Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Because it makes the customer happy | Lewis Cunningham"As an architect, I try very hard to make my customers happy," says Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham. "I have a wide range of customers, too. The business folks are my primary customer. They are why I, and my organization, exists. But the DBA group, the development group and the SCM/Testing/Quality groups are all my customers. I try to keep them happy by following best practices. discusses what architects and others...

Why KScope? | Cary Millsap Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap responds to a question from ODTUG's Mike Riley. Oracle Content Management: Deploying Content Services to the Enterprise | Ryan White Ryan White, VP of Business Development for DTI, offers suggestions for establishing standards for enterprise content management. Understanding ADF BC View Object Instances | Andrejus BaranovskisOracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovski explains "what you should know when using the same View...

InfoQ: Service-Oriented Architecture Maturity | Richard Welke, Rudy Hirschheim and Andrew Schwarz Authors Richard Welke, Rudy Hirschheim and Andrew Schwarz discuss a SOA maturity model that can be used to achieve organizational objectives, by accounting for the different motivations for SOA adoption by stakeholders like IT administrators, business managers, and enterprise leaders. Oracle Content Management: Is Automation Enough? | Jamie RancourtRancourt says: "While while...

Improved Upgrade Guide with OBIEE 11.1.1.5 | Mark Rittman Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman shares some good news for "anyone who’s experienced the horrors of upgrading OBIEE 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5." Cloud INaaS (Integration-as-a-Service) from SaaS providers | Tom Laszewski Tom Laszewski talks Salesforce, Workday, and Integration-as-a-Service. Oracle Utilities Legacy Integration KB Article | Anthony ShortenShorten discusses the reasons behind the "steady migration of point to...

Lewis Cunningham: Oracle on Amazon - is that new? "So, is RDS really new? Is it really news?" Oracle ACE Director Lewis Cunningham wants to know. Pew: A Quarter Of American Internet Users Have Placed Phone Calls Online "Big players see strong potential in the market," observes TechCrunch's Leena Rao. "But it’s certainly interesting to see data on just how common internet calling and VoIP services have become." Arun Gupta: TOTD #163: Application-scoped Resources in GlassFish...

InfoQ: SOA in 2011 Panel To better understand what makes SOA special, its current state and its relationships with other architectures and technologies, InfoQ conducted a virtual panel on SOA asking a group of experts to share their opinion on the topic and make some predictions about SOA future. Ben Prusinski: Oracle 11gR1/R2 RAC Essentials Book now available Oracle ACE Director Ben Prusinski plugs his new book. Oracle Data Integration 11g EStudyAn eStudy called "Oracle Data...

A great many organizations have some sort of SOA initiative underway. But how many have adopted a "hope it all works out" strategy rather than implementing some form of governance to insure that all that SOA stuff doesn't end up in the weeds? The mere mention of governance to some people carries connotations of Darth Vader. Others operate under the lingering perception that SOA governance is a process so complex as to induce adult whimpering.   This week's ArchBeat Podcast...

Live Webcast: Planning a Cloud Implementation Thursday May 26, 9:00am PT / Noon ET. Featuring Dr. James Baty, VP Oracle Enterprise Architecture. (Dr. Baty was a big hit at OTN Architect Day in Toronto. You'll find his slides and the others from that event here.) Peter Scott: Geography Hierarchies "Knowing your data is key to creating a correct model," says Scott. Ken Pulverman: Why Your ERP System Isn't Ready for the Next Evolution of the Enterprise"ERP as we've know it is...

Ross Jernigan: U.S. IT Employment Back to Pre-Recession Levels | Javalobby Ross Jernigan reports on recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that IT employment has regained what it lost in the recession. Oracle Database Insider: Customers Discuss Success with Oracle Exadata Links to a reference booklet that offers "a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries worldwide have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata." Kai Yu: How to Store...