Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Business Rules in Oracle Fusion 11g Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis delivers the fourth post in his Oracle SOA series, this time covering Business Rules functionality. (tags: otn oracle businessrules oracleace ofm11g) The Secret is Out: The Business is Building Processes and Applications "There is a movement that is out there that is about to break loose and it involves business professionals building their own processes and applications because they can. IT is in a...

Private Cloud: Natural Evolution for Enterprise IT (Application Grid) "Whether provided by a third party over the Internet (public cloud) or by an enterprise’s centralized IT function behind the firewall (private cloud), the deployment agility and simplified management of the cloud approach make it the natural next step in the evolution of architecture," writes Mike Piech. (tags: otn oracle grid soa cloud enterprisearchitecture entarch)

The Curious Case of Financial Consolidation ( Blog) "Many finance professionals question the need for a data warehouse as the source for their financial consolidation process, instead of linking financial consolidation directly to their general ledgers," writes Frank Buytendijk. "They are right." (tags: oracle otn datawarehouse BusinessIntelligence) Rittman Mead Consulting - Thoughts on the New DW Features in Oracle Database 11gR2 Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman shares his...

All three parts of the OTN Arch2Arch Podcast program covering Hairball Architecture and Other Nightmares are now available. Oracle ACE Director Basheer Kahn (blog, ACE Profile) of Innowave Technology, and Oracle ACE Jordan Braunstein (blog, ACE Profile) of Rolta TUSC are the panelists for this three-part series.  Jordan’s use of the term “hairball architecture” during the interview was the inspiration for the title of this series. In Part One Basheer and Jordan discuss the...

SOA Projects in Crisis Red Room blogger Sean is sure that some SOA projects are indeed in crisis. "But I would attest that it's not because they are SOA projects," he says, "it's because they projects. And there are projects in crisis in all aspects and all disciplines of our industry..." (tags: soa oracle otn projectfailure)

Ten Requirements for Achieving Collaboration #4: Enable The Humans (Fusion ECM) "Consider the humans, " says Billy Cripe in the latest installment in his series on collaboration. "After all it is we-the-meat that actually create and use information. It is the meat part of life which can transmogrify data to information to knowledge to action." (tags: collaboration enterprise2.0) elemental links: Enterprise Architecture Pitfalls (Crowdsourced version) Using Gartner's ho-hum list...

William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Are these your files? I found them on my cloud Drip drip drip… Is this the sound of your cloud leaking? William Vambenepe wants to know. (tags: oracle otn cloud soa security) Gartner Identifies Ten Enterprise Architecture Pitfalls "Selecting the wrong person as lead enterprise architect, and not engaging business people are two of the biggest pitfalls organisations face when trying to establish an effective enterprise architecture (EA)...

It takes an architect community to raise a collection of SOA design patterns. By Bob Rhubart September/October 2009 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 companion Web site, SOA Patterns (www.soapatterns.org), is the hub of a collaborative effort, the spokes of which extend into global...

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...