I'm 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:
We have an Applications Performance Group whose raison-d'etre is to ensure that the E-Business Suite runs at peak performance in all circumstances. This team has helped tune the
world's largest companies and their E-Business Suite environments to handle staggering amounts of transactional volume in enormous databases. This is the same group that publishes all of the official
Oracle Apps benchmarks, white papers, and performance metrics.
Their OpenWorld sessions are a perennial favourite with hardcore Apps DBAs looking to squeeze out the last ounce of performance out of their existing hardware. Isam Alyousfi and Lester Gutierrez from our Applications Performance Group share their
hard-won performance tuning tips in this in-depth session:

Isam and Lester cover the following topics:
The EBS Release 12 technology stack
Tuning the applications tier
Recommended OC4J, Forms, ATG patches and JDK levels
Forms tuning tips
OC4J / JVM CPU allocation, sizing, and tuning tips
Diagnosing application tier response time / CPU issues
Tuning Java garbage collection parameters
Tracking down OutOfMemory errors, memory leaks
Debugging JDBC issues, including mapping JDBC sessions to particular JVM processes
Handling OA Framework and web application issues
Using Pool Monitor to investigate Framework Application issues
Using the R12 Application Server Control to monitor JVM usage and thread deadlocks via a web interface
Tuning the Concurrent Manager
General tips for maximizing throughput for jobs spawning parallel workers
Recommendations for Cache size, dedicated concurrent managers, and FND table purging
Workload management via specialization rules and work shifts
Transaction Manager recommendations
Tracing slow concurrent reports
Network and desktop client tuning
Pointers to key whitepapers
R12 desktop client performance tips
Colocation of the database and application tiers on an isolated private virtual Gigabit network
Isolating network performance issues via packet analysis
Benchmarks for Oracle Application Server 10g Web Cache
Database Tier Tuning
Recommended init.ora settings
Tips for optimizing I/O
Using Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) data
Debugging waits from latch contention, I/O, and enqueue or buffer busy conditions
Memory management recommendations
Using the DB Console
Techniques for gathering and analyzing statistics
Benefits for converting to Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM) -- with examples of database savings!
Tuning Applications modules
Recommended performance patches and Release Update Packs (RUP)
Optimizing Workflow
Optimizing Order Management
Tuning Payroll
Speeding up Financials
Logging levels
Purging and archiving recommendations
System administration using Oracle Applications Manager and the Applications Management Pack Grid Control Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager
Upgrade Performance tips
Tips for preparing and executing your R12 upgrade
This presentation is chock full of tips, pointers, and hard-won knowledge. It represents the distillation of countless performance-related Service Requests and customer escalations. If you're grappling with performance issues in your environment, or simply
trying to squeeze more performance out of existing hardware, I'd strongly recommend downloading this presentation.
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Hi,
Could you please make available the pdf file for "Tuning All Layers of the Oracle E-Business Suite".
Thanks.
Please make available "Tuning all layers of E-Biz"
Hello, Cyrus,
This article is 7 years old. This presentation is now outdated and no longer available. Please feel free to check the OpenWorld 2014 Content Catalog for the latest performance-optimization presentations. If that material is locked (which is possible, since a given conference's material is only available for a limited time), then you may have to wait for the OpenWorld 2015 material to be posted.
Regards,
Steven
I know this article is every old. We recently went live on Oracle EBS 12.2.5. Where can I find the latest notes similar to those refereed to in this article? We frequently have comments from users "Oracle is SLOW" and I need to do a complete review.
With Regards,
Nancy