Cloud

By now, the arrival of cloud computing is a foregone conclusion. Enterprises now faced with the changing information technology landscape have employed strategies to adjust, exploring public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions. Research from IDC corroborates these activities, with the firm reporting that by 2018, more than half of IT spending will be cloud-related. Leading […]

What is that? It is a Java based program, and is used to push data from one HFM application to another HFM application. When will I need it? – Have a need to push data from one HFM application to consolidated application. – Don’t want to create a new automated solution from scratch to solve […]

At Collaborate 16, Pawan Kumar from Perficient presents the key characteristics that benefit adopters of Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) and Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise (OTBI-E). Below are the main points I am highlighting from Pawan’s session that help differentiate between the two products and shed some light on how each product is most […]

Digital transformation is not just a buzzword, it is a business imperative. Understandably so, digital transformation can be an intimidating phrase. What is it? What does it mean for me and my organization? How do we get started? These may be a few of the questions swirling in your heads. Our new infographic takes a […]

There are several ways of integrating data with Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS). While some of these are tailored for end users and therefore offer agility and ease of use, others are targeted to scale and support automation. In my Collaborate 16 session tomorrow, I will be going through the different techniques and demos of […]

The term DevOps is still relatively new to the technology industry. The definition of DevOps isn’t really as clear as is for Agile Development Methodology. For many teams and organizations DevOps is a sort of unobtainable mythical beast; a unicorn if you will. Although, DevOps is obtainable for any team so long as the necessary […]

Food brings friends, families, and colleagues together. With warmer weather and days that stretch deeper into the evenings ahead of us, there will be many opportunities for us to cook and entertain for guests. On many of these upcoming occasions, we’ll want to be conscious in what we are preparing and provide a variety of […]

At Build 2016 last week, Vittorio Bertucci, Program Manager at Microsoft presented a session titled, “Microsoft Identity: State of the Union and Future Directions”. https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/B868 Most Identity conversations usually discuss Forests, Domains, and Active Directory Administration. This talk is for developers and Vittorio makes that clear in a very humorous way from the beginning. Microsoft’s vision […]

  Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the communications industry in the U.K., recently published customer complaint data for the country’s largest telephone, mobile, internet, and TV service providers. While total customer complaints across all segments decreased between Q3 and Q4 2015, mobile was the only category to experience a rise in complaints. 

  Eastern Communications is one of the largest two-way radio companies in the Northeast. Eastern and their extended network of dealers support customers from Washington D.C. to Maine and as far west as Ohio. With Eastern Communications experiencing steady sales growth, it was imperative to set the foundation for the future and evolve from a spreadsheet-based approach […]

One of the sessions that I attended at Build 2016 was titled “DevOps at Scale: A True Story”. It was a really interesting presentation from Microsoft’s Principal Group Program Manager for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) about how they use their own product, VSTS, to build VSTS! Other Microsoft divisions also “dog food” VSTS quite […]

A core set of digital technologies — mobile, social, the cloud and data, among others — are transforming companies at both an operational and a strategic level. Upon committing to digital transformation, the first concern becomes obvious: What are the challenges inherent in digital transformation? There are four trends driving real change across industries today […]