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  • Grab your popcorn and watch the latest AutoVue Movie. Now available on YouTube!

    - by [email protected]
    Just released is: Oracle's AutoVue Visualization Solutions and Primavera P6 integration Movie Watch it now (9:24). This is sure to be a box office sensation. And if you have time for a double, triple or even quadruple feature don't forget these other AutoVue movies available on YouTube: AutoVue Work Online and Offline movie Watch it now (5:01). AutoVue 3D Walkthrough movie Watch it now (6:01). AutoVue 2D Compare Movie Watch it now (4:14). Enjoy the movies.

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  • As a programmer, should I know low and high-level programming languages?

    - by job
    I been contacted to do some work remote controlling LEDs displays over TCP/IP, but my experience and preparation is mostly about high-level programming language. I said that to the person who contact me about the work and he told me that: "if you call yourself a programmer you should know all these things" Should a programmer really know the details of low-level programming? Or can I treat it as a black box concept, as theoretical knowledge but not necessarily doing it or implementing low level language solutions, having in mind that low-level programming is not my expertise?

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  • Why (not) logic programming?

    - by Anto
    I have not yet heard about any uses of a logical programming language (such as Prolog) in the software industry, nor do I know of usage of it in hobby programming or open source projects. It (Prolog) is used as an academic language to some extent, though (why is it used in academia?). This makes me wonder, why should you use logic programming, and why not? Why is it not getting any detectable industry usage?

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  • Wo finde ich was im OPN?

    - by A&C Redaktion
    Oracle Partner haben Zugriff auf verschiedenste Tools, Ressourcen und Services, die die tägliche Arbeit erleichtern und einen signifikanten Wettbewerbsvorteil bieten. Für unsere neuen, und vielleicht auch manchen altgedienten Partner, hier ein kleiner Wegweiser zu den wichtigsten Angeboten. Welche Ressourcen kann ich mit welchem Level der Spezialisierung nutzen?Einen englischsprachigen Überblick über alle Angebote aus den Bereichen Enablement, Development, Marketing, Sales und Support finden Sie hier unter „OPN Benefits Table Details“. Wo kann ich mich über bestimmte Oracle Produkte informieren und weiterbilden?Die Knowledge Zones sind lösungsorientierte Webseiten für den Einstieg in die Spezialisierung. Sie finden dort detaillierte Informationen zu Entwicklung, Verkauf und Implementierung von Oracle Lösungen – aufgeschlüsselt nach den Themen Datenbank, Middleware, Anwendungen, Server- und Speichersysteme sowie nach Branchen. Je nach Interesse und Spezialisierung können Sie hier bestimmten Knowledge Zones beitreten. Wie können Kunden mich und meine Leistungen als Oracle Partner finden und Kontakt aufnehmen?Dafür gibt es den Solutions Catalog: Diese Plattform gehört zu den wichtigsten Tools, um Kunden an den für sie idealen Oracle Partner zu vermitteln. Jeder spezialisierte Partner weltweit hat im Solutions Catalog ein suchmaschinenoptimiertes Profil, das er über das OPN selbst pflegt und ausbaut. Kunden filtern das Angebot nach Region und gewünschter Lösung und nehmen direkt Kontakt auf. Besuche auf der Webseite werden evaluiert und können zur individuellen Lead-Generierung genutzt werden. Wie kann ich meine Oracle Spezialisierung nutzen, um neue Kunden zu gewinnen?Im Marketing-Bereich des OPN-Portals finden Sie diverse Möglichkeiten der Werbung und Demand Generation. Einige Beispiele: Die deutschsprachigen Marketing Kits bieten Werbematerial, Templates, Schulungsmaterial und Anleitungen für das Marketing der Partner. Sie helfen dabei, eigene Kampagnen, z.B. Mailings oder Telemarketing zu einzelnen Themen, wie etwa aktuell Exadata, durchzuführen und die Demand Generation voranzutreiben. Mit den Partner Logos können Sie auf Ihrer eigenen Webseite damit werben, dass und wie intensiv Sie mit Oracle zusammenarbeiten. Es gibt Logos für jedes Partner Level sowie für jede einzelne Zertifizierung aus dem Oracle Universum. Der Partner Event Publishing Service hilft dabei, Ihre Veranstaltungen global und öffentlichkeitswirksam auf der Oracle Webseite zu präsentieren. So funktioniert's: Einfach das Excel-Formular downloaden, in deutsch oder englisch ausfüllen und mit Ihrem Logo an das Event Publishing Team senden. Ihre Event-Seite wird erstellt und ist auf dem Eventportal von Oracle suchbar. Sie erhalten für Ihre Prmotion den Link und schon haben sich einen neuen Kreis potenzieller Teilnehmer erschlossen.

