Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Is This How the Execs React to Your Recommendations?blogs.oracle.com "Well then, do your homework next time!" advises Rick Ramsey, and offers a list of Oracle Solaris 11 resources that just might make your next encounter a little less humiliating. WebLogic Server Performance and Tuning: Part I - Tuning JVM | Gokhan Gungorblogs.oracle.com A detailed how-to post from Gokhan Gungor. How to deal with transport level security policy with OSB | Jian Liangblogs.oracle.comJian Liang...

Crawling a Content Folio | Kyle Hatlestadblogs.oracle.com Kyle Hatlestad shares detials on a component developed by Ed Bryant that simplifies the task of "consuming and publishing that folio on a Site Studio page or in your portal using RIDC." Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group 2 Day Seminar - May 14-15 - Cleveland, OHwww.neooug.orgMore than 20 sessions over 4 tracks, featuring 18 speakers, including Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap, Oracle ACE Director Rich Niemiec, and Oracle...

The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On | Scott Edingerblogs.hbr.org Assertiveness, according to HBR blogger Scott Edinger, has the "power to magnify so many other leadership strengths." When Your Influence Is Ineffective | Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffeblogs.hbr.org "Influence becomes ineffective when individuals become so focused on the desired outcome that they fail to fully consider the situation," say Chris Musselwhite and Tammie Plouffe. BPM in Retail Industry |...

A surefire recipe for cloud failure | @DavidLinthicumwww.infoworld.com "Foundational planning for the use of cloud computing is an architectural problem," says David Linthicum. "You need to consider the enterprise holistically, starting with the applications, data, services, and storage. Understand where it is and what it does." Validating an Oracle IDM Environment (including a Fusion Apps build out) | Brian Eidelmanfusionsecurity.blogspot.comBrian Eidelman shows how to...

What happens when you get bunch of architects together and just let them talk? The latest ArchBeat Podcast features just such a conversation. The four participants in this conversation responded to a general invitation to my list of some three dozen Usual Suspects to join me on Skype for what I call a virtual meet-up. That conversation took place on March 20, 2012. The Participants Basheer Khan: Oracle ACE Director; Founder, President & CEO at Innowave Technology Lucas Jellema: Or...

In my conversations with people in architect roles, tales of animosity, disrespect, and outright hostility aren't uncommon. And it's clear that in more than a few organizations architects regularly face a tough uphill climb. For architects with the requisite combination of technical, organizational, and people skills, that rough treatment is grossly undeserved. But tales of unqualified people in positions up and down the IT food chain are also easy to come by. So what's the...

Beware the 'Facebook Effect' when service-orienting information technology | Joe McKenrickwww.zdnet.com Experiences seen with Facebook provide a fair warning to shared-service providers in enterprises. Cookbook: SES and UCM setup | George Maggessyblogs.oracle.com WebCenter A-Team member George Maggessy guides you through setting up the integration between UCM and SES. Using Oracle VM with Amazon EC2 | Marc Fieldingwww.pythian.com"If you’re planning on running Oracle VM with...

Deploying OAM "correctly" | Chris Johnsonfusionsecurity.blogspot.com Chris Johnson's concise blog post will help you to deploy Oracle Access Manager "for real." Oracle BPM: Suspend and alter process | Martijn van der Kampwww.nl.capgemini.com"There’s one tricky part with intervening in the run time behavior of a process, and that is compliance," says Martijn van der Kamp. "Make sure your solution covers the compliance regulations by the regulatory department, including the...

A recent TechTarget article features an interview with Business Architecture expert William Ulrich (Take a business-driven approach to application modernization ). In that article Ulrich offers this advice: "Moving from one technical architecture might be perfectly viable on a project by project basis, but when you're looking at the big picture and you want to really understand how to drive business value so that the business is pushing money into IT instead of IT pulling...