Adédèjì Olówè

The majority of ColdFusion applications live far away, hidden, in enterprise fortresses as applications that small-to-large organizations depend on. In these organizations, especially the medium-to-large ones, there are well-established network infrastructures to manage the users, workstations, servers, etc. Organizations usually implement LDAP as a directory services infrastructure but, for the purposes of this article, I will only be discussing Active Directory. Active Directory, AD, is an LDAP implementation from Microsoft that was introduced with the Windows 2000 environment. This implementation is based on the X.500 LDAP standards. The AD is a giant database that can store as much as 16 terabytes or 1 billion objects ranging from users, printer locations, security policies, and, also important, user-defined data. Every application that interacts with users usu... (more)

ColdFusion to the Rescue

In the 21st century business environment, companies live and die by their fat and bogus enterprise applications. New mega-industry groups have been created not only to develop these applications, but deploy, support, and train. Nigeria is not left out of these influences. The banking industry in Nigeria is a typical example. Every bank in the country runs massive core banking applications such as Finacle from Infosys, FlexCube from Iflex (an Oracle company), Bankmaster, Phoenix, Equations, Globus, etc. These apps are expensive, clunky, and terribly difficult to use. Of all these, ... (more)

ColdFusion Can Save You Big Bucks

How does a bank justify using over $200 million in shareholder funds to its shareholders? That's the million-dollar question that CEOs of banks in Nigeria were trying to answer in the aftermath of the forced capitalization imposed on them by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). In July 2004, the new CBN governor, Professor Charles Soludo, handed down a directive that every bank in Nigeria should increase its capital from about $16 million to $200 million in 18 months or risk losing its license. The options weren't any too pretty: merger and recapitalization. At the end of the inte... (more)