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  • Oracle Consulting North America is now live on PeopleSoft Services Procurement and PeopleSoft Resource Management

    - by Howard Shaw
    Last month, Oracle's own internal consulting group (OCS North America) went live on PeopleSoft Services Procurement and PeopleSoft Resource Management to manage all aspects of identifying, recruiting, and deploying billable subcontractors on North America Applications customer consulting projects. The primary goals were to enhance the subcontractor staffing process, improve operational and informational processes, and improve collaboration between the Oracle NA Consulting Subcontractor Program and subcontractor suppliers. Over 200 registered external suppliers access the tool, review open needs and competitively bid their resources to work on NA Applications projects. This implementation highlights the usage of Oracle’s own solutions to streamline and enhance business operations, as the PeopleSoft 9.1 applications (Services Procurement and Resource Management) were deployed using Sun hardware, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Oracle Virtual Machines.For more information, please navigate to the following web pages: PeopleSoft Services Procurement PeopleSoft Resource Management

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  • Transitioning from Oracle based CMS to MySQL based CMS

    - by KM01
    We're looking at a replacement for our CMS which runs on Oracle. The new CMSes that we've looked at can in theory run on Oracle, but most of the vendor's installs run off of MySQL vendor supports install of their CMS on MySQL, and a "theoretical" install on Oracle the vendor's dev shops use MySQL none of them develop/test against Oracle Our DBA team works exclusively with Oracle, and doesn't have the bandwidth to provide additional support for a highly available and performing MySQL setup. They could in theory go to training and get ramped up, but our time line is also short (surprise!). So ... I guess my question(s) are: If you've seen a situation like this, how have you dealt with it? What tipped the balance either way? What type of effort did it take? If you're to do it over, what would you do differently ... ? Thanks! KM

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  • Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2 Windows-ra is

    - by Fekete Zoltán
    A héten megjelent az Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Windows platformra is, így lett teljes a kép a legfontosabb szerver operációs rendszerek körében, ezáltal az OWB kliens is hozzáférheto lett Windows-on. Az OWB az Oracle piacvezeto ETL eszköze, extraction, transformation, load - adatkinyerés, betöltés és átalakítás. Az Oracle Warehouse Builder Java-s kliens programja eddig is elérheto volt Linuxon, most már supportáltan megvan Windows-ra is (kis hegesztéssel eddig is lehetett a Linux-os Java-s változatot használni Windows-on). Az OWB vindózos kliens kétféle módon érheto el: - a Database 11gR2 Windows install készlet telepítésével automatikusan felkerül, letöltés - önállóan is felrakható más gépre (standalon), letöltés, itt a Linux kliens is megtalálható. Ez a standalone verzió most jelent meg az OTN-en 2-3 órája. :)

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  • Mark Hurd on Oracle's Strategy to Be the Best

    - by Tuula Fai
    Mark Hurd, President of Oracle, energized a packed audience this Monday morning at OpenWorld with his keynote outlining Oracle’s four-pillar strategy: Be the leader at every level of the technology stack—applications, middleware, database, operating system, virtual machine, servers, and storage Vertically integrate these levels into differentiated solutions Offer Fusion, the next generation of applications, which are modular and can run in the cloud, on-premise, or both (hybrid) Deliver this technology portfolio through industry lenses to help Oracle customers solve their problems while innovating and becoming more efficient. Hurd’s message resonated throughout Monday’s Customer Experience (CX) sessions as we learned about Oracle’s investment in integrating its best-of-breed CX solutions to deliver an end-to-end suite that addresses every part of the customer lifecycle. For example, in the area of customer service, Oracle is developing enhancements to help contact center agents: Better understand customer needs through social listening tools that are integrated with knowledge management Empower themselves with internal collaboration and mobility tools Adapt to customer needs by engaging them through chat during a service or commerce interaction so they can deliver a great customer experience while transforming from a cost- into a profit center.

