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• Exalytics and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Partner Workshop

  - by mseika

  Workshop Description Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is the #1 application infrastructure foundation. It enables enterprises to create and run agile and intelligent business applications and maximize IT efficiency by exploiting modern hardware and software architectures. Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine is the world’s first engineered system specifically designed to deliver high performance analysis, modeling and planning. Built using industry-standard hardware, market-leading business intelligence software and in-memory database technology, Oracle Exalytics is an optimized system that delivers unmatched speed, visualizations and scalability for Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management applications. This FREE hands-on, partner workshop highlights both the hardware and software components that are engineered to work together to deliver Oracle Exalytics - an optimized version of the industry-leading Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database with analytic extensions, a highly scalable Oracle server designed specifically for in-memory business intelligence, and Oracle’s proven Business Intelligence Foundation with enhanced visualization capabilities and performance optimizations. This workshop will provide hands-on experience with Oracle's latest engineered system. Topics covered will include TimesTen In-Memory Database and the new Summary Advisor for Exalytics, the technical details (including mobile features) of the latest release of visualization enhancements for OBI-EE, and technical updates on Essbase. After taking this course, you will be well prepared to architect, build, demo, and implement an end-to-end Exalytics solution. You will also be able to extend your current analytical and enterprise performance management application implementations with numerous Oracle technologies specifically enhanced to take advantage of the compute capacity and in-memory capabilities of Oracle Exalytics.If you are a BI or Data Warehouse Architect, developer or consultant, you don’t want to miss this 3-day workshop. Register Now! Presentations Exalytics Architectural Overview Upgrade and Lifecycle Management Times Ten for Exalytics Summary Advisor Utility Essbase and EPM System on Exalytics Dashboard and Analysis Interactions OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Features and Advanced Topics Lab OutlineThe labs showcase Oracle Exalytics core components and functionality and provide expertise of Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6 new features and updates from prior releases. The hands-on activities are based on an Oracle VirtualBox image with software and training samples pre-installed. Lab Environment Setup Creating and Working with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Running Summary Advisor Utility Working with Exalytics Visualization Features – Dashboard and Analysis Interactions Audience Oracle Partners BI and EPM Application Developers and Implementers System Integrators and Solution Consultants Data Warehouse Developers Enterprise Architects Prerequisites Experience and understanding of OBIEE 11g is required Previous attendance of Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite Workshop or BIEE 11gIntroduction Workshop is highly recommended Good understanding of data warehousing and data modeling for reporting and analysis purpose Strong experience with database technologies preferred Equipment RequirementsThis workshop requires attendees to provide their own laptops for this class.Attendee laptops must meet the following minimum hardware/software requirements: Hardware Minimum 8GB RAM 60 GB free space (includes staging) USB 2.0 port (at least one available) It is strongly recommended that you bring a mouse. You will be working in a development environment and using the mouse heavily. Software One of the following operating systems: 64-bit Windows host/laptop OS 64-bit host/laptop OS with a Windows VM (XP, Server, or Win 7, BIC2g, etc.) Internet Explorer 7.x/8.x or Firefox 3.5.x WINRAR or 7ziputility to unzip workshop files: Download-able from http://www.win-rar.com/download.html Download-able from http://www.7zip.com/ Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 or higher Downloadable from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads CPU virtualization mode needs to be enabled. We will provide guidance on the day of the workshop. Attendees will be given a VirtualBox image containing a pre-installed Oracle Exalytics environment. Schedule This workshop is 3 days. - Times vary by country!9:00am: Sign-in and technical setup 9:30am: Workshop starts 5:00pm: Workshop ends Oracle Exalytics and Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Workshop December 11-13, 2012: Oracle BVP, Birmingham, UK Register Here. Questions? Send email to: [email protected] Oracle Platform Technologies Enablement Services

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• Opportunities in Development in our Swedish office

  - by anca.rosu

  Hi everyone, my name is Henrik and I joined the JRockit group in 2004. Before that my background was Microsoft, as both a Test Competence lead and as a Program Manager. As an Engineering Manager at Oracle I lead a team of 11 developers. I focus on people management and the daily operations of the department with a heavy focus on interaction and dependencies between the groups and departments here at the Stockholm development site. I also make sure my team deliver on our commitments. I would like to give you a brief summary of the Oracle JRockit team: -The development group in Stockholm delivers several products for the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. Our main products are JRockitVE which allows you to run a Java Virtual Machine without an operating system, the JRockit Java Virtual Machine which is the default jvm for all Oracle middleware products, and the JRockit MissionControl, a set of tools that allows developers to monitor their applications at runtime and perform advanced latency analysis as well as in-production memory leak detection etc. -The office has several departments focusing on different aspects of the product development process, not only to build features and test them but everything from building the infrastructure needed to automatically build and test the products to sustaining engineering that tracks down bugs in customer systems and provide them with patches. Some inspirational lines around what the Oracle JRockit group can offer you in terms of progress, development and learning: - It is a unique chance to get insight and experience building enterprise class software for one of the worlds largest software companies. Here there are almost unlimited possibilities for the right candidate to learn about silicon features and how to implement support for this in software, and to compile optimizations. The position will also give insight into the processes needed to produce software at this level in the industry. If you have any questions related to this article feel free to contact  [email protected].  You can find our job opportunities via http://campus.oracle.com. Technorati Tags: Development,Sweden,Jrockit,Java,Virtual Machine,Oracle Fusion Middleware,software

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• Oracle OpenWorld Key Financials Sessions

