Guest post by
Mili Bhaskar, Consultant, Infosys
In the Part -1 of the blog, there was a brief discussion about some of the important Industry trends. This part throws light on how Oracle Fusion Financials Application can cater to the recent Industry needs.
Continue reading " Empowering the Finance Function with Oracle Fusion Financials - Part 2 " »
Guest post by
Kiran Amara, Principal Consultant, Infosys
In the Part-1 of the blog, we provided an overview of recent CRM Industry trends and in this part we will provide our Point of View regarding how Oracle Fusion CRM and its capabilities cater to the recent CRM trends.
Guest post by
Pradeep V Krishnamurthy, Principal Consultant, Infosys
During the last three to five years, Oracle CRM and best of breed niche solutions have emerged and expanded to offer broad CRM or CRM related functionality, including Loyalty Management, Campaign Management, Self Services, a 360 Degree of Customer View and others. As many companies continue to expand their CRM functionality to include these trends, we are witnessing significant number of relatively new trends shaping the future of CRM as a key tool with the capability not only to increase sales revenue and significantly influence customer satisfaction, retention and loyalty, but with the potential to change the paradigm under which companies have traditionally interacted and done business with their customers.
In this part of blog, I provide an overview of recent CRM Industry Trends and in the second part, we will provide our Point of View regarding how Oracle Fusion CRM and its capabilities cater to the recent CRM trends.
Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management 11g Release 1 includes Sales, Marketing, and Customer Data Management modules. Service, Order Capture, Call Center Modules and Vertical Flavors are expected to be part of the next release.
Guest post by
Mili Bhaskar, Consultant, Infosys
Continuous pressure on businesses to perform has forced enterprises to evaluate, evolve and empower their finance functions, as a result of which there is a strategic shift seen in the finance department from being a score keeper to a valued business partner. The finance function on its path to evolve has come to be integrally dependent on effective information systems and technologies.
In this part of blog, I provide an overview of the current industry trends and in the next part, I will elaborate how Oracle Fusion Financials Application aides organizations in keeping up with these changing trends.
Continue reading " Empowering the Finance Function with Oracle Fusion Financials - Part 1 " »
Guest post by
Arun Tomar, Consultant, Infosys
In the previous part of the blog, we discussed about some of the important Human Capital Management trends in the industry. This part throws light on how Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management Application can cater to the needs of these fast changing Human Resource trends in the industry.
Guest post by
Shweta Dhal, Consultant, Infosys
The Human Resources (HR) function has morphed into a more strategic function over the past decade. This transition has caused HR to take on a more inclusive role as business partners supporting the people aspects of what makes up a business. To continue this evolution, Human Capital Management (HCM) departments need effective information technology solutions supportive of optimized global HCM processes, and the decision making tools which can provide better insight to solve HCM -related business problems.
Oracle Fusion HCM gives a new dimension to the Human Resource practice globally by leveraging features of the next generation ERP like Web 2.0, open standards based solution, rich user experience etc. It incorporates the best of breed solutions, thus reinventing the Human Resource function as a whole. The current release of Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management, 11g Release1 comes with offerings which are well integrated to give customers better insight and a holistic view of the Human Resource function, effectively aiding both strategic and day-to-day Human Resource activities.
Analytics as we know is all about gaining insights from data to aid effective decision making. However, the vision of delivering fast, interactive, insightful analytics has eluded most of large Enterprises.
Continue reading " Exalytics - BI and Big Data Tuned to Perfection " »
Guest post by
Vinod Kumar, Consultant, Infosys
Telecom sector has been chronically plagued by revenue leakage problems and often seen to be spending the maximum energy and budget on areas around how to not let it happen or in other words having in place an effective Revenue Assurance mechanism. Making it one of the most published area in the industry are the solutions around it yet the clients, be it the newcomers or the old-timers, are often marred by this problem. Not that there are no solution around it but it's the understanding of the solution/product offering and the judicious implementation which makes a solution stand out.
