The Queensland Government Department has been an Integral customer since 2011 during which time Integral has completed a number of consulting engagements to support the Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM), BPM and SOA products. Integral also provided our ConfigNOW product for configuration and deployment management of Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, including Oracle WebLogic. In 2017, Integral decided to ‘open source’ the ConfigNOW product and additionally investigate other tools that would be useful to the Department as their Oracle technology stack continued to expand. After an exhaustive global search, Integral decided that Flexagon’s FlexDeploy would be of most value, alongside ConfigNOW.
Since 2017, Integral has continued to assist the Department by providing training, advice and consulting services with FlexDeploy and Oracle middleware support services.
The IT branch of a Queensland Government Department was spending an entire day to migrate code between Oracle environments. Using manual methods was slow and introduced errors, which resulted in rework and another day to migrate the code.
“We went from needing one entire day to migrate between environments and needing lots of testing and rework to just 30 minutes without the introduction of any errors. We have been using FlexDeploy for three years with a very high level of confidence now and are planning to use it for all our major systems. It has been a great investment for us.” – ICT Executive Manager
DOWNLOAD CASE STUDYInsuret is an underwriting agency whose purpose is to deliver market leading insurance products and services within specific industry segments including Car rental insurance for fleet
owners; Peer-2-Peer motor insurance; Commercial motor fleet insurance and Small business motor insurance.
Insuret’s core business product required significant functional and performance enhancements to maintain their market leading position. These activities had been commenced but were not realising the benefits Insuret needed and were taking longer than planned.
The approach recommended by Integral was to first gain an understanding of the current state of the business applications, including a review of the documentation produced to date. The Integral Project Manager established regular weekly meetings between Insuret management, the Vendor and the Project to review progress and commence planning, using standard project monitoring and control methods and tools. The consistency with which the vendor applied rigour to their management of the project varied and pressure had to be maintained throughout the project to achieve the agreed functionality to the level of quality required.
The Australian economy is powered by transport and NTI is Australia’s leading insurer in that space. Integral worked with NTI to develop an advanced containerisation platform so it can remain at the forefront of the industry and respond rapidly to change.
NTI first adopted containers in 2017, leveraging the power to assist with new machine learning modelling techniques. NTI built a fit for purpose, container management platform during that period but as the value and opportunities of containers became obvious NTI needed to implement an enterprise level management platform. The NTI project team identified several key areas to focus on during their evaluation of various containerisation platforms.
After undertaking a proof-of-concept on a small group of applications, the project team found that Red Hat’s OpenShift platform was the best fit and value for money. Once the NTI team decided to adopt the Red Hat OpenShift platform, the project could then move on to acquisition and eventually integrating Red Hat’s OpenShift platform with existing systems.
Today, Heritage Bank has grown to become Australia’s largest customer-owned bank and is one of the longest-running financial institutions in the country.
The New Payments Platform (NPP) is a major industry-wide initiative to develop a new infrastructure for Australian payments. It’s a fast, flexible and data-rich payments system for Australian governments, businesses and consumers to meet their payment needs. Heritage Bank had an inflight project that had been struggling to achieve some of the broader business outcomes necessary to enable NPP.
Integral developed and implemented an integration platform that not only serviced Heritage’s immediate NPP needs, but would also meet their future integration needs. Integral’s value-add was the open architectural principles used on this important project—in effect future-proofing the solution for many years to come.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE (ANZCVS) supports the veterinary profession in Australia and New Zealand through the assessment and recognition of expertise and rewarding of excellence.
ANZCVS needed a system where examiners working remotely could enter exam results for verification, moderation and storage. Their current system had little automation in the processing and recording of exam results giving rise to the possibility of human error.
After thorough elicitation of requirements with the ANZCVS stakeholders, Integral designed a web based solution built on industry recognized tools, ensuring readily available skills in the market. The system is hosted in Microsoft Azure to allow for on demand scaling as well as simple technology upgrades without significant configuration.
ENERGEX had a low level automation system in place for their field workers that was not handling the increased quantity of data, providing sufficient accuracy, or speed of delivery to the field.
