Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Research firm IDC estimates that the market for platform as a service (PaaS) solutions will have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 percent and reach $14 billion by 2017. PaaS provides application runtime, database, integration, messaging, and other services in the cloud, accelerating application development and reducing infrastructure acquisition and maintenance costs. Here are five best practices for maximizing the business value of your PaaS solutions. Get...

As an integration/backend developer, when starting a project using Mobile Cloud Service, it is important to have some understanding of what this MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) has to offer in terms of security features. This is important in order to be able to configure and test MCS. In this blog I will give examples on how to configure and use the basic authentication and OAuth2 features which are provided to secure APIs. You can read the Oracle documentation (which is...

  What you will learn This boot camp is an ideal starting point for an implementer who is planning to learn Oracle BPM Suite 12c and use it on BPM projects. Learn to: Use BPMN modeling notation to document business process Simulate a process model to identify bottlenecks Create business rules that condition flow through a model Define key performance metrics Build a dashboard containing charts that show key performance metrics Registration These events are offered FREE of charge to...

Customers want to have simpler means to interact with businesses and get faster response to a question or complaint. This behaviour is similar across all customer focused markets, such as Retail and Finance, where the loyalty of the customer depends on the quality of interaction with the business. Interaction with the customer (here the civilian) is also crucial in the Public domain, where trust in the authorities is determined by the speed and precision of the provided...

The Oracle SOA Suite 12c Implementation Boot Camp provides relevant insight to current and prospective SOA implementers and for those companies interested on becoming Oracle SOA Suite 12c Specialized. Learn to: Create, deploy, and manage cross-application process orchestration with BPEL Process Manager Describe tasks for users or groups to perform with Human Task Service Define and modify business logic without programming by using Business Rules Create dashboards, alerts, and...

  What Will You Learn This boot camp is primarily focused on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c and related features and functionality. It covers topics such as: system architecture, deployment & post-install configurations and implementation best practices. Learn to: Use new WebLogic Server 12c Features and Functions Configure and Implement WebLogic Server 12c Domains and Templates Deploy Java EE Applications Tune the WebLogic Server 12c Environment including the JVM for performance Design...

  · An Introduction to Oracle Stream Analytics and Stream Processing Kafka Data Oracle ACE Robin Moffatt takes OSA for a spin, looks at some of the functionality and terminology, and then shares real examples of use with live Twitter data. Read the article. · Video: When to Use Oracle SOA Cloud Service Oracle ACE Robert van Mölken compares and contrasts Oracle's SOA Cloud Service and Integration Cloud Service to help you make the right choice for your requirements. Watch the...

Lately we implemented a Single Sign On solution for Apex, based on Weblogic 12cR2, ORDS 3.0.9, and ADFS as a federated Identity Provider. This combination turns out to be a marriage of 3 different worlds. So we ran in to a several issues that were not described in one simple how-to document. So in this document I try to assemble the information needed to do the end 2 end configuration (apart from the OHS configuration).For most of the SAML2 configuration on Weblogic, we could...

I blogged before showing how easy it is to extend Oracle Sales Cloud using Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service. We do get a lot of customers of Oracle HCM that approach us asking if they can use the same tools to extend Oracle HCM apps. While Oracle Application Builder Cloud Service (ABCS) has the list of Oracle Sales Cloud services pre-populated in the service catalog , you can pretty easily connect ABCS to Oracle HCM services too and get data and build an application...