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• Reality Check Webinar: How Does Your End User Adoption Fare Against 300 other Companies?

  - by Di Seghposs

  Gain insight into Neochange's 2012 Adoption Insight Report and Compare your End User Adoption Rate and Strategy! Discover why user adoption is a key factor to your IT investment's success and how Oracle UPK Professional can help ensure it!  Join us as Chris Dowse, CEO of Neochange and Beth Renstrom, Manager of Oracle UPK Outbound Product Mangement, reveal the results of the user adoption survey in which user service models and productivity levels of 300 organizations are discussed in detail to identify trends that deliver higher business productivity. See how your organization's productivity and service model match up to those companies who are getting the most out of their IT investment. Thursday, April 5, 2012 -- 2:00 pm ET Click here, to register for the webcast.

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• User Experience Tablet Guide Released on UX Direct Site

  - by Madhuri Kolhatkar

  Tablet Guide available on UX Direct NOW Responding to a popular demand from our customers, Oracle Application's user experience team is happy to externalize its new design guide for creating tablet based solutions for Enterprise applications on the UX Direct website. Download and use this guide to create great and successful customer experience for your users. UX Tablet Guide for Oracle Applications This guide provides basic help for designers, developers, and project managers trying to approach tablet design and testing from an enterprise point of view. If you are embarking on a tablet application design project, start here first. In the spirit of tablet design, it is delivered in the form of an iPad interactive iBook .Use this guide and tell us what you think. We would love to see examples of your creations. Watch this space for more updates and new and innovative design tools.

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• OTN APAC Tour 2012: Bangkok, Thailand - Oct 22, 2012

  - by Mike Dietrich

  Roy had done some of the South America OTN Tour 2012 dates earlier this year in Peru and Chile. And I'm looking forward to present next Monday, October 22nd, 2012, on the OTN Tour 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event will be held at the Eastin Grand Hotel in Bangkok. Register today for the OTN APAC Tour 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand! Presentations will include: 9:30am - 10:15am:Best Practices for Upgrading to Oracle Database 11.2 1:00pm - 1:45pm:How to improve Upgrade Performance - Real Speed, Real Customers, Real Secrets 2:45pm - 3:30pm:Oracle Data Pump: Overview and Best Practices Plus presentations  about Security, RMAN and other topics by Francisco Alvarez and others. Please find the complete agenda here. Looking forward to meet you on Monday - CU there

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• Upcoming Database Design Pre-Cons

  - by drsql

  In July and October, I will be doing my "How To Design a Relational Database" full day conference in two places. First on July 26 for the East Iowa SQL Saturday , and then for the big daddy SQLPASS Summit in Charlotte, NC on October 14. You can see the entire abstract here on the SQL PASS site. It is essentially the same concept as last year, but this year I am making a few big changes to really give the people what they have desired (and am truly glad to have a swing at it several months...(read more)

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• Customer Experience Metrics That Matter Most

  - by Charles Knapp

  When customers contact your company, they don't ask to be deflected or handled or converted. They want to be satisfied. To improve the customer experience, you need more than traditional measures such as deflection rates, handling times, and conversion rates. In this new Oracle AppCast podcast, tune in to this conversation with me about customer experience metrics that you can use to grow your business. Would you like to learn more? Please join us at the one of a kind Customer Experience Summit at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference, October 3-5 in San Francisco.

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• Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