When developing a replacement system, ENERGEX wanted the new system to improve customer service levels, assist field staff in completing safer and higher performing field work, and use a smarter, integrated electronic schedule and dispatch tool (Ventyx Service Suite).
The resulting solution uses Field Force Automation (FFA) technology, implemented with the latest release of the Service Suite solution from Ventyx and incorporated the integration of a number of ENERGEX’s host systems. This allows ENERGEX crews now locate faults in the network faster than ever through satellite navigation, tracking, and dispatch. The FFA computer system provides field crews with unprecedented access to electronic information about outages and customer premises from their vehicle, reducing phone calls and travel time during storms and other peak periods. The new system benefits millions of people throughout Queensland and New South Wales, providing faster, more efficient responses from ENERGEX.
By Mike Stone Introduction In the last few years, there’s been a radical shift in the way that clients deliver DevOps and Continuous Integration (CI). Driven by cloud solutions and containerisation tools like Docker, the marketplace for DevOps and CI tools has changed markedly. There are three…
JRF enabled domain in weblogic 12c: Weblogic’s latest release 12c is out a while ago with some great new features and while we were trying to come up with a new ConfigNOW release to support this release, we identified few really interesting requirements and aspects of this release. Here is…
So, an awesome thing happened a couple of weeks ago, and we had our ConfigNOW User Advisory Board in Brisbane, which is a fancy way of saying that we got everyone who uses ConfigNOW currently or is in the process of evaluating it, and bundled them into a room and…
ConfigNOW Extension for jBOSS and Tomcat: Here is a quick POC done to show how easy it is to extend ConfigNOW’s capabilities beyond Oracle middleware product stack. This package has support for JBOSS and TOMCAT for the most common operations that production support teams often require to perform on a…
I thought I’d share this with you all as you may find this useful. The question raised by a customer was how can they run multiple instances of ConfigNOW at the same time. The reason for this request is to allow them to run multiple instances of OSB deployer into…
So, what’s new in 4.1 RC4? In terms of new functionality, RC4 is pretty non-eventful. We’re now ensuring that sensitive database passwords aren’t echoed to screen, ever. We’ve added a number of bug fixes: the run_rcu command now terminates successfully an issue with setting wls.admin.log.custom and wls.admin.httplog.enable properties has been…
Space is not only the final frontier, as Captain James Tiberius Kirk put it, but it’s also one of the more frustrating reasons for a failed install of WebLogic Server, SOA Suite, or any other part of the Fusion Middleware stack. It’s particularly frustrating when you’ve got a big juicy disk mount…
This article covers approaches to rapidly starting a large WebLogic / SOA Suite / OSB domain using the Oracle NodeManager and parallel start calls.
It has been an exciting couple of weeks at Integral, as we released the ConfigNOW 4.1 RC2 product and won one of Queensland’s premier IT awards for our work in Sustainable and Green IT. But today the focus is on ConfigNOW and the new features that we have introduced in to the 4.1 RC2 release.
One of the more common questions that we get asked is what is the best approach to combining one or more commands in ConfigNOW?
For example lets say you wanted to combine the ‘create_domain’ command, with the ‘start_wls_admin’ command to create a new command called, ‘create_and_start_domain’, which first created the domain and then started the admin server.
The simplest way to achieve this is by using a custom ANT command file through the standard command extensions approach. Check out the documentation (http://www.integraltech.com.au/confignow/confignow-documentation) if you are looking for more information on how to do this.
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The Queensland Government Department has been an Integral customer since 2011 during which time Integral has completed a number of consulting engagements to support the Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM), BPM and SOA products. Integral also provided our ConfigNOW product for configuration and deployment management of Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies, including Oracle WebLogic. In 2017, Integral decided to ‘open source’ the ConfigNOW product and additionally investigate other tools that would be useful to the Department as their Oracle technology stack continued to expand. After an exhaustive global search, Integral decided that Flexagon’s FlexDeploy would be of most value, alongside ConfigNOW.
Since 2017, Integral has continued to assist the Department by providing training, advice and consulting services with FlexDeploy and Oracle middleware support services.
