Explaining Master Data Management Integration with Oracle Virtual Directory

I got a couple of questions recently around OVD and Master Data Management (OVD).
MDM is an industry standard data solution that provides a single source of truth for customer information. It's particularly useful for large organizations who have customer data in lots of different repositories such as telco or higher education. It's complimentary to a [...]

Technical Whitepaper List as at 11 Dec 2009

The following table outlines the list of whitepapers available for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products available from My Oracle Support (Updates since last status are indicated):

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Id
Document
Title
Contents

559880.1
ConfigLab Design Guidelines
Whitepaper outlining how to design and implement a
ConfigLab solution.

560367.1

Technical
Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based Products

Whitepaper summarizing common technical best [...]

Whitepaper List as at 16 Oct 2009

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Id
Document
Title
Contents

559880.1
ConfigLab Design Guidelines
Whitepaper outlining how to implement the ConfigLab
tool.

560367.1

Technical
Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based
Products (Updated)

Whitepaper summarizing common technical best practices
used by partners, implementation teams and customers. Updated

560382.1
Performance Troubleshooting Guideline Series
A set of whitepapers on tracking performance at each
tier in the framework. The individual whitepapers are as follows:

Concepts
- General [...]

Documentation Status – Mid July 2009

This the updated list of whitepapers available for the Oracle Utilities Application Framework:

Metalink
Id
Document
Title
Contents

559880.1
ConfigLab Design Guidelines
Whitepaper outlining how to implement the ConfigLab
tool.

560367.1

Technical
Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based
Products

Whitepaper summarizing common technical best practices
used by partners, implementation teams and customers. Updated

560382.1
Performance Troubleshooting Guideline Series
A set of whitepapers on tracking performance [...]

The future (2006 version), has arrived

Remember 2006? Things were starting to fall into place for IT management integration and automation:

SDD was already on its way to cleanly describe/package/manage the lifecycle of simple and composite applications alike,
the first version of SML came out to capture all the relevant constraints of complex and composite systems and open the door to “desired-state [...]