Oracle E-Business Suite Technology

Applications Management and Change Management Packs Certified with Enterprise Manager Grid Control Release 5

By Steven Chan on June 23, 2009 1:33 PM

Our E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group released a new product, the Application Change Management Pack (ACMP), and a new version of their Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 4 earlier this month.  They've just followed this up with a new certification with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 5.

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Applications Change Management Pack 3.0 and Applications Management Pack 3.0 Now Available

By Steven Chan on June 2, 2009 11:36 AM

Our E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group recently released a new product, the Application Change Management Pack (ACMP), and a new version of their Application Management Pack (AMP).

The Application Change Management Pack is noteworthy because it provides three new tools for automating updates to multiple E-Business Suite instances:

• Customization Manager automates the packaging of your customizations into AD-compliant packages that can be deployed across multiple E-Business Suite instances.  Before packaging, the Customization Manager validates your customizations against Oracle's software coding best practices.

  

• Patch Manager integrates with Oracle Metalink and automatically downloads and deploys different types of patches across multiple (single or multi-node) E-Business Suite instances.

  

• Setup Manager helps manage functional setups that need to be duplicated across multiple E-Business Suite instances.

  

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Webcast: Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Overview

By Steven Chan on November 6, 2008 2:12 PM

Here's a quick update on behalf of my colleagues in the Lifecycle Management team: If you're interested in an introduction to using the Applications Management Pack (AMP) with the E-Business Suite, there's a free webcast coming up next week.  For registration details

• Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Overview
  November 11th, 11:00 AM Pacific

It's been a little quiet since its inception, but the Lifecycle Management team has launched their own E-Business Suite Lifecycle Management (LCM) blog, too.  I'm sure they'd appreciate the encouragement if you post suggestions, questions, or even a comment about your experiences with AMP.

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E-Business Suite Technology Essentials (OpenWorld 2008 Recap)

By Steven Chan on October 28, 2008 2:53 PM

I'll be highlighting OpenWorld 2008 presentations that cover some of the most popular E-Business Suite technology stack topics.  A catalog of all of the Applications Technology track sessions with links to the presentations is available here:

• OpenWorld 2008 Session Catalog: E-Business Suite Applications Technology Track

The E-Business Suite technology stack can be a bit intimidating at first.  Lisa Parekh, Vice President of Applications Technology Integration, provides a crisp overview of the key technologies and concepts that every Apps manager or DBA should be familiar with in this presentation:

• E-Business Suite Technology Essentials (PDF, 4.5 MB)

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GE Infrastructure + AMP Case Study at OpenWorld 2008

By Steven Chan on September 16, 2008 1:28 PM

Our OpenWorld preparations are at a fever pitch right now and I can barely see the top of my inbox. One of my colleagues, Biju Mohan, has an OpenWorld session that will be useful if you're evaluating the Applications Management Pack. As part of his session, Biju and an EBS architect from GE Infrastructure will be discussing how GE Infrastructure running multiple Oracle E-Business Suite production systems was able to save $200k and also reduce DBA time by 84% by using Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle E-Business Suite (AMP).

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Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite 2.0.2 Now Available

By max.arderius on August 18, 2008 5:50 PM

Oracle E-Business Suite Application Technology Group (ATG) is pleased to announce the availability of the Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) version 2.0.2 Rollup update. This pack is available through Oracle Metalink, as patch 6809246.

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Comparing OEM Data Masking and AMP Data Scrambling Features

By sanchit.jindal on April 20, 2008 11:02 AM

My last article spurred a flood of questions about the difference between Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Data Masking and the Application Management Pack's (AMP) Data Scrambling features. What is Data Masking? The act of anonymizing customer, financial, or company confidential data...

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Apps Management Pack 2.0 Available for HP-UX

By Steven Chan on April 10, 2008 3:06 PM

The latest Applications Management Pack version 2.0 was initially released for a selected set of operating system platforms.  This eagerly awaited upgrade to our popular Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10gR3 plug-in is now also available for two new platforms: ...

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Scrambling Sensitive E-Business Suite Data During Cloning

By sanchit.jindal on February 29, 2008 4:14 AM

Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control allows you to manage all of your Oracle E-Business Suite systems from a single console.  The Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 extends EM 10g Grid Control to manage...

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Latest Apps Management Pack 2.0.1 Now Available

By Steven Chan on February 21, 2008 3:11 PM

Our hardworking E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group recently released  Application Management Pack version 2.0.1 for Oracle E-Business Suite.  This upgrade includes some important new features and a large number of bug fixes.  This update  is available for download via Patch...

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Apps Management Pack for AIX and Linux x86-64 Now Available

By Steven Chan on August 9, 2007 7:46 AM

For those of you waiting for the latest version of the Applications Management Pack for the E-Business Suite to be ported to your operating system, some good news:  it's now available for two additional platforms:  IBM AIX and Linux x86-64.The...

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Apps Management Pack for E-Business Suite on Solaris Now Available

By Steven Chan on June 29, 2007 9:07 AM

The Applications Management Pack for the E-Business Suite was originally available only for Linux platforms.  For those of you waiting for the latest generation of our systems management tool to be ported to your operating system, some good news:  it's...

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Fully Automated Cloning for Release 11i and 12

By Steven Chan on April 4, 2007 2:18 PM

Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of an already existing Oracle Applications system.  Cloning is a regular part of an Apps DBA's responsibilities, so you're probably already familiar with the latest Rapid Clone utility and its predecessor, ...

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Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Now Available

By Steven Chan on February 23, 2007 10:19 AM

Editor May 7, 2006 Update:  It's been pointed out that the relative positioning between Oracle Application Manager and the Oracle Application Management Pack could stand to use some elaboration.  Oracle Application Manager is still present and bundled with both Apps...

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New Systems Management Capabilities for Release 12

By Steven Chan on November 13, 2006 12:28 PM

The latest details about the upcoming Release 12 Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g were unveiled at OpenWorld.  This new product replaces the older "Grid Control Plug-in for E-Business Suite," and many of the new features are...

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New Application Management Packs Coming for Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g

By Steven Chan on October 17, 2006 4:07 PM

[Editor Oct 18, 2007 Update:  Changed link to detailed information; there's more coming, including the presentation with detailed features and screenshots, during OpenWorld.]Our hard-working Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g team has just announced that a new set of Application Management Packs...

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