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.

Oracle Enhances Primavera P6 EPPM and Contract Management

New Usability, Integration and Collaboration Capabilities Enable Organizations to Successfully Deliver Projects of Any Size and Complexity

Java Champion Q & A: Yakov Fain On Enterprise Software

Java Champion Yakov Fain shares his views on Java EE complexity, Java's future, his favorite developer books, and more in this interview. Link to the original site

Software is Hard

Photo by jared on Flickr used under Creative Commons 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 [...]

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. Link to the original site

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 you seek [...]

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 are responding [...]

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. Link to the original site

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 [...]