  - by cjandaus

    Ich darf ja keine Namen nennen, aber der Gewinner unserer Umfrage auf der DOAG Konferenz 2012 steht fest und hat sich mit seiner Teilnahme selbst ein erstklassiges Nikolaus-Geschenk gemacht - und zwar ein niegelnagelneues iPad!!! Zugegeben - genau so wie auf dem Bild sieht das iPad des glücklichen Gewinners nicht aus, denn dieser Custom Design Wunsch von mir hätte wahrscheinlich ebenso viel gekostet wie eine ausgewachsene Exadata, aber das wird die Freude nicht trüben. Und freuen können sich auch noch die Gewinner auf den Plätzen 2 bis 5 - nämlich über eine Laptop-Tasche, hochwertigen Stift und Notizmappe aus Leder. Ich freue mich mit den Gewinnern und nicht zuletzt über die rege Teilnahme und vor allem die Ergebnisse der Umfrage. Auch dazu kann ich nicht viel sagen, nur so viel, dass Windows als Server Betriebssystem für Oracle Datenbanken kein Schattendasein führt. In diesem Sinne bin ich gespannt auf die kommende DOAG Datenbank Konferenz im Mai 2013, auf der ich hoffentlich die Gelegenheit bekommen werde, um die Oracle 12c Datenbank auf Windows Server 2012 und Windows 8 vorzustellen. Keynote Sprecher ist übrigens Günther Stürner - das Highlight der Konferenz.

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• When JDeveloper IDE doesn't render the visual editor

  - by Frank Nimphius

  Though with Oracle JDeveloper 11g the problem of the IDE not rendering JSF pages properly in the visual editor has become rare, there always is a way for the creative to break IDE functionality. A possible reason for the visual editor in JDeveloper to break is a failed dependency reference, which often is in a custom JSF PhaseListener configured in the faces-config.xml file. To avoid this from happening, surround the code in your PhaseListener class with the following statement (for example in the afterPhase method) public void afterPhase(PhaseEvent phaseEvent) {   if(!ADFContext.getCurrent().isDesigntime()){ ... listener code here ... } } The reason why the visual editor in Oracle JDeveloper fails rendering the WYSIWYG view has to do with how the live preview is created. To produce the visual display of a view, JDeveloper actually runs the ADF Faces view in JSF, which then also invokes defined PhaseListeners. With the code above, you check whether the PhaseListener code is executed at runtime or design time.If it is executed in design time, you ignore all calls to external resources that are not available at design time.

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• View the Replay of Fusion Applications - Financials Highlights Lunchtime Webinar

  - by Theresa Hickman

  If you missed the free one hour Webinar and training on Feb. 28 that I blogged about in a previous blog post, you can view the replay at your convenience. Fusion Applications – Financials Highlights URL: http://education.oracle.com/education/downloads/Fusion_Financials_LVCRecording/ If it asks you for a code, enter E1049. For those of you who pre-registered for this Webinar but due to the timezone difference could not attend, you should have also received an email from Oracle University with a link to the replay. Enjoy!  

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• OTN, T-Shirts, and Tunes at Mezzanine - Tuesday Oct 2.

  - by Bob Rhubart

  By now you've probably heard about the Oracle OpenWorld Music Festival, which will bring an incredible array of bands, spanning the spectrum of genres, to several venues throughout San Francisco. The festival runs Sunday through Thursday, with a break on Wednesday for the Oracle Appreciation Event on Treasure Island featuring Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, and X. ***CORRECTION*** What you probably don't know is that OTN is sponsoring the Tuesday night Festival show at Mezzanine (444 Jessie Street at Mint), featuring:  GOLDEN STATEDEATH VALLEY HIGH LOW FLYING OWLS The OTN crew will be on hand, passing out t-shirts and resisting the temptation to misbehave. Mostly. 

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• Loose Coupling and UX Patterns for Applications Integrations

