Presentation now available online

Published by Administrator | Filed under oracle

For those interested a copy of my presentation at Insync 2010 has been placed on slideshare, you can find out what it was all about, if you have questions then feel free to comment

Also after my presentation Gareth Llewellyn from Oracle caught up for a little chat which you can view here.

AUSOUG Queensland Presentation – Moving from Oracle Discoverer to OBIEE + 11g Database VPD and Resource Manager Integration

Published by Peter McLarty | Filed under oracle

Ok that is a mouthful, Cameron Hawthorne and Adam Higgs  are going to give a great presentation of migration of existing reporting on Discoverer to the OBIEE as well as look at Virtual Private database and Resource Manager integration with OIBIEE in Oracle 11g.

The details are as follows, extracted from the QLD e-bulletin

Focusing on Business Intelligence

We are very pleased to bring to you a meeting specifically focused on Business Intelligence, with two presentations on unlocking the information in your corporate databases to provide competitive advantage to your organisation, and delivering that information to your customers in a secure and controlled manner.

I am presenting at InSync 2010 in August

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The Australian Oracle User Group AUSOUG in association with other bodies is on in Melbourne in August and I will be presenting what will be my first paper at the national conference . I am very happy to see I have had a paper accepted on Identity Manager 11g.  I will be having a look at some aspects of the underlying makeup of the identity management system in 11g.

Still to finalize my outline but will be spending some time on LDAP and its part in identity management  and how it works.

Looking forward to seeing readers at the conference.

See ya round

Peter

An Amazing Story of a Bad Project

Published by Peter McLarty | Filed under management failure

It has made headlines just about anywhere in the world, the Queensland Health Payroll project has delivered an outcome that has been lees than that desired by all. Now with the release of the Auditors report we can see some clear indication of the failures endemic within government.  The report is case book reading for anyone involved with project where ever they are and more so those involved with it from within government. The failures that are apparent in so many parts of the process makes for very sad reading, and should be considered a disgrace by the project management community. If we ever see another project debacle in Queensland or Australian government for that matter in anybodies lifetime it will be too soon.

Governance failure, testing failure, poor oversight by project executive, lack of accountability to the client in this case Queensland Health by CorpTech, the failure of the project to initially determine the costing of the project, perhaps not a total surprise as getting clear business requirements can be a difficult process in many places.  The incredulous decision of the Project Executive to in effect downplay defects in testing by altering the classification of issue found in testing that lead to the product meeting exit requirements for testing.

Please all go and read it and whilst you will be incredulous of what is there, please for the sake of your businesses or your customers strive to never make these mistakes elsewhere. It really should not happen. This is textbook material for things you are taught about failure points from many different sources, from Uni to project management lessons. From PMBOK to Prince2 this should not happen and yet it has and has happened badly.

I can only hope that now we see a culture emerge in the Public Service of staff telling their managers they are wrong when they are, and managers being able to accept that. Of course when it doesn’t look good with some project, you will be able to quote a variation of the old “Remember the Alamo” to “Remember Health Payroll” to hopefully shake people to taking good decisions and making right choices.

See ya round

Peter

Larry says Oracle is a Systems Company

Published by Peter McLarty | Filed under oracle

I was  just read again the article at ITNews about how Larry sees the future of Oracle under his stewardship. I can only say that for someone that relies on the Oracle ecosystem for my bread and butter I can’t be happier. The business that will keep me going with employment is in the middle of this and will require myself and many others that want to be involved for some time to come. I must say I am surprised by the Exadata figures, $1billion in the pipeline is pretty impressive and shows how the future of the Sun Oracle relationship might improve the livelihood of those people that relied on the old Sun ecosystem and that there is a lot of life in the old Sun dog yet and that can only be good for them. Interesting the statements about Silicon it makes sense, there is a number of technologies that Oracle has that will excel as embedded technologies in the silicon. These would include database functions for data handling, already doing this in the Exadata, but expect it to become more widespread as time goes on. There is crypto capabilities in some of the inherited hardware for Sun and this will become more tightly coupled for Advanced Security, SSL on the middle tier  and other functionality where crypto is required in some measure. Embedded databases using say Times Ten might become a reality Coherence embedded in the network layer., so caching is very close to the network adaptor.

What else did Larry say of interest EMC is vulnerable, thats interesting they have a great product group and solid products with a strong market share in virtualization and yet Larry has in effect said watch this space. Interesting fight ahead is what I see.

See ya round

Peter