  - by Theresa Hickman

  Oracle OpenWorld is just around the corner on Sept. 19-23, 2010 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. There will be about 70 financial sessions across all the financials product lines: e-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Fusion. I wanted to highlight some of the key financials sessions: Oracle E-Business Financials: Vision, Release Overview, and Product Roadmap: This session provides a comprehensive overview of Oracle's product strategy for Oracle Financials. This cornerstone session for Oracle Financials includes customer successes with Oracle Financials Release 12.1. Value of Upgrading to Release 12.1 for Oracle Financials: This session provides best practices and lessons learned from customers that have already upgraded to Release 12 and 12.1. PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions High-Value Roadmap into Release 9.2: This session reviews the roadmap candidate ideas for Release 9.2 and discusses PeopleSoft Financials integration with Oracle solutions, such as Hyperion, Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC), and business intelligence products. Oracle Fusion Financials Overview: Terrance Wampler, the VP of Financials Product Strategy, and Rondy Ng, Group VP of Financial Applications Development, will discuss the key product differentiators to help customers understand the value that Oracle Fusion Financials can bring to their organizations. Answers to the Top 10 Questions About Oracle Fusion Financials: This session talks about how Oracle Fusion Financials can coexist with customers' existing investments in e-Busines Suite, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards. It will also highlight the advantages of the Oracle Fusion technology stack, migration of existing applications to Oracle Fusion, and the role of codevelopment partners, such as Infosys. The panel will also accept questions from the attendees in order to address other questions customers may have about Oracle Fusion. In addition, the following sessions will discuss how customers who are currently using JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and e-Business Suite can coexist with Fusion Financials without major disruption of existing applications. Customers will learn how they can adopt portions of Oracle Fusion Financials to deliver value-add functionality while maintaining and extending their current deployment of Oracle applications. Understanding Oracle Fusion Financials for JD Edwards Customers Understanding Oracle Fusion Financials for PeopleSoft Customers Understanding Oracle Fusion Financials for Oracle E-Business Suite Customers For more information and to register for OpenWorld, see www.oracle.com/openworld.

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• Google local search rankings is it possible without the use of citations

  - by bybe

  I have a client that is wanting a website design for his self-run business... Basically he is a self employed plumber so his home address is not visitable by the public, however the problem here is that he does not want his home address visible on the internet at all for one reason or another. I have informed him the benefits of having his address visible for such reasons as trust by customers as well as the benefits via Google's local search algorithms (Citations - Visible Address Details) on various directories including Google Maps, and Google Places. But he is clear that he does not want his address online and wants SEO + Web Design without any citations. Now, I care about my reputation in my local area and do not like do half-cut jobs, If I do SEO I want them to be the best they can otherwise word of mouth that customer could say to someone else after my services they are no where to be seen, (I know you can't keep them all happy but none the less). This is kinda new for me since Google introduced local rankings and something I've never had to do... So my question is fairly simple and hope that people who reply have some kind of experience in attempting ranking websites locally without citations.. Is it even possible to rank a local website with Google's local algorithms without the use of citations (address information)?

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• JOB OF THE WEEK

  - by jessica.ebbelaar(at)oracle.com

  Help Desk Support Specialist - Budapest (Hungary) Do you have French and English languages skills, and are living in Hungary? Then this could be the role for you to start your career with at Oracle. We now have an opening as Help Desk Support Specialist in our office Budapest. In this role you will respond to requests for technical assistance by phone, email and/or using our help desk management system We are looking for candidates with a passion for Customer Service. Next to that planning & organizing, problem solving, time management are important competencies to have for this role. If you already had some exposure to Bio Pharmaceutical or Clinical companies that is a big plus. It is a great opportunity not only for graduates, but for all who want to start their career at Oracle and a unique chance to work in multinational team together with colleagues from all over the world! If you are interested in this position, read more here! For all of our other vacancies and internships, please visit https://campus.oracle.com.

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• Links for Getting Started with PowerShell for Office 365 and Exchange Online

  - by Brian Jackett

  This past week I worked with some customers who were getting started with using PowerShell against Exchange Online as part of their new Office 365 solution.  As you may know Exchange is not my primary focus area but since these customers’ needs centered around PowerShell I thought this would be a good opportunity to learn more.  What soon became apparent to me was a few things: The output / objects returned from Exchange Online vs. on-premises commandlets sometimes differ (mainly due to Exchange Online output needing to be serialized across the wire) Some of the community scripts posted on TechNet Script Center or PoSH Code Repository that work for on-premises won’t work against Exchange Online due to the above I went to multiple resources to get an introduction of using the Exchange Online commandlets      In light of the last item I would like to share some resources I gathered for getting started with the Exchange Online commandlets.  I will address the first two items in a follow up post that shows one sample script that I helped a customer fix.   Links Using PowerShell with Office365 http://blah.winsmarts.com/2011-4-Using_PowerShell_with_Office365.aspx   Administering Microsoft Office 365 using WIndows PowerShell http://blog.powershell.no/2011/05/09/administering-microsoft-office-365-using-windows-powershell/   Reference to Available PowerShell Cmdlets in Exchange Online http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/dd575549.aspx   Windows PowerShell cmdlets for Office 365 http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/hh125002.aspx   Role Based Access Control in Exchange Online http://help.outlook.com/en-us/140/dd207274.aspx   Exchange Online and RBAC http://blogs.technet.com/b/ilvancri/archive/2011/05/16/exchange-online-office365-and-rbac.aspx   Conclusion    Office 365 is being integrated into more and more customers’ environments.  While your PowerShell skills can still be used to manage certain portions of Office 365 (Exchange Online as of the time of this writing) there are a few differences in how data is passed back and forth.  Hopefully the links above will get you started on scripting against  cloud based services.         -Frog Out

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• Self hosted PHP shopping cart with no storefront?

