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Tuesday 20 November 2012

Oracle R12 Applications Using LoadRunner


The Challenge
We recently load tested our first Oracle R12 release (All modules for nationwide and international wide of Oracle ERP R12). The company was upgrading to R12 from 11.5.8 largely for performance reasons.
We knew we’d be “cutting new ground” with LoadRunner on R12. This became evident with our first testrecord-and-playback, which failed even after finding and fixing all the missing correlations. We raised a ticket with HP (SR# #4622615067), and with their initial help, step by step we overcame all the nuances of coaxing vugen to record successfully, and then creatively working around its inability to recognize the full set of identifiers for a new java ITEMTREE object.

Configuring Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) 11g as a Directory Server


I used Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) Version 11.1.1.5.0 during my test deployment locally here. I tried to collect as much information possible in this post for configuration.
Ideally, there are three possible configuration options for OUD:
  • as a Directory Server
  • as a Replication Server
  • as a Proxy Server
Directory Server provides the main LDAP functionality in OUD. Proxy server can be used for proxying LDAP requests. And Replication Server is used for replication from one OUD to another OUD or even to another ODSEE (earlier Sun Java Directory) server. You can my previous posts on OUD here and here.

Monday 19 November 2012

HP DIAGNOSTICS


Overview
Identifying and correcting availability and performance problems can be costly, time consuming and risky. IT organizations spend more time identifying an owner than resolving the problem.
HP Diagnostics helps to improve application availability and performance in pre-production and production environments. HP’s diagnostics software is used to drill down from the end user into application components and cross platform service calls to resolve the toughest problems. This includes slow services, methods, SQL, out of memory errors, threading problems and more.

Performing Manual Correlation with Dynamic Boundaries in LR


What is Correlation: It is a Process to handle dynamic values in our Script. Here the dynamic value is replaced by a variable which we assign or capture from the server response.
Ways to do correlation: There are two ways to do this Correlation.
They are as follows:
  • Auto-Correlation: The Correlation Engine in LR Package captures the value and replaces it with another value
  • Manual Correlation: Understanding of the Script and its response is highly needed to do this. It is bit complex to do Manual Correlation sometimes but this is always the preferred method to handle Dynamic Values in our Script
Usually the Manual Correlation is done by capturing the dynamic value which is present in between the Static left and right Boundaries.
Objective: The intention of this article is that to give a method which will be useful when we wanted to capture and handle Dynamic Values when even the Left and right Boundaries are also dynamic.

HP Ajax TruClient – Overview with Tips and Tricks

Overview
  • In LoadRunner 11.5, TruClient for Internet Explorer has been introduced. It is now possible to use TruClient on IE-only web applications.
Note: This still supports only HTML + JavaScript websites. It does not support ActiveX objects or Flash or Java Applets, etc.
  • TruClient IE was developed as an add-in for IE 9, so it will not work on earlier versions of IE. This version of IE was the first version to expose enough of the DOM to be usable by a TruClient-style Vusers. Note that your web application must support IE9 in “standard mode”.
  • Some features have also been added to TruClient Firefox. These include:
    • The ability to specify think time
    • The ability to set HTTP headers
    • URL filters
    • Event handlers, which can automatically handle intermittent pop-up windows, etc.
  • Web page breakdown graphs have been added to TruClient (visible in LoadRunner Analysis). Previously they were only available for standard web Vusers.

XML Optimization through custom Properties


1. Problem Statement:
I am creating a XML file as an output . If my source is empty, is there a way to  avoid the creation of an empty XML file?
Sample output Data with source data :

Case 1 : Empty Source – Creation of Minimal XML file
We have to set the following properties of an XML Target at session level under the Mapping tab.
Null Content Representation – “No Tag”
Empty String Content Representation – “No Tag”
Null Attribute Representation – “No Attribute”
Empty String Attribute Representation – “No attribute”

Advanced Replication Setup for High availability and Performance

In my personal opinion, Oracle leads the market in Directory Product offerings (LDAP Directories). Starting from Oracle Internet Directory (OID), to the latest Oracle Unified Directory (OUD), Oracle definitely provides variety of LDAP Directory related products for integration.
With increasing demand for mobile computing and cloud computing offering, there is a need to standardize LDAP Deployments for Identification, Authentication and (sometimes) Authorization (IAA) services. With a highly scalable, highly performing, highly available, highly stable and highly secure LDAP Directory, these IAA services will be easier to integrate with applications in the cloud or for the mobile applications.

Transitioning to a New World – An Analytical Perspective


Recently, I had the opportunity to speak at the Silicon India Business Intelligence Conference. The topic I chose for the discussion was focused on providing the BI & Analytics perspective for companies transitioning to a new world. You can view my presentation at this link –http://bit.ly/VLDDfF
The gist of my presentation is given below:
1)      First, established the fact that the world indeed is changing by showing some statistics:
  • Data Deluge: Amount of digital data created in the world right now stands at 7 Zettabytes per annum (1 Zettabyte = 1 Trillion Terabytes)
  • Social Media: Facebook has touched 1 Billion users which makes it the 3rd largest country in the world
  • Cloud: Tremendous amount of cloud infrastructure is being created
  • Mobility: There are 4.7 billion mobile subscribers which covers 65% of world population

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Collaborative Data Management – Need of the hour!

