
again, unchanged.
With Oracle Cloud, you can create a highly responsive
development organization while reducing capital costs and
operational expenses. Oracle Developer Cloud Service
for professional programmers provides a streamlined
team development and delivery platform. At the touch of
a button, you can create a fully provisioned development
platform, complete with infrastructure. No matter how
many development teams you have, they can instantly
access your development environment in the cloud and
follow DevOps processes using Oracle’s cloud-based tools,
as if they were all in the same room. Within a robust and
secure platform, your teams use the best industry-standard
tools as part of a reliable and integrated infrastructure for
the life of your entire development process.
“ It takes my development team
weeks to set up development
environments.”
“ My team needs standards so
that they can deploy anywhere.”
“ We need to get products
and services in the marketplace
faster in order to compete.”
“ I need my development teams
to collaborate easily and share
information efcently.”
“ I want my developers to focus
on creative solutions—not
patching, backup, and recovery.”
“ I need a way to get
around our backlogged
development organization.”
Further Increase Efciency and Productivity with the DevOps Model
Oracle Cloud facilitates the DevOps model by enabling
software developers to collaborate with quality assurance
and operations personnel, streamlining application
development and delivery. For example, your developers
can commit changes to a shared Git repository, create tasks
and assign them to team members, dene and collaborate
on projects through wiki services, and continuously build
and deploy applications with Hudson. You can use Oracle
Management Cloud to monitor deployments and prevent
production problems, maintaining conceptual consistency
across production environments via metrics, logs, and
topological ow maps.
Build Modern, Cloud-Native Applications
Cloud-native applications are specically developed to run on cloud
platforms. Oracle allows developers to build application components or
microservices using the tools and technologies they are comfortable
with. Applications and services can be deployed on containers—
and these containers can be created much faster than hypervisor-
based instances. This makes for a much more agile environment
and facilitates DevOps. You can use traditional and dynamic scripting
languages such as Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and Python in a
multilingual or polyglot environment, along with a wide array of data
management options including MySQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, and more.
With a comprehensive platform for fast, exible application
development and deployment, you can focus on creating applications
rather than infrastructure details. It’s easy to take advantage of Oracle
Cloud services for collaboration, bug tracking, version tracking,
container orchestration, and other essential DevTest functions. Oracle
even allows developers to move dockerized containers and application
packages directly to Oracle Cloud, with built-in support for Kubernetes,
CoreOS, PortWorx, and other popular containers.
Develop Microservices-Based, Cloud-Native Apps
• Build modern, cloud-native applications quickly and efciently
• Code in any language and use popular, open source development
tools such as Hudson, Maven, GitHub, JUnit, and more
• Utilize a built-in API platform for inbound and outbound
interactions with microservices
• Follow DevOps continuous integration/continuous delivery
(CI/CD) practices and utilize Oracle Developer Cloud Service
to track issues, review peer code, merge requests, and develop
dashboards, with automatic conguration and scaling to improve
the effectiveness of the development process
• Enjoy extreme high performance and scalability with Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)—and bring your own containers
• Utilize integrated monitoring tools to continuously
rene apps in production
• Run container applications on enterprise-grade
Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes
• Store and share Docker container images on
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Registry
• Create and manage build pipelines with Oracle Container Pipelines
Maximize Productivity for Developers and Business Analysts
Oracle Cloud includes robust development tools that enable
professional programmers to create enterprise Java apps
and cloud-native apps using standard JavaScript and HTML,
as well as code-free, visual tools that empower citizen
developers and business analysts to develop and deploy
complete applications in minutes.
For example, nontechnical staff members can use Oracle
Mobile Hub and Oracle Visual Builder to create applications
for smartphones and tablets via a browser-based, declarative
environment, and then leverage standard APIs to integrate
enterprise data sources in a simple and intuitive manner.
• Oracle Mobile Hub simplies software development
for mobile app developers, backend service developers,
and line-of-business owners. It’s easy to create web
and mobile apps that securely connect to enterprise
systems via industry standards such as REST
and SOAP. Built-in mobile services include push
notications, location-based services, storage,
ofine and sync, and user management.