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  • Wo finde ich was im OPN?

    - by A&C Redaktion
    Oracle Partner haben Zugriff auf verschiedenste Tools, Ressourcen und Services, die die tägliche Arbeit erleichtern und einen signifikanten Wettbewerbsvorteil bieten. Für unsere neuen, und vielleicht auch manchen altgedienten Partner, hier ein kleiner Wegweiser zu den wichtigsten Angeboten. Welche Ressourcen kann ich mit welchem Level der Spezialisierung nutzen?Einen englischsprachigen Überblick über alle Angebote aus den Bereichen Enablement, Development, Marketing, Sales und Support finden Sie hier unter „OPN Benefits Table Details“. Wo kann ich mich über bestimmte Oracle Produkte informieren und weiterbilden?Die Knowledge Zones sind lösungsorientierte Webseiten für den Einstieg in die Spezialisierung. Sie finden dort detaillierte Informationen zu Entwicklung, Verkauf und Implementierung von Oracle Lösungen – aufgeschlüsselt nach den Themen Datenbank, Middleware, Anwendungen, Server- und Speichersysteme sowie nach Branchen. Je nach Interesse und Spezialisierung können Sie hier bestimmten Knowledge Zones beitreten. Wie können Kunden mich und meine Leistungen als Oracle Partner finden und Kontakt aufnehmen?Dafür gibt es den Solutions Catalog: Diese Plattform gehört zu den wichtigsten Tools, um Kunden an den für sie idealen Oracle Partner zu vermitteln. Jeder spezialisierte Partner weltweit hat im Solutions Catalog ein suchmaschinenoptimiertes Profil, das er über das OPN selbst pflegt und ausbaut. Kunden filtern das Angebot nach Region und gewünschter Lösung und nehmen direkt Kontakt auf. Besuche auf der Webseite werden evaluiert und können zur individuellen Lead-Generierung genutzt werden. Wie kann ich meine Oracle Spezialisierung nutzen, um neue Kunden zu gewinnen?Im Marketing-Bereich des OPN-Portals finden Sie diverse Möglichkeiten der Werbung und Demand Generation. Einige Beispiele: Die deutschsprachigen Marketing Kits bieten Werbematerial, Templates, Schulungsmaterial und Anleitungen für das Marketing der Partner. Sie helfen dabei, eigene Kampagnen, z.B. Mailings oder Telemarketing zu einzelnen Themen, wie etwa aktuell Exadata, durchzuführen und die Demand Generation voranzutreiben. Mit den Partner Logos können Sie auf Ihrer eigenen Webseite damit werben, dass und wie intensiv Sie mit Oracle zusammenarbeiten. Es gibt Logos für jedes Partner Level sowie für jede einzelne Zertifizierung aus dem Oracle Universum. Der Partner Event Publishing Service hilft dabei, Ihre Veranstaltungen global und öffentlichkeitswirksam auf der Oracle Webseite zu präsentieren. So funktioniert's: Einfach das Excel-Formular downloaden, in deutsch oder englisch ausfüllen und mit Ihrem Logo an das Event Publishing Team senden. Ihre Event-Seite wird erstellt und ist auf dem Eventportal von Oracle suchbar. Sie erhalten für Ihre Prmotion den Link und schon haben sich einen neuen Kreis potenzieller Teilnehmer erschlossen.

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  • How can I convince cowboy programmers to use source control?

