Mala Ramakrishnan

At today’s speed of business, the need to bridge the gap between new ideas and their execution is increasing. The cloud has provided bridges for apps and data. And now, as Oracle’s Mala Ramakrishnan tells IDN, the cloud is delivering the latest bridge – a new business process automation platform to let companies cope with frequent, even ad hoc, changes – and drive faster innovation.

We’re empowering the business user to build out business applications at the speed at which they need to go to market,” Ramakrishnan says. “No longer are knowledge workers and line of business managers completely dependent on IT. They can now automate simple business processes—from design to deployment to testing to auditing.

In this Q&A, Mala Ramakrishnan, Director of Product Marketing at Oracle, answers questions about trends in API integration and management tools.

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Application Programming Interface (API) management is a newly defined space that is shaping the multi-channel strategy of enterprises across organizational boundaries. In this byline, Oracle's Mala Ramakrishnan will look at a comprehensive API management solution that helps organizations develop well-designed infrastructure that securely exposes APIs all the way to managing the front-end for adoption. The article will also touch on how organizations can outsource application enhancement by… Show more

Application Programming Interface (API) management is a newly defined space that is shaping the multi-channel strategy of enterprises across organizational boundaries. In this byline, Oracle's Mala Ramakrishnan will look at a comprehensive API management solution that helps organizations develop well-designed infrastructure that securely exposes APIs all the way to managing the front-end for adoption. The article will also touch on how organizations can outsource application enhancement by empowering developers through API adoption, as well as add a mobile front to applications to capture new revenue opportunities. Finally, the piece will examine how organizations can streamline business and IT objectives by managing the lifecycle of their APIs. Show less

Fully implemented core and common business processes deployed right out-of-the-box. Users hit the ground running with BPM. Leverage inbuilt best practices and domain expertise.
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The rapid pace of globalization, mobile & data revolution, and a flattening market brings a chance at unprecedented innovation and expansion for financial institutions. Business processes that are often at the heart of organizations are the basis for differentiation between financial institutions and are core to capitalizing on this innovation. However, often these business processes are rigid and built on outdated systems, making it impossible for organizations to keep up with a competitive… Show more

The rapid pace of globalization, mobile & data revolution, and a flattening market brings a chance at unprecedented innovation and expansion for financial institutions. Business processes that are often at the heart of organizations are the basis for differentiation between financial institutions and are core to capitalizing on this innovation. However, often these business processes are rigid and built on outdated systems, making it impossible for organizations to keep up with a competitive edge. Show less

With an increase in the number of mobile devices and the ubiquity of high speed connectivity, we are entering an era where organizations can change their game plan with responsiveness. There is an explosion of data generated by mobile devices – not just cell phones, but large volumes of data coming from implementations such as industrial and building control, e-health, smart grid and home automation that need support for edge devices like wireless modules for Machine to Machine communication… Show more

With an increase in the number of mobile devices and the ubiquity of high speed connectivity, we are entering an era where organizations can change their game plan with responsiveness. There is an explosion of data generated by mobile devices – not just cell phones, but large volumes of data coming from implementations such as industrial and building control, e-health, smart grid and home automation that need support for edge devices like wireless modules for Machine to Machine communication (M2M) and environmental sensors. However to be responsive, this large volume of high velocity data from varied sources has to be converted to actionable insight. In addition this data loses relevance with time. Fast Data is taking meaningful action on this large volume of data as it gets generated.

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Business Process Management (BPM) and data management have been attached at the hip for eons. A sound BPM solution cannot succeed without guaranteed and secure data management. And converting data to actionable insight requires human interaction and automation. BPM is what makes data meaningful.

Human beings have a very unique differentiation compared to all other living creatures. It is the power to discriminate, giving them freedom of choice. This is possible because humans minds are sophisticated and high performing event processing engines, constantly optimizing for survival and gain, while functioning in extremely complex scenarios.

Cloud computing is slowly gaining credibility and traction in the enterprise world. As giants such as Google and Amazon productize their massive cloud infrastructures, moving enterprise applications to the public cloud seems a more realistic possibility. The advantages of an enterprise application leveraging the public cloud sound like utopia - lowered total cost of ownership and overhead costs, ease of maintenance, inherent high availability and scalability that is built into the… Show more

Cloud computing is slowly gaining credibility and traction in the enterprise world. As giants such as Google and Amazon productize their massive cloud infrastructures, moving enterprise applications to the public cloud seems a more realistic possibility. The advantages of an enterprise application leveraging the public cloud sound like utopia - lowered total cost of ownership and overhead costs, ease of maintenance, inherent high availability and scalability that is built into the infrastructure. Yet when the theory of moving to the cloud is put into practice, the biggest hurdle that stalls the success of the transition is governance. This article analyzes its importance and the various aspects of governance in the realm of cloud computing. Show less

Typical business process management (BPM) projects span an organization’s people, departments, and systems, and planning strategies for success and managing change is critical. Learning from past BPM initiatives helps a new BPM project deliver on expectations—especially when that knowledge is encapsulated in a Center of Excellence (CoE). A CoE is an organizational structure that promotes collaboration and propagates best practices to deliver on business results. Ultimately, it is responsible… Show more

Typical business process management (BPM) projects span an organization’s people, departments, and systems, and planning strategies for success and managing change is critical. Learning from past BPM initiatives helps a new BPM project deliver on expectations—especially when that knowledge is encapsulated in a Center of Excellence (CoE). A CoE is an organizational structure that promotes collaboration and propagates best practices to deliver on business results. Ultimately, it is responsible for answering the questions that justify BPM: What impact has BPM had on the enterprise? How do you quantify that impact? Did the BPM implementation deliver on the organization’s expectations and goals? Organizations that have an established CoE have a much greater chance for a successful BPM implementation. Show less

A good business process should handle every possible eventuality and outcome. In today’s business world, however, exceptions are more the norm, as business processes integrate and interact with many different external systems and services and the human beings who interact with business processes are prone to error. Designing for every possible eventuality and exception can make a business process unnecessarily complicated. But what if the business process management (BPM) platform itself… Show more

A good business process should handle every possible eventuality and outcome. In today’s business world, however, exceptions are more the norm, as business processes integrate and interact with many different external systems and services and the human beings who interact with business processes are prone to error. Designing for every possible eventuality and exception can make a business process unnecessarily complicated. But what if the business process management (BPM) platform itself allowed for dynamic handling of unpredictability? What if it could allow the business process to take corrective action in case of exception? This article shows how to evaluate a BPM platform that allows handling of exceptions. Show less

A quick introduction to Business Process Modeling with TIBCO Business Studio

BPM is the promise of business transformation by maximizing the potential of turnkey business processes in any organization. But majority of organizations never realize this dream and land up restricting BPM to project silos at the departmental level. This is because succeeding at BPM involves a lot more than picking the right software vendor. One of the key factors to success with BPM involves leveraging several years of experience ironing out business processes for maximum performance and… Show more

BPM is the promise of business transformation by maximizing the potential of turnkey business processes in any organization. But majority of organizations never realize this dream and land up restricting BPM to project silos at the departmental level. This is because succeeding at BPM involves a lot more than picking the right software vendor. One of the key factors to success with BPM involves leveraging several years of experience ironing out business processes for maximum performance and establishing and enforcing best practices Show less