• Oracle Digital Assistant makes it easy to build AI-
powered chatbots that use natural language processing
to establish conversational interfaces with humans.
Guided self-learning capabilities—based on user
behavior, context, preferences, and data sets—allow
these assistants to make relevant recommendations,
as well as to connect and retrieve relevant data from
backend applications. Oracle SaaS applications offer
prebuilt Digital Assistant Skills that deliver an immediate
out-of-the-box conversational interface to application
functionality. Oracle Digital Assistant works with text
and speech-based interfaces such as Amazon Alexa,
Apple Siri, Google Assistant, Facebook Messenger,
Slack, SMS, and WeChat.
• Oracle Visual Builder empowers developers to
create and deploy web and mobile apps directly from
their browsers via an intuitive, visual development
environment. They can combine custom data objects
with data from existing applications. And because
both the development environment and the associated
runtime platform are hosted in the cloud, there is no
need to set up and maintain client-side software.
Seamless integration with Oracle SaaS applications makes
these development tools even more valuable. Customers
can use these advanced cloud services to automate many
routine application functions, from employee onboarding
to sales force automation. Automated links minimize IT
dependencies and reduce infrastructure costs associated
with traditional DevTest and deployment processes. The
end result is better and faster services for your customers
and employees.
Your Applications on Steroids
Accelerate: Instantly subscribe to secure, high-performance
cloud services to augment or replace your on-premises
infrastructure. Servers, storage, databases, and other key
platform services can be rapidly provisioned and ready for
use in minutes.
Choose: In addition to using Oracle Cloud for DevTest,
you can choose where you deploy your apps—in the public
cloud, a private cloud, or an on-premises cloud, with an
instance of Oracle Cloud behind your rewall.
Respond: You can monitor public cloud services using
the same tools that you use to monitor your on-premises
systems, and control everything from a single console:
database, middleware, operating systems, virtual
machines,and applications.
Save: Oracle’s “pay-as you-grow” model requires zero
up-front capital expenses. These cloud services are
affordable and efcient, and you never have to worry
about purchasing too much or too little capacity, or
getting stuck with a huge CapEx bill.
Low-Risk Migrations—with Flexible Deployment Options
Oracle enables you to move applications from your data
center to the public cloud and back again with automated
migration tools. You don’t have to throw away on-premises
investments, or perform expensive application rewrites to
move your IT assets to the cloud. You can bring your own
licenses and third-party applications to Oracle Cloud and
migrate customized stacks to Oracle Cloud IaaS intact,
including Oracle E-Business Suite as well as Oracle’s JD
Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel applications. You can
install the same operating systems, middleware, databases,
and applications that you use on premises to build complete
IT environments in the cloud.
While the management tools from other cloud vendors
only support their specic cloud infrastructure—forcing you
to invest in multiple solutions for third-party hardware and
software—Oracle Management Cloud gives you complete
visibility into Oracle and third-party environments.
If corporate policies or industry regulations prohibit you
from moving sensitive workloads to a public cloud, Oracle
can bring the cloud to you by deploying and operating an
instance of Oracle Cloud behind your rewall with Oracle
Cloud Machine. Rather than purchasing hardware and
software, you can simply subscribe to it and let Oracle
handle every aspect of installation, conguration, patching,
lifecycle management, upgrading, and monitoring. You get
Oracle Cloud—all fully managed—behind your rewall.
Why Migrate On-Premises
Assets to Oracle Cloud?
