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• Video Presentation and Demo of Oracle Advanced Analytics & Data Mining

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

  For a video presentation and demonstration of Oracle Advanced Analytics & Data Mining  click here. (This plays a large MP4 file in a browser: access is from Google.docs, and this works best with Google CHROME). This one hour session focuses primarily on the Oracle Data Mining component of the Oracle Advanced Analytics Option along with Oracle R Enterprise and is tied to the Oracle SQL Developer Days virtual and onsite events and is presented by Oracle’s Director for Advanced Analytics, Charlie Berger, covering: Big Data + Big Data Analytics Competing on analytics & value proposition What is data mining? Typical use cases Oracle Data Mining high performance in-database SQL based data mining functions Exadata "smart scan" scoring Oracle Data Miner GUI (an Extension that ships with SQL Developer) Oracle Business Intelligence EE + Oracle Data Mining results/predictions in dashboards Applications "powered by Oracle Data Mining" for factory installed predictive analytics methodologies Oracle R Enterprise Please contact [email protected] should you have any questions. 

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• Oracle Spatial renamed Oracle Spatial and Graph

  - by Cinzia Mascanzoni

  As of the July 19th, 2012 Global Price List, we have renamed "Oracle Spatial" to "Oracle Spatial and Graph". We have made this change to highlight the existing network and semantic graph capabilities in Oracle Spatial and in recognition of the increasing market demand for graph database capabilities. Oracle Spatial and Graph has the same pricing and features as the current Oracle Spatial. This is a product name change only.

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• Mobile Apps for Oracle E-Business Suite

  - by Steven Chan (Oracle Development)

  Many things have changed in the mobile space over the last few years. Here's an update on our strategy for mobile apps for the E-Business Suite. Mobile app strategy We're building our family of mobile apps for the E-Business Suite using Oracle Mobile Application Framework.  This framework allows us to write a single application that can be run on Apple iOS and Google Android platforms. Mobile apps for the E-Business Suite will share a common look-and-feel. The E-Business Suite is a suite of over 200 product modules spanning Financials, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and many other areas. Our mobile app strategy is to release standalone apps for specific product modules.  Our Oracle Timecards app, which allows users to create and submit timecards, is an example of a standalone app. Some common functions that span multiple product areas will have dedicated apps, too. An example of this is our Oracle Approvals app, which allows users to review and approve requests for expenses, requisitions, purchase orders, recruitment vacancies and offers, and more. You can read more about our Oracle Mobile Approvals app here: Now Available: Oracle Mobile Approvals for iOS Our goal is to support smaller screen (e.g. smartphones) as well as larger screens (e.g. tablets), with the smaller screen versions generally delivered first.  Where possible, we will deliver these as universal apps.  An example is our Oracle Mobile Field Service app, which allows field service technicians to remotely access customer, product, service request, and task-related information.  This app can run on a smartphone, while providing a richer experience for tablets. Deploying EBS mobile apps The mobile apps, themselves (i.e. client-side components) can be downloaded by end-users from the Apple iTunes today.  Android versions will be available from Google play. You can monitor this blog for Android-related updates. Where possible, our mobile apps should be deployable with a minimum of server-side changes.  These changes will generally involve a consolidated server-side patch for technology-stack components, and possibly a server-side patch for the functional product module. Updates to existing mobile apps may require new server-side components to enable all of the latest mobile functionality. All EBS product modules are certified for internal intranet deployments (i.e. used by employees within an organization's firewall).  Only a subset of EBS products such as iRecruitment are certified to be deployed externally (i.e. used by non-employees outside of an organization's firewall).  Today, many organizations running the E-Business Suite do not expose their EBS environment externally and all of the mobile apps that we're building are intended for internal employee use.  Recognizing this, our mobile apps are currently designed for users who are connected to the organization's intranet via VPN.  We expect that this may change in future updates to our mobile apps. Mobile apps and internationalization The initial releases of our mobile apps will be in English.  Later updates will include translations for all left-to-right languages supported by the E-Business Suite.  Right-to-left languages will not be translated. Customizing apps for enterprise deployments The current generation of mobile apps for Oracle E-Business Suite cannot be customized. We are evaluating options for limited customizations, including corporate branding with logos, corporate color schemes, and others. This is a potentially-complex area with many tricky implications for deployment and maintenance.  We would be interested in hearing your requirements for customizations in enterprise deployments.Prerequisites Apple iOS 7 and higher Android 4.1 (API level 16) and higher, with minimum CPU/memory configurations listed here EBS 12.1: EBS 12.1.3 Family Packs for the related product module EBS 12.2.3 References Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Apps, Release 12.1 and 12.2 Documentation (Note 1641772.1) Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile Apps Administrator's Guide, Release 12.1 and 12.2 (Note 1642431.1) Related Articles Using Mobile Devices with Oracle E-Business Suite Apple iPads Certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 Now Available: Oracle Mobile Approvals for iOS The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction.  It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract.   It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decision.  The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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• New Oracles VM RAC template with support for oracle vm 3 built-in

