Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Custom applications with a user interface can be categorized along various dimensions. Is the user interface a front end for a system of record or a system of change or innovation? What about the users: trained power users or very occasional visitors? What is the purpose of the system, such as entice potential buyers or voters, inform and support users with knowledge and information, facilitate data entry and other data manipulation tasks? What are the channels and...

Introduction This article summarizes our selection of the Oracle Cloud Platform Services (PaaS) with specific focus on use with an existing Oracle Cloud Applications (SaaS) environment. In other content the term PaaS4SaaS has been used for this context. This is the first of a series of articles in which we will use examples to demonstrate some of the key functions and features inside the Oracle PaaS services, and indeed many will be derived from real implementations. Again the...

The part of the OTN Tour 2016 in Australia was a personal highlight for me. This is where I wrote the biggest part of my cloud computing book and started a small subsidiary for my company. Both OTN events weren’t massive but very well organized. Interested audience, lots of feedback and questions. Thanks to everybody who attended. I presented about WebLogic with Java Cloud Service (JCS) and Docker with the new Oracle Container Cloud Service (OCCS). Slides are available as...

Enterprise resource planning applications are highly complex systems. But the navigation and overall user experience should be as simple as possible. Oracle Thought Leader Jeremy Ashley, the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) Group Vice President, writes about the Oracle ERP Cloud in Oracle​Voice: ERP UX Must Be Simple, Even When The Data Is Complex. BEHIND THE ‘WOW’ OF THE SMART OFFICE: Noel Portugal, from the AppsLab, the OAUX emerging technologies team, writes...

Decomposition of legacy Java EE applications using containers Together with growing demand in PaaS and DevOps solutions, we can notice a set of adoption barriers for the owners of legacy applications hosted inside VMs or just on top of bare metal servers. The complexity of decomposition and migration processes is often very high. Usually, application owners have to redesign their application architecture in order to benefit from the modern PaaS and CaaS solutions. In this...

Attend our March edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on March 21st 2017 at 16:00 CET. Implementing DevOps and Agile Methodologies in Oracle Projects This session will present Oracle's solution for managing development teams and project and for automating the code to deploy cycle.Learn how Oracle Developer Cloud Service - which is available for free with most of the PaaS services - can help you achieve productive agile development and streamline the DevOps...

Attend our March edition of the SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast live on March 21st 2017 at 16:00 CET. Implementing DevOps and Agile Methodologies in Oracle Projects This session will present Oracle's solution for managing development teams and project and for automating the code to deploy cycle.Learn how Oracle Developer Cloud Service - which is available for free with most of the PaaS services - can help you achieve productive agile development and streamline the DevOps...

At the SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) the PaaS live customer examples and API CS material are published. · Live Customer Success Stories Deck.pptx · API CS_DEMO.zip · API CS_Overview_Latest.pptx · IoT Update January 2017.pptx Additional PaaS Customer reference videos shot at Oracle OpenWorld 2016. Listed alphabetically by customer: AAR Corp, Ambev & Softbank, Asahi Refining, Asahi Refining, CIMA, Club Corp, Club Corp,  Credilink, Dubai Airports , Dub...

Not wanting to be left out of all the fun, here's my contribution for Tim Hall's OTN Appreciation Day event... For those of us that came from an Oracle Application Server (iAS/OC4J) background, and with maybe a particular OCD-style bent for automation, I think the the biggest discovery in WebLogic Server was WLST, or WebLogic Scripting Tool. This lets you access the underlying JMX management objects that control every facet of WebLogic via an easy to use tool Python (or,...