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  • Classcastexception occurs randomly

    - by kjhari02
    Hi, I've an application in the market and many users have reported that the app is crashing a lot randomly. I'm trying to fix this but cannot fully understand the logs. Here's a extract from the log, 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.maya.mobile.chiki/com.maya.mobile.chiki.tabview.Tabs3}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.maya.mobile.chiki/com.maya.mobile.chiki.featured.FeaturedView}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.AbsSavedState$1 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2512) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2200(ActivityThread.java:119) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1863) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4363) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.maya.mobile.chiki/com.maya.mobile.chiki.featured.FeaturedView}: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.AbsSavedState$1 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2496) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.startActivityNow(ActivityThread.java:2335) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.LocalActivityManager.moveToState(LocalActivityManager.java:127) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.LocalActivityManager.startActivity(LocalActivityManager.java:339) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.widget.TabHost$IntentContentStrategy.getContentView(TabHost.java:648) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.widget.TabHost.setCurrentTab(TabHost.java:320) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at com.maya.mobile.chiki.tabview.CustomTabHost.setCurrentTab(CustomTabHost.java:43) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.widget.TabHost.addTab(TabHost.java:213) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at com.maya.mobile.chiki.tabview.Tabs3.doCreateTabs(Tabs3.java:180) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at com.maya.mobile.chiki.tabview.Tabs3.onCreate(Tabs3.java:149) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2459) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): ... 11 more 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: android.view.AbsSavedState$1 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.widget.AbsSpinner.onRestoreInstanceState(AbsSpinner.java:440) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.View.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(View.java:5940) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchThawSelfOnly(ViewGroup.java:1140) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.widget.AdapterView.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(AdapterView.java:767) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:1127) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:1127) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:1127) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.ViewGroup.dispatchRestoreInstanceState(ViewGroup.java:1127) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.view.View.restoreHierarchyState(View.java:5919) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at com.android.internal.policy.impl.PhoneWindow.restoreHierarchyState(PhoneWindow.java:1454) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.Activity.onRestoreInstanceState(Activity.java:835) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.Activity.performRestoreInstanceState(Activity.java:807) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnRestoreInstanceState(Instrumentation.java:1096) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2473) 04-16 13:16:32.407 E/AndroidRuntime( 9237): ... 22 more I got this log from one of my users. Any help on this would be very very helpful. Regards, Hari

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  • How to encrypt the mobile configuration profiles in iOS (in OTA deployments)?

    - by user1353477
    I am trying to sign and encrypt .mobileconfig profiles for iOS devices. Signing works perfectly using openssl::pkcs7 sign function in ruby, however using encrypt function, I get an encrypted data but Safari fails to install the profile saying "Invalid Profile". There are two questions in this regard: Which data from the .mobileconfig profile is actually encrypted that goes into the .. section of the EncryptedPayloadContent ? Is the data in binary format (.der) or base64 encoded? Any help in this regard would be helpful as APPLE severly lacks any documentation in encrypting the profiles.

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  • How to not run function if its a mobile device?

    - by Deshiknaves
    I have a modal pop up function on my website, but i don't want this to run if the browser is smaller than 480px. I have found that if I put an if statement such as: if (window.innerWidth && window.innerWidth > 480) { run function() } Then it should run only if the browsers innerWidth is 480. However its not working and I think its because I have page scaling on this website. Can any one help me with a conditional statement if page scaling is on? Thanks.

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  • My iphone mobile safari does not cache , but i have a manifest file,...

    - by Ploetzeneder
    Hello, i have now put the site on: http://www.ploetzeneder.eu/Dateien/test/index4.html the manifest is there: http://www.ploetzeneder.eu/Dateien/test/app-cache-demo.manifest Why does it not work? The Webserver where the relevant problem has this url: http://www.pharao.mobi/WebAppproblem/ Username is the Username Passwort is the Password the problem is on index4.html where all images should be cached but are not

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  • Is there a way to get a mobile Safari WebApp to "forget" its state?

    - by Alex Mcp
    I have a nascent bridge scoring app that is meant to be stored locally on an iPod touch/iPhone (iPad? Would probably be fugly...) So far so good, got a custom icon rolling and basic JS navigation laid out, but my problem is that it retains its state when I quit the app. Is there a simple magic Apple meta tag for this? Or is it achieved with javascript? Thanks for any insight.