  - by wcoekaer

  The RAC team did it again (thanks Saar!) - another awesome set of Oracle VM templates published and uploaded to My Oracle Support. You can find the main page here. What's special about the latest version of DeployCluster is that it integrates tightly with Oracle VM 3 manager. It basically is an Oracle VM frontend that helps start VMs, pass arguments down automatically and there is absolutely no need to log into the Oracle VM servers or the guests. Once it completes, you have an entire Oracle RAC database setup ready to go. Here's a short summary of the steps : Set up an Oracle VM 3 server pool Download the Oracle VM RAC template from oracle.com Import the template into Oracle VM using Oracle VM Manager repository - import Create a public and private network in Oracle VM Manager in the network tab Configure the template with the right public and private virtual networks Create a set of shared disks (physical or virtual) to assign to the VMs you want to create (for ASM/at least 5) Clone a set of VMs from the template (as many RAC nodes as you plan to configure) With Oracle VM 3.1 you can clone with a number so one clone command for, say 8 VMs is easy. Assign the shared devices/disks to the cloned VMs Create a netconfig.ini file on your manager node or a client where you plan to run DeployCluster This little text file just contains the IP addresses, hostnames etc for your cluster. It is a very simple small textfile. Run deploycluster.py with the VM names as argument Done. At this point, the tool will connect to Oracle VM Manager, start the VMs and configure each one, Configure the OS (Oracle Linux) Configure the disks with ASM Configure the clusterware (CRS) Configure ASM Create database instances on each node. Now you are ready to log in, and use your x node database cluster. x No need to download various products from various websites, click on trial licenses for the OS, go to a Virtual Machine store with sample and test versions only - this is production ready and supported. Software. Complete. example netconfig.ini : # Node specific information NODE1=racnode1 NODE1VIP=racnode1-vip NODE1PRIV=racnode1-priv NODE1IP=192.168.1.2 NODE1VIPIP=192.168.1.22 NODE1PRIVIP=10.0.0.22 NODE2=racnode2 NODE2VIP=racnode2-vip NODE2PRIV=racnode2-priv NODE2IP=192.168.1.3 NODE2VIPIP=192.168.1.23 NODE2PRIVIP=10.0.0.23 # Common data PUBADAP=eth0 PUBMASK=255.255.255.0 PUBGW=192.168.1.1 PRIVADAP=eth1 PRIVMASK=255.255.255.0 RACCLUSTERNAME=raccluster DOMAINNAME=mydomain.com DNSIP= # Device used to transfer network information to second node # in interview mode NETCONFIG_DEV=/dev/xvdc # 11gR2 specific data SCANNAME=racnode12-scan SCANIP=192.168.1.50

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• In-depth Coverage for Oracle Workflow

  - by Steven Chan (Oracle Development)

  I'm lucky to work with many talented people in the Applications Technology Group, and many of them contribute articles to this blog.  Some team members have their own blogs.  If you work with Oracle Workflow, here's one that you should be following: Oracle E-Business Suite - Workflow This blog is updated every few months by our development team with in-depth technical articles about Oracle Workflow-related topics.  For example, articles posted there include: Implementing a post-notification function to perform custom validation E-Business Suite Proactive Support - Workflow Analyzer Asynchronous Business Event Subscriptions - Troubleshooting Tips Oracle E-Busienss Suite RCD - Applications Technology Releases 12.1 and 12.2 SMTP Authentication Feature in R12.1.3 Configurable User LOV in Worklist UI Oracle Business Event and Subsciptions Execution Flow Understanding AQs in Workflow SSL in Oracle Workflow Leveraging Oracle Workflow for Declarative PageFlow If you have suggestions about Workflow topics that you'd like to see covered there, drop them a line.

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• Oracle Exalogic Customer Momentum @ OOW'12

  - by Sanjeev Sharma

  [Adapted from here]  At Oracle Open World 2012, i sat down with some of the Oracle Exalogic early adopters  to discuss the business benefits these businesses were realizing by embracing the engineered systems approach to data-center modernization and application consolidation. Below is an overview of the 4 businesses that won the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Award for Oracle Exalogic this year. Company: Netshoes About: Leading online retailer of sporting goods in Latin America.Challenges: Rapid business growth resulted in frequent outages and poor response-time of online store-front Conventional ad-hoc approach to horizontal scaling resulted in high CAPEX and OPEX Poor performance and unavailability of online store-front resulted in revenue loss from purchase abandonment Solution: Consolidated ATG Commerce and Oracle WebLogic running on Oracle Exalogic.Business Impact:Reduced abandonment rates resulting in a two-digit increase in online conversion rates translating directly into revenue up-liftCompany: ClaroAbout: Leading communications services provider in Latin America.Challenges: Support business growth over the next 3  - 5 years while maximizing re-use of existing middleware and application investments with minimal effort and risk Solution: Consolidated Oracle Fusion Middleware components (Oracle WebLogic, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Tuxedo) and JAVA applications onto Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Exadata. Business Impact:Improved partner SLA’s 7x while improving throughput 5X and response-time 35x for  JAVA applicationsCompany: ULAbout: Leading safety testing and certification organization in the world.Challenges: Transition from being a non-profit to a profit oriented enterprise and grow from a $1B to $5B in annual revenues in the next 5 years Undertake a massive business transformation by aligning change strategy with execution Solution: Consolidated Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, Siebel, BI, Hyperion) and Oracle Fusion Middleware (AIA, SOA Suite) on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle ExadataBusiness Impact:Reduced financial and operating risk in re-architecting IT services to support new business capabilities supporting 87,000 manufacturersCompany: Ingersoll RandAbout: Leading manufacturer of industrial, climate, residential and security solutions.Challenges: Business continuity risks due to complexity in enforcing consistent operational and financial controls; Re-active business decisions reduced ability to offer differentiation and compete Solution: Consolidated Oracle E-business Suite on Oracle Exalogic and Oracle ExadataBusiness Impact:Service differentiation with faster order provisioning and a shorter lead-to-cash cycle translating into higher customer satisfaction and quicker cash-conversionCheck out the winners of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation awards in other categories here.

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• Oracle Forms and Java JRE Auto-Update Problems

  - by Grant Ronald

  There have been a few threads regarding problems with the auto update of the JRE and Oracle Forms applications.  See this entry from Steve Chan and this entry on the error FRM-92095: Oracle Jnitiator version too low - please install version 1.1.8.2 or higher.  There are a few points to be aware of so Support have written up a note to hopefully make things clearer.  Log onto your Oracle support account and search for Note: 1470123.1.

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• Oracle R Enterprise 1.1 Download Available

  - by Sherry LaMonica

  Oracle just released the latest update to Oracle R Enterprise, version 1.1. This release includes the Oracle R Distribution (based on open source R, version 2.13.2), an improved server installation, and much more.  The key new features include: Extended Server Support: New support for Windows 32 and 64-bit server components, as well as continuing support for Linux 64-bit server components Improved Installation: Linux 64-bit server installation now provides robust status updates and prerequisite checks Performance Improvements: Improved performance for embedded R script execution calculations In addition, the updated ROracle package, which is used with Oracle R Enterprise, now reads date data by conversion to character strings. We encourage you download Oracle software for evaluation from the Oracle Technology Network. See these links for R-related software: Oracle R Distribution, Oracle R Enterprise, ROracle, Oracle R Connector for Hadoop.  As always, we welcome comments and questions on the Oracle R Forum.