Continue reading " Bridging Two Islands: A curious case of Oracle AIA " »
Guest post by
Suchitha Prabakaran, Consultant, Infosys
In the current global business environment, efficient Procurement techniques, methodologies and processes play a vital role in providing a competitive edge- both operationally and financially for any organization irrespective of the size, nature of business, products dealt with, area of operations etc. Corporates now have realized the importance of streamlining and strategizing procurement processes as it makes a huge difference to the revenue and profitability of the organization.
Continue reading " Why Oracle Fusion Procurement? How does it add value? " »
Guest post by
Nikhil Kumar, Industry Principal, Infosys
Yet another exciting day here at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 started off with drizzling rain and San Francisco downtown bustling traffic. The exhibition halls got opened immediately after the morning keynotes around 10 am, and attracted a lot of attention and larger footsteps from customers and partners than yesterday. We could see people rushing and hopping across sessions, venues and exhibition booths and long queues for raffles and gifts offered by partners. Some folks are also relaxing with their iPads and smartphones at lounges browsing, catching up mails and chatting. Mobility can be noticed and felt all around at OpenWorld.
Continue reading " Experiencing 'Mobility' at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 " »
Guest post by
Neeraj Jha, Lead Consultant, Infosys
Some of the challenges that I can think of based on my experience and interaction with colleagues working in BI Support are due to -
Guest post by
Nipun Lakhotia, Consultant, Infosys
Automobile sector is currently experiencing a turbulent transition. Apart from product innovation, manufacturers need to align their supply chain processes to meet rapidly changing customer expectations.
Logistics plays a crucial role in automotive industry, representing about 40% of the retail price of a passenger car. Historically the automotive industry has always been focused on just-in-time manufacturing (JIT) which demands for sequenced deliveries. Inbound operational planning is expected to support advanced features like milk runs, direct delivery and cross-dock optimization with drop-trailer capabilities.
Continue reading " Automobile Logistics: Demand to Deliver (D2D) " »
Guest post by
Sandeep Suresh Deshpande, Principal Consultant, Infosys
In today's world, business is exposed to a constantly changing environment where organizations face the most challenging situations -
Oracle has done an extensive internal and external research, took the best practices from Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Siebel and all other acquisitions to come up with a number of industry business process areas with multiple levels of decomposition. These world class business processes can be leveraged to deliver in the complex and challenging environment.
Guest post by
Abhishek Sabharwal, Head- Infosys Oracle Innovation Center
Finally, we are here again on the helm of one of the biggest IT events of our times, Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) 2011. As the feeling of nostalgia triggers in with everyone beating each other about the number of years they had been participating in the OOW, the registration lines grew bigger and bigger. The weather, the excitement, iphone tunes and bustling traffic remained the same at SFO but the event seems to gets bigger and better, with representations from 120 countries and close to 45000 registrants. OOW started on a Green note of using minimum paper throughout the event, so no more bulky schedule. All replaced by mobile phone apps, and real time online updates...welcome Social Media and Mobility to the OOW...
Continue reading " Day 1 at OOW 2011 : The 'Green' and the 'Machines' " »
Guest post by
Sushal Subashchandra Shetty, Consultant, Infosys
Are you not able to define effective territories for your sales organization?
Is your sales team swimming in the sea without targets?
Is your sales team cherry picking on prospects and you are not aware how to tackle it?
Are you losing track of your sales team's performance?
If answer to all/one of the above questions is yes, then my cent that you ought to read this further. The top problems which one of the large manufacturing company was facing were loss of productivity due to redundant and manual process, lack of consistent and efficient reporting, inaccurate commissioning.
If you are also facing the same problems as above then sales planning solution based on Oracle Fusion Applications is the one-stop solution for you.
Continue reading " Effective Sales Planning with Oracle Fusion Sales Planning Solution " »
In this age of N-tier applications, SOA and other cutting edge technologies, PL/SQL has been largely ignored and is considered legacy. Its main use has been relegated to batch processing and Oracle Applications programming. In fact, most modern puritan SOA architects recommend not to use PL/SQL at all as it becomes difficult to manage the logic being embedded in the database. In n-tier architectures where the business logic is supposed to be embedded in the application logic layer, logic embedded in database PL/SQL is almost considered a blasphemy.
