The Triora Group

That’s the title of my presentation I’m giving at Collaborate 2009, in Orlando.  If you haven’t considered it, you can find out more information at the Oracle Application Users Group site.  It’s going to be the first week of May this year so you still have time to register.
I’m working on the White Paper that [...]

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These are the types of presentations that seem hot (in descending order):

Service Orient Architecture Integration/Fusion Middleware
E-Business Suite, Release 12
Functional Seminars (focusing on various E-Business Suite modules)
Hyperion
11g Database
Enterprise Performance Management

This may change as the week progresses and Oracle continues to make new announcements.  For full-disclosure there are also sessions for BEA, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel [...]

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Today, Oracle provided a view into their plans for the integration of the BEA Aqualogic products into the Oracle product line. Oracle is very experienced at this effort and it showed in the presentation. They focused a lot on reassuring BEA and Oracle customers that there would be no drastic changes and no [...]

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It appears that BEA and Oracle will soon be a reality. Now the question is what the impact will be to the existing SOA Suite…

The Oracle-BEA Systems Inc. merger was effectively approved by the federal government yesterday when the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission opted to terminate their antitrust review of [...]

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The Foundation Pack provides a foundation for those wanting to start building their own custom integrations. There have been a number of challenges for organizations wanting to use SOA. These challenges according to InforWorld, include:

1. Lack of Architectural Blueprint
2. Inconsistent Business Semantics
3. Lack of standardized Business Service Definitions
4. Ensuring Compliance and Mitigating Risks
5. [...]

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It is important to note that Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a product from Oracle and is available in Releases. The current release is 2.01. Release 2.1 is planned in the next several months.
Here’s a graphic looking at what AIA consists of and how it relates to the SOA Suite.
This shows all [...]

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The Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a product from Oracle and is available in Releases. The current release is 2.01. Release 2.1 is planned in the next several months.
Here’s a graphic looking at what AIA consists of. I’m going to focus on the bottom of the diagram initially.

Starting at the bottom, [...]

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With the introduction of Services, XML, Java and the introduction of WSDL, WSIF there came other new supporting software products. Java had always depending on the Java Virtual Machine because it is essentially an interpreted language (but it can be compiled to machine language..).
The new supporting software products included the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), [...]

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AIA and SOA are all based on industry standards that have developed over the last 10-15 years. Several of the key standards were Java and XML.
With the advent of the World Wide Web there was a whole new emphasis on sharing information through the Internet. Everywhere developers were trying to come up with [...]

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