Archive for the ‘Fusion’ Category
Fusion Apps delayed, what to do next….
About a year ago I raised the question how to prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications. Within Logica we had chosen to focus on creating awareness for the changes Fusion Apps would bring. In this so called Tour de Fusion programme we focused on several topics like SOA, BPEL and BPM. Topics which not only existed in theory, but already were supported with tools by Oracle. For instance the Oracle SOA suite or Oracle BPA suite. This allowed our consultants to work (‘to stand with their feet in the mud’) with these products in our skill centre environment. Examples are interfaces between PeopleSoft and eBusiness Suite based on BPEL. A rudimentary way of application integration.
At Openworld 2008 Oracle delayed the launch of Fusion Apps until end 2009 / beginning 2010. What is the impact on our competence development in general and the Tour de Fusion programme in particular?
OpenWorld 2008: Review
General OpenWorld news
Your Applications Stream
The Applications stream encompasses all of Oracle’s applications product lines including Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle’s PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Hyperion, and Agile applications. In sessions for both line-of-business and technical audiences, you’ll find product information, sneak peeks at new product releases, and presentations focused on Oracle’s strategy and vision for its applications business. This stream also includes sessions applicable across all the applications product lines, covering subjects such as applications tools and technology; midsize businesses; governance, risk management, and compliance; and Oracle Application Integration Architecture.
OpenWorld 2008: Day 3
General Open World news
Ellison Unleashes HP Oracle Database Machine
In his much-anticipated keynote address, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s first-ever hardware product, the HP Oracle Database Machine. Introduced as the world’s fastest database machine, the HP Oracle Database Machine improves data warehouse query performance by a factor of 10 or more. The machine is a combination of smart storage software from Oracle and industrystandard hardware from HP; it consists of a grid of Oracle Database servers and a grid of new Oracle Exadata Storage Servers packaged in a single rack along with the required InfiniBand infrastructure and related hardware.
“Talk about extreme performance—you’re looking at the world’s fastest database machine,” said Ellison, as the HP Oracle Database Machine rose from beneath the stage next to him. “For the first time, customers can get smart performance storage designed for Oracle data warehouses that is 10 times faster. And this is 1,400 times larger than Apple’s largest iPod,” he added, prompting laughter from the standing-room-only crowd.
Enterprise data warehouses are experiencing phenomenal growth, explained Ellison, as data volume triples in size every two years. “The issue is, you still have to get at that data to run your business, but the pipes are real bottlenecks,” said Ellison. “We’ve developed software that does more database processing directly at the disc drive, so less data has to travel over pipes, and combined that with HP’s extreme hardware—wider pipes and more of them. The performance improvement is truly amazing,” he added. Read the full story in today’s newspaper
Larry goes eXtreme!
Two years after the moment that Oracle went into Operating Systems – Unbreakable Linux – today Larry announced that Oracle (partnering with HP) will sell hardware also. And it’s not a simple commodity server… It’s the HP Oracle Database Machine. This beast contains 8 database servers (with 64 cores in total) and 14 eXadata servers (with 112 cores). And an enormous amount of storage: 1400 times more than the largest iPod! I think it could contain all mp3′s in the world…
An eXadata Server (officially known as the HP Oracle Exadata Programmable Storage Server) contains 2 processors with 8 cores each, 12 disks, Enterprise Linux and – and this is the coolest part – Parallel Query processing capability for every disk. By bringing processing capability close to the storage, the amount of data going through the wires from a storage server to a database server is dramatically reduced – because results are passed instead of data blocks. Because of this architecture the performance will remain the same as the database is growing – just add some more servers and it will be fine. So this is the last piece of the grid-puzzle: Next to Fusion Middleware grid and Database Grid, Oracle can provide us now with Storage Grid.
The performance of this thing is gigantic: tests proved that queries will run 10 to 50 (!) times faster than on current available hardware.
And now of course the closing question: What does it cost?
A Database Machine costs $650,000 – which is $4,000 per terabyte, and that is much cheaper than other storage around. Apart from that there is ‘some’ license involved for the software : $1,680,000 (and surely an annual fee of 15% of that amount). So it’s not for free…but it can replace a room full of your current hardware!
Some impressions from our inside reporter
• