Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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 -...

Several recent OTN Arch2Arch Podcasts featured discussions of various SOA governance issues.  These programs have connections beyond the common theme, so it made sense to bundle them together here. Mike van Alst and Dave Berry The most recent of these programs features a discussion with Mike van Alst and Dave Berry (see their bios, below). Not long ago Mike and Dave started swapping blog posts on SOA governance. Those posts became the genesis of an article that is slated to...

Socialconnect for Facebook Helps Members Virally Promote UGOBI - Business The User Group for Oracle Business Intelligence (UGOBI) has added a new feature to UGOBI.com called SocialConnect, which leverages the Facebook Connect technology, allowing members to sign-in to UGOBI's private online community using their Facebook credentials. Once signed in, members have the option to post updates to their personal Facebook wall when they perform any of a variety of actions UGOBI.com. (t...

Enterprise Architecture – Where Business Meets IT (Enterprise Architecture at Oracle) Pat Shepherd's advice to Architects: "Don’t spend all your time engrossed in the latest technology trends (though they are important). Break away and spend time with business counterparts and find out WHAT needs to get done across multiple LOB’s. Then you can focus on HOW to get things done with approaches like SOA, Cloud, etc., that best meet the business goals." (tags: enterprisearchitecture...

Oracle Business Intelligence - OBIEE - 101: OBIEE How to get started John Minkjan offers tips on getting started as an OBIEE consultant. (tags: obiee BusinessIntelligence) Why unlocking ECM is critical to your Enterprise 2.0 execution plan Pretzel Logic blogger Sameer Patel interviews Oracle's Billy Cripe (tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0 blog blogs business googlewave socialmedia) Rittman Mead Consulting » Blog Archive » Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4.1 & Essbase Connectivity – Repository Design –...

Federation in OBIEE. What are you talking about? | Art of Business Intelligence "Every software tool has its own language and nomenclature that comes along with it," writer Christian Screen. "Most times that language it is plain, makes sense, and ultimately is accepted by the masses. However, sometimes it can be rather esoteric." (tags: oracle essbase obiee BusinessIntelligence)

2 Types of Collaboration & 10 Requirements for Achieving Them (Fusion ECM) "Collaboration comes in two flavors: Accidental and Intentional.' writers Billy Cripe. "Enterprise 2.0 technologies have become very good at facilitating intentional collaboration. They are meeting us where we are at and linking people across distances, across political spectra, and across expertise domains. ' (tags: collaboration enterprise2.0) ORCLville: Fusion Applications - Starting To Shine Oracle...