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on Jan 12, 2012 in Industry Trends, News and Updates, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments
Many of our customers get hung up on the terminology for Oracle’s Identity and Access Management offerings, and perhaps rightfully so. There are more names and acronyms given to these products as there are people implementing them.
Following is a quick breakdown of the latest version of both 1) Oracle Identity Management and 2) Oracle Identity and Access Management from the technical perspective of downloading and installing the products (as opposed to product packaging/licensing). When you speak with an identity management implementation partner like M&S Consulting, you will want to use the below terminology to ensure everyone is on the same page.
Oracle Identity Management 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0) – Released May 6, 2011
- Oracle Internet Directory 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Directory Integration Platform 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Virtual Directory 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Directory Services Manager 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Identity Federation 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
Oracle Identity and Access Management (11.1.1.5.0) – Released May 23, 2011
- Oracle Identity Manager 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Identity Manager Connectors 11g
- Oracle Access Manager Server 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Access Manager WebGate 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 11 gR1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Security Token Service 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Entitlements Server 11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Entitlements Server Security Module11g R1 (11.1.1.5.0)
- Oracle Identity Navigator 11g R1(11.1.1.5.0)
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on Sep 30, 2011 in Industry Trends | 0 comments
Many people do not know that Oracle versions represent something more than just an incremented number. People have been saying 8i, 9i, 10g, and 11g for years, conditioning their brains to forget even asking what the meaning or thought is behind the *letter* at the end of the version number, just as many people commonly use other technology acronyms so commonly while forgetting their expanded versions, like TCP, AJAX, SOAP, and so on.
So, as Oracle may set to announce new versions and releases of big products in the coming week, we turn our sights to the version 12 release? I have been saying for months that my best guess for this will be 12c, where the “c” stands for Cloud (or maybe Collaboration, though I feel more strongly about the intention being “Cloud”). By the way, the “i” stood for Internet while the “g” stood for Grid.
We’ll keep you posted as we get the official word, but remember where you heard the 12c (for Cloud) prediction.
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on Sep 6, 2011 in Industry Trends, Offerings | 0 comments
Packt Publishing, the company that published the WebCenter Book that M&S Consulting’s E2.0 team co-authored, has just launched an Oracle focused version of its new online library platform: PacktLib.
Aimed at all Oracle professionals, the Oracle book library is a low-cost, cloud-based resource that you can access anywhere whether in the office, on the move, or at a client’s site.
- Access all Packt’s Oracle books (50+) for less than $120 per year! That’s just couple of bucks per book.
- Get hold of high value information on the Oracle Database, Oracle Middleware, Oracle Applications, and more.
- Read content on your PC, Laptop, iPad, or mobile device.
- Copy, Paste, Bookmark, and Print information – as needed.
- Get access to all the new Oracle books as they are published! There will be more than 20 in the next 12 months alone.
Click to see all Packt’s Oracle Books. Also, enjoy a special M&S Consulting discount (10% off) by entering the code: oraclib10 when you sign up to the Packt Oracle Book Library.
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on Jul 29, 2011 in Industry Trends, News and Updates, Offerings | 0 comments
We’ll head out to yet another Oracle OpenWorld even this year. Drop us a line and come see us October 2-6 in San Francisco!
If you haven’t already, click the below image to register!
As usual, it’s going to be fun…and if you haven’t already heard, this year’s Appreciation Event features Sting as well as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!
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on Jul 25, 2011 in Industry Trends, Technical Tips | 0 comments
So many of these are related, that I decided to simply list them in no specific order:
- “The technology changes/improves too rapidly, and I have fears of 1) ‘will what I am doing become old-school soon’ and 2) ‘is a new/better way of doing going to be released within a few months’.”
- “The documentation is daunting.”
- “The suggested pre-requisites and structured learning programs seem to change every few months.”
- “I have spent considerable time and money hiring smart coders that don’t take to 4GL development as readily.”
- “Code generating technologies have some negative connotations when it comes to code cleanliness, efficiency, and performance.”
- “There are ‘too many’ choices. Just show me the right way and the best practice.”
- “Deeper customization required to fit my specific implementation needs are much less 4GL and have a steeper development learning curve.”
