Recent Posts by Jürgen Kress

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....

At our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) you can find the Fusion Middleware Customer Reference Booklet. 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. For a very long time IT has struggled to cope with...

Starting from July 4th - Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Essentials exam is again live in production with a new set of questions and measurement! Take the chance and prove you are a specialist in the domain. The Oracle WebLogic Server 12c Implementation Specialist certification (1Z0-599) is designed for individuals who possess a strong foundation and expertise in selling and implementing Oracle WebLogic Server solutions. The candidates should have hands on experience in...

Article Series: Industrial SOA Written collaboratively by eight acknowledged SOA experts, this article series explores the steps necessary to service oriented architecture to the next level: industrialized SOA. The first two articles in this 14-part series are now available on OTN. Read the articles. On the Integrity of Data An introduction to the basics of data integrity enforcement in a variety of environments by Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema. Read the article. Creatin...

We want to make sure your sales and pre-sales A&C teams are trained like the Oracle middleware sales team. Therefore we would like to encourage you to read the Oracle internal middleware sales presentations. Please use the sales material in the spirit of our partnership. Please do not publish any information - all material is Oracle & Partner confidential. For customer presentations please use the external customer presentations at our Community Workspace! In addition to this...

Last year while working on a POC Rob den Braber noticed the following in Disaster Recovery for Oracle Elastic Cloud with Oracle ExaData Database Machine on page 13. Currently, Oracle Fusion Middleware does not support configuring Oracle Active Data Guard for the database repositories that are a part of the Fusion Middleware topology. However, Active Data Guard can be configured if your custom applications are designed to leverage the technology. Today this came up in a...