Everyone knows what happens to an asset that doesn't get regularly maintained and updated—it eventually fails. Trucks break down, which results in costly repairs and inconvenient downtime. Roofs wear out and leak. Inventory spoils or becomes obsolete. It's obvious to the naked eye when these things aren't taken care of regularly. So why do so [...]
We recently had a client who became the victim of a ransomware attack, specifically a Dharma variant called the .adobe variant. It attacked their file server and encrypted a portion of the files, which meant the company was unable to operate until it was resolved. The hackers demanded $5,000 in ransom for the encryption key [...]
We recently attended the Oklahoma Digital Government Summit, which we also sponsored. It was a great networking and learning event with IT professionals from state and local governments, education, and other organizations across the state. We enjoyed the opportunity to connect with some of our clients outside of the office and partners we work with [...]
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 [...]