- “There aren’t enough ‘experts’ readily available in the market that really know what they’re doing that would drive my ability to hire resources for low-to-medium cost, schedule a rapid delivery (ramp up, implement, deliver, support), or ensure what is being done is being done the ‘right way’.”
- “ADF is an end-to-end framework, so I need resources that understand the entire stack to be on the same page about the approach we are taking.”
- “This is nothing like anything I have worked with before.”
All this said, Oracle ADF is a core technology that any “Oracle shop” needs to seriously consider investing in at this point as Oracle itself continues to invest further in this as the baseline for both Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications.
Knowing what organizations are facing with ADF helps us stay one step ahead of ensuring we can help you get to where you need to be, so contact us to find out more about how we can help.
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on May 30, 2011 in Industry Trends, Technical Tips | 0 comments
It’s not just web 2.0 developers making the push away from IE6 anymore. Microsoft is publishing the stats, and even they want people off of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6).
Join the cause by pasting your own “STOP using this out-of-date browser” banner (provided by Microsoft):
<!--[if lt IE 7]> <div style=' clear: both; height: 59px; padding:0 0 0 15px; position: relative;'> <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/internet-explorer/products/ie/home?ocid=ie6_countdown_bannercode"><img src="http://www.theie6countdown.com/images/banners/warning_bar_0000_us.jpg" border="0" height="42" width="820" alt="You are using an outdated browser. For a faster, safer browsing experience, upgrade for free today." /></a></div> <![endif]-->
IE6 usage is trending down, at 11.4% today compared to 18.7% one year ago:
China, South Korea, and India are the top 3 countries using IE6:
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on Apr 26, 2011 in Industry Trends, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments
I have been running Oracle Identity Management 10g with heavy use of 10g SSO capabilities. Much of our web security architecture along with application authentication relies on this infrastructure. What do I do as development begins to shift from OracleAS to WebLogic, and our middleware stack goes from 10g to 11g? We will need to run 10g and 11g in production side-by-side for some period of time.
This is a question many of our customers are asking and it is understandable that there is confusion around this. Oracle hasn’t provided the clearest of answers, and in general, identity management initiatives are not for the faint of heart to tackle. The fact is that 11g identity management has begun a paradigm shift away from the 10g approach. The good news is that customers have options as they inevitably run 10g and 11g together in their environments since identity management solutions span across applications and nobody [I know of] decides to upgrade all of their enterprise applications at once.
In 11g, you have the option of integrating applications (i.e. ADF 11g applications) running on WebLogic with 10g SSO through identity asserters. This approach basically passes in header information to WebLogic that enables it to “trust” a user authenticated via 10g SSO much like it would trust AD or any other form of identity assertion. As you move to an 11g identity management stack, nowhere will you find 10g SSO as you know it. You will need to buy into the OAM (Oracle Access Manager) 11g model, which includes a robust enterprise access management approach in line with 11g applications that rely on J2EE security standards like JAAS.
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on Apr 22, 2011 in Case Studies, Industry Trends, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments
I was recently asked [again] about what platform to choose for an open source web CMS. At the highest level, and to avoid considering too many variables that introduce confusion into a decision, my general feeling on this is to go with the technology that best balances the following (in order):
- Community (users, third parties, and developers): size, enthusiasm, and proselytization
- Technology: tech stack and solution architecture
- Leaders: commitment, flexibility, release schedule
I feel the community size and enthusiasm is so important that I decided to chart out the general trends. Although we implement will all of these CMS’s successfully, we have been choosing WordPress over the others for a number of years on most CMS implementations. My own experience is that the WP community has been growing rapidly and gaining enthusiastic momentum. The below results prove it.
Overall, trends show popularity in WordPress far surpassing Joomla and Drupal over the years:
For the past year, we see WordPress in its own league of popularity:
Trends for the three solutions with the word “CMS” attached shows a slightly closer picture overall. I feel this is mainly because WordPress was initially marketed as a blogging platform. Though I’ve been using it as a CMS for quite some time, only more in the past year or two have people really embraced it as a powerful CMS:
However, when you look at the past year, again WordPress far surpasses the others:
Using these products for years, I have many insights and considerations that have yet to be put down in writing, but I hope the above provides you a little idea of one of the main variables we consider when selecting a solution for our customers.
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