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  • How do you get Windows Mobile Device Center to detect a Windows Phone 7 Series emulator?

    - by sweeney
    Hello, I'm running some tests and need to be able to get Windows Phone 7 Series emulator synced with an exchange account or local Outlook account via the Device Center. I'm using the unlocked version of the emulator so that i actually have a reasonable set of software on the phone to work with. When the emulator launches i expect the Device Center to detect it and start syncing (or prompt me for settings). This does not happen. I've tried adjusting the Connection Settings (COM2 and DMA) in the Device Center with no luck. Is this possible? Has anyone done it? Thanks in advance!

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  • how to deploy web application directly from git master branch

    - by mobile.linkr
    For educational purpose, I am writing a server instance in GCE(google compute engine) to serve a few web apps mostly (to be) written in Dart and Polymer. My workflow is, when my students log-in the server above, they will automatically fork those web apps into their own registries in their own server instances for further development. My issues are, How to serve web applications(they are git registries as well) in GCE like Github Pages? Is it possible to manipulate Github Pages to serve web apps mostly using Dart and Polymer packages? Thanks in advance.

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  • My mobile does not cache , but i have a manifest file,...

    - by Ploetzeneder
    Hello, i have now put the site on: http://www.ploetzeneder.eu/Dateien/test/index4.html the manifest is there: http://www.ploetzeneder.eu/Dateien/test/app-cache-demo.manifest Why does it not work? The Webserver where the relevant problem has this url: http://www.pharao.mobi/WebAppproblem/ Username is the Username Passwort is the Password the problem is on index4.html where all images should be cached but are not

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  • Handle error at non-UI thread

    - by DreamTeam Mobile
    For some reason unhandled exception which occur at non-UI thread don't handled by App_UnhandledException handler. This approach works well for Windows Phone apps to globally handle, track and analyze exceptions but doesn't work for Windows 8 apps. this.UnhandledException += App_UnhandledException; //doesn't handle private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { var task = new Task(() => { throw new NullReferenceException("Test exc in UI thread"); }); task.Start(); } Please, advise.

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  • How to access Hudson CI from a mobile device like the iPhone or iPad ?

    - by user323771
    Hi Everybody, I really like Hudson CI and I do think it is the most useful and effective piece of software ever made for the Agile Application Lifecycle :-) Anyway if the CI become unstable, the development is going to be really compromised, so keeping an eye on it is CRUCIAL ! Does anybody know about an effective solution for always monitoring it while you are "on the road" ? (maybe using your iPhone or iPod)

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  • Turning user ID into name (seperate tables) in PHP

    - by mobile
    I am currently trying to display the username of people who i am following, the problem is that during the following process, only the ID of me and the person i'm following is stored. I've got it to the point where the ID's are displayed but i'd like to show the names hyperlinked. $p_id is the profile ID. Here's what I've got: $following = mysql_query("SELECT `follower`, `followed` FROM user_follow WHERE follower=$p_id"); I am following: <?php while($apple = mysql_fetch_array($following)){ echo '<a href="'.$apple['followed'].'">+'.$apple['followed'].'</a> '; }?> The usernames are in a different table "users" under the field "username" - I need them to match up with the ID's that are currently displayed, and be displayed. Any help appreciated, thanks guys

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  • How Mary Meeker’s Latest Findings May Make You Re-Imagine Commerce

