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- Oracle's Fusion Apps finally come out from behind the OpenWorld curtain
- While ERP emerged with and was designed for client/server architectures, Fusion has emerged with a full Java EE and SOA architecture; it is built around Oracle Fusion middleware 11g and uses Oracle BPEL Process Manager to run processes as orchestrations of processes exposed from the Fusion Apps or other legacy...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Active Endpoints debuts ActiveVOS 7.0 with BPMN 2 support, improved RIA interfaces
- ActiveVOS 7.0 has a new design canvas that uses the Business Process Modeling Notation BPMN 2.0 specification to create executable BPEL processes. by Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- National Instruments Improves Process Efficiency and Data Access With Service-Oriented Approach
- National Instruments NI wanted to create a new standards-based reference architecture to help NI respond to growing internal and external requirements to expose additional applications and data to the Web and enable employees in various locations as well as customers and partners to have secure, real-time access to reliable data...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPEL Process Manager
- The true value of SOA is unlocked when services are leveraged for process orchestration to deliver automation of business processes. Industry's leading process orchestration engine, the Oracle BPEL Process Manager supports a 100% standard approach to orchestrating systems and services into end-to-end process flows.
- White papers 2009-07-01
- SOA economics: addressing 'boundary costs'
- Who's going to pay for this SOA? Often, the costs of handling and processing SOA-based services gets spread all over the map. This has implications as SOAs grow in scale and complexity. Oracle's Dave Chappell discusses the matter of "boundary costs" as part of...
- Blog posts 2009-06-19
- TIBCO takes PaaS plus integration capabilities to global enterprises via their choice of clouds
- Combining platform as a service PaaS with a built-in ability to integrate and manage hybrid cloud deployments, TIBCO Software today threw its hat in the cloud computing ring by taking its middleware and Java development and deployment platforms to new heights. Coinciding with the JavaOne conference and...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- Overused words of the decade: 'open' and 'enterprise'
- "Open" is what we would like every piece of code to aspire to, and "enterprise" means a harmonious collection of industrious people and purring machines. They are the magical marketing words, evoking images of all that is good and wholesome. But perhaps they are getting overused. Everything...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Oracle Application Integration Architecture: Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- Business Process Management BPM includes a set of activities that organizations perform to either optimize their business processes or adapt them to new organizational needs. Important elements include Business Process modeling and Analysis BPA, orchestration BPEL, and Business Activity Monitoring BAM. This whitepaper focuses on the BPA element, outlines Oracle's...
- White papers 2009-04-01
- Active Endpoints aims at greater process design and implementation productivity with ActiveVOS enhancements
- Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system, has kicked things up a notch with the recent release of ActiveVos 6.1, which incorporates new features and functions designed to make developers more productive. The latest offering from the Waltham, Mass. company provides what amounts to shrink-wrapped...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- QPR ProcessGuide Xpress 8.0.1.110 (Windows)
- PR ProcessGuide Xpress provides business users with a powerful tool for exposing, analyzing, developing, documenting, improving and communicating business process information. It focuses on the business user who is seeking to create and maintain end to end process model hierarchies, rather than isolated presentations of flowcharts. QPR ProcessGuide Xpress...
- Software downloads 2009-03-11
- Automated PaaS migration now a reality
- Automated PaaS migration now a realityYou will probably see people gravitating to standards based platforms, and/or using wrappers to isolate things specific to a platform to aid in easy migration if and when necessary.The Ubuntu initiative to offer an open source platform if very interesting, so that companies might be...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-27
- News to know: Windows 7; Facebook and OpenID; Patch Tuesday preview
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Ryan Naraine: MS Tuesday heads-up: Critical IE, Exchange flaws Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 chiefs: We messed up ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-06
- BPEL bopped again: A vision unfulfilled, or lack of vision?
- BPEL bopped again: A vision unfulfilled, or lack of vision?How does this differ from XMI?Too many "standards"...RE: BPEL bopped again: A vision unfulfilled, or lack of vision?Joe, thanks for quoting my blog! The attention is appreciated. You do use my statements slightly out of context, but the general meaning does...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
- BPEL bopped again: A vision unfulfilled, or lack of vision?
- Has Business Process Execution Language BPEL, which has been around for several years now, moved any closer to assuming the role of de facto standard? Not by Max Pucher's estimates. Max took a hard look at the protocol, and found, in his opinion, industry-wide support to be...
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- More bus-bashing: ESBs are 'standards-based,' but not 'standardized'
- I guess the acronym "ESB" won't stand for "Enterprise Standards Bus" anytime soon. Neal Ford just published this piece on the ongoing travails of the enterprise service bus, making this interesting observation: that ESBs tend to be "'standards-based,' but not 'standardized.' An important distinction,...
- Blog posts 2009-01-23
- Open source thrives in downturn
- Collaboration initiatives are all about streamlining business processes, and the interfaces between legacy closed systems and open source stacks are an increasingly common place to find business collaboration environments. According to research firm Gartner, open source software is present in 85% of enterprises and the...
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Luton Borough Council Leverages Web Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Service
- Luton Borough Council wanted to meet government requirement for online delivery of council services while using existing technology to keep costs low and improve service quality and availability, and launch innovative new solutions to meet the needs of the borough and its citizens. The challenge was to gain accurate, up-to-date...
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- UFJIS Adopts SOA to Automate Workflows and Enable Quick and Efficient System Development
- UFJIS Co., Ltd. wanted to improve the speed at which applications could be developed, so that business users do not have to wait days or weeks for IT staff to complete system development tasks and ensure that all IT staff members can continue developing or maintaining systems when their colleagues...
- Case studies 2008-12-01
- Oracle Application Server 10g R3: Overview of New Features
- Oracle Application Server 10g R3 remains a major release of the core infrastructure underlying Oracle Fusion Middleware. Today, Oracle Application Server 10g R3 is the baseline SOA platform upon which the Oracle Fusion Middleware capabilities such as Oracle Business Rules, Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle Web Services Manager, Oracle Enterprise...
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Gartner: SOA sinking into trough of disillusionment
- Gartner: SOA sinking into trough of disillusionmentI don't what SOA is for ...but I DO know how to use SOAP and BPEL! That's the problem.No ROI = No Investment.I've told you this with every SOA post you've made. No businessman in his right mind is going to make an investment...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
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