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• Filing the XBRL version of Oracle's 2011 10K with the SEC using Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management

  Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management is designed to "demystify" the creation of XBRL documents. Featuring deep integration with existing Oracle financial reporting tools, it is the easiest and most straightforward approach to XBRL reporting for Oracle's enterprise performance management and enterprise resource planning customers. In this podcast hear how Oracle itself has improved its SEC XBRL submission process through the implementation of Oracle Hyperion Disclosure Management.

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• OOW 12: Thank you Oracle WebCenter Partners!

  - by kellsey.ruppel

  Yesterday evening we were happy to participate in the Oracle WebCenter Customer Appreciation Event! Oracle WebCenter partners Fishbowl Solutions, Fujitsu, Keste, Mythics, Redstone Content Solutions, TEAM Informatics, and TekStream sponsored a reception at The Palace Hotel for Oracle WebCenter customers. This event provided an exclusive opportunity for customers to network with their peers and meet and talk with executives from Oracle WebCenter Product Management, Development, and Marketing along with Oracle’s premiere Oracle WebCenter partners.  Christian Finn, Sr. Director of Product Management for Oracle WebCenter and Bob Crossman, Vice President of Oracle WebCenter Sales welcomed attendees and thanked everyone for their continued support and partnership with Oracle WebCenter. We had a great turnout and enjoyed an evening of socializing and networking.    Thanks again Oracle WebCenter partners!

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• Oracle Solaris 11 ?????????:?Oracle Solaris 11 ?????·????·??? ?2????

  - by kazun

  2012?2?20???????????? ??13F????????????Oracle Solaris 11???????????Oracle Solaris 11 ?????·????·????????????????????????2??????????Automated Installer(AI)???Distribution Constructor??????????????????????????????50????????????????????????????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ????????? - ?????????????????? - ???????????????????????? - 2????????????????? ???? Oracle 11 ??????? ?Oracle Solaris 11 ??????????????·??????????(???????? ??????????? ????????????? ??? ??? ??:???)???Oracle Solaris 11????????????????????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ???Oracle Solaris 10 ??????????????????????????2?????????????????(????????GUI???)???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????? ???????????????:Automated Installer ????????"hands-free"??????????? Automated Installer?(?? ???????????? ??????????? ?????????????? ??????????????:???)???Oracle Solaris 11 ???????Automated Installer (AI)????????? AI????????????????????Solaris Zones ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Jumpstart ?????????????????? AI?Image Packaging System (IPS)????????????????????????????????????OS???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????AI??????(XML?????????????)?SC???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????AI ???????????DHCP ????????????????????????????? VirtualBox ??????????????? ?:Oracle Solaris Studio ??? AI??????????????????????? ?????????? ???????????????????:Distribution Constructor ?????????????????????????????????????????????? Distribution Constructor?(?? ???????????? ??????????? ????????????? ??????????????:???)???? ?????????Oracle Solaris 11 ????????????????????????????????????? "Distribution Constructor" ?????????????"Distribution Constructor" ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"Distribution Constructor"???LiveCD/USB???????????????ISO?????3???OS?????????????????????Distribution Constructor?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Distribution Constructor??Solaris ?ZFS???????????AI??????????????????????????XML??????????? ?????????3??????????????????????????????????????????????????????IPS??????????????custom-script????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ?????????? Oracle Solaris ??????? ??????????Installer Disk(3??DVD)????????????????????????Oracle Solaris Live CD(x86)??1???Oracle Solaris 11 Interactive Text Installer??SPARC??x86?????1???????????Live CD??????????Solaris 11 ?????????????????????Interactive Text Installer ??????????????(???????????????????????????????)?Interactive Text Installer ???????????????????????????????????? ???Solaris 11 VM???? for Oracle VM VirtualBox ?????????????????????(?Solaris 11 VM ???? for Oracle VM VirtualBox ???????Oracle VM for x86 ????????)? Oracle VM VirtualBox??????? Solaris 11 VM???? for Oracle VM VirtualBox??????? Oracle Solaris 11?????????????????????????? ?????? Oracle Solaris 10 JumpStart ?? Oracle Solaris 11 ???????????? ???? Oracle Solaris 11 ????????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ???????????

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• ??????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition??????Oracle Data Guard?

  - by Yusuke.Yamamoto

  ????? ??:2011/05/25 ??:???? ??3??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition ?????????????????????????·???????????Oracle Data Guard????????????????? Oracle Data Guard ??????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????? Oracle Data Guard???????"???"????????????????????????????????????WAN????????????????????????Oracle Data Guard ?????? ????????? ????????????????? http://oracletech.jp/products/pickup/000298.html

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• ODI 11g – Insight to the SDK

