Billing models for these services are generally similar to the ones adopted for utilities and paid for on a per use basis. On-demand availability, ease of provisioning, dynamic and virtually infinite scalability are some of the key attributes of cloud computing.

An infrastructure setup using the cloud computing model is generally referred to as the “cloud”. The following are the broad categories of services available on the cloud:

• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

• Platform as a Service (PaaS)

• Software as a Service (SaaS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the major players providing IaaS. AWS have two popular services – Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3), available through web services.

Cloud Computing can be put to some very dynamic uses, much like many web-based applications, controls and interactions between the host device and user can have many differing abstract layers.

Consumers with the advent of smartphones and services like Apple, Amazon, Google allowing mass on-line storage for media to consumers are becoming very aware of how easy and readily available these applications are becoming. Other companies like dropbox offer similar Infrastructure options to consumers. Many smartphone applications operate a SaaS whereby data is synchronised with the application owners own private/public cloud.

What many consumers know where there data ends up?

How do you protect yourself from losing control of your data?

How do you backup and maintain your own data in the age of the cloud?

These MD’s are of basically discussed any customization needs or any special behaviaour oracle system should work which is not the Standard Oracle Funtionality. These also discussed about the tables and the Interface Tables or forms which are going to be used in the particular modules. Thses also discussed about the High Level Designs like Flows of the Business and all.

These MD’s are basically made after you all Functional Design and if there is no work around Oracle System provides for a particular Test Scenario and there is no other way other than to go for the Customization.

Now I suppose you can understand what is the basic difference between these two.

Now as a Funtional Consultant you need to always go for the BR – 100, that is set up doc. and in your scenario ( as you said that you have created in GL – COA / CAL / CVR etc) you have to document all these into BR 100.

The first version of the BR100 will probably be used to build the TEST environment. Any changes required as a result of problems encountered will be incorporated into the next version of the BR100, which will then be used to build (say) the UAT environment. In parallel with these environments, there will probably be a DEVELOPMENT environment and it may be that there will be changes required to the BR100 because of issues encountered there. The “Final” version of the BR100 will probably then be used to build both the PRODUCTION and TRAINING environments.

You can say these are As Is process. So BR 100 is the To Be Process after you gather all sorts of info from the Biz and map in the Oracle Systems.

Business Requirements Definition (RD)
RD.010 Identify Current Financial and Operating Structure
RD.020 Conduct Current Business Baseline
RD.030 Establish Process and Mapping Summary
RD.040 Gather Business Volumes and Metrics
RD.050 Gather Business Requirements
RD.060 Determine Audit and Control Requirements
RD.070 Identify Business Availability Requirements
RD.080 Identify Reporting and Information Access Requirements

Business Requirements Mapping
BR.010 Analyze High-Level Gaps
BR.020 Prepare mapping environment
BR.030 Map Business requirements
BR.040 Map Business Data
BR.050 Conduct Integration Fit Analysis
BR.060 Create Information Model
BR.070 Create Reporting Fit Analysis
BR.080 Test Business Solutions
BR.090 Confirm Integrated Business Solutions
BR.100 Define Applications Setup
BR.110 Define security Profiles

Application and Technical Architecture (TA)
TA.010 Define Architecture Requirements and Strategy
TA.020 Identify Current Technical Architecture
TA.030 Develop Preliminary Conceptual Architecture
TA.040 Define Application Architecture
TA.050 Define System Availability Strategy
TA.060 Define Reporting and Information Access Strategy
TA.070 Revise Conceptual Architecture
TA.080 Define Application Security Architecture
TA.090 Define Application and Database Server Architecture
TA.100 Define and Propose Architecture Subsystems
TA.110 Define System Capacity Plan
TA.120 Define Platform and Network Architecture
TA.130 Define Application Deployment Plan
TA.140 Assess Performance Risks
TA.150 Define System Management Procedures

Module Design and Build (MD)
MD.010 Define Application Extension Strategy
MD.020 Define and estimate application extensions
MD.030 Define design standards
MD.040 Define Build Standards
MD.050 Create Application extensions functional design
MD.060 Design Database extensions
MD.070 Create Application extensions technical design
MD.080 Review functional and Technical designs
MD.090 Prepare Development environment
MD.100 Create Database extensions
MD.110 Create Application extension modules
MD.120 Create Installation routines

Data Conversion (CV)
CV.010 Define data conversion requirements and strategy
CV.020 Define Conversion standards
CV.030 Prepare conversion environment
CV.040 Perform conversion data mapping
CV.050 Define manual conversion procedures
CV.060 Design conversion programs
CV.070 Prepare conversion test plans
CV.080 Develop conversion programs
CV.090 Perform conversion unit tests
CV.100 Perform conversion business objects
CV.110 Perform conversion validation tests
CV.120 Install conversion programs
CV.130 Convert and verify data

Documentation (DO)
DO.010 Define documentation requirements and strategy
DO.020 Define Documentation standards and procedures
DO.030 Prepare glossary
DO.040 Prepare documentation environment
DO.050 Produce documentation prototypes and templates
DO.060 Publish user reference manual
DO.070 Publish user guide
DO.080 Publish technical reference manual
DO.090 Publish system management guide