I feel that even in modern SOAs it makes real sense to embed logic in PL/SQL for specific scenarios.
Continue reading " Inject PL/SQL, Turbo-charge your SOA!! " »
Guest post by
Rohit Kaul, Senior Technology Architect, Infosys
I happened to read about a Greek philosopher in my kids school books and it reminded me of my school days where we read about methods of learning via questioning. It must have taken a great deal of courage from that man to question and challenge the existing set ups and systems. As it turns out his methodology is what comes naturally to all of us in IT (constantly questioning and brainstorming on the best solutions).
Continue reading " What to ask about the Exadata machine before the purchase decision? " »
Guest post by
Vinayak Gangadhar Kurdekar, Technology Lead, Infosys
Businesses today need to increasingly leverage a unified platform to host all their database and applications at one place. To meet this challenge, Oracle has designed the Exadata server technology that bundles database and applications together to provide high performance, high availability, scalability and throughput. Mere implementation of the exadata server and its components is not enough. Disasters can strike at anytime. To ensure survivability and safeguard against any major disasters, effective backup and recovery solution is a must. The backup and recovery strategy needs to be not only precise but proven in all aspects. To achieve this Oracle has come out with multiple backup and recovery solutions designed in-house and third party.
Ever since the birth of the IT revolution Business Rules
have been a part and parcel of the applications. There usage has mainly been a
part of the applications and changing the business rules meant changing the
application which involved huge impact in terms of time and money. With this
challenge came the thought of separating the Business Rules from the
application in such a way that the change in business rule has no impact on the
underlying application. This brought in more agility to the applications and
reduced the maintenance cost of applications. This has benefited the
insurance, health care, financial and government sectors the most as these
sectors have applications whose defining business policies are subject to
frequent change.
Continue reading " Oracle Business Rules - Moving towards smarter business processes " »
Introduction
With the business expanding across globes and with manufacturing organizations resorting to sub-contracting, there is a need for organizations to look at procurement beyond their current markets. This introduces the need for a centralized procurement function for better purchasing efficiency, better control over organization spend, and central and simpler management of contracts with suppliers. Oracle Fusion Procurement introduces new and better features that aid organizations to better manage their procurement functions. The following are the advantages of a centralized procurement function:
Continue reading " Centralized Procurement with Oracle Fusion " »
Guest post by
Rohit Kaul, Senior Technology Architect, Oracle Practice, Infosys
We all know about Exadata as a fast and scalable database solution for most of the enterprise applications. So the next natural question would be - what is the best migration path from current version, platform to the Exadata platform. The basic thought to keep in mind is simply that the target platform is always fixed and would always be an Oracle database version 11gR2 with ASM on a Linux platform (Oracle Enterprise Linux x86_64 (OEL5)) or on Solaris Express - So it is to be treated like just another migration from an Oracle DB/non-Oracle database to another Oracle 11gR2 database on OEL5/Solaris Express platform. So before one embarks on the migration journey one needs to make sure that the application is certified on Oracle database 11gR2. In this blog, I will cover a few preferred migration options and not the exhaustive list, since there would be multiple permutations/ combinations of other possible options considering several factors.
Continue reading " Myriad of options for migration to Exadata " »
Guest post by
Umesh Tanna, Senior Technology Architect, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys
In Part-1 of this blog we found that Exadata has many features that facilitates database consolidation. This blogs describes those features and explains how it helps in database consolidation.
Database Resource Manager (DBRM)
If we are consolidating multiple databases say for ex. A and B into a single database AB, DBRM would help us control how much resources to allocate to process/programs/sessions of A and B while they run in shared database AB. Basically this enables us to control how CPU are shared amongst A and B and also establish the priorities. This is implemented with what is known as resource allocation scheme amongst the consumer groups defined within database. Also the allocation scheme changes are dynamic i.e. we can have one resource allocation scheme effective during business hours and can have different during after business hours.
