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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

OracleContractors.com Launches E-Business Suite Technical and Functional Q & A Forum

I just received an e-mail from Jason Howlett of OracleContractors.com informing me that today they have launched an E-Business Suite Technical and Functional Q & A Forum.

An excerpt of the mail states:

We are pleased to announce the launch today of the OracleContractors.com E-Business Suite Technical and Functional Forums.

The OracleContractors.com E-Business Suite Forum is a free of charge web support service created by and available to Oracle Apps Contractors that won’t clog your inbox!

With an intended global contribution it has been created to encourage collaboration between Contractors to offer a way to access and leverage Q & A support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

It is hoped that it will be a gateway to what we believe to be the largest and most powerful global Oracle E Business Suite knowledgebase - “The Contractors”.

The Following Tracks have been created:

• Oracle Apps Database Administration
• Oracle Apps Project Management
• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Oracle CRM
• Oracle Development Subjects
• Oracle Financials
• Oracle Fusion
• Oracle HRMS
• Oracle Manufacturing
• Oracle OA Framework & XML Publisher
• Oracle Order Management
• Oracle Process Management
• Oracle Product Lifecycle Management
• Oracle Projects Suite
• Oracle Supply Chain
• Oracle Training Topics

Their blog has some very good contributions to date so I’m sure the forum will prove to be a very useful information source for anyone interested in Oracle technical and functional questions and answers. When I first started implementing Oracle, there were very few decent forums around, now there’s an abundance of forums one can use to post questions and review answers on - see this listing of other Oracle Applications and E-Business Suite Forums and if you know of any not on the list, then add your comments and I’ll be sure to include them.

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Tuesday, January 30, 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.

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Kudos: OracleAppsBlog Recognized as Top Oracle Blog Site by WhatIS.com

Posted By: Michael Siebert

OracleAppsBlog.com was recently recognized by WhatIs.com as a “must read” blog for information technology topics covering Oracle.

We are pleased to announce that OracleAppsBlog has recently been recognized as a top blog site for Oracle technology by WhatIs.com.  Specifically, we’ve been deemed a “Favorite Technology Blog” under the Oracle category.  Three other blog sites were also recognized for their contributioins to the Oracle community:

Lewis Cunningham - covers a variety of Oracle technology, especially databases and development;
Mark Rittman - a must read site for all things related to Oracle and Business Intelligence; and
Oracle’s Blogging Network - basically, every executive, developer, or product manager blogger who works for Oracle.  But if I had to place my vote for the most outstanding blog that falls under the Oracle corporate umbrella, it would undoubtedly go to Steven Chan’s blog on Oracle Applications Technology.

Of course, we have our bloggers, readers and over 3,500 forum members from all over the globe to thank for their contributions to the site and their support.  Being recognized as a top site is certainly an honor, and is also a testament to the Oracle applications community and its ability to support one another through blogs and forums.  Keep up the good work!

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Sunday, January 28, 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!!

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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. 

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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:

Thursday, January 25, 2007

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

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Oracle Contractors Blog

It’s been a while since I last posted on this site. In fact, my last decent entry was about six months ago, two days before my son was born which is probably the main reason for an absence of posts on my part. I haven’t had much time to look at e-mails for the site as well but I’m going to spend the next couple of weeks working through the backlog and putting some new entries together. I had a chance today to look at the Oracle Contractors Blog, which was launched late last year and thought I would give it a mention.

It features blog entries from the following Oracle Contractors: -

• Andrew Cotterell
• Barry Goodsell
• Dax Gomez
• Dean Christofolis
• Denise Bonvicino
• Dilip Nagarkar
• Fergal Grist
• Jason Howlett
• Jazz Badeshia
• Jim Hooper
• John Temple
• Khalil Rehman
• Kuren Dhand
• Lee Broders
• Marty Biggs
• Misbah Jalil
• Neil Jenkins
• Nick Davey
• Paul Driver
• Peter Hunt
• Richard Fieldhouse

A look at some recent entries: -

• What is so special about drop shipping and why should your customers care?
• Big Brother and Shared Service Centers
• Oracle Business Intelligence Warehouse Builder 10g
• 10 years plus and still nervous!
• Are Oracle trying to get a foothold in the OS market?
• Explicit Cursors are Dead - Long live the Implicit Cursor
• Eyes on The Prize
• Interesting uses of Oracle CRM
• MFG across Continents - Can each unit close their month as per their Time Zone.
• New version - Same old problems?
• The Project Initiation Phase - Do It Right or Die
• The wrong and right way to avoid “invokeMethod” in Controllers

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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12: Launch Date Announced

Posted By: Michael Siebert

For those who attended any e-Business Suite Release 12 sessions at Open World this past October, you will recall that one of the most frequently asked questions was “When is Release 12 going to be available?”.

Well, there is no need to ask any longer.  According to the Oracle Events Website, Oracle will be holding an “unprecedented event in the history of business software” where they will be launching five new releases of their business applications software products around the world.  The product launches include:

• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: The Global Business Release
  Presented by Steve Miranda, Senior Vice President, Applications Development
• PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0: The Extended Value Release
  Presented by Doris Wong, Vice President and General Manager, PeopleSoft Enterprise
• Siebel Release 8.0: Proactive CRM
  Presented by Ed Abbo, Senior Vice President, CRM Products
• JD Edward s Enterp riseOne Release 8.12: The Continued Innovations Release
  Presented by Lenley Hensarling, Vice President and General Manager, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• JD Edwards World Release A9.1: The World Renaissance Release
  Presented by John Schiff, Vice President and General Manager, JD Edwards World

The event will be hosted by Charles Phillips, Oracle President, and John Wookey, Oracle Senior Vice President, Applications Development, and will be held at the Hudson Theater in New York.  Personally, I don’t plan on attending, but will be following the event closely and will post any relevent information here on the blog.  Post a comment if you plan on attending the event.  It looks like 2007 will be an exciting year for those of us involved with Oracle business application software and related technologies. 

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