Well the topic may seem like a pretty old concept, yet a vital one in the age of Big Data, Mobile BI and the Hadoops! As per FIMA 2012 benchmark report Data Quality (DQ) still remains as the topmost priority in data management strategy:
What gets measured improves!’ But often Data Quality (DQ) initiative is a reactive strategy as opposed to being a pro-active one; consider the impact bad data could have in a financial reporting scenario – brand tarnish, loss of investor confidence.
But are the business users aware of DQ issue? A research report by ‘The Data Warehousing Institute’, suggested that more that 80% of the business managers surveyed believed that the business data was fine, but just half of their technical counterparts agreed on the same!!! Having recognized this disparity, it would be a good idea to match the dimensions of data and the business problem created due to lack of data quality.

Wednesday 12 September 2012

Hexaware sees strong order pipeline; 20% growth: Nishar

Atul Nishar, chairman, Hexaware, says that we remain quite positive on growing at 20% or more. We feel that if the situation improves with US elections and no debacle in Europe then the environment could only improve.


Atul Nishar, Chairman, Hexaware
Atul Nishar, chairman, Hexaware , says that we remain quite positive on growing at 20% or more. We feel that if the situation improves with US elections and no debacle in Europe then the environment could only improve.

He also says that currently there are five deals in the pipeline and one is in the advance stage. The deals are spread across from the United States and Europe, and across major verticals like capital markets, travel and emerging verticals. And in the last nine quarters the company has signed seven large deals.


Below is the edited transcript of his interview to CNBC-TV18.


Q: Hexaware recently had a deal and there have been reports or analyst notes which suggest that the company is in conversation with potential clients for four deals and one is in advance stages. Do you think something could fructify in the near-term?


A: Currently, there are five deals in the pipeline and one is in the advance stage. The deals are spread across from the United States and Europe, and across major verticals like capital markets, travel and emerging verticals. And in the last nine quarters we have signed seven large deals.


Q: Are billings under pressure even if the deals are coming? Are they coming from tight fisted managements?


A: In over last two years, we have marginally improved our average billing on both on onsite and offshore. We don’t see any pressure on pricing on the IT industry. Repeatedly, we have guided that our pricing should be assumed to be stable.


The important point is that the client want value, greater performance, result oriented projects and fixed priced or greater commitment by off shoring companies.  Clients do want to cut their costs and get more value, but they also know if it is all done at the cost of the service provider, it will not sustain that particular situation.


Q: How much do you think is Nasscom’s 13-14% growth target under threat? What might it fall to half or high single digits?


A: Nasscom has guided for 11-14% and it is a wide enough range. In the industry we saw that some companies like mid-sized companies and companies who are scale players have also done very well. It is a mixed reason. We have seen more client specific issues coincidence for downsizing for whatever reason that may dent revenue that doesn’t mean they will not be able to grow in future.  


Q: Do you think Nasscom will hold the lower end of their 11% range?


A: That is the current optimism. So, there is no reason to believe that there is material change from the guided number.


Q: The one concern around Hexaware has been for some time that you have seen an improvement in margins, but going forward it would come under pressure because in Q3 wage hikes are expected to shave off margins to a certain extent. How do you respond to that?


A: In Q2, ours being calendar year, Hexaware reported 22.9% EBITDA which was higher than Q1. We gave normal 10% increment to all our off shore employees. The impact was absorbed in our margin and in spite of that the margin improved.


We also absorbed the significant visa costs that traditionally come in that quarter. In the coming quarter there will be onsite increase in wages. For off shore workers the date of increment is April 1 and for onsite employees the date is July 1, which remains unchanged. And we feel with this we can guide stable margins.


We are proud that at Hexaware, we have grown at higher than the industry average at good margins. We don’t believe in taking new deals by compromising on margins in any manner.


Q: So at this juncture you don't want to change your guidance of 20% dollar revenue growth any which way, up or down?


A: We remain quite positive on growing at 20% or more. We feel that if the situation improves with US elections and no debacle in Europe then the environment could only improve. 


 

 

 

Wednesday 22 August 2012

Job: Peoplesoft Tester In Chennai

Title

Peoplesoft Tester

Categories

India

Grade

G4

Skill

Peoplesoft, HRMS Testing, Payroll

Start Date

21-08-2012

Location

Chennai

Job Information

3-5 years of experience in ERP Related Product Testing.

Knowledge of complete testing life-cycle and different testing methodologies.

Min. 2 – 3 years of hands on experience on PeopleSoft – HRMS.

Min. 1 year of experience on writing Test Scripts on PS Payroll Module.

Good knowledge on HP QC.

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Unit

10

 

Apply Now

Friday 10 August 2012

Short-term contracts give mid-cap IT cos new lease of life

With the duration of outsourcing deals getting shorter, deals worth nearly USD 85 billion are up for renegotiations this year, reports CNBC-TV18’s Shreya Roy.