  - by David Allan

  This post is a useful index into the ODI SDK that cross references the type names from the user interface with the SDK class and also the finder for how to get a handle on the object or objects. The volume of content in the SDK might seem a little ominous, there is a lot there, but there is a general pattern to the SDK that I will describe here. Also I will illustrate some basic CRUD operations so you can see how the SDK usage pattern works. The examples are written in groovy, you can simply run from the groovy console in ODI 11.1.1.6. Entry to the Platform   Object Finder SDK odiInstance odiInstance (groovy variable for console) OdiInstance Topology Objects Object Finder SDK Technology IOdiTechnologyFinder OdiTechnology Context IOdiContextFinder OdiContext Logical Schema IOdiLogicalSchemaFinder OdiLogicalSchema Data Server IOdiDataServerFinder OdiDataServer Physical Schema IOdiPhysicalSchemaFinder OdiPhysicalSchema Logical Schema to Physical Mapping IOdiContextualSchemaMappingFinder OdiContextualSchemaMapping Logical Agent IOdiLogicalAgentFinder OdiLogicalAgent Physical Agent IOdiPhysicalAgentFinder OdiPhysicalAgent Logical Agent to Physical Mapping IOdiContextualAgentMappingFinder OdiContextualAgentMapping Master Repository IOdiMasterRepositoryInfoFinder OdiMasterRepositoryInfo Work Repository IOdiWorkRepositoryInfoFinder OdiWorkRepositoryInfo Project Objects Object Finder SDK Project IOdiProjectFinder OdiProject Folder IOdiFolderFinder OdiFolder Interface IOdiInterfaceFinder OdiInterface Package IOdiPackageFinder OdiPackage Procedure IOdiUserProcedureFinder OdiUserProcedure User Function IOdiUserFunctionFinder OdiUserFunction Variable IOdiVariableFinder OdiVariable Sequence IOdiSequenceFinder OdiSequence KM IOdiKMFinder OdiKM Load Plans and Scenarios   Object Finder SDK Load Plan IOdiLoadPlanFinder OdiLoadPlan Load Plan and Scenario Folder IOdiScenarioFolderFinder OdiScenarioFolder Model Objects Object Finder SDK Model IOdiModelFinder OdiModel Sub Model IOdiSubModel OdiSubModel DataStore IOdiDataStoreFinder OdiDataStore Column IOdiColumnFinder OdiColumn Key IOdiKeyFinder OdiKey Condition IOdiConditionFinder OdiCondition Operator Objects   Object Finder SDK Session Folder IOdiSessionFolderFinder OdiSessionFolder Session IOdiSessionFinder OdiSession Schedule OdiSchedule How to Create an Object? Here is a simple example to create a project, it uses IOdiEntityManager.persist to persist the object. import oracle.odi.domain.project.OdiProject; import oracle.odi.core.persistence.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition; txnDef = new DefaultTransactionDefinition(); tm = odiInstance.getTransactionManager() txnStatus = tm.getTransaction(txnDef) project = new OdiProject("Project For Demo", "PROJECT_DEMO") odiInstance.getTransactionalEntityManager().persist(project) tm.commit(txnStatus) How to Update an Object? This update example uses the methods on the OdiProject object to change the project’s name that was created above, it is then persisted. import oracle.odi.domain.project.OdiProject; import oracle.odi.domain.project.finder.IOdiProjectFinder; import oracle.odi.core.persistence.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition; txnDef = new DefaultTransactionDefinition(); tm = odiInstance.getTransactionManager() txnStatus = tm.getTransaction(txnDef) prjFinder = (IOdiProjectFinder)odiInstance.getTransactionalEntityManager().getFinder(OdiProject.class); project = prjFinder.findByCode("PROJECT_DEMO"); project.setName("A Demo Project"); odiInstance.getTransactionalEntityManager().persist(project) tm.commit(txnStatus) How to Delete an Object? Here is a simple example to delete all of the sessions, it uses IOdiEntityManager.remove to delete the object. import oracle.odi.domain.runtime.session.finder.IOdiSessionFinder; import oracle.odi.domain.runtime.session.OdiSession; import oracle.odi.core.persistence.transaction.support.DefaultTransactionDefinition; txnDef = new DefaultTransactionDefinition(); tm = odiInstance.getTransactionManager() txnStatus = tm.getTransaction(txnDef) sessFinder = (IOdiSessionFinder)odiInstance.getTransactionalEntityManager().getFinder(OdiSession.class); sessc = sessFinder.findAll(); sessItr = sessc.iterator() while (sessItr.hasNext()) {   sess = (OdiSession) sessItr.next()   odiInstance.getTransactionalEntityManager().remove(sess) } tm.commit(txnStatus) This isn't an all encompassing summary of the SDK, but covers a lot of the content to give you a good handle on the objects and how they work. For details of how specific complex objects are created via the SDK, its best to look at postings such as the interface builder posting here. Have fun, happy coding!

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• ????????????????? Oracle Solaris ??? - Solaris 11 ????

  - by kazun

  ???????????????? OS ????????????????????? 20 ??????????????????? Solaris?????????????????????? OS????????????????????????Solaris ???????????????????? ??????Solaris ?????????????? 4 ????????????????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ??????????????? [????????????]???? ?(????????????? ???)???? ?(??????????????)???? ?(????????)???? ?(?????????????????)(50??) Oracle Solaris 11 ??????? ???:Oracle Solaris 11??????? Solaris ??????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 10 ?????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ???Oracle Solaris ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris ??????????????????????????Oracle Solaris ????????????????????????????????????????? ??:??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ????????????? ???:Oracle Solaris 11 ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris ??????????????????????Solaris ????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ??????????????? ??:???????????????????ZFS?????????????Oracle Solaris ???????????????????????????????????????IPS???????????????????????? ??:?????????????????????? OS ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? OS ????? Oracle Solaris 11 ??? ??:????????????????????????????????????????????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??:????????????????????Solaris Trusted Extensions ? Solaris ????????????Privilege ????????????????????????????????Solaris 10 ???????????????????? ??:UNIX ?????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????ZFS ??????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris ?????????????????????????????????? ???:Oracle Solaris ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ??:Oracle Solaris ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ZFS ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ??:?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris ??????????????????????? ??:DTrace ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??:???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???:?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Solaris ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??:?????????????????? Solaris 10 ?????????????????????????????????????? ???:ISV ??????????????????????????????? ????????????????? T4 ??????????????? T ?????? 5 ???????????????????????????????????? CPU ?????????????????? OS ? Solaris ??????????????????????????????????????????????? ??:???????????????? OS ???? Solaris ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? Oracle Solaris ????????? ??:???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ZFS ?????????????????????????ZFS ??????????????????????????????????????? ???:Linux ??????????????????????????Solaris 11 ?????????????????????? GNU ????????????????????????????Solaris ?????????(Oracle Solaris Studio)????????????? Oracle Solaris Studio ?Linux??????????????Linux ??????????? Solaris ????????????????Linux ? Oracle Solaris Studio ?????????????????????????? Solaris ??????????????????? ??:??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????BCP(??????)??????????????????? ??:???????? Solaris 11 ?????? IA Server ?????????????????????????????????????????????…???????????Windows ????????????????????? Oracle Virtual Box ????????? Oracle Solaris 11 ??????????? ??:???Oracle Solaris ????????(?)??????????????ZFS???DTrace?????????????????????????????????????Solaris ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Solaris ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??:??? 3 ??????????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ???????????? ??:???????????????????? OS ??????????????????????????Oracle Solaris 11 ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???:???????????? Solaris ???????????????Solaris 10 ???? 6 ??????????????????????????????????Oracle Solaris ?????????????????????????????? ?????? Oracle Solaris 10 Oracle Solaris 11

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• Oracle’s New Approach to Cloud-based Applications User Experiences

