Software is Hard

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I’m convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is great for enterprise software.
I’m similarly convinced that innovation on the consumer side of the web is terrible for enterprise software.
Reading Marc Benioff’s post “The Facebook Imperative” on TechCrunch last week reminded me of these mutually-exclusive conclusions.
On the [...]

Drive Complexity Out of Your Datacenter Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Connectors For HP

Hear how Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Connectors for HP OpenView Operations, HP ServiceCenter, and HP Service Manager enable IT organizations to seamlessly integrate Oracle Enterprise Manager with HP management tools, to support key processes, consolidate monitoring information, and reduce the overall cost of managing IT systems and applications.

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Coming Soon! Oracle Global Trade Management Solutions

An exciting new solution offering, Oracle Global Trade Management helps companies manage the Has the complexity of worldwide trade compliance while also mitigating compliance risk and uncovering supply chain inefficiencies. Oracle Global Trade Management helps organizations lower operational costs and improve network efficiencies by created barriers and roadblocks in your business processes? Do [...]

Sustainability Reporting, Planning, and Management

Sustainability Reporting, also referred to as the Triple Bottom Line, is the reporting of environmental, social and economic metrics to external and internal stakeholders. Tune into this conversation with John O’Rourke,* *Senior Director, Product Marketing for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Solutions to learn what is driving the need for this reporting, how companies [...]

Application Management Packs Provide Customers with Additional Functionality

By combining PeopleSoft management and monitoring with Oracle’s rich and comprehensive system’s management solution, the Application Management Pack for PeopleSoft Enterprise significantly reduces the cost and complexity of managing a PeopleSoft environment. Cliff discuses these capabilities with Jeff Robbins, Oracle’s Senior Director of PeopleTools Strategy.

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Eight Theses

A recent post by Tim Bray started a conversation on a mailing list that I enjoy lurking (and occasionally commenting) on. In “Doing It Wrong”, Tim laments the complexity of “enterprise systems”, and the heavy-weight processes and cultures that surround them. Now I may be fairly evil to point this out, but Tim is widely [...]

Can Cloud standards be saved?

Then: Web services standards
One of the most frustrating aspects of how Web services standards shot themselves in the foot via unchecked complexity is that plenty of people were pointing out the problem as it happened. Mark Baker (to whom I noticed Don Box also paid tribute recently) is the poster child. I remember Tom Jordahl [...]

Can Cloud standards be saved?

Then: Web services standards
One of the most frustrating aspects of how Web services standards shot themselves in the foot via unchecked complexity is that plenty of people were pointing out the problem as it happened. Mark Baker (to whom I noticed Don Box also paid tribute recently) is the poster child. I remember Tom Jordahl [...]

What Do You Think of the iPad?

In case you were unplugged, Apple announced a tablet last week, called the iPad.
By now, the jokes have died down and the geek world has been furiously dissecting the pros and cons of the iPad. It’s what we do.
My quick take is the same as its been for a while: I don’t need a gadget [...]

Streamline and Secure your Oracle Applications with Oracle’s Identity Management and Data Security solutions

It seems to be the season for online webcasts and seminars. Another series about to start looks at how Oracle security solutions can help customers using any of the Oracle applications. Tomorrow is the first of a 4-part iSeminar series to learn how Oracle Identity Management and Data Security solutions are helping our Oracle E-Business [...]