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• Invitation: HARNESSING THE POWER OF FUSION

  - by mseika

  HARNESSING THE POWER OF FUSION: IMPLEMENT AND EXTEND ORACLE'S NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATIONS TO MEET CHANGING CLIENT NEEDSBRUSSELS, BELGIUM, APRIL 23RD, 2012 - APRIL 24th, 2012 The pace of business continues to accelerate. Clients demand solutions that not only meet their needs today, but evolve as quickly as markets, competition and technology. Oracle Fusion Applications can help you to anticipate and satisfy your clients changing needs. Designed for an era of business disruption, they co-exist with existing IT investments, but leverage new technologies (such as mobility and SOA) and breakthrough Cloud computing delivery models as you need them. They also support unprecedented levels of extensibility. To show you how, Oracle's Product Development organization invites you to join an exclusive Fusion Applications presentation and demonstration event for Oracle partners in Europe. This intensive 2-day event will illustrate Fusion Applications capabilities that can enhance ROI for your clients across four major product families: Financials, Procurement and Project Portfolio Management (ERP) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Human Capital Management (HCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) Led by Oracle Product Development personnel, this event will also demonstrate how to extend the Fusion Applications user experience, data model, business process and reporting using new Functional Setup and Composer technologies. These can help you address unique client needs without impacting future upgrades. This presentation and demonstration event is intended for consulting business development and delivery personnel. Reserve your Seats today for April 23rd - 24th event To register to this event CLICK HERE For further information please contact me at [email protected]. Best regards Paul ThompsonSenior Director EMEA Alliances and Solutions Partner Programs Markku RouhiainenDirector, Applications Partner EnablementWestern Europe

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• Invitation: HARNESSING THE POWER OF FUSION

  - by mseika

  HARNESSING THE POWER OF FUSION: IMPLEMENT AND EXTEND ORACLE'S NEXT-GENERATION APPLICATIONS TO MEET CHANGING CLIENT NEEDSBRUSSELS, BELGIUM, APRIL 23RD, 2012 - APRIL 24th, 2012 The pace of business continues to accelerate. Clients demand solutions that not only meet their needs today, but evolve as quickly as markets, competition and technology. Oracle Fusion Applications can help you to anticipate and satisfy your clients changing needs. Designed for an era of business disruption, they co-exist with existing IT investments, but leverage new technologies (such as mobility and SOA) and breakthrough Cloud computing delivery models as you need them. They also support unprecedented levels of extensibility. To show you how, Oracle's Product Development organization invites you to join an exclusive Fusion Applications presentation and demonstration event for Oracle partners in Europe. This intensive 2-day event will illustrate Fusion Applications capabilities that can enhance ROI for your clients across four major product families: Financials, Procurement and Project Portfolio Management (ERP) Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Human Capital Management (HCM) Supply Chain Management (SCM) Led by Oracle Product Development personnel, this event will also demonstrate how to extend the Fusion Applications user experience, data model, business process and reporting using new Functional Setup and Composer technologies. These can help you address unique client needs without impacting future upgrades. This presentation and demonstration event is intended for consulting business development and delivery personnel. Reserve your Seats today for April 23rd - 24th event To register to this event CLICK HERE For further information please contact me at [email protected]. Best regards Paul ThompsonSenior Director EMEA Alliances and Solutions Partner Programs Markku RouhiainenDirector, Applications Partner EnablementWestern Europe

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• Business Analyst role in development process

  - by Ryan

  I work as a business analyst and I currently oversee much of the development efforts of an internal project. I'm responsible for the requirements, specs, and overall testing. I work closely with the developers (onshore and offshore). The offshore team produces all of the reports. Version 1.0 had a 9 month development cycle and I had about 4-5 months to test all the reports. There was the usual back and forth to get the implementation right. Version 2.0 had a much shorter development cycle (3 months). I received the first version of the reports about 3 weeks ago and noticed a lot of things wrong with it. Many of the requirements were wrong and the performance of the queries was horrendous at 5x - 6x longer than it should have been. The onshore lead developer was out and did not supervise the offshore development team in generating the reports. Without consulting management, I took a look at the SQL in the reports and was able to improve performance greatly (by a factor of 6x) which is acceptable for this version. I sent the updated queries as guidelines to the offshore team and told them they should look at doing X instead of Y to improve performance and also to fix some specific logic issues. I then spoke to my managers about this because it doesn't feel right that I was developing SQL queries, but given our time crunch I saw no other way. We were able to fix the issue quite fast which I'm happy with. Current situation: the onshore managers aren't too pleased that the offshore team did not code for performance. I know there are some things I could have done better throughout this process and I do not in any way consider myself a programmer. My question is, if an offshore team that works apart from the onshore project resources fails to deliver an acceptable release, is it appropriate to clean up their work to meet a deadline? What kind of problems could this create in the future?