  - by Oracle OpenWorld Blog Team

  By Misha Vaughan It was an exciting Oracle OpenWorld this year for customers and partners, as they got to see what their input into the Oracle user experience research and development process has produced for cloud-delivered applications. The result of all this engagement and listening is a focus on simplicity, mobility, and extensibility. These were the core themes across Oracle OpenWorld sessions, executive roundtables, and analyst briefings given by Jeremy Ashley, Oracle's vice president of user experience. The highlight of every meeting with a customer featured the new simplified UI for Oracle’s cloud applications.    Attendees at some sessions and events also saw a vision of what is coming next in the Oracle user experience, and they gave direct feedback on whether this would help solve their business problems.  What did attendees think of what they saw this year? Rebecca Wettemann of Nucleus Research was part of  an analyst briefing on next-generation user experiences from Oracle. Here’s what she told CRM Buyer in an interview just after the event:  “Many of the improvements are incremental, which is not surprising, as Oracle regularly updates its application,” Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of Nucleus Research, told CRM Buyer. "Still, there are distinct themes to this latest set of changes. One is usability. Oracle Sales Cloud, for example, is designed to have zero training for onboarding sales reps, which it does," she explained. "It is quite impressive, actually—the intuitive nature of the application and the design work they have done with this goal in mind. The software uses as few buttons and fields as possible," she pointed out. "The sales rep doesn't have to ask, 'what is the next step?' because she can see what it is."  What else did we hear? Oracle OpenWorld is a time when we can take a broader pulse of our customers’ and partners’ concerns. This year we heard some common user experience themes on the following: · A desire to continue to simplify widely used self-service tasks · A need to understand how customers or partners could take some of the UX lessons learned on simplicity and mobility into their own custom areas and projects  · The continuing challenge of needing to support bring-your-own-device and corporate-provided mobile devices to end users · A desire to harmonize user experiences across platforms for specific business-use cases  What does this mean for next year? Well, there were a lot of things we could only show to smaller groups of customers in our Oracle OpenWorld usability labs and HQ lab tours, to partners at our Expo, and to analysts under non-disclosure agreements. But we used these events as a way to get some early feedback about where we are focusing for the year ahead. Attendees gave us a positive response: @bkhan Saw some excellent UX innovations at the expo “@usableapps: Great job @mishavaughan and @vinoskey on #oow13 UX partner expo!” @WarnerTim @usableapps @mishavaughan @vinoskey @ultan Thanks for an interesting afternoon definitely liked the UX tool kits for partners. You can expect Oracle to continue pushing themes of simplicity, mobility, and extensibility even more aggressively in the next year.  If you are interested to find out what really goes on in the UX labs, such as what we are doing with smartphones, tablets, heads-up displays, and the AppsLab robots, feel free to reach out to me for more information: Misha Vaughan or on Twitter: @mishavaughan.

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• 'Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial' book is now available

  - by Julien Testut

  We are pleased to announce the availability of the first book on Oracle Data Integrator published by Packt Publishing:  Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g – A Hands-On Tutorial Authors: Peter C. Boyd-Bowman, Christophe Dupupet, Denis Gray, David Hecksel,  Julien Testut, Bernard Wheeler. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this book! You can get more information about 'Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g – A Hands-On Tutorial' including the table of contents and a sample chapter at http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-data-integrator-11g-getting-started/book. The book is available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes & Noble and Safari Books Online.

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• 9/18 Live Webcast: Three Compelling Reasons to Upgrade to Oracle Database 11g

  - by jgelhaus

  Webcast: Three Compelling Reasons to Upgrade to Oracle Database 11g Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 Time: 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET If you or your organization is still working with Oracle Database 10g or an even older version, now is the time to upgrade. Oracle Database 11g offers a wide variety of advantages to enhance your operation. Join us for this live Webcast and learn about what you’re missing: the business, operational, and technical benefits. With Oracle Database 11g, you can: Upgrade with zero downtime Improve application performance and database security Reduce the amount of storage required Save time and money Register today here

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• How to Upgrade an existing Customer from OBI10g to 11g: Live Virtual Class

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

  This Live Virtual Class eSeminar on upgrading to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g, from OBI 10g, is FREE for Oracle Partners. When : Thursday, January 5, 2012 @ 14.00 CET  / 13.00 UK (120 Minute eSeminar) Where : Goto REGISTER HERE During this session you will learn: OBIEE 11g Infrastructure – What Is Different From OBIEE 10g? Considerations During The Upgrade, Repository Metadata, Presentation Catalog, BI Publisher, BI Security Planning Your Upgrade Optimizing OBI 10g for an 11g Upgrade Copying OBI 10g to New Server Installing OBI 11g on New Server Running Upgrade Assistant & Running OBI 11g Post-Upgrade Steps Testing Upgrading Environment Capacity Planning Guide Q&A Who Should attend? Oracle partners with experience of OBIEE+ 10g BI and EPM developers, architects and implementers Oracle partners with Clients using OBI10g

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• Upcoming Customer WebCast: SOA 11g Database: Guide for Administrators

  - by MariaSalzberger

  The SOA infrastructure database is used by SOA Suite products like BPEL PM, BAM, BPM, Human Worklow, B2B and Mediator. A SOA administrator is involved in many different tasks like installation, upgrade, performance tuning and other administrative topics. Another important one is purging - see the posting for this: SOA Suite 11g Purging Guide. We have implemented a guide to help with thess tasks: SOA 11g Infrastructure Database: Installation, Maintenance and Administration Guide. An upcoming advisor webcast planned for Wednesday, April 11 2012 at 15:00 UK / 16:00 CET / 07:00 am Pacific / 8:00 am Mountain / 10:00 am Eastern will walk you through the guide and show some of the highligts. Registration for this webcast is available in SOA 11g Database: Guide for Administrators [ID 1422913.1]. The presentation recording can by found here after the webcast. (https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=ANNOUNCEMENT&id=740964.1) The schedule for future webcasts can be found here (https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&doctype=ANNOUNCEMENT&id=740966.1)

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• New Information Center - Optimize Performance of FMW 11g

  - by Daniel Mortimer

  Following on the heels of the recently published - "Reviewing Security for FMW 11g" Information Center, we are pleased to announce the publication of Information Center: Optimizing Performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g [ID 1469617.2] Screenshot of ID 1469617.2 We are in the process of making further tweaks and changes to improve the other ** "Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g" Information Centers. So watch this space! ** You can navigate to these other Information Centers via the menu found on the left hand side of the "Optimize Performance" Information Center.