  - by Question

  I am looking for a shopping cart to implement on a simple website instead of the default paypal cart that is used with their add to cart buttons (I don't like the non-styeable new tab/window cart). However, I really like the ability to simply add the buttons to existing pages. I do not have a lot of products and do not want to deal with a storefront and complex templates. The main features I need: Self-hosted Easy to implement with existing website (copy and paste button code, etc.) Ability to have variations on one button with different prices (dropdown with sizes, colors, etc.) Ability to track inventory and disallow out of stock orders Ability to pass cart details to PayPal Website Payments Standard I have seen most of the large storefront options: oscommerce, zencart, cubecart, opencart, prestashop, magento, cs-cart, lemonstand, etc. but these are way more than I need. I don't need the storefront or customer accounts or templated pages, etc. I have seen e-junkie, which is not far off from what I would like, but it is not self-hosted and I would prefer an in-site cart (or dynamic overlay cart) rather than a lightbox or new tab/window cart. I also love the paypal minicart and its implementation, but there is no way to track inventory. So, does anyone have any recommendations that might meet these requests?

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• OPN Exchange Keynote On-Demand

  - by kristin.jellison

  We hope everyone has had a chance to refresh and recharge after Oracle OpenWorld 2013. In case you didn’t have the opportunity to catch the full OPN Exchange keynote, we have it on demand for your viewing pleasure. A highlight reel is up on the OPN YouTube channel and on Oracle.com. You can also watch individual keynote segments, from Oracle Executives like Mark Hurd, John Fowler and Andy Bailey, highlighted below. So please, sit back, relax and enjoy the show! You know, in case your football team is on a bye this week. Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Executive Address John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together Joel Borellis, Group Vice President, Partner Enablement Technology, Middleware and Business Intelligence Chris Baker, Senior Vice President, Worldwide ISV,OEM and Java Sales Engineered Systems and Hardware Andy Bailey, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances Cloud, Fusion Applications and Customer Experience Thomas LaRocca, Senior Vice President, North America Sales Alliances and Channels Terri Hall, Group Vice President, North America Sales Alliances and Channels Oracle Partner Excellence Awards: North America Hugo Freytes, Senior Vice President, Latin America Alliances and Channels Oracle Partner Excellence Awards: Latin America Mark Lewis, Senior Vice President, APAC Alliances and Channels Hiroshi Watanabe, Senior Vice President, Japan Alliances and Channels Oracle Partner Excellence Awards: APAC and Japan David Callaghan, Senior Vice President, EMEA Alliances and Channels Oracle Partner Excellence Awards: EMEA Cheers! The OPN Communications Team

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• ArchBeat Link-o-Rama Top 20 for March 18-24, 2012

  - by Bob Rhubart

  The top-twenty most-clicked links as shared via my social networks for the week of March 18-24, 2012. Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance Simulator | Steen Schmidt Oracle Linux Online Forum - 4 sessions, 9 speakers + live chat March 27 OWSM vs. OEG - When to use which component - 11g | Prakash Yamuna Northeast Ohio Oracle Users Group 2 Day Seminar - May 14-15 - Cleveland, OH SOA! SOA! SOA!; OSB 11g Recipes and Author Interviews Webcast: Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile - March 27 - 10am PT / 1pm ET Oracle Hardware Systems: The Extreme Performance Tour - Dates and Locations Worldwide Oracle Cloud Conference: dates and locations worldwide Mismatch: Developer skills and customer demands | Floyd Teter OTN Virtual Developer Day - Java (APAC - in English) - March 27 Webcast Q&A: Demystifying External Authorization 2 New Cloud Computing resources added to free IT Strategies from Oracle library Encapsulating OIM API’s in a Web Service for OIM Custom SOA Composites | Alex Lopez Webcast: Simplify Oracle RAC Deployment with Oracle VM SOA gets mobilized; mobile gets SOA-ized: survey | Joe McKendrick Integrating with Oracle Fusion Applications: Discovering Integration Artifacts | Rajesh Raheja Oracle Access Manager 11g - useful links | Dmitry Nefedkin Anil Gaur on Cloud Computing Support in Java EE 7 Enterprise app shops announcements are everywhere | Andy Mulholland The extraordinary software development manager | Seth Godin Thought for the Day "Every large system that works started as a small system that worked. " — Anonymous

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• Standards for how developers work on their own workstations

  - by Jon Hopkins

  We've just come across one of those situations which occasionally comes up when a developer goes off sick for a few days mid-project. There were a few questions about whether he'd committed the latest version of his code or whether there was something more recent on his local machine we should be looking at, and we had a delivery to a customer pending so we couldn't wait for him to return. One of the other developers logged on as him to see and found a mess of workspaces, many seemingly of the same projects, with timestamps that made it unclear which one was "current" (he was prototyping some bits on versions of the project other than his "core" one). Obviously this is a pain in the neck, however the alternative (which would seem to be strict standards for how each developer works on their own machine to ensure that any other developer can pick things up with a minimum of effort) is likely to break many developers personal work flows and lead to inefficiency on an individual level. I'm not talking about standards for checked-in code, or even general development standards, I'm talking about how a developer works locally, a domain generally considered (in my experience) to be almost entirely under the developers own control. So how do you handle situations like this? Are the one of those things that just happens and you have to deal with, the price you pay for developers being allowed to work in the way that best suits them? Or do you ask developers to adhere to standards in this area - use of specific directories, naming standards, notes on a wiki or whatever? And if so what do your standards cover, how strict are they, how do you police them and so on? Or is there another solution I'm missing? [Assume for the sake of argument that the developer can not be contacted to talk through what he was doing here - even if he could knowing and describing which workspace is which from memory isn't going to be simple and flawless and sometimes people genuinely can't be contacted and I'd like a solution which covers all eventualities.]