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  • Security updates for all supported versions of SQL Server

    - by AaronBertrand
    It's patch Tuesday! [ UPDATE June 19 : Please see my follow-up post about this security update.] Today Microsoft released a security bulletin covering several issues that could potentially affect SQL Server; these exploits include remote code execution, denial of service, information disclosure and elevation of privilege. You should test these patches on all machines running SQL Server, including those running only client tools (e.g. Management Studio or Management Studio Express). The updates affect...(read more)

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  • Security programming jobs

    - by Mike Smith
    I am a student, about to finish my undergraduate in Computer Science in about a year. I am very interested in computer/network security, but I also love programming. Is there a job or subfield that is a fusion of both? I have programmed everything from games to barcode readers to web bots, and I know for sure that I want to do some kind of programming, but ideally I would like to do some kind of software development involving computer security. Any advice would be appreciated.

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  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2012 submissions - Only 2 weeks to go

    - by Lionel Dubreuil
    You have less than 2 weeks left (July 17th) to submit Fusion Middleware Innovation Award nominations. As a reminder, these awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Either a customer, their partner, or an Oracle representative can submit the nomination form on behalf of the customer. Please visit oracle.com/corporate/awards/middleware for more details and nomination forms. Our “Service Integration (SOA) and BPM” category covers Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM Suite, Oracle Event Processing, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle B2B Integration, Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA), Oracle Enterprise Repository... To submit your nomination, the process is very simple: Download the Service Integration (SOA) and BPM Form Complete this form with as much detail as possible. Submit completed form and any relevant supporting documents to: [email protected] Email subject category “Service Integration (SOA) and BPM” when submitting your nomination.

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  • Security Updates Available for SQL Server 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014

    - by AaronBertrand
    If you are running 2008 SP3, 2008 R2 SP2, 2012 SP1 (SP2 is not affected, RTM is no longer supported), or 2014, you'll want to check out Security Bulletin MS14-044 for details on a denial of service / privilege escalation issue that has been patched: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/MS14-044 For SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, I've blogged about recent builds and recommendations here: http://blogs.sqlsentry.com/team-posts/latest-builds-sql-server-2012/ http://blogs.sqlsentry.com/team-posts/latest-builds-sql-server-2014...(read more)

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  • Take Advantage of Oracle's Ongoing Assurance Effort!

