Posts Tagged ‘Oracle’

Forrester reports on Oracle’s Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering.  I find it very interesting how they went about their initial SaaS cloud.  It’s basically the Java App server and the Database setup in with sophisticated self service provisioning. Basically, Oracle unveiled today a fully automated public cloud approach providing a Java Enterprise Edition […]

On October 28, 2011, Gartner updated their Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. While not much has changed from 2010 in the leader’s quadrant, there are a few new names on the chart in the other quadrants.  In the pictures here you can see the 2010 version compared to 2011. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle continue to […]

No, Oracle is not buying Documentum as far as I know.  However, Oracle is feeling comfortable enough with their WebCenter suite of products to make a push to replace Documentum with WebCenter. For the last few days, Oracle WebCenter bloggers have been posting articles challenging companies to move off Documentum and replace it with WebCenter.  Oracle […]

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised about Oracle buying another company.  Endeca has a great search engine.  Years ago, mostly commerce sites running WebSphere Commerce and ATG used it but recently a lot of other companies have used them because they make faceted search easy.  I’ll be curious to see how this Oracle acquisition affects […]

Oracle has jumped into the Cloud-based Social Networking space with its new Oracle Social Network offering.  Kinda of like Yammer and others, this is a secure private network running in the cloud.  This will be a subscription-based service and compliments Oracle’s other cloud based services just announced this week. The Oracle Social Network contains all […]

Oracle’s big convention OpenWorld is going on this week.  I thought I’d take that opportunity to explore Oracle’s WebCenter Suite in some detail.  There has been some confusion in the past few years about Oracle’s Portal strategy, but it looks like they are finally offering a very strong product line in that space.  With the […]

There are many ETL (extract, transform and load) tools out there but Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) has gained a lot of ground because of its ability to perform event-driven, high-volume batch uploads from disparate data sources and to the variety of target applications/data storages.  Having worked on a recent implementation, I have come to appreciate […]

Forrester recently release their Web Content Management Wave.  It’s striking less for the rankings and more for the information about trends and why they ranked the vendors the way they did.  I won’t reveal the Wave itself since I don’t have rights to distribute but I will note a few key findings. Welcome to CXM […]

eWeek has an article out about the recently released Oracle Virtual Desktop for iPad.  For those of you who want to use a mobile device but still need a full fledged client browser and your company uses Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure then this might be of use to you.  I […]

John Rymer at Forrester has a very interesting blog post from back in January about the future of Java.  Oracle will definitely have an impact on the evolution of Java.  I agree with Mr. Rymer that the impacts will be felt more in the long term and that Java is on the path to becoming […]

In a previous post, I talked about Gartners prediction of a “seismic shift” in the portal market.  In one of the last session of the Gartner Portal, Content & Collaboration 2011 Summit, Gene Phifer spoke about the future of portals.  Gene is convinced that the portal market (and mashup market) will be “subsumed” by a […]

For those of you familiar with OpenSSO / OpenAM, you probably know the online documentation is mediocre and that there exists few other options to ramp on this technology.  Packt Publishing sent me a free copy or ecopy of the OpenAM book since I had blogged about OpenSSO earlier.   The book by Indira Thangasamy (LinkedIn […]