Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

E20 Evolved Billy Cripe's slide presentation on how you can stop being afraid of Web 2.0 and start to love the infoglut. (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 enterprisearchitecture) Triangle Circle Square: Thinking differently about application design "So what about your application?" asks Scott Wesley. "Are there points of entry that result in a large percentage of use? Is there a way to simplify the entry of key units of data? To go even more granular, are there little smarts you can...

When: Monday, October 12, 2009, 4:30 pm Where: Moscone West, 3rd Floor, Overlook III (adjacent to the OTN Lounge) Each year IT professionals from around the world are drawn to Oracle OpenWorld by the opportunity to gain insight and expertise from leaders in the Oracle community.  This year OTN is hosting an Enterprise Architect Meet-Up as a way of acknowledging the unique role Enterprise Architects play in that community. This special event is your chance to talk shop, swap...

Java / Oracle SOA blog: Deploy Soa Suite 11g composite applications with Ant scripts Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond illustrates how to deploy composite applications in Oracle SOA Suite 11g using Ant scripts. (tags: sca 11g jdeveloper oracle oracleace otn soa) The top 10 enterprise architecture blunders - SD Times: Software Development News SD Times journalist Alex Handy reports that "lack of people skills and social connection" are characteristics of ineffective enterprise architects, as...

White Paper: Maximizing SOA Returns with Enterprise Architecture The lack of an enterprise view for services has limited the returns for SOA. For many, application silos have been replaced with service silos, with each application development team and/or each LOB developing its own set of services. There is a better way. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture soa entarch) William Vambenepe — The future (2006 version), has arrived The goods news, according to William Vambenepe, is...

Oracle Fusion Middleware Security: "What is the point of all this?" Josh Bregman from the Oracle Fusion Middleware Architecture Group offers a short list of use cases that require message level security. (tags: oracle otn security Middleware)

Oracle OpenWorld Guide: Focus On Application Grid Products: WebLogic Server, Coherence, Tuxedo, JRockit , and more (#oow09) Your guide to dozens of sessions and other OpenWorld activities covering Application Grid Products, including WebLogic Server, Coherence, Tuxedo, JRockit , middleware Virtualization, and middleware Enterprise Manager. (tags: otn oracle virtualization grid weblogic coherence openworld oow09) Linux and Virtualization Content at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 (PDF) #oow09 This...

What Not to do on a BI Project: #3 - Deploy Modules "BI is about Integration, not isolation, " says Jeff McQuigg. "BI is about gaining additional benefits when two pieces are put together and producing a third piece. It is about broad based information analysis – not isolated datasets" (tags: oracle otn BusinessIntelligence) Ten Requirements for Achieving Collaboration: #5 - Data Portability & Referencing "Isn't it curious," writes Billy Cripe, "that we reference items...

ODI User Functions: A Case Study (Data Integration and Management) Christpohe Dupupet's post presents examples of how and where user functions can be used in Oracle Data Integrator. (tags: oracle otn BusinessIntelligence dataintegration) OWB 11gR2 – Architecture Overview (Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Weblog) David Allan offers an overview of the OWB 11gR2 code template framework and runtime infrastructure. "The code template, David explains, "is a framework is a key component in...

Going beyond the hype: Identifying Enterprise 2.0 best practices | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com "As businesses go about their daily activities, they aren’t looking for either Enterprise 2.0 or a social tool like a wiki for its own sake. Instead, they are looking to solve problems and meet their deadlines in easier, cheaper, and better ways. To the extent that social computing can help do this, it will remain a topical subject in business and IT. To the extent that it’s a...