The IT branch of a Queensland Government Department was spending an entire day to migrate code between Oracle environments. Using manual methods was slow and introduced errors, which resulted in rework and another day to migrate the code.
“We went from needing one entire day to migrate between environments and needing lots of testing and rework to just 30 minutes without the introduction of any errors. We have been using FlexDeploy for three years with a very high level of confidence now and are planning to use it for all our major systems. It has been a great investment for us.” – ICT Executive Manager
DOWNLOAD CASE STUDYInsuret is an underwriting agency whose purpose is to deliver market leading insurance products and services within specific industry segments including Car rental insurance for fleet
owners; Peer-2-Peer motor insurance; Commercial motor fleet insurance and Small business motor insurance.
Insuret’s core business product required significant functional and performance enhancements to maintain their market leading position. These activities had been commenced but were not realising the benefits Insuret needed and were taking longer than planned.
The approach recommended by Integral was to first gain an understanding of the current state of the business applications, including a review of the documentation produced to date. The Integral Project Manager established regular weekly meetings between Insuret management, the Vendor and the Project to review progress and commence planning, using standard project monitoring and control methods and tools. The consistency with which the vendor applied rigour to their management of the project varied and pressure had to be maintained throughout the project to achieve the agreed functionality to the level of quality required.
The Australian economy is powered by transport and NTI is Australia’s leading insurer in that space. Integral worked with NTI to develop an advanced containerisation platform so it can remain at the forefront of the industry and respond rapidly to change.
NTI first adopted containers in 2017, leveraging the power to assist with new machine learning modelling techniques. NTI built a fit for purpose, container management platform during that period but as the value and opportunities of containers became obvious NTI needed to implement an enterprise level management platform. The NTI project team identified several key areas to focus on during their evaluation of various containerisation platforms.
After undertaking a proof-of-concept on a small group of applications, the project team found that Red Hat’s OpenShift platform was the best fit and value for money. Once the NTI team decided to adopt the Red Hat OpenShift platform, the project could then move on to acquisition and eventually integrating Red Hat’s OpenShift platform with existing systems.
Today, Heritage Bank has grown to become Australia’s largest customer-owned bank and is one of the longest-running financial institutions in the country.
The New Payments Platform (NPP) is a major industry-wide initiative to develop a new infrastructure for Australian payments. It’s a fast, flexible and data-rich payments system for Australian governments, businesses and consumers to meet their payment needs. Heritage Bank had an inflight project that had been struggling to achieve some of the broader business outcomes necessary to enable NPP.
Integral developed and implemented an integration platform that not only serviced Heritage’s immediate NPP needs, but would also meet their future integration needs. Integral’s value-add was the open architectural principles used on this important project—in effect future-proofing the solution for many years to come.
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SCIENCE (ANZCVS) supports the veterinary profession in Australia and New Zealand through the assessment and recognition of expertise and rewarding of excellence.
ANZCVS needed a system where examiners working remotely could enter exam results for verification, moderation and storage. Their current system had little automation in the processing and recording of exam results giving rise to the possibility of human error.
After thorough elicitation of requirements with the ANZCVS stakeholders, Integral designed a web based solution built on industry recognized tools, ensuring readily available skills in the market. The system is hosted in Microsoft Azure to allow for on demand scaling as well as simple technology upgrades without significant configuration.
ENERGEX had a low level automation system in place for their field workers that was not handling the increased quantity of data, providing sufficient accuracy, or speed of delivery to the field.
When developing a replacement system, ENERGEX wanted the new system to improve customer service levels, assist field staff in completing safer and higher performing field work, and use a smarter, integrated electronic schedule and dispatch tool (Ventyx Service Suite).
The resulting solution uses Field Force Automation (FFA) technology, implemented with the latest release of the Service Suite solution from Ventyx and incorporated the integration of a number of ENERGEX’s host systems. This allows ENERGEX crews now locate faults in the network faster than ever through satellite navigation, tracking, and dispatch. The FFA computer system provides field crews with unprecedented access to electronic information about outages and customer premises from their vehicle, reducing phone calls and travel time during storms and other peak periods. The new system benefits millions of people throughout Queensland and New South Wales, providing faster, more efficient responses from ENERGEX.
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