Recent Posts by Juergen Kress

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...

In my last blog, I wrote about Cloud deployment model choices and how Oracle Cloud Application Foundation customers have choice between an on premise private cloud or a public 3rd party cloud environment for the perfect hybrid. Well, with the latest partnership announced between Oracle andMicrosoft, Oracle customers have one more deployment option with Microsoft Windows Azure. So as I was flying above the clouds on my weekend getaway passing through Oracle and Microsoft...

More and more companies adopt cloud computing to benefit from the advantages like usage based cost and time to market. What does this mean for your consulting business as a system integrator? Typically large companies who start to adopt Software as a Service (SaaS) like CRM (Salesfore or Oracle CRM) or HCM (Workday or Oracle HCM), they need to adopt this cloud solutions to their specific needs and integrate their existing on-premises solutions like billing or financial...

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s integrated enterprise information technology management product line, which provides a complete, integrated, and business-driven enterprise cloud management solution. Oracle Enterprise Manager creates business value from IT by leveraging the built-in management capabilities of the Oracle stack for traditional and cloud environments, enabling customers to achieve unprecedented efficiency gains while dramatically increasing service levels....