Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

Introduction "You will waste your investment in SOA unless you have enterprise information that SOA can exploit." – Gartner This quote from Gartner, Inc. describes the relationship between service-oriented architecture (SOA) and master data management (MDM) very vividly. An essential principle behind SOA is the reuse of components and the flexibility of using these components to support new functionalities or processes. MDM provides universal components (or services) for...

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As enterprises increasingly face challenges in going mobile, Oracle Mobile Suite provides a complete mobile platform that extends enterprise application data to mobile devices. Leading analysts estimate that more than 85% of mobile application development costs comes from integration with backend services, and Oracle Mobile Suite will assist customers quickly realize ROI by wrapping and reusing existing enterprise services, rather than rip and replace the entire platform. Oracl...

Yesterday Oracle released their cloud adapter for salesforce.com (SFDC) so I thought I would talk a little about why you might want it. I had previously integrated with SFDC using BPEL and the SFDC web interface, so in this post I will explore why the adapter might be a better approach. Why? So if I can interface to SFDC without the adapter why would I spend money on the adapter? There are a number of reasons and in this post I will just explain the following 3 benefits: Auto-Log...

JDK 8 will use TLS 1.2 as default Transport Level Security (TLS) is designed to encrypt conversations. It is now set as default and can be combined with Certificate Authorities. Learn more NetBeans 8 Beta Release NetBeans IDE 8 provides out-of-the-box code analyzers and editors for working with the latest Java 8 technologies; that is, Java SE 8, Java SE Embedded 8, and Java ME Embedded 8. The IDE also has a range of new enhancements that further improve its support for...

Thanks for a wonderful Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2014! Special thanks to all the excellent speakers for the great presentations and everybody to be a real community. Thanks for the nice Community Forum articles from Amis, esentri and C2B2 – let me know in the case I missed yours! In the case you could not attend the conference in Malta we uploaded the presentations to our community workspaces. PresentationsAll presentations are available at the Community...

“A game changer” As the CTO of Oracle partner Rubicon Red stated, this is a “game changer” for Oracle. There is no need for separate integration approaches for cloud and on-premises applications. “Oracle has reduced the cost and complexity with a simplified and unified approach”. The “Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com” has been released today and lets Oracle take your Salesforce.com customers out of isolation and into a unified application environment spanning cloud and...

The term Internet of Things was coined in 1999 by Kevin Ashton, cofounder of the Auto-ID Center, an RFID research project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since then the Internet of Things concept - now often referred to as IoT - has evolved. In the twenty-first century, “IoT is really about intelligent devices talking to enterprise apps,” explains Harish Gaur, director of product management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. That communication between devices and the...

This adapter is certified to work with Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.7.0 Oracle Cloud Adapters are designed to dramatically simplify Integrations between Cloud and On-Premise Applications. Oracle Cloud Adapter for Salesforce.com is the first in a series of Cloud adapters we will release, providing enhanced developer productivity via intuitive design-time wizards and intelligent run-time capabilities such as smart security and session management. Datasheet | FAQ Whitepaper:...