New Whitepaper: Planning Your E-Business Suite Upgrade from Release 11i to 12.1

[Editor:  This guest article has been contributed by Anne Carlson]
Premier Support for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i ends in November 2010.  At Oracle OpenWorld last fall, it was standing room only at several EBS upgrade sessions.  Responding to the increased interest in upgrades, I set to work on a new Release 12.1 version of our [...]

A Primer on Migrating Oracle Applications to a New Platform

In Support we field a lot of questions about the migration of Oracle Applications to different platforms.  This article describes the techniques available for migrating an
Oracle Applications environment to a new platform and discusses some of
the common questions that arise during migration.  This subject has been frequently discussed in previous blog articles but there still [...]

OCFS2 for Linux Certified for E-Business Suite Release 12 Application Tiers

Oracle E-Business Suite environments can be scaled up to handle large numbers of concurrent users by load-balancing across multiple application mid-tier servers.  At Oracle, we run Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 internally with a pool of approximately forty application tier servers.
The novelty of applying the same patch to every one of those servers individually wears [...]

Performing Better: Improving Skills and Knowledge of EBS Tools and Technology

At least once a week I get the question, “How do I train my self or my people in X?” Over the my next few blog articles, I will address this very question. I will give you a roadmap to understanding the options that Oracle provides you for learning more about Oracle E-Business Suite technology.
Before [...]

Introducing Bill Sawyer, Guest Author

I’m pleased to welcome Bill Sawyer to our ever-growing panel of guest bloggers.  Bill Sawyer is a Senior Manager in the Applications Technology Group for the E-Business Suite. Specifically, Bill’s team covers the curriculum that supports E-Business Suite tools and technologies. Curriculum products cover three main areas: training courses available from Oracle University  (under the [...]

E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Consolidated Upgrade Patch 1 Now Available

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Consolidated Upgrade Patch
(CUP1) is now available in My Oracle Support.  This patch is now
mandatory for customers who are upgrading to Release 12.1.1 from the
following releases:

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i version 11.5.9 (base, CU1, CU2)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i version 11.5.10 (base, CU1, CU2)

You can download it here:

Oracle E-Business [...]

Introducing Sharath Vishwanath, Guest Author

I’m pleased to welcome Sharath Viswanath to this blog’s panel of guest authors.  Sharath Vishwanath is a Manager in Oracle E-Business Suite’s Quality and Release Management team.  This team owns the release process for the E-Business Suite.
Sharath started his career with Oracle India, Hyderabad in 2002. He is responsible for Release management for several products [...]

Oracle really wants to hear from you! – Patching Survey

Welcome, Oracle really wants to hear from you!
If you are involved with the patching process (evaluating, approving, testing, or deploying), Oracle wants to hear from you. Our primary focus is on how to improve this process for Oracle customers.
We sent this to you because you either; responded to a previous survey or forum post where [...]

Video: UKOUG Conference Series Technology & E-Business Suite 2009

What a great video!
I present my evidence, Your Honour …
0:50 – You get a sense of how scary it might be to speak in Hall 1.0:59 – Kurt the DUDE guy falls asleep whilst listening to a keynote.1:32 – Tony Davis, ex-Apress editor points out that it’s the networking, stupid!2:12 – Robyn Sands points out [...]

EBS 12 Certified with 11gR2 DB 11.2.0.1 on HP-UX Itanium

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 version 11.2.0.1 is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (12.0, 12.1) on the HP-UX Itanium platform. This announcement includes:

Oracle Database 11gR2 version 11.2.0.1
Oracle Database 11gR2 version 11.2.0.1 Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) Column Encryption
Advanced Security Option (ASO)/Advanced Networking Option (ANO)
Export/Import Process for [...]