Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

For me the 2015 Oracle OpenWorld was a pleasant surprise.  The surprise was not the announcement of an additional set of cloud products like the Identity Cloud or the Application Builder Cloud Service. The biggest surprise was the different tone of voice during the conference. In the past you could summarize Oracle’s message as: We are Bigger and Better in technology, Open Source is bad,  Cloud is important, We (Oracle) Offer a full set of products and you do not have to look...

This month the top news is the availability of Fusion Middleware 12.2.1. Make sure you get the latest presentations at our community workspace and you try out the new release. The new release was also a key topic in many Oracle Open World presentations. The second major OpenWorld topic was Cloud computing. With the availability of many PaaS services and more to come, European partners are leading the cloud adoption. Thanks for the nice OpenWorld summaries by Danilo OpenWorld...

Dear Partner, You’re an important player, and we want you to join our winning team at #OraclePartnerDay Germany! This year’s event – packed with great information, top speakers and all you need to know to get ahead of the competition - is on Thursday 17th December at the Frankfurt Marriott Hotel. This essential event, hosted by Christian Werner, Senior Director Alliances & Channels, is your chance to engage with peers and hear from senior Oracle executives about the...

In this blog I will illustrate how you can configure Weblogic Server to use OpenLDAP as authentication provider and to allow OpenLDAP users to login to the Oracle BPM Worklist application. In a previous blog I have already shown how to do Weblogic Authentication with ApacheDS (LDAP and Weblogic; Using ApacheDS as authentication provider for Weblogic). In this blog I will use OpenLDAP to also do BPM Worklist authentication. Why use OpenLDAP? Oracle Platform Security Services...

Join our Community Webcast November 24th 16:00 CET here. This month we invite Yogesh Sontakke, Oracle Senior Principal Product Manager to share with us the latest updates on SOA Suite 12.2.1. Attend the community webcast to learn all about the latest new features including: · JavaScript in SOA Composites · JavaScript in Service Bus · Supporting Representational State Transfer (REST · SOA Suite: Cloud & other Adapters Roadmap · Integration Debugger& XSLT Debugger · Integration...

The November edition of the Middleware Partner Update contains three key topics: Oracle OpenWorld warp up PaaS trial accounts SOA & BPM Partner Community Webcast For regular updates please subscribe to our YouTube channel here. For the latest SOA & BPM Partner Community information please visit our Community update wiki here (Community membership required) SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for...

For me the 2015 Oracle OpenWorld was a pleasant surprise.  The surprise was not the announcement of an additional set of cloud products like the Identity Cloud or the Application Builder Cloud Service. The biggest surprise was the different tone of voice during the conference. In the past you could summarize Oracle’s message as: We are Bigger and Better in technology, Open Source is bad,  Cloud is important, We (Oracle) Offer a full set of products and you do not have to look...

Over the last several years we have witnessed an increase in the number of Citizen Developers supporting business automation outside of the IT department. Gartner describe a Citizen Developer in their IT Glossary as… A citizen developer is a user who creates new business applications for consumption by others using development and runtime environments sanctioned by corporate IT. In the past, end-user application development has typically been limited to single-user or...

This is an extract from AVIO's new Oracle BPM 12c Developer Training and it explains how to show instance titles that are meaningful to the business in the Oracle BPM Workspace's Process Tracking tab for Oracle BPM 11.1.1.7 and 12c. The Process Tracking tab should be one of the Oracle BPM Workspace's most useful features.  This is where end users in the Workspace can view instance audit trails, determine who and when the various people involved either approved or rejected...