Cloud

Continuous deployment and release are key components of the DevOps process, offering technology teams the opportunity to provide customers with the necessary updates and innovations to maintain customer satisfaction and interest. As this process becomes more rushed, organizations have become more interested in solutions that automate the entire process. Having worked with numerous clients, we […]

Spend any time on this blog and you’ll read about how I believe in the cultural transformation cloud has to offer. From the increased financial flexibility to the more innovative development teams, the customizable approach to cloud results in positive outcomes that prepare organizations for the future. Culture is a fuzzy concept that takes an […]

Integrated Cloud is the new buzz word at Oracle Open World 2016.  Integrated Cloud was all you heard on the streets.  The beauty of the suite of products Oracle has available in the Cloud in many cases integration is not needed.  The Cloud (or sometimes referred to as Fusion) architecture share the same database.  It […]

Over on our Integrate blog, we’ve been discussing the cultural impacts of cloud on an organization as researched by John R. Rymer, et al, of research firm Forrester. Titled Tackling the Cultural Challenges of Agile and DevOps Transformation, the white paper tackles the organizational challenges of adopting DevOps while also exploring salient resolutions. As you […]

Last week at Oracle OpenWorld, I happened across a demo station related to Oracle REST Data Services.  While I have used Oracle Application Express (APEX) and its implementation of Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) previously to deploy REST based web services, this demo intrigued me since it was utilizing SQL Developer (version 4.1+) to do the […]

Oracle sales cloud provides us with the help option which will enable us to get assistance on the application components.  On certain occasion the developer may come across a situation where custom help needs to be defined relevant to the application or for the other developers who are not so familiar with the project. To […]

As your legacy infrastructure reaches its end-of-life, you might be thinking about what’s next. With so many choices on the market and strategic directions to take, sometimes you might feel like the next step to take is to throw up your hands and just upgrade what you have already. Knowing that your competitors are heading […]

Many robo-advisors are thriving with growing customer bases. Not only are they flourishing, they’re partnering with – and in some cases being acquired by – traditional institutions that offer wealth management services. Take UBS, for example. The company’s wealth management division recently formed a strategic alliance with SigFig, a robo-advisor that will help develop solutions […]

The Manage Administrator Profile Values task in Setup and Maintenance is an excellent tool for troubleshooting issues throughout any of the Fusion applications. There have been several scenarios where access levels have been removed or a simple configuration may have been missing. For a majority of these scenarios, the answer was found in this task […]

Oracle announced a new subscription based machine called Oracle Cloud @ Customer. In this model, the same Public Cloud PaaS offering that Oracle currently offers in their Cloud Infrastructure, is now available at the Customer’s location. With this model, the customer can leverage their own data center and keep the cloud behind their firewall. Just […]

In my last post, I described the methods of reporting from Oracle Cloud (Fusion) Apps.  In that post I illustrated the advantage of using BICS and Data Sync to provide a true Enterprise Data Warehouse due to its abilities to integrate data from all our your cloud, relational, big data and flat file sources.  This […]

I love headlines like this: J.P. Morgan Creates Executive Role to Lead Cloud Services. It helps me understand what’s important to a company and tells me that a company’s focus area is real. As financial services companies continue their efforts to become more efficient in a time in which regulatory demands and low interest rates […]