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M-Files – Introducing the Business Dashboard module

Some time ago, a customer asked whether it was possible, in M-Files, to have dashboards with KPIs and a global overview of what was happening in their vault. It was a topic I had in my radar for a few(…)

Oracle Forms & Reports 14.1.2 Patching Issue

During a recent maintenance activity, I patched an Oracle Forms & Reports 14.1.2 environment on Linux. The patching itself completed successfully, but immediately after the restart, Oracle Reports started failing. At first, the issue looked like a Java or JDK(…)

Data Point Prague 2026

For the first time, I joined some days ago the Data Point Prague . The biggest International Data Conference in Prague. A two-day event dedicated to advancing knowledge in data technologies. Thanks to dbi-services to let me the(…)

GoldenGate 26ai out-of-place patching with the web UI

For some customers, the end of support for GoldenGate 19c in May this year and the migration to Microservices Architecture mean that they have to adapt their patching procedures (if they had any !). Let’s see(…)

GoldenGate : Regenerate NGINX Reverse Proxy After Deployment Changes

Configuring an NGINX reverse proxy for GoldenGate is well documented by Oracle, but what is not is the implication of adding or removing deployments. In fact, when modifying your GoldenGate deployments, you will have to reconfigure(…)

ECM + AI: achieving optimal synergy

Artificial intelligence is currently at the center of every IT discussion, and enterprise content management (ECM) is no exception.Vendors frequently promote the use of “AI-powered analytics,” “intelligent automation,” and “cognitive content services.”However, if you have already implemented ECM solutions, you(…)

Zabbix – Oracle backups monitoring

If your Oracle database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode, monitoring your backups is essential.Without proper backup supervision, the Fast Recovery Area (FRA) can eventually become full, which may block archive log generation and, in the worst case, stop database activity.

Surviving a Patroni failover with logical replication

Your Patroni cluster does exactly what you built it to do. A node dies at 3 a.m., a new primary is elected in a few seconds, the application reconnects, and nobody gets paged. Your HA setup works. And yet, somewhere(…)

Oracle Database 26ai Client and SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME

We have been facing one issue at one of our customer where the Oracle Client connections remained opened for days blocking some avaloq JobNetz. We have been doing some tests and we could fortunately find a solution resolving the problem(…)

Azure Bootcamp Switzerland 2026 edition

Today I attended the Azure Bootcamp Switzerland event in Bern. Here is a summary of what I saw and what I learned in the sessions. The opening keynote was about Azure Sovereign Architecture where the presenter gave us an(…)