I’m registered and attending the Official Fusion Middleware 11g Launch in DC on July 1.
The economy is evolving, technology is getting better, and overall, the game is changing with cloud computing. M&S is now resellers for the Amazon EC2 Cloud, providing customers with access and expertise to make their enterprises run on “the cloud”. To host an enterprise environment, let alone Oracle, simply does not appear cost effective in the long run. In fact, I am open to healthy discussion contending that statement.
In a recent press release, Oracle promoted Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) focusing on the hot-pluggable nature of the product and it’s ability to handle, among other challenges, compliance and demands of SAP.
Oracle has already made a few strategic moves in the identity management space, and…
Oracle Corporation has recently published a white paper written by M&S Consulting, where we take the opportunity to outline an integration approach to Salesforce.com using Oracle BPEL.
A Technical Case Study – Creating an Oracle BPEL adapter to integrate with Salesforce.com - Feb 2009
Below is the introduction to the article, which goes on to detail (with step-by-step screenshots) how to achieve integration with Salesforce.com…
Among their many characteristics, all too often SOA projects have been labeled in their worst moments as:
Guess what. None of these are characteristics of SOA, but instead…
We are asked this question quite a lot. Find out some unique insights on M&S Consulting in this article.
The M&S business model is created from the group up to deliver repeated success, consistently: a great benefit to our organization and yours.
In the past, there has been acquisition synergy, which sometimes meant moderate layoffs. Acquisition in this economy, for companies the size of Oracle and Sun, may broaden the definition of “moderate” layoffs a bit. In order to make this Oracle’s most successful acquisition ever (as Oracle’s president has predicted), layoffs may become an important — more so than normal — part of the acquisition synergy. With less buyers than there were a year ago, there is only so much revenue that cross-selling and innovative product releases will earn. Management will be making the hard decisions on what/who stays and what/who goes.
A few articles online note analyst predictions upwards of 10,000 layoffs. I would say it is a bit too early for outsiders to reasonably predict layoff numbers (hopefully lessons were learned when people got it all wrong with Oracle’s January layoff rumors), but the “L” word is certainly on many minds these days.
Move over, for now, IBM…Oracle has taken its place as the buyer of Sun. This may be one of the most compelling acquisitions in recent Oracle times. In Oracle’s press release, President Safra Catz was quoted saying:
“…This would make the Sun acquisition more profitable in per share contribution in the first year than we had planned for the acquisitions of BEA, PeopleSoft and Siebel combined.”
For implementation architects and consultants, Oracle gets one step closer to total enterprise domination. With Oracle’s own Linux and now Solaris, the days of Oracle and OS-vendor finger pointing are numbered. On the core database side, Oracle has now purchased MySQL (it was previously purchased by Sun), which we believe to be one of Oracle’s greatest threats. As the database with 20/20 hindsight, a lightweight footprint (equaling fast performance), and growing popularity, Oracle has now effectively captured an important market. Reinvention is an important innovator, and Oracle has taken a welcome leap in acquiring MySQL.
I am excited to see how Oracle will enhance MySQL and potentially fast-track high-impact features (like security) in a way that “Oracle would have done it if they could do it all over again”.
For Java and all the other technologies (hardware and software), products, etc. that are being acquired, I believe Oracle will be a responsible industry citizen, holding true to standards, enhancing community, and providing benefits/choice to customers.
M&S has taken our years of Identity Management with products from companies like Oracle to integrate with Google’s popular “Google Apps” offering. By leveraging an existing Identity Management infrastructure, organizations can seamlessly integrate with Google Apps assets like calendar, mail, documents, sites, and more without requiring their users to login, let alone even have any knowledge of Googe Apps usernames/passwords.
M&S is comfortable with the SAML protocol that Google relies on and can implement an appropriate handshake with a variety of tools and languages, including Java, .NET, PHP, and Perl.
Contact us if you are an existing Google Apps Premier or Education Edition customer that wants to leverage Single Sing-On (SSO).
M&S Consulting is excited to announce that we have launched MedPivot.com, a resource for Medical Jobs, Careers, and Resources. The site serves as a complete Medical Business and Career Exchange, providing members will the ability to collaborate through forums/blogs, post jobs, apply to jobs, find companies, find recruiters, locate conferences, and access valuable medical news and journals.
We will be providing more information (including technical information on this Web 2.0 site) in a case study, so be sure to visit or subscribe to our newsletter to be automatically notified.
