Cloud

The ability to create different versions of hierarchies within Oracle Data Relationship Management (DRM) is one of the tool’s biggest benefits. The definition of a version is simply the grouping of hierarchies. This simple, yet effective, function allows organizations to create versions for several different types of scenarios: Grouping of hierarchies based on time periods […]

The digital workplace is undergoing a transformation, but company intranets are often left behind. Many organizations struggle to provide an engaging intranet experience, and many traditional intranet projects fail to meet organizational objectives. According to Gartner, “Since the emergence of the intranet in the mid-1990s, organizations have seen wave after wave of intranet failure, renewal, […]

Oracle Integration Cloud Service is a PaaS offering from Oracle. Since its introduction in 2014, the Oracle Integration Cloud Service has gained its position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Oracle Integration Cloud Service lets you connect to both cloud, and on-premises applications. With Oracle Integration Cloud Service, you can connect to all of the Oracle […]

There are three consolidation options in Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM): Consolidate All Consolidate All with Data Consolidate What each option does has been appropriately discussed in many articles, which also properly suggest to use the Consolidate All option sparingly. I wanted to share our experience on these consolidation methods. If the application design use […]

Elastic Beanstalk is a managed service from AWS which allows us to simplify the application setup and deployment on the cloud. Elastic Beanstalk is the fastest and easiest way to get the application up and running within few minutes.  The applications which are developed using one of the programming languages like Java, .Net, Python, PHP, […]

AWS – EBS Snapshot Scheduler  It is a best practice to regularly backup the Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) snapshot. EBS Snapshots are incremental, which means that only the blocks on the device that have been changed since the last snapshot are saved. EBS Snapshots are backed up by Amazon S3 […]

The Essbase Block Storage (BSO) database is a powerful calculation engine capable of executing oodles of formulae with very few lines of code. But there’s a catch. You need to learn how to do it right. A poorly written calculation in an Essbase BSO cube can yield some pretty spectacular results.  Here are a few […]

One of the unfortunate byproducts of the digital age is when cloud providers suffer major outages. In such situations, everything from email applications to social networking websites go offline, making even the simplest of technology tasks irrelevant. Even as cloud solutions improve, management of such solutions is still at the will of human error. Such […]

It seems a good time to talk about security as the WannaCry ransomware attack outbreak two weeks ago is spreading like a wildfire and leaving the world helpless with the kidnapped documents, images, and videos. Although the Data Security I am going to speak to is different from the File Security, there is one thing […]

11/27/17 UPDATE: The PowerApps team has finally rolled out the ability to update a lists default form with PowerApps. Though this post focuses on embedding in general, check out the walk through I did on how to customize the list form here Since PowerApps has gone into General Availability six months ago, I’ve been patiently waiting to hear […]

This week at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, the company announced major enhancements to Visual Studio Mobile Center, including support for Universal Windows Platform. Visual Studio Mobile Center is a cloud-based service that lets developers manage the mobile application lifecycle regardless of the platform. Using a tool such as Mobile Center speeds up the […]

Modern organizations face numerous pressures in the area of customer experience, including rising customer expectations, organizational velocity, and the abundance of customer data. Any misstep in managing the strategy and execution behind these business elements could result in lost revenue and positioning in the market. With digital transformation at the forefront of organizational priorities in […]