Business System Testing (TE)
TE.010 Define testing requirements and strategy
TE.020 Develop unit test script
TE.030 Develop link test script
TE.040 Develop system test script
TE.050 Develop systems integration test script
TE.060 Prepare testing environments
TE.070 Perform unit test
TE.080 Perform link test
TE.090 perform installation test
TE.100 Prepare key users for testing
TE.110 Perform system test
TE.120 Perform systems integration test
TE.130 Perform Acceptance test

PERFORMACE TESTING (PT)
PT.010 – Define Performance Testing Strategy
PT.020 – Identify Performance Test Scenarios
PT.030 – Identify Performance Test Transaction
PT.040 – Create Performance Test Scripts
PT.050 – Design Performance Test Transaction Programs
PT.060 – Design Performance Test Data
PT.070 – Design Test Database Load Programs
PT.080 – Create Performance Test Transaction Programs
PT.090 – Create Test Database Load Programs
PT.100 – Construct Performance Test Database
PT.110 – Prepare Performance Test Environment
PT.120 – Execute Performance Test

Adoption and Learning (AP)
AP.010 – Define Executive Project Strategy
AP.020 – Conduct Initial Project Team Orientation
AP.030 – Develop Project Team Learning Plan
AP.040 – Prepare Project Team Learning Environment
AP.050 – Conduct Project Team Learning Events
AP.060 – Develop Business Unit Managers Readiness Plan
AP.070 – Develop Project Readiness Roadmap
AP.080 – Develop and Execute Communication Campaign
AP.090 – Develop Managers’ Readiness Plan
AP.100 – Identify Business Process Impact on Organization
AP.110 – Align Human Performance Support Systems
AP.120 – Align Information Technology Groups
AP.130 – Conduct User Learning Needs Analysis
AP.140 – Develop User Learning Plan
AP.150 – Develop User Learningware
AP.160 – Prepare User Learning Environment
AP.170 – Conduct User Learning Events
AP.180 – Conduct Effectiveness Assessment

Production Migration (PM)
PM.010 – Define Transition Strategy
PM.020 – Design Production Support Infrastructure
PM.030 – Develop Transition and Contingency Plan
PM.040 – Prepare Production Environment
PM.050 – Set Up Applications
PM.060 – Implement Production Support Infrastructure
PM.070 – Verify Production Readiness
PM.080 – Begin Production
PM.090 – Measure System Performance
PM.100 – Maintain System
PM.110 – Refine Production System
PM.120 – Decommission Former Systems
PM.130 – Propose Future Business Direction
PM.140 – Propose Future Technical Direction

Praticalities aside, the idea of having my own bunker has fasinated me.

If Britain had been attacked by a nuclear bomb during the Cold War, its government would have survived by retreating to a massive, 35-acre complex buried beneath the county of Wiltshire. I call it a bunker in the headline, but it was more like a small town—large rooms linked by roads, built on the site of an abandoned quarry. Known as Burlington, it could house 4000 people and feed them all for 3 months. It was also home a broadcasting studio and hospital.

Considering the size and space, it may make for an interesting site, suggetions:

1) Film Studio: Problems: Access and movement of materials into the site

2) Massive Server Farm: Cooling and Elextricity – Big Plus – Very secure.

3) Umbrella Research base – Possibility of creating the T-Virus… a few of you might get where that was going.

Space Junk? Really, someone has got to have lost this thing.

They forget that Santa was there first, granted he operates globally for only 1 day a year, while the rest of the time he is preparing his annual event! Christmas day, his is the only business!

Merry Christmas one and all!

Can you blame employers either, given the choice in the labour market, would you employee the easiest people to manage? I think a little more thought and priority or reward should be given to businesses that take on the more complex employees. After all we encourage employers to take on long term unemployed, or young apprentices.

I may not be able to offer incentives or fleshed out ideas, but there does appear to be a gap that needs to be addressed in a comparable why to the rest of unemployment.

If you’re interested in reading more the CMI have a little article, but I’m afraid it doesn’t link back to anything more useful that I could find.

http://www.managers.org.uk/news/disabled-people-failing-find-employment

I can thankfully say, that of the I do at least 1 of these naturally, although with the issue of a shinny new Crackberry from work, I do still get email notifications that after 2 weeks I’ve learnt to ignore. I’ve always found email to be a distraction and the only people who reply and react to it straight away are too busy to really commit and deliver on the tasks (not always true but a general observation).

1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks
2. Stop multi-tasking
3. Be militant about eliminating distractions
4. Schedule your email
5. Use the phone
6. Work on your own agenda
7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals

After reading this article, things I’m going to change:

a) Breakdown tasks into bite size deliverable tasks.

b) after each task take a break, breath of fresh air, then hammer on with the next task.

c) focus on goals, by explaining to people, I’ll deal with there distractions after this task. –> Well that will be the most difficult, lets face, if an issue arises you need to be able to address it straight away.

In regards to (c), my previous priorities were always guided by the number of users effected by the problem, the higher the number, the more important it would appear on my list.

I’m going to have to come back and review how well it all works, so news, so updates in a month or so. Let me know your thoughts, or if any other changes are worthy of trying.