Maintaining Oracle applications can be a challenge using only internal resources. You need a trusted, reliable partner to help provide support from implementation to upgrades — and beyond.
Implementing an Oracle platform requires both time and attention and a significant monetary investment. The scope of an Oracle implementation or upgrade project means it is likely to touch many of the individuals within your organization and has the potential to cause serious disruption if the project does not go as planned. With more than 430,000 customers in 175 countries, Oracle is the #1 provider of business software in the world. From application servers to middleware, data management, and analytics to inventory management and logistics, the Oracle universe is extensive and diverse. Finding trusted Oracle support in Toronto helps ensure that your company can take full advantage of upgrades and enhancements both now and in the future.
Did you know that 25% of enterprises spent between $300,000 – $400,000 on IT downtime in 2019? This figure is staggering, particularly when you consider that it’s probably understated. When you take into account lost productivity, inability to service customers, and the damage to your company’s reputation — the figure is likely to be far more significant. Reducing IT downtime is a crucial standard of excellence for large companies because it speaks to infrastructure stability and IT maturity. Working with knowledgeable Oracle support in Torontohelps ensures that you are gaining the greatest possible value from your Oracle investment.
It’s all too easy for a new technology services company to open its doors and proclaim themselves experts in their realm. The Oracle family is an extremely complex suite of services and platforms, requiring years of experience to understand and optimize. A poor implementation or upgrade of these core services can cause significant damage to your organization, in terms of time and effort as well as financial impact. When you are working with an Oracle support team, you need to know that they have the knowledge and experience required to be successful in each engagement with your company.
Your Oracle solutions are the backbone of your organization, and you need the confidence of knowing that they will be available and working effectively at all times. When you need Oracle support in Toronto for implementations, upgrades, or maintenance, contact the professionals at SoftArt Solutions at 866-477-4435. We work with companies of all sizes from initial layout design to installation and monitoring — ensuring that your solutions are flexible and scalable to meet your needs. Our team of Oracle experts has more than 15 years of experience support clients in a wide range of Oracle-based platforms. As a Rising Star member of OATUG and a Certified Oracle Partner, the professionals at SoftArt Solutions have the expertise and experience that will allow you to reap exceptional value from your Oracle investment.
Data breaches are scary and can easily cost your company millions of dollars. Here are five of our team’s top tips to make sure your application is secure.
For most companies, the idea of a data breach is more than just a little frightening—it’s downright terrifying. According to IBM, the average cost of dealing with one rose to a whopping $3.92 million. And that figure doesn’t even take into account the reputation damage and loss of future business.
Thankfully, there are numerous steps you can take to prevent this type of issue from happening to you. Here are five of our top tips to make sure your application is secure.
The first thing you need to do to ensure your application is secure is to have a solid plan. Decide how your team needs to keep data safe and take steps to put these protocols in place. This might take a bit of brainstorming as to how industry standard regulations best fit into your overall picture, but in the end, protecting your systems is vital.
And, if your team isn’t up to standard in terms of knowledge in making this happen, make sure to build in time for education. The absolute worst thing you can do is rush changes without understanding the more significant scope of why they matter.
It is also essential to understand the importance of security governance—i.e., the protocols you have in place and monitoring to help ensure goals are being met. After all, if you don’t have oversight on what you’re doing to protect data, you cannot make changes as needed or even prove that you’ve made an effort if an incident ever happens.
Common considerations that you need to pay attention to include:
You need to have a plan as to how you’re going to protect data and who is going to make sure these guidelines are being met for every possible scenario for your company.
You will also want to think dynamically to allow for growth. As you add more application users, your company grows, or basic protocols change, you need to be ready to make certain adjustments along the way.
One easy way to do this is to create automated maintenance processes. You should also avoid any sort of user specific security, instead opting for groups to make personnel or company dynamic changes a breeze.
Another tip is to allow more than one person inside your organization to know your security strategy. While you don’t want to let all of your secrets out concerning your processes, it is essential to allow multiple people critical insight into your framework in case anyone ever leaves the company or is suddenly unable to work due to illness.
Choosing two or three people who are all on the same page isn’t breaking your security efforts. It is ensuring that the same processes continue to go on long after any personnel changes happen. It also means that there is always someone available in case of an emergency to help make sure things get back on track fast.
