Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Webcast: Transform E-Business Suite Processes with Integrated Document Management Kevin de Smidt (Product Management Director, Oracle) and Stephen Schleifer (Senior Product Manager, Oracle) show you how to create a company-wide document repository that will streamline operations, decrease cycle times, reduce document storage and shipping costs,a and eliminate paper from all of your high-volume transaction processes. (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 contentmanagement) Webcast: Gain...

Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Architecture for Very Large Sites "In this article I will offer an overview of the architecture used to achieve this high scalability in Grid Control. This kind of information will be useful for customers that are contemplating the use of Grid Control but need guidance about properly architecting their solutions." -- Umar Farooq (tags: oracle grid architecture) To Customize or Not to Customize? (Oracle E-Business Suite Technology) "The...

Next Generation Data Warehouse Platforms (The Data Warehouse Insider) "Many new DBMS systems have sprung into the DW market, many just featuring a single core feature (compression, columnar storage, in-memory etc.). For a critical system that sees mixed workloads and lots of data, these point solutions may not be the right thing to base an architecture on." -- Jean-Pierre Dijcks (tags: otn oracle datawarehousing) BPM Promises "Simplicity" In 2010. Is This "Hope We Can Believe...

Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab "Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but if you want inspiration it’s the only way. Find that core of what your application is. The one reason it lives (eg. adding a task, tracking time, sharing a file, whatever). Find it. Honor it. Strip away the noise. And then work like hell to make it FUN." -- Paul Pedrazza (tags: softwaredevelopment gaming usability productiv...

Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud Computing Lew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of Rackspace discuss Cloud Computing in this YouTube video. (tags: otn oracle cloud soa grid applicationgrid) Business Intelligence – more observations from OpenWorld « The JD Edwards Advisor David Andrews explains -- in detail -- what he learned about Oracle Business Intelligence Applications at Oracle OpenWorld. (tags: oracle otn #oow09 BusinessIntelligence bi jdedwards) Java / Oracle SOA blog: Working with...

Why Gaming is the Future of Everything : The AppsLab "Real innovation means you must say no to a lot of things that everyone will tell you are a must have, but if you want inspiration it’s the only way. Find that core of what your application is. The one reason it lives (eg. adding a task, tracking time, sharing a file, whatever). Find it. Honor it. Strip away the noise. And then work like hell to make it FUN." -- Paul Pedrazza (tags: softwaredevelopment gaming usability productiv...

What happens when you lock a busload of SOA vendors, analysts, practitioners, and journalists in a room in Rotterdam for three days?  You get the SOA Manifesto. But not without a little sturm und drang In the latest OTN Arch2Arch podcast, two of the Manifesto’s authors --  Oracle VP and chief SOA technologist David Chappell and Oracle senior product manager and SOA architect Clemens Utschig-Utschig --  offer an inside look at what went on in that room. Listen to Part 1 (mp3)....

Video: Oracle Rackspace Cloud Computing Lew Moorman, Jim Curry, and Mark Collier of Rackspace discuss Cloud Computing in this YouTube video. (tags: otn oracle cloud soa grid applicationgrid) Business Intelligence – more observations from OpenWorld « The JD Edwards Advisor David Andrews explains -- in detail -- what he learned about Oracle Business Intelligence Applications at Oracle OpenWorld. (tags: oracle otn #oow09 BusinessIntelligence bi jdedwards) Java / Oracle SOA blog: Working with...

SOA Today: SOA Manifesto Value Statement Critique "I commend the community for coming together to vet through definitions, principles, and value statements. . .However, I feel a few key points were missed. . .I truly found the value statement to be confusing, not accurate, and a few that are a lot broader than just SOA." -Oracle ACE Jordan Braunstein (tags: otn oracle soa soamanifesto oracleace) Jumpstart for Oracle Service Bus Development Oracle ACE Ronald van Luttikhuizen teams...