  - by ultan o'broin

  I love that software architecture phrase loose coupling. There’s even a whole book about it. And, if you’re involved in enterprise methodology you’ll know just know important loose coupling is to the smart development of applications integrations too. Whether you are integrating offerings from the Oracle partner ecosystem with Fusion apps or applications coexistence scenarios, loose coupling enables the development of scalable, reliable, flexible solutions, with no second-guessing of technology. Another great book Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions tells us about loose coupling benefits of reducing the assumptions that integration parties (components, applications, services, programs, users) make about each other when they exchange information. Eliminating assumptions applies to UI development too. The days of assuming it’s enough to hard code a UI with linking libraries called code on a desktop PC for an office worker are over. The book predates PaaS development and SaaS deployments, and was written when web services and APIs were emerging. Yet it calls out how using middleware as an assumptions-dissolving technology “glue" is central to applications integration. Realizing integration design through a set of middleware messaging patterns (messaging in the sense of asynchronously communicating data) that enable developers to meet the typical business requirements of enterprises requiring integrated functionality is very Fusion-like. User experience developers can benefit from the loose coupling approach too. User expectations and work styles change all the time, and development is now about integrating SaaS through PaaS. Cloud computing offers a virtual pivot where a single source of truth (customer or employee data, for example) can be experienced through different UIs (desktop, simplified, or mobile), each optimized for the context of the user’s world of work and task completion. Smart enterprise applications developers, partners, and customers use design patterns for user experience integration benefits too. The Oracle Applications UX design patterns (and supporting guidelines) enable loose coupling of the optimized UI requirements from code. Developers can get on with the job of creating integrations through web services, APIs and SOA without having to figure out design problems about how UIs should work. Adding the already user proven UX design patterns (and supporting guidelines to your toolkit means ADF and other developers can easily offer much more than just functionality and be super productive too. Great looking application integration touchpoints can be built with our design patterns and guidelines too for a seamless applications UX. One of Oracle’s partners, Innowave Technologies used loose coupling architecture and our UX design patterns to create an integration for a customer that was scalable, cost effective, fast to develop and kept users productive while paving a roadmap for customers to keep pace with the latest UX designs over time. Innowave CEO Basheer Khan, a Fusion User Experience Advocate explains how to do it on the Usable Apps blog.

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• Keeping up to date with PeopleSoft Global Payroll Singapore legislative changes

  - by Carolyn Cozart

  Amendments to the Central Provident Fund contribution rates were announced in June 2011. The contribution rate changes will go into effect September 2011. To find out  the details of what is changing in Global Payroll Singapore as well as targeted delivery dates, please visit the Knowledge Center on Support.Oracle.com. Click on the Knowledge tab. Simply type in keywords ‘Global Payroll Singapore Position’. If further amendments are made, we will revise the document accordingly.  Let the Oracle/PeopleSoft team help reduce the stress and anxiety of these changing times by staying informed. PeopleSoft is working hard to get you the information you need. The information is just a few clicks away.

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• Retrieve a user's Exchange database in powershell

  - by Paul

  Hey Everyone, I've scoured the interwebs for a few days now off and on to find this. I am creating a powershell script for email-enabling new user's(Exchange 2007). To give you a little background when we have a new hire, their AD account is created at our off-site helpdesk, but they don't create their email account. I'm trying to automate the process of mail-enabling the user which involves putting them in the same database as an existing user, disable imap pop activesync, and lastly email the requester of the ticket. I would like to just get prompted for the New User's name, User to Replicate(mailbox, storage group, database), and the person to email after it's been created. So if someone could just help with a command to Retrieve a user's Exchange database in powershell that would be great, but if people also want to help with my hacked up script please do so as well!!! Here is what I have so far: Write-output “ENTER THE FOLLOWING DETAILS” $DName = Read-Host “User Diplay Name" $RUser = Read-Host "Replicate User(Database Grab)" ***$RData = #get the Replicate user's mailbox database here*** $REmail = #either just use a Read-Host “Requester's Email address" or ask for Requester's name and pipe through their email address by digging for it w/ powershell Enable-Mailbox -Identity "$DName" -Database "$RData" Send-MailMessage -From "John Doe <[email protected]>" -To (put $REmail here which is the Requester's email) -Subject "Test Person's email account" -Body "Test Person's email account has been setup.`n`n`nJohn Doe`nGeneric Company`nSystems Administrator`nOffice: 123.456.7890`[email protected]" -SmtpServer genericexchange.exchange.com

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• What are the challenges of implementing an ERP system?

