Building a product for a software as a service (SaaS) environment is quite different from building a custom application. EVERYTHING is different: the database design, hosting in a cloud, change control, managing hundreds of users each with their own requirements. One popular architecture is to clone a version of the system for each new…

The cost of a single mouse click can add up to thousands of dollars of wasted time annually for a large company. This presentation quantifies the cost of a click and estimates a financial break even point for the development effort that is required to eliminate mouse and keyboard clicks. The presentation uses Oracle Application…

  Version management of the PL/SQL source code in the Oracle Database has always been challenging. Database programmers lack the tools and utilities that make version control easy for developers who code with file based programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. In fact, this is one of the primary reasons why large software teams…

  Version management of the PL/SQL source code in the Oracle Database has always been challenging. Database programmers lack the tools and utilities that make version control easy for developers who code with file based programming languages such as Java and JavaScript. In fact, this is one of the primary reasons why large software teams…

  Building a product for a software as a service (SaaS) environment is quite different from building a custom application. EVERYTHING is different: the database design, hosting in a cloud, change control, managing hundreds of users each with their own requirements. One popular architecture is to clone a version of the system for each new…

Ryan Companies is a national builder, developer, designer and real estate manager based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With in-house construction, design, development, capital markets and real estate management, Ryan uses integrated project delivery (IPD) as a preferred method for delivering design and construction projects and organizing project teams. As part of a corporate knowledge management initiative,…

Ryan Companies is a national builder, developer, designer and real estate manager based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With in-house construction, design, development, capital markets and real estate management, Ryan uses integrated project delivery (IPD) as a preferred method for delivering design and construction projects and organizing project teams. As part of a corporate knowledge management initiative,…

The importance of adequate code management is well-understood by anybody in the IT. Unfortunately, the practical implementation of this concept is usually left to be defined by managers and administrators, while people who actually write code (i.e. developers) are kept outside of the discussion and just being told what to do. As a result, too…

Faced with limited budget or resources an Oracle Spatial and Graph developer or DBA may consider ETL one of their biggest pain points. Commercial Spatial ETL tools like Safe Software's FME, ESRI's ArcGIS, and Oracle's Data Integrator unfortunately aren't a real option for all Spatial shops. Shell, Python, and Batch scripts can often proliferate and…

Faced with limited budget or resources an Oracle Spatial and Graph developer or DBA may consider ETL one of their biggest pain points. Commercial Spatial ETL tools like Safe Software's FME, ESRI's ArcGIS, and Oracle's Data Integrator unfortunately aren't a real option for all Spatial shops. Shell, Python, and Batch scripts can often proliferate and…