September 2010

• September 29, 2010 29 Sep'10

  Event processing goes mainstream

  Event processing gets a genuinely insightful treatment in a recent book by K. Mani Chandy and Roy Schulte. "Event Processing: Designing IT Systems for Agile Companies" (McGraw-Hill, 2010) is an ...  Continue Reading

• September 28, 2010 28 Sep'10

  Open Source SOA Connect at heart of government health care update

  Health organizations determined to modernize will benefit from better sharing of data, but healthcare data needs to be handled in ways that ensure patient privacy. SOA efforts such as the open ...  Continue Reading

• September 28, 2010 28 Sep'10

  Richard Watson on the importance of models in business process management and SOA integrations

  Richard Watson is a principal research analyst at Gartner. He has recently written about course corrections for BPM programs. He has seventeen years of experience in IT, including two years as an analyst with the Burton Group. SearchSOA.com Site ...  Continue Reading

• September 27, 2010 27 Sep'10

  Oracle user explains current projects with SOA and BPM

  At JavaOne, Jack Vaughan interviews Oracle user Michael Rokitka, software engineer and Web architect for a New York real estate investment firm, about his current projects and how he's using SOA and BPM.  Continue Reading

• September 27, 2010 27 Sep'10

  Adam Wilson discusses Operational BI, MDM and SOA

  At JavaOne, we talked with Adam Wilson, SVP and general manager of Informatica's information lifecycle management unit. In these two quick videos, Wilson talks about master data management (MDM) with SOA and about operational BI and automating data ...  Continue Reading

• September 24, 2010 24 Sep'10

  OMG's BPM/SOA Community of Practice announces the winners of their BPM/SOA case study contest

  This week, OMG's BPM/SOA Community of Practice, in partnership with SearchSOA.com, eBizQ and others, announced the winners of the "Business Agility and Process Optimization Enabled by Business Process Management (BPM) and Service-Oriented ...  Continue Reading

• September 22, 2010 22 Sep'10

  At JavaOne - Java on the front end gets its time to shine

  It is known for its servers, but even before it purchased Java-originator Sun Microsystems, Oracle had interest in client side technology. Still, it was surprising how much time Oracle's Thomas ...  Continue Reading

• September 22, 2010 22 Sep'10

  Veryant isCOBOL gets a graphical interface

  Veryant, a COBOL and Java technology provider, released an update to the isCOBOL Applications Performance Suite (APS). The APS is a set of tools for developing, deploying and modernizing COBOL ...  Continue Reading

• September 22, 2010 22 Sep'10

  Know what to expect from BPM and data analytics

  If you are wrestling with what to do about BPM analytics and how, Forrester Research analyst Susan McNeice offers some additional perspectives based on years in the field. According to McNeice, it is important to distinguish between analytics and ...  Continue Reading

• September 22, 2010 22 Sep'10

  JavaOne 2010 SOA news

  In San Francisco at JavaOne in 2010, vendors, press and users alike will closely inspect Oracle and other companies' SOA wares from middleware to databases, development tools to new standards, and legacy modernization to brand new platforms.  Continue Reading

• September 21, 2010 21 Sep'10

  Oracle World 2010: When hardware met software

  If the JavaOne folks were salving their pride this week, feeling both packed tight and scattered in a bunch of hotels on the other side of San Francisco's Market Street - kicked out, if you will, ...  Continue Reading

• September 21, 2010 21 Sep'10

  Parasoft introduces testing tools for Oracle applications and middleware

  Parasoft Corporation, a provider of automated solutions and infrastructure services focused on software quality and the software development process, announced Parasoft SOAtest – Oracle Fusion Edition. The company calls the new offering a ...  Continue Reading

• September 21, 2010 21 Sep'10

  HP targets private cloud for Oracle applications

  HP has announced its Private Cloud Solutions for Oracle Applications target clients that deploy Oracle applications on complex multitier environments. The hardware and software components are shipped together and come setup for PeopleSoft Enterprise...  Continue Reading

• September 21, 2010 21 Sep'10

  Java and OpenJDK additions discussed as Oracle takes JavaOne stage

  Oracle outlined OpenJDK additions and enhancements destined for future versions of Java at JavaOne in San Francisco. Meanwhile, Java Father James Gosling lobbied developers to call for an open Java foundation.  Continue Reading

• September 15, 2010 15 Sep'10

  CouchDB gets the mobile application development treatment

  Data architectures continue to evolve. They are in a dramatic state of flux. Web applications and cloud computing have been disrupting things for some time. Now, the rise of smart phones is further shaking the tree. Among the players addressing this...  Continue Reading

• September 14, 2010 14 Sep'10

  One look at addressing memory loss in real-time Memcached data store

  By Alan R. Earls NorthScale, a company that provides commercial support for the Memcached in-memory key-value store, has recently turned to addressing a problem with Memcached – its susceptibility ...  Continue Reading

• September 14, 2010 14 Sep'10

  New day for Java as Oracle World approaches

  Like all the others, Oracle began its life as a technology upstart, but it has always had a reputation for a stiletto-like focus on the business side. It has parlayed its relational database into a vast business, which grew considerably in recent ...  Continue Reading

• September 14, 2010 14 Sep'10

  Oracle extends 11g line with GoldenGate, Data Integrator updates

  Data Integrator Enterprise Edition 11 g improves support from development through management by providing integration with Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Enterprise Manager as well as including a design environment that incorporates GoldenGate 11g's ...  Continue Reading

• September 14, 2010 14 Sep'10

  RedHat's Java platform for cloud

  Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings like Google Apps or Windows Azure may soon contend with a new open source competitor. Red Hat has revealed plans to release a PaaS offering that will extend their JBoss Open Choice portfolio. The PaaS offering ...  Continue Reading

• September 13, 2010 13 Sep'10

  Compatibility concerns in the evolution of cloud computing APIs

  The world of cloud computing APIs has been constantly evolving since this highly-scalable architecture first gained attention less than five years ago. It is an area with great expectations but little commanding consensus of architecture - so far.  Continue Reading