• Decrease the cost and risk of migrating workloads
to the cloud with automated migration tools
• Migrate data, custom apps, packaged apps,
dockerized apps, and third-party workloads
• Choose your deployment options: public, private, or
hybrid clouds with full workload portability between
on-premises and Oracle Cloud environments
• Utilize integrated monitoring tools that run seamlessly
on premises and in the cloud to continuously rene
apps in production
• Minimize risk, prevent application outages,
and improve IT stability
Challenges with Third-Party Clouds
• Limited deployment choices and capabilities
• Lack of out-of-the-box integration
• Nominal support for open source tools
and utilities
• Limited or no compatibility between
on-premises and cloud environments
• Fragmented management tools
• Inconsistent performance
• Gaps in security, visibility, and control
• Lack of availability and redundancy for
critical workloads
• Cumbersome, manual migration and integration
The Superiority of Oracle Cloud
• Complete, open, integrated, secure stack with
multiple deployment options
• Easy interoperability with on-premises assets
• Unied management tools for monitoring
applications and infrastructure—on premises
and in the cloud
• Consistent reliability, availability, scalability,
and performance between cloud and
on-premises offerings
• Superior utilities for capacity planning, compliance,
scheduling, and log analytics
• Compute services that are up to 11.5 times faster
than commodity servers, yet cost up
to 20percent less
• Storage capacity for as low as one-seventh
the cost of commodity cloud alternatives
The Organization: Headquartered in Nashville,
Tennessee, Rogers Group provides crushed stone,
sand, gravel, asphalt, and highway construction
materials throughout the southeastern United States.
The Challenge: Rogers Group’s foremen are the
main conduit to business activities during construction
projects, but delivering mobile computer technology
on the jobsite has been challenging. Previously, data
on crew members, construction equipment, and other
critical variables was tracked with paper forms and
then manually entered into an Oracle E-Business Suite
application. Site managers often waited a week to
receive, enter, approve, and analyze each submission.
The Strategy: Rogers Group used Oracle Mobile
Cloud Service and Oracle partner AuraPlayer to
create new mobile apps and integrate them with
the on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite application
via REST services—without making any changes to
Oracle E-Business Suite. Now the foremen can enter
data about hours worked and equipment used via
tablets in the eld. Their mobile apps synchronize with
Oracle E-Business Suite, giving them instant access
to metrics about the progress of each job, along with
nancial and budget information from the home ofce.
The Success: Rogers Group is using Oracle Cloud
to move critical information throughout the business.
Managers have immediate insight into jobsite
performance and can make knowledgeable decisions
by comparing production costs with proposed
budgets. Thanks to this high degree of integration
and automation, data collection and processing
time has decreased from one week to one day.
Case Study: Building Mobile Apps in the Cloud
— Kim Lockhart, Applications Development Manager
“ Being able to plug Oracle E-Business Suite
functionality into Oracle Mobile Cloud Service has
made it much easier to bring data to our business.”
Focus on Your Business, Not
on Technology and Infrastructure
While cloud services have quickly gained popularity for
DevTest activities, Oracle Cloud is an ideal platform for
deploying production applications as well. You can begin by
moving DevTest operations to the cloud and then use the
cloud to expand your analytics capabilities or to establish a
cloud archive for backup data.
After that, you can gradually move key applications to the
cloud to extend on-premises infrastructure with new cloud
platforms. You can also utilize Oracle Cloud to simplify data
center operations—without making major investments in
new hardware and software. Oracle gives you the same level
of control that you are accustomed to with your on-premises
DevTest practices and unlimited expandability for the future.
Everyone’s path to the cloud is different. That’s why Oracle
offers a variety of options to help you reach your goals, with
industry-leading tools for rapid provisioning, development,
testing, integration, migration, and management. With Oracle
Cloud, you get a state-of-the-art platform to develop cloud-
native apps quickly, but also to move your existing apps to
the cloud, so you can easily modernize them with social,
mobile, and analytic capabilities.
Why Put Application
Development in the Cloud?
Innovation: Accelerate business
transformation and innovation
Cost: Improve resource utilization
to save time and money
Transformation: Create valuable business
processes, not infrastructure headaches
Risk: Reduce risk with
single-vendor accountability
Agility: Boost agility in rapidly
changing environments
Contact your Oracle account manager to start your journey to the cloud,
or visit oracle.com/cloud/application-development to learn more.
Try Oracle Cloud today. Go to cloud.oracle.com/try it.
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