Fusion ECM

CMS Watch has this interesting post about the new CMIS specification. Roy T. Fielding (one of the *real* inventors of the web and on whose dissertation REST is based) points out on his blog that there are a number of issues with CMIS as it stands today. Among those he lists are:
1) it's not a standard, it's a proposal that hopes to become a standards effort and maybe one day a standard.
2)It's not properly RESTful. After all, REST is not a protocol, it's an architecture. The AtomPub model outlined in the proposal is not *really* a REST binding.
3)It's more a Web Services interface for cross repository document management.
Fielding writes:

CMIS is a classic example of what happens when a control-oriented interface is slapped onto an HTTP-based protocol instead of redesigning the interface to be data-oriented.

In the end, Fielding posits the following:

My bet is that the document repository vendors will continue to focus on making their own native HTTP interfaces more efficient, since that is how customers will evaluate their performance when integrated within heterogeneous architectures.

So I guess he's adopting a wait and see attitude like so many others.

I wonder what BEX and Craig have to say

UPDATE: Sam Ruby has a response here.

You can find more OOW Video Post Cards by going to YouTube and searching or OracleWebVideo. Or simply click HERE.

There is a nice writeup from the gang at CMS Watch about WebCenter, UCM, Portal and strategy launched at OOW. Read it HERE.

X = The HP Oracle ExData Database Machine is available TODAY.

Oracle hardware in the form of the O. Database Machine.
Larry announces the Oracle database machine. Yep, Oracle hardware.
The specs on the performance is HUGE! Aprox 30x performance benefit over similar storage. The X doesn't use traditional storage array. It balances storage service and incredibly fast interconnect.

LISTS for less than 14K per TB out the door. Much less than other vendors. More comparable to disk array prices.

Prediction: this kind of performance is not simply an efficiency enhancement, it opens the gateway to new, more intelligent, more responsive, more process/analytic/query intensive applications.

Where: Moscone West 2nd Floor Book Store
When 2:30pm
What: Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0
Who: Billy Cripe, Jean Sini, Vince Casarez

Please Join Me, Vince and Jean at the Oracle Open World Bookstore today at 2:30pm for a very special book signing. We are releasing our new book: Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0 today.

If you can, come to our session about the book and its themes at Marriott Salon 05 at 1pm.

We Hope To See You There!

I'm sitting in the nice blogger section of the keynote arena again. This time I'll be blogging the Intel and Thomas Kurian keynote.

Keep refreshing for updates.

Intel President and CEO Paul S. Otellini has a theme of time.
The performance results around the Intel processors is pretty impressive. I'm not a processor guy but I'm sufficiently wowed. One thing that a guy like me does get into from Intel is their Mash Maker software. Check it out.

Now Up: TK. Theme: Putting Information to Work. Sharing. (playing nice with others and eating your vegetables to be covered next year)

Information Integration: tap heterogeneous sources, improve quality, manage relationships. How: Oracle Data Integrator (with Profiling), Hyperion Data Relationship Manager, Oracle BI.

(Lost wifi again - dang...)

The rest of the entry blogged in TextPad and posted later today.

On to Business Intelligence. Laundry list of features and capabilities.
BI desktop gadgets are cool. Viewing KPIs on my iPhone. Curiosity or Value Add?
BI Publisher, EE and Essbase is a nice analytics package. Add in UCM to store and manage BI Publisher reports and templates and you've got a keen match.

Now (drum roll....) Performance Management: New Product EPM Architect. Predictive Analytics is hip and cool. Crystal Ball allows scenario or gaming based outcomes that can then inform your budget and planning.
Annotations and Collaboration in the financial planning technology to "help during the closing process". Secure collaboration is cool. Annotations are important. They should be stored securely in an auditable management system.

(Lost wifi again! !@#*&^#)

The Gallup BI testimonial video was quite good. It provided some nice context and business cases that made the technology value proposition more "real".

Sharing information is also key.
Unstructured information storage: Oracle Universal Content Management
Overview of conversion technology, storage capabilities, digital image and video management, scan and capture, retention and records policy enforcement, and archiving.