You should also audit and test your process periodically. Testing before your application goes live and before any significant changes that affect security is more than just good sense. It can help keep a potential breach at bay and allow you to catch any potential problems before they go live. After launch, you will want to test often to help reveal any flaws or other issues.
Securing your application doesn’t have to be a complicated process. By keeping these top five tips in mind, you can rest assured that the risk of a data breach is minimal.
At SoftArt Solutions, we understand the importance of ensuring your application is secure and offer a wide range of services to suit your needs. Please contact us today for further information.
The success of your next project depends on the expertise and professionalism of your Oracle consultants. Are you ready to risk everything on technicians without real-world experience?
Even the most well-planned Oracle project can go off the rails without ongoing support from professionals with real-world experience. Timelines can expand, and budgets increase — while the leadership overseeing the project sees dollar signs floating away. There are thousands of moving parts involved in any complex implementation, any one of which could throw a major wrench into your plans of completing the project on time and budget. While no one can foresee every potential issue and plan, working with vetted implementation professionals who specialize in the Oracle suite of solutions will help you sidestep problems and move forward without losing momentum on your next project.
Bringing any new software to an organization requires finesse and a firm grasp of change principles. Not only are you engineering a solution to a business problem, but you are also introducing new concepts and tools to teams of individuals, and that requires a positive approach to change management and a great deal of experience to be successful. It is all too easy to let team leaders fall into the trap of over-analysis on the current needs of the business without a clear focus on building for the future. With the speed of change continuing to accelerate throughout various industries, it is more important than ever to develop solutions that are flexible and extensible enough to support both the current and future business requirements.
When you work with the professionals at SoftArt Solutions, you can be confident that your team has run the gauntlet — working with organizations of all sizes to implement cutting-edge solutions that improve productivity, reduce costs and boost overall process efficiency. From project development and implementation through testing and post-production, our experts will be at your side, ensuring you have access to the knowledge you need to make good decisions about moving your project through to a favorable outcome. Creating synergies between individuals and solutions is often much more difficult than simply configuring the software to work for your use-case. Finding the balance between the right solutions to support your business needs and what your users can accept in terms of change often requires a light touch. Our teams have the experience necessary to introduce new concepts in a way that is more likely to be accepted by your user base.
Whether you are embarking on your first foray into using Oracle or merely adding another component to your Oracle stack, SoftArt Solutions has more than 15 years of experience to draw upon when supporting your next implementation project. Our close partnership with Oracle allows us unique access to recommend options that may be difficult to find with other Oracle partners. With multiple Oracle Certified Champions and Professionals on staff, you are not limited to working with a single individual with knowledge of the platform. Instead, you are gaining access to teams of senior-level teams with tight ties to your platform vendor — making it easier than ever to overcome hurdles you might encounter throughout the implementation of your next Oracle solution.
Trusted implementation teams are challenging to find, particularly when you are looking for groups that specialize in Oracle solutions. The experts at SoftArt Solutions work exclusively with Oracle and maintain a high profile with the Oracle community at a long-time Oracle Gold Partner. By regularly encouraging team members to become certified and expand their reach within OATUG, the Oracle Applications & Technology Users Group, SoftArt Solutions can deliver cutting-edge results across the entire Oracle stack. With cross-functional support from the Oracle professionals at SoftArt Solutions, you can be confident that your next implementation project will move forward smoothly and deliver actual value back to your business. Contact our team at 866-477-4435 to schedule your free initial consultation and learn more about how SoftArt experts have been successful at bringing Oracle solutions to organizations of all sizes.
Protecting your customer’s information starts with highly secure environments and structured compliance requirements. See how the Oracle Certified experts at SoftArt Solutions can help.
Security and compliance are far more than mere buzzwords — they are the hallmarks of a genuinely prepared organization. They can signal extreme danger if they are neglected for critical databases and other systems. With proactive monitoring and regular health checks, your systems can maintain a high level of availability while mitigating the possibility of a cybersecurity incident. The Certified Oracle professionals at SoftArt Solutions excel at proactively detecting and resolving potential database problems before they can affect the operations of your databases, preventing downtime smoothing the flow of operations throughout your organization. From Oracle’s advanced Data Encryption and Advanced Security features to firewalls and activity monitoring, Oracle Cloud Solutions are engineered for security and stability.
