During our implementation of OATS, we’ve run into several issues regarding script and server stability. Here are a few of the bigger factors for script […]
Data Warehousing Made Easy
I was talking to an Oracle sales rep about OBIEE, Oracle’s Business Intelligence offering. It’s solidly in Forrester’s leader’s quadrant and it has all of […]
Things I learned working for a big energy company
This is an old blog post about the things I learned during the summer of 2006 while working for a big energy corporation. Some topics […]
Don’t pave the cow path
Lately at work I’ve been having to remind myself not to pave the cow path — not to bring existing business processes and technology forward […]
Got Oracle? Be sure to manage your licenses!
There’s actually quite a bit of information on the internet about the complexity in managing the technology licenses you purchase (and don’t purchase) from Oracle. […]
The True Cost of a Core
Servers are becoming more powerful as manufacturers are finding new ways to get more cores into a CPU. Today it’s not uncommon to see hexa […]
System Modernization: Large Companies Face Obstacles That Startups Don’t
By Brent Martin Intro It’s tempting for large, long-established companies to want to throw out old systems and trade them in for something new on […]