[Dec. 31, 2013 update: Note 465915.1 has been withdrawn. Refer to the Certifications system on My Oracle Support for the latest certified combinations of EBS +...
[Dec. 31, 2013 update: Note 465915.1 has been withdrawn. Refer to the Certifications system on My Oracle Support for the latest certified combinations of EBS + Oracle VM] [Editor: This is the third of a five-part series on virtualization and cloud topics from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group.] In my two previous articles, we announced the availability of our EBS Oracle VM (OVM) templates, and then announced the availability of the...
[Dec. 31, 2013 update: Note 465915.1 has been withdrawn. Refer to the Certifications system on My Oracle Support for the latest certified combinations of EBS + Oracle VM] [Editor: This is the third...
Andy Tremayne, my esteemed colleague and fellow blogger, has published a new whitepaper that discusses the effects of network acceleration appliances on traffic...
Andy Tremayne, my esteemed colleague and fellow blogger, has published a new whitepaper that discusses the effects of network acceleration appliances on traffic optimization for E-Business Suite environments: Symmetrical Network Acceleration with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Note 967992.1) From Andy's crisp prologue: Network appliances can be used to reduce bandwidth and latency effects through the use of data stream compression and object caching. The focus of this...
Andy Tremayne, my esteemed colleague and fellow blogger, has published a new whitepaper that discusses the effects of network acceleration appliances on traffic optimization for E-Business Suite...
What's new, you ask? That's always a tough question to answer succinctly. 2009 was an exceptionally busy year for us in E-Business Suite Development. In the...
What's new, you ask? That's always a tough question to answer succinctly. 2009 was an exceptionally busy year for us in E-Business Suite Development. In the spirit of the inestimable Harper's Weekly Review, here's a summary of the most-important developments and news for Apps architects and system administrators this year. E-Business Suite releases: With Premier Support for Apps 11i ending in November 2010, interest in upgrading from 11i to R12 apparently seemed to...
What's new, you ask? That's always a tough question to answer succinctly. 2009 was an exceptionally busy year for us in E-Business Suite Development. In the spirit of the inestimable Harper's...
Oracle E-Business Suite comes with native user authentication and management capabilities out-of-the-box. If you need more-advanced features, it's also...
Oracle E-Business Suite comes with native user authentication and management capabilities out-of-the-box. If you need more-advanced features, it's also possible to integrate it with Oracle Single Sign-On and Oracle Internet Directory, which allows you to link the E-Business Suite with third-party tools like Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Kerberos, and CA Netegrity SiteMinder. I'm pleased to announce that Oracle Internet Directory 11g 11.1.1.2 is now certified with...
Oracle E-Business Suite comes with native user authentication and management capabilities out-of-the-box. If you need more-advanced features, it's also possible to integrate it with Oracle Single...
[Nov 15 2010 Update: 11gR2 11.2.0.2 is now certified; see this article for details] [Dec 29, 2009 Update: Removed erroneous references to SLES 9 and specific...
[Nov 15 2010 Update: 11gR2 11.2.0.2 is now certified; see this article for details] [Dec 29, 2009 Update: Removed erroneous references to SLES 9 and specific Solaris versions] I'm very pleased to announce that the 11gR2 Database version 11.2.0.1 is certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 versions 12.0 and 12.1. Existing Apps 12 environments currently running Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2.0) or Oracle 11g Release 1 (11.1.0) may be upgraded to the 11gR2 Database. ...
[Nov 15 2010 Update: 11gR2 11.2.0.2 is now certified; see this article for details] [Dec 29, 2009 Update: Removed erroneous references to SLES 9 and specific Solaris versions] I'm very pleased to...
[Editor: This the second of a five-part series from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group, on virtualization and cloud...
[Editor: This the second of a five-part series from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group, on virtualization and cloud topics] As I've mentioned in the first article of this series, I do want to delve more deeply into topics from my OOW'09 E-Business Suite Virtualization Update presentation. Before I do that, I wanted to spend some time on our latest EBS 12.1.1 Oracle VM (OVM) Templates. Rolling Your Own Apps Templates using Oracle VM In...
[Editor: This the second of a five-part series from Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in our Applications Technology Integration group, on virtualization and cloud topics] As I've mentioned in the...
[Dec 18, 2009 Update: corrected formatting error in "EBS 12.0 Prerequisites" section; added more information about 64-bit clients] I'm very pleased to...
[Dec 18, 2009 Update: corrected formatting error in "EBS 12.0 Prerequisites" section; added more information about 64-bit clients] I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Windows 7 desktop clients are certified for the Oracle E-Business Suite. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and Mozilla Firefox 3.5 are certified and supported on Windows 7 desktop clients. The prerequisites and minimum patchset levels vary depending upon the version of the E-Business Suite that...
[Dec 18, 2009 Update: corrected formatting error in "EBS 12.0 Prerequisites" section; added more information about 64-bit clients] I'm very pleased to announce that Microsoft Windows 7 desktop...
Experienced E-Business Suite systems administrators know that there never seem to be enough EBS testbeds for everyone. It doesn't take long for an Apps...
Experienced E-Business Suite systems administrators know that there never seem to be enough EBS testbeds for everyone. It doesn't take long for an Apps sysadmin to realize that having a solid understanding of the various options for building and cloning EBS environments is an essential part of his or her toolkit. If you've been wondering about the different options for building EBS environments, look no further. Max Arderius is a member of our Applications Technology...
Experienced E-Business Suite systems administrators know that there never seem to be enough EBS testbeds for everyone. It doesn't take long for an Apps sysadmin to realize that having a...
In addition to their benchmarking efforts, our Applications Performance Group works with some of our largest E-Business Suite customers in the world. These...
In addition to their benchmarking efforts, our Applications Performance Group works with some of our largest E-Business Suite customers in the world. These customers have thousands of concurrent end-users, sprawling multi-terabyte databases, enormous clusters of application-tier servers, and massive RAC architectures. The Applications Performance Group is called in whenever a customer experiences severe performance issues. Every year, our performance architects take all of...
In addition to their benchmarking efforts, our Applications Performance Group works with some of our largest E-Business Suite customers in the world. These customers have thousands of concurrent...