One of the critical factors involved in providing a secure and compliant applications infrastructure is through the regular application of patches and software upgrades. Without these critical updates, it can be all too easy for cybercriminals or even internal threat vectors to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information being stored within your Oracle databases. Fortunately, the team at SoftArt Solutions has the expertise required to perform zero-downtime upgrades using a combination of solutions combined with our experience in query design. We help ensure that your applications are running fluidly and are fine-tuned for performance excellence throughout the upgrade process. Hence, you are never without a high degree of security for your vital business applications.
Compliance requirements often include standards around business continuity and disaster recovery — what happens when your company experiences a data breach, cybersecurity incident, or natural disaster. Protecting the confidential personal information of your customers and the intellectual property of your business that are stored within your Oracle databases requires ensuring that you have a high availability environment with robust disaster recovery and business continuity solutions in place. The Certified Oracle Champions at SoftArt Solutions has an average of 15 years of real-world experience helping organizations of all sizes create a comprehensive approach to security and compliance that accounts for even the most complex scenarios as found in the life sciences and financial services sectors.
Endowed with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, Oracle’s Sentri solution actively monitors your Oracle database and ruleset to detect violations by managing ongoing activities such as task delegation, access requests, and access certifications. Each interaction between your ruleset and external elements such as users, APIs, and other databases are looking for unusual transactions that are outside the set parameters for your business. With automated access verification rulesets, Oracle Sentri is continually combing through each interaction, upholding security policies, and ensuring that all audit and compliance requirements are captured and preserved for the future. By maintaining a Segregation of Duty (SoD), Oracle EBS Cloud solutions can pinpoint potential security violations and prevent improper system access while still allowing for ease of integration with external applications.
Protecting your organization requires a distinct focus on data security and systems compliance, including user management and data storage. When you work with the Oracle security experts at SoftArt Solutions, you can be confident that the recommendations you receive will help reduce overall risk for your organization while also helping to smooth out any operational inconsistencies. Maintaining compliance includes being able to account for all relevant changes to your systems, and our Oracle experts have real-world experience protecting organizations of all sizes in even the most highly-regulated healthcare and financial services environments. Contact the SoftArt Solutions team of experts at 866-477-4435 to schedule your free initial consultation and learn more about how our security and compliance solutions will help protect your organization from the hefty fines and negative publicity that can come with significant data breaches or cybersecurity incidents.
Centralized storage of encryption and other security solutions has never been more convenient than with Oracle’s upgraded Key Vault 18.2.
Managing a range of secure solutions has become increasingly complex in recent years, particularly as various solutions require added levels of security to meet stringent compliance and data security standards. With Oracle’s latest upgrade to their Key Vault, you gain access to a centralized location to maintain and manage Oracle Advanced Security Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) master keys, Java Keystores, credential files, Oracle Wallets and more. The enterprise-grade security that has been baked into the 18.2 version of Oracle’s Key Vault allows for high-availability environments, browser-based access management and allows an unprecedented level of access control policies related to server endpoints and secrets. Oracle engineers have increased their focus on making Oracle more approachable in a move to simplify security requirements and help organizations without on-staff experts take full advantage of the advanced security tools available from the robust Oracle platforms.
With $6 trillion in damages from data breaches and other incidents estimated for 2021, cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly critical way to protect your organization from authorized data access and entry. This means that IT-based security incidents will account for more damages to individuals and organizations than natural disasters and even exceeds the global volume of illegal drugs — effectively making cybersecurity one of the biggest threats facing your enterprise. Even so, only a small percentage of cybercrimes are actually reported, a fact which means the $6 trillion in damages may be dramatically underreported. This shocking IT security epidemic has caused industry leaders such as Oracle to look for new ways to secure information, such as their latest Key Vault 18.2 which is being touted as extremely secure and scalable while allowing configurations for a high-availability environment.
