Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Collaboration across stakeholders is key for SOA to succeed. By Bob Rhubart November/December 2009 A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a busy place, a complex clockwork of interconnected, interdependent, and widely distributed moving parts, including those that enjoy a nice cup of coffee in the morning. As such, SOA demands extraordinary collaboration across a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Getting those stakeholders to behave as a cohesive community can be about as easy...

Riding the “Enterprise Information Bus” (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle) Adam Boczkowski's detailed recap of the recent EA Roundtable series in the UK includes a concise yet thorough explanation of the Enterprise Informaction Bus concept. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture informationarchitecture) SOA and Java using Oracle technology: Easy binding of Oracle Fusion Middleware B2B 11g with a SCA composite using the B2B adapter Tom Hofte shows how to use the new B2B adapter...

Podcast: Enterprise Architecture Visibility (Conclusion) Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans (Approach Alliance) and Mark Simpson (Griffiths Waite) join Oracle Enterprise Architects Mans Bhuller and Pat Shepherd to conclude their discussion of why architecture success is sometimes invisible, and how to put it in the spotlight. (tags: oracle oth enterprisearchitecture podcast arch2arch oracleace soa) Oracle VM Template for PeopleSoft (Oracle's Virtualization Blog) Honglin Su shares...

All three parts of the Arch2Arch Podcast covering Enterprise Architecture visibility are now available. This series of programs grew out of this Tweet, posted by Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans a few weeks ago: "If you execute the architecture process well, other people don't notice your success. If you fail, they feel it's useless and slow... How can you make architectural success more visible in your organization?" I contacted Lonneke right away to see if she would be...

Approach Alliance: Presentations Oracle OpenWorld 2009 -- #oow09 Oracle ACE Ronald van Luttikhuizen shares links to "Approach to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g" and "Portals: The Way to Realize User Experience in a Service-Oriented Architecture? (IOUG/ODTUG)," presentations he and colleague Lonneke Dikmans offered at #OOW09. (tags: oracle otn fusionmiddleware soa oracleace #oow09) deltalounge » SOA Symposium – Closing business IT gaps "Since architects, software engineers, and the...

SOA Symposium 2009 by Thomas Erl results & wrap-up (SOA Partner Adoption) "The simplicity and clear language in the manifesto was hard work. During the conference the team meet over 3 days. Key of SOA are the business benefits. The challenge was to reduce the more than 40 ideas for the SOA values to the final 6 values. In the second part of the SOA Manifesto focus on the guiding principles." -- Jurgen Kress (tags: oracle otn soa thomaserl soamanifesto) David Sprott's Blog: The...

“Service orientation is a paradigm that frames what you do. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a type of architecture that results from applying service orientation. We have been applying service orientation to help organizations consistently deliver sustainable business value, with increased agility and cost effectiveness, in line with changing business needs.” So begins the SOA Manifesto, the result of a meeting of leading SOA thinkers at last week’s SOA Symposium inRotte...

Thoughts on the SOA Manifesto (Inside scoop on Oracle SOA Suite, BPM and EDA) "It was an experience, a lot of heated up discussions, extremely strong & powerful arguments. . .and what was most impressive, an immediate common understanding of what service orientation and SOA is about - the business, everything else is second." -- Clemens Utschig-Utschig (tags: soa soamanifesto oracle otn) The SOA Manifesto: Business Value and Architecture First « Adventures in SOA and BPM "It is...

Podcast: Enterprise Architecture Visibility (Part 2) Oracle ACE Directors Lonneke Dikmans (Approach Alliance) and Mark Simpson (Griffiths Waite) join Oracle Enterprise Architects Mans Bhuller and Pat Shepherd to discuss bridging silos and the difficulty in dealing with the people issues inherent in enterprise architecture. (tags: oracle otn arch2arch podcast enterprisearchitecture soa)