Error ... Too much traffic...

I've been very busy the last couple of months, and my web activity was severly affected.. unlike GM, it is not related to global economy!...


Anyways, many thoughts in my mind, all half baked.. But.. whenever i try to complete one, or post any... i encounter the
"Too Much Traffic" error... not on the blog, but in my mind :)

hope to resolve this issue soon...

in the mean while... I hope everyone is having good time..

Take Care

Oracle to Aquire SUN Microsystems...

Today Oracle Announced the news here ...

Sun announced here

and i cannot comment more... the details and roadmaps of SUN's portfolio will be announced later...

good move Oracle!

What is ECM!!

This presentation is by AIIM which demonstrates what ECM is all about.

in slide 5, the presentation mentions that ECM is not necessarily a single system, but a set of systems that are integrated and working together, to give the complete ECM feeling!

And here is one of the biggest differentiators of Oracle's UCM products!

Oracle UCM provides the complete ECM stack of solutions, including Document Management (DM), Web Content Management (WCM), Digital Assets Management (DAM), Records Management (RM), and all other supporting services such as the Workflow and Business Processes and Content Collaboration.

Imagine the following with me:
we have a website, that consists of several pages, one of the pages has a nice logo in the upper left, and an image of the building on the side, with an article in the middle of the page...
if we dissect this page we will find that the page itself is a content that organizes how other contents appears on the browser using the WCM module, and the image of the building is actually a 10MP image that was inserted into the DAM module, and automatically was converted to a smaller web friendly size and format. While the article in the middle of the page is a word document that was created by the secretary on her desktop, and she dragged it and dropped it into a folder on her desktop using the DM module, which automatically converted it into html, and published it into the web page after the legal department approval!

So, as we see, all modules work perfectly together to provide a final consistent web page within the website, and each module contributes with its services to give the full ECM solution.

In this case, having a separate system for each module means each system will store its data, and it will be redundant across the other systems that use it. This also means that there should be some integration between those systems to finally provide the web page that we talked about.

For oracle, it is one system that manages everything! base content services are shared by all modules that are built on the same code base, means any module can use the services of the other modules natively, thus the process of creation and rendering the web page we mentioned is basically an interaction between the services of only one system, that provides all those services together.

users will have the same experience, since they are using one interface that has all those functionalities, and administrators has only one administrative view of all the ECM functionalities, even the upgrades of the entire ECM stack is basically rolling one patch that upgrades everything together!

I felt that very quickly when I installed the UCM system the first time, and I was really amazed how great were the guys who designed the UCM system to be such piece of art!.

Here is a whitepaper that will explain more why a unified approach is better for you!

Now I will leave you with AIIM's presentation.

What Is ECM?

ArabCrunch Demo 09 event!!

ArabCrunch is a specialized blog that follows, profiles, and reviews Arab originated technologies.

they're having a great event next week, check below the press release:

"AMMAN, Jordan - (9, Feb, 2009) – Arab Innovation is hardly spotted, but with ArabCrunch DEMO event it will be subjected to change. The event will give Arab startups the chance to present their newly developed products and launch it, in order to get good outreach to target customers and gain access to both investors and media."


here is the complete press release

here is the event website

follow the event on the social web:


• Follow us on Twitter
• Join us on Facebook
• Join us on LinkedIn

....

hope to see you all there!

Oracle Enterprise 2.0 Virtual Conference!

Join Oracle in its Virtual Conference about Enterprise 2.0

Learn how Enterprise 2.0 will help your organization!

hear from our experts in EMEA!

the event page, agenda, and registration
http://events.unisfair.com/index.jsp?eid=353&seid=26

waiting to see you all!

Google logs & security of enterprises

with the new release of Google chrome I was very happy & very fascinated with the innovation & the commitment of Google to the glob, but a few blog posts & This Cnet news article which turned the idea into a nightmare, I’ve posted last time about cloud computing & Google’s outage, my point was that I can never ever trust anyone, what so ever, to store my sensitive information inside his "cloud". this was simply for storing info in other's place, but...

I was reading today here & here about Google's changes on their retention policies & defending their selves about privacy & personal security claims!

I paused for a second, and looked to my network of friends, of diverse backgrounds & distinct industries, we're using Google as the primary search engine, that logs all searches and even keystrokes before searching (Google suggest), & using Google chrome to access all our internal & external web pages, where it logs a lot of stuff about us, & can track our usage & surfing pattern, Google desktop to index the hard drive, including business emails & confidential data...

Ok, let me pause here again, Google is one of the truly innovative companies around, those products along with their entire stack of solutions drove innovation into all sectors, & I was very happy with each advancement & product they provided, including the cloud based docs...

But that was for my personal & home usage, nothing important to log or track, nothing top secret... therefore I wouldn't care (much) for the privacy policy as i trust Google very well.

But when we're talking about business & fierce competition it is another story, although I do trust Google, but again, as I said for cloud computing, I can never trust anyone for my business secrets, & after all, seems we brought the cloud to our homes :)

yes, very sad... as much as I’m fascinated by the innovation that Google is doing each day, I just can't ignore the risk of abusing those technologies by the wrong hands, & on the other hand, it's nonsense to ask Google to stop it, as science can never be stopped, if it was not Google, it will be another company..

Btw, reading my post again, I feel like a conspiracy freak!  Oops! I was reading such ideas back in university times, when some "conspiracy freak” said that with the advancement of internet, their is nothing called privacy anymore!! ... I guess that "freak" turned out to be "wise"...

However, this debate will never end, we just have to cope with the changes, & try our best to minimize the risks!

Google Outages, and Cloud Computing

Probably this is not the area of my speciality, but as a technology fan, I've seen recently several posts and talks about Google Apps and online computing, and was checking out Google Sites, which is a nice product indeed.

things were good until I read this topic from eWeek.

this really brings up some points against complete online business, and cloud computing,

The idea of having your complete documents, data and systems on Googl's servers is really cool, where the users and the entire organization will forget the headache and cost of hardware servers, backups, maintenance, upgrades ... etc.

and also provides access to all users from any system, any where, any browser! especially with the on-going development of Android, the Google mobile OS platform, users will be able to access their entire documents from their Android powered devices!

But, the main advantage with Google apps and their Cloud computing is also their main disadvantage, where that was clearly visible with their applications outages that happened this month, users thought that Google will be the most reliable online system, but they were shocked with the truth that Google is still a real company, that lives in the real world, where problems DO happen.

In my opinion, Having your data in other's hands is risky, especially when we are talking about sensitive information, or critical data that needs to be available 24x7.

Therefore, When an organization develop their plans and implement their systems (on their hardware) they have complete control on the availability, continuity and disaster recovery plans, and most importantly, the security.