Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

With the announcement on June 22nd of Larry Ellison around Oracle SaaS, PaaS and IaaS we are left with the question, where are we now in Oracle PaaS and what can we expect the coming year(s)?  Oracle is moving at a rapid pace from an ‘on-premise’ software/hardware provider to everything-contained-in-the-cloud; and is now embracing the Cloud. There is some humor in it since not so long ago back in 2009, Larry was still bashing the cloud, as being water vapor. "All it is, is...

Monday June 22nd was the launch date for Oracle for 24 (and more) Cloud Services. June is traditionally an important month for Oracle when it comes to product launches and important announcements. This year is the same in that respect. The announcements came in a many-hour live webcast including a 45 minute presentation by Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (see videos from Oracle Cloud Platform Launch). I have harvested some of the most relevant slides from this presentation – that...

A new version of the WebLogic installation wizard for WebLogic on ODA is now available on OTN for download, and supports the latest release of ODA hardware and software. With the latest release of WebLogic on ODA, which now supports the X5-2 hardware, we have come to a new chapter. Oracle partners around the world have been developing customized solutions using WebLogic on ODA for years now. Many of them started with the wizard-driven templates produced by the Oracle...

The Oracle team is pleased to invite your java developers and consultants to a 5-days hands-on workshop on how to develop, deploy and manage Java applications on Oracle Cloud platform. We invite you to join the workshop In-Class or Remotely (avoid travel time and travel costs by joining remotely). These Invite-Only hands-on workshops will be delivered by Oracle Development at No-Fee to Partners. A workshop consists of live presentations, live demos, and hands-on laboratory...

With cloud computing and PaaS in specific, partners become even more important. To discover new consulting opportunities we made our sales kits available for you as a partner! Sales kits include: Sales play presentation Ppt customer presentation Cheat sheet Solution video Demo accounts Marketing kits To get the sales kits please SOA Sales page and the BPM Sales page. Call to action Get the sales kits and forward them to your sales team Develop a consulting service offerings for Oracle...

“Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which teams keep producing valuable software in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably released at any time.” (from here) Software artefacts are developed using a build pipeline. This pipeline consists of several steps to provide quick feedback on software quality by means of code quality checks, automated tests, test coverage checks, etc. When the software is done (adhering to a Definition of...

Missed the #Oracle PaaS launch event? Watch the presentations here on-demand For further details please get our partner cloud kits: Integration Cloud Service and Process Cloud Service. Please do use our sales kits for Hybrid Integration and Hybrid Process to develop cloud consulting service offerings. For Oracle gold partners we also offer PaaS demo accounts here (to access this links you need to be a SOA Community member). SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular...

Importance of Administration Port on WebLogic This feature is very important for WebLogic domain management but WebLogic admins usually don’t take advantage of “WebLogic Administration Port” property. I am highly recommending enabling “Administration Port” for WebLogic domains which have high transaction traffic. Why WebLogic Administration Port? By enabling Administration Port, you can separate administration traffic from application traffic in your domain. That’s fair enough to...

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