    - by P.Brian.Mackey
    UPDATE I work on a small team of devs, 4 guys. They have all used source control. Most of them can't stand source control and instead choose not to use it. I strongly believe source control is a necessary part of professional development. Several issues make it very difficult to convince them to use source control: The team is not used to using TFS. I've had 2 training sessions, but was only allotted 1 hour which is insufficient. Team members directly modify code on the server. This keeps code out of sync. Requiring comparison just to be sure you are working with the latest code. And complex merge problems arise Time estimates offered by developers exclude time required to fix any of these problems. So, if I say nono it will take 10x longer...I have to constantly explain these issues and risk myself because now management may perceive me as "slow". The physical files on the server differ in unknown ways over ~100 files. Merging requires knowledge of the project at hand and, therefore, developer cooperation which I am not able to obtain. Other projects are falling out of sync. Developers continue to have a distrust of source control and therefore compound the issue by not using source control. Developers argue that using source control is wasteful because merging is error prone and difficult. This is a difficult point to argue, because when source control is being so badly mis-used and source control continually bypassed, it is error prone indeed. Therefore, the evidence "speaks for itself" in their view. Developers argue that directly modifying server code, bypassing TFS saves time. This is also difficult to argue. Because the merge required to synchronize the code to start with is time consuming. Multiply this by the 10+ projects we manage. Permanent files are often stored in the same directory as the web project. So publishing (full publish) erases these files that are not in source control. This also drives distrust for source control. Because "publishing breaks the project". Fixing this (moving stored files out of the solution subfolders) takes a great deal of time and debugging as these locations are not set in web.config and often exist across multiple code points. So, the culture persists itself. Bad practice begets more bad practice. Bad solutions drive new hacks to "fix" much deeper, much more time consuming problems. Servers, hard drive space are extremely difficult to come by. Yet, user expectations are rising. What can be done in this situation?

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  • gnome-tweak-tool doesn't start due to "ImportError: No module named gi" error

    - by Khajak Vahanyan
    I am using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome Shell and have a problem with gnome-tweak-tool. When I click on it, it does nothing and when I try to open with terminal it gives this error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnome-tweak-tool", line 22, in <module> import gi ImportError: No module named gi I googled a bit, found some solutions (reinstalled some python-gobject packages), but still didn't help./

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  • Step by Step Guide to Delicious OAuth API

    Learn how to use Delicious OAuth API in your .NET projects with an example...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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  • Can I blacklist an appindicator?

    - by d3vid
    I've whitelisted some indicators for apps that don't yet have Unity-compliant appindicators. Is there any way to blacklist appindicators for apps that are Unity-compliant (not old-style indicators) but don't provide a "Don't show in the system tray" option? Any solutions to ban an appindicator from being displayed, GUI- or CLI-based, are welcome. (I'm not looking for a way to just hide them like you can hide system tray icons in Windows.) (New-style appindicators can't be removed from the systray-whitelist.)

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  • Advice on Project Management Software?

    - by Zenph
    I was wondering, does anybody work as part of a team, or as a project manager who highly recommends a certain project management solution (self-hosted or otherwise) ? Ideally I want something where I can manage the entire project, and also manage the financial side of things too. Should also add a few other things: notifications for team members for individual projects version control integration (like codebase) real time collaboration like chat

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  • Manageability at Oracle Openworld: a Guide to sessions for Partners