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• Good Scoop: The PeopleSoft/IBM Backstory

  - by [email protected]

  By Brian Dayton on April 12, 2010 11:15 AM Sometimes you're searching for something online and you find an unrelated, bonus nugget. Last week I stumbled across an interesting blog post from Chris Heller of a PeopleSoft consulting shop in San Ramon, CA called Grey Sparling. I don't know these guys. But Chris, who apparently used to work on the PeopleTools team, wrote a great article on a pre-acquisition, would-be deal between IBM and PeopleSoft that would have standardized PeopleSoft on IBM technology. The behind-the-scenes perspective is interesting. His commentary on the challenges that the company and PeopleSoft customers would have encountered if the deal had gone through was also interesting: · "No common ownership. It's hard enough to get large groups of people to work together when they work for the same company, but with two separate companies it is much, much harder. Even within Oracle, progress on Fusion applications was slow until Thomas Kurian took over Fusion applications in addition to Fusion middleware." · "No customer buy-in. PeopleSoft customers weren't asking for a conversion to WebSphere, so the fact that doing that could have helped PeopleSoft stay independent wouldn't have meant much to them, especially since the cost of moving to whatever a "PeopleSoft built on WebSphere" would have been significant." · "No executive buy-in. This is related to the previous point, but it's worth calling out separately. If Oracle had walked away and the deal with IBM had gone through, and PeopleSoft customers got put through the wringer as part of WebSphere move, all of the PeopleSoft project teams would be put in the awkward position of explaining to their management why these additional costs and headaches were happening. Essentially they would need to "sell" the partnership internally to their own management team. That's not a fun conversation to have." I'm not surprised that something like this was in the works. But I did find the inside scoop and Heller's perspective on the challenges particularly interesting. Especially the advantages of aligning development of applications and infrastructure development under one roof. Here's a link to the whole blog entry.

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• Leadership does not see value in standard process for machine configuration and new developer orientation

  - by opensourcechris

  About 3 months ago our lead web developer and designer(same person) left the company, greener pastures was the reason for leaving. Good for them I say. My problem is that his department was completely undocumented. Things have been tough since the lead left, there is a lot of knowledge both theoretical knowledge we use to quote new projects and technical/implementation knowledge of our existing products that we have lost as a result of his departure. My normal role is as a product manager (for our products themselves) and as a business analyst for some of our project based consulting work. I've taught myself to code over the past year and in an effort to continue moving forward I've taken on the task of setting my laptop up as a development machine with hopes of implementing some of the easier feature requests and fixing some of the no brainer bugs that get submitted into our ticketing system. But, no one knows how to take a fresh Windows machine and configure it to work seamlessly with our production apps. I have requested my boss, who is still in contact with the developer who left, ask them to document and create a process to onboard a new developer, software installation, required packages, process to deploy to the productions application servers, etc. None of this exists, and I'm spinning my wheels trying to get my computer working as a functional development machine. But she does not seem to understand the need for such a process to exist. Apparently the new developer who replaced the one who left has been using a machine that was pre-configured for our environment, so even the new developer could not set up a new machine if we added another developer. My question is two part: Am I wrong in assuming a process to on-board and configure a new computer to be part of our development eco-system should exist? Am I being a whinny baby and should I figure the process out and create a document on my own?

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• Thinktecture IdentityServer v1.0

  - by Your DisplayName here!

  Yeah – it is finally done. I just uploaded the v1 bits to Codeplex and the documentation to our server. Here’s the official blurb… Thinktecture IdentityServer is an open source security token service based on Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF and WIF. High level features Multiple protocols support (WS-Trust, WS-Federation, OAuth2, WRAP, JSNotify, HTTP GET) Multiple token support (SAML 1.1/2.0, SWT) Out of the box integration with ASP.NET membership, roles and profile Support for username/password and client certificates authentication Support for WS-Federation metadata Support for WS-Trust identity delegation Extensibility points to customize configuration and user management handling Disclaimer I did thorough testing of all features of IdentityServer - but keep in mind that this is an open source project and I am the only architect, developer and tester on the team. IdentityServer also lacks many of the enterprise-level features like configuration services, proxy support, operations integration etc. I only recommend using IdentityServer if you also understand how it works (to be able to support it). I am offering consulting to help you with customization and lock down - contact me. Download. Documentation. Up next is v1 of the Azure version. Have fun!