Continue reading " Oracle Exadata - A platform for consolidation (Part-2) " »
I recently happen to analyze a SOA project which had necessary development process and little or no SOA Governance. SOA and Agile development methodology were the buzz word for the project. Everything looks good at first sight, but there is deep problem buried in this rapid development. I have to tell the client what they are missing but not getting too technical.
Guest post by
Mukesh Nakra, Senior Program Manager and GTM Director-Oracle Fusion Applications, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Tough market competition is putting pressure on organizations in terms of process standardization and access to integrated information. With the availability of the internet and all online content adapting to the Web 2.0 standards, employees and organizations are expecting systems that support businesses to adapt to these standards and new technologies. Oracle supports multiple ERP packages like Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JDEdwards and Seibel to name a few. Taking advantage of the evolution and availability of new technology platforms and with a vision to standardize the applications, both from a usability and technological basis, Oracle Fusion Applications were created.
Continue reading " Oracle Fusion Applications - Are you still looking for answers? " »
Until last month by and large I believed that for the webservices that are to be used internally in an organization, over the intranet, we need not put any extra security overheads around them, like for example use of Oracle Web Service Security Management. By using infrastructural level protection we can attain a safe setup, and this approach worked. A logical way would be to network protect your server which is hosting the webservices to only those machines which need access to it.
So what changed my perspective? The way infrastructure is being used today and indeed in a most optimized way brought in a new dimension to my thoughts.
Continue reading " Securing webservices with OWSM - should we, should we not? " »
Guest post by
Sourish Chatterjee, Lead Consultant, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
In my last blog, Business Intelligence in Oracle's Fusion Applications- Always Available, I had discussed that Fusion application Business Intelligence comprises of the following:
Let's now see how all the BI Content can be accessed within fusion applications.
Continue reading " How to access Business Intelligence in Oracle's Fusion Applications " »
Guest post by
Umesh Tanna, Senior Technology Architect, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Consolidation is one of the many key reasons for deploying and using Exadata. Oracle Exadata is an appliance - hardware and software bundled and engineered to provide maximum performance. It is a database machine that is purpose built and integrated. True, that there are high end systems that are best suited to be replaced by Exadata platform considering the growth and performance need of those system. However, by design, Exadata offers high end configuration and specification which not all types of Oracle database application that today runs in IT department need. Hence, solid business case can be built for those systems if, some type of consolidation solution is considered which can simplify, increase availability and performance and ultimately reduce total cost of ownership.
Continue reading " Oracle Exadata - A platform for consolidation (Part-1) " »
Guest post by
Vamsi Neti, Systems Engineer, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Change is inevitable. I was wondering how big a step required to process and manage the change. Business is not an exception, to be in the market accept the truth and "change the business constantly". Here is a real-time example of business change happening today, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology. A big shopping mall wants to open its new store, to sustain the competition it has planned to use RFID tags on stock (which enables stores to identify and track item in the supply chain automatically and make the customer to use virtual cart). This action has sent employees scrambling to learn about the wireless technology, ordering signage, requisitioning products and launching a PR campaign to coincide with the opening. All of these tasks need to be completed on a schedule. The implementation is very complex due to very high cost, time taking process and risk involved in designing the strategy to respond to market changes instantly.
Continue reading " Automation of Business Process Management " »
Guest post by
Rinku Das, Project Manager, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
What is the future of Oracle Forms applications? Is Oracle going to support Oracle Forms in near future? There are many such questions worrying the developers working on forms and the customers using forms in their applications. All these are scary questions for application developers who are working on Oracle Forms for a long time and are not familiar with Java. These developers may not be in a position to immediately migrate/move to new technologies/tools like ADF, Fusion Middleware and SOA. These are the common debates now-a-days amongst Oracle developers.
Guest post by
Rinku Das, Project Manager, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
With the introduction of Oracle Fusion Middleware technology, technical consultants who are mainly working on E-Business Suite started questioning how to expose Oracle business interfaces (like Business Events, PL/SQL, XML Gateway, etc) built using multiple technologies as Web Services and also how to invoke & consume external Web Services. The answer to such questions is YES. This is feasible using Integrated SOA Gateway available in Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.
Continue reading " Importance of Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway " »
Guest post by
Prasad Jayakumar, Technical Lead, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Early morning I was hitting I-94W to meet my client in Milwaukee. I wish I had my I-PASS; toll varied from 25 cents to little more than a dollar. I was wondering "Why not the government builds the infrastructure out of tax collected and let us free?" Immediately I realized my ignorance. My discussion topic with client was "How to measure ROI for SOA Projects?" It was a meeting to see if we can present benefit of SOA in a tangible way to business. I was wondering if the toll way could answer the question.
Continue reading " How to measure ROI for SOA projects? A Tollway Approach " »
Continue reading " How to Extend BPEL Integrations with WSIF? " »
Continue reading " Hybrid Cloud and Weblogic WAN Clustering " »
Guest post by
Ravisankar Nagavarapu, Technology Lead, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
In today's world most of the organizations are going for complex integrations of heterogeneous contents on their websites. This is resulting in scattered web content and scattered information is very difficult to manage and maintain.
Oracle Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Oracle Portal Life cycle management make it easy for the developers/organizations to bring heterogeneous content from different web assets on to a single platform. The open nature of the architecture and the standards provided by the tools help organizations to plan their future for rationalized web assets.
Continue reading " Decreases in Traditional CRM Interaction Capture " »
Guest post by
Prasad Jayakumar, Technical Lead, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd
One Less, One More™ - "one less negative thought or action, and one more positive thought or action, and soon our lives will be less stressful, and if practiced as a community [...] would move in the direction of our collective goals, dreams and desires" by Robbie Vorhaus, Communications, crisis and reputation advisor.
Oracle acquired many best-of-breed products on SOA landscape may be for architecture excellence or for concept/idea or for market share or to fill the void or based on some other strategy which only acquisition experts know. But, what's interesting is how Oracle managed to unify all the acquired products and paved a path to Success as a corporate and for Oracle SOA practitioners.
Guest post by
Prasad Jayakumar, Technical Lead, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
In my recent client discussion the ever pondering question popped up, "Do we need SOA Governance?" Definite YES, I told without second thought. If they would have asked me "Do we need SOA?" the answer would have been based on whether business is ok to WALK or wants to DRIVE. Since the question was about governance, it is as simple as saying "If you want to drive safely, better hold a valid driving license."
Many analysis has been done and many artifacts written about the success of the ERP projects but the question which primarily remains unanswered and less explored is who holds the key to success of the program.
Continue reading " Who holds the key to success in ERP led business transformation programs " »
In the SOA world, there are several pieces of the architecture which are considered de-facto for an SOA. e.g. Service Bus, BPEL process Manager, Business Activity Monitoring etc. But a key component which is only added as an after-thought in most implementations is the Service Registry.
Continue reading " Starting a SOA Project? Don't forget the Service Registry!! " »
To design a platform-level cloud, there are several considerations that we have to keep in mind. Some of them are like technology to support elasticity, portability, to design Cloud architecture with minimal incremental effort and restructuring. How can we evolve cloud-like architecture with a phased approach, prioritizing and sequencing incremental changes in a way that reflects priorities specific to business and in a way that minimizes disruption.
Oracle Fusion Middleware provides an excellent foundation for setting up cloud with critical capabilities like rich portal technology for a self-service interface and support for elastic capacity.
In today's hyper-competitive markets, information users demand more interactive and collaborative way to access information. Due to the influence of Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, blogs, tagging, RSS, mash-ups, discussions and social networking, future web applications will have to cater to the needs of the user who want to quickly access and connect with like-minded people or experts, manage content that is spread all over the enterprise, or customize and personalize applications according to his taste and usage.
Continue reading " Creating Corporate Social Networks the Oracle WebCenter way " »
Guest post by
Malay Kumar, Principal Technology Architect, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Lot has been said and written on SOA, but are we successful in educating Business. Why is SOA good for smarter business? Unless Business understands and adopts SOA, we will still struggle to create value for our clients. SOA enables the business to focus on business and allows IT to evolve in this ever changing world.
Continue reading " Does Business understand that 21st Century Business means SOA! " »
Guest post by
Kamal Dheeraj Dandamudi, Systems Engineer, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Most businesses now depend heavily on the availability of their Information and most critical business processes are IT based. Business Continuity is the ability to continue business under any circumstances and is an important requirement for most modern companies. So the main requirements in today's businesses are High Availability and Disaster Recovery of information.
Guest post by
Vyshnavi Allamsetty, System Engineer - AIA Center of Excellence, Oracle Practice, Enterprise Solutions, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
In today's competitive market place, the organizations have to concentrate on building robust, maintainable and high performing applications in order to withstand the competition. In addition, they need to build composite applications which adhere to standard principles and reduce human effort. This need of various organizations forced the S/W developers to build extremely agile applications and in order to implement the best practices in applications, the developers have to write loads of code.
Oracle marks a new era for its apps with the introduction of Fusion this year. It has tried to combine the best in class technology and functionality from its acquisitions and bring the best for end users.
However let us discuss what can be the key growth drivers both Industry wise and Functionality wise which would drive the future of Oracle apps
Continue reading " Next Generation growth engines for Oracle Apps in Financial Services " »
In today's scenario, organizations are facing many problems in managing content with nearly 80% of the unstructured information, lots of content duplication and spending around 15-20% of the operating revenue in fixing problems that arouse from inappropriate data.
To maximize content management efficiency, improve security and reduce costs, organizations need a comprehensive enterprise content management solution that fits easily with their business processes. Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g meets these demands delivering the high performance and scalability required to face the challenging enterprise content management environments.
Continue reading " Build first and worry about integration later - A hazardous trap!! " »
Consider the following business scenario: A receiving clerk in a warehouse is inspecting and receiving material from a supplier. Quality tests find one attribute just outside the defined acceptance limits. This is a case for acceptance under deviation and a quick decision has to be made if the lot should be accepted under deviation.
The user looks up the open receipt in the application, the details of the receipt including supplier name, Item name, quantity etc show up. Apart from this, in the same transactional screen, the user is also able to see the Supplier Score till last month for the supplier in question. He is also able to see the acceptance status of the last 5 deliveries from the supplier for the item in question. Apart from this he also able to see the on-hand quantity projections for the item for the next week in the same screen. With all the above contextual and instantly available information, within the process flow, the users are able to take a quick decision on this case of acceptance under deviation. The scenario described above would be a reality in Oracle's Fusion applications where Business Intelligence and Analytics would be always available.
Continue reading " Business Intelligence in Oracle's Fusion Applications - Always Available! " »
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Oracle BI Applications are pre-built analytic applications compatible with any IT environment, consisting of prebuilt metadata for common industry analytics processing such as Sales, Service, Order Fulfillment, Supply Chain, Financial Analytics, Procurement and Spend and so on.
Continue reading " Oracle's promising BI Roadmap - Taking the joy ride together (Part 2) !! " »
The success rates of CRM implementation have been reported low traditionally. Various studies attribute the reason to various factors like user adoptability, system adaptability, high TCO etc. Should I take the liberty of saying that marketing and sales users (next to warehouse users) would be ranked first in discarding a system which is not easy to use and fit the requirements. So, Is Fusion ready for sales and marketing users? Let us have a look at the features which marketing and sales users would go gala about it.
In reference to the note Global CIO: Larry Ellison's Top 10 Priorities At Oracle Open World (http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227400524&itc=ref-true), The most-compelling element of the entire 5-day mega-show of oracle open world will be the public comments of CEO Larry Ellison in his key note. While Ellison always draws a huge crowd and frequently enjoys playing to those crowds with some intentionally provocative comments, the showmanship angle of his presentations is vastly overstated.