    - by eric.maurice
    Hi, this is Eric Maurice again! A few years ago, I posted a blog entry, which discussed the psychology of patching. The point of this blog entry was that a natural tendency existed for systems and database administrators to be reluctant to apply patches, even security patches, because of the fear of "breaking" the system. Unfortunately, this belief in the principle "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" creates significant risks for organizations. Running systems without applying the proper security patches can greatly compromise the security posture of the organization because the security controls available in the affected system may be compromised as a result of the existence of the unfixed vulnerabilities. As a result, Oracle continues to strongly recommend that customers apply all security fixes as soon as possible. Most recently, I have had a number of conversations with customers who questioned the need to upgrade their highly stable but otherwise unsupported Oracle systems. These customers wanted to know more about the kind of security risks they were exposed to, by running obsolete versions of Oracle software. As per Oracle Support Policies, Critical Patch Updates are produced for currently supported products. In other words, Critical Patch Updates are not created by Oracle for product versions that are no longer covered under the Premier Support or Extended Support phases of the Lifetime Support Policy. One statement used in each Critical Patch Update Advisory is particularly important: "We recommend that customers upgrade to a supported version of Oracle products in order to obtain patches. Unsupported products, releases and versions are not tested for the presence of vulnerabilities addressed by this Critical Patch Update. However, it is likely that earlier versions of affected releases are also affected by these vulnerabilities." The purpose of this warning is to inform Oracle customers that a number of the vulnerabilities fixed in each Critical Patch Update may affect older versions of a specific product line. In other words, each Critical Patch Update provides a number of fixes for currently supported versions of a given product line (this information is listed for each bug in the Risk Matrices of the Critical Patch Update Advisory), but the unsupported versions in the same product line, while they may be affected by the vulnerabilities, will not receive the fixes, and are therefore vulnerable to attacks. The risk assumed by organizations wishing to remain on unsupported versions is amplified by the behavior of malicious hackers, who typically will attempt to, and sometimes succeed in, reverse-engineering the content of vendors' security fixes. As a result, it is not uncommon for exploits to be published soon after Oracle discloses vulnerabilities with the release of a Critical Patch Update or Security Alert. Let's consider now the nature of the vulnerabilities that may exist in obsolete versions of Oracle software. A number of severe vulnerabilities have been fixed by Oracle over the years. While Oracle does not test unsupported products, releases and versions for the presence of vulnerabilities addressed by each Critical Patch Update, it should be assumed that a number of the vulnerabilities fixed with the Critical Patch Update program do exist in unsupported versions (regardless of the product considered). The most severe vulnerabilities fixed in past Critical Patch Updates may result in full compromise of the targeted systems, down to the OS level, by remote and unauthenticated users (these vulnerabilities receive a CVSS Base Score of 10.0) or almost as critically, may result in the compromise of the affected systems (without compromising the underlying OS) by a remote and unauthenticated users (these vulnerabilities receive a CVSS Base Score of 7.5). Such vulnerabilities may result in complete takeover of the targeted machine (for the CVSS 10.0), or may result in allowing the attacker the ability to create a denial of service against the affected system or even hijacking or stealing all the data hosted by the compromised system (for the CVSS 7.5). The bottom line is that organizations should assume the worst case: that the most critical vulnerabilities are present in their unsupported version; therefore, it is Oracle's recommendation that all organizations move to supported systems and apply security patches in a timely fashion. Organizations that currently run supported versions but may be late in their security patch release level can quickly catch up because most Critical Patch Updates are cumulative. With a few exceptions noted in Oracle's Critical Patch Update Advisory, the application of the most recent Critical Patch Update will bring these products to current security patch level and provide the organization with the best possible security posture for their patch level. Furthermore, organizations are encouraged to upgrade to most recent versions as this will greatly improve their security posture. At Oracle, our security fixing policies state that security fixes are produced for the main code line first, and as a result, our products benefit from the mistakes made in previous version(s). Our ongoing assurance effort ensures that we work diligently to fix the vulnerabilities we find, and aim at constantly improving the security posture our products provide by default. Patch sets include numerous in-depth fixes in addition to those delivered through the Critical Patch Update and, in certain instances, important security fixes require major architectural changes that can only be included in new product releases (and cannot be backported through the Critical Patch Update program). For More Information: • Mary Ann Davidson is giving a webcast interview on Oracle Software Security Assurance on February 24th. The registration link for attending this webcast is located at http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=280304&s=1&k=6A7152F62313CA09F77EBCEEA9B6294F&partnerref=EricMblog • A blog entry discussing Oracle's practices for ensuring the quality of Critical patch Updates can be found at http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2009/07/ensuring_critical_patch_update_quality.html • The blog entry "To patch or not to patch" is located at http://blogs.oracle.com/security/2008/01/to_patch_or_not_to_patch.html • Oracle's Support Policies are located at http://www.oracle.com/us/support/policies/index.html • The Critical Patch Update & Security Alert page is located at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html

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  • Oracle eAM Webcast Series Announced (May-Dec 2010)

    - by [email protected]
    A series of free webinars with ReliabilityWeb will present key product capabilitiesof Oracle eAM and how they support maintenance and reliability best practices. Through this web-seminar series,companies can understand how to achieve better ROI. ReliabilityWeb will be using this as a key component of their initiative tobuild a stronger Oracle community.  For Oracle this program demonstrates leadership and commitment to the Maintenance SystemsMarketplace. Topics: (note all times are EAST)1. How can Oracle eAM enhance and support your reliability program? (May 13,2010) (1-2PM - all times East)) 2. Upgrading to Oracle eAM R12  - What's the value, when's the right time,what's involved and how do you get there? (June 17, 2010) (1-2PM) 3. Improving maintenance and reliability by aligning people, processes andsystems. (July 15, 2010) (1-2PM) 4. Using Oracle eAM to drive your Condition Based Maintenance program. (July29, 2010) (1-2PM) 5. Why and how do you get the power of Oracle eAM out to the people that arereally doing maintenance the technicians. (August 12, 2010) (1-2PM) 6. Standardizing and streamlining your maintenance work with Oracle eAM.(September 16, 2010 (1-2PM) 7. Standardizing maintenance and reliability data - How do you get there?(October 21, 2010 (1-2PM) 8. Using Oracle eAM to establish a Failure Reporting and Corrective ActionSystems (FRACAS). (November 18, 2010) (1-2PM)9. Maintenance Work Scheduling in Oracle eAM - Capabilities and Limitations(December 16, 2010) (1-2PM)to Register:   <http://img.gotomeeting.com/g2mimages/1x1.gif> <http://www1.gotomeeting.com/g2w/images/298420256/73664767535782300/embed.jpg>For additional information contact Jay West, EAM Master,+1.205.515.4326            