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• Oracle Product Hub: Customer Perspectives at the OpenWorld

  - by Mala Narasimharajan

   By Rohit Tandon The Oracle Product Hub (OPH) Product Strategy team will be hosting a customer session dedicated to OPH at Oracle Openworld. Oracle Product Information Management strategy team will have the pleasure to present this session with Motorola Mobility Solutions.  . In this session, you will hear how Motorola Solutions utilizes OPH to meet their IT and business needs. Arif Girniwala, (MDM Lead, Motorola) and Chirag Jariwala (Manager, Deloitte Consulting) will cover the following topics amongst others: How does Motorola Solutions decide on what is Product Master Data for their enterprise? What are the Data Governance structures, Users, User roles, User Security etc. within Motorola Solutions?  How does Motorola Solutions integrate, synchronize and leverage OPH with Agile PLM?       4.  What is the Oracle Product Hub strategy and roadmap (Speaker - Sachin Patel, Director Oracle Product Hub Strategy)       5.  What are the implementation best practices for Oracle Product Hub (Speaker - Srikant Bevara, Sr. Manager, Oracle   Product Hub product management) If you're interested in hearing more about the above then I recommend attending this session: Customer Perspectives: Master Product Data: Strategies for Effective Product Information Management with Motorola Mobility Solutions (CON8834) Tuesday October, 2nd 10:15am - 11:15am Moscone West - 3001 We hope to see you at OOW 2012 and stay in touch via our future blogs!  For a list of all Oracle MDM sessions click here. 

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• Efficient use of Bundling

  - by ACShorten

  One of the discussions I am having with customers and consulting people is about the use of Bundling and its appropriate use. We introduced Bundling post release in the V2.2 code line to allow partners and consultants to build solutions using the Configuration Tools objects such as UI Maps, Service Scripts, Business Objects, Business Services etc and then export and migrate them as solutions. Whilst that was the original intent I have found a few teams using the facility for other data and then complaining about the efficiency or relevance of the tool. Here are a number of guidelines to help optimize the use of Bundling for your implementation: Not all objects can be bundled. Only specific objects in the product can be bundled. These are targetted at Configuration Tools objects and a select group of other objects that are required for these objects. Maintenance Objects with the option "Eligble for Bundling" set to Y (and also contains a Bundling Add BO). Add objects to the Bundle as you complete them - Bundling can have issues with sequencing objects. The best way of combating this is to add objects to the bundle as you complete them. This will help with making sure you sequence the loading of the objects as you are building them in the correct order. Remember Bundling was designed for developers and partners to deliver solutions. If you leave adding objects to a Bundle using the Bundle Export zones then you will have less control of what sequence they are applied and this can cause timing issues. Bundling takes the latest revision  - If you combine Bundling with Revision Control then the Bundling will take the latest release of the object at the time of the export operation. Bundling and Version Control products - If you use a version control tool to control your java code then you can also check in the Bundle to associate a release between code and a bundle. Bundling is quite a powerful feature of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework that allows sales, partners, consultants and customers to package and import their Configuration Tools based solutions.

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• Ein besonderes Oracle Business Breakfast in Berlin

  - by Detlef Drewanz

  Seit mehreren Jahren finden bei uns Business Breakfasts statt. Diese Veranstaltung ist üblicherweise an Technologen mit tiefem technologischen Wissensdurst gerichtet. Aus einem besonderen Anlass ist die Veranstaltung am 13.6.2014 in unserem Customer Visit Center in Berlin etwas speziell. Anlässlich des Solaris 11.2 Launches tourt Herr Markus Flierl, Oracle VP Software Development, gerade durch Deutschland. Wir haben ihn nach Berlin in unser Customer Visit Center eingeladen, um mit Ihnen Ihre Cloud Strategien und Anforderungen an ein modernes Betriebssystem zu diskutieren. Vielleicht setzen Sie zurzeit ein Betriebssystem ein, welches nicht aus dem Hause Oracle stammt. Das macht nichts. Auch dann ist der Besuch zu dieser Veranstaltung interessant, denn Herr Flierl interessiert sich ebenso für Ihre Anforderungen und Entscheidungsgrundlagen. Übrigens: Markus Flierl ist in Südddeutschland geboren und aufgewachsen und spricht somit fließend Deutsch. Agenda Start Ende Titel 08:30 09:30 Registrierung und Frühstück 09:30 09:45 Begrüßung und Einleitung Ralf Zenses, Oracle Senior Director Systems Sales Consulting Europe North 09:45 11:30 Strategien für OpenStack, Software Defined Networking und RZ Automatisierung: Cloud Management Integriert, nicht nur Installiert Markus Flierl, Oracle VP Software Development 11:30 11:45 Pause 11:45 12:15 Solaris 11.2 OpenStack Demo Joost Pronk, Oracle Senior Principle Product Strategy Manager 12:15 13:00 Unified Archiving und SCAP: Die finale Antwort auf Migrations- und Compliance Fragen Detlef Drewanz, Oracle Master Principle Sales Consultant Weitere Details und den Link zur Anmeldung finden Sie hier. Die Veranstaltung ist offen für alle Interessierten. Ich freue mich auf Ihren Besuch. Wir sehen uns.

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• Looking for a reliable web provider that supports ASP.NET? Shared LAMP account a plus.