  When a company decides to rollout an ERP system as part of its core business processes they must consider and provide solutions for the following general challenges. It is important to note that this list is generic and that every ERP system that rolls out is as distinct as the companies that are trying to implement the system. Upper Management Support Reengineering Existing Business Process and Applications Integration of the ERP with other existing departmental applications Implementation Time Implementation Costs Employee Training I just recently read an article by Mano Billi called “What are the major challenges in implementing ERP? “ were he basically outlines the common challenges to implementing an ERP system within a company. He discusses items like Upper management support, altering existing systems, and how ERPs integrate with other independent systems. In addition, he also covers items on selecting a ERP vendor, ERP Consultants, and the effects of an ERP system on employees.  I personally think he did a create job of outlining common issues that can cause an ERP implementation to fail or not be as effective as it potentially could be if the challenges are not taken in to account appropriately.

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• What is the value of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System?

  According to PWC.com ERP systems can add tremendous value to a company’s core business functionality.  Below PWC.com summarizes the primary value that an ERP can add to a company. ERPs are a collection business application that coordinates the resources, information, and activities required for core business processes. ERPs are strategic tools used to reduce costs, improve business processes, and healthier risk management.

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• New Information Center - Optimize Performance of FMW 11g

  - by Daniel Mortimer

  Following on the heels of the recently published - "Reviewing Security for FMW 11g" Information Center, we are pleased to announce the publication of Information Center: Optimizing Performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g [ID 1469617.2] Screenshot of ID 1469617.2 We are in the process of making further tweaks and changes to improve the other ** "Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g" Information Centers. So watch this space! ** You can navigate to these other Information Centers via the menu found on the left hand side of the "Optimize Performance" Information Center.

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• Next Week - OTN Virtual Developer Day - Fusion Development Experience

  - by Shay Shmeltzer

  Don't miss your chance to get free training on Oracle's strategic development platform including Oracle ADF and the rest of Fusion Middleware. On July 10th, we are running a virtual developer conference that you can attend directly from your desktop. We have sessions covering everything from basic ADF topics such as the Controller and ADF Faces to sessions about the latest news in the ADF world including ADF development with Eclipse using OEPE and ADF Mobile for iPhone and Android development. A special track will expose you to ADF connection to the rest of FMW including BPM, WebCenter and BI. During the sessions you'll be able to chat with the presenters, and you can also do a hands-on lab. So sign up today and join us on Tuesday.

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• How to Send the Contents of the Clipboard to a Text File via the Send to Menu

  - by Jason Faulkner

  We have previously covered how to send the contents of a text file to the Windows Clipboard with a simple Send To shortcut, but what if you want to do the opposite? That is: send the contents of the clipboard to a text file with a simple shortcut. No problem. Here’s how. Copy the ClipOut Utility While Windows offers the command line tool ‘clip’ as a way to direct console output to the clipboard, it does not have a tool to direct the clipboard contents to the console. To do this, we are going to use a small utility named ClipOut (download link at the bottom). Simply download and extract this file to a location in your Windows PATH variable (if you don’t know what this means, just extract the EXE to your C:\Windows folder) and you are ready to go. Add the Send To Shortcut Open your Send To folder location by going to Run > shell:sendto Create a new shortcut with the command: CMD /C ClipOut > Note the above command will overwrite the contents of the selected file. If you would like to append to the contents of the selected file, use this command instead: CMD /C ClipOut >> Of course, you could make shortcuts for both. Give a descriptive name to the shortcut. You’re finished. Using this shortcut will now send the text contents copied to your Windows Clipboard to the selected file. It is important to note that the ClipOut tool only supports outputting text. If you had binary data copied to your clipboard, then the output would be empty. Changing the Icon By default, the icon for the shortcut will appear as a command prompt, but you can easily change this by editing the properties of the shortcut and clicking the Change Icon button. We used an icon located in “%SystemRoot%\System32\shell32.dll”, but any icon of your liking will do. As an additional tweak, you can set the properties of the shortcut to run minimized. This will prevent the command window from “blinking” when the send to command is run (instead it will blink in your taskbar, which is hardly noticeable). Links Download ClipOut Utility     

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• How-To: AutoVue Bug Status Tracking & Email Notifications

