Platform Migration with Oracle Applications Release 12- How to migrate R12 to IBM AIX

As a member of ORACLE/IBM Joint Solution Center, I’m happy to learn the announcement of the “Platform Migration with Oracle Applications Release 12“. With this OracleMetalink Note 438086.1 all my “New” customers and prospects are able to migrate from their old hardware platform to IBM AIX now easily.

This process provides a way to quickly [...]

Oracle enhances Integration across BI Apps, E-BS 12 and Hyperion Essbase

With Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Version 7.9.4, Oracle delivers now new integrations between Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) applications and Oracle E-Business Suite R12, as well as enhanced support across Oracle’s core BI foundation software including Hyperion Essbase.
Built on Oracle BI Suite EE Plus, Oracle BI applications allow organizations to take advantage of the [...]

Oracle as the Market Leader in Identity and Access Management, by Forrester

Forrester segmented the IAM (Identity and Access Management) market based on several technologies, including directories, meta directories, virtual directories, provisioning, role management, password management, enterprise single sign-on (E-SSO), Web single sign-on (Web SSO), and federation, along with emerging areas, including entitlement management and identity auditing.
In its March 18, 2008, report, The Forrester Wave: Identity And Access [...]

OracleInsight in the News

Today we received the good surprise that we are referenced on Oracle Blogs page.

We are not on the correct part because Yvan and I are Oracle employee but it will be corrected very soon.
Last December 2007 we launched this quietly (via an email to our collegue and contact). In just a few days we have [...]

ORACLE/IBM Joint Solution Center users group on MIX

is an external Oracle Community built by the Oracle AppsLab Team (Rich, Jake, Paul and Anthony) in collaboration with ThoughtWorks. I like it for several reasons because firstly is a socialnetwork like facebook, and secondly it’s developped using Ruby and Rails framework but exactly it’s using Jruby on Rails on an Oracle [...]

Oracle Database 11g is now certified with E-Business Suite Release 11i

Yes, Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0) is now certified with E-Business Suite Release 11i on Linux x86-32 and Windows platforms. The prerequisites are the following:

Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 Consolidation Update 2 (11.5.10.2)
Oracle Database Release 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6.0)
Oracle Applications Technology ATG_PF.H Rollup 6. This document provides a complete, up-to-date description of Oracle Applications Technology [...]

Numa optimization with Oracle Database 11g and 10gR2

IBM System x high end servers can now take advantage of the NUMA ((Non Uniform Memory Architecture) awareness feature. The NUMA awareness function was recently enabled with the primary Linux distributions and also within the Oracle database itself.
The Linux 2.6 kernel from Red Hat (specifically RHEL4 Update 5, or RHEL 5) and Novell’s SLES10 are [...]

Oracle Contributes XQilla XQuery Engine Under Open Source Apache License

 I have recently posted an article to explain how Oracle is a major contributor to the Open-Source Community. A recent announcement give me the opportunity to detail this contribution here.
One week ago, Oracle has annouced his contribution to the XQilla XQuery engine code, an embeddable XQuery engine for developers building XML-based applications, under the open source Apache 2.0 [...]

Free hands-on labs to customers/partners attending Collaborate 2008 in Denver

Only 1 month is left until the annual Collaborate Oracle user conference (this year in Denver, April 13 - 17, 2008)…. Celebrating the third year, the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG), the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) and Quest International Users Group (Quest) have combined resources and ideas to bring a global event in one location. [...]

Identity Management for Oracle E-Business Suite Resource Kit available… for free!

Ask yourself these key questions: Do you know who has access to your sensitive applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite? Are you using strategic, customer-focused applications to manage user identities and privileges? Is there a significant time lag between a user role change and user provisioning and deprovisioning?
Identity management has never been more critical—and if you’re [...]