Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Chatbots are the talk of the town with the announcement of Facebook to launch their Messenger platform with chatbots in April 2016. Here a short summary of why we need it, what shapes and forms a chatbot can take and where to start with it. Why do we need chatbots? Simple answer is simplicity; When I want a simple question answered, I do not want search for my specific App and search within the App for the information I need, or browse through a set of pages on a website. A...

  If you are already an Oracle BPM user, it is likely that you might have heard or even ventured in its respective cloud version called Oracle Process Cloud Service (aka PCS). Essentially, Oracle PCS is a solution that enables you to rapidly design, automate, and manage business processes, as well as it is done with Oracle BPM, however the major advantage is that you can do everything in the cloud, without any concerns with infrastructure installation, setup and provisioning...

Wat is Summer of Technology #SOT17? We vieren de zomer van 2017 met een techfestival. #SOT17 is een reeks van seminaries en workshops. Steeds in functie van een waardevolle technologie of een interessant topic in onze revolutionaire digitale wereld. Maak kennis met nieuwe trends en gevestigde technologieën in development, kunstmatige intelligentie, projectmanagement, blockchain, design, IoT en nog veel meer. For additional information please visit the registration page here. WebLo...

"It’s very important to understand WebLogic MBean objects for monitoring WebLogic domain resources," says integraton and infrastructure architect and Oracle ACE Associate Fevzi Korkutata. Fevzi's 2 Minute Tech Tip, recorded at DOAG 2016, will help you achieve that understanding. Watch the video here. Additional Resources Advanced WebLogic Monitoring: Custom WebLogic JMX Development and DevOps Automation Defining MBeans with annotations Best Practices for JMX Technology WebLogic...

  On premises BPM Suite has been Oracle’s flagship product for business process automation for many years. Based on the industry standard of BPMN and tightly integrated with SOA Suite for integrations, it has been widely used to implement complex and typically long running business processes. The recent addition of Adaptive Case Management to BPM Suite has extended its functionality with support for less structured workflows, loosely based on the CMMN standard. Oracle has not...

  Overview Rubicon Red MyST uses a declarative approach to automation, meaning users simply define the target state of the Oracle Middleware infrastructure to be deployed; which, at the push of a button, is automatically provisioned by MyST. Within MyST, the target state is captured in the platform definition, which is divided into two layers. First, the Platform Blueprint defines an environment agnostic specification used to define the platform topology and configuration of...

Everything has limitations. And 2 Minute Tech Tips are 2 minutes only. Strict rules. Anyway, you missed a lot of the good stuff that I recorded in Manly Australia, i.e. the introduction of the 2 minute tech tip about Zero Downtime (ZDT): Why I was standing on Manly Beach, the wildlife story about sharks that stopped me from having a bath, furthermore some whales (real whales! – not a Docker whale this time) and all the crazy things that happened while we recorded. Watch the...

  Learn the latest about Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Foundation, SOA Suite, and Oracle Service Bus infrastructure management. Oracle Ace Michel Schildmeijer tells all during a two-day workshop in January. Enrich your knowledge and learn all about the various layers and engines that together make up the SOA and OSB Engine (and more). In-company, or at the Qualogy offices in Rijswijk. The workshop is a two-day event, and is suitable for Senior Administrators with at...

  WebLogic Server allows you to customize your access.log. This can be very powerful if you want to monitor for example service response times in a tool like Splunk (see here). When working with SOAP services though, especially those with many operations, it can be insufficient to monitor services to the level of the individual endpoint. You want to also know with which intent the endpoint is called. In this blog I will show how this can be achieved. Extended Log File Format...