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  • How to do more with Oracle VM Templates

    - by uwes
    On Oracle's Virtualization Blog you can find an interesting post regarding working and using Oracle VM Templates, title is "Opening The Oracle VM Templates Blackbox". Monica Kumar gives a brief explanation what Oracle VM Guest Additions are and how they can help to work smarter with Templates. At the end you will find a hint to join an up coming webcast (October 24th), where you can get more knowledge from experts like Robbie de Meyer or Saar Maoz. Register for the live Webcast. View the whitepaper on Oracle VM Templates Automated Virtual Machine Provisioning.

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  • Live Security Talk Webcast: Security Best Practices for Design and Deployment on Windows Azure (Leve

    Developing secure applications and services in the cloud requires knowledge of the threat landscape specific to the cloud provider. The key is understanding threat mitigations implemented by the cloud architecture versus those that are the responsibility of the developer. Register for this exciting live webcast to learn about the threats that are specific to the cloud and how the Windows Azure architecture deals with these threats. We also cover how to use built-in Windows Azure security features...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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  • Oracle Applications Day 2012 -Experience the Global Innovation of Management Applications

    - by antonella.buonagurio
    Il 10 ottobre a Milano e il 17 ottobre a Roma si sono svolti gli Oracle Applications Day, dedicati alla community di Clienti e Partner Oracle. Le due giornate hanno visto la partecipazione di più di 400 persone che hanno condiviso le loro esperienze e conoscenze in ambito applicativo. Durante la sessione plenaria sono state illustrate tutte le novità relative alle Oracle Applications ed in particolare le Oracle Fusion Applications mentre durante le 2 giornate più di 20 clienti hanno parlato di come utilizzano in modo strategico e con successo le soluzioni Oracle. 15 Business Partner grazie all'iniziativa "Partner Instant Workshop" hanno incontrato direttamente i clienti e discusso delle tematiche più calde del momento. Se non hai potuto partecipare all'evento oppure vuoi rivivere quei momenti qui sotto trovi la presentazione della plenaria mentre cliccando su ciascun titolo delle sessioni parallele puoi trovare le rispettive presentazioni. Innovation for Human Resources Performance Management Excellence Empower Applications with Technology (tenutasi solo a Milano) Applications for Public Sector (tenutasi solo a Roma) Next Generation Global Operations Customer Experience Revolution

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  • How-to logout from ADF Security

    - by frank.nimphius
    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} ADF Security configures an authentication servlet, AuthenticationServlet, in the web.xml file that also provides a logout functionality. Developers can invoke the logout by a redirect performed from an action method in a managed bean as shown next  public String onLogout() {   FacesContext fctx = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();   ExternalContext ectx = fctx.getExternalContext();   String url = ectx.getRequestContextPath() +              "/adfAuthentication?logout=true&end_url=/faces/Home.jspx";       try {     ectx.redirect(url);   } catch (IOException e) {     e.printStackTrace();   }   fctx.responseComplete();   return null; } To use this functionality in your application, change the Home.jspx reference to a public page of yours that the user is redirected to after successful logout. Note that for a successful logout, authentication should be through form based authentication. Basic authentication is known as browser sign-on and re-authenticates users after the logout redirect. Basic authentication is confusing to many developers for this reason.

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  • Windows 8 Security Flaws

    A Feeling of Complacency The amount of hype coming out of the Microsoft camp concerning Windows 8's enhanced security features is pretty high. With an improved Windows Defender integrated into the upcoming operating system, some users may feel that they will have adequate protection against malware and other threats. While the improved protection is a plus, this does not mean that other trusted programs should be avoided, as it is somewhat lazy to believe that Microsoft's integrated protection in Windows 8 will provide all the security that is necessary. Careless Web Surfing The internet of...

