Kerberos Module for Apache – mod_auth_kerb Download (mod auth kerb)

Posted on Feb 17, 2011 in Industry Trends, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments

In case you are having trouble finding the Kerberos Module for Apache like some of our customers have, we have decided to host it on our website as well. With more organizations interested in securing their applications with native Windows authentication, this is becoming more and more popular.

We have been devising integrated Windows authentication identity management solutions with Apache for years, so we’re quite comfortable with the best ways to implement with this. Many large software vendors actually leverage this same approach in their enterprise identity management solutions. Feel free to download mod_auth_kerb using the below form.

Four Middleware 11g Servers — Here we go!

Posted 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

Oracle ECM vs UCM — What’s the difference?

Posted 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.

Liferay Intranet Portal with Google Charts Dashboard

Posted on Jan 17, 2011 in Business Strategy, Case Studies, Industry Trends, News and Updates, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and finally got around to adding Google Charts into an enterprise intranet portal. We had five unique data points to display as key performance indicators (KPIs) for how the organization is performing.

We have delivered a number of whizbang charting and dashboard capabilities and had a lot of fun with them over the years, but this time, we wanted a lightweight capability that generated images (no Flash and no JavaScript) so any old browser on any platform would render this area properly. We also didn’t want to introduce any extra file downloads associated to the various charting libraries we have used in the past.

We decided to use a Google-O-Meter (the gauge at top of the image) and Bar Charts (the lower four bars). There were a number of tricks we employed to get these looking the way we needed (transparent background, proportionally accurate grid lines in the bar charts, a think arrow in the Google-O-Meter, etc.), but the most satisfying aspect was the simple ability to integrate this with custom Liferay Web Content Structures and Web Content Templates.

We are pleased and impressed with how easily and nicely these technologies came together. Give it a shot sometime and if there is a lot of interest, we might get some time to post a detailed white paper on how to go about this.

Enterprise, Dynamic Web Form Generation – Formulator

Posted on Dec 23, 2010 in Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments

We are working on an interesting project dynamically generating web forms for the enterprise. We have done this many times in the past, but this time, we are taking dynamic form generation to a new level.

The scale, architecture, flexibility, and robust functionality that we are building is exciting. In its simplest form, we are allowing an enterprise entity to be mapped to web forms dynamically, along with both an administrative and end-user interfaces to manage the process. Here is a draft we are customizing for a customer (the actual implementation looks even more interesting/fresh).

I have talked to some people recently that have expressed similar needs. Contact us if you are interested.

WebCenter 11g Book – Hello World Examples, Screenshots, and Tutorials

Posted on Dec 14, 2010 in News and Updates, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments

Our WebCenter 11g book has been out a few weeks and I have heard some good reviews from people who have picked it up. This version 1 book will quickly get you started with WebCenter 11g, providing you step-by-step screenshots on creating your environment followed by a Hello World web service that is exposed to the web as a WebCenter portlet among other common business scenarios you may need to accomplish.

BPM 11g Integrated with WebCenter Spaces (Process Spaces)

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 in News and Updates, Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments

Our Fusion Middleware expertise allows us to bring it all together. Do you want to follow business processes and ensure transparency to your organization?

M&S Consulting has implemented a next generation process portal built on Oracle BPM/SOA, Identity Management, WebCenter, and innovating solutions built by M&S from the ground up. Underlying technologies include WebLogic and ADF.

WebCenter Spaces Integrated with Identity Management (OID)

Posted on Sep 26, 2010 in Offerings, Technical Tips | 0 comments

We have been having a lot of fun with the latest Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g stack. Are you having trouble getting WebCenter 11g properly integrated with Identity Management 11g and OID? We can help.