  - by Cory Charlton

  My title is probably not very clear but here's the deal. I'm a software engineer with experience in many languages but my current focus is Windows/Web applications using C# and .NET. I'm currently running a personal blog using WordPress and love it. I need to setup a website for my consulting company and, while I enjoy the canned benefits of a CMS like WordPress, would like to build a custom ASP.NET site. Either way my current LAMP host is not secure so I'm looking to switch and looking for a reliable alternative. My ultimate wish list of requirements would be a cost-effective (currently spending ~$120/yr for web+domain hosting) host that would allow me to deploy my own ASP.NET code and host a WordPress blog (IIS w/ PHP to external MySQL or separate LAMP site). Thanks in advance for your recommendations (Google is not good for this type of search :-D) Edit: I'm fine if I have to ditch WordPress. Really I'm just looking for a good ASP.NET host, the WordPress compatibility would be a plus.

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• Should Professional Development occur on company time?

  - by jshu

  As a first-time part-time software developer at a small consulting company, I'm struggling to organise time to further my own software development knowledge - whether that's reading a book, keeping up with the popular questions on StackOverflow, researching a technology we're using in-depth, or following the front page of Hacker News. I can see results borne from my self-allocated study time, but listing and demonstrating the skills and knowledge gained through Professional Development is difficult. The company does not have any defined PD policy, and there's a lot of pressure to get something deliverable done now! when working for consultants. I've checked what my coworkers do, and they don't appear to allocate any time to self-improvement; they just work at the problems they're given, looking up specific MSDN references, code samples, and the like as they need them. I realise that PD policy is going to vary across companies of different size and culture, and a company like my own is probably a bit of an edge case. I'd love to hear views and experiences from more seasoned developers; especially those who have to make the PD policy choices in their team or company. I'd also like to learn about the more radical approaches to PD, even if they're completely out there; it's always interesting to see what other people are trying. Not quite a summary, but what I'm trying to ask: Is it common or recommended for companies to allocate PD time? Whose responsibility is it to ensure a developer's knowledge and skills are up to date? Should a part-time work schedule inspire a lower ratio of PD time : work? How can a developer show non-developer coworkers that reading blogs and books is net productive? Is reading blogs and books actually net productive? (references welcomed) Is writing blogs effective as a way of PD? (a recent theme on Hacker News) This is sort of a broad question because I don't know exactly which questions I need to ask here, so any thoughts on relevant issues I haven't addressed are very welcome.

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• links for 2011-03-09

  - by Bob Rhubart

  Is there a Telecommunications Reference Architecture? (Telecommunications Architecture Corner) The answer is "yes," and Raul Goycoolea shares the details. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture) Oracle@info360: Advance Beyond Point Solutions To An Enterprise Content Strategy (Oracle Enterprise 2.0 Blog) Kellsey Ruppel shares information on some of the speakers at the upcoming info360/AIIM conference. (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 aiim info360) ERP in the Cloud for Local Government | Oracle Blog | Capgemini | Consulting, Technology, Outsourcing In these times of austerity, Local Authorities are facing significant reductions in budgets (on average over 30%). Now that the easier savings have been realised, Councils are faced with two options, cutting services or revolutionary changes to the way they do things today. (tags: oracle capgemini cloud) Mobile HR Apps "Good, so we have we have plenty of commercial applications making use of the smart phone," says Raheel Khan. "But what about core backend business applications?" (tags: oracle mobilecomputing) Policy Administration is the Top 2011 IT Priority for Insurers (Oracle Insurance) "Insurers can no longer rely on inflexible policy administration systems that impede their ability to rapidly configure and bring to innovative new products, add riders, support changing business processes and take advantage of market opportunities." - Helen Pitts (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture) Free: Oracle Technology Network Architect Day - Denver - March 23 The live one-day event in Denver brings together architects from a broad range of disciplines and domains to share insights and expertise in the use of Oracle technologies to meet the challenges today’s architects regularly face. The event is free, but seating is limited. (tags: oracle otn enterprisearchitecture cloud optimization) InfoQ: Randy Shoup on Evolvable Systems Randy Shoup discusses evolvable systems: how to run different versions of a system in parallel during migrations, decoupling a system with events, schemas at eBay and much more. (tags: ping.fm)

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• Five Ideas: Project Management

