I recently wrote about the eternal dilemma of the Apps system implementer: whether it's worth customizing the E-Business Suite or not. Customizations and extensions introduce the challenge of deploying your customizations between multiple development, QA, and production environments. Our new Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite has the potential to help to with that, and a few other notable systems management tasks, too. The Application Change Management Pack is one of the most-interesting new lifecycle management products released recently from our Applications Technology Group. The Application Change Management Pack is an optional add-on to the Application Management Pack. The Application Management Pack is an Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control plug-in for the E-Business Suite. Ken Baxter and Biju Mohan covered the new Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite in detail in their OpenWorld 2009 session: * Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite: An Introduction (Session S309527, PDF, 2 MB)
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.

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).
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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...
[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...
Following up on my recent article on using Oracle Enterprise Manager with Oracle Applications Manager, the Oracle Grid Control 10gR2 Plug-in for Oracle Applications has just been released for IBM AIX. This release can be downloaded via MetaLink as patch...
Oracle Applications Manager (OAM) has matured into a very slick and powerful toolbox for Apps sysadmins. Oracle Applications Manager is a standalone tool, but if you're so-inclined, you can optionally use a plug-in to integrate it with Oracle Enterprise Manager...
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