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Miro is conducting a survey with thousands of organizational leaders in the public, private and governmental sectors regarding their use of cloud technologies and cloud strategies. As in industry leader, we greatly value your knowledge and expertise regarding the use of cloud technologies and cloud strategies. All survey respondents will receive a copy of the results so as to better manage and plan their future cloud strategies. Take the Survey (completion time 5 minutes) Take the Cloud Strategy Survey (5 […]

The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new regulation that will go into effect on May 25, 2018. The GDPR introduces a legal accountability obligation for organizations and will require organizations to reassess current policies, procedures, and systems and increase the level of controls, processes, and protection around the personal data of EU individuals. Organizations must have a complete understanding of their data and have the ability to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures that ensure […]

In the past couple of years, Miro has seen clients with IBM Cognos that all seem to have an issue. Cloud The first one is the easiest to explain – Cloud.  IBM offers SaaS IBM Analytics.  It includes both Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics (TM1), along with dashDB and Bluemix too.  IBM does a good job getting around to their Cognos and Planning clients to discuss the possibility of them moving to IBM Analytics, which results in questions to Miro. […]

Oracle Applies AWS Hyper-threading Policy to Microsoft Azure On January 23, 2017, Oracle updated its policy about licensing Oracle software in cloud computing environments. The impact to current AWS and Azure subscribers are: An AWS vCPU equates to one (1) hyper-thread of a Xeon CPU core – essentially half of the previous value. Oracle no longer applies their core factor against core usage within these environments. The policy had previously applied to all processor based licenses, where as the new […]

Oracle Support Contracts Now Auto-Renew During the late summer and early fall of 2017, Oracle made a significant addition to the Oracle Support policies but was largely silent on this change. While there are references to Online Renewal within Oracle’s websites, the most impactful change concerned auto-renew. Automatically renewing Oracle Support Contracts, designed to make it easier for Clients, has become the default method. Instead of receiving the Support Contract and thereby offering the customer the chance to review it, […]

Oracle BICS vs DVCS vs DVD Both Business Intelligence Cloud Services (BICS) and Data Visualization Cloud Service are used for data visualization, and have similar capabilities. Deciding which is best for your organization can be challenging.  Here’s some tips on making the right decision. Oracle’s business intelligence platform, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is an on-premise tool able to create reports, dashboards and real time alerts for users.  In 2014, Oracle introduced BICS as the cloud based version of […]