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• ??????30?????WebLogic Server 11g????|WebLogic Channel|??????

  - by ???02

  Oracle WebLogic Server 11g?????????????30?????????????No1??????????????????????????WebLogic Server??11g???????????????????????????ActiveCache?Real Operations?Enterprise Grid Messaging????11gR1?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???? ¦Oracle WebLogic Server 11g R1 ????¦Oracle WebLogic Server 11g R1 Update¦Real Operations¦Oracle TopLink 11g¦Multi Data Source¦Enterprise Grid Messaging(JMS)¦ActiveCache¦Web Tier Utilities(OHS,WebCache)¦???¦??? ??Oracle WebLogic Server 11g R1 ?? <??:?30?>http://otndnld.oracle.co.jp/ondemand/otn-seminar/fm/WLS11g/index.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/jp/ondemand/application-grid/wls11gr1-overview-265878-ja.pdf ??????????(????????)What's New in Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.5)(??)http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E21764_01/web.1111/e13852/toc.htmOracle WebLogic Server11g ????1(10.3.4)????(???)http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E23549_01/web.1111/b55571/toc.htm

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• Oracle Delivers Special Recognition for Specialized Partners

  - by michaela.seika(at)oracle.com

  Since announcing Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized (OPN Specialized) in October 2009, Oracle has been focused on building a program that first enables solution providers to become highly skilled Oracle partners who deliver value to customers and that then recognizes and rewards their achievements in a meaningful way. Today the company unveiled new benefits reserved for partners who have achieved one or more of the over 50 specializations currently available. The benefits demonstrate Oracle's commitment to showcase these valued partners to three key audiences: customers, other partners, and Oracle employees.With today's launch of www.oracle.com/specialized Oracle has taken what IDC believes is a first of its kind approach to putting top partners front and center with customers and prospects. While most vendors offer a business partner finder tool on their website none has gone as far as Oracle with the creation of this new site dedicated to the promotion of Specialized Partners. The tag lines - "Recognized by Oracle, Preferred by Customers" and "Specialized. Recognized. Preferred." gets right to the point - these are the solution providers with which customers should choose to engage. The contents of the page offer multiple proof points to justify the marketing phrases.One of the benefits Oracle offers its Specialized Partners is video creation and placement. While Oracle works with partners to create informal or "guerilla" videos which often are placed on YouTube to generate awareness and buzz, the company also produces professional videos for its partners. The greatest value the partner receives from this benefit isn't the non-trivial production costs that Oracle covers but instead the prominent exposure Oracle gives the finished product. Partner videos are featured on www.oracle.com/specialized, used as part of monthly OPN Specialized Partners monthly webcasts, placed on a customer facing website, the Oracle Media Network, which includes several partner sites such as PartnerCast. A solution provider gains a great deal of credibility when they can send a prospect to an Oracle website where they are featured. Read the full article here.

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• Oracle Delivers Special Recognition for Specialized Partners

  - by michaela.seika(at)oracle.com

  Since announcing Oracle PartnerNetwork Specialized (OPN Specialized) in October 2009, Oracle has been focused on building a program that first enables solution providers to become highly skilled Oracle partners who deliver value to customers and that then recognizes and rewards their achievements in a meaningful way. Today the company unveiled new benefits reserved for partners who have achieved one or more of the over 50 specializations currently available. The benefits demonstrate Oracle's commitment to showcase these valued partners to three key audiences: customers, other partners, and Oracle employees.With today's launch of www.oracle.com/specialized Oracle has taken what IDC believes is a first of its kind approach to putting top partners front and center with customers and prospects. While most vendors offer a business partner finder tool on their website none has gone as far as Oracle with the creation of this new site dedicated to the promotion of Specialized Partners. The tag lines - "Recognized by Oracle, Preferred by Customers" and "Specialized. Recognized. Preferred." gets right to the point - these are the solution providers with which customers should choose to engage. The contents of the page offer multiple proof points to justify the marketing phrases.One of the benefits Oracle offers its Specialized Partners is video creation and placement. While Oracle works with partners to create informal or "guerilla" videos which often are placed on YouTube to generate awareness and buzz, the company also produces professional videos for its partners. The greatest value the partner receives from this benefit isn't the non-trivial production costs that Oracle covers but instead the prominent exposure Oracle gives the finished product. Partner videos are featured on www.oracle.com/specialized, used as part of monthly OPN Specialized Partners monthly webcasts, placed on a customer facing website, the Oracle Media Network, which includes several partner sites such as PartnerCast. A solution provider gains a great deal of credibility when they can send a prospect to an Oracle website where they are featured. Read the full article here.

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• How to Load Oracle Tables From Hadoop Tutorial (Part 5 - Leveraging Parallelism in OSCH)

