The Benefits of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Financials

Terrance Wampler, VP for Oracle’s E-Business Suite Financials Product Strategy talks with Fred about the architectural changes in the R12 release as well as how EBS R12 Financials provides simplification, standardization, and process efficiencies for customers.

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Private Clouds

SaaS ISVs do face a choice these days of deploying their software on the cloud – Public or Private. Private Cloud is your infrastructure behind a firewall. The infrastructure can reside in your data center or at a hoster like Savvis. Public Cloud is services like AWS which does not require you to set up [...]

SEPA: Part Deux

This entry is a continuation of my quest for understanding and knowledge of the hot topics in the Payments arena as a new Strategist for that module.  Please see the first part below:  A Primer on SEPA.
 
Why is SEPA important?
SEPA�s adoption means fewer charges on transactions and purchases in euros. On the consumer side of [...]

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 [...]

Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) draft released

Have you developed “Cloud API fatigue” from seeing too many IaaS “Cloud APIs” lately? Are you starting to wonder how many different ways there can possibly be to launch a virtual machine via an HTTP POST? Are you wondering why everybody else seems to equate Cloud computing with on-demand server instances?
If yes, then CDMI will [...]

REST-*: good specs, bad branding?

In an earlier post, I argued for standardization of some basic REST-inspired mechanisms for the narrow goal of supporting control interfaces for different forms of Cloud Computing. As I was doing so, I noticed the first report of something called REST-*, introduced by RedHat’s Mark Little and I ended my post by wondering whether we [...]

Cloud APIs need to be complemented by Cloud processes

A lot of attention has been focused on technical standards for Cloud computing, especially over the last month (e.g. DMTF incubator announcement). That’s fine, but before we go crazy with detailed technical standards let’s realize that for Cloud computing (of the public variety at least) to take off we’ll need just as much standardization of [...]

SOA – What’s it all about and most of all what’s in it for me?

When I talk about SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, most of the time people as well business as developers see this as a huge investment in knowledge and technology.
When talking about the ROI of SOA, I often hear that it’s only a solution for huge companies that can invest in these kinds of technologies.
This means that [...]

The Benefits of Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Financials

Terrance Wampler, VP for Oracle’s E-Business Suite Financials Product Strategy talks with Fred about the architectural changes in the R12 release as well as how EBS R12 Financials provides simplification, standardization, and process efficiencies for customers.

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Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.

Oracle Press
Release

Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.
Oracle’s EPM System to Help Customers More Effectively and Efficiently Report Financial Statements in XBRL Format
Redwood Shores, CA – June 24, 2009
News Facts
To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing and automatic exchange of financial statements in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting [...]