  - by Sylvie MacKenzie, PMP

   Except from Profit Magazine “For everyone to put on the project manager hat and standardize the way every single thing is done means that now the whole organization is on the same page as to what needs to occur from the time a hurricane hits Haiti and when a boat pulls in to unload supplies.” —Rich D’Addario, consulting project manager in the Primavera Global Business Unit at Oracle, on helping AmeriCares deliver aid to Haiti “Primavera P6 Analytics generates information that can help organizations improve their utilization and trim down overall operating costs. But more importantly, it gives organizations improved visibility.” —Yasser Mahmud, vice president of product strategy and industry marketing in Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit “Organizations are constantly looking for ways to improve the speed and precision of their decisions and work without creating environments and systems that limit their personnel through rigid structures and inflexible processes. The latest release of Primavera Portfolio Management meets this demand by further streamlining processes and supporting enhanced decision-making, helping drive better value from portfolios. In addition, the new UI clearly demonstrates Oracle's commitment to providing a seamlessly integrated enterprise project portfolio management product suite.” —Mike Sicilia, senior vice president, Oracle's Primavera “Make it a business project, not an IT project. All levels of functional management must have ownership, responsibility, and accountability for the success of the implementation.” —from Eaton Operations Services Manager Marcos Baccetto's 9 Project Management Tips “AEC firms must strategically pursue standardization opportunities in the project management area while preserving the spirit of entrepreneurism and flexibility at an individual project manager level. An enterprise technology platform doesn't only help with standardization of key project management processes across the enterprise; it also improves performance management, team collaboration and client specific reporting at an individual project level.” —Maneesh Chhabra is a director of Industry Strategy and Insight at Oracle

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• How will my Electronic Engineering degree be received in the Canadian Game Development market? [closed]

  - by Harikawashi

  I have a Electronic Engineering with Computer Science Degree from a reputable South African university. The EE with CS degree is basically Electronic Engineering, with some of the high voltage subjects thrown out and replaced with computer science subjects - mostly quite theoretical, but not in too much depth. I went on to earn a Masters Degree in Digital Signal Processing, focussing on Speech Recognition in Educational Applications. I have always loved programming - I taught myself QBASIC when I was in primary school, I learned Java at school, did some low level C at University, and taught myself C# and Python while doing my post graduate degree. C# is currently my strong suit, I think I am pretty capable with it. I have two years work experience in Namibia - working as a consulting electrical engineer (no software content whatsoever) and also developing C# desktop applications for the company I work for. I would like to move to Canada next year and work in the Game Development Industry as programmer or software engineer. My interests in particular are towards the more mathematical applications, like game and physics engines, or statistical disciplines like artificial intelligence. However, these are passions - not areas in which I have any work experience. So the question: How well will my BEngEE&CS and MScEng be received in the game industry? Seeing as it's not a pure software degree and I have no official software development work experience?

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• Google Programmers

  - by seth

  As a soon-to-be software engineer, I have studied some languages during my time in college. I can name C, C++, Java, Scheme, Ruby, PHP, for example. However, one of the main principles in my college (recognized by many as the best in my country) is to teach us how to learn for ourselves and how to search the web when we have a doubt. This leads to a proactive attitude, when I need something, I go get it and this has worked so far for me. Recently, I started wondering though, how much development would I be able to do without internet access. The answer bugged me quite a bit. I know the concept of the languages, mostly I know what to do, but I was amazed by how "slow" things were without having the google to help in the development. The problem was mostly related to specific syntax but it was not without some effort that i solved some of the SPOJ problems in C++. Is this normal? Should I be worried and try to change something in my programming behaviour? UPDATE: I'll give a concrete example. Reading and writing to a file in java. I have done this about a dozen times in my life, yet every time I need to do it, I end up googling "read file java" and refreshing my memory. I completely understand the code, i fully understand what it does. But I am sure, that without google, it would take me a few tries to read and write correctly (if I had to sit in front of the screen with a blank page and write this without consulting any source whatsoever).

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• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-10-09

  - by Bob Rhubart

  SOA Suite create partition in Enterprise Manager | Peter Paul van de Beek "In Oracle SOA Suite 10g, or more specific BPEL 10g, one could group functionality in domains," says Peter Paul van de Beek. "This feature has been away in the early versions of SOA Suite 11g. They have returned in more recent version and can be used for all SCA composites (instead of BPEL only). Nowadays these 10g domains are called partitions." OOW12: Oracle Business Process Management/Oracle ADF Integration Best Practices | Andrejus Baranovskis The Oracle OpenWorld presentations keep coming! Oracle ACE Director Andrejus Baranovskis shares the slides from "Oracle Business Process Management/Oracle ADF Integration Best Practices," co-presented with Danilo Schmiedel from Opitz Consulting. My presentations at Oracle Open World 2012 | Guido Schmutz The list of #OOW participants sharing their presentations grows with this post from Oracle ACE Director Guido Schmutz. You'll find Slideshare links to his presentations "Oracle Fusion Middleware Live Application Development (UGF10464)" and "Effective Fault handling in SOA Suite 11g (CON4832)." HTML Manifest for Content Folios | Kyle Hatlestad Kyle Hatlestad, solutions architect with the Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team, shares the details on "a project to create a custom content folio renderer in WebCenter Content." Adaptive ADF/WebCenter template for the iPad | Maiko Rocha Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team member Maiko Rocha responds to a a customer request for information about how to create an adaptive iPad template for their WebCenter Portal application, "a specific template to streamline their workflow on the iPad." Thought for the Day "I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination." — Maya Lin Source: Brainy Quote

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• Non-Profit Technololgy for Non-Profits?

