Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Communication takes up a big chunk of a software architect’s day. By Bob Rhubart May/June 2011 It’s fascinating. A surprising amount of the conversation about software architecture on various social networks, including LinkedIn and Wikipedia, is devoted to exploring what software architecture is, as opposed to talking about how to do it. How can the role of software architect be among the most promising professions if there is so little understanding of what the job entails? Of...

Venkatakrishnan J: Oracle BI EE 11g – Decoding Essbase ConnectivityVenkatakrishnan J looks at how Essbase Security is handled in BI EE 11g. (tags: oracle otn oracleace essbase businessintelligence obiee) Freakonomics Will New HTML Unlock the True Power of Smartphones?A new report from the consultants at McKinsey touts the impact that a new generation of HTML code will have on the world’s smartphones. (tags: html5) Daniel Gralewski: Configuring Design console for OIM 11gGralewski shows...

Beginning on Friday April 29, 2011 this and all other blogs on blogs.oracle.com will begin migrating to a different platform.  The URL will change, but redirects will be in place. Once I have the new url I’ll reconfigure Feedburner, so subscribers should be unaffected. During the migration there will be no new posts for several days.  No need to panic.

IT Business Edge blogger Loraine Lawson struck a chord with this recent comment: Why in the world anyone would want to sit down with an enterprise architect when they spend so much time arguing over the very meaning of their own discipline! This week’s OTN ArchBeat Podcast kicks off a four-part panel discussion that grew out of the ongoing discussion among architecture groups on LinkedIn and elsewhere about what software architecture is and what it means to be a software...

Webcast: Improving Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management - May 10Live webcast  Tuesday, May 10, 2011,  9am PT/Noon ET, featuring Victor Alarcon (Senior Supply Chain Coordinator, Ameren) and Mark Peachey (Product Strategy Director, Oracle). (tags: oracle otn alarcon supplychain erp entarch) Announcing the Flash Cache Query Tool for Oracle Exadata | The Pythian BlogA public blog on subject matters of interest to DBAs, by The Pythian Group's remote DBA specialists in Oracle, SQL,...

In Stop Blaming Your Culture, writers Jon Katzenbach and Ashley Harshak offer insight that should resonate with enterprise architects: Organizational cultures don’t change very quickly. Therefore, if you are seeking change in your company or institution, you are most likely to succeed using your existing culture to help you change the behaviors that matter most. Bit by bit, as these new behaviors prove their value through business results, the culture you have can evolve into...

Loraine Lawson: Enterprise Architecture Paying off at Del Monte "Why in the world anyone would want to sit down with an enterprise architect when they spend so much time arguing over the very meaning of their own discipline!" asks Lawson (tags: entarch enterprisearchitecture) Frank Munz: Amazon AWS outage: did the Cloud Fail? "This event teaches us that it is not enough to know how to simply run WebLogic on AWS," says Munz. (tags: cloud oracle amazon ec2) Tim Hall: Perhaps I'm not...

The turn-out for Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Toronto on April 21, 2011 was  fantastic! I counted maybe 6 empty chairs early in the day, and there were moments when I thought we’d have to bring in more. A big thank you to all who came out to check out the presentations and conversations. A big thank you as well to the speakers (complete list here), including Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap (@carymillsap) who offered a terrific presentation on cloud computing...

The following is a complete list of all presentations from OTN Architect Day in Toronto, April 21, 2011. The New Generation of IT Optimization and Consolidation Platforms as presented by Tim Davis Diagnosability vs. The Cloud as presented by Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap Application Portfolio Rationalization as presented by Michael Glas Cloud Computing - Making IT Simple as presented by Dr. James Baty Data Center and System Optimization as presented by Michael Glas Rationali...