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Articles from 2013

• Exadata Database Machine Upgraded to X4 Generation

  By Randy Hardee, posted on Thursday December 19, 2013
  Tags: Oracle , Oracle Software , Oracle Hardware

  Oracle officially, although quietly, announced the latest upgrades to the Exadata platform last week, and we have seen the X4-2's hitting the ground already from… Read more

• WebCenter Content:  Records - Understanding the Life Cycle of Content.  Part 1 of 2

  By Larry Baker, posted on Thursday August 8, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle , WebCenter

  With the mounting concerns around identity theft, confidentiality of personal information, privacy of health information and accurate accounting of financial transactions, the proper retention of… Read more

• Programmatically Set Oracle BPM Instance Payload Values

  By Bill Wallen, posted on Wednesday July 31, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle

  Use Case A Use Case that I have commonly encountered during Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) projects involves exposing an initiable human task through a… Read more

• Understanding WebCenter Capture’s Document Processing Model

  By Caleb Ely, posted on Friday July 26, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , WebCenter

  Oracle’s WebCenter Capture is document capture software where users can scan documents, index them and send them to a repository. There is often confusion about… Read more

• Have We Won Yet?  Defining Victory in Project Management

  By Grace Okwumabua, posted on Tuesday June 25, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Project Management

  In project management, there’s no such thing as perfect. No project goes entirely as planned, stays right on schedule, delivers a flawless product the first… Read more

• Who Are Your Project Stakeholders?

  By Grace Okwumabua, posted on Monday June 24, 2013
  Tags: Project Management , Mythics Consulting

  The term “stakeholder” always is featured prominently in any discussion of project management. You know you are supposed to: Get their “buy in” so you… Read more

• Information Fields Versus Application Fields

  By Jonathan Hult, posted on Friday May 31, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle , WebCenter

  What is the difference between information fields and applications fields in WebCenter Content? This is a question I have seen posted to forums, and I have… Read more

• Do You Have a Contingency Plan for Your Critical IT Infrastructure?

  By Sean Wang, posted on Tuesday May 14, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Risk Management

  Summer is coming, which means the hurricane, tornado season is here. Do you have a contingency plan for your critical IT infrastructure? If so, is… Read more

• How Good is Your Biometric System?

  By Sean Wang, posted on Friday May 10, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Identity Management , Security

  At the core of a biometric system is the one-to-many identification process, where the input sample is compared with the stored templates in the biometric… Read more

• Value Based Project Management Communication

  By Grace Okwumabua, posted on Thursday May 9, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Project Management

  What do your stakeholders value most about your current project? If you don’t answer this critical project management question correctly, you may waste a significant… Read more

• PDF Page Numbers in WebCenter Content

  By Jonathan Hult, posted on Wednesday May 8, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , WebCenter

  A question was asked a few months ago on the WebCenter Content OTN Discussion Forums about WebCenter Content storing page numbers for documents. I am wondering how can i… Read more

• NIST 800-53 Revision 4: What’s New

  By Sean Wang, posted on Monday May 6, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Security , NIST

  National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the Final Release of Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Revision 4, “Security and Privacy Controls for Federal information… Read more

• Access Your Non-Oracle Data Using the Oracle ODBC Gateway

  By Carla Steinmetz, posted on Friday May 3, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle Database

  So, you want to get some data OUT of a non-Oracle system and IN to your Oracle database.  How to do it? We recently had… Read more

• Lessons from Shakespeare:  The Cloud Can’t Fix Everything

  By Marc Boorshtein, posted on Friday May 3, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Cloud Computing , Project Management

  “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this failed Salesforce.com deployment” - paraphrased from Macbeth, Act V Scene I. Many cloud providers will come… Read more

• Security Vulnerability Scanning: the Art of Grouping Hosts

  By Sean Wang, posted on Tuesday April 30, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Security

  When conducting a security vulnerability assessment using an automated scanner on a large number of hosts, it is very tempting to create one or more… Read more

• Evaluating Cryptographic Modules Using FIPS 140-2

  By Sean Wang, posted on Monday April 29, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , FIPS , Security

  Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 is used to accredit cryptographic modules (hardware and software) used on federal government computer systems that process sensitive information. … Read more

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Compliance: Requirements for IT Security

  By Sean Wang, posted on Thursday April 25, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Security , Sarbanes-Oxley

  Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) set up new and enhanced standards that public companies must follow. However, the impact is not just on the company board, management… Read more

• FISMA - It’s Time for an Update

  By Sean Wang, posted on Monday April 22, 2013
  Tags: Security , Mythics Consulting , FISMA

  The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 has been the cornerstone for information security in Federal Government for the last 11 years.  It… Read more

• Lessons from Shakespeare:  Why is OAM Important?