    - by Javier Puerta
    A large number of sessions focusing on Manageability will be taking place during the week of Oracle Openworld in San Francisco. To help you organize your schedule I am including below a list of sessions and events around Manageability that you will find of interest. PARTNER SPECIFIC SESSIONS Date/Time/Location  Session   Monday, October 1st, 2011 at 15:30 - 18:00 PST Grand Hyatt San Francisco 345 Stockton Street, San Francisco (Conference Theater) (It is a 15 minute walk from OOW Moscone Center. See directions here) Exadata & Manageability EMEA Partner Community Forum.- Listen to other partners share their experiences in selling and implementing Exadata and Manageability projects, and have a direct dialogue with some of the Oracle executives that are driving the strategy of the company in these areas. Agenda Welcome - Hans-Peter Kipfer, VP, Engineered Systems Oracle EMEA Next challenges in building and managing clouds - Javier Cabrerizo, VP, Business Development for Exadata, Oracle Corp. Partner Experiences: IT modernization, simplification and cost reduction: The case of a customer in Transportation & Logistics with custom applications and SAP. - Francisco Bermudez, Country Leader Infrastructure Services, Capgemini, Spain Nvision cloud project - Dmitry Krasilov, Head of Oracle Competence Center, Nvision Group, Russia From Exadata Ready to Exadata Optimized: An ISV Experience - Miguel Alves, Product Business Solutions Manager, WeDo Technologies, Portugal To confirm your participation send an email to [email protected] Tuesday, Oct 2, 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM - Marriott Marquis - Golden Gate A Developing Services for Private and Public Clouds.- The Oracle Cloud provides new business opportunities, secures business applications and data, and provides operational efficiencies and cost savings. For customers lacking the skill or time to architect, develop, or build a cloud, there is a growing demand for services practice partners that can deliver and manage Oracle Cloud solutions. In this session,• Become familiar with services examples and use cases that demonstrate how an Oracle Cloud can provide a solution to a customer’s needs today• Learn about Oracle architecture and best practices available for an Oracle Cloud instances• Identify the right Oracle technology and the optimal model for meeting customer needs while providing excellent revenues and an optimal margin for services delivered Wednesday, Oct 3, 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM - Marriott Marquis - Golden Gate B Using Management Already Built into Oracle Products: Oracle Enterprise Manager .- Engineered into Oracle products are management capabilities ready to be used. In this session, applicable to all partners, understand the growing market opportunities and how to use or include Oracle Enterprise Manager as part of your solution or services. Other Cloud sessions for Partners at the Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange  Click here.-     OOW CUSTOMER SESSIONS   Download the Focus On Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c (and Private Cloud) guide for a full list of Exadata OOW sessions.  

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  • This Week's News From the Green Data Center Management Front

    Among this week's developments in green data center management: myriad federal and state tax credits are now available for Green IT projects related to data centers; the EPA is finalizing its Energy Star program for data centers; and Numara Software has a way to help you better green your data center.

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  • Caliber Point Launches Republic, A Platform-Based Multi-Tenant HR Service Delivery Solution

    - by jay.richey
    Caliber Point Business Solutions Ltd., a leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) service provider and a Hexaware Technologies subsidiary, today announced the launch of Republic - their multi-tenant HR services delivery solution. Built on the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, this ready to use platform will cater to multiple clients under a secure and shared environment. This launch will identify Caliber Point as one of the first BPO service providers in India and one of the few in the world to provide a complete platform-based BPO service. More at http://bit.ly/9yyJDW

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  • Timestep schemes for physics simulations

    - by ktodisco
    The operations used for stepping a physics simulation are most commonly: Integrate velocity and position Collision detection and resolution Contact resolution (in advanced cases) A while ago I came across this paper from Stanford that proposed an alternative scheme, which is as follows: Collision detection and resolution Integrate velocity Contact resolution Integrate position It's intriguing because it allows for robust solutions to the stacking problem. So it got me wondering... What, if any, alternative schemes are available, either simple or complex? What are their benefits, drawbacks, and performance considerations?

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  • What problems will I face if I remove the concept of interfaces from my code?

    - by Vishwas Gagrani
    I have been programming for many years but I am still not comfortable with the concept of "Interfaces". I try to use interfaces but many times I don't see a mandatory use for it. I think this is probably because the projects weren't so big, or because interfaces are more useful when teamwork is involved. So, making another attempt to understand the importance of interfaces, here is my question: What problems will I face if I remove the concept of interfaces from my code?

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  • First 10 programs in a new scripting languge

    - by pro_metedor
    When a peron is learning a new scripting language like: bash python perl pike What kind of simple (yet practical) problem solutions to get through to make say that a person is comprehend with this scripting language enough to approach some complex yet still practical problems encountered in everyday job. In other words, which problems would you give that person to solve to make sure that he/she is familiar with the scripting language.