When you consider all of the various areas where SSH keys, Java Keystores and Oracle Wallets of information are being stored throughout your network, it can be a rude awakening for business and technology leaders. As systems grow and evolve, it’s not unusual to find that these critical infrastructure “secrets” are being stored and distributed without the level of structure necessary to maintain exceptional security and compliance. With Oracle Key Vault 18.2, you can quickly and conveniently store this information securely in a master repository that also helps protect your overall network by limiting access of endpoints to no more than the information they require to perform their primary tasks. By segregating endpoints — one of the known weakest components of your network security — Oracle has created a system that has lessened the likelihood of a catastrophic attack. Lost or corrupted files can quickly be retrieved or replaced without causing additional issues throughout the network.
Understanding how and when access keys are being activated is a critical factor for tracking any weaknesses in your cybersecurity posture. With Oracle Key Vault 18.2, you can provision server endpoints and also gain a holistic view of key groups and key usage. Administrative functions are more easily handled through a direct command-line interface and RESTful interfaces can be engaged for on-premise or cloud-based deployments. In addition, Key Vault now includes options that allow for segregation of duties — separating audit functions from administrator roles, with the ability to grant more granular access to endpoints for specific users or user groups.
Ensuring that you have the correct Oracle solutions begins with a solid understanding of the unique needs of your business. The professionals at SoftArt are Oracle experts and will dig deep into your business requirements to uncover hidden needs where Oracle could add value to your business. With over 15 years of experience working with organizations of all sizes, SoftArt consultants have accumulated comprehensive Oracle knowledge over the years and take pride in providing proactive systems migrations, Oracle consulting and 24×7 support on a wide range of Oracle solutions. Contact our team at 866-477-4435 to schedule your free initial consultation or to learn more about Oracle’s new Key Vault 18.2 and how it could be leveraged within your organization.
Are internal staff falling behind with critical support requests? The professionals at SoftArt are trained and qualified to provide implementation and ongoing support for the full Oracle suite.
The complexity involved in today’s software solutions can cause forward momentum on projects to slow to a crawl, particularly if internal teams are attempting to divide their time between several high-priority initiatives. Protecting your sensitive business and customer data, securing your networks and business applications, and maintaining your infrastructure often take precedence over upgrades to existing platforms or bringing new Oracle components onboard. Fortunately, the professionals at SoftArt Solutions are available to provide access to Certified Oracle Champions with the skills and experience necessary to support your Oracle DB or applications upgrade, cloud migration, and more.
Whether you need short-term staff augmentation or would like to outsource the entire project to our team, SoftArt Solutions can provide the qualified Oracle support professionals that will ensure your project’s success. A few of the solution services that we offer include:
Protecting your corporation from data breaches and other cyber attacks begins with applying patches and upgrades promptly, but this can be problematic for some organizations. Even the most well-planning upgrades could potentially result in downtime, making it crucial to have on-the-ground support from knowledgeable professionals as you’re prepping for and completing these activities. Reduce the inconvenience of upgrades by working with Oracle experts from SoftArt Solutions, who are well-versed in quickly resolving any issues that might surface during upgrades or patching activities.
Being able to thoroughly restore a trusted copy of your Oracle solutions from any location requires a robust backup and disaster recovery strategy that has been thoroughly vetted, tested, and hardened by security professionals. Creating this type of documentation does require an investment in time and effort, something that can be a struggle for internal teams to maintain. With support from the experts at SoftArt Solutions, your team will gain valuable insight into any potential issues that could reduce the availability or viability of backups while creating cohesive rules and requirements around your backup and disaster recovery strategies that will help ensure the continuity of business operations in the event of an incident.
Are your business processes fully optimized, or are your teams still engaged in manual activities daily? Reducing the variability of your customer experience and processes starts with smart automation solutions from Oracle and a team with a strong understanding of what is possible in terms of your Oracle solutions. When you take the time to prioritize these activities and focus on the items that will bring the highest business value for a discrete project, you might find it easier to gain buy-in for additional automation projects in the future. SoftArt Solutions consultants have the expertise needed to accurately scope and drive this type of change initiative, boosting productivity, and reducing staff time for repetitive tasks.
Are you preparing to shift some (or all!) of your operations to the cloud? With the latest solutions from Oracle, organizations are seeing significant benefits from their Oracle cloud migration activities, such as a simplified workflow and heightened security options. While the results are positive, cloud migrations can also be difficult and time-consuming, resulting in unexpected downtime to critical business systems. Reduce the possibility of data loss and ensure that your operations are maintained by working with seasoned Oracle cloud migration professionals from SoftArt Solutions.
