This Recession- Its aftermath on IT Service Industry!
It’s almost been a year now since the time the ghost of recession is hunting for IT industry and its employees. Those having six years or less against their career in IT; are probably coming across this hunting feel of ‘Recession’ for the first time , and now associate this word with - [...]
Improving the ASP.Net Application Performance - I
Performance tuning is a must if you are looking at wanting to improve performance. It’s no mean task for web based applications that involves a gamut of components , like HTML client, HTTP network, Web server, middle-tier components, database components, resource-management components, TCP/IP networks, and database servers. Performance tuning depends on a vast number of [...]
Short Circuit=>Power Down=>SAN Down=>DB Crashed=>Oracle 9i DB started fine=>but…OOPS! SAP Application not working properly
Once a User complained about some modules having issues :
There was a Database Alert Log recorded ORA-600 internal error with different first actual code argument. A search into Meta link showed that DB had problems in executing DMLs on some tables, as some of the indices on these tables had logical corruption. So its obvious [...]
Presence in FIMA, London – A learning experience
Last year, by virtue of being part of ebusinessware, I got a chance to represent the company at FIMA conference held in London. FIMA is Europe’s premier financial information management conference. It is one of the leading financial events in Europe which provides interactive platform to network with market leaders. It was a great opportunity [...]
Expediter Model- An attempt to synchronize ebw efforts!
First let’s understand what an Expediter Model means and signifies!!
Expediter Model was introduced to be a SPOC for the various Partners,Project Managers and Project Leads of the organization for the various HR related activities going on in the projects. The tasks could be related to a resource requirement in a project (both internal [...]
Get to know about Electronic Signatures!
Electronic signature enable processes that reduce the operational cost by displacing printing, mailing and signature acquisition cost associated with agreements, notices or any other forms of document. It brings efficiency in operational processes by reducing manual touch points. It makes the business process less intrusive by reducing the number of visits required to complete a [...]
MultiThreading and C++
Multithreading and C++ : Grasping the jist:
Multithreading is growing in pertinence in modern programming for a good many number of reasons, one of the most primary being that Windows supports multithreading. While C++ does not feature built-in support for multithreading, it can be used to created multithreaded programs, which is the subject of this article. [...]
Middle Office Management: A Challenge and Opportunity!
Typically, equity trading brokerage firm activities are accomplished by three interfaces:
Front Office, Middle Office and Back office. Front office is responsible for taking orders from client and their execution in stock exchange. Once order is executed; it becomes a trade and handed over to Middle Office. Middle Office processes the trade, calculate commission and other [...]
Out of deep Woods- Thanking the Heavens!!
A few days back, I found a huge index on my main transaction table in primary production database(9i RAC Database), which I suspected was not being used by any query. So I decided to monitor its usage using oracle 9i Monitoring usage command. And after monitoring it for a week, [...]
IT in the Times of Chapter 11
This time there is no Lee Iococca to give lifeline to the ailing Chrysler, the latest giant submitting itself to the painful realities. The game is rapidly changing resulting into more oligopoly like markets. Small to mid-size IT ventures till now had been thriving upon these giants cutting a pie worth the efforts employed by [...]