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 [...]

You Asked What is WebCenter . . .

A little while back, Chet (@oraclenerd) asked the Oracle WebCenter account (@oraclewebcenter) over Twitter, “What is WebCenter?”

Makes sense since Chet, and many others out there, are general Oracle practitioners, meaning they may specialize in a specific product, but are always curious and eager to expand their knowledge to other Oracle products, which is very easy [...]

Business Intelligence in the Cloud

We have had interesting discussions with several partners around Business Intelligence in the Cloud. Thought I would capture the use cases, so that you can take these into consideration while formulating your BI Strategy.
1) Most ISVs are looking to build Analytics for their mature SaaS Applications and view this as a key growth area. Covered [...]

Upcoming OWB Events

Events at Oracle Open World 2009 The following events require an Open World pass for attendance:  
OWB @ Oracle Open World DEMOgrounds Mon, Tues, & Wed Oct 12,13,& 14 2009 Moscone West, Pods W-093 & W-094 See map [...]

On Demand services in Public Sector

Two interesting papers have been released showing how CRM On Demand can help new customers quickly get up and running with On Demand solutions. Business & Enterprise North East are based in Seaham, England.
The snapshot is here:
http://www.oracle.com/customers/snapshots/business-and-enterprise-north-east-crm-snapshot.pdf
and a full case study here:
http://www.oracle.com/customers/snapshots/business-and-enterprise-north-east-crm-case-study.pdf
Link to the original site

Where Else But ODTUG?….

Would you bump into Steven Feuerstein while he’s in the middle of a jog?
Would you see people actually *wearing* their Oracle ACE Director red vests (aka “Stanleys”), not just abusing them?
Are people happy to sit through eight straight hours of technical sessions from Tom Kyte, should there be somewhere to stand in the room?
Nowhere else, [...]

10g optimizer case study: Runtime Execution issues with View merging

Preface
After the 10g upgrade for our client’s 11i Application system, we were a little gung-ho, but the self-congratulations were short-lived as we discovered that a bulk load of custom concurrent programs were taking longer.
Aswath Rao, who had solved many performance issues before using the HOTSOS tool, handled it smartly. In this article, we [...]

10gR2 CRS case study: CRS would not start after reboot – stuck at /etc/init.d/init.cssd startcheck

Preface
I had recently done a 10gR2 CRS installation on SuSE linux 9.3 (2.6.5.7-244 kernel) and noticed that after a reboot of the RAC nodes, the CRS would not come up!
The CSS daemon was stuck at the /etc/init.d/init.cssd startcheck command:
raclinux1:/tmp # ps -ef | grep cssroot      6929     1  0 13:56 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/init.cssd fatalroot      [...]

SOA Still Alive and Well–Sell it to the Business

In case you need to catch up, Anne Thomas Manes of Burton Group declared that “SOA met its demise on January 1, 2009, when it was wiped out by the catastrophic impact of the economic recession!”.

In her posting, she states –
Service-orientation is a prerequisite for rapid integration of data and business processes; [...]

Where Else But ODTUG?….

Would you bump into Steven Feuerstein while he’s in the middle of a jog?
Would you see people actually *wearing* their Oracle ACE Director red vests (aka “Stanleys”), not just abusing them?
Are people happy to sit through eight straight hours of technical sessions from Tom Kyte, should there be somewhere to stand in the room?
Nowhere else, [...]