Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Over the years I’ve found a number of occasions to refer to Gerard O’Neil’s book 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future. Yet another of those occasions popped up just moments ago, after reading Making the CXO Connection Work for BPM, by Gartner blogger Jim Sinur. Mr. Sinur’s post deals with the “communication gap between BPM professionals and top management.” Saying “that processes make you more efficient” or “processes save money” just doesn’t cut it any more...

Recently launched on OTN, The Enterprise Solution Cookbook features a series of articles, written by members of the OTN architect community, that offer an in-the-trenches view of the design and creation of real-world solutions to real-world problems, using products from the Oracle Fusion Middleware Suite. The latest OTN Arch2Arch podcast features an interview with Markus Zirn and Harish Gaur, the Cookbook’s organizers, and the guys who managed to get all those...

Oracle BI Meetup at Oracle Open World – Monday, 12th October, 7pm, Thirsty Bear Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman extends in invitation to an Oracle BI meetup he's organizing for Open World attendees, on Monday 12th October at 7pm at the Thirsty Bear Bar and Restaurant, San Francisco. (tags: otn oracle openworld #oow09 BusinessIntelligence meetup) Excited for Oracle Open World #oow09 Oracle ACE Director Bradley D. Brown engages in a little prognostication on possible big announcements...

The BPM Environment Explained BPM Architect Mariano Benitez offers a functional description of the applications and services that are part of an Oracle BPM Environment, and describes how they can be installed and configured in different topologies to handle different scenarios and support different usage patterns. (tags: oracle otn entarch bpm Middleware) Recipe for Success: The Enterprise Solution Cookbook Arch2Arch talks to the organizers behind the Enterprise Solution Cookbook,...

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)