Duke's Corner

What were the hot sessions in the Cloud track at Collab15? Participants in the track discuss their favorites.

Members of the IOUG Cloud Computing SIG and Collab15 Cloud track participants discuss how the conversation about cloud has evolved.

The cloud middle tier and private cloud were hot topics of conversation at Collab15. Members of the IOUG Cloud SIG discuss what's behind the interest.

The panel discussion concludes with a look at the artefacts within a Docker container.

The panel discusses how combining containers like Docker with continuous delivery pipelines provides the ability to deliver small, incremental changes into production.

Is Docker ready for prime time? An expert panel discusses the pros and cons, and the importance of the ecosystem around Docker containers.

Docker 4X5. Part one of this four-part discussion by five experts looks at Docker basics.

The big picture: It's important to manage APIs, but don't lose sight of other assets in your portfolio.

API Management is nothing new... or is it? This panel of experts discusses what's percolating in API Management, and offers tips on making it all more... manageable.

The round table concludes with a discussion of service oriented architecture, SOA governance, and the roots of API Management.

Roll up your sleeves: The panelists discuss their experience using Oracle's new API management tools in the real world.

Experts Eric Helmer, John Booth, and Rob Donahue provide a little background on Oracle EPM, and then share some of the reasons their clients give for embarking on an EPM upgrade.

EPM pros Eric Helmer, John Booth, and Rob Donahue discuss what's new and upcoming in the EPM space, and look at developing trends.

Panelists Eric Helmer, John Booth, and Rob Donahue conclude their discussion of what's new in the EPM space, and then close out the series with a look at the anatomy of an EPM upgrade project.

Where do we go from here? How much impact will microservices have in the future?

The panel discusses basic differences and similarities between microservices and service-oriented architecture.

The discussion of basic differences and similarities between microservices and SOA continues.

The Ivory Tower and the Street: Two views of Microservices.

Each member of an expert panel lays out a scenario in which theirs is the ideal solution for customizing the Oracle EBS user experience is ideal.

Each member of the expert panel makes a final argument for their respective solutions for customizing the Oracle EBS user experience.

APEX? Forms? OBI? Excel? Four experts argue the relative merits of various solutions for customizing the Oracle EBS user experience.

A panel of business intelligence experts sits down for a wide-ranging and candid discussion of Oracle Data Integrator.

The panel closes out the conversation with a look at the evolution of data integration tools.

The conversation by this panel of business intelligence experts turns to Oracle 12c and enterprise performance management.

Five business intelligence experts discuss migration from Oracle Warehouse Builder to Oracle Data Integrator.

A panel of experts discusses the basics of ACM and how it relates to Business Process Management.

The expert panel discusses the forces that are driving the evolution in Adaptive Case Management.

What business domains are driving the adoption of Adaptive Case Management? What are some of the common missteps in that adoption?

Oracle ACE Directors Debra Lilley and Jonathan Lewis and Oracle ACE Kashif Manzoor preview two very special sessions being presented as part of Oracle User Group Forum at Oracle OpenWorld 2014.

Why taking an "API" approach is important in building an agile data factory.

The panel discusses how new thinking and new technologies were the catalyst for a new approach to business intelligence projects.

Shadow IT, "sandboxing," and how organizational changes are driving the evolution in information management architecture.

Members of the team of behind Kscope 2014 share insight on the conference and discuss dominant themes and hallway memes.

Kscope 2014 organizers and presenters share their thoughts on the event's hot sessions.

There is more to a great user conference than a shared interest in Oracle products. Kscope 2014 organizers discuss the nature and importance of community.

Is the Cloud hype cycle over? Real world experience suggests that the hype wasn't hype.

Cloud awareness and understanding has matured, but some questions and confusion remain among those coming late to the cloud party.

Organizers of the Cloud Computing Track at Collaborate 2014 discuss the evolving maturity of questions, conversations, and presentations about Cloud.

Cloud represents a new way to do IT. But will it become the only way to do IT?

Looking to the future: anticipating cloud conversations at Oracle Open World.

What can you do to future-proof efforts to bring mobility to the enterprise; resources for learning more about the role Oracle ADF Mobile can play in developing enterprise mobile applications.

Preparing the enterprise back end to support a mobile strategy has benefits beyond mobile; How mobile is reinvigorating the SOA world.

Bridging the gap between existing developer skills and the specific skills needed to develop successful enterprise mobile applications may not be as difficult as you think.

A panel of experts in mobile app development and Oracle ADF Mobile share their insight into meeting the challenges of developing mobile apps for the enterprise.

Many services are poorly architected, say these experts. Don't worry, they have a plan.

What effect does the ease of acquiring services in the cloud have on the existence of development silos? What role can SOA principles play?

What is the relationship between SOA and Cloud Computing? How is that relationship changing? Is the Cloud changing SOA?

There's big, and then there's BIG. Experts discuss the challenges of keeping up with coming data explosion.

Big data experts discuss how Oracle Database fits into a Big Data Architecture, and share insight on a persistent problem in technology adoption.

What distinguishes an architecture that is ready for Big Data from one that is not? What are some of the typical mistakes organizations make as they take their first steps toward big data?