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• How to decide on a price for the project as a freelancer

  - by Shekhar_Pro

  I have seen similar question on this SE site but none comes close to a sure shot answer and many are rather subjective. So i am taking a website as an example to be more objective for you to decide its development price i should quote for the complete work.I would like to have specific figures. In past I have developed many projects for my classmates (Computer science and few .net) when i was in college and there i just arbitrarily quoted the price i will take depending on my mood and customer's ability to pay.. usually ranging from Rs.500 (about $10 USD) to Rs. 1500 (about $30 USD). I have also developed few websites but that was open-source and free. But this time impressed by my work i have got a client that wants to get a website developed similar to this: [ http://www.jeetle.in/ ]. So taking this website as an example tell me how much should i charge for complete work from designing to payment gateway implementation (Excluding the charge the payment gateway provider will take). Few information you might like to consider. I am the only developer on this project if that makes any difference. And i would be using ASP.Net and MSSQL Express for server side processing and jQuery on client. Time period for development offered is about 4 to 6 Weeks. Its like i know my work but not how much I'm worth

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• Give Us Your Thoughts About Oracle Designs

  - by Tom Caldecott-Oracle

  Participate in the Onsite Usability Lab at Oracle OpenWorld 2014 Want to impress your colleagues? Your manager? Your mom? Imagine being able to say to them, “So, did I ever tell you about the time I helped Oracle design some of their hot applications?” Yes, that opportunity is coming up—at Oracle OpenWorld.  The Oracle Applications User Experience team will host an onsite usability lab at the 2014 conference. You can participate and give us your thoughts about proposed designs for Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud and Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Fusion Applications for procurement and supply chain, Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft applications, social relationship management, BI applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and more.  Your feedback will directly affect the usability of Oracle applications to make them intuitive, easy to use. You’ll make a difference. And that should score you points with peers, friends, and family. Of course, for your mom, first you’ll probably have to explain to her again what you do for a living. If you’re interested in participating, you must sign up in advance. Space is limited. Participation requires your company or organization to have a Customer Participation Confidentiality Agreement (CPCA) on file. Don’t have one? Let us know, and we’ll start the process. Sign up now for the onsite usability lab. When?  Monday, September 29 - Wednesday, October 1, 2014  Where?  InterContinental San Francisco Want to know about other Oracle Applications User Experience activities at Oracle OpenWorld? Visit UsableApps.

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• September OTN Member Offers

  - by Cassandra Clark - OTN

  Oracle OpenWolrd and JavaOne are coming....so the OTN team is knee deep in planning the OTN Lounges that will be at each event this year (more info in another post soon), but we managed to work with our partners to offer a nice BIG list of NEW offers for September.  Visit Oracle Technology Network Member Discount page for codes and links to these great offers! Oracle Press Oracle Technology Network members get 40% off the newest Oracle Press title, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Handbook by Tom Plunkett! Mike Murach & Associates, Inc. Get 30% off and sample chapter of Murach’s SQL Server 2012 for Developers by Bryan Syverson and Joel Murach Manning - 41% off titles below and sample chapter of each. Making Java Groovy OCA Java SE 7 Programmer I Certification Guide Apress - Get 30% off on apress.com on Java 7 Recipes A Problem-Solution Approach Safari Books Online - OTN members get 30 days of free access + 20% off unlimited access to Safari Books Online for 6 months. Safari Books Online offers subscription access to more than 24,000 books and training videos about technology, digital media, business management and professional development from leading publishers such as Oracle Press, O'Reilly Media, Que, Addison-Wesley, Wrox, Cisco Press, Microsoft Press, McGraw Hill, Wiley, Apress, Adobe Press and many others. Already a customer? Come see us at Oracle OpenWorld (booth 537) or JavaOne (5110) and mention this to get a shirt!

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• Message Driven Bean JMS integration

  - by Anthony Shorten

  In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.1 and above the product introduced the concept of real time JMS integration within the Framework for interfacing. Customer familiar with older versions of the Framework will recall that we used a component called the Multi-purpose Listener (MPL) which was a very light service bus for calling interface channels (including JMS). The MPL is not supplied with all products and customers prefer to use Oracle SOA Suite and native methods rather then MPL. In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.1 (and for Oracle Utilities Application Framework V2.2 via Patches 9454971, 9256359, 9672027 and 9838219) we introduced real time JMS integration natively for outbound JMS integration and using Message Driven Beans (MDB) for incoming integration. The outbound integration has not changed a lot between releases where you create an Outbound Message Type to indicate the record types to send out, create a JMS sender (though now you use the Real Time Sender) and then create an External System definition to complete the configuration. When an outbound message appears in the table of the type and external system configured (via a business event such as an algorithm or plug-in script) the Oracle Utilities Application Framework will place the message on the configured Queue linked to the JMS Sender. The inbound integration has changed. In the past you created XAI Receivers and specified configuration about what types of transactions to process. This is now all configuration file driven. The configuration files for the Business Application Server (ejb-jar.xml and weblogic-ejb-jar.xml) define Message Driven Beans and the queues to monitor. When a message appears on the queue, the MDB processes it through our web services interface. Configuration of the MDB can be native (via editing the configuration files) or through the new user exit capabilities (which is aimed at maintaining custom configuration across upgrades). The latter is better as you build fragments of configuration to make it easier to maintain. In the next few weeks a number of new whitepaper will be released to illustrate the features of the Oracle WebLogic JMS and Oracle SOA Suite integration capabilities.

