Cloud

The Microsoft Azure Xplat-CLI provides a cross-platform command line interface for managing, deploying, configuring and developing Microsoft Azure applications and services. While the browser based Management Portal works great, you can’t script and automate it. Using the Xplat-CLI you can do just that! Unlike PowerShell, that only supports Windows, the Xplat-CLI supports Windows, Mac OSX and […]

Installing any commercial software on a newly certified operating system often leads to a journey of discovery. In this case, Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.9 installed on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 raises an alarming error during the installation process. The crash warning above occurred during an Enterprise Install on a freshly built Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 […]

As Mark Polly discussed in a recent blog post, a newly published study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services shows that digital leaders are more likely to be successful than followers or laggards. There are many ways a company can improve its digital leadership. For example, CIOs can create a digital advisory board comprised of […]

I would like to follow up on John Whitaker’s post, OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0: What You Need to Know, by adding a note about an important patch that was released on June 3, 2015. Using an external security provider with Oracle Business Intelligence is increasingly common. When configuring Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, or other 3rd party authentication provider it […]

Before we discuss Azure Stack, it’s important to understand Windows Azure Pack. I know I know, very confusing names, Pack and Stack. Windows Azure Pack was released in early fall 2013. Here’s a brief synopsis: Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server is a collection of Windows Azure technologies, available to Microsoft customers at no additional […]

John Boezeman with IBM talked at the last session of the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference about integration patterns using IBM Bluemix. Bluemix is a cloud based development and runtime environment that makes it easy to create and deliver services for the API economy. The services can be consumed by any system, including IBM Digital […]

In this new video from Oracle, hear from Tom Munley, General Manager for the Oracle Emerging Solutions group at Perficient, about how Oracle Sales Cloud with OBIEE helped the organization implement a new quota management program — and bring together a sales team dispersed throughout the US. See the Two-minute video: Perficient and Oracle

When an OSB 11g project using the JCA transport is imported to JDeveloper 12c, you might see the following error. oracle.tip.adapter.sa.impl.fw.ext.org.collaxa.thirdparty.apache.wsif.WSIFException: Please specify a Service. Choices are: This is one of the known issues in the project migration. You need to manually edit certain files to resolve this error. Here are the steps to resolve […]

At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about how the API economy is affecting legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the […]

At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the digital disruption that is already underway: […]

Getting it right the first time. When choosing and rolling out a new solution, a few key steps can help you avoid roadblocks, waste, and frustration. To leverage the strengths of the new tool and increase user adoption, the first step is making the SaaS vs. Enterprise Decision, and choosing the right cloud products. SaaS […]

In real life cloud deployment scenarios one of the very common cases is when only part of the application resides in the cloud. Usually, it’s when there is a legacy system which can’t be migrated to the cloud and resides on premises, or it’s not optimal to deploy entire system to the cloud. After all, […]