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Oracle GoldenGate Patterns

March 29, 2011

In 2009 Oracle acquired a company called GoldenGate. GoldenGate offered software for real time data integration. The Oracle GoldenGate product is often mistaken for an ETL tool, but this is not what it is. But where can the value for Oracle GoldenGate be found? When we look at the possibilities of real time data integration, [...]

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Fast-track SOA implementations using Oracle Application Integration Architecture

March 25, 2011

The last few weeks at my new employer I’ve been diving into something very interesting: Oracle Application Integration Architecture. This package based solution for application integration really is impressive. The thing is: not only integration between standard Oracle packages can benefit from this approach, but every service-oriented architecture project could, potentially, gain from the knowledge [...]

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Review: Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook

February 25, 2011

A week ago I received a new Oracle APEX book from Packt Publishing with the question to review it and tell the world about the book. The Oracle APEX 4.0 Cookbook is just released and written by Marcel van der Plas and Michel van Zoest, both (ex-)colleagues of me. Because of their extended insight knowledge [...]

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Agility as a Goal, not as Means

December 14, 2010

Agile. Within the Software Development business we look at the principle mostly as a way to deliver functional solutions to the business. Agile Software Development. But rarely we look at the solution itself to be agile. Is this the right way to look at our business? Isn’t the solution itself the highest goal? (Which, in [...]

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Result: IT Strategies from Oracle

December 10, 2010

Two weeks ago I published a Whitebook about one of the best new publications for architects by Oracle. The IT Strategies from Oracle. I’ve got quite a few good responses to the article and I’m really excited about the library and Oracle Reference Architecture framework. So I would like to share it with you too. [...]

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The reason why Business and IT don’t get along

October 22, 2010

Business and IT working together is supposed to be a tough challenge. But why? Is IT that complicated that we cannot make the end users understand what their gain in it will be? Or is it that we simply can’t make ourselves understandable. Both. As I said earlier, Business and IT alignment isn’t a real-live [...]

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