  - by TomJ

  I've been looking around for a way to give back to the community, but I haven't found my right fit yet, so an idea came to mind: A non-profit technology "company" that targets non-profits. Do these exist? I've been doing some google searches and can only find software that is targeted for non-profits that is created by for-profit companies or that charges what I believe to be an outrages amount, conferences directed towards non-profits and technology they may use -- or articles complaining about the digital divide and how non-profits view technology as key but dont have the funds or the knowledge to employ it. Pseudo "Business Model" An open source 501(3)(c) organization that targets directly targets non-profits to fill the "digital divide." Most services would be free and consulting fees would be charged for customization. Donations would be accepted and government grants would be sought after. This would enable non-profits to keep pace with the for-profits in the technology sector, but at little to no cost. Perhaps the first "industry" to be targeted would be those that fill key social needs like unemployment, or food banks.

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• Podcast Show Notes: Conversations in the Cloud

  - by Bob Rhubart

  The centerpiece of every OTN Architect Day event is a panel discussion the gathers all of the session speakers togehter to respond to questions from the audience. I generally try to record these discussions, usually by stiking my iPad on top of one of the PA speakers, with mixed results. Fortunately, the A/V tech at the venue for the Los Angeles event, held on October 25, 2012, had the necessary gear to get a good-quality recording of the panel discussion. So starting this week the OTN ArchBeat Podcast will feature a short series of highlights from those discussions. Listen to Part 1: Dude, What's My Role? Members of the Architect Day panel respond to an audience question about what happens to traditional IT roles in a cloud environment. Listen to Part 2: Migrating Mission-Critical Applications to the Cloud (Nov 21) The panel offers advice and examples in response to an audience question about dealing with mission-critical applications. Listen to Part 3: All Clouds Are Not Equal (Nov 28) The panel responds to a challenging question about cloud strategy with a discussion of enterprise-grade cloud services. Listen to Part 4: Cloud Security and Auditing (Dec 5) The last segment in the series is short discussion in response to an audience question about auditing and security in the cloud. The Panelists (Listed alphabetically) Ashok Aletty, Senior Director of Product Management, Oracle Cloud Application Foundation Dr. James Baty, Vice President, Oracle Global Enterprise Architecture Program Dave Chappelle, Enterprise Architect, Oracle Global Enterprise Architecture Program Jeff Davies, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation Anbu Krishnaswamy, Enterprise Architect, Oracle Global Enterprise Architecture Program Dhanraj Pondicherry, Sales Consulting Manager, Oracle Exadata Perren Walker, Senior Principal Product Manager, Oracle Enterprise Manager Coming Soon Upcoming programs will focus on DevOps and Continuous Integration, and on Oracle's Java Cloud and Developer Cloud services. Stay tuned: RSS

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• Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Anniversary at Open World General Session and Twitter Chat using #em12c on October 2nd

  - by Anand Akela

  As most of you will remember, Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c was announced last year at Open World. We are celebrating first anniversary of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c next week at Open world. During the last year, Oracle customers have seen the benefits of federated self-service access to complete application stacks, elastic scalability, automated metering, and charge-back from capabilities of Oracle Enterprise manager 12c. In this session you will learn how customers are leveraging Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c to build and operate their enterprise cloud. You will also hear about Oracle’s IT management strategy and some new capabilities inside the Oracle Enterprise Manager product family. In this anniversary general session of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, you will also watch an interactive role play ( similar to what some of you may have seen at "Zero to Cloud" sessions at the Oracle Cloud Builder Summit ) depicting a fictional company in the throes of deploying a private cloud. Watch as the CIO and his key cloud architects battle with misconceptions about enterprise cloud computing and watch how Oracle Enterprise Manager helps them address the key challenges of planning, deploying and managing an enterprise private cloud. The session will be led by Sushil Kumar, Vice President, Product Strategy and Business Development, Oracle Enterprise Manager. Jeff Budge, Director, Global Oracle Technology Practice, CSC Consulting, Inc. will join Sushil for the general session as well. Following the general session, Sushil Kumar ( Twitter user name @sxkumar ) will join us for a Twitter Chat on Tuesday at 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.  Sushil will answer any follow-up questions from the general session or any question related to Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Private Cloud . You can participate in the chat using hash tag #em12c on Twitter.com or by going to  tweetchat.com/room/em12c (Needs Twitter credential for participating).  You could pre-submit your questions for Sushil using any of the social media channels mentioned below. Stay Connected: Twitter |  Face book |  You Tube |  Linked in |  Newsletter

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• Bahnbrechend und einsatzbereit: Oracle 12c In-Memory-Option Launch in Frankfurt