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  • How do you think about an Application Generator? [closed]

    - by Mehdi Sheyda
    I'm designing an application-generating application. It is an application that takes the requirements of customer as inputs , analyzes the requirements, creates classes and produces program files in C#. I am at the beginning of this project and have a long way to go with this application. Do you have an experience with designing similar kinds of projects? What risks might I encounter with this project?

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  • JavaScript or PHP based WYSIWYG vector based image editor

    - by Jeroen Pluimers
    For a PHP based site of a client, I'm looking for a vector based image editor that allows: end user creation of vectored images consisting of objects supports upload of bitmap images to be used as objects inside the vector image supports adding text objects to add to the vector image, and change properties (font name, font style, font size) of the text objects preferably supports layering or grouping of objects inside the vector image integrates nicely with a PHP based site (so a PHP or JavaScript library is preferred) can store the vector image in SVG, EPS or PDF Both commercial and FOSS solutions are OK. Any idea where to find such a library? --jeroen

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  • INETA Speaking engagement, July 14, Ft. Wayne, IN.

    - by Enrique Lima
    A while back I decided to get back to speaking engagements and such. For the most part I had kept that to some local User Groups and some conferences like TechEd. I decided to sign up for the INETA Speaker program. Well my first gig came through. I will be speaking at the SharePoint Users of Ft. Wayne, Indiana meeting on July 14th. The topic is on Building Solutions for SharePoint using Visual Studio LightSwitch.

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  • confusing about the postguaduate education.

    - by user531661
    i'm a junior studying software engineering. i like to do research on computer science but also to code some projects as a developer. i want to work for a famous company as a engineering or researcher after getting my graduate degree. and i expect that after working several years i can do some managerial roles. so which choice is the best for me? PhD in Computer Science, master in Computer science, PhD in software engineering or master in software engineering?

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  • SOA &amp; Application Grid Specialization step 2 of 6 &ndash; References &amp; Marketing Kits

    - by Jürgen Kress
    In our fist step to become SOA Specialized & Application Grid Specialized we highlighted our OMM to register your opportunities. We continue our path to specialization with our marketing offerings to create your reference cases and run joint marketing campaigns. References: Be Recognized Through Partner Success Stories Oracle delivers a wide variety of services and solutions through our partners and we believe that those successes should be recognized and promoted. References are also required to become specialized. We showcase our partners’ capabilities in Oracle products and industries through partner success stories that are published on Oracle.com. For significant implementations, we may invite partners to participate in a press release or be interviewed in a podcast. To participate and take a further step to become specialized, please take a minute to complete the form and tell us about the successful project you have implemented. If your story is selected, we will contact you for an interview. Create your references The partner reference program Enables partners to be recognized by both Oracle and our customers Provides an opportunity for partners to showcase successes with their customers on Oracle solutions Helps raise awareness of our partners’ capabilities, elevating them above their competition Time to submit a SOA and Application Grid reference request today To learn more about partner references, check out the following resources: Judson Althoff’s YouTube Video: Be Recognized with OPN Specialized Reference Program OPN PartnerCast: Be Recognized…Your Reference Matters!!! (MP3) Partner/Customer Reference Brochure (PDF) Marketing Kits We have created OFM 11g marketing kit http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required) The marketing kit includes all the ppts and demos from our launch event. Oracle package includes: • Event templates like invitation, agenda ,confirmation follow up templates • OFM 11g presentations • Free usage of the Oracle Customer Visit Center • Condition: mandatory lead registration in the Oracle Open Market Model (OMM) To download the material, please make sure that you select the campaign “Enterprise: Fusion Middleware 11g”: OFM 11g Oracle Marketing 4 Partners Package http://tinyurl.com/soamarketing (OPN account required)   For more information on Specialization please visit our OPN Specialized Webcast Series And become a member in our SOA Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/ema/soa Jürgen Kress, SOA Partner Adoption EMEA SOA Specialized Application Grid Specialized Proof 2 transactions with OMM Proof 2 transactions with OMM Create your 2 references Create your 2 references SOA Sales assessment 3, Oracle Application Grid Sales Specialist  SOA Pre-Sales assessment 3 Oracle Application Grid PreSales Specialist Support assessment 1 Support assessment 2 SOA Implementation assessment 4 Application Gridplementation assessment 4

