The waiting is over, and that sound you hear is cheering from Oracle Apps Development teams around the world.
I am very pleased to announce that Oracle Applications E-Business Suite Release 12 -- the Global Business Release -- is now available for new and upgrading customers on all supported languages. It's available from the Oracle Store and for download from Oracle Electronic Product Delivery.
Enhanced Documentation in Release 12
Significant strides have been made to improve the amount of Release 12
information via MetaLink. The About Documents that accompanied releases
in the past have been replaced with a single comprehensive roadmap document:
- Oracle Applications Documentation Resources for Release 12 (Metalink Note 394692.1)
Roadmap provides a landing pad to help you navigate through the wealth of material available, and highlights individual documentation
roadmaps at the product and product family level too.
What's New in Release 12?
There are over 1,500 new features in Release 12, with significant new functionality in the Financials area. Release 12 includes the latest in Oracle technology, including the 10gR2 Database and Oracle Application Server 10g.
For links to the published Release Content Documents for Oracle Applications, E-Business Suite Release 12, see the following document:
- Oracle E-Business Suite: Release 12 Release Content Documents (Metalink Note 404152.1)
- E-Business Suite (General)
- Applications Technology Stack
- Intelligence Family
- Customer Relationship Management Family
- Marketing & Sales Family
- Logistics
- Supply Chain Management Family
- Advanced Planning
- Procurement Family
- Process Manufacturing
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Maintenance Management
- Customer Service Family
- Service Execution
- Projects Family
- HRMS Family
- Financials Family
- Customer Data Management
- Property Manager
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Order Management
- Student Systems
- Technology Components
- New Look and Feel - "Swan" User Interface
- Identity Management Integration
- Security
- Oracle User Management
- Functional Administration
- Concurrent Processing
- Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM)
- Oracle Application Framework (OAF)
- Workflow, Messaging, and Integration
- Oracle Applications Manager and Grid Control Plug-in for the E-Business Suite
- Applications Installation and Configuration Management
- Oracle XML Publisher
- Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator
- Oracle Report Manager
- Oracle iSetup
- Oracle Tutor
You can check the Oracle Electronic Product Delivery site for media packs for available operating system platforms. If your specific platform isn't available yet, keep checking the site for updates. If you plan to download this yourself, be prepared to put aside some time for the task -- there are over 70 disk images in the media pack!
Tune Into Our Launch Event
Don't forget that our launch event is still lined up for January 31st. If you can't join us in New York, you can still reserve a virtual seat for the online event now.
Now, you'll have to excuse me. I need to brush the confetti out of my hair...
Comments (17)
Excellent news. Like the way you guys sneak it in there before the Launch event. :-)
Time to get hold of a copy and start worrying how I am going to implement it.
Posted by Chris Balodis | January 26, 2007 2:29 AM
Posted on January 26, 2007 02:29
Hi
Your link to note 394692.1 is not working
Regards
Posted by Richard Byrom | January 26, 2007 5:46 AM
Posted on January 26, 2007 05:46
Thanks, Richard. I've refreshed the link, but noticed that the link fails if you haven't already logged into Metalink. To resolve that, log into Metalink in your browser, then click the link again.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | January 26, 2007 8:34 AM
Posted on January 26, 2007 08:34
It seems that the JDeveloper w/OA Extension ARU for OA Framework Development is not available.
Can you please confirm if that is the case and if so when will it be available ?
Posted by Bhushan Kodibagkar | January 29, 2007 10:14 PM
Posted on January 29, 2007 22:14
Bhushan,
I can try to track this down for you, but I may need more details. Where did you see this referenced in our documentation?
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | January 30, 2007 1:26 PM
Posted on January 30, 2007 13:26
Hi Steven
I would like to congratulate you and your team on this accomplishment.
Kudos!!
