Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

· Innovate Faster, Spend Less, and Connect People with the Right Information Whether you’re just beginning your journey to cloud computing or you’ve adopted it throughout your business, the platform that supports your strategy deserves thoughtful consideration. Oracle Senior Vice President, PaaS, BI, and EPM Business Groups Steve Daheb talks about the pivotal role platform as a service has in helping businesses innovate faster, spend less, and connect people with the right...

The Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) framework includes support for hybrid mobile application development, providing Android and iOS Alta themes and UI behavior on Oracle JET components, starter applications, design patterns, and tooling support. Before you can create your first hybrid mobile application, you should become familiar with the Oracle JET mobile features and third-party technologies. You must also install the prerequisite packages and Oracle JET mobile...

Dear WebLogic & Developer Partner Community Oracle’s Fiscal year starts June 1st 2016 – Happy Birthday and thanks to you as a partner for another great year. We start the New Year with an update on the Oracle PaaS & Middleware Sales Plays. Make sure you attend our Webcast June 9th to get the latest information how you as a partner can sell more service, licenses and subscriptions. Java Cloud 16.2.1 including Java, Application Container and Developer Cloud Service is now...

Visualizations are probably the most effective way to convey information, insights and prompts for action to humans. We are not terribly good at quickly and correctly interpreting textual information that require sequential processing. Our brains however are very well equipped to rapidly interpret information presented in a well defined visualization. The expression ‘one picture says more than a thousand words’ is one that speaks volumes (and a picture capturing that...

A case for case management with Léon Smiers and Greger Wikstrand. They discuss BPM and case management, how they differ and how the complement each other. Léon also talks about why they wrote their latest book, Oracle Case Management Solutions and the benefits with case management. Léon Smiers works as a Solution Architect for Capgemini, The Netherlands in the area of Oracle Technology and Architecture, where he is one of the leading Oracle specialists. He has done a lot of...

Open Source! Open Source! Open Source! Did we say that we've open sourced Oracle JET?  We have! What else is new in this release besides the license change? Command Line Interface (CLI) We have produced a new Yeoman generator for creating new applications as quickly as possible.  You can create new web and mobile hybrid applications using the generator. Grunt is also used to provide both build and serve tasks for the web and for mobile hybrid apps targeting both Android and iOS. Ple...

NEW PaaS4SaaS TOOLS: The OAUX team has launched a Rapid Development Kit to help partners grow their Oracle Applications Cloud business and offer more value to customers. It’s a work in progress, but the design patterns for Release 10 are already available for download via ebook. See why user-centricity, simplicity, and consistency remain front and center in Cloud user experience designs. Check out the Forbes Oracle Voice interview with Ultan O’Broin, who leads the partner...

In a recent article (Extend Oracle JET with Table on REST API and Deploy to Node.js in Application Container Cloud) , I have described how I created a data bound Oracle JET application with a rich JET table component that reads its data from a REST API (that gets it from a DBaaS instance in its turn). The application developed in that article shows a table with Departments – read from the HR database schema. A nice next step it seems is to show a list of employees as well...

In this second blog on sub-processes we will explore the embedded sub-processes, also referred to as inline sub-processes and as the name implies this is a sub-process type that consists of a series of activities (for example tasks, gateways, events, etc.) that resides within the parent process. An embedded sub-process has certain distinct characteristics such as they always begin with a none start event and end with a non end event, they do not contain swimlanes and most...