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  • RightNow CX Cloud Service Combined with Oracle Fusion CRM in the Cloud

    - by Richard Lefebvre
    ·        The May 2012 release of Oracle’s RightNow CX Cloud Service, the customer experience suite, is now integrated with Oracle Fusion CRM, helping organizations to achieve sustainable business growth through relevant, cross-channel customer interactions that can increase revenue opportunities and drive organizational efficiencies. Relevant Interactions Build Stronger Customer Relationships ·          Armed with a comprehensive view of all customer interactions across channels, the context and status of these interactions, and an awareness of the customer’s value to the organization, companies can now offer more relevant products and services to customers. ·         Using the combined Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion CRM solutions, organizations can increase customer retention, drive higher levels of customer advocacy, and increase sales conversion rates with tools designed to: - Provide a complete, cross-channel view of the customer to sales, marketing and service. - Empower sales and service departments to easily collaborate to proactively solve customer issues, using opportunities to provide purchase advice at the right time and with the right solutions. - Allow sales to easily review service history in preparation for sales calls. - Enable agents to understand customer value based upon prior buying habits and existing opportunities. Deeper Insight Enables Targeted, Personalized Opportunities ·          The combination of Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service and Oracle Fusion CRM allows sales and marketing organizations to simultaneously leverage service interactions from RightNow CX and sales prediction and segmentation capabilities from Fusion Sales. This helps companies to: - Better match products and services to specific customer needs based on customer service history.  - Deliver targeted, personalized interactions intended to help customers derive more value from purchases and to inform future buying decisions. - Identify new opportunities to increase deal size and conversion rates. Supporting Quotes ·         “Every interaction is a relationship opportunity to grow your business. When these interactions are relevant and add value for customers, customers are more likely to trust the relationship and seek purchase advice,” said David Vap, group vice president, Oracle. “This customer trust provides an opportunity to increase customer product adoption and to reduce the cost of customer acquisition, thereby increasing company profitability.” Supporting Resources ·         Oracle Fusion CRM ·         Oracle Fusion Applications ·         Oracle RightNow CX Cloud Service ·         OracleCRM on Facebook ·         OracleCRM on YouTube

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  • I am looking for an graduation project idea for bacelor of computer engineering [closed]

    - by project idea
    I am interested in computer graphics and I have developed many hobby projects, mostly 2D and 3D games/scenes in directX and openGL, But for a grad project, proffesors wont allow games. I browsed many similar questions here and I am convinced project should be something I am really interested in as I will give considerable time to it. But apart from games I am not able to decide on the topic. I am also open to ideas on social apps and android.

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  • The Birth of a Method - Where did OUM come from?

