Recently, a company in Oklahoma told us about their experience being audited by Oracle. They were long-time Oracle users, and had never previously been audited. Over the course of many years, their company's IT personnel installed and ran various Oracle programs, but never performed a self-audit to check for appropriate licensing. For this client, years of [...]
At LSG Solutions, a key part of our work is anticipating new releases from Oracle and defining how they will help our customers. One such release, Oracle’s 12c Release 2 (also known as detailed release 12.2.0.1), is now available for on-premise customers. Previously only available to cloud customers, this version’s new features continue Oracle’s commitment [...]
Effective December 2015, Oracle launched Standard Edition 2 (SE2), intended to replace Standard Edition 1 (SE1). We've recently seen an increase in customers asking questions about upgrading to this version. So, with that in mind, let's take another look at SE2. Oracle has always offered a database option for small and medium sized businesses with [...]
Released in 2013 to all customers (on-premise and cloud / DBaaS), 12c was available for purchase or upgrade for any customer. However, Oracle 12C R2 is Oracle Corporation's first database release available only to database cloud (DBaaS) customers, in October 2016. In order to boost 'cloud' revenues, the Oracle 12c R2 version was no where [...]
For many years, LSG Solutions met the IT needs of medium to large business. During that time, we also recognized the opportunity for services targeted to small business. Small business clients were investing in software solutions (SaaS) via the internet that quickly enabled the HR, CRM, Sales, and Accounting functions of their companies but created [...]