Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Today was again a very fully packed day at Oracle Open World. Starting with Mark Hurd, providing the vision of Oracle CEO on the global market and how Enterprises are forced to re-invent themselves or to face disintermediation, due to new comers leveraging the technologies to their benefits: doing the same thing but differently. Enterprise have to simplify and stop spending 80% of their IT budget to keep the light on. That's where the Cloud model kicks in. As Oracle we could...

  I've just literally arrived from Oracle Open World and JavaOne 2017 and my head still hurts with so many interesting announcements and cool new things I want to get my hands on and learn. This blogpost provides a short summary of my impressions and key takeaways from both events. General overview: This year OOW and JavaOne was full of changes from previous ones. For starting most of the sessions took place between Moscone South, Moscone West and the Marriot Marquis, as opposed...

Oracle’s announcement of the new Blockchain Cloud Service at OOW17 was very well received by our customers, partners and analysts. This came shortly after the August announcement that Oracle has joined the Hyperledger project, which provided clear directions that Oracle embarks on open source collaboration, modular architecture, horizontal/cross-industry technology support, and support for enterprise needs. (see Oracle announcement: Oracle Cements Interest on Blockchain:...

The following demos will highlight some various use cases for Fishbowl’s Intelligent Chatbot called Atlas. Returning product pricing and availability information from Oracle E-Business Suite Retrieving construction related project information from Procore Clinical trial interactions using voice Employee Self-Service Looking up the weather in various cities Verifying number of PTO days left Searching for documents in Oracle WebCenter Content Customer Self-Service Account management...

  Oracle OpenWorld 2017 provided a good opportunity to gain insight into the level of success of Oracle’s integration-centric PaaS portfolio in a competitive middleware-as-a-service (MWaaS) market. It is evident that within a period of just three years, Oracle has achieved rapid business growth for this set of PaaS products and a critical market momentum that has resulted in several thousands of customers for individual, integration-centric PaaS products. This is a good case...

Thomas Kurian, Oracle president of product development, has mapped out the technology path ahead for Oracle, and it includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, chatbots, and new human interfaces. During a keynote presentation at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Kurian said these emerging technologies now fit into the vision Oracle has had since it started building its cloud offerings more than a decade ago: Let anyone, anywhere in the world, access the power of all...

  Oracle Open World 2017 has come and gone already, but it left behind some really interesting points worth revisiting. The conference spans so much, but I want to focus mainly on the topics related to my own expertise (Integration, Java, Application Development). So let's cut to the chase and take a look at the highlights: · Focus is on Developers - the Java & Open Source movements seem stronger than ever, with JavaOne recovering a leading role this year and OracleCode...

During our last PaaS Partner Community Forum we announced the initiative to host local Oracle Developer meetups. The first three locations are up, make sure you register for: · Utrecht, Netherlands · London, UK · Oslo, Norway Please let us know in case you want to run an event at one of this location or you want to start your local meetup. We are looking forward to support you and sponsor the event with pizza and beer! WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a...

During our last PaaS Partner Community Forum we announced the initiative to host local Oracle Developer meetups. The first three locations are up, make sure you register for: · Utrecht, Netherlands · London, UK · Oslo, Norway Please let us know in case you want to run an event at one of this location or you want to start your local meetup. We are looking forward to support you and sponsor the event with pizza and beer! SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle...