2008 Oracle Excellence Awards: Free OpenWorld Passes

Only 3 weeks are left (deadline August 8th) for customers and system integrators to submit nominations for the Oracle Excellence Award.
This is a great opportunity to honor and recognize pioneering/innovative projects at the interesection of Oracle Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware. Please note that Oracle is also specifically welcoming Oracle Applications customers (e-Business Suite, Siebel, […]

New Oracle Business Applications for iPhone Available on Apple App Store

The new iPhone 3G is definitively a great business phone. Now with iPhone 2.0 software, iPhone supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, delivering push email, calendar and contacts. And it gives mobile users secure access to corporate resources with Cisco IPSec VPN and network services with WPA2 Enterprise and 802.1X authentication.

With enterprise applications, iPhone becomes […]

How to restrict single session per user in Oracle E-Business Suite release 12

If you’re facing the problem that one user credential is used by whole department or team, you could decide to implement an “Single Session per User” restriction that one user credential can not be used simultaneously. In Oracle E-Business Suite release 11i, a patch was required (#3861070). This patch installed the oracle.apps.icx.security.session.created event and […]

BEA Middleware Strategy Briefing to July 1 Webcast

In recent weeks, you have increasingly expressed your interest in Oracle’s acquisition of BEA and what it means for the go-forward strategy of the Oracle Fusion Middleware family of products. On July 1, 2008, at 9 a.m. PDT, Oracle will host a live webcast to welcome BEA customers and partners and announce middleware product updates.
The […]

How to add Web 2.0 features in Oracle E-Business Suite with Seesmic

As you know, Oracle Workflow prebuilt into Oracle E-Business Suite delivers a complete workflow management system that supports business process based integration. Its technology enables modeling and automation of business processes, routing information of any type according to user-defined business rules.
Today, acting as a system integration hub, Oracle Workflow can apply business rules to control […]

Do you use Oracle Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware?

Once again, Oracle customers who are using Oracle Fusion Middleware to extend the business value of Oracle applications (E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards etc.) in innovative, exciting ways can win a free registration to Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco 2008 by submitting their nominations for the Oracle Excellence Awards by August 8, 2008.

Sample Use Cases:

Streamline […]

Oracle Debuts Enhanced Preview of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Building on the November 2007 preview, Oracle previewed additional planned feature enhancements of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
“As SOA, Web 2.0, and Rich Enterprise applications continue to evolve in sophistication, Oracle is committed to helping insulate developers and customers from the complexity and pitfalls that accompany the vast combination of potential underlying technologies,” said Thomas […]

A new Fusion Middleware for Oracle Applications Best Practices Center!

Are your Oracle Applications customers asking for “how to” information? Oracle created brand new Best Practice Centers on OTN featuring 15 step by step tutorials:

E-Business Suite technology leads can learn how to service-enable Oracle E-Business Suite business services, workflows, and business components. “How-to” sessions cover technology areas such as BPEL, ESB, BAM, ADF, and WebCenter: […]

Missing the Charles keynote at Collaborate08?

From April 13 to 17, 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 COLLABORATE 08 in Denver, Colorado.
During first general session keynote of the week, Oracle President Charles Phillips told Oracle customers, […]

Oracle Application Framework (OAF) or Application Development Framework (ADF)?

Like our customers, partners or system integrators, you perhaps develop extensions to E-Business Suite (E-BS) applications. Such extensions have traditionally used the same technology stack (Forms or Oracle Applications Framework) that the original E-BS application was built with. This ensured that the extensions are fully compatible with the rest of the installed E-BS applications. […]