Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

The Top 10 most popular updates from the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page from the last seven days. Free TechDay in Vienna: Oracle on OracleDatabase Administrators, Storage and System Engineers, Platform Architects and Operation Leaders are invited to participate in this free half-day international technical event focused on all the layers of your infrastructure stack: from Storage through Datacenter Fabric to Virtualization, from the Operating System up to the layers with direct...

Now available on OTN, Integration with Fusion Applications is a 54-page sample chapter from The Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook, (2013, Oracle Press), by Vladimir Ajvaz, Oracle ACE Anil Passi, and Dhaval Metha. If "free" isn't enough of an incentive for you to read that sample chapter, you can at least spend a few minutes watching this video interview with Vladimir Ajvaz and Anil Passi in which they describe in detail what that chapter covers...

The Winter 2014 edition of OTech Magazine is now available. This free online publication, the brain-child of Oracle ACE Director Douwe Pieter van den Bos, publishes, "news stories, credible rumors and how-to's covering a variety of topics." The latest issue includes 16 articles on Fusion Middleware, SOA, NoSQL, data security, OBI, ODI, WebCenter, and more. Contributing authors include: Ronald van Luttikhuizen Peter Lorenzen Biju Thomas Robert Honeyman Troy Allen Douwe Pieter van...

The Top 10 tweets from @OTNArchBeat for the last seven days. RT @aakela: What is Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c #DBaaS Snap Clone? - A blog by @AdeeshF from #em12c product management team Jan 03, 2014 at 07:09 AM RT @oracleace: Congrats @gwenshap & @debralilley for making @OracleProfit mag top 10 most read articles in 2013! #oracleace #aced. Jan 03, 2014 at 03:41 PM RT @myfear: "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." - Isaac Asimov #qotdJan 03, 2014...

One of the things I get to do as manager of OTN's Architect Community is work with community members who submit articles for publication on OTN. These articles typically deal with SOA, middleware, business intelligence, and other topics relevant to software architects. Thirty-seven such articles were published in calendar year 2013. The list below represents the Top 10 most popular of those articles. Congratulations to the authors of these technical articles! Cookbook:...

In 2013 the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page gained 3,556 new fans (the total stands at 4,761). From January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013 there were 1,255 items posted on that page, most of them links to content created by community members. The list below represents the Top 10 most popular of those posts for 2013. Photos: Oracle WebLogic Hackathon at UKOUG Tech 13A selection of photos taken during the Oracle WebLogic Hackathon conducted on December 1, 2013 as part of Super Sunday...

Challenges and opportunities in the Internet of Things By Bob Rhubart January/February 2014 The term Internet of Things was coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, cofounder of the Auto-ID Center, an RFID research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then the Internet of Things concept—now often referred to as IoT—has evolved. In the twenty-first century, “IoT is really about intelligent devices talking to enterprise apps,” explains Harish Gaur, director of...

If you think the term "Identity Management" refers to something a celebrity hires a public relations firm to do after showing up for an interview with a gallon of bourbon and no pants, it is unlikely that you'll have any interest in two new articles now available on OTN. But if your responsibilities include working with Oracle Identity Manager in order to control who goes where and does what with enterprise systems, these articles just might help you avoid your own...

The Top 10 most popular updates from the OTN ArchBeat Facebook Page from the last seven days (December 13-19, 2013). Podcast: Oracle SOA B2B Integration - Part 3 EDI remains in wide use among old-guard companies, but newer companies are embracing ebXML and other alternatives. Listen to the final segment in this series as panelists Krishnaprem Bhatia, Alan Perlovsky, and Scott Haaland discuss the future of SOA B2B integration. How To Use BI Publisher Web Services To Return...