    - by Brenna Johnson-Oracle
    0 0 1 954 5439 Endeca Technologies 45 12 6381 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} Today, Mary Meeker released her highly anticipated annual “Internet Trends” presentation for 2014. All 164 slides are jam-packed with pretty much everything you need to know about the state of the Internet. And as luck would have it, Oracle is staying ahead of these trends (but we’ll talk about that later). There were a few surprises, some stats to solidify what you likely already know, and Meeker’s novel observations about where we are all going. What interested me the most is not only how people are engaging in their personal lives, but how they engage with brands. As you could probably predict, Internet usage growth is slowing while tablet user and mobile data traffic growth continue their meteoric rise around the globe, with tremendous growth in underpenetrated markets like China, India, Brazil and Indonesia. Now hold those the “Internet is dead” comments. Keep in mind there’s still plenty of room to grow, and a multiscreen model is Meeker’s vision for our future. Despite 1.5x YOY growth for mobile traffic, mobile still only makes up about 23% of all traffic today. With tablet shipments easily outpacing figures for PCs even at their height (in 2007), mobile will only continue on it’s path, but won’t be everything to everyone. Mobile won’t replace every touchpoint, it’s just created our shorter attention spans and demand for simpler, more personal experiences. As Meeker points out TVs, tablets, PCs, and smartphones are used for different activities at present, but lines will blur (for example, 84% of smartphones owners use their device while watching TV). Day-to-day activities are being re-imagining through simple, beautiful user experiences. It seems like every day I discover a new way a brand/site/app made the most mundane or mounting task enjoyable and frictionless – and I’m not alone. Meeker points out the evolution of how we do everything from how we communicate, get information, use money, meet someone, get places, order a meal, and consume media is all done through new user interfaces that make day-to-day tasks simpler. This movement has caused just about everyone’s patience for a poor UX to take a nosedive. And it’s not just the digital user experience, technology is making a lot of people’s offline lives easier, and less expensive. Today 47% of online shopping utilizes free shipping— nearly half. And Meeker predicts same day local delivery will be the “next big thing” (and you can take a guess on who will own that). Content, Community and Commerce creates the “Internet Trifecta.” Meeker pointed out that when content, communities and commerce occur in a single experience it’s embraced by consumers, which translates to big dollars for brands. The magic happens when consumers can get inspired, research, and buy in a single experience. As the buying cycle has changed and touchpoints (Web, mobile, social, store) are no longer tied to “roles” or steps in the customer journey, brands must make all experiences (content and commerce) available in a single, adaptable experience. (We at Oracle Commerce have a lot to say on this topic – stay tuned!) And in what Meeker calls the “biggest re-imagination of all:” consumers enabled with smartphones and sensors are creating troves of findable and sharable data, which she says is in the early stages, by growing rapidly. She notes that transparency and patterns of consumers with this hardware (FYI - there are up to 10 sensors embedded in smartphones now) has created a Big Data treasure chest to be mined to improve business and the life of the consumer. The opportunities are endless. So what does it all mean for a company doing business online? Start thinking about how you can: Re-imagine your experience. Not your online experience and your mobile experience and your social experience – your overall experience. When consumers can research, buy, and advocate from anywhere (and their attention spans are at an all-time low) channels don’t exist. Enable simple and beautiful interactions informed by all of the online and offline data you leverage across your enterprise. Ethically leverage the endless supply of data (user generated content, clicks, purchases, in-store behavior, social activity) to make experiences more beautiful, more accurate, and more personalized (not to mention, more lucrative for you). Re-imagine content and commerce. Content and commerce must co-exist in a single destination where shoppers can get inspired, explore, research, share, and purchase in a collective experience. Think of how you can deliver an experience where all types of experiences (brand stories and commerce) adapt to every customer need. (Look for more on this topic coming soon). Re-imagine your reach. Look to Meeker’s findings to see how the global appetite for digital experiences is growing, but under-served in many places (i.e.: India, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, Philippines, etc.). Growing your online business to a new geography doesn’t have to mean starting from scratch or having an entirely new team manage the new endeavor. Expand using what you’ve already built in a multisite framework, with global language support. And of course, make sure it’s optimized for mobile! Re-imagine the possible. After every Meeker report, I’m always left with the thought “we are just at the beginning.” Everyday there is more data, more possibilities, more online consumers, and more opportunities to use new latest technology to get closer to your customers and be more successful. There’s a lot going on in our Product Development and Product Innovations groups to automate innovation for our customers, so that they can continue to stay ahead of these trends, without disrupting their business. Check out a recent interview with our Innovations Team on some of these new possibilities. Staying on track despite the seemingly endless possibilities out there is the hard part. Prioritizing where you will focus based on your unique brand promise, customer and goals is what you do best. To learn how Oracle Commerce can help your business achieve your goals check out oracle.com/commerce. Check out Meeker’s entire report here.