  By Marc Boorshtein, posted on Friday April 19, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Security , Oracle Software

  “Et tu Wordpress!” – paraphrased from Julius Caesar Act III, Scene I If Shakespeare blogged, I wonder if he would have used Wordpress?  I don't have… Read more

• Transitioning to Agile Project Management:  5 Pitfalls to Avoid

  By Grace Okwumabua, posted on Thursday April 18, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Project Management

  Are you considering going Agile? It’s a brave move since even positive change may entail risk. This is definitely true for the transition to Agile… Read more

• Top 5 Tips for Transitioning to Agile Project Management

  By Grace Okwumabua, posted on Thursday April 18, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Project Management

  Agile project methodology is proving to be a valuable innovation in industries that require fast turnaround on projects that fluctuate in scope and complexity. Software… Read more

• Selecting the Right Project Management Methodology

  By Grace Okwumabua, posted on Wednesday April 17, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Project Management , Oracle

  The implementations of technology solutions, such as those provided by Oracle are often large-scale projects in complex organizations. Project management is a key to success… Read more

• Security is Like a Pillow - In Search of a New Metaphor

  By Sean Wang, posted on Wednesday April 17, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Security

  Pillows come in different sizes and shapes and they can have different colors, styles, cushions, and features.  However, the best pillow is not necessarily the… Read more

• WebGates, Proxies and Apps OH MY! paraphrased from the Wizard of Oz.

  By Marc Boorshtein, posted on Tuesday April 16, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Identity Management

  I can understand why Dorothy was so worried.  Customers often struggle with the question of if they should integrate their OAM environment and applications with… Read more

• Reverse Engineering and Copyrights

  By Sean Wang, posted on Tuesday April 16, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting

  Companies use reverse engineering processes to improve their own products by analyzing other companies’ products, such as software.  Quite often, reverse engineering processes are used… Read more

• Conducting an Agile Development like a Symphony Orchestra

  By Sean Wang, posted on Thursday April 11, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting

  To successfully complete one iteration after another with short sprints, an Agile development should be conducted like a symphony orchestra - it requires high degree… Read more

• A Little Perspective on Big Data

  By Richard Walters, posted on Thursday April 11, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting

  My kids are big fans of the movie "Ratatouille."  One of the characters, a food critic named Anton Ego, has a wonderful response when asked… Read more

• The Authorization Token is Invalid - idcToken

  By Jonathan Hult, posted on Tuesday April 9, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle , WebCenter

  In WebCenter Content 11g, a new security feature was introduced. You may have run into this feature and received the following error: Content Server Request… Read more

• Permission Denied - SocketException - Java 7 and VPN

  By Jonathan Hult, posted on Monday April 8, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle Universal Content Management , Oracle

  When attempting to use the Oracle UCM Web Service, GenericSoapService, I ran into the following error using SoapUI: I was able to track down this… Read more

• Content Basket - ResultSet

  By Jonathan Hult, posted on Friday April 5, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , WebLogic , WebCenter

  A colleague of mine recently posed the following question to me: The above is an example of a common problem:  the need to access data… Read more

• Data Modeling for Business Intelligence

  By Sean Wang, posted on Thursday April 4, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Business Intelligence

  Data modeling is the key to success in Business Intelligence (BI). It is paramount that the process is business-centered. It starts with the clear understanding… Read more

• Lessons from Hamlet Part 2:  Plan for Active Directory

  By Marc Boorshtein, posted on Tuesday April 2, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle Software , Identity Management , Active Directory

  “And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then avoid Active Directory” – paraphrased from Hamlet:  Act I, Scene III. Who… Read more

• Six Keys to Increased Database Security

  By Sean Wang, posted on Thursday March 28, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle , Security

  A broad range of security controls can be implemented to protect databases, including technical, administrative and physical. On the technical side, vendors, like Oracle, have… Read more

• Lessons from Shakespeare’s Hamlet:  Always Make Room in Your Budget for SSO

  By Marc Boorshtein, posted on Monday March 25, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Single Sign On , Identity Management

  “Doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt the need for SSO in your Fusion Middleware deployment” –… Read more

• Dive for A Cure 2013 - Let’s Beat Cancer!

  By Zeb Mellett, posted on Thursday March 21, 2013
  Tags: Dive for a Cure , Cancer Research

  CANCER LETS BEAT IT!!! Mythics is proud to announce our support and sponsorship of the annual "Dive for A Cure" fundraiser on April 26th-27 2013. … Read more

• MYTHICS COMPLETE - Executive Corner by Shane Smutz, VP of Sales, Mythics Consulting

  By Shane Smutz, posted on Thursday February 28, 2013
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle , Mythics Complete

  Oracle's main message to the marketplace, "Engineered to Work Together", is impossible to miss. It is visible on almost every piece of Oracle collateral, marketing… Read more