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And the Winner Is…

The comparison between the bag of cash representing a MINI Cooper S and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is kind of fun. JBoss EAP 7 — like a MINI Cooper S — is small, agile, fast, and fits easily in appropriately-…

What’s new in Office 365 administration—June update

Additional user management options, enhanced export capabilities and better guidance on next steps are some of the improvements we focused on in June to improve existing features in the new Office 365 admin center. Of course, we …

The 5 insider secrets to mobile productivity in 2016

Creating a mobile workforce with a high level of supportive technology is one of the best things an organization can do to engage its employees. Specifically, a recent study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit showed th…

Representative Line: The Validation Regex

Regular expressions are a powerful tool for validating inputs, but what if your input is itself a regular expression? Is there a regular expression that can validate regular expressions? Well, yes, if your regular expression en…

Force Text to UpperCase in RichInputText as the user is typing (make sure the cursor stays in one place)

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 lowercase character they type into its uppercase equivalent – as they…

Corporate Communications: Four Steps to Choosing the Right Communication Channel

Habits are one of the most powerful forces in society. Once people get stuck into a groove, it can determine their behavior for years to come and can make a big difference to their life – positive or negative. As Charles Duhigg p…

Digitization = robots = job losses . This popular view of digitization in the workplace has many flaws, not least of which is that it doesn’t separate automation from “augmentation,” or innovations that create new markets and ne…

Mike Piech and Rich Sharples on Facebook LIVE from Red Hat Summit

Rich Sharples, senior director of product management, and Mike Piech, vice president of marketing, got together for a half hour at the end of the Summit day today to discuss some of the major issues that have come out related to …

Howto create a private 10 Gb network on an ODA X5-2

In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network to optimize network performance between the components running on an Oracle Database Appliance. I am talking abou…

When the senior executives that run the operations functions of big financial services firms are asked what they want from their middle managers, they will routinely say, “lead more and do less.” What they tend to mean is they n…

Social media: the heartbeat of every small business content marketing strategy

As the importance of content marketing grows, more and more small businesses are investing time and money into developing different types of content for their customers. However, many are forgetting two simple words: social medi…

Communicators have multiple platforms and channels at their fingertips when it comes to reaching employees with important messages. Yet that luxury of choice can feel like a trap – as the amount of choice has grown, it’s become m…

Analyze This

When asked to choose among several possible tools to do a job, qualified technical people look at the manual and test to see if the tool actually does what they need it to do. Is it reasonably configurable? Must it have root priv…

Some CIOs and enterprise architecture (EA) pros believe that business process management (BPM) is on the opposite side of agility -- but they don't realize that BPM technology itself is also evolving. Agility-oriented BPM pla…

Red Hat Summit: Tuesday Recap

Tuesday was the first official day of Red Hat Summit. (DevNation started on Monday.) There is a lot going on in middleware, down a lot of different tracks — application development, business automation, integration. Tuesday had …

JBoss EAP 7 Fast and Sporty: The Cash / Car Giveaway

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 is small, agile, fast, and fits easily in appropriately-sized containers. There are a number of ways we’re showing our pride for the JBoss EAP 7 launch here at Summit, but one of th…

Red Hat Summit: Monday Recap

Yesterday was an incredibly exciting day at the DevNation general session. Two major things occurred (out of half a dozen things) related to middleware at Red Hat: The  long anticipated release of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Appli…

New to Office 365 in June—Microsoft Planner general availability, inking on Android devices, security features for Office 365 and more

Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office team. June has been another busy month of updates across our Office apps on Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. We reached new milestones for Micr…

3 new Sway capabilities for Office 365 subscribers

In the 10 months since Sway ’s general availability, we’ve seen great interest in our digital storytelling app, with millions of Sways created to date! We’ve seen music companies , design firms and small businesses use Sway for…