  - by Anne Manke

  Seit der Ankündigung der Oracle 12c In-Memory-Databankoption in San Francisco auf der Openworld im letzten Jahr, ist die DB Community gespannt, was diese bahnbrechende Technologie für Ad-hoc-Echtzeitanalysen von Live-Transaktionen, Data Warehousing, Reporting und Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) bringen wird. Die Messlatte liegt hoch, denn Larry Ellison verspricht mit der neuen 12c In-Memory-Option eine 100-fach schnellerer Verarbeitung von Abfragen bei Echtzeitanalysen für OLTP Prozesse oder Datawarehouses eine Verdoppelung der Transaktionsverarbeitung eine 100%ige Kompatibilität zu bestehenden Anwendungen Daten werden im Zeilenformat und Spaltenformat (In-Memory) abgelegt, und sind dabei aktiv und konsitstent Cloud-ready ohne Datamigration eine Ausweitung der In-Memory-basierten Abfrageprozesse auf mehrere Server    Um nur einige Features zu nennen >> mehr Infos finden Sie hier! Abfragen werden mit der neuen 12c In-Memory-Datenbankoption schneller bearbeitet, als die Anfrage gestellt werden kann, so Larry Ellison. Am 17. Juni 2014 wird die 12c In-Memory auf einer exklusiven Launch-Veranstaltung in Frankfurt am Main vorgestellt. Auf der Agenda stehen Vorträge, Diskussionen und eine LiveDemo der In-Memory-Datenbankoption.  Melden Sie sich jetzt an! Ort & Zeit: 17. Juni 2014, 9:30 - 15:15 Uhr in Radisson Blu Hotel (Franklinstrasse 65, 60486 Frankfurt am Main) Agenda 9:30 Registrierung 10:00 Begrüßung Guenther Stuerner, Vice President Sales Consulting, Oracle Deutschland (in deutscher Sprache) 10:15 Analystenvortrag Carl W. Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC (in englischer Sprache) 10:35 Keynote Andy Mendelsohn, Head of Database Development, Oracle (in englischer Sprache) 11:35 Podiumsdiskussion (in englischer Sprache): · Jens-Christian Pokolm, Postbank Systems AG · Andy Mendelsohn, Head of Database Development, Oracle · Carl W. Olofson, Research Vice President, IDC · Dr. Dietmar Neugebauer, Vorstandsvorsitzender, DOAG 12:30 Mittagessen 13:45 Oracle Database In Memory Option    Perform – Manage – Live Demo Ralf Durben, Senior Leitender Systemberater, Oracle Deutschland (in deutscher Sprache) 14:30 In Memory – Revolution for your DWH – Real Time Datawarehouse – Mixed Workloads – Live Demo – Live Data Query Alfred Schlaucher, Senior Leitender Systemberater, Oracle Deutschland (in deutscher Sprache) 15:15 Schlusswort & Networking

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• "From Russia with Love" - My Oracle Russian Experience

  - by cwarticki

  Two weeks ago, I traveled to Moscow, Russia. I had the pleasure of meeting with many of our Oracle Partners and Customers in the region.  I also worked with our Oracle Russia team throughout the week building many new friendships. The showcase for the week was an Oracle Support Strategy event for our Oracle Partners and Customers.  It was held at the Kateria-City Hotel, Moscow.  The Oracle Marketing team did an amazing job registering 100+ for the event, and nearly 100 were in attendance.           During the event, I spoke about many different topics. Part was a hands-on workshop to personalize your MOS Dashboard and configure Hot-Topics Email alerts.  Customers learned how to subscribe to newsletters and other Oracle information.  It covered a mulitude of Support Best Practices.  Additionally, I presented Platinum Services to the audience and my colleague Kristophe Hermans, from Oracle Belgium spoke on Proactive Support. In addition, I had the distinct privilege to meet one-on-one with our customers representing OJSC VimpelCom, MTC-Rus and Sberbank.  Pictured with me is Valery Yourinsky, Director of Technology Consulting Dept, FORS Distribution (Oracle Platinum Partner) Finally, I spent 2.5 days with my Oracle colleagues from Oracle Russia. They are super, hard-working, dedicated, customer-service professionals. All of them! I owe them all a debt of gratitude. Next time, we meet in Florida - ok? I am very appreciative to all our Oracle partners, customers and colleagues.  Thanks for hosting me and showing me a wonderful time in your country.  I look forward to my return. Sincerely,Chris WartickiGlobal Customer Management

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• Oracle Secure Global Desktop - Business Continuity During Snowstorm!

  - by Mohan Prabhala

  Capgemini, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies, is an Oracle Secure Global Desktop customer and uses it to provide secure, remote access to 1) corporate applications centralized in the datacenter and 2) desktops hosted on Oracle VDI. Earlier this month, one of Capgemini's government customers in Holland were advised to avoid traveling to work, due to a heavy snowstorm. This resulted in a lot of employees working from home. Thankfully due to their deployment of the Oracle Secure Global Desktop gateway, employees were able to easily access their corporate applications and desktops from home and anywhere outside of their office. Capgemini reports that during the days of the snowstorm, a record number of users leveraged Oracle Secure Global Desktop (servers and gateway). Despite this record usage, Oracle Secure Global Desktop remained perfectly stable and allowed users to seamlessly access their applications and desktops. This is a great example of how Oracle Secure Global Desktop allows employee productivity and business continuity even during severe weather conditions such as snowstorms. We are delighted to have enabled business continuity for Capgemini's customers, and look forward to our continued relationship with Capgemini. This blog has been approved for posting by Capgemini.

