Read the latest blogs, news and views from Infomentum. (19)

Every new application created with the Oracle WebCenter Portal framework and ADF comes with default styling that you extend from an out-of-the-box skin, like Skyros. But if every time we created an application with the default style, it would be a very boring and monotonous digital world. That’s where skinning comes in to brand your application to your company guidelines!

I have a Google habit. It’s the curse (or blessing!) of growing up in the ‘digital age’ (but please, don’t call me a millennial). That’s to say that I rely on my smartphone to Google anything and everything. Admit it, you’re guilty too.

Scientists believe that this habit of ‘googling’ everything is actually making our attention spans shorter. It’s a common practise in this ‘digital’ era; throw technology at a problem and it will solve it. That works, right? When it comes to your business, the ‘Google’ effect is not the answer.

Infomentum, the digital transformation consultancy helping clients to bridge the gap between business and technology, has been awarded supplier status on the UK Government Digital Marketplace. This will enable the business to continue to offer top-class consultancy services and technology implementation and support to the UK’s public sector.

How many blogs have you read that start with ‘the world is changing’? Guess what, the world has changed. Scientists in the States believe that we are currently going through a technology revolution that will have the same impact on our planet as the industrial revolution. And they think robots will become commonplace sooner than you think!

Boosting their offering to the retail sector, Infomentum has joined Sopra Steria’s Retail Alliance. The Retail Alliance is all about customers: your customers. Helping you understand them better. Giving you the tools to provide them with a consistent experience across channels that exceeds their expectations, drives sales and increases wallet share and loyalty.

Picking up important industry information is key for attendees at this year’s UKOUG Apps and Tech Conferences. Event go’ers expect learn from other’s experiences in developing Oracle software.

Infomentum will be sharing knowledge across two separate sessions at the conferences this December. One session sees Infomentum share best practice on branding ADF applications. The second session focuses on the hot topic of integrating systems with the cloud via Oracle SOA.

Every organisation contains mass volumes of data; but how do you embrace the data to attain the most business value from it?

On Tuesday 17 November, Oracle are hosting a one day forum advising businesses on how to put data at the centre of their innovation. Attendees at Oracle’s Data Integration Customer Forum will include C-level executives in the IT, Marketing and Digital fields.

Youth charity The Prince’s Trust has embarked on a digital transformation to enable them to better serve the thousands of young people who come to the charity every year.

Hot on the heels of their latest award from the UK Oracle User Group, Infomentum is announced as a contender for Best Test Automation Project at the European Software Testing Awards.

Infomentum was selected for the shortlist after sharing an innovative automotive customer story. The project demanded complex, bespoke simulation of an end-to-end car diagnostics scan, offering significant challenges for the test team to overcome. The achievements made by the team were recognised by the awards judges.

For the second consecutive year, Oracle Fusion Middleware users have voted Infomentum as Silver Middleware Partner of the Year at the UKOUG Awards 2015.

Infomentum celebrated in style at the glamorous ceremony, held at The Waldorf Hilton Hotel, London on 15 October alongside friends and colleagues from Oracle.