Some of the Top 10 strategic issues that Ellison will focus on in is public comments at Oracle Open World
Continue reading " Oracle CEO Larry Ellison's Top 10 Priorities At Oracle Open World " »
The relevance of information is defined by the accuracy, timeliness and efficiency with which it can be leveraged. 'Change' is a constantly happening process that reflects the present and defines the future, overcoming the flaws of the past. A company's legacy applications and technology might be outdated and needs to be modernized to perform and deal with competition.
Continue reading " Oracle's promising BI Roadmap - Taking the joy ride together (Part 1) !! " »
Continue reading " Demystifying Oracle Fusion Procurement Product Family " »
Continue reading " How to Handle Complex Application Integration Challenges? With Oracle AIA " »
I know there's lot of noise around Larry's public outburst on the definition of "Cloud" but slowly there's quite a bit of change in adoption of cloud in Oracle's offerings.
The link http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/cloud/index.html does list the various solutions that Oracle is offering.
At the outset they are suggesting to jump onto Amazon's public cloud offering but its interesting to see that they bundle their On-Demand offering as as part of SaaS offering. That kind of gives a harbinger on what we can expect from Oracle in future for their enterprise applications as they've not yet certified their Applications on Amazon's cloud infrastructure.
Yes we do have a option of building a SaaS application using their Oracle Database and Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager and VM. My take on this combination is that they make a wonderful combination on a on-premise and has been a hugely successful. But deploying them on a cloud based solutions will have some kinks to be ironed out. couple of top priority items would be Design Patterns, Security, deployment patterns, Services consumption/usage patterns.
I would like to hear from you on what you think on the SaaS application on Oracle platform
As per the Gartner report (See: http://software.tekrati.com/research/news.asp?id=9065), "By 2010, less that 25 percent of large companies will have the sufficient technical and organizational skills necessary to deliver enterprise wide SOA." One big reason why SOA initiatives fail or do not get enough momentum is lack of reference architecture and a robust framework. IT industry finds the path to SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) a bit challenging. Oracle AIA (Application Integration Architecture) provides a robust and yet flexible architecture.
Continue reading " When Oracle SOA has been around, why do we need Oracle AIA? " »
It is a well known fact that Application Integration Architecture (AIA) is a solution for several Integration Challenges like making Integration among applications flexible meaning,' loosely coupled instead of Point to Point Integrations', provide easy plug and play integrations, and able to accommodate changes with less risk, cost and complexity. It also helps in creating Seamless Integrations for various applications across IT Industry.
Most of us might have known about AIA 11gR1 version that was recently released by Oracle and surely would be curious to know, what's new in AIA 11gR1 release? So, here are some of the facts about AIA 11gR1 release
By looking at the above mentioned points, we can now have a better idea about the new features available in AIA 11gR1 release. This brings us to an end of the short glimpse on new features of Application Integration Architecture (AIA) 11gR1.
Stay tuned for my next blog on more details about AIA 11gR1 Features! Please feel free to send in your comments.
Authors : Anu Samantha GP, K N Harilal
Continue reading " What's New in Application Integration Architecture (AIA) 11gR1 Release!! " »
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To realize the early benefits of an ERP implementation and to comply with all the legal requirements, it is important that the applications and data are properly secured by exploring all the available security option within Oracle Applications
Oracle ebiz suite has various security features like:
a) Application Security using Access Control, Identity Management , Password Management etc
b) Physical Data Security using oracle database security , back ups etc
c) Security for imodules using firewalls, proxies etc
As part of Application security, User Management or RBAC (Role Based Access Control) was introduced by Oracle few years back, the major features of User management are:
- In the User Management model, a role would point to a set of functions and separately point to a navigation menu that should be used to access those functions.
