This is my first Blog entry on Oracle Blogs, so where do I start? How do you start a Blog? What do you deem important? What would people be interested in? I've been at Oracle for over sixteen years and worked across a range of products and industries and seen a lot of changes and I'd like to share some views and experiences.
The first question I get asked sometimes by customers and a question I ask myself frequently is 'What is Oracle's Unique Value Proposition?' How do we differentiate ourselves from the competition? Why would any customer make an investment in Oracle? I believe like Aristotle that "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." The value of Oracle is when you can leverage the sum of its parts into something bigger and better. This is the main theme that will run through this blog, I hope.
Data Integration Architectures
In my domain area of Data Integration, there are many different parts of our solution sets that touch other domain areas and form part of a greater solution set. This can be summarised below in a platform view of our solutions:
I would describe this as a product architecture view and this is by no means the full capability but illustrates some of the main components of our platform for managing information. It can be used to show where we have developed specific integration points between products and how they work together.
In the next posts, I will go through each of the component areas in more detail and show how they fit together.