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  • REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th

    - by mseika
    REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13. Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During Partner Kickoff you will see: Judson Althoff on FY12 recap and FY13 call to action Executive Addresses from Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and Regional Sales Executives Embed, Sell and Implement the Full Portfolio Business Opportunities for ISV / OEM’s, System Integrators, and Channel Partners Q&A with Regional Alliances & Channels Executives Please register for your regions Partner Kickoff at the appropriate link below: Region Date / Time NAS Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT EMEA Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST LAD Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00pm EDT (Miami) / 3:00pm BRT (Sao Paulo) JAPAN Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST APAC Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore)Wednesday, June 27 @ 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney) Be sure to follow us around the web to get the latest on OPN! We look forward to seeing you online,The Oracle PartnerNetwork Team

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  • REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th

    - by mseika
      REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13. Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During Partner Kickoff you will see: Judson Althoff on FY12 recap and FY13 call to action Executive Addresses from Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and Regional Sales Executives Embed, Sell and Implement the Full Portfolio Business Opportunities for ISV / OEM’s, System Integrators, and Channel Partners Q&A with Regional Alliances & Channels Executives Please register for your regions Partner Kickoff at the appropriate link below: Region Date / Time NAS Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT EMEA Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST LAD Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00pm EDT (Miami) / 3:00pm BRT (Sao Paulo) JAPAN Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST APAC Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore)Wednesday, June 27 @ 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney) Be sure to follow us around the web to get the latest on OPN! We look forward to seeing you online,The Oracle PartnerNetwork Team

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  • REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th

    - by mseika
    REGISTER NOW: FY13 LIVE Oracle PartnerNetwork Kickoff is June 26th/27th Join us for a live online event hosted by the Oracle PartnerNetwork team as we kickoff FY13. Hear messages from Judson Althoff, Oracle's SVP of Worldwide Alliances & Channels, as well as other Oracle executives, thought leaders, and partners. During Partner Kickoff you will see: Judson Althoff on FY12 recap and FY13 call to action Executive Addresses from Mark Hurd, Thomas Kurian, John Fowler, and Regional Sales Executives Embed, Sell and Implement the Full Portfolio Business Opportunities for ISV / OEM’s, System Integrators, and Channel Partners Q&A with Regional Alliances & Channels Executives Please register for your regions Partner Kickoff at the appropriate link below: Region Date / Time NAS Tuesday, June 26 @ 8:30 am PT EMEA Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00 pm BST LAD Tuesday, June 26 @ 2:00pm EDT (Miami) / 3:00pm BRT (Sao Paulo) JAPAN Wednesday, June 27 @ 10:00 am JST APAC Wednesday, June 27 @ 8:30 am IST (Bangalore) / 11:00 am SGT (Singapore)Wednesday, June 27 @ 1:00 pm AEST (Sydney) Be sure to follow us around the web to get the latest on OPN! We look forward to seeing you online,The Oracle PartnerNetwork Team

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  • Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Tweet Meet!

    - by Oracle OpenWorld Blog Team
    By jgelhaus OTN Tweet Meet Do you tweet? What’s your handle?Ever wanted to meet the faces behind all the tweets from Oracle, partners, and fellow customers?Grab a @__ nametag and join in on Tuesday, October 2, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the OTN lounge (you know, in that big tent on Howard Street between Moscone North and South). So come and mingle with fellow tweeters. In addition to the great company of tweeters, Oracle Database experts will also be on hand to answer questions. 

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  • New success stories for Oracle IRM and blog translations

    - by Simon Thorpe
    While we have been busy with the release of Oracle IRM 11g, we've had some customers create a few more success stories for us. These have now been added to our success stories page on this blog, quick links to them are below. Also the announcement has generated a lot of interest globally within Oracle and as such our friends in Latin America have been asking for some translated pages on the blog. So the first of these are now available in Brazilian Portuguese for both the Oracle IRM overview and the simple demonstration online where anyone can self register and experience Oracle IRM protected content. If you work for Oracle sales and would like to translate any of the information on this blog please contact us.