Compliance and data security are top-of-mind concerns for business and technology professionals alike, particularly when you are dealing with operational software from Oracle. The advanced database security solutions such as Sentri for Oracle EBS offer enhancements to your current security solutions that are specific to Oracle applications and databases. When you are storing sensitive data within your Oracle database, there is an added degree of confidence knowing that you have trusted and vetted Oracle solutions professionals available to help support your Oracle business applications.
Understanding the unique needs of your business takes time, and the Oracle Certified Champions have the knowledge and experience that will help make your next Oracle project a success. Contact our SoftArt Solutions experts at 866-477-4435 to schedule your free initial consultation and to see how we can help reduce costs, improve project speed, and allow your internal teams to refocus on vital initiatives that will help your company compete in the future. As active partners in the Oracle Applications & Technology User Group, SoftArt Solutions leaders have trained across a wide array of industries. They can help your teams maximize your Oracle investment.
Oracle helps ease the transition to the cloud with hybrid services and technologies for businesses to migrate applications, critical data, and infrastructure.
For many businesses, a move to the cloud happens gradually. Oracle technologies and services help organizations migrate successfully by incorporating a hybrid-cloud methodology that eases the transition. What should you know about migrating your data, applications, and infrastructure to the cloud, and what tools does Oracle provide to assist you?
Organizations choose to migrate to the cloud for a variety of reasons. In some cases, companies may lack the significant financial resources required to invest in IT infrastructure and choose a cloud model as a simpler and less costly option. By delivering services via the cloud, companies can allocate costs as part of ongoing operational budgets rather than one-time capital expenditures.
Computing via cloud also offers flexibility, allowing team members to access apps and data remotely and via nearly any connected device. The speed of deploying cloud-based services also enables organizations to adjust strategies quickly to meet changing customer needs.
Cloud implementations provide businesses with a common platform for fast, simple deployment of a variety of applications, management options, and types of data. As needed, cloud computing also offers organizations the ability to scale up or down as needed — without acquiring costly IT infrastructure.
If your organization is planning a cloud transition, you’ll face some decision points when it comes to choosing a provider. For most businesses, a successful cloud strategy means an enhanced value that a comprehensive technology solution can deliver.
Your cloud provider should have a thorough understanding of the challenges your business faces — and the technological expertise to create a cloud implementation that includes the right infrastructure and applications to help your organization thrive.
A capable cloud provider can help you reduce your ongoing maintenance expenses by migrating all of your applications — and managing your new usage scenario with modern processes. While many providers can set up cloud infrastructure, they may lack the tools and skills to support integrated services and applications fully.
Before choosing a cloud provider, consider whether the organization understands the challenges inherent in running your vital systems and applications, and take a look at the provider’s history of reliability.
Moving your organization’s applications to the cloud may require significant alterations — not just to the applications themselves, but also to databases, documents, and adjacent tools. Such a move can result in unforeseen complexity and skyrocketing costs.
By working with the right cloud provider, you can develop an effective strategy for your move in advance, which can help keep costs in check and make use of previous IT investments when possible.
To help businesses develop a practical path for cloud migration, Oracle has created a Value Navigator that allows you to calculate potential benefits quickly. The calculator can aid you in estimating the current costs of your Oracle Database deployments along with comparing your current setup to similar functionality on Oracle Database Cloud.
Estimating the costs of a move to the cloud can prove challenging. A skilled cloud provider can assist you in determining the resources you’ll require to meet your company’s needs with a cloud deployment.
Oracle offers services and technologies to help organizations successfully transition to the cloud. Recognizing that complex migrations don’t happen overnight, Oracle incorporates a hybrid-cloud strategy — with offerings like IaaS, DaaS, and SaaS using the same standards and tools, whether on-site or in a cloud deployment. With critical applications and technologies offered seamlessly in both environments, organizations can benefit from a simplified move of their infrastructure, data, and applications.
Also, Oracle eases the cloud transition with its Oracle Universal Credit Pricing program, which offers access to current and future Oracle services under one contract. The Bring Your Own License program also provides the opportunity to transfer on-site software licenses to cloud equivalents quickly.
