Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

The Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is one of Oracle's "Engineered Systems" - an implication of which is that you can't change the hardware components at all. Therefore it is important that its specification provided meets your requirements, and will do so for the expected lifespan of the system. I briefly described the networking for ODA X3-2 in an earlier earlier post. In this one I will discuss the ODA's physical networking in more detail, how you configure it, and its...

Introduction: In Search of the Holy Grail of SOA In this article, we present and explore the fundamentals of applying the factory approach to modern service-oriented software development in an attempt to marry SOA industrialization with service contracts. As service developers and designers, how can we successfully fulfill factory requirements and achieve the essential characteristic of industrialized SOA while remaining compliant with standards on the service contract level? T...

Well, just like all the best blog posts about new mobile phone models, today I bring you "Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 unboxing!" Whilst technically this may not be the most interesting article in my ODA POC series, we'll see what subtleties we can tease out from just what's on the outside. On the right you will see the ODA packaging or, more precisely, the 3 separate boxes the it arrives in. In case you needed any further convincing following my previous posts, the X3-2 is...

We hosted our 3rd SOA Blackbelt training for partners from June 11th - 14th 2013 in Berlin Germany. The first SOA Blackbelt took place in June 2010 in London and the second on January 2011 in Johannesburg. Special thanks to the trainer team Simone Geib , Rajesh Raheja and Flavius Sana & Niall Commiskey for running the 3rd SOA Partner Blackbelt training! If you missed the training, thanks to Lonnekes blog posts for the excellent summery about the training. SOA Black Belt...

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find Oracle Applications Customers Using Oracle Fusion Middleware references. The booklet is a wonderful resource for sales & portfolio managers and architects to get new ideas clients. Make sure you use references within your sales process! Submit your reference to be written and published at the Oracle website! We are at the dawn of a new age of information technology. The pace of business change,...

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the #1 application infrastructure foundation. It enables enterprises to create and run agile and intelligent business applications and maximize IT efficiency by exploiting modern hardware and software architectures. Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 11g integrates BPMN 2.0-based modeling, simulation, optimization, execution, management and monitoring of business processes into a complete lifecycle that supports rapid change. Oracle...

On April 3rd the new ODA X3-2 was released. Sadly I was sick from April 1st  on so I had to miss the launch, and I was so well prepared… others had the scoop. Anyway, as an administrator that not only manages databases this release is pretty exciting since it brings not only virtualization but also WebLogic to ODA. This would make ODA a pretty good appliance for some of my customers, so I did a little investigation in the product. This blogpost is the first result of that...

Is Salesfore CRM the better CRM System? I work for Oracle I can’t answer this question! Is Oracle Middleware the better platform? Yes Salesforce plans to standardize on Oracle Middleware! Yes I work for the Oracle Middleware team. Is Windows 8 a good operating system? I work for Oracle I can’t answer this question! Can you run WebLogic on Microsoft Azure? YesWebLogic is the best Application Server! Yes I work for the Oracle Middleware team. Oracle just announced partnerships...

As part of our Fusion Middleware Summer Camps III in Lisbon we will offer a SOA Suite 11g B2B & Adapters training and a Oracle SOA Governance training. Both technologies are key for SOA! SOA Adapters and b2b are used for cloud integration, a key topic for today and the future! SOA Governance is key in each SOA Project to ensure and proof success, technical and business! SOA Suite 11g B2B & Adapters Highlights training Introduction (High Level  Features, Categorization etc) Essen...