  - by Graham McKendry

  I’ve posted a number of different Support process-related and tool-related blog entries over the past few years, and one common question I received back from various customers and partners is “How can I easily track AutoVue bugs & enhancements for status updates?” The capability to track bug status through the My Oracle Support (MOS) portal has existed in different forms for a while, although hasn’t necessarily been easy to find without going through specific segments of the extensive MOS training. Recently, the instructions were consolidated into the following highly recommended knowledge base article: KM Note 1298390.1 - How to Monitor a Bug from My Oracle Support The note covers various capabilities, including: How to add the new ‘Bug Tracker’ widget to your MOS dashboard How to add and manage bugs within the Bug Tracker and probably most interesting to MOS users... How to enable email notifications for bug status updates Make sure to pass this KM Note along to your MOS users in case they haven’t already configured this valuable feature.

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• Oracle PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory Management, une solution mobile pour améliorer précision des stocks et productivité des utilisateurs

  Oracle PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory Management Une application mobile pour améliorer la précision des stocks et la productivité des utilisateurs Oracle possède déjà un portefeuille très complet de solutions de gestion des stocks et de solutions mobiles. Ce portefeuille s'enrichit encore plus aujourd'hui avec une nouvelle solution : Oracle PeopleSoft Mobile Inventory Management. Il s'agit en fait d'une nouvelle application de la suite Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Supply Chain Management qui permet d'améliorer la précision des stocks et la productivité des opérateurs en automatisant les transactions mobiles de gestion pour les utilisateurs de terminaux mobiles équipés de Microsoft W...

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• Recommend hosting with fast MySQL database please [closed]

  - by Keith Groben

  Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? I am frustrated to no end with my current hosting provider, mediaTemple. Yes, they are flashy, and have some decent degree of flexibility with their GS plan, which I have. But anytime I install a site that needs a database, it is slow. like really slow. Taking anywhere from 10 - 15 seconds just to load a page. I would host in house, but there are a lot of complications that come with a LAMP server that I don't want to deal with. Honestly, I'd rather spend the time developing. What can you recommend?

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• Collaborative Organizations build Organizational Culture

  “A Collaborative organization builds its culture based on the idea of the family or an athletic team.”(Hoefling, 2001) As I grew up, I participated in many different types of clubs, civic organizations, and sports teams.  Now looking back at the more successful undertakings, I can see three commonalities amongst them. They all shared a defined purpose or goal, defined functional roles, and a shared sense of responsibility to the group. Defined Purpose or Goal In order to unit people to work together, they must share a common goal or have a common purpose. An example of this would be the Lions Club International Foundation. There purpose is to help everyone to lead healthier and more productive lives, nurtures the potential of youth, promotes health, serves the elderly, empowers the disabled and helps victims of disasters. This organization holds localized meetings across the world and works in conjunction with other localized clubs within there organization along with other organizations to promote common goals. If there are no common goals for the group, then there is nothing that binds people to the group, and nothing will be done. Defined Functional Roles In order for an organization to work and function as a team, they must have defined roles and everyone must know how their roles are interdependent on each other. Lets shed light on this subject by looking at a football team’s offense.  Each player has an assigned role to play each time the ball is snapped. The offensive line blocks for the running back or quarterback, the quarterback passes the ball to the wide receiver or hands it off to the running back and the running back and wide receivers run with the ball towards the goal line. Each member of this team shares a common goal of scoring a touchdown, but if each team member does not fulfill their assigned roles the offences will collapse and the team will lose yards. This will provide a set back to the teams goal of scoring a touchdown because they potential are then farther away from the goal line.  In addition, if all the players do not know their roles and how they are part of a larger team then even larger yard losses can occur. Shared Sense of Personal Responsibility to the Group Shared responsibility comes with the shared common goals. Each person in the organization must do their part to promote the common shared goal or purpose based on their abilities. A prime example of this is a wrestling team competing in a match. Points are awarded to the team based on how many wins the team achieves in the meet and of that how many wins where won by decision or by pin. If a wrestler pins his opponent the teams will receive 2 points for the win, but if the wrestler wins by decision, then the team only gets one point for the win. So it is the responsibility of each person on the team to not get pinned if they are unable to win the match. If the team member gets pinned then the other team receives an additional point for the win. References: Hoefling, T. (2001). Working Virtually: Managing People for Successful Virtual Teams and Organizations. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC.