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  • BYOD is not a fashion statement; it’s an architectural shift - by Indus Khaitan

    - by Greg Jensen
    Ten years ago, if you asked a CIO, “how mobile is your enterprise?”. The answer would be, “100%, we give Blackberry to all our employees.”Few things have changed since then: 1.    Smartphone form-factors have matured, especially after the launch of iPhone. 2.    Rapid growth of productivity applications and services that enable creation and consumption of digital content 3.    Pervasive mobile data connectivityThere are two threads emerging from the change. Users are rapidly mingling their personas of an individual as well as an employee. In the first second, posting a picture of a fancy dinner on Facebook, to creating an expense report for the same meal on the mobile device. Irrespective of the dual persona, a user’s personal and corporate lives intermingle freely on a single hardware and more often than not, it’s an employees personal smartphone being used for everything. A BYOD program enables IT to “control” an employee owned device, while enabling productivity. More often than not the objective of BYOD programs are financial; instead of the organization, an employee pays for it.  More than a fancy device, BYOD initiatives have become sort of fashion statement, of corporate productivity, of letting employees be in-charge and a show of corporate empathy to not force an archaic form-factor in a world of new device launches every month. BYOD is no longer a means of effectively moving expense dollars and support costs. It does not matter who owns the device, it has to be protected.  BYOD brings an architectural shift.  BYOD is an architecture, which assumes that every device is vulnerable, not just what your employees have brought but what organizations have purchased for their employees. It's an architecture, which forces us to rethink how to provide productivity without comprising security.Why assume that every device is vulnerable? Mobile operating systems are rapidly evolving with leading upgrade announcement every other month. It is impossible for IT to catch-up. More than that, user’s are savvier than earlier.  While IT could install locks at the doors to prevent intruders, it may degrade productivity—which incentivizes user’s to bypass restrictions. A rapidly evolving mobile ecosystem have moving parts which are vulnerable. Hence, creating a mobile security platform, which uses the fundamental blocks of BYOD architecture such as identity defragmentation, IT control and data isolation, ensures that the sprawl of corporate data is contained. In the next post, we’ll dig deeper into the BYOD architecture. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}

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  • Ameristar Wins with Oracle GoldenGate’s Heterogeneous Real-Time Data Integration

    - by Irem Radzik
    Today we announced a press release about another successful project with Oracle GoldenGate. This time at Ameristar. Ameristar is a casino gaming company and needed a single data integration solution to connect multiple heterogeneous systems to its Teradata data warehouse. The project involves integration of Ameristar’s promotional and gaming data from 14 data sources across its 7 casino hotel properties in real time into a central Teradata data warehouse. The source systems include the Aristocrat gaming and MGT promotional management platforms running on Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. As you can notice, there was no Oracle Database involved in this project, but Ameristar’s IT leadership knew that  GoldenGate’s strong heterogeneous and real-time data integration capabilities is the right technology for their data warehousing project. With GoldenGate Ameristar was able to reduce data latency to the enterprise data warehouse, and use this real-time customer information for marketing teams in improving overall customer experience. Ameristar customers receive more targeted and timely campaign offers, and the company has more up-to-date visibility into financial metrics of the company. One other key benefit the company experienced with GoldenGate is in operational costs. The previous data capture solution Ameristar used was trigger based and required a lot of effort to manage. They needed dedicated IT staff to maintain it. With GoldenGate, the solution runs seamlessly without needing a fully-dedicated staff, giving the IT team at Ameristar more resources for their other IT projects. If you want to learn more about GoldenGate and the latest features for Oracle Database and non-Oracle databases, please watch our on demand webcast about Oracle GoldenGate 11g Release 2.

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  • 9 Ways Facebook Monetization Could Change Your Marketing