As you begin the process of transitioning your organization to the cloud, Oracle tools and services can provide a cost-effective, hybrid model to make a move as painless as possible. New Jersey-based Oracle consulting company SoftArt Solutions can assist you as you build your cloud deployment. For more information, please contact us.
Why should you hire a consulting company to help with database administration? Here are the top five reasons why you need to hire an Oracle database expert in Washington DC.
For most small or mid-size companies, outsourcing Oracle database administration just makes good business sense. After all, why spend money hiring someone in-house when you have the option of working with a professional as needed? Here are the top five reasons why you need to hire an Oracle database expert.
Why outsource Oracle database administration duties versus hiring an in-house DBA? The most important reason is cost savings. Think about this for a moment. Instead of having to hire an expert, pay them for forty hours of work a week, and then provide benefits, you can simply have an outsourced provider ready for as much or as little as you need them. In many cases, this just makes the most sense.
There’s no convenient time to have a computer or IT problem. For most businesses, system downtime equates to a loss of money, which isn’t good for anyone. By working with an outside Oracle database expert, you can rest assured that you have access to an on-call professional when you need them. Plus, if it is a major issue, they have likely already experienced a related problem in the past and can get your system running again as smoothly as possible.
Training staff is usually difficult in even the simplest of circumstances. Instead of allowing them to focus on the job they normally do, they’re forced to take time off and sit in a classroom or complete modules to learn the latest tips and tricks. When you hire an Oracle consultant, there is none of this. The expert you hire prides themselves on being up to date with the latest information and your employees don’t have to sit through another day or week of training. It is a win-win situation for all!
Another reason to hire an outside Oracle expert is that they have great contacts with the official support team. Instead of guessing who you’re supposed to call when there’s a major issue with your database, your dedicated consultant has the contacts available from prior experience to help get the issue resolved as soon as possible. In certain circumstances, this can equate to a significantly less period of downtime and help keep issues to a bare minimum.
This is in a way a side note, but we are specifically talking about hiring an American company for your Oracle database needs. Companies that provide Oracle database administration in the United States must uphold all legal privacy guidelines. Those that operate offshore or outsource do not, which can create conflicts if your company deals with certain sensitive information. Hiring a trusted consultant is paramount to protecting your business and your data.
Are you looking for Oracle database administration in Washington DC? SoftArt Solutions provides quality services to clients all over the United States. Please contact us today to learn more.
SoftArt Solutions discusses 5 benefits of outsourcing DBA tasks to a company providing fractional coverage to ensure database protection for corporations.
Database administration (DBA) tasks consume vital time, money and human resources. To keep one running smoothly, it is important to have a full team of qualified technicians in a position to respond to database issues like human errors, cyberattacks and data breaches, power outages, database failure, and hardware breakdowns. While hiring a DBA may seem expensive, your database security is worth the investment to avoid the risk.
Outsourcing developed during the Industrial Revolution and became increasingly popular during the latter half of the 20th century. Business leaders began to see outsourcing as an invaluable tool to increase flexibility within the organization to allow for more core creativity and productivity. During the first two decades of the 21st century, the trend has gained more traction than ever. In 2018, for instance, the global market for outsourcing was worth $85.6 billion, according to Small Biz Genius.
The risk of a database failure and other problems with a database can result in one or a series of devastating impacts that include data breaches, operational losses, customer dissatisfaction, non-compliance fees, and penalties, and reputational damage. For this reason alone, businesses are increasingly reaching out to hire an outsourcing DBA. A third-party DBA allows your business to boost database security and reliability while devoting more time to core competencies.
Here are five ways outsourcing your DBA tasks can help your business flourish.
1. Handles Excess Work That Your Team Can’t
Databases have a tendency to become so complex that businesses need professional database capabilities. However, most organizations don’t need a full-time DBA. If your business is growing, and you find that your own database has grown beyond your current staffing capabilities, fractional coverage may solve your issues. With fractional DBA, you receive an allotted number of hours for work from a team of DBAs that have the precise expertise you need without hiring additional permanent staff members.
2. Saves a Lot of Money
The fact that you will not need to hire a new staff member automatically offers savings. However, you can enjoy more savings such as not adding operational and overhead costs. That means you do not need to invest in additional equipment and utilities used for new employees. The only new expenses incurred are those related to services rendered, and you can negotiate those fees with your third-party DBA.
