Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Richard Veryard on SOA: Economics of agility Veryard shares several links to articles on the economics of agility. (tags: soa richardveryard agility) ORACLENERD: A Very Humbling Thank You Chet "OracleNerd" Justice offers a social media timeline of his ingenious strategy for financing his trip to Oracle OpenWorld 2009 in San Francisco. (tags: blogs oowo9 oracle openworld community) Enterprise 2.0: Ignore the Fads, Follow the Trends | Bex Huff "The definition of 'Enterprise 2.0' should...

Building Intelligent Processes with Insight-Driven Agility Matt Miller and Mark Simpson describe how they used OBIEE, BPEL PM, and Business Rules to create Motability Operations' new platform for monitoring and improving vehicle remarketing efforts across multiple channels. (tags: oracle otn soa bpm BusinessIntelligence enterprisearchitecture) Achieving Business Insight by Integrating Relational and Multi-Dimensional Data Ross Sharmon shares the details behind the design...

Architect's Guide to Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Oracle Wiki A little help for planning your OpenWorld 2009 intinerary. (tags: #oow09 openworld oracle architecture soa) Installing Oracle SOA 11g Advait Deo takes you step-by-step through the installation process, and offers details on the how 11g installation differs from the 10 process. (tags: oracle soa otn weblogic) Oracle SOA Suite 11g: Running a test instance on a laptop Dietrich Schroff describes the tactics and resources involved in...

Is Business Intelligence part of Enterprise Architecture? - Leveraging Information and Intelligence According the ebizQ's David Linthicum, "Most of those doing enterprise architecture consider architecture as the plan, and business intelligence as 'just an application.' They know it's there, but don't consider how it exists and leverages architecture. Therefore, business intelligence has a tendency to be an afterthought, and thus why business intelligence is not as effective...

deltalounge » Influence of Enterprise Architects DeltaLounge blogger Peter Paul shares his thoughts on the results of a recent Forrester survey. (tags: enterprisearchitect forrester) The Red Room - Oracle Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) GTMi Team Blog "Today, many COTS applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel are service enabled, "writes Red Roomer Richard Ward. "By using a services approach, application customisations, extensions and...

Using Facets with Enterprise Search- Part 2 Cognitive psychologist Dr. Sherry Mead continues her series on search functionality with a look at how to identify and implement facets in enterprise search. (tags: oracle enterprise2.0 search) Does Database Matter? (Frank Buytendijk Blog) "Data warehouse architectures have greatly evolved the last years," observes Frank Buytendijk. "Where they used to aim at providing the management information for the managers in an organization, now...

E-Commerce News: SOA: The Enterprise Architects of the New Era "As these service components shift in their origins and delivery models, the task of meeting or exceeding business requirements based on these services becomes all the more complicated," writes Dana Gardner of E-Commerce Times. "The new services era calls for powerful architects who can define, govern and adjust all of the necessary ingredients that they must creatively support and improve upon during a life cycle...

Next Generation SOA & SOA symposium 2009 by Thomas Erl (SOA Partner Adoption) Jurgen Kress reports on Thomas Erl's upcoming book, to be launched during the SOA Symposium 2009 in Rotterdam. (tags: oracle thomaserl soa) Architect: Collaborating on Design Patterns To describe Thomas Erl’s recent book, SOA Design Patterns (Prentice Hall Professional, 2009), as a community effort is something of an understatement—like describing Tiger Woods as “a golfer.” The book, along with its...

Accelerating the Journey to Management Excellence (Rob Reynolds' BI & EPM Blog) "Today’s economy requires companies to be smarter and make faster decisions that ever," writes Rob Reynolds. "Doing this requires complete visibility across your enterprise so that you can make the right decisions to attract/retain customers, grow their business, and minimize their costs." (tags: BusinessIntelligence enterprisearchitecture) New adapters for Oracle Service Bus (Oracle SOA Suite -...