For many years, Oracle Reports has been a go-to option for reporting data, particularly out of applications built with Oracle Forms. But since Oracle announced it will discontinue support for both resources, it's time to start thinking about alternate options. When Oracle Reports first came out, it was incredibly complex and pretty exciting. You could [...]
Oracle Forms is a legacy product that's nearly as old as Oracle itself. For decades, it was what you used to build software for data entry or data retrieval. In fact, it dates all the way back to the late '80s and software applications that were character-based on green screen terminals. That approach was still [...]
Data silos are a significant challenge for many businesses. You might have time tracking software in one system, payroll in another, invoices in another, production numbers in another, and so on. It can get pretty messy pretty fast with that many different systems in play. In some ways, cloud computing has made this even worse. [...]
When it comes to businesses of any size, a lot of us are trapped in a never-ending state of using the wrong tools to accomplish a task. Maybe we think it's working okay, or maybe we're comfortable because it's the software system we know best. And maybe there are workaround procedures in place to help [...]
We work with a variety of clients on software development projects—some that are relatively simple and some that are more complex. In all of those projects, there are multiple phases with the final phase being testing by our team and by the users. Testing is a really important step, but unfortunately it's one that a [...]