    - by user702549
    It seemed fitting to start this blog entry with the OUM vision statement. The vision for the Oracle® Unified Method (OUM) is to support the entire Enterprise IT lifecycle, including support for the successful implementation of every Oracle product.  Well, it’s that time of year again; we just finished testing and packaging OUM 5.6.  It will be released for general availability to qualifying customers and partners this month.  Because of this, I’ve been reflecting back on how the birth of Oracle’s Unified method - OUM came about. As the Release Director of OUM, I’ve been honored to package every method release.  No, maybe you’d say it’s not so special.  Of course, anyone can use packaging software to create an .exe file.  But to me, it is pretty special, because so many people work together to make each release come about.  The rich content that results is what makes OUM’s history worth talking about.   To me, professionally speaking, working on OUM, well it’s been “a labor of love”.  My youngest child was just 8 years old when OUM was born, and she’s now in High School!  Watching her grow and change has been fascinating, if you ask her, she’s grown up hearing about OUM.  My son would often walk into my home office and ask “How is OUM today, Mom?”  I am one of many people that take care of OUM, and have watched the method “mature” over these last 6 years.  Maybe that makes me a "Method Mom" (someone in one of my classes last year actually said this outloud) but there are so many others who collaborate and care about OUM Development. I’ve thought about writing this blog entry for a long time just to reflect on how far the Method has come. Each release, as I prepare the OUM Contributors list, I see how many people’s experience and ideas it has taken to create this wealth of knowledge, process and task guidance as well as templates and examples.  If you’re wondering how many people, just go into OUM select the resources button on the top of most pages of the method, and on that resources page click the ABOUT link. So now back to my nostalgic moment as I finished release 5.6 packaging.  I reflected back, on all the things that happened that cause OUM to become not just a dream but to actually come to fruition.  Here are some key conditions that make it possible for each release of the method: A vision to have one method instead of many methods, thereby focusing on deeper, richer content People within Oracle’s consulting Organization  willing to contribute to OUM providing Subject Matter Experts who are willing to write down and share what they know. Oracle’s continued acquisition of software companies, the need to assimilate high quality existing materials from these companies The need to bring together people from very different backgrounds and provide a common language to support Oracle Product implementations that often involve multiple product families What came first, and then what was the strategy? Initially OUM 4.0 was based on Oracle’s J2EE Custom Development Method (JCDM), it was a good “backbone”  (work breakdown structure) it was Unified Process based, and had good content around UML as well as custom software development.  But it needed to be extended in order to achieve the OUM Vision. What happened after that was to take in the “best of the best”, the legacy and acquired methods were scheduled for assimilation into OUM, one release after another.  We incrementally built OUM.  We didn’t want to lose any of the expertise that was reflected in AIM (Oracle’s legacy Application Implementation Method), Compass (People Soft’s Application implementation method) and so many more. When was OUM born? OUM 4.1 published April 30, 2006.  This release allowed Oracles Advanced Technology groups to begin the very first implementations of Fusion Middleware.  In the early days of the Method we would prepare several releases a year.  Our iterative release development cycle began and continues to be refined with each Method release.  Now we typically see one major release each year. The OUM release development cycle is not unlike many Oracle Implementation projects in that we need to gather requirements, prioritize, prepare the content, test package and then go production.  Typically we develop an OUM release MoSCoW (must have, should have, could have, and won’t have) right after the prior release goes out.   These are the high level requirements.  We break the timeframe into increments, frequent checkpoints that help us assess the content and progress is measured through frequent checkpoints.  We work as a team to prioritize what should be done in each increment. Yes, the team provides the estimates for what can be done within a particular increment.  We sometimes have Method Development workshops (physically or virtually) to accelerate content development on a particular subject area, that is where the best content results. As the written content nears the final stages, it goes through edit and evaluation through peer reviews, and then moves into the release staging environment.  Then content freeze and testing of the method pack take place.  This iterative cycle is run using the OUM artifacts that make sense “fit for purpose”, project plans, MoSCoW lists, Test plans are just a few of the OUM work products we use on a Method Release project. In 2007 OUM 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5 were published.  With the release of 4.5 our Custom BI Method (Data Warehouse Method FastTrack) was assimilated into OUM.  These early releases helped us align Oracle’s Unified method with other industry standards Then in 2008 we made significant changes to the OUM “Backbone” to support Applications Implementation projects with that went to the OUM 5.0 release.  Now things started to get really interesting.  Next we had some major developments in the Envision focus area in the area of Enterprise Architecture.  We acquired some really great content from the former BEA, Liquid Enterprise Method (LEM) along with some SMEs who were willing to work at bringing this content into OUM.  The Service Oriented Architecture content in OUM is extensive and can help support the successful implementation of Fusion Middleware, as well as Fusion Applications. Of course we’ve developed a wealth of OUM training materials that work also helps to improve the method content.  It is one thing to write “how to”, and quite another to be able to teach people how to use the materials to improve the success of their projects.  I’ve learned so much by teaching people how to use OUM. What's next? So here toward the end of 2012, what’s in store in OUM 5.6, well, I’m sure you won’t be surprised the answer is Cloud Computing.   More details to come in the next couple of weeks!  The best part of being involved in the development of OUM is to see how many people have “adopted” OUM over these six years, Clients, Partners, and Oracle Consultants.  The content just gets better with each release.   I’d love to hear your comments on how OUM has evolved, and ideas for new content you’d like to see in the upcoming releases.

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