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.
Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) – formerly Xellerate Identity Provisioning – Is Enhanced
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…
Enterprise 2.0 vs Web 2.0
These words are being used more and more. Of course, it was just a matter of time before the popularity and creativity of “Web 2.0” as a buzzword was reused, extended, and blatantly copied for other innovations in the technology space.
Salesforce.com Integration – Oracle Fusion Middleware SOA and BPEL
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…
Oracle APEX – Returned, Reloaded, and Ready
It’s a well known and established fact that one of the only constants in life is change
It wasn’t that long ago (it seems) that I was asked to look at Oracle APEX and Oracle XE for work, and devise a tutorial for it’s installation and beginner use. It has been almost a year since then, and I find myself revisiting it after my last project. In that short amount of time there have been a few rather large changes. While Oracle XE is still at 10g, where it was originally, the APEX system itself has undergone 2 fairly large updates, going from the 3.0.1 version I orginally was working with to, 3.1, and now 3.2 being the current version.
Upgrading from 3.0.1 to 3.2 is supposed to be smooth, but we shall test and see for ourselves.
After all, if I can’t change with the times, the times won’t stop changing for me.
Oracle Database vs Sun MySQL
Well, this is a topic we have reviewed numerous times over the years for projects and customers. The fact is, like most important decisions, picking a winner is based mostly on your specific needs. Of the many aspects we review, we will discuss one line of thought in this article.
If there is in-house expertise in Oracle, and management is happy with the skills, productivity of existing staff, and license fees, stick with it. I don’t know many — actually, I don’t know any — CIOs or Directors in IT Management that have been berated for choosing Oracle as an enterprise-wide database platform.
That said, if the strategic decision to use Oracle database for all purposes hasn’t been made, MySQL is worth a very serious look, especially for …
Who is M&S?
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.
CSS Dies in the Enterprise. Why!?
We have been implementing CSS-based web layouts and designs for years now, for all of our clients. However, it continues to amaze us how many new implementations we walk into in the enterprise space that are very heavy with HTML layouts, and many of the implementations make simply no use at all of CSS.
I’d be happy to hear an argument the other way, but I believe CSS has more than proven itslef and solidified its prominent place in the web world. The fact is,