3. Round-the-Clock Coverage That Includes Vacations and Holidays
With fractional DBA, you will not need to worry about annual competition for prime vacation and holiday leave among your in-house DBAs. A third-party DBA will cover nights, weekends, vacation time and holidays so your staff can have the time away from work they need to stay healthy, stress-free and happy. This benefit is important because one of the leading reasons that DBAs leave their positions is because of burnout. Reducing the burden on top talent helps foster well-being and less turnover.
4. Quick Response DBA Services
DBA outsourcing provides better system maintenance and customer service. With constant coverage from industry experts, you will experience fewer operational issues. Your fractional DBA team members are available to handle urgent issues like applying patches and responding to tickets or alerts.
5. Offers Access to DBA Experts and Specialists
Outsourcing DBA firms achieve and maintain contact with top experts and specialists in the industry. Any task you need your team to accomplish, your DBA contact can likely do. As fast-paced as technology moves today, it is sometimes difficult for your in-house team to keep up with the latest knowledge and skills needed for certain projects.
SoftArt Solutions follows best practices for Oracle Database Security on every implementation and project. Contact us for assistance with all Oracle Database tools. We are a trusted Oracle partner serving clients in New Jersey and throughout the United States.
Avoid messing up your cloud migration by getting help from a Rising Star Oracle consulting team. Reap the benefits of their experience and critical thinking.
There’s nothing simple about migrating data and applications to Oracle cloud technology. You’ve got to think about storage capacity, mapping out where data goes in the new infrastructure, and decide which product offerings best suit the company culture. It pays to have people with the right background in Oracle technology guiding the process. Your choice of partner will be the difference-maker in a successful or disastrous outcome.
OATUG Star Partners participants represent some of the brightest minds working with Oracle technology. By bringing them on as consultants, organizations ensure their transition to Oracle Cloud technology rests in the best hands. Let’s look at five reasons why hiring a Rising Star Oracle consulting team would be the best move for your business’s cloud migration.
A complex IT infrastructure isn’t just a problem for large organizations. Many SMBs end up bogged down in the details of trying to work through transitioning multiple databases and business applications, not to mention the millions of lines of code to deal with. Many try to mitigate the complexity by merely duplicating their current process instead of taking advantage of all aspects of Cloud technology.
Rising Star Oracle consulting teams recognize the need to take everything apart to build something better. They account for different technology stacks, vendors, and the need for different pieces to interact with legacy company systems. That way, you come up with realistic short and long-term goals for implementing your ideal architecture while reinforcing best practices during each phase.
The most critical piece of any cloud migration is enabling seamless back-and-forth transitions of information between a data center and cloud infrastructure. Your current applications maintain continued access to information needed by daily business users.
A Rising Star consulting team helps an organization accomplish this task with minimal disruption. They also help set up tools that make the data migration process easier and more streamlined.
One of the most difficult things about planning a cloud migration is making sure it’s built to support your current data and business applications. It should be flexible enough to expand and grow along with your company while still supporting the needs of current employees.
Proper construction of a new cloud platform keeps long-term maintenance costs low. A Rising Star Oracle consulting team also helps enable ongoing support through modern DevOps tools and processes. They understand how to integrate SaaS, DBaaS, and PaaS technology with your new Oracle platform.
Another critical mistake a lot of businesses make is underestimating the costs involved with cloud migrations. Organizations must account for any necessary changes to databases, tools, and applications. Overlooking an essential feature could lead to a miscalculation that causes long delays and further pushes out the timeline for recouping your investment.
Having an Oracle consulting partner on-hand is essential to getting a clearer estimate of your investment. Awareness of the true cost of their cloud transition helps companies make critical decisions and plan realistic implementation dates.
Rising Star Oracle Consulting teams help you implement best practices that keep you from being the victim of persistent data outages. Their experiences help you avoid extended downtimes by ensuring thorough testing of database changes and upgrades before moving them to the cloud infrastructure.
They also help create secure back-up processes to protect against data loss. It’s vital to a company’s future that they maintain access to critical business data in the event of a disaster.
Contact SoftArt Solutions if you need help finding an Oracle consulting and support team for your organization.