Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

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 -...

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...