Author: Lucas Jellema
While web applications and mobile apps are the common channels for user interaction, they are not the only ones. Oracle is recognizing that fact and as a result MCS …
The new 12cR2 release of Oracle Database had already been announced and discussed at length over the past year. And now it is finally available. And only as cloud …
User Experience (UX) is a broad term that represents many different interactions humans can have with computer systems. Traditionally UX has been largely based on desktop terminal and keyboard, …
Undeniably, microservices is an extremely hot term. A bandwagon almost every product team at Oracle seems eager to be jumping on to. It is hard to give a concise …
One of the very first capabilities Oracle ever introduced in its PaaS portfolio was integration. It was clear from the onset of any talk about clouds that facilities to …
APIs are hot. Public APIs are an enterprise’s programmatic interface to B2B partners, governments and other stakeholders including app and web builders. Internally, APIs are the touch points for …
On premises BPM Suite has been Oracle’s flagship product for business process automation for many years. Based on the industry standard of BPMN and tightly integrated with SOA Suite …
Custom applications with a user interface can be categorized along various dimensions. Is the user interface a front end for a system of record or a system of change …
Talk of the town during Oracle OpenWorld 2016 definitely included the term Machine Learning. Machine learning was mentioned in every other session it seemed. Sometimes fully justified – and …
Oracle has a broad SaaS portfolio: ready to run business applications that support enterprises in most common aspects of running a business. The flagship SaaS product line is based …
The key theme of Oracle OpenWorld 2016 was Infrastructure . Bigger, better, faster than Amazon WebServices – and cheaper as well. That was the message Oracle tried to drive …
In addition to offering infrastructure services from the cloud, Oracle continues to extend its line of engineered systems. The high end consists of SuperCluster and Exadata, ExaLogic and Exalytics …
Building up a public cloud is quite a challenge. Oracle has faced and overcome many challenges – and it has built up tremendous momentum to tackle the current challenge. …
The IT evolution discussed in my previous article, also resulted in the concept of the cloud. Hard to define exactly, there is general understand that the cloud refers to …
Of course we take all reasonable measures to ensure only people we know gain access to our systems and our data (confidentiality through authentication) and that they do so …
The backdrop for Oracle OpenWorld 2016 – or indeed all IT conferences – is the constant evolution in IT. On many levels – from hardware to philosophy – the …
This is a short article about a big topic. About how JET Composite Components – small or pretty substantial – can be reused and integrated, not only in other …
Apache Spark made numerous appearances in many different sessions during Oracle OpenWorld 2016. It is clear that Oracle is very much embracing and leveraging and endorsing Spark at various …
Events are quite relevant in modern computer architecture. At various levels of the stack. Events can represent various things – from IoT based measurements and logistical updates to web …
The Oracle PaaS cloud is turning into the next generation application server platform. More specifically: Oracle has announced the roadmap for the Application Container Cloud Service (not to be …
The next major release of the Oracle Database has always been a big thing. Last year at Oracle OpenWorld , a lot of sessions were dedicated to Release 2 …
One of the interesting tidbits, somewhat hidden away in Thomas Kurian’s keynote presentation last week at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, is a new member of the Oracle PaaS Cloud Services …
Oracle Database Release 12c (12.1) introduced a new operator that we can use in SQL queries. The MATCH_RECOGNIZE operator allows us to detect patterns in our relational data. Specifically: …
Bryn Llewellyn (Distinguished Product Manager, Database Division, Oracle) presented at OOW2016 on new features in PL/SQL in Oracle Database 12cR2. One of the features that stood out was a …
One of those things SQL developers are frequently looking at is the generation of rows: having a query return records that do not really exist. For example to generate …
This weekend, while preparing for a demo during Oracle OpenWorld 2016, I found a for me new way of publishing a new application to Application Container Cloud: through Storage …
While working on my Ionic 2 application, I made use of the exif.js library (for extracting meta-data from image files). Some of the key functions in this library are …
While working on a Ionic 2 (and Angular 2) application, I needed to make use of a 3rd party library (exif – https://github.com/exif-js/exif-js – to be exact, a JavaScript …
It has been a long standing ambition of mine to create an app that I could run on my iPhone. This weekend I finally realized that ambition – in …
The challenge is simple: users of an ADF Faces web application are only allowed to enter uppercase characters into a field. We want to help them by turning any …
Below you will find an overview of all the sessions that took place at the AMIS25 Beyond the Horizon conference (1-3 June 2016, Katwijk, The Netherlands) along with the …
The Oracle Storage Cloud Service is an IaaS offering that underpins every other PaaS Cloud Service from Oracle. I have been using this service – largely indirectly – with …
Dear manager or team leader of Oracle professionals, If you have Oracle professionals in your team –whether they are DBAs, PL/SQL developers or Middleware & ADF specialists – in …
Beste Oracle professional, Of je nu PL/SQL ontwikkelaar bent, DBA, ADF ontwikkelaar of SOA Suite specialist, de nieuwsgierigheid blijft altijd kriebelen. Hoop ik. Je wilt beter worden in je …
My Oracle Public Cloud DBaaS instance did not respond. On closer investigation, it turned out to be down. Mounting the database ended with an ORA-3113 End of Communication Channel. …
Transferring data between technologies and application tiers is done using various formats – binary, native on the one hand and open, text based such as CSV, XML and JSON …
My objective: be able to very quickly run Node.js applications that can connect to an Oracle Database – with minimal disturbance of my laptop environment (Windows 7). The solution …
Node applications may want to have access to databases – similar to access to the file system, external APIs over HTTP and other resources. Just like Java applications use …
The launch of Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight – a name that suggests Larry’s direct involvement in naming the product – marks the moment at which the integration product …
The Oracle Integration Cloud Service – ICS – comes loaded with a rich collection of Cloud Adapters. These adapters facilitate the integration with SaaS applications and internet services of …
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