  - by Bob Hanckel

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Using OSCH: Beyond Hello World In the previous post we discussed a “Hello World” example for OSCH focusing on the mechanics of getting a toy end-to-end example working. In this post we are going to talk about how to make it work for big data loads. We will explain how to optimize an OSCH external table for load, paying particular attention to Oracle’s DOP (degree of parallelism), the number of external table location files we use, and the number of HDFS files that make up the payload. We will provide some rules that serve as best practices when using OSCH. The assumption is that you have read the previous post and have some end to end OSCH external tables working and now you want to ramp up the size of the loads. Using OSCH External Tables for Access and Loading OSCH external tables are no different from any other Oracle external tables.  They can be used to access HDFS content using Oracle SQL: SELECT * FROM my_hdfs_external_table; or use the same SQL access to load a table in Oracle. INSERT INTO my_oracle_table SELECT * FROM my_hdfs_external_table; To speed up the load time, you will want to control the degree of parallelism (i.e. DOP) and add two SQL hints. ALTER SESSION FORCE PARALLEL DML PARALLEL  8; ALTER SESSION FORCE PARALLEL QUERY PARALLEL 8; INSERT /*+ append pq_distribute(my_oracle_table, none) */ INTO my_oracle_table SELECT * FROM my_hdfs_external_table; There are various ways of either hinting at what level of DOP you want to use.  The ALTER SESSION statements above force the issue assuming you (the user of the session) are allowed to assert the DOP (more on that in the next section).  Alternatively you could embed additional parallel hints directly into the INSERT and SELECT clause respectively. /*+ parallel(my_oracle_table,8) *//*+ parallel(my_hdfs_external_table,8) */ Note that the "append" hint lets you load a target table by reserving space above a given "high watermark" in storage and uses Direct Path load.  In other doesn't try to fill blocks that are already allocated and partially filled. It uses unallocated blocks.  It is an optimized way of loading a table without incurring the typical resource overhead associated with run-of-the-mill inserts.  The "pq_distribute" hint in this context unifies the INSERT and SELECT operators to make data flow during a load more efficient. Finally your target Oracle table should be defined with "NOLOGGING" and "PARALLEL" attributes.   The combination of the "NOLOGGING" and use of the "append" hint disables REDO logging, and its overhead.  The "PARALLEL" clause tells Oracle to try to use parallel execution when operating on the target table. Determine Your DOP It might feel natural to build your datasets in Hadoop, then afterwards figure out how to tune the OSCH external table definition, but you should start backwards. You should focus on Oracle database, specifically the DOP you want to use when loading (or accessing) HDFS content using external tables. The DOP in Oracle controls how many PQ slaves are launched in parallel when executing an external table. Typically the DOP is something you want to Oracle to control transparently, but for loading content from Hadoop with OSCH, it's something that you will want to control. Oracle computes the maximum DOP that can be used by an Oracle user. The maximum value that can be assigned is an integer value typically equal to the number of CPUs on your Oracle instances, times the number of cores per CPU, times the number of Oracle instances. For example, suppose you have a RAC environment with 2 Oracle instances. And suppose that each system has 2 CPUs with 32 cores. The maximum DOP would be 128 (i.e. 2*2*32). In point of fact if you are running on a production system, the maximum DOP you are allowed to use will be restricted by the Oracle DBA. This is because using a system maximum DOP can subsume all system resources on Oracle and starve anything else that is executing. Obviously on a production system where resources need to be shared 24x7, this can’t be allowed to happen. The use cases for being able to run OSCH with a maximum DOP are when you have exclusive access to all the resources on an Oracle system. This can be in situations when your are first seeding tables in a new Oracle database, or there is a time where normal activity in the production database can be safely taken off-line for a few hours to free up resources for a big incremental load. Using OSCH on high end machines (specifically Oracle Exadata and Oracle BDA cabled with Infiniband), this mode of operation can load up to 15TB per hour. The bottom line is that you should first figure out what DOP you will be allowed to run with by talking to the DBAs who manage the production system. You then use that number to derive the number of location files, and (optionally) the number of HDFS data files that you want to generate, assuming that is flexible. Rule 1: Find out the maximum DOP you will be allowed to use with OSCH on the target Oracle system Determining the Number of Location Files Let’s assume that the DBA told you that your maximum DOP was 8. You want the number of location files in your external table to be big enough to utilize all 8 PQ slaves, and you want them to represent equally balanced workloads. Remember location files in OSCH are metadata lists of HDFS files and are created using OSCH’s External Table tool. They also represent the workload size given to an individual Oracle PQ slave (i.e. a PQ slave is given one location file to process at a time, and only it will process the contents of the location file.) Rule 2: The size of the workload of a single location file (and the PQ slave that processes it) is the sum of the content size of the HDFS files it lists For example, if a location file lists 5 HDFS files which are each 100GB in size, the workload size for that location file is 500GB. The number of location files that you generate is something you control by providing a number as input to OSCH’s External Table tool. Rule 3: The number of location files chosen should be a small multiple of the DOP Each location file represents one workload for one PQ slave. So the goal is to keep all slaves busy and try to give them equivalent workloads. Obviously if you run with a DOP of 8 but have 5 location files, only five PQ slaves will have something to do and the other three will have nothing to do and will quietly exit. If you run with 9 location files, then the PQ slaves will pick up the first 8 location files, and assuming they have equal work loads, will finish up about the same time. But the first PQ slave to finish its job will then be rescheduled to process the ninth location file, potentially doubling the end to end processing time. So for this DOP using 8, 16, or 32 location files would be a good idea. Determining the Number of HDFS Files Let’s start with the next rule and then explain it: Rule 4: The number of HDFS files should try to be a multiple of the number of location files and try to be relatively the same size In our running example, the DOP is 8. This means that the number of location files should be a small multiple of 8. Remember that each location file represents a list of unique HDFS files to load, and that the sum of the files listed in each location file is a workload for one Oracle PQ slave. The OSCH External Table tool will look in an HDFS directory for a set of HDFS files to load.  It will generate N number of location files (where N is the value you gave to the tool). It will then try to divvy up the HDFS files and do its best to make sure the workload across location files is as balanced as possible. (The tool uses a greedy algorithm that grabs the biggest HDFS file and delegates it to a particular location file. It then looks for the next biggest file and puts in some other location file, and so on). The tools ability to balance is reduced if HDFS file sizes are grossly out of balance or are too few. For example suppose my DOP is 8 and the number of location files is 8. Suppose I have only 8 HDFS files, where one file is 900GB and the others are 100GB. When the tool tries to balance the load it will be forced to put the singleton 900GB into one location file, and put each of the 100GB files in the 7 remaining location files. The load balance skew is 9 to 1. One PQ slave will be working overtime, while the slacker PQ slaves are off enjoying happy hour. If however the total payload (1600 GB) were broken up into smaller HDFS files, the OSCH External Table tool would have an easier time generating a list where each workload for each location file is relatively the same.  Applying Rule 4 above to our DOP of 8, we could divide the workload into160 files that were approximately 10 GB in size.  For this scenario the OSCH External Table tool would populate each location file with 20 HDFS file references, and all location files would have similar workloads (approximately 200GB per location file.) As a rule, when the OSCH External Table tool has to deal with more and smaller files it will be able to create more balanced loads. How small should HDFS files get? Not so small that the HDFS open and close file overhead starts having a substantial impact. For our performance test system (Exadata/BDA with Infiniband), I compared three OSCH loads of 1 TiB. One load had 128 HDFS files living in 64 location files where each HDFS file was about 8GB. I then did the same load with 12800 files where each HDFS file was about 80MB size. The end to end load time was virtually the same. However when I got ridiculously small (i.e. 128000 files at about 8MB per file), it started to make an impact and slow down the load time. What happens if you break rules 3 or 4 above? Nothing draconian, everything will still function. You just won’t be taking full advantage of the generous DOP that was allocated to you by your friendly DBA. The key point of the rules articulated above is this: if you know that HDFS content is ultimately going to be loaded into Oracle using OSCH, it makes sense to chop them up into the right number of files roughly the same size, derived from the DOP that you expect to use for loading. Next Steps So far we have talked about OLH and OSCH as alternative models for loading. That’s not quite the whole story. They can be used together in a way that provides for more efficient OSCH loads and allows one to be more flexible about scheduling on a Hadoop cluster and an Oracle Database to perform load operations. The next lesson will talk about Oracle Data Pump files generated by OLH, and loaded using OSCH. It will also outline the pros and cons of using various load methods.  This will be followed up with a final tutorial lesson focusing on how to optimize OLH and OSCH for use on Oracle's engineered systems: specifically Exadata and the BDA. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}