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  • Oracle University New Courses (Week 42)

    - by rituchhibber
      Oracle University released the following new (versions of) courses recently: Engineered Systems Exadata Database Machine Administration Workshop (Training On Demand) Development Tools Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: Build Applications with ADF I (Training On Demand) Fusion Middleware Oracle AIA Foundation Pack 11g: Developing Applications (Training On Demand) Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Administration (Training On Demand) Oracle GoldenGate 11g Fundamentals for Oracle (Training On Demand) Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: Build Applications with ADF I (Training On Demand) Oracle WebCenter Portal 11g: Spaces Administration (3 days) Java Architect Enterprise Applications with Java EE (5 days) Hyperion Oracle Hyperion Planning 11.1.2: Create & Manage Applications (Training On Demand) Oracle Hyperion Financial Mgmt 11.1.2: Create & Manage Applications (Training On Demand) Get in contact with your local Oracle University team for more details and course dates.

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  • Detecting Duplicates Using Oracle Business Rules

    - by joeywong-Oracle
    Recently I was involved with a Business Process Management Proof of Concept (BPM PoC) where we wanted to show how customers could use Oracle Business Rules (OBR) to easily define some rules to detect certain conditions, such as duplicate account numbers, duplicate names, high transaction amounts, etc, in a set of transactions. Traditionally you would have to loop through the transactions and compare each transaction with each other to find matching conditions. This is not particularly nice as it relies on more traditional approaches (coding) and is not the most efficient way. OBR is a great place to house these types’ of rules as it allows users/developers to externalise the rules, in a simpler manner, externalising the rules from the message flows and allows users to change them when required. So I went ahead looking for some examples. After quite a bit of time spent Googling, I did not find much out in the blogosphere. In fact the best example was actually from...... wait for it...... Oracle Documentation! (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E28271_01/user.1111/e10228/rules_start.htm#ASRUG228) However, if you followed the link there was not much explanation provided with the example. So the aim of this article is to provide a little more explanation to the example so that it can be better understood. Note: I won’t be covering the BPM parts in great detail. Use case: Payment instruction file is required to be processed. Before instruction file can be processed it needs to be approved by a business user. Before the approval process, it would be useful to run the payment instruction file through OBR to look for transactions of interest. The output of the OBR can then be used to flag the transactions for the approvers to investigate. Example BPM Process So let’s start defining the Business Rules Dictionary. For the input into our rules, we will be passing in an array of payments which contain some basic information for our demo purposes. Input to Business Rules And for our output we want to have an array of rule output messages. Note that the element I am using for the output is only for one rule message element and not an array. We will configure the Business Rules component later to return an array instead. Output from Business Rules Business Rule – Create Dictionary Fill in all the details and click OK. Open the Business Rules component and select Decision Functions from the side. Modify the Decision Function Configuration Select the decision function and click on the edit button (the pencil), don’t worry that JDeveloper indicates that there is an error with the decision function. Then click the Ouputs tab and make sure the checkbox under the List column is checked, this is to tell the Business Rules component that it should return an array of rule message elements. Updating the Decision Service Next we will define the actual rules. Click on Ruleset1 on the side and then the Create Rule in the IF/THEN Rule section. Creating new rule in ruleset Ok, this is where some detailed explanation is required. Remember that the input to this Business Rules dictionary is a list of payments, each of those payments were of the complex type PaymentType. Each of those payments in the Oracle Business Rules engine is treated as a fact in its working memory. Implemented rule So in the IF/THEN rule, the first task is to grab two PaymentType facts from the working memory and assign them to temporary variable names (payment1 and payment2 in our example). Matching facts Once we have them in the temporary variables, we can then start comparing them to each other. For our demonstration we want to find payments where the account numbers were the same but the account name was different. Suspicious payment instruction And to stop the rule from comparing the same facts to each other, over and over again, we have to include the last test. Stop rule from comparing endlessly And that’s it! No for loops, no need to keep track of what you have or have not compared, OBR handles all that for you because everything is done in its working memory. And once all the tests have been satisfied we need to assert a new fact for the output. Assert the output fact Save your Business Rules. Next step is to complete the data association in the BPM process. Pay extra care to use Copy List instead of the default Copy when doing data association at an array level. Input and output data association Deploy and test. Test data Rule matched Parting words: Ideally you would then use the output of the Business Rules component to then display/flag the transactions which triggered the rule so that the approver can investigate. Link: SOA Project Archive [Download]

