Primavera Portfolio Management 9.1: New workflows facilitate project management 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak With Primavera Portfolio Management 9.1, Oracle has presented a new release of its project management solution. Several new control functions and processes should noticeably increase user-friendliness. This includes advanced workflows and early alert systems which allow a higher degree of automation, as well as various search functions, e.g. using the status or the start time …
Monitis: MySQL monitoring detects bottlenecks 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The company Monitis has expanded its eponymous monitoring tool for MySQL databases with a new graph function. This should make monitoring more efficient and easy to understand, and provide processed information about sent and received queries. In addition, the graphical overview displays the ten slowest queries, allowing system administrators to quickly identify weaknesses and take …
Storage: Disk space shapes investment planning 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak With a predicted increase in data to 44 zettabytes by 2020, the forecasts for 2014 have been revised upwards again.
Financial Accounting & Reporting: SoundCloud teams up with Oracle 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Berlin-based company SoundCloud claims to be the world’s leading audio platform. On its website, users can provide their own music to download, embed existing pieces in websites and comment on the songs of other musicians. As well as a free account which includes the upload of up to three hours of music, paid services …
25 billion networked things 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Internet of Things (IoT) is, according to Gartner, one of the ten major trends for 2015. Market researchers estimate that there will be around 25 billion networked devices by 2020.
Social Media: Facebook likes Big Data Analytics 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The better the data available, the more informed the decisions which can be made will be. Nevertheless, on average, companies only use half of all internally available information to make decisions.
Java 9: Modularization adapts JSE to the device 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak After Oracle released Java 8 in spring 2014, developers are now focusing on version 9, which will probably appear in 2016. The biggest change is the modularization of the source code of the Java platform, which has been discussed for quite some time under the name Project Jigsaw. In practical terms, the point is to …
Choose Your Own Device: Safety is the most important mobility issue 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak Since 2012, IDC has conducted annual surveys on the issue of enterprise mobility. In the recently published study of 2014/2015, it is noticeable that improving mobile security is currently high on the list of priorities for both IT and departmental decision makers. As a second objective for the next twelve months, companies have set out …
Connected Enterprise: Mobile business solutions make demands 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak A new international study, under the title “Evolving the Connected Enterprise”, provides extensive data on the issues arising from using mobile business solutions for IT. The survey, sponsored by Oracle, primarily addressed technological factors that are critical to the success of mobile applications. In addition, IT managers were asked in which areas they see the …
Payment services: E-payment takes over from cash transactions 18. December 2014 by Ralph Novak The Deutsche Bank Research (DB Research) facility published a study, under the title “Fintech – The digital (R) evolution in the financial sector”, about increasing bank competition due to IT companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon and PayPal. In particular, Apple is expected to create increased demand for payment by mobile phone with its Apple …
