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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Oracle bid for SAP and Business Objects?

Feed surfing the other night, I came across a rumour indicating that Oracle could potentially take over SAP in this article - Oracle Bid Rumour boosts SAP shares. This would certainly turn Project Fusion in to Confusion. Personally I don’t see how this would get passed the monopolies and merger’s commissions in the various countries affected and I think it’s more likely that Microsoft will take over SAP, although Jeff Nolan has some thoughts to the contrary. Whatever the case, its looking more likely that Oracle will make a move to purchase another BI company as indicated in this article - Oracle Rumoured to be eyeing Business Objects. Great time to be an Oracle Consultant!!

I’m trying to get the polling module working again so cast your vote and let me know if you experience any problems.

Monday, January 29, 2007

Oracle EBS Release 11.5.10.2 Vision Instance

I noticed that Solution Beacon now has a Vision Instance of the latest release before R12, namely 11.5.10.2

You can now access any of these three Vision Instances:

Release 11.5.10.2 (a510vis5)
(11.5.10.2 Installation from Media Pack/9.2.0.7. ATG RUP#3 applied. Family Pack applied current except for HR and BIS)
Output listing from patchsets.sh for 11.5.10.2 from 10/15/2006

Release 11.5.10 (a510vis1)
(11.5.10.0 Installation from Media Pack/9.2.0.5. No ATG RUPs applied. No additional Consolidated Updates or Family Pack patches applied)
Output listing from patchsets.sh for 11.5.10.0 from 3/27/06

Release 11.5.9 (a159vis2)
(11.5.9.0 Installation from Media Pack/9.2.0.3. No ATG RUPs applied. No additional Consolidated Updates or Family Pack patches applied)
Output listing from patchsets.sh for 11.5.9 from 3/27/06

Although these environments are all publicly accessible I noticed that when registering for the 11.5.10.2 instance I had to supply them with a CSI (Customer Support Identifier). According to the registration form:-

*NEW - 12/21/2006 - In order for Solution Beacon to be able to continue to provide Vision environments for public use, Oracle now requires us to ask for a Customer Support Identifier (CSI) number which can be obtained through Oracle Support.

Hopefully they’ll have an R12 Vision Instance ready to look at shortly!!

Friday, January 26, 2007

Oracle e-Business Suite Online Documentation Library Release 12

Following the recent release of the Oracle EBS 12i media packs, Oracle has now released the full documentation pack for download. You can download the entire documentation CD (only 408.08MB this time) or the individual documents as illustrated below. A lot more posts will be coming up on R12 in the next few days, keep an eye on my del.icio.us R12 links to see what’s on my radar screen.

Download Oracle E-Business Suite R12

I noticed that E-Business Suite Release 12 is Generally Available, I’m busy downloading it from Oracle’s e-delivery web site. It’s a pretty hefty download, the Linux media pack consists of 72 items totalling 35GB in size.

Here’s a snippet of the download section for the Linux Release 12.0 media pack:

Release Content Documents (RCD) for E-Business Suite R12

RCD’s for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 are now available on Metalink. According to Metalink note 404152.1 (username and password required) - this document contains links to the published Release Content Documents for Oracle Applications, E-Business Suite Release 12. The RCD or Release Content Documentation communicates information about new or changed functionality in the specified release of the Oracle E-Business Suite. Existing functionality from prior point releases is not described. Use this document as a launchpad for R12 RCDs.

There are 22 RCD’s available as listed below:

 

1. E-Business Suite RCD
2. Apps Technology Family RCD
3. Intelligence Family RCD
4. Customer Relationship Management Family RCD
5. Marketing & Sales Family RCD
6. Logistics RCD
7. Supply Chain Management Family RCD
8. Advanced Planning RCD
9. Procurement Family RCD
10. Process Manufacturing RCD
11. Discrete Manufacturing RCD
12. Maintenance Management RCD
13. Customer Service Family RCD
14. Service Execution RCD
15. Projects Family RCD
16. HRMS Family RCD
17. Financials Family RCD
18. Customer Data Management RCD
19. Property Manager RCD
20. Product Lifecycle Management RCD
21. Order Management RCD
22. Student Systems RCD