Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Rohan Lobo: New Administration Features of OBIEE 11g "In the new release, the Weblogic console, along with Oracle Enterprise Manager provide enhanced interface controls and features for Administration of OBIEE," says business intelligence archtiect Rohan Lobo.    (tags: oracle otn businessintelligence obiee) Mark Rittman: OBIEE 11gR1 : New Visualizations, Dashboard Controls and Interactions "As well as giving us hierarchical columns and a revamped user interface, OBIEE 11g comes...

Keith Laker: The Next Evolutionary Step - Analytical Connectivity "Within data warehousing there is a growing trend, created and heavily promoted by certain vendors, to pull data out of the enterprise data warehouse platform and spread that data across specialized platforms according to how it needs to be analyzed. This process is seen as the next evolutionary step in data warehousing." -- Kieth Laker (tags: oracle otn datawarehousing businessintelligence) @myfear: Static content...

Eric Stephens: What Notation for Enterprise Architecture Modeling? "Consistent notation is important for consistent interpretation of the  picture," says Eric Stephens. "For many years those implementing software-intensive systems have relied on UML to describe their code. I think the consistency and expressiveness of UML is a benefit to the developer but also the stakeholder in gaining understanding." (tags: oracle otn entarch enterprisearchitecture) Sample...

Pat Shepherd: Some of the Things Enterprise Architects Can Focus On Pat Shepherd thinks out loud about "some of the tasks that an EA can time slice between to help ensure success." (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture entarch) Toronto Coherence Special Interest Group (TOCSIG) 23 Jul 2010 Along with breakfast and lunch you'll get presentations from Andrew Kastulin, Peter Utzschneider, Alex Gleyzer, and Patrick Peralta (all from Oracle),  Ivan Ho (Evident Software), and Wenjin...

Simon Thorpe: Oracle IRM deployment planning "Before you install any software or secure a single document, you need to be well prepared," Simon says. "Oracle IRM is a classic client and server type architecture, therefore you need to ensure [that everything] is ready before the service can be configured for use.' (tags: oracle otn) Jason Williamson: Introduction to Re-Host based Modernization Using Tuxedo In light of the recent release of Tuxedo ART for mainframe rehosting, Jason...

Get Your Tuxedo On: Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day Stay inside, turn up the A/C, and get up to speed on Oracle Tuxedo via free virtual conference sessions, labs, and peer networking. Next  event on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. Presenters include Todd Little (Chief Architect, Oracle Tuxedo) and Deepak Goel (Senior Director, Product Development). (tags: otn otnvdd oracle tuxedo) ArchBeat Podcast: Architecture and Agility - Part 1 Can architecture and agility play nice?...

Back in May, Oracle ACE Director Mike van Alst, an independent architect based in the Netherlands, posted some interesting observations on the clash between architecture and agility on his blog: All and good to go Agile, but if you're stuck in an analysis-paralysis situation with your architecture, you will not reap the benefits that Agile brings. You might get away with ignoring the architecting issue - at least for the short term - but it will catch up with you in due...

Rick Ramsey: Finding It Difficult To Keep Up? OTN's Rick "BigAdmin" Ramsey assembled this at-a-glance guide to social media channels you can use to  follow what's going on in the Architect, Database Administrator/Developer, Java Developer, and Systems Administrator/Developer communities now under the Oracle Technology Network's big tent. (tags: socialmedia oracle otn archtiect developer sysadmin java database) Anthony Shorten: Oracle Utilities Application Framework Caching Overview Antho...

@myfear: Enterprise Software Development with Java: JRockit Mission Control Suite and WebLogic Server Oracle AVE Director Markus Eisele's short how-to  walks you through the most basic features and introduces some (unsupported) experimental plugins. (tags: otn java oracle oracleace weblogic) @thereallewisc: ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 - Why Guess When You Can Know? "If you hang around Kaleidoscope long enough (by which I mean attend the conferences) you will get to meet some of the...