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• Introducing Identity Management 11g R2: Join the webcast on July 19th, 2012 at 6:00 PM GMT

  - by Cinzia Mascanzoni

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• What's the best project management software for internal dev. 5 man shop

  - by P.Brian.Mackey

  I work for a large corporation, but we do small intranet web application development. Our project management tracking sucks. Its custom software built by a jr. intern. For what its worth, our development style is akin to agile, but there's nothing set in stone...very customer oriented approach. I need project tracking that meets the criteria: Intranet, internal products. Mostly maintenance, some new development. 5 developers 12 products 1 hands-off manager. He really just wants to know estimated man hours, due date for dev, QA and release. Along with a short description of the project. Free or super cheap. Bonus Simple pretty UI. Think pretty charts. Hope I covered everything. Please ask for any clarification. If you read dreaming in code, the company uses some project tracking software that sounds pretty sweet. Note, we do have Team Foundation Server. I already tried pushing its use as PM tracking, but its too complicated. I can't get people to sit and train. So this software has to be easy.

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• SOA Community Newsletter October 2012

  - by JuergenKress

  Dear SOA partner community member In this edition of the Newsletter you will find many key updates and information from Oracle OpenWorld and the SOA, Cloud and Service Technology Forum with many product updates and highlights. Make sure you download the presentation from our SOA Community Workspace (SOA Community membership required) to train yourself and for your next customer meeting. Thanks for all the tweets tweets #soacommunity, the pictures at our facebook page and the nice blog posts from Guido & Lucas. Many new books have been published: Industrialized SOA - topic of Business Technology Magazine & Oracle Service Bus (OSB) in 21 days: A hands on guide by ESB & Experience the eBook - “Oracle SOA Suite - In the Customers’ Words” & Administer, manage, monitor, and fine tune the performance of your Oracle SOA Suite 11g. Please feel free to let us know if you have published a book or article! We would like to publish it as well. This month in our Specialization benefit series we highlighted the opportunity to promote your SOA & BPM services by google ads. On the BPM side we uploaded many new documents like: BPM Center of Excellence, First 100 Days and BPM preview of Oracle BPM PS6.ppt and (Oracle partner confidential) to our community workspace. The Oracle BPM partner solution Catalog is live now, Make sure you add your process templates! Two new SOA demos 11.1.1.6 became available at the hosted demo environment, if you like to use them please visit OPN and talk to your partner Expert Hope to see you at the Middleware Day at UK Oracle User Group Conference 2012 in Birmingham. Jürgen Kress Oracle SOA & BPM Partner Adoption EMEA To read the newsletter please visit http://tinyurl.com/soanewsOctober2012 (OPN Account required) To become a member of the SOA Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Technorati Tags: SOA Community newsletter,SOA Community,Oracle SOA,Oracle BPM,BPM Community,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• PeopleSoft RECONNECT Conference Unites the PeopleSoft Community

  - by Marc Weintraub

  The PeopleSoft team is looking forward to participating in this new PeopleSoft deep dive conference from the Quest International Users Group.  We’ve worked diligently with the leadership of Quest’s PeopleSoft Special Interest Groups (SIG’s) and Regional User Groups (RUG’s) to make sure this national user event delivers PeopleSoft content that meets the needs of the PeopleSoft community. The inaugural PeopleSoft RECONNECT conference will be held August 27-29, 2012 in Hartford Connecticut.  Through our Product Strategy, Development and Support teams Oracle will provide support for education sessions in these key tracks: Human Capital Management (HCM) Financials (FMS) Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Supply Chain, Manufacturing & Distribution (SCM) Project Costing Applications Technology (PeopleTools) Oracle will host a general session from John Webb, plus roadmap sessions for the major PeopleSoft product areas.  We will also host enhancement discussions for our key PeopleSoft solutions allowing participants to contribute to the future of PeopleSoft through an interactive forum.  All of this is part of the 100+ education sessions being offered by the customer and vendor community.   There’s a lot of buzz around this conference, so don’t delay in registering key members of your team today.  We look forward to seeing you there so register NOW!

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• BI&EPM in Focus - November 2011

