Recent Posts by Bruce Tierney

Have you ever wondered how Intuit manages their portion of the over 140M US tax filers and integrates the information with CRM, billing, and over 30 other applications? Check out this video of Intuit Integration Architect Jeff Kester describing how Intuit’s Software-as-a-Service is made possible by Oracle SOA Suite including his key comments on: Lower IT costs Improved customer experience Seamless application upgrades Frictionless application integration Deployment automation Common...

Follow Juergen Kress on the SOA & BPM Partner Community blog.  Here is his recent blog highlighting the large number of new usability, performance, flexibility and other features in Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7:  as well as his drill down blogs on Oracle Service Bus 11.1.1.7 enhancements and more: Download Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7 on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) site for Oracle SOA Suite

Hey all you dedicated Facebook users! Can’t put down Facebook while you’re driving? We have the solution for you. Stay connected with your friends even while driving with Oracle’s newly released “Facebook Windshield”. Combining automotive hardware and integration software, the Facebook Windshield is an Engineered System that keeps your focus on Facebook soyou are not wasting so much time dealing with common driving annoyances such as paying attention to traffic lights and...

You are 8 minutes away from having a better understanding of the following three topics. Watch this brief webcast titled “Simplifying Integration in the Enterprise and Cloud” to learn: How integration complexity will increase ...unless you avoid the accidental cloud architecture The 4 main aspects of Oracle SOA Suite ... and how the Oracle Service Bus, B2B, cloud integration and more fit into the Oracle SOA Suite What OnStar said about their Oracle SOA Suite benefits ...includinghow...

Learn about Oracle's strategy for simplifying integration and developing a more responsive enterprise even while you expand your integration support to include cloud and mobile.  Recently uploaded to YouTube, this session highlights the commonly overlooked aspects of cloud integration to give you a more comprehensive view of the many aspects of cloud integration beyond basic connectivity.   Also included are product screenshots, a complete diagram of the components of Oracle...

Have you ever wondered how some big companies are able to rapidly acquire and merge applications?  Take a look at this webcast by Cisco’s Senior IT Manager Paras Jain. Shortly after the WebEx acquisition 5 years ago, Cisco consolidated to a single unified customer experience for online ordering of cloud and on-premise collaboration applications. Within 6 months, Cisco achieved break-even on their Oracle SOASuite integration investment, eliminated duplicate order data...

As the saying goes, there is no better way to be sure you truly understanding a technology than to be able to explain it so your grandparents understand it…OK, I’ve never heard it before either but it sure sounds true. And if you are even somewhat involved in SOA, the chances are good that someday, you will be asked to explain the value of SOA to a high-level business manager or senior projectmanager or maybe even the CEO of your company. So rather than mumbling something...

I recall attending a Gartner integration conference in 2003, ten years after Gartner’s Alexander Pasik introduced the term SOA. Attendees were still voicing skepticism with comments like “SOA is just a new term for <insert unrelated re-use technology name here>” or “is this just another fad I can wait out?” Since this introduction, there has been a gradual but steady growth in the acceptance of service-based integrationover the last decade as a strategy to increase agility...

Since you are reading this blog, its likely you participated in one of over 6 million WebEx meetings with over 1 billion meeting minutes per month.  How did Cisco acquire and seamlessly integrate WebEx with such high volume and complex integration requirements?   Check out this videoof Cisco's Paras Jain, Senior Manager of IT, as he describes how they used Oracle SOA Suite to merge WebEx into Cisco in 6 months, achieved a break-even on their Oracle SOA Suite investment in...