Nice shout out to SES.

Great promo of Redstack Solution Packs (integration of FMW with Apps to content enable them).

Rick Schultz does a demo of the WebCenter, UCM, and Beehive working together. WebCenter is the central group area. Beehive is task oriented collaboration space. When docs are done being worked on, they're promoted to UCM. UCM manages all the unstructured information and surfaces it up through WebCenter, Portal, and WCM.

Information Sharing with people: Oracle WebCenter and Beehive.
TK promotes portals capability for participation, interaction, and communities.
Rick demos WebCenter and UCM again. This time he shows the WebCenter task and activity stream and how users can do all their tasks right from the WebCenter UI.
WebCenter doesn't just surface information from transactional systems (e.g. Siebel), it also allows workers to interact with those back office systems right from the context of WebCenter spaces.
When combined with UCM's capabilities for web and digital asset management a Siebel task informs web presence and is updated all from the same place. Folios capabilities are shown which makes collaborative content creation easy and managed.

Nice demo of tagging and linking of UCM content from within WebCenter.

Information security: Oracle Identity Management
As information becomes increasingly accessible, authorization and security is much more important.
OID has nicely integrated authentication and authorization capabilities.

off to the next thing...

This morning I had the opportunity to attend the Oracle Publishers Seminar. It was a really great event. Tech and Business publishers like McGraw-Hill (who published my book Reshaping Your Business With Web 2.0 Amazon link, Kindle link) were there along with many others. Also present were fellow authors from many different industries and practices. I sat with fellow authors Kent, Michael, Avrom, and Charles. My colleague and fellow author Frank Buytendijk was there talking about his new book and the principles behind it.

The seminar was an opportunity for Oracle executives to brief the publishers of what is out, what is coming and what the opportunities for new books may be. Ultimately the publishers (and authors) figure out what they want to write. But the briefings were detailed and very informative. We heard presentations and briefings from Andy Mendelson, Steve Miranda, and others.

Overall there seem to be opportunities to write and educate and inform on:
-Using oracle in the cloud
-Compositing with SOA and BPM and Fusion Middleware
-Development tools
-Building Web 2.0 applications
-Enterprise Security
-Fusion Apps (yes, they're out and continuing to come out)
-Oracle Enterprise Manager and the new coolness in there

I have to give a shout out to Frank Buytendijk though. His presentation on Management Excellence was fantastic. The crux of the presentation was that operational excellence is expected these days. While we continue to push operational efficiency and while gains continue to be made on the operational side, there is substantial competitive and economic advantage to bringing intelligence and capability to management. If the pillars of operational excellence are Cost, Quality and Speed, then the pillars of Managerial excellence are Intelligence, Agility and Alignment.

Take a look at his book.

Is there anything more annoying than a web page that hangs or takes forever to load because their externally-hosted advertising is giving a 404 error or their javascript "hover-ad" is broken?

Yes, Daily Telegraph, I'm talking about you.

Following on from the earlier (somewhat off-topic) post, I have noticed the overlap between an interest in scientific topics and ECM. I wonder if I'm imposing my own way of looking at things here, or whether there is a complementarity to the two.
It has occurred to me in the past that a scientific mind - one that analyzes, determines patterns, observes, theorizes - might be well-suited to the practice of organizing information in a broader business environment.

I like to follow the inductive path myself, but I can see where the deductive path might be useful too. In fact, I'll go further and say that a great approach to informational organization would be the geological approach of multiple working hypotheses (original and shorter) and that a formal stating of the process by which we get to our "solutions" would be helpful to all concerned.

I don't believe there are unified theories of content management, but I do think that scientific principals such as stating assumptions, generating hypotheses and testing them, and assembling hypotheses into theories can be very useful for large, complex projects.

See, I knew those years in Grad School were useful.

The laws of cartoon physics

With the added information on the rules of Coyote / RoadRunner.

We now return to your regularly scheduled OpenWorld coverage.