Domingo
Informatics is a consulting company providing data architecture and
Oracle software expertise. Its primary consultant is Ingo Peters. Over the last few years the dominant theme among IT industry has undoubtedly been "Web 2.0": the emergence of the web as bonafide platform for not only deploying static content, but also for serving as an integration hub to the many disparate technologies in use today. Governments are reshaping the way they interact with citizens by consolidating their services in a "one-stop shopping" experience. Enter Portals. Wikipedia's definition of portals is as follows:
Web portals are sites on the World Wide Web that typically provide
personalized capabilities to their visitors. They are designed to use
distributed applications, different numbers and types of middleware and
hardware to provide services from a number of different sources. In
addition, business portals are designed to share collaboration in
workplaces. A further business-driven requirement of portals is that
the content be able to work on multiple platforms such as personal
computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and cell phones. Domingo's experience with Oracle's comprehensive OFM (Oracle Fusion Middleware) suite of products, including the next generation of Oracle Portal running on Weblogic, benefits clients who are faced with the challenge of putting their business models to work in the age of Web 2.0. A recurring guiding principal of many government departments is to create a Portal that not only serves its clients, i.e. citizens, but also provides services to its own employees and partners. Collaboration tools and content repositories facilitate the second part of this equation: they allow users to share and collaborate on the creation and maintenance of documents utilizing web conferences, online discussions, project workspaces, and electronic workflow methods to create an improved degree of accountability. On a recent project Domingo developed an architecture to integrate the collaboration features of an Open Source product, Alfresco Share, with Oracle's Fusion Middleware stack running on Weblogic. This architecture took advantage of the economics of open source and combined it with the enterprise-class features of the Oracle stack. This integration was made possible by leveraging open standards. Therein lies the true power of the Oracle tool set: the ability to utilize open standards to integrate technologies from various vendors. As shown in the preceding example, the use of open standards has another major advantage: it allows the architecture to support the use of open source commodity components. Domingo Informatics always seeks to find cost savings by striking the right balance of open source and commercial tools when creating enterprise architectures. Ingo Peters |
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