Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

  Here is how not to plan an IAM project. Just before the new millennium, a large manufacturer wanted to build, deploy, and secure an international supply chain portal. The customer’s project manager chose his vendors for directory, database, routers, servers, portal, and access management (my company) based strictly on demonstrations. His design methodology consisted of gathering all the vendor reps in one room at the same time for half a day and having them cook up an...

Pat Shepherd: Do SOA and enterprise architecture now mean the same thing? "SOA can be an automatic part of EA if it driven by the precepts that are derived from EA at higher levels of the architecture.  It is possible to use SOA technologies to simply do a better version of PTP integration.  And, in fact, there is some value in doing that, but it is not relevant to EA at that level of maturity.  I talk about Services – with a capitol S – to distinguish them from services.  The...

Service contracts provide the glue that enables us to assemble disparate pieces of software or services into complete, composite applications. If we are to build a sustainable solution, that is, one that will achieve our goals of improved agility, reuse, and interoperability, then a careful design of the service contract is crucial.   That’s from Designing the Service Contract, a sample chapter (PDF, 44 pages) from Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 Developers Guide, by Matt Wright and...

The latest OTN ArchBeat Podcast features a conversation with Cathy Lippert, Oracle’s director of product management for SOA Governance, and Sharon Fay, product manager for Oracle Enterprise Repository and a member of SOA Gov product management team. Cathy and Sharon talk about SOA governance in general, about the products in Oracle’s SOA governance solution, and about some of the SOA governance sessions taking place next week at Oracle OpenWorld. Listen You’ll find a complete...

New Amazon EC2 image for Oracle SOA (and BPM) Suite (Oracle SOA Suite - Team Blog) The new Oracle BPM 11gR1, including the latest Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 Patchset-2 is now available as a fully configured Amazon Machine Image (AMI). (tags: oracle otn cloud virtualization soa bpm) Pre-built Virtual Machine for SOA Suite and BPM Suite 11g This VirtualBox appliance contains a fully configured, ready-to-use SOA/BPM 11g R1 installation.  (tags: oracle otn soa bpm virtualization) @deltalounge:...

Fresh off the presses this month from Packt Publishing! Process Modeling using BPMN 2.0 is a sample chapter (PDF, 26 pages) from Getting Started with Oracle BPM Suite 11gR1 – A Hands-On Tutorial, written by Heidi Buelow, Manoj Das, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar, and Meera Srinivasan. Thanks once again to Suzanne Ritter from Packt Publishing for providing yet another sample chapter.   del.icio.us Tags: bpmn,packt,sample chapter,process modeling,oracle,otn Technorati Tags: bpmn,packt,...

More Oracle VM Templates to Accelerate Application Deployment (Oracle's Virtualization Blog) Honglin Su shares a list of newly released Oracle VM Templates available for download.  (tags: oracle otn virtualization oraclevm) Mark Rittman: A Couple of Interesting OBIEE Surveys Oracle ACE Director Mark shares some statistics from BI Survey 9, "a vendor-independent, in-depth survey of BI customers and implementers that aims to understand the success factors behind BI Projects, and also...

Web Cornucopia (tags: ping.fm javaone10) Zombie Technologies (Dr Cloud's Flying Software Circus) "My recent copy of Wired Magazine declared, on its cover, that The Web is Dead!  Really?  What killed it?  Oh, right, Cloud Computing.  So, why do we have all these dead, zombie technologies still with us?  Mainframes.  PCs.  Browsers.  Operating systems.  A veritable host of the undead. What will The Cloud kill?  Probably nothing." -- Dr. Cloud (tags: oracle otn cloud) Oracle Data...

Oracle BI EE 11g - Incremental Web Catalog Migration - Patching Web Catalogs "In 11g, web catalog incremental migration is supported with more granular control on how the 3 way merge happens," says Venkatakrishnan J. (tags: oracle otn businessintelligence obiee) Come into the light, Architect... (Oracle Develop Conference Blog) "As a tip of the hat to all you application, solution, and enterprise architects out there,  Oracle Technology Network is hosting an Architect Meet-Up at...