Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

During my holiday I read a book on “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture". I found this book as an excellent resource for IT professionals and managers who want to learn and understand cloud computing, and who need to select or build cloud systems and solutions. It lays the foundation for cloud concepts, models, technologies and mechanisms. As the book is vendor-neutral, it will remain valid for many years. I will recommend this book to Oracle customers,...

Services have to meet different architecture and governance requirements and their relevance is determined by how the services are reused. The arrangement and structure significantly affect the analysis and design of the services, which in turn determine the level of granularity. Categorizing services makes it easy to arrange them according to service usage in the procedural landscape, which helps prevent unwanted entanglements. SOA architectures that have not undergone...

Aaah good ol’ GlassFish! So, what does it look like and how do I use it? These were the questions that came into my mind when I first heard about it. I think the first time when I got a chance to install it and try it out was back in 2008. During that time I was developing quite a small and simple web application and I was kind of freaked out when I got the server up and running. I still remember some jokes with GirlFriends and GlassFishes. Why was I freaked out? Because it...

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Consumers have already seen the benefit of a cloud approach with tailored, consumer-driven experiences. Find out what that means for Oracle's enterprise applications on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog. Want to hear more about the Oracle Cloud and other UX innovations? UX architect Misha Vaughan writes about what Oracle Apps UX is sharing with the team's Sales Ambassador (SAMBA) representatives in this post on VoX. Spot the Oracle user experience design patternVisit...

· The Realities of Rehosting - Four Customer Stories, by Mark Rakmilevich - Blog · Sterci Clients Up to 7x Faster with Oracle Tuxedo - Video | Blog. · ICICI Processes Over 1.2M Trades a Day with Oracle Tuxedo - Video. · Increase the Availability of Your Tuxedo Applications and Improve IT Productivity with TSAM Plus - Blog. For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account...

Customer Experience + Social + Mobile + BPM – what is this hype? Watch our Youtube video to understand why BPM & SOA is the enabler for all of this new hypes! “Customer Experience” assets as well as other valuable BPM resources: Transforming Customer Experience: The Convergence of Social, Mobile and Business Process Management – a white paper discussing how BPM enhanced with social, mobile and intelligent analytics helps deliver effective customer experience. Enhancing the...

Next week I start working with a customer on a Proof of Concept (POC) on the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) and they have kindly given me permission to share the (non-confidential) findings on my blog. I have been following the Virtualised ODA pretty closely since last autumn, particularly with regards to running WebLogic and other Oracle Fusion Middleware products on it, so this promises to be pretty interesting. My responsibility on the POC is for the WebLogic and Fusion...

As part of the Fusion Middleware Summer Camps III we offer a SOA Governance training. SOA Governance Highlights training The Oracle SOA Governance Session focuses on introducing you to the crucial discipline of managing your SOA/Integration projects using the Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER), based on SOA Governance principles. Whether you are a Developer, an Architect or a Business Manager, OER has a lot to offer to help you make the most of your SOA initiatives – a Service...