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• Applying for internship

  - by Margus

  At the moment I'm thinking about applying for internship at Eesti Energia. I seem to be eligible, but before contacting them I need to learn how to compile an informative and complete CV and cover letter. I do not consider myself as shallow minded, but also I'm not sure how to convincingly justify the stand of interest and how internship will help me in my future career. Course of life Tallinna Tehnikagümnaasium 2003 - 2006 Tallinna Tehnikaülikool 2006 – 2009 Military service at Signal Batallion Tallinna Tehnikaülikool 2010 – ... I started my academic career as Computer and Systems Engineer, but as I excelled in programming classes, I changed my major to Software Engineer and taken my specialty in web applications and logic. Nowadays I mainly use Java, Mathematica and C# to solve problems. For 2 times, I have taken part in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, where my team won the nationals and did pretty well in Europe. Also as part of notable thing in my academic career, my team wrote the Kalah game AI, that won in University's main programming class AI tournament. My hobbies are mind games and occasional problem solving. Few years ago I also competed in International Checkers EM (requires being in top 3 in nationals) as part of cadet and junior age group - I did not come close to winning, but I exceeded about half of the players each time. In high school and gymnasium I took part and later was the captain of team, that passes regionals and made it to top 3 of nationals (and later won) in (blitz) russian checkers. That was impressive because, it was a team effort as we only had (depending on year) 2-3 strong players. Although I started programming exactly 9,5 years ago I have no work experience. Well actually thats not true, as I completed my army duty, I was hired for a year (days still counting) to be apart of communicational (emergency) infrastructure action group where I'm the teams IT specialist (it's more complicated). So I consider myself to be aware of: rough conditions, teamwork, high stress tolerance, being on time and what responsibility means. As negative things I can mention: I do not have drivers licence. Although only Estonian and English are noted as requirements, then Russian is most likely required as well and I barely understand some of it. Reasons why I want to apply there, are: I need to do at least 4-6 week traineeship and it's in the right field I have the requirements and tasks seem easy enough Company is well known and has fairly good reputation Family and friend think, that it would be acceptable place to work Myriad of options to do final thesis about open up Work place is located in the same city I live atm. At moment, I see myself having a hard time explain why I would prefer it or where I see myself in 10 years if I was offered a job there. Question I have some idea how Curriculum Vitæ should look like, or I can google for template, but I'm not sure how to write informative one. Last I did one, it looked like: picture + contact information + education. Vaguely I only remember, that cover letter should be custom tailored for each place you apply containing ...

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• New Marketing Assets Available

  - by swalker

  NEW translated demand generation materials available for the following Oracle Marketing Kits, designed to help partners generate sales around Oracle's solutions: Server & Storage: Improve Database Capacity Management with Oracle Storage and Hybrid Columnar Compression Server & Storage: Accelerating Database Test & Development with Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Server & Storage: Upgrade SAN Storage to Oracle Pillar Axiom Server & Storage: SPARC Refresh with Oracle Solaris Operating System Server & Storage: SPARC Server Refresh: The Next Level of Datacenter Performance with Oracle’s New SPARC Servers Server & Storage: Oracle Server Virtualization Server & Storage: Oracle Desktop Virtualization

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• April 24 Webcast: Procurement: How to Solve Errors with Receiving Transactions