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• The Partner Perspective from Oracle OpenWorld 2012 - IDC’s Darren Bibby report

  - by Richard Lefebvre

  Below is IDC’s Darren Bibby report on ‘The Partner Perspective from Oracle OpenWorld 2012’. If you missed the 2012 edition, I trust this will give you the willingness to attend next year one! October 26, 2012 I attended my fourth Oracle OpenWorld earlier in October. I always go in with the lens of, "What's in it for partners this year?" Although it's primarily thought of as a customer event - and yes, the bulk of the almost 50,000 attendees are customers - this year's conference was clearly the largest and most important partner event Oracle has ever run. Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Exchange There were more partner attendees than ever, with Oracle citing somewhere around 5000. But the format for partners this year was different. And it was better. Traditionally, Oracle hosts a one-day only Partner Forum on the Sunday before the customer-focused conference begins. This year, the partner content still began on the Sunday, but the worldwide alliances and channels group created an exclusive track throughout the week, just for partners. It featured content specifically targeted towards partners, and was anchored at a nearby hotel. This was a great move for Oracle. The Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) team has been in a tricky position for years in that they have enough partners that they need a landmark event in the year, but perhaps not enough to justify a separate, worldwide, large, partner-only event. Coinciding a four day event with Oracle OpenWorld, where anybody who's anybody in the Oracle world attends anyway, is a good solution. The channels leadership team can build from this success for an even better conference next year. It's expected that they will follow a similar strategy. Cloud Announcements for Partners As for the content, it was primarily about the Cloud. For customers, for VARs, for ISVs, for everyone. There were five key Cloud related announcements for partners at the event: Cloud Builder Specialization. This is one of the first broader Specializations that isn't focused on one unique product. It is a designation for partners that offer design and implementation services for private cloud solutions. As such, it will surely be something that nearly every partner will consider, and many will pursue. New Specializations for Cloud Services. Unlike the broad, almost "strategy-level" Specialization above, there are a group of new product-based "merit badges" for many of the new Cloud offerings. Think about a Specialization for the Cloud version of HCM, for instance. Each of these particular specializations will also have Rapid Start implementation methodologies that allow a partner to offer a fixed scope and fixed price bid to customers. Based on the learnings from Oracle Consulting, this means a partner might be able to deliver Cloud HCM in six weeks for a fixed price. In the end, this means more consistent experiences for Oracle customers. Cloud Resale Program. For those partners who achieve one of these Cloud Specializations, it will mean they can actually resell the subscription-based Cloud product. This is important because it has been somewhat of a rarity in the emerging Cloud channel for partners to be able to "take the paper", take the revenue, do the billing, be first line of support etc. This is an important step for Oracle and one the partners will be happy to see. Cloud Referral Program. For those partners who are not as engaged with these specific Cloud products that the Specializations revolve around, there is a new referral program that provides an incentive to recommend Oracle Cloud products. This one-two punch of referral and resale programs is similar in many ways to other vendors who allow more committed partners to resell, while more casual partners can collect fees. It's the model that seems to work. The key to allow a company to resell a subscription product - something that is inherently delivered directly between the vendor and customer - is trust. Achieving a specialization is a good bar to have to meet. Platform as a Service for ISVs. Leveraging some of the overall announcements made by CEO Larry Ellison around a cloud version of its famous database, Oracle also outlined a new ability for ISVs to build cloud services on its new PaaS offering. Details were less available for this announcement, though it's an expected and fitting play for ISVs comfortable with Oracle technology who can now more easily build out cloud applications. There wasn't much talk of an app store to go along with this, but surely it's in the works. Specializations And "The Gap" Coming back to Specializations, Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) has 4600 partners worldwide that hold 20,000 Specializations. These are impressive numbers just three years into the new OPN framework. The actual number of Specializations has also grown significantly, up to 111 today and soon around 125 or so with the new Cloud designations. Oracle may need to look at grouping some of these and creating higher level, broader designations that partners could achieve by earning several Specializations in that group. At 125 and growing, this is a lot. On the top of the pyramid, Hitachi Ltd. successfully became the eleventh partner to make it to the highly prestigious Diamond level. Partner programs partially exist in order to recognize capable partners. And it's more than abundantly clear that the Diamond level does this. But I think Oracle has a gap. Specializations show capability in a very specific product area, and all sizes of partners can achieve these. The next level at which to show a level of expertise is the Advanced Specialization. However, this is a massive step up from the regular Specialization. The advanced level requires 50 people to have certification in that particular product area. Most other industry programs have similar higher level statuses, but none are even close to that number. Whereas a customer who sees an Oracle partner with an advanced specialization can be very sure of capability, there is a gap in that there are hundreds or even thousands of 20-50 person solution providers who are top notch in their area of expertise. They will never get to Advanced due to numbers alone. These boutique partners don't really have a way of showing off their talents in the current program. Advanced may not need to be so high to really show that a company has deep expertise. Overall it was a very successful Oracle OpenWorld for Oracle partners of all sizes. There was progress made on making it a bigger and more relevant event. And also on catching up and maybe even leading in some cases with cloud opportunities for partners.

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