Shreya Roy, Reporter, CNBC TV18

Midcap IT players may get a new lease of life. With the duration of outsourcing deals getting shorter, deals worth nearly USD 85 billion are up for renegotiations this year, reports CNBC-TV18’s Shreya Roy.

Over the last few years, uncertain times have forced IT companies to go in for more short-term contracts. For mid-cap IT companies, this may have been a blessing in disguise.

Data from outsourcing advisory firm TPI says that around 700 contracts will be up for renegotiations this fiscal year, compared to 530 last year.

“There is a significant reduction in the tenure of contracts as they were originally signed. Compared to 10 years ago, when 500 of these were being done, there are 1000 a year. The tenure has gone down to five years instead of seven, so a lot of deals are naturally coming back to the market as renewals. In itself, this is a very large opportunity,” said Siddharth Pai, partner and MD at TPI India.

For many IT players, this may be just what the doctor ordered. After all, renewals account for almost 65% of the outsourcing market. Advisory firm Everest estimates that by October 2013, deals worth nearly USD 85 billion will be up for renewal.

These include a contract between HP and Bank of America, a mega deal from Shell group which is currently with AT&T, HP, and T-Systems, a blue cross blue shield deal with Dell and Manu Life's deal with IBM.

Many of these contracts are expected to be broken up into smaller chunks, as outsourcers are looking increasingly towards multi-sourcing. Analysts say this could work in the favour of the smaller players, especially those like Mindtree and Hexaware, which have been focusing on developing niche capabilities to help differentiate from larger players.


 

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Hexaware Technologies :Riding High! --nirmal bang,

Riding High!
Hexaware Technologies Limited (HTL) is a mid-sized IT company mainly catering to the capital markets (BFSI) and the airline (transportation) sector. It also focuses on enterprise software provided by PeopleSoft and Oracle. Recent large client wins has bought back the focus on this company which has good expertise in the niche areas. 


Investment Rationale

 Improved Revenue visibility due to large wins in the past 5 quarters

The deal wins of over $ 625 mn which HTL has gained in the past 5 quarters is commendable. HTL’s efforts of mining the existing clients in the gloomy days are paying off now reflecting in the incremental revenue streams it has earned. These long term deals give enough revenue visibility for CY12. In addition, HTL is negotiating almost 4 deals above $25mn which are in the pipeline.

 Margins moving northwards – room for further heights
EBIDTA margins have improved 812 basis points in the past 5 quarters led by drastic control in the operating costs. The company has in addition utilized its offshorablity lever in its advantage by moving almost 14% of work offshore during the same period. Currently, onsite: offshore mix stands at 53:47, utilization in early 70’s and plans to hire freshers would further aid the margins going forward. We expect HTL to report EBIDTA margins of 20% + in CY12E and CY13E.

 Proficiency in niche segments paying off
HTL earns 60% of its revenues from the Capital Markets and Travels industries and almost 30% of revenues come from enterprise solutions in terms of its service lines. In enterprise solutions, 60-65% of its revenues are from PeopleSoft where other software vendor’s focus is less.

 Guidance Revision of 20% on USD revenues for CY12E

On the back of good deals won recently, the company has revised the revenue guidance in USD terms to 20%. We feel this is a little conservative and the company can easily beat the guidance for CY12E.
Valuation & Recommendation

We expect HTL’s revenues to grow at a CAGR of 25% and adjusted profits to grow at a CAGR of 21% over CY11-CY13E. Margin improvement would remain under focus and we expect HTL’s EBIDTA margins improving by 313bps to 21.2% in CY13E from 18.03% in CY11. At CMP, the stock is trading at 10.4x and 8.6x for CY12E and CY13E respectively. On the back of improved financials and good revenue visibility, we recommend a BUY on the stock, assigning a target multiple of 11x for CY13E EPS with a price target of Rs. 147 which is a potential 28% upside.

Risks to our Rationale:

 Concentration in Discretion spending Revenues

Hexaware derives more than 50% of its revenues from Enterprise solutions and Business Intelligence and Analytics which could get affected in economic downturn. However, the recent deal wins re-affirms the revenue visibility for the company for CY12E.

 Industry Risks of wage pressures, rupee appreciation and competition
Rupee depreciation has acted in favor of the company and Industry per say. Any severe reversal of the rupee trend would affect the prospects of the firm.

 Exposure in the European Region
The company has 28.4% exposure in the European region and few of the major deals have been signed with clients in this region. Looking at the current economic scenario prevailing in the Euro zone, any delay in commencement of these deals or cancellation may impact the margins severely.

Valuation & Recommendation
We expect HTL’s revenues to grow at a CAGR of 25% and adjusted profits to grow at a CAGR of 21% over CY11-CY13E. Margin improvement would remain under focus and we expect HTL’s EBIDTA margins improving by 313bps to 21.2% in CY13E from 18.03% in CY11. At CMP, the stock is trading at 10.4x and 8.6x for CY12E and CY13E respectively. On the back of improved financials and good revenue visibility, we recommend a BUY on the stock, assigning a target multiple of 11x for CY13E EPS with a price target of Rs. 147 which is a potential 28% upside.