Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

  Some of my recent experiences with the Oracle Cloud left me less than wildly enthusiastic. Actions seemed to take long in a non-responsive, non-intuitive UI and I was required to go through too many configuration steps to get various cloud services to work together. Getting a free month trial seemed a lengthy process – if it went through at all. The other vendors seemed to be able to offer more/better/greener pastures. Yesterday I had my faith restored at least to some...

  One of the very first capabilities Oracle ever introduced in its PaaS portfolio was integration. It was clear from the onset of any talk about clouds that facilities to do integration between cloud and on premises as well as between various clouds [from different vendors]would be essential. With its SOA Suite, Oracle had a very strong on premises offering for integration, and it used this foundation for its first steps on the cloud integration path. The initial approach from...

Dubai Airports customer reference video: Dubai Airports, one of the largest airports in the world with over 60 million annual passengers and $1.7 billion in revenue, wanted to automate its employee lifecycle processes. It turned to Oracle and was able to use Oracle Mobile Cloud Service, Java Cloud Service, and SOA Cloud Service, to fill process gaps, integrate those processes with existing systems, and extend those processes onto mobile devices so that employees could access...

  We all hear about automation, bots, IoT, self-driving cars, microservices, and cyborgs, but how could this all work without APIs? APIs will continue to play an increasingly important role in making this world a reality. Come hear from our team of futurists about their vision of how the digital landscape will evolve and the role that API Management will have in this brave new world. Presented by Luis Weir, Principal, Oracle Ace Director, Capgemini, at Oracle OpenWorld 2016. Ge...

Why do cloud-native projects outperform traditional enterprise development? Siddhartha Agarwal, vice president of product management and strategy for Oracle Cloud Platform and Oracle Fusion Middleware, talks with Oracle Magazine about the cultural shifts, technologies, and common patterns he sees in cloud-native application design and development. Oracle Magazine: What is cloud-native development? Agarwal: Cloud-native development refers to a modern application development...

  APIs are hot. Public APIs are an enterprise’s programmatic interface to B2B partners, governments and other stakeholders including app and web builders. Internally, APIs are the touch points for encapsulated functionality and data and the entry points into microservices – to name that other hot term. APIs are usurping the role services have or were supposed to have and it would be hard to very clearly define the distinction between service and API. APIs are perhaps a fairly...

Introduction Currently there is not a single discussion about cloud native architectures where the term “microservices” is not brought up. With more and more developers and architects considering leveraging this architectural style, a lot of great content is showing up, but some of this new content misses the point on microservices completely. A good example of the latter is content that suggests one is building microservices just by making the applications package smaller...

  · Oracle Integration Cloud Service Use Case: Closed Loop Order Management Oracle ACE Sven Bernhardt, along with co-authors Alexander Däubler and Cornelia Spanner, examine the details of a use case in which Oracle Integration Cloud Service is used to integrate an on-prem ERP solution (SAP) with a cloud-based CRM solution (Salesforce). Read the article. · Citizen Developer: Partner or Party Crasher? You might assume that the people in IT would have issues with non-IT...

ANNOUNCING Application Development Platform 17.1.1 with useful new updates, enhancements, and relevant announcements to a vast range of services in the Application Development portfolio, including Java Cloud, Application Container Cloud, Developer Cloud, Application Builder Cloud, Database Cloud, Exadata Express Cloud, and more. Java Cloud Service · JCS added support for Oracle Database 12.2 Application Container Cloud Service · Support for new caching capability, enabling faster...