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

  Enterprise Performance Management A Thing of Beauty, by Alison WeissAvon’s enterprise performance management system delivers accurate information and critical insight to managers at every level of the organization Oracle Crystal Ball Helps Managers Guard Against Volatility, by Alison Weiss The Insight Game, by Aaron LazenbyEnterprise performance management can deliver insights crucial to navigating the volatility of the global economy—and that’s no game of checkers. KPI vs. the Bottom Line, by Edward RoskeFor managers, is tracking the key metrics for their departments enough to ensure success for the entire business? The CEO for Oracle partner interRel shares his opinion. Deep Integration, by Aaron LazenbyThe synthesis of Oracle Hyperion applications and core Oracle technologies can deliver deep benefits to analytics-driven businesses. Oracle Crystal Ball. Oracle's #1 Solution for Risk Management Follow EPM Documentation at Hyperion EPM Info for news about EPM documentation releases and updates (twitter | facebook | Linkedin) Whitepaper: Integrating XBRL Into Your Financial Reporting Process Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management Customer Story: StealthGas Inc. Saves 12 Accountant Days Yearly, Validates XBRL-Compliant Financial Filing Data in One Day Sherwin-Williams Argentina I.C.S.A. Accelerates Budget Preparation Process by 75% BBDO Germany GmbH Consolidates Financial and Planning Processes for More Than 50 Agencies StealthGas Inc. Saves 12 Accountant Days Yearly, Validates XBRL-Compliant Financial Filing Data in One Day Business Intelligence Webcast Replay: Oracle Data Mining & BI EE - Predictive Analytics (Part 2) Innovation Award Winners - BI/EPM: HealthSouth, State of MD, Clorox Company, Telenor and Dunkin Brands Leeds Teaching Hospitals National Health Service Trust Builds Budget Reports Six Times Faster, Achieves 100% ROI in 12 Months with Oracle Business Intelligence Home Credit Group Consolidates Reporting and Saves Time across All Business Units w/ Oracle Essbase & OBIEE Autoglass Improves Business Visibility and Services to Customers and Partners with Oracle Business Intelligence Events Download Oracle OpenWorld Oct 2011 Presentations select Middleware - BI or Applications - Hyperion Oracle Business Analytics Summits:learn about the latest trends, best practices, and innovations in business intelligence, analytics applications, and data warehousing Webcast Nov 15 9am PST: Running the Last Mile, Beyond Financial Consolidations - Streamlining the Close and Addressing the SEC's XBRL Mandate Webcast Dec 13 1pm PST: Defining Your Mobile BI Strategy (BICG) New Training Available: Oracle BI Publisher 11g R1: Fundamentals Webcast Replay: How to Expand the Usage of Analytics in your Organization while Driving Down IT Spend Webcast Replay: Real-Time Decisions (RTD) Updated Use Cases for Ecommerce Personalization in Financial Services & Retail

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• What does your Lisp workflow look like?

  - by Duncan Bayne

  I'm learning Lisp at the moment, coming from a language progression that is Locomotive BASIC - Z80 Assembler - Pascal - C - Perl - C# - Ruby. My approach is to simultaneously: write a simple web-scraper using SBCL, QuickLisp, closure-html, and drakma watch the SICP lectures I think this is working well; I'm developing good 'Lisp goggles', in that I can now read Lisp reasonably easily. I'm also getting a feel for how the Lisp ecosystem works, e.g. Quicklisp for dependencies. What I'm really missing, though, is a sense of how a seasoned Lisper actually works. When I'm coding for .NET, I have Visual Studio set up with ReSharper and VisualSVN. I write tests, I implement, I refactor, I commit. Then when I'm done enough of that to complete a story, I write some AUATs. Then I kick off a Release build on TeamCity to push the new functionality out to the customer for testing & hopefully approval. If it's an app that needs an installer, I use either WiX or InnoSetup, obviously building the installer through the CI system. So, my question is: as an experienced Lisper, what does your workflow look like? Do you work mostly in the REPL, or in the editor? How do you do unit tests? Continuous integration? Packaging & deployment? When you sit down at your desk, steaming mug of coffee to one side and a framed photo of John McCarthy to the other, what is it that you do? Currently, I feel like I am getting to grips with Lisp coding, but not Lisp development ...

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• Leveraging ERP Investments with EPM and BI Solutions

  - by john.orourke(at)oracle.com

  Now that many organizations have implemented ERP systems to automate and integrate their operational processes, IT investments are beginning to shift to the management systems i.e. EPM and BI tools and applications that integrate data from multiple transactional systems.  These solutions automate and integrate the management processes and enable organizations to achieve "management excellence" becoming smarter, more agile and more aligned than their competitors.  In fact the results of a recent IDC survey indicate that "Organizations that have implemented performance management more broadly are nearly four times more likely to be among the most competitive organizations in their industry."  One example of an organization that is leveraging their ERP investments with Oracle EPM and BI solutions is General Dynamics.  The Business Intelligence Collaborative (BIC) group within General Dynamics' IT organization assists various business units with the implementation, application support, and application hosting for their Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management Applications.  Attend the Oracle Virtual Trade Show "Spotlight on Customer Success" on February 3rd to hear the details of how General Dynamics is using Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Planning, and Oracle BI to improve their planning, reporting and analysis processes and leverage their investments in Oracle E-Business Suite and other operational systems.   During the event, you can also hear about the latest developments and plans for Oracle Applications products, as well as what's coming with Oracle Fusion Applications. Here's a link to the Virtual Trade Show event overview and registration page.  The event runs from 8AM - 1PM PST/11AM - 4PM EST, and the EPM session is 10:30 - 11AM PST/1:30 - 2PM EST.    http://event.on24.com/event/26/79/15/rt/opFb.html?partnerref=internal I hope you'll join us on February 3rd!  

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• Gemalto Mobile Payment Platform on Oracle T4

