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:
One of the most-popular sessions at OpenWorld every year is our discussion about Oracle’s own E-Business Suite implementation. Donna Buhlig and Nigel Cooper, from our Applications IT (AIT) group, have expanded upon previous years’ presentations with a
bigger and more in-depth look at our internal Global Single Instance deployment:
Donna and Nigel covered the following topics:
Overview of E-Business Suite R12 products used within Oracle
Current statistics about our Apps R12 database size:
Systems metrics, including the number of concurrent database and Forms sessions, and Concurrent Manager jobs
Physical architecture for our Global Single Instance (GSI) deployment
Application Server configuration — with comparisons between Release 11i and R12 server configurations
Oracle’s system monitoring strategy, with focus on Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM), Oracle Applications Manager (OAM), and other ad hoc monitoring tools
System change management strategy, showing how patches flow from Test to Production
Release 12 Upgrade
Strategy and detailed upgrade activities by tier and project phase
Use of “Upgrade by Request” to upgrade 8 out of 20 years of SLA data migrated
APPL_TOP cleanup of obsolete customizations
Conversion of historical reports to XML Publisher
Performance testing
Upgrade project plan and tasks
Init.Oracle parameter changes from Release 11i
Number of works used during the upgrade, adpatch ptions
Detailed post-upgrade steps
A candid look at issues identified during testing
Actions taken to reduce the upgrade downtime
Related Articles
- Case Study: Oracle’s Own Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade (OAUG Collaborate 2008)
- Case Study: Oracle’s Own [Release 11i] E-Business Suite Global Single Instance (OpenWorld 2005)