- This navigation menu may contain a superset of functions but only those functions which have been granted to the user (via the roles) would be enabled (other functions would be filtered out)
- The navigation menu can be organized in the most intuitive way for finding functions in the navigator, while the roles can be defined purely based on the security / organization requirements
What is the difference with the traditional Responsibility approach?
Under User Management / RBAC, rather than presenting the user with a list of responsibilities which may have the same menu or slightly altered versions of the same menu presented multiple times, one would present the user with a list of product areas, and all the functions which they can access in that product area regardless of the role through which the function was given.
RBAC / User Management still has long way to go with challenges like an organization should have a clear RACI(Responsibility-Accountability-Consultation-Information) matrix defined with proper roles but eventually it would replace the Responsibility based security model of oracle.
In today's competitive marketplace, companies need to quickly adapt and evolve to changing business needs. Therefore, to build, deploy, and sell more complete solutions we can now leverage Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA). AIA is a complete integration solution for orchestrating agile, user-centric business processes across enterprise applications. It enables you to simplify cross business process-based integrations across Oracle, third-party and custom applications using a standards-based, pre built integration solution. AIA framework offers many prebuilt components which help in accelerating development, deployment, reusability and configurability of business processes.
Continue reading " Bank on ODI for high volume data transactions " »
Continue reading " Complex Application Integration challenges? We have solution!!! " »
It makes sense for us to begin the story with the mention of nothing other than the Application Integration Architecture release 3.0 (AIA 3.0) which is going to be out shortly. Application Integration Architecture is an integration solution for orchestrating agile, user-centric business processes across enterprise applications. It offers prebuilt solutions at the data, process and user interface levels delivering a more complete process solution to business end users. With handful of productivity tooling components, reference process models, infrastructure components, methodologies that guide us through the SOA development lifecycle and many more, AIA 3.0 is going to stand out as superior reference architecture for implementing best practice Service Oriented Architecture in Enterprise Application Integrations.
Continue reading " The Combo for Successful Application Integrations is on its Way! " »
Business transformation has become a global phenomenon with very little choice left to the enterprises to operate in a conventional manner. The new business processes are demanding the best of breed applications to support the new requirements.
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Let us look at some of the top most queries our customers have who are on SOA adoption path:
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Having seen both the SOA approaches top down and as well as bottom-up, this question still bewilders me if there is any right option out of these two? There is no easy answer. Or I would like to believe it depends...
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Three years back Oracle concocted Fusion middleware to integrate and merge all its key enterprise applications into a high quality Fusion Application.Who would have thought that even Fusion middleware will undergo further Fusion?Acquisition of BEA Systems last year has enabled Oracle to position itself as the strongest in providers of middleware and java technologies for enterprises.
Last two quarters we have seen a sea change in Oracle’s middleware strategy for most of its customers. Ambiguity and turbulence generated in customers and solution providers due to overlapping seem to be fading now. 2009 is expected to bring better understanding of the strategy of Oracle and its right adoption.
Details of the successful SOA implementation using Oracle Fusion middleware for a RHIO.
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a way to electronically make personal and medical information securely available among doctors, hospitals and other health care providers when it is needed for care. A secure electronic HIE allows patients to make sure their health information is available when they need it while seeking medical care or treatment. HIE enables authorized physicians and other health care providers to share a patient's clinical results across institutional boundaries.
Client utilizes a healthcare industry standard, which is based on XML, that could be easily consumed by other systems. Client also wanted to expose internal services encapsulating the data repository to external world so as to be easily consumed by other systems.
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Last week I was at Oracle partner briefing on technology stack. It was quite interesting and informative. The discussion was around BEA acquisition and integrating the existing Fusion product with BEA.
Service Oriented Architecture is a win-win solution for organizations today that have an utmost need for modernizing their legacy IT assets to sustain in a competitive world. At the same time the indispensible legacy gamut of applications needs to be retained.
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We have always known a Middleware as a software program that integrates two or more disparate applications. Anyone having first encounters with Oracle Fusion Middleware (OFM) will tend to reckon it as a collection of middleware products. The fact is it is not just a middleware; it is much more than that.
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