  - by user938730

  Gemalto is the world leader in digital security, at the heart of our rapidly evolving digital society. Billions of people worldwide increasingly want the freedom to communicate, travel, shop, bank, entertain and work – anytime, everywhere – in ways that are convenient, enjoyable and secure. Gemalto delivers on their expanding needs for personal mobile services, payment security, identity protection, authenticated online services, cloud computing access, eHealthcare and eGovernment services, modern transportation solutions, and M2M communication. Gemalto’s solutions for Mobile Financial Services are deployed at over 70 customers worldwide, transforming the way people shop, pay and manage personal finance. In developing markets, Gemalto Mobile Money solutions are helping to remove the barriers to financial access for the unbanked and under-served, by turning any mobile device into a payment and banking instrument. In recent benchmarks by our Oracle ISVe Labs, the Gemalto Mobile Payment Platform demonstrated outstanding performance and scalability using the new T4-based Oracle Sun machines running Solaris 11. Using a clustered environment on a mid-range 2x2.85GHz T4-2 Server (16 cores total, 128GB memory) for the application tier, and an additional dedicated Intel-based (2x3.2GHz Intel-Xeon X4200) Oracle database server, the platform processed more than 1,000 transactions per second, limited only by database capacity --higher performance was easily achievable with a stronger database server. Near linear scalability was observed by increasing the number of application software components in the cluster. These results show an increase of nearly 300% in processing power and capacity on the new T4-based servers relative to the previous generation of Oracle Sun CMT servers, and for a comparable price. In the fast-evolving Mobile Payment market, it is crucial that the underlying technology seamlessly supports Service Providers as the customer-base ramps up, use cases evolve and new services are launched. These benchmark results demonstrate that the Gemalto Mobile Payment Platform is designed to meet the needs of any deployment scale, whether targeting 5 or 100 million subscribers. Oracle Solaris 11 DTrace technology helped to pinpoint performance issues and tune the system accordingly to achieve optimal computation resources utilization.

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• Additional new content SOA Partner Community

  - by JuergenKress

  Oracle Reference Architecture: Application Infrastructure Foundation One of the earliest additions to the IT Strategies from Oracle library, this paper describes the concepts and capabilities of the application infrastructure and defines the platform on which solutions are built. Read it. Scaling Service Oriented Architecture What is scaling, and what does it mean to a service oriented architecture? Author Philip Wik explores those issues and proposes Oracle-based solutions to SOA scaling and a SOA scaling roadmap. Read it. SOA, Cloud, and Service Technologies: A Conversation with Thomas Erl Thomas Erl, the world's best selling SOA author, is joined by Oracle SOA experts Tim Hall and Demed L'Her for a wide ranging four-part conversation on the evolution of SOA and the emergence of the architect in the era of cloud computing. Listen to the Podcast & Read a Transcript Cloud e-book Invite your customers to download this Cloud e-book, packed with multi-media resources to educate your customers on the value of Oracle Cloud computing. Assessment: Are you Leading or Lagging when it comes to SOA and BPM? Take the online SOA Assessment and BPM Assessment. New Collateral: Whitepaper Series: The Promise of BPM Technology for Financial Services Institutions - Resource Kit Whitepaper: Reaching Process Excellence with Process Accelerators - PDF Demystifying Cloud Integration: Whitepapers, webcasts, and customer case studies - Resource Kit Whitepaper: Leveraging Governance to sustain Enterprise Architecture - PDF Article: Rethink SOA: A Recipe for Business Transformation - Article Oracle SOA Resource Kit Oracle SOA Governance Resource Kit Oracle BPM Resource Kit SOA & BPM Partner Community For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit  www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Technorati Tags: SOA Community,Oracle SOA,Oracle BPM,Community,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience White Papers by Anna M. Wichansky

  - by JuergenKress

  The Applications User Experience group has created a series of white papers to better communicate the world-class user experience features of the Oracle Fusion Applications, and to describe the process we used to design them. These papers not only explain why the Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience is designed the way it is, but also the data collection, modeling, and testing efforts of our unique, user-focused design process, which contributed to its refinement. The documents we are sharing with product announcement are: Applications User Experience Research and Design Process White Paper New Oracle Fusion Applications: An End-User Experience Designed for Productivity Why Oracle Expects Productivity Gains with Fusion Applications Closing the Deal: the Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management User Experience Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management: Designed for a Productive Workforce Get It Done Fast, Get It Done Right: The Oracle Fusion Financials User Experience Oracle Fusion Applications User Experience Design Patterns: Productivity Realized Oracle Fusion Procurement: Changing the Way You Buy and Sell Putting the User into Oracle Fusion Applications User Assistance Read the full article here. WebLogic Partner Community For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center. BlogTwitterLinkedInMixForumWiki Technorati Tags: User Experience,Design patterns,WebLogic Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress

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• How Mature is Your Database Change Management Process?