  - by Oracle_EBS

  ADVISOR WEBCAST: How to Solve Errors with Receiving TransactionsPRODUCT FAMILY: E-Business : Procurement April 24, 2012 at 14:00 UK / 15:00 CET / 06:00 am Pacific / 7:00 am Mountain / 9:00 am Eastern/ 3:00 pm Egypt Time Session description that sets customer expectations such as This one-hour session is recommended for technical and functional users need to know about verifying the receiving transactions errors, troubleshoot it and fix it from the application forms and the back-end. TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: Setup and normal transactions The cause of (RVTTH-115B, RVTTH-115D, RVTTH-115F, RVTTH-115H, RVTTH-115J) and how to identify it The troubleshooting and solution of this issue in a non WMS org The solution of this issue in WMS org A short, live demonstration (only if applicable) and question and answer period will be included. Oracle Advisor Webcasts are dedicated to building your awareness around our products and services. This session does not replace offerings from Oracle Global Support Services.   Current Schedule can be found on Note 740966.1 Post Presentation Recordings can be found on Note 740964.1

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• SOA, Governance, and Drugs

  Why is IT governance important in service oriented architecture (SOA)? IT Governance provides a framework for making appropriate decisions based on company guidelines and accepted standards. This framework also outlines each stakeholder’s responsibilities and authority when making important architectural or design decisions. Furthermore, this framework of governance defines parameters and constraints that are used to give context and perspective when making decisions. The use of governance as it applies to SOA ensures that specific design principles and patterns are used when developing and maintaining services. When governance is consistently applied systems the following benefits are achieved according to Anne Thomas Manes in 2010. Governance makes sure that services conform to standard interface patterns, common data modeling practices, and promotes the incorporation of existing system functionality by building on top of other available services across a system. Governance defines development standards based on proven design principles and patterns that promote reuse and composition. Governance provides developers a set of proven design principles, standards and practices that promote the reduction in system based component dependencies.  By following these guidelines, individual components will be easier to maintain. For me personally, I am a fan of IT governance, and feel that it valuable part of any corporate IT department. However, depending on how it is implemented can really affect the value of using IT governance.  Companies need to find a way to ensure that governance does not become extreme in its policies and procedures. I know for me personally, I would really dislike working under a completely totalitarian or laissez-faire version of governance. Developers need to be able to be creative in their designs and too much governance can really impede the design process and prevent the most optimal design from being developed. On the other hand, with no governance enforced, no standards will be followed and accepted design patterns will be ignored. I have personally had to spend a lot of time working on this particular scenario and I have found that the concept of code reuse and composition is almost nonexistent.  Based on this, too much time and money is wasted on redeveloping existing aspects of an application that already exist within the system as a whole. I think moving forward we will see a staggered form of IT governance, regardless if it is for SOA or IT in general.  Depending on the size of a company and the size of its IT department,  I can see IT governance as a layered approach in that the top layer will be defined by enterprise architects that focus on abstract concepts pertaining to high level design, general  guidelines, acceptable best practices, and recommended design patterns.  The next layer will be defined by solution architects or department managers that further expand on abstracted guidelines defined by the enterprise architects. This layer will contain further definitions as to when various design patterns, coding standards, and best practices are to be applied based on the context of the solutions that are being developed by the department. The final layer will be defined by the system designer or a solutions architect assed to a project in that they will define what design patterns will be used in a solution, naming conventions, as well as outline how a system will function based on the best practices defined by the previous layers. This layered approach allows for IT departments to be flexible in that system designers have creative leeway in designing solutions to meet the needs of the business, but they must operate within the confines of the abstracted IT governance guidelines.  A real world example of this can be seen in the United States as it pertains to governance of the people in that the US government defines rules and regulations in the abstract and then the state governments take these guidelines and applies them based on the will of the people in each individual state. Furthermore, the county or city governments are the ones that actually enforce these rules based on how they are interpreted by local community.  To further define my example, the United States government defines that marijuana is illegal. Each individual state has the option to determine this regulation as it wishes in that the state of Florida determines that all uses of the drug are illegal, but the state of California legally allows the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes only. Based on these accepted practices each local government enforces these rules in that a police officer will arrest anyone in the state of Florida for having this drug on them if they walk down the street, but in California if a person has a medical prescription for the drug they will not get arrested.  REFERENCESThomas Manes, Anne. (2010). Understanding SOA Governance: http://www.soamag.com/I40/0610-2.php

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