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Oracle Business Intelligence 11g: do you smell something fishy?

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 7 July, 2010 11:27

Oracle used Old Billingsgate fish market to brief the press, analyst and customer community on its forthcoming Business Intelligence 11g offering this morning. There wasn't much of a smell of fish left in the auditorium thankfully. In fact, David Callaghan senior VP UK & Eire kicked off straight away by using a nice link to the market itself and Business Intelligence by citing an old saying attributed to the... Read more

Oracle does JavaOne and Develop 2010

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 7 July, 2010 07:22

I'm with Oracle this week for some developer related news, which I hope to report on later today. This is in fact my first exposure to Oracle in recent times. It seems to have all been a bit quiet since "the deal" was announced back in April 2009.

So what's been happening?

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Well, I attended Sun's JavaOne 2009 event in San Francisco last year and it was all quite emotional to be honest.... Read more

ERP and the wasted transaction dilemma

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 5 July, 2010 11:12

Business transaction-related electronic information flow has spiraled to new heights. Companies operate on the aggregated results of millions of 'events' and the prevalence of web services has served to further swell the volumes of data that must be extrapolated, interpreted and processed at any one time.

Who has profited from this reality? Well, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and complex event processing... Read more

Electoral reform for application databases

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 2 July, 2010 12:15

With all this talk of electoral reform in the air, is it too tenuous a link to ask whether we need a fresh approach to multiple platform database aggregation? Could that "single view of disparately located data" become even harder to achieve as the cloud gains its inevitable virtual foothold?

Do we need a fairer system of proportional representation for data?

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I'm gonna make you a web search offer that you can't refuse

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 30 June, 2010 10:58

This blog could quite easily have been called – Just How Much Of A Security Risk Does User Generated Content (UGC) Represent? It was late last night when I was checking mail that I was offered a link to "Find Out Who Blocked You On Facebook" by someone I trust implicitly.

Thankfully my malware radar is working well these days and I immediately copied it to my friend and asked if it was spam, which of course... Read more

When is a hack not a hack?

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 28 June, 2010 13:27

Question: when is a hack not a hack? Answer: it depends. Initially, I would blog here about ethical hacking. You know the kind of thing; big corporations like IBM like to talk about these guys. Reformed script kiddies who have seen the light and now drive M-series BMWs as a result of their nicely paid gig inside one or other corporate shell where they act as 'consultants'.

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The "Consumable" Cloud, Red Hat Flavoured

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 25 June, 2010 10:53

Red Hat served up a smorgasbord worth of announcements this week to coincide with its developer summit in Boston, USA. As well as the positive effect on the company's bottom line that Red Hat's JBoss middleware appears to be having, there was plenty of deep dive news to nibble on too. So what were the entrées and how many side dishes were there?

One of the more popular discussion points in the field of cloud... Read more

The business challenge for social networking software

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 23 June, 2010 11:01

Given the widespread popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, technology analysts and commentators have for some time now been debating over their use in the commercial workplace. The argument rests on whether they provide a means to facilitate improved team engagement as a "collaborative" networking tool, or whether they are simply a distraction.

The question is – if it's going to... Read more

Traffic lights for web developers

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 21 June, 2010 13:02

The recent rumblings from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano proved too much for the FlightRadar24 website which eventually ground to a halt. So did this teach web developers a thing or two?

Probably not unfortunately – but it did get one or two load balancing specialists trying to jump on the dust cloud bandwagon and talk about traffic management rules and flexible application health monitoring.

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Mind The "consumption" Gap

Posted by Adrian Bridgwater on 18 June, 2010 11:16

Any news story that starts with the term 'Powerful project portfolio management (PPM) and professional services automation products' has way too many letter P's for starters and is likely to confuse the bejesus out of most of us – I would like to politely argue.

But seemingly undeterred by this challenge, Compuware has chosen to use this precise term to describe its Changepoint 2010 team collaboration... Read more

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