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 [...]

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 [...]

EBS 11i Applications Desktop Integrator (ADI) Certified on 11gR2 Database

The Client Applications Desktop Integrator (ADI) is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i running on the 11gR2 Database.  Customers may continue using the client-installed ADI  after upgrading their E-Business Suite Release 11i environment to the 11gR2 Database.
This certification applies to all ADI functionality, including:

General Ledger Journal Wizard
Budget Wizard
Report Wizard
Analysis Wizard
Account Hierarchy Editor
Request Center
Assets [...]

Announcing Oracle Directory Services Plus

We are excited to announce Oracle Directory Services Plus (ODS Plus).
ODS Plus is the only directory service solution in the industry to include integrated identity virtualization and storage. It is also the only directory service package that gives customer choice about how they wish to store their [...]

Book Review – Enterprise Security For The Executive

I finally got a chance to read through the book Enterprise Security for the Executive by Jennifer Bayuk.
It’s not a technical book – rather as the title suggests it explains why security is important for the CXO level management and processes for achieving success.
For most [...]

Is it Friday yet?

Ever had one of those weeks (and yes I know today is Tuesday) when you wish it would not end? Well this week is that week for me. I am energized and delighted that my offer to you concerning E-Learning has been so well received and today the first CDs went out in the post.
Don’t [...]

Fifth year anniversary of Armstrong-Smith Consulting and we have an offer for you

Armstrong-Smith Consulting is over 5 years oldIt was five years ago, way back in 2004, that Armstrong-Smith Consulting was founded and in that time we have helped over 200 customers with Discoverer training or consulting. We are proud to have attained our five year status and as a means of saying thank you to all [...]

Stacked Chart with only two data fields?

I got involved in an interesting issue yesterday with Julie. She had two columns of data coming into her data set but she wanted to generate a stacked vertical column report, normally you would have three data points. One of the data points would be along the X-Axis. The count of the instances of the [...]

Switching to Cumulative Critical Patch Updates for E-Business Suite 11i

[Editor:  This article is written by Krishna Kappaganti, a Director in our Applications Technology Integration group.  Krishna is part of the team that produces the quarterly Critical Patch Updates for E-Business Suite.]

Historically with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i, you were required to apply individual patches in the order specified in the
E-Business suite Critical Patch Updates [...]