Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Webcast Series: Discover the Cloud Advantage for Databases Six-part Webcast series where you can ask questions and get best practices and advice from Oracle experts. New Open Group Guide Shows Enterprise Architects How to Maximize SOA Business Value with TOGAF | The Open Group Blog The guide’s main goal is to enable enterprises to deliver the expected business value from their SOA initiatives. Oracle Virtual Developer Day - Material now available on Demand! | Grant RonaldYou...

I recently recorded an ArchBeat Podcast featuring Helen Sun  and Karina Ishkhanova  discussing women in IT architecture. So it was an interesting bit of serendipity that I just ran across Researcher reveals how "Computer Geeks" replaced "Computer Girls", an article by Brenda D. Fink on the Clayman Institute's Gender Blog. Here's a short bit: Asked to picture a computer programmer, most of us describe the archetypal computer geek, a brilliant but socially-awkward male....

Reza Shafii, senior principal product manager for Oracle Coherence and Oracle Fusion Middleware Lifecycle, got in touch to let me know that he and co-authors Stephen Lee and Gangadhar Konduri have just published Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Architecture and Management (Oracle Press). I asked Reza to suggest a sample chapter for members of the OTN architect community who might want to take the book out for a test drive. Reza picked Chapter 3: Fusion Middleware...

Rethink SOA - A Recipe for Business Transformation | SOA World Magazine "Imagine you had the ability to create an entirely new business offering," says Bruce Tierney, "unlike anything available from your competition..." Desktop Virtualization for Contact Centers at ICMI ACCE | Oracle's Virtualization Blog Chris Kawalek shares information on this week's ICMI ACCE Conferrence & Expo in the Big Easy. Challenges aired at Health Data Initiative Forum - O'Reilly Radar | Andy Oram"A...

Data Warehouse Global Leaders Forum, Athens | John Mead Ritman Mead's John Mead shares his key take-aways from this recent Exadata-focused event. Enhance your business with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring | Capgemini "Within my latest project I had the opportunity to get acquainted with BAM," says Martijn van der Kamp,"and I’d like to share my enthusiasm about the product with you." Developing Custom Providers: HelloWorld and a Mail Provider | WebCenter PersonalizationCindy...

The trouble with APIs | Stuart Charlton "Charlton says: "The point of REST was to *eliminate* specific APIs. Not cause their proliferation." (A tip of the ArchBeat hat to William Vambenepe for sharing the link.) Chief Information Officers Council - IT Reform at the U.S. Agency for International Development "By moving to a cloud-based solution, USAID...expects to realize cost savings of nearly $20 million over the next five years." Using OIM 11g APIs in Fusion Web Applications |...

Glimpses of E-Business Suite 12.2: WebLogic Server and Online Patching | Steven Chan "There are lots of updates coming in this release," says Chan, "but from a technology stack perspective, EBS 12.2 will be notable for two things..." A first look at Oracle on Amazon RDS | Guy HarrisonHarrison says: "Using RDS, Amazon takes complete responsibility for database management providing a more complete Database As A Service (DBaaS) offering, similar to what Microsoft offers with...

Unhappy with the size of your brain? Tired of those behind-your-back whispers, those snarky comments: "How ya doin' dinky brain?" Now you can posses a massive, formidable brain, thanks to these new courses from Oracle University, specifically designed with architects in mind.  Oracle BPM 11/g/: Implement the Process ModelLearn how to define the underlying implementation for BPM process tasks such as user tasks, business rule tasks, and service tasks and how to manage the...

Setting-up Web-Tier Components in a SOA Environment | René van Wijk Oracle ACE René van Wijk sets up "Web-Tier components, i.e., the HTTP Server and WebCache, as a front-end for the Oracle SOA Suite." E2.0 Workbench Podcast 5 – WebCenter Image Gallery with Content Presenter | John Brunswick In this installment of the Enterprise 2.0 Workbench John Brunswick examines dynamic image gallery functionality within WebCenter. TOGAF Certification Success: More than 7,000 individuals...