    - by Mike Stiles
    Think Facebook monetization isn’t a head game? Imagine creating something so functional, fun and addictive you literally amass about 1/7th of the planet’s population as an audience. You have 1 billion users that use it at least once a month. But analysts and marketers look at what you’ve done and say, “eh…not good enough.” What if you had a TV show that garnered 1/7 of Earth’s population as an audience? How much would a spot cost? And how fast would marketers write that check, even without the targeting and engagement analytics Facebook offers? Having already changed the marketing landscape forever, if you’re Facebook’s creator, you’d have to be scratching your head and asking, “Wow, what more does a product need to do?” Facebook’s been busy answering that very question with products and betas that will likely directly affect your brand’s strategy. Item 1: Users can send physical gifts to friends through Facebook based on suggestions from user data. A giant step toward the potential power of social commerce. Item 2: Users can pay $7 to promote posts for higher visibility. Individual users, not just marketers, are being leveraged as a revenue stream. Not impressive enough? There’s also the potential Craigslist killer Facebook Marketplace. Item 3: Mobile ads. 600 million+ access Facebook on smartphones. According to the company, half of the $1 million a day generated by Sponsored Stories as of late June was coming from mobile. Ads in News Feeds seen on mobile had click-through rates 23x higher than on desktop News Feeds or the right side panel. Item 4: App developers can buy install ads that show up in mobile News Feeds so reliance on discovery in app stores is reduced. Item 5: Want your posts seen by people who never liked your Page? A test began in August where you could appear in non-fans’ News Feeds on both web and mobile. Item 6: How about an ability to use Facebook data to buy ads outside of Facebook? A mobile ad network is being tested to get your targeted messages on non-Facebook apps and sites surfaced on devices. Item 7: Facebook Collections, Facebook’s answer to Pinterest. Users can gather images of desired products and click through to the retailer to buy. Keep focusing on your imagery. Item 8: Facebook Offers, Facebook’s answer to the Groupons and Living Socials of the world. You can send deals to your fans’ News Feeds. Item 9: Facebook Exchange lets you track what fans do on Facebook and across the entire Web. Could lead to a Facebook ad network leveraging Facebook users and data but not limiting exposure to the Facebook platform. Marketers are seeing increasing value in Facebook (and Twitter for that matter).  But as social grows and adjusts, will marketing budgets aimed in that direction grow and adjust accordingly, and within a reasonable time frame? @mikestilesPhoto Christie Merrill/stock.xchng

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  • Taking Your Business Scorecard Golfing

    - by tobyehatch
    Our workplace world is definitely changing. Not only are we taking work home, but we are working during odd hours in some very strange places.  I had the pleasure of interviewing Jacques Vigeant, Product Strategy Manager for Oracle Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management, on a Podcast, and he enlightened me about how our mobile devices and business scorecards are enabling us to be more accountable and keep a watchful eye on business – even while on the golf course.Business scorecards have been around for many years - so I asked Jacques if he felt they had changed significantly due to technology. His answer was, “Yes, and no.”  Jacques agreed that scorecard enthusiasts are still passionate about executing the company strategy and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), but scorecards and Business Intelligence (BI) as a whole have changed.  He explained that five to six years ago, people did BI work at the office and, for the most part, disconnected from their computer and workplace when they went home – with the exception of checking email and making a phone call or two. But now, that is no longer the case. People are virtually always connected with work and, more importantly, expect their BI and scorecards to be ‘always on,’ regardless of whether they are at their desk or somewhere else.Basically, the BI paradigm has changed from a 'pull' model, where employees are at their desks querying or pulling information from the system, to a 'push' model where employees expect their BI and scorecard systems to reach out (or push information) to them when there is something of note to learn or something on which they need to take action. I found this very interesting. However mobile devices do have their limitations with respect to screen sizes – does it really make sense to look at your strategy/scorecard on tiny devices? What kind of scorecard activities can you really expect to be able to do? Jacques’ answer was very logical. “When you think of a scorecard, it is really comprised of an organization of KPIs that are aligned with the strategic objectives of your company. KPIs are the heart of how you will execute your strategy. So, if you decompose that a little more, each KPI is well defined with the thresholds that you should keep an eye on and who is responsible for them. When we talk about scorecarding on a phone, we aren’t talking about surfing the strategy and exploring the strategy map like we do on the desktop. In a scorecarding context, we use the phone more as an alerting mechanism or simple monitoring device for your KPIs.”Jacques gave a great example of an inventory manager who took part of an afternoon off to go golfing before winter finally hit, and while on the front nine holes, his phone vibrated. His scorecard was alerting him that the inventory levels for one of the products was below some threshold that he had set.  From his phone, he had set up three options within Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management (OSSM) for this type of situation:  1. Contact the warehouse manager directly by phone and work it out (standard phone function)  2. Tap/hold the KPI and add an annotation to the KPI in OSSM using the dictation capabilities of the phone and deal with it more fully when he gets back to the office  3. Tap/hold the KPI and invoke a business process from OSSM to transfer product from another warehouse with higher stock levels to the one that needs it  Being on a phone should still give you options to quickly deal with situations as needed, but mobile phones are not designed for nor should try to replicate the full desktop experience. We covered other interesting subjects in the interview, including how Oracle is keeping pace with mobile innovation and new devices such as Google Glasses, Galaxy Gear, Pebble Watches and more, and how Oracle is handling mobile security– which is great news for our mobile workforce. To listen to the entire Podcast, click here.To learn more about Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management, click here.

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