  - by Ben Rees

  .dbd-banner p{ font-size:0.75em; padding:0 0 10px; margin:0 } .dbd-banner p span{ color:#675C6D; } .dbd-banner p:last-child{ padding:0; } @media ALL and (max-width:640px){ .dbd-banner{ background:#f0f0f0; padding:5px; color:#333; margin-top: 5px; } } -- Database Delivery Patterns & Practices Further Reading Organization and team processes How do you get your database schema changes live, on to your production system? As your team of developers and DBAs are working on the changes to the database to support your business-critical applications, how do these updates wend their way through from dev environments, possibly to QA, hopefully through pre-production and eventually to production in a controlled, reliable and repeatable way? In this article, I describe a model we use to try and understand the different stages that customers go through as their database change management processes mature, from the very basic and manual, through to advanced continuous delivery practices. I also provide a simple chart that will help you determine “How mature is our database change management process?” This process of managing changes to the database – which all of us who have worked in application/database development have had to deal with in one form or another – is sometimes known as Database Change Management (even if we’ve never used the term ourselves). And it’s a difficult process, often painfully so. Some developers take the approach of “I’ve no idea how my changes get live – I just write the stored procedures and add columns to the tables. It’s someone else’s problem to get this stuff live. I think we’ve got a DBA somewhere who deals with it – I don’t know, I’ve never met him/her”. I know I used to work that way. I worked that way because I assumed that making the updates to production was a trivial task – how hard can it be? Pause the application for half an hour in the middle of the night, copy over the changes to the app and the database, and switch it back on again? Voila! But somehow it never seemed that easy. And it certainly was never that easy for database changes. Why? Because you can’t just overwrite the old database with the new version. Databases have a state – more specifically 4Tb of critical data built up over the last 12 years of running your business, and if your quick hotfix happened to accidentally delete that 4Tb of data, then you’re “Looking for a new role” pretty quickly after the failed release. There are a lot of other reasons why a managed database change management process is important for organisations, besides job security, not least: Frequency of releases. Many business managers are feeling the pressure to get functionality out to their users sooner, quicker and more reliably. The new book (which I highly recommend) Lean Enterprise by Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly and Joanne Molesky provides a great discussion on how many enterprises are having to move towards a leaner, more frequent release cycle to maintain their competitive advantage. It’s no longer acceptable to release once per year, leaving your customers waiting all year for changes they desperately need (and expect) Auditing and compliance. SOX, HIPAA and other compliance frameworks have demanded that companies implement proper processes for managing changes to their databases, whether managing schema changes, making sure that the data itself is being looked after correctly or other mechanisms that provide an audit trail of changes. We’ve found, at Red Gate that we have a very wide range of customers using every possible form of database change management imaginable. Everything from “Nothing – I just fix the schema on production from my laptop when things go wrong, and write it down in my notebook” to “A full Continuous Delivery process – any change made by a dev gets checked in and recorded, fully tested (including performance tests) before a (tested) release is made available to our Release Management system, ready for live deployment!”. And everything in between of course. Because of the vast number of customers using so many different approaches we found ourselves struggling to keep on top of what everyone was doing – struggling to identify patterns in customers’ behavior. This is useful for us, because we want to try and fit the products we have to different needs – different products are relevant to different customers and we waste everyone’s time (most notably, our customers’) if we’re suggesting products that aren’t appropriate for them. If someone visited a sports store, looking to embark on a new fitness program, and the store assistant suggested the latest $10,000 multi-gym, complete with multiple weights mechanisms, dumb-bells, pull-up bars and so on, then he’s likely to lose that customer. All he needed was a pair of running shoes! To solve this issue – in an attempt to simplify how we understand our customers and our offerings – we built a model. This is a an attempt at trying to classify our customers in to some sort of model or “Customer Maturity Framework” as we rather grandly term it, which somehow simplifies our understanding of what our customers are doing. The great statistician, George Box (amongst other things, the “Box” in the Box-Jenkins time series model) gave us the famous quote: “Essentially all models are wrong, but some are useful” We’ve taken this quote to heart – we know it’s a gross over-simplification of the real world of how users work with complex legacy and new database developments. Almost nobody precisely fits in to one of our categories. But we hope it’s useful and interesting. There are actually a number of similar models that exist for more general application delivery. We’ve found these from ThoughtWorks/Forrester, from InfoQ and others, and initially we tried just taking these models and replacing the word “application” for “database”. However, we hit a problem. From talking to our customers we know that users are far less further down the road of mature database change management than they are for application development. As a simple example, no application developer, who wants to keep his/her job would develop an application for an organisation without source controlling that code. Sure, he/she might not be using an advanced Gitflow branching methodology but they’ll certainly be making sure their code gets managed in a repo somewhere with all the benefits of history, auditing and so on. But this certainly isn’t the case (yet) for the database – a very large segment of the people we speak to have no source control set up for their databases whatsoever, even at the most basic level (for example, keeping change scripts in a source control system somewhere). By the way, if this is you, Red Gate has a great whitepaper here, on the barriers people face getting a source control process implemented at their organisations. This difference in maturity is the same as you move in to areas such as continuous integration (common amongst app developers, relatively rare for database developers) and automated release management (growing amongst app developers, very rare for the database). So, when we created the model we started from scratch and biased the levels of maturity towards what we actually see amongst our customers. But, what are these stages? And what level are you? The table below describes our definitions for four levels of maturity – Baseline, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. As I say, this is a model – you won’t fit any of these categories perfectly, but hopefully one will ring true more than others. We’ve also created a PDF with a flow chart to help you find which of these groups most closely matches your team:  Download the Database Delivery Maturity Framework PDF here   Level D1 – Baseline Work directly on live databases Sometimes work directly in production Generate manual scripts for releases. Sometimes use a product like SQL Compare or similar to do this Any tests that we might have are run manually Level D2 – Beginner Have some ad-hoc DB version control such as manually adding upgrade scripts to a version control system Attempt is made to keep production in sync with development environments There is some documentation and planning of manual deployments Some basic automated DB testing in process Level D3 – Intermediate The database is fully version-controlled with a product like Red Gate SQL Source Control or SSDT Database environments are managed Production environment schema is reproducible from the source control system There are some automated tests Have looked at using migration scripts for difficult database refactoring cases Level D4 – Advanced Using continuous integration for database changes Build, testing and deployment of DB changes carried out through a proper database release process Fully automated tests Production system is monitored for fast feedback to developers   Does this model reflect your team at all? Where are you on this journey? We’d be very interested in knowing how you get on. We’re doing a lot of work at the moment, at Red Gate, trying to help people progress through these stages. For example, if you’re currently not source controlling your database, then this is a natural next step. If you are already source controlling your database, what about the next stage – continuous integration and automated release management? To help understand these issues, there’s a summary of the Red Gate Database Delivery learning program on our site, alongside a Patterns and Practices library here on Simple-Talk and a Training Academy section on our documentation site to help you get up and running with the tools you need to progress. All feedback is welcome and it would be great to hear where you find yourself on this journey! This article is part of our database delivery patterns & practices series on Simple Talk. Find more articles for version control, automated testing, continuous integration & deployment.

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