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March 2009 - Top Down vs Bottom Up Thinking
This month while talking to a student during a break, we agreed that many businesses still have issues communicating information through the management levels of the enterprise. This issue was particularly focused on IT and projects that fail due to this breakdown. As I was teaching a Business Analyst class at the time, my thoughts focused on what has been a decades old problem. Now, I am not an Organizational Psychologist, but it seems to me that a key issue is how we think and process information.
links for 2009-05-12
- Mastering SOA: Oracle Service Bus Explained "There's a lot of confusion towards the positioning of the Oracle Service Bus," says Oracle ACE Director Mike Van Alst. But in five short paragraphs Mike goes a long way toward clearing that confusion. (tags: servicebus fusionmiddleware oracle bea)
- Using Coherence as a Cache from a J2EE Web Application (Making Software Work) David Felcey gets down to the nuts and bolts of "how you should package your Web application so that it is a completely self contained Coherence client. " (tags: oracle coherence j2ee)
- Tangible Benefits of E2.0 - Part 2: The Good News (Fusion ECM) Billy Cripe continues his series with a quick look at research covering Enterprise 20, with a focus on three articles from the Journal of Product Innovation Management. (tags: enterprise2.0 research)
- Oracle VM Blog: Basics of Oracle VM (Oracle's Virtualization Blog) Honglin Su offers basic information on Oracle VM, on the difference between Oracle VM and RHEL Xen and how it's related to the open source Xen hypervisor. (tags: oraclevm Xen hypervisor virtualiztion)
- Highlights SOA Partner Community Forum VIII: Erl & Malmberg - May 5th & 6th 2009 (SOA Partner Adoption) Jurgen Kress offers notes on presentations by Thomas Erl and Linus Malmberg. (tags: soa soadesignpatterns thomaserl architecture)
Use a Navigator but KEEP THINKING
Some weeks ago we went to Austria for a ski-vacation. Because we can only plan a break during the school vacations there are some challenges to face.
One of the larger challenges is the journey to the resort an back. With 50% of the NL in vacation an many people traveling in the same week to Austria the roads are really crowded. This requires some careful planning and this where the problem starts.
The current practice is that drivers throw away their paper maps, take their navigator (Tom Tom / Navtec/ Garmin....) and let this device plan the trip. Most devices start with planning the shortest/fastest trip and use (dynamic) travel information to avoid traffic-jams as much as possible. The journey starts..... The effect, not only problems on the main roads but also on the secondary roads = chaos everywhere !
This year we tried a new approach. Yes we used the navigator + dynamic traffic planning but we also used a reliable advice from the ANWB (Royal Dutch Touring Club) who is very experienced in this field. They provided suggestions which road to take based on their experience, the planned work on the roads and weather conditions. During our journey we had a lot of 'arguments' with our navigator but at the end we saved 25% of the travel time compared with people who traveled using the guidance from their navigator.
Learning - there is an area for improvement in this field. Think ahead and keep thinking during the trip.... Ideally the traffic-info should be mixed with high-level advices from 'the field' people or organizations who have high-level knowledge about the topic.
This is exactly the point I would like to make in this blog.
More and more I see IT teams a consolidation phase where they let go(experience=expensive) people. The assumption is that this can be compensated by intelligent tools (the Navigators) provided by the Hardware and Software suppliers. True, this is an option for the short-term and not always targeted at your challenges, the golden 80% of the cases.
But do not forget that there is always a 20% of cases left that is responsible for 80% of the total costs. What is the plan to cover this ?
Here you could see if Support could provide help. Take a look at the next generation support Experience Did you explore the effectiveness of the Health Checks ? or what is your experience with the Communities in My Oracle Support. Consider to support your team by experienced people from Advanced Customer Services.
All valuable offerings provided by support to enable you to have a safe trip and save 25% of your costs.
Looking forward to your experiences!
Hans
ADF and WLS10.3
I get this lots and lots, "How do I deploy an ADF11g app on Weblogic Server 11g". The answer is pretty easy however we are getting more questions that we really ought to..
The best source of knowledge is Duncan Mills blog @
Failing that ping us!
Deployment in Oracle B2B
Refer to Chapter 13 on Creating and Deploying a configuration.
Deployment through Script
The following sql stmt makes the agreements available for deployment.
SQL> update tip_agreement_t set lifecyclestate='Approved';
It is possible to write a script encapsulating the following public API.
ip/setenv.bat
java oracle.tip.configuration.ConfigurationManager
-standalone -- To create configuration based on all approved agreement.
java oracle.tip.configuration.ConfigurationManager -standalone
-deploy
-abort
-discard
-retire
-reactivate
-queryName
-queryStatus
-quiesce
-quiesce allActive
ECM & Architecture goes together like milk & cereal
This is the first post to my ECM & Architecture blog. I will be blogging about Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Oracle's Universal Content Management (UCM) products, ECM architecture and architecture in general.
I'm a Technical Director in Oracle Consulting's Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) delivery practice. I worked at Stellent for 4 years before joining Oracle in 2007 as part of the Stellent acquisition.
On a lot of projects we are in such a rush to get something implemented that we don't spend enough time thinking through the architecture and planning for future use of the system. You then end up coming back in 6 months or a year and having to redo some of the underlying architecture and infrastructure to accommodate what should have been expected extensions of the system.
In future posts I will talk about why architecture is important and specific features of a good architecture can help make your ECM projects successful.
Configuring Audit Vault on E-Business Suite (Track Application user)
Work in progress !!
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