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  • Oracle@info360: Advance Beyond Point Solutions To An Enterprise Content Strategy

    - by kellsey.ruppel(at)oracle.com
    The info360/AIIM conference is March 22-24 in Washington DC. We have a number of customer speakers this year talking on the theme of “Advance Beyond Point Solutions To An Enterprise Content Strategy.” These customers all started by addressing a particular use case, but then used the infrastructure they had created to quickly and cost effectively stand up solutions to new business problems.  Andy MacMillan, VP of Product Management at Oracle, will give a thought provoking opening keynote at 8:50 AM on Tuesday, March 22nd. He will be joined by Juan Jose Goldschtein, the CIO of the Organization of American States. The OAS has developed a human rights website that is the front end to a case management system for human rights violations. The implementation supports digital signatures on iPads, so their executives can approve workflows and keep cases moving forward while they are busy traveling and investigating abuses.Other customer speakers include:Tom Robinette, Director of Applications and IT Engineering, Dresser-RandRobin Crisp, Program Manager, FDAMonica Crocker, Corporate Records Manager, Land O’ LakesBrian Skapura, The American Institute of ArchitectsKathy Adams and Leslie Becker, The Nature ConservancyIrfan Motiwala, Sr. VP, Moody’s Investment ServicesMolly Wenzler, Director of Electronic Media, MeadWestvaco Other sessions include our Super Session that kicks off the Oracle Track @info360 on Wednesday. At 11:00 AM, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Howard Beader will present The Social Enterprise – Combining People, Processes and Content. This session will focus on how customers have brought social media, business process management, and content management together to supercharge their organizations. Oracle customers can arrange one-on-one meetings with Oracle executives and product experts, and attend the VIP customer appreciation event. Oracle will be joined by Oracle partners:FujitsuKesteTeamInformaticsKapowSena SystemsDTIYou can learn more about discounts for Oracle customers and register on our Oracle@info360 page.To see more about the customers and sessions that will be presented, you can look at the Oracle Track page on the AIIM/info360 website.Technorati Tags: oracle, AIIM, info360, content management, social enterprise

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  • Get Ready...Oracle CloudWorld is Coming to a City Near You in 2013

    - by Gene Eun
    Is your organization considering the cloud for deploying enterprise applications? Are mobile and social part of your cloud strategy? If you answered YES to either question, then you should plan to join us at an Oracle CloudWorld event, coming to a city near you in 2013. If you attend, you'll get an opportunity to learn firsthand about Oracle Cloud, talk to product experts, see live demos, and network with other industry professionals. By the way, did I mention that Oracle CloudWorld is a FREE event?Whether you're a C-level executive, line of business manager, or hardcore application developer, Oracle CloudWorld will have valuable information for you with keynotes, breakout sessions, demos, and dedicated tracks for: Sales and Marketing Customer Service and Support Finance and Operations Human Resources Application Developers Applications IT Click here to learn more about Oracle CloudWorld, including cities and dates. Hope to see you there!

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  • Don't Miss - Oracle ADF Virtual Developer Day 2013

    - by Shay Shmeltzer
    With budget cuts all over the world less and less developers get to travel to conferences. So how do you keep up with the latest technical aspects of your development environment? Oracle to the rescue with our Virtual Developer Day.  We are happy to announce the 2013 Oracle ADF Virtual Developer Days Online sessions that include a live Q&A with product managers that will cover everything you need to know about Oracle ADF - all from the comfort of your office chair. With sessions that cover best practices, tuning, mobile, Eclipse support and even some getting started information there is something in this day for every level of experience with Oracle ADF - you are sure to learn some new things too! Sessions are delivered by Oracle product managers with a special track delivered by expert customers covering some advanced topics. Check out the schedule and register for the event in your time zone.

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