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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 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 Jun 18, 2011 in Business Strategy, News and Updates, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments
Over the years, the M&S Consulting site has grown quite a bit. We have hundreds of blog articles and have retired more pages of content than are currently active. By introducing Bigmon Cloud into our environment, we realized — to our surprise — that our site was one of the slower loading sites when compared to other sites we have built, either for internal project or customers.
By using Bigmon metrics reporting and trending, we were able to test mechanisms for speeding up the site and moving performance into a place we felt was acceptable. Then, we were able to set new thresholds in Bigmon to ensure that we are notified when/if the site begins to perform in a manner that is less than optimal. Following are some of the Bigmon charts you will see that drive home the success of our updates as well as the value of Bigmon Cloud. You will see that we were able to address the performance issues immediately and the results are trending in slices of 2 hours, 1 day, and 1 week. Results have been consistent.
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on Feb 8, 2011 in News and Updates, Offerings | 0 comments
We just started into installs for four middleware servers for a customer. These will each run DB, WebLogic, IdM, SOA/BPM, UCM, and WebCenter — all 11g.
There’s nothing like getting fresh, fast, functionally-useless hardware and turning it into a powerful piece of problem-solving equipment. – Historic M&S Dogma
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on Feb 4, 2011 in Business Strategy, News and Updates, Offerings, Technical Tips | 4 comments
I’m starting to see Oracle ECM get mixed with Oracle UCM more these days when people talk about Oracle’s Content Management offering(s). Sometimes I wonder if this kind of confusion isn’t premeditated by marketing managers, but that’s another story.
So, here’s the scoop (and though I say this confidently, I find myself compelled to disclaim that this is the scoop as I understand it, and as Oracle is using these terms as of the date of publication).
For starters:
- ECM stands for Enterprise Content Management
- UCM stands for Universal Content Management
“Oracle Content Management” offerings are also referred to as “Oracle Enterprise Content Management” offerings. In addition to this, there is also a specific suite of products called “Oracle ECM Suite” which is comprised of the following Oracle products:
- Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM)
- Oracle Universal Records Management (URM)
- Oracle Imaging and Process Management (I/PM)
- Oracle Information Rights Management
In summary, Oracle UCM is a product within Oracle ECM Suite, which is offered within Oracle’s overall Enterprise Content Management solution stack.
Perhaps an easy way to remember this is by recalling the unintuitive nature of including something named “Universal” *inside* something named “Enterprise”. As it turns out, Oracle UCM itself is quite a powerful product with many capabilities that you can read more about below.
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To drill slightly deeper into Oracle UCM, the following content management challenges are generally addressed with the UCM product:
- Document management
- Web content management
- Digital asset management
- Records and retention management
- Portal integrations
- Microsoft SharePoint integration
- Content and usage tracking
- Categorization
- Content conversion and transformation
- Document capture and scanning integration
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on Feb 1, 2011 in Industry Trends, News and Updates | 0 comments
IBM has published a page on their commercial website that questions why a customer would pay more for less, taking direct aim at Oracle and specifically Oracle Middleware offerings surrounding SOA and WebLogic.
Like other competitive material published by software vendors, highlighted areas will tend to focus on one-sided statistics. Consumers today expect valid information that is easily accessible/verifiable, so — not surprisingly — this page has a references section at the bottom as well. The thing that does surprise me with these claims is the important information that is left out.
When we pick solutions for a customer, we are generally considering variables that are *far* more important than software costs. For example, the existing technology infrastructure and internal resource skills-sets generally weigh heavily into software decisions. Cost is usually the last component of the selection that is considered. I can appreciate the competition, and I believe it will be healthy for consumers in the end, but want people to take a step back when they see generic claims like “why pay more for less?” as a suggestive summary for some very specific statistics collected by any vendor, weather it be IBM, Oracle, or anyone else.
More subjectively, I found the page to be unique in its directness as well as the fact that it was published on the internet, giving me the sense that IBM is concerned about Oracle prominence and growth in Middleware market share.
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on Jan 25, 2011 in News and Updates, Technical Tips | 1 comment
Unlike WebCenter, SOA/BPM, WebLogic Server, and other products in the recent Middleware 11g PS3 release from Oracle, Identity Management 11g PS3 (11.1.1.4) is not yet available as a full download on oracle.com yet. What you need to do until they get the uploads posted is download 11.1.1.2 from the Identity Management 11g download page and then download 11.1.1.4 from My Oracle Support (aka Metalink) by finding patch set 11060980. I know it took me a little to find this, so hopefully this helps someone until the release is available on the public-facing website.
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on Jan 25, 2011 in Industry Trends, News and Updates, Technical Tips | 0 comments
Oracle has now officially released WebCenter 11g PS3 (11.1.1.4). You can download it online as of today (Jan 25, 2011). This marks a major leap in WebCenter’s capabilities and maturity as an Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration Portal. Look for more information on the M&S blog to come.
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