Thanks a lot
Sam
http://www.appsdbablog.com
Posted by Sam | January 31, 2007 12:09 AM
Posted on January 31, 2007 00:09
Steven,
Maybe a worng place to post this but we had one interesting thread going on at one of the forums at OTN (http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=468425&tstart=0) on which an Oracle insider like you might shed some light.
Maybe you could step in for a lil of enlightnement
Sam
http://www.appsdbablog.com
Posted by Sam | January 31, 2007 7:45 AM
Posted on January 31, 2007 07:45
Note:391554.1
Development
Note: Before extending your OA Framework-based Oracle Application pages, please read Oracle Application Framework Support Guidelines for Customers (Metalink Note 395441.1). Also note that you must have access to Oracle 10g JDeveloper with OA Extension , and not just Oracle 10g JDeveloper.
But I cant seem to find a particular patch number for this download. It is not included as an extension on JDeveloper downloads either. On the OTN Forums, all I could understand is that patch has not been released. So I wanted to confirm if that is the case and if so when will it be released.
Any help is appreciated . Thanks.
Posted by Bhushan Kodibagkar | February 2, 2007 7:58 PM
Posted on February 2, 2007 19:58
Bhushan,
I'm looking into this now. I'll post an update here as soon as I learn more about the availability of this download.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | February 5, 2007 10:27 AM
Posted on February 5, 2007 10:27
Bhushan,
I've learned that this patch is in the final packaging phase right now. I'll post an update on the actual patch number that you can download as soon as it's released.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | February 5, 2007 11:14 AM
Posted on February 5, 2007 11:14
Good afternoon, late congrats to all!
I tried to request the windows version on metalink, but they told me that is not yet available, please confirm that and tell us the expected date of release.
Thanks again for evertyhing.
Cheers
JL
Posted by Jorge Suarez | February 5, 2007 4:53 PM
Posted on February 5, 2007 16:53
Jorge,
Whoops. Correcting this post.
It appears that the Windows media pack for Release 12 is still coming. I would recommend that you keeping checking the Electronic Product Delivery site regularly for updates. I'll also attempt to post an update here as soon as that platform is released.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | February 6, 2007 11:16 AM
Posted on February 6, 2007 11:16
Bhushan,
It's released now. See:
- JDeveloper 10g with OA Extension Now Available
Regards,Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | February 9, 2007 3:52 PM
Posted on February 9, 2007 15:52
Steven,
Kind of a left field question, but we need a definitive list of new applications delivered with Release 12 over 11i - we've read from the literature 18, but we're only finding 12 - know you're terribly busy, but thought you might be able to point us to the definitive?
Regards,
Chuck Kennedy
Posted by Chuck Kennedy | May 14, 2007 4:22 PM
Posted on May 14, 2007 16:22
Chuck,
Hmm... my focus is on the E-Business Suite's technology stack. I have much less visibility into the functional side of things, unfortunately. Your best bet might be to ask your Oracle account manager to put together a detailed list for you. He or she can try to chase this down from some of our internal functionally-oriented resources.
Good luck with this one.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | May 15, 2007 11:39 AM
Posted on May 15, 2007 11:39
Steven,
As of March 2nd, 2008, edelivery now offers the Release 12.0.4 Media Pack as a direct download -- installing R12.0.0 and patching up to 12.0.4 seems no longer necessary. Would you have any insight into which CPU patches are included/excluded from the R12.0.4 installation?
Regards,
Steven Parks
Posted by Steven Parks | March 13, 2008 3:02 PM
Posted on March 13, 2008 15:02
Hi, Steven,
The ability to install 12.0.4 directly rather than patching up is a really great step forward for this release. I'm way behind in my announcements but will be posting this one soon.
As for the latest Critical Patch Update included in 12.0.4: it's January 2008. I did a quick series of searches for this information, but was a little surprised to have no luck in finding this officially documented in the places that I'd originally expect. I've raised this with our Security team -- they're working on tracking this down now. This kind of information shouldn't be so difficult to find!
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | March 28, 2008 10:43 AM
Posted on March 28, 2008 10:43