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• Price Drop for Processor based License on Exalytics

  - by Mike.Hallett(at)Oracle-BI&EPM

  ·       33% reduction in the list `per processor` license pricing for the Oracle BI Foundation Suite ·       New capacity-based licensing which allows customers to think big & start small, significantly lowering the entry price point for an Exalytics. Oracle BI Software List Price changes In response to new powerful platforms like the in-memory Oracle Exalytics with 40 cpu cores (counted under Oracle pricing policy as 20 “processors”), the list price of “Oracle BI Foundation Suite” (BIFS) is reduced by 33% from $450K per processor to $300K per processor. Capacity-based licensing on Exalytics (Trusted Partitions) “Capacity-based pricing” for the BIFS, Endeca, Essbase and Times Ten for Exalytics software is now available for Exalytics systems. This is delivered using “Oracle VM” (OVM).  We still ship a full Exalytics machine to all customers, but they may choose to only use and license a subset of the processors installed in the machine.   Customers can license Exalytics software in units of 5 “processors”: 5, 10, 15 or the full capacity 20.   As the customer’s implementation and workload increases, it is a simple matter to license additional processors and, using OVM, make them available to the BI or EPM application. Endeca Information Discovery now available on Exalytics Oracle has also announced the certification of “Oracle Endeca Information Discovery” (EID) on the Exalytics machine.    EID can be licensed alone or in combination with the BIFS & Times Ten for an Exalytics stack, and also participates in the capacity based pricing outlined above.   The Exalytics hardware is the perfect platform for EID, and provides superb power and performance for this in-memory hybrid text-search-analytics.   For more information : Oracle Price lists Oracle Partitioning Policy Discussion by Mark Rittman (Rittman Mead Consulting ltd.) on Oracle Trusted Partitions for Oracle Engineered Systems, Oracle Exalytics and Updated BI Foundation Pricing.

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• New Responsibilities

  - by Robert May

  With the start of the new year, I’m starting new responsibilities at Veracity. One responsibility that is staying constant is my love and evangelism of Agile.  In fact, I’ll be spending more time ensuring that all Veracity teams are performing agile, Scrum specifically, in a consistent manner so that all of our clients and consultants have a similar experience. Imagine, if you will, working for a consulting company on a project.  On that project, the project management style is Waterfall in iterations.  Now you move to another project and in that project, you’re doing real Scrum, but in both cases, you were told that what you were doing was Scrum.  Rather confusing.  I’ve found, however, that this happens on many teams and many projects.  Most companies simply aren’t disciplined enough to do Scrum.  Some think that being Agile means not being disciplined.  The opposite is true! So, my goals for Veracity are to make sure that all of our consultants have a consistent feel for Scrum and what it is and how it works and then to make sure that on the projects they’re assigned to, Scrum is appropriately applied for their situation.  This will help keep them happier, but also make switching to other projects easier and more consistent.  If we aren’t doing the project management on the project, we’ll help them know what good Agile practices should look like so that they can give good advice to the client, and so that if they move to another project, they have a consistent feel. I’m really looking forward to these new duties. Technorati Tags: Agile,Scrum

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• Integrated Reporting is Getting Closer

  - by jmorourke

  Oracle recently sponsored a webcast on CFO.com titled:  The CFO Playbook on Integrated Reporting: Integrating Sustainability into Financial Disclosures.  The speakers for this webcast were James Margolis, partner with Environmental Resources Management (ERM), a global provider of environmental, health, safety, risk and sustainability consulting services (EHSS) and Mike Wallace, Director of the Global Reporting Initiative's Focal Point USA. This webcast focused on why top companies in the U.S. and overseas are incorporating sustainability content into their annual reports and other financial disclosures. The speakers discussed the benefits of integrating sustainability reporting with traditional financial reporting. They noted how investors, corporate directors, lenders and most recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission, use this information to better understand, benchmark and value companies. They also discussed the November 2012 release of an Integrated Reporting Framework by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).  See the press release and link to the framework here.  The shift towards integrated financial and sustainability reporting is gaining momentum with a number of global stock exchanges endorsing this approach in 2012.  See the links here if you want to listen to the webcast or download the slides. Also, here is a demonstration of Oracle’s solution for integrated financial and sustainability reporting. If you’re interested in learning more about this and Oracle’s other Sustainability Reporting solutions, click here. If you have any questions or need additional information, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].

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