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Oracle buys AmberPoint for SOA management
Oracle on Monday fattened up its already burgeoning middleware stack, announcing Monday that it has purchased SOA (service oriented architecture) management vendor AmberPoint. Terms were not disclosed.Aussie Oracle employee wins award for doctoral work
A University of Sydney alumnus and Oracle employee has been awarded a prize for his research into database management.FSANZ wants new modeling and analysis platform
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is looking to replace its legacy database with a new modeling and analysis platform.Guarding against database anti-forensics
Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect because of the increasingly sophisticated anti-forensic procedures hackers use to cover their tracks.Oracle sheds new light on future of Sun technologies
Oracle has provided new details about its plans for certain key Sun Microsystems technologies, including the GlassFish application server and the NetBeans application development toolkit.
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SOA Helps a Music Promoter Keep the Hits Coming
As with paper and plastic, "reduce, reuse, recycle" works for software. Especially when you're a small company in a cutthroat business, where squeezing as much life as you can out of an IT infrastructure can mean the difference between breathing easy and landing on the garbage heap.SOA Security: The Basics
Diving into Service Oriented Architecture? Vordel's Mark O'Neill covers basic SOA security threats and defenses--and explains how security helps increase SOA's business benefits.Rich Internet apps that double as desktop apps
Finding a single development environment for all purposes has so far proven an unattainable goal. But with the advent of rich Internet applications (RIA), development nirvana gets a bit closer.Why traditional security doesn't work for SOA
Many organizations are embracing SOA as a way to increase application flexibility, make integration more manageable, lower development costs, and better align technology systems to business processes. The appeal of SOA is that it divides an organization's IT infrastructure into services, each of which implements a business process consumable by users and services.
Whitepapers
Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing
By Oracle | 2/12/2009
Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact on the end user experience. Read more now.
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2009 OAUG ResearchLine Survey | Performance Under Pressure: The State of Enterprise Web Application Quality and Availability
By Oracle | 2/12/2009
On the following pages are OAUG survey results, which sought managers' and professionals' perspectives, both as external customers of e-business sites, as well as caretakers of their own online operations. Read results from 526 survey takers now.
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Composite Application Management: Bridging the IT Visibility Gap in Complex Composite Applications
By Oracle | 2/12/2009
Today's composite applications require a new management approach that dynamically correlates application services with the shared code components supporting those services. Increase application flexibility - read on now.
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Agile Foundation for Competitive Advantage | Speed, Innovation, and Efficiency in Financial Services
By Oracle | 2/12/2009
The ongoing evolution in retail and wholesale payments markets is putting huge pressure on financial institutions and communities. Want to benefit from decreased time to market and application development costs, with increased reliability? Read on.
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A Revolution in Agility: Business Integration Through Service-Oriented Architecture
By Oracle | 28/10/2009
Wondering how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition? The solution is business integration. Read more...
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Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance
By Oracle | 28/10/2009
This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. Read on to explore the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle.
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State of the Business Process Management Market 2008
By Oracle | 28/10/2009
To help customers better understand the market, this white paper draws upon more than 1000 analyst reports, to explore the rise of BPM, its current trajectory, and trends to watch. The early adopters of BPM have much to share - read on.
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A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid
By Oracle | 21/9/2009
Today middleware is a broad category of software that includes application servers, transaction monitors, collaboration software and management tools for controlling mid-tier resources. Want to build a dynamic infrastructure? Read on now.
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A Solid Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture
By Oracle | 21/9/2009
This paper discusses how Java EE 5 dramatically speeds the development of SOA applications and how enterprise developers can leverage its power by using WebLogic Server. Service-oriented architecture has sparked an IT revolution - read how to make the most of it.
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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid
By Oracle | 21/9/2009
Responsible companies are turning to a new concept called application grid, an infrastructure layer beneath the application layer that pools and dynamically provisions the resources, to run their data centres more efficiently. Is this right for you? Read on.
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Justifying Business Intelligence Applications: A white paper exploring the Buy vs. Build argument
By Oracle | 18/9/2009
This white paper explores the decision criteria used in a build vs. buy scenario when considering the Oracle BI Applications. The major benefits of the BI Applications will be discussed in the framework of an overall buy vs. build argument.
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Whitepapers
A Middleware Foundation for Application Grid
By Oracle | 21/9/2009
Today middleware is a broad category of software that includes application servers, transaction monitors, collaboration software and management tools for controlling mid-tier resources. Want to build a dynamic infrastructure? Read on now.
Download this now
Right from the Start: SOA Lifecycle Governance
By Oracle | 28/10/2009
This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. Read on to explore the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle.
Download this now
Justifying Business Intelligence Applications: A white paper exploring the Buy vs. Build argument
By Oracle | 18/9/2009
This white paper explores the decision criteria used in a build vs. buy scenario when considering the Oracle BI Applications. The major benefits of the BI Applications will be discussed in the framework of an overall buy vs. build argument.
Download this now
A Revolution in Agility: Business Integration Through Service-Oriented Architecture
By Oracle | 28/10/2009
Wondering how to become—and remain—agile enough to satisfy ever-increasing customer expectations and accommodate new compliance mandates, all while staying ahead of the competition? The solution is business integration. Read more...
Download this now
Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A Better Way to do Load Testing
By Oracle | 2/12/2009
Rapid bottleneck identification (RBI) is a new testing methodology that allows quality assurance (QA) professionals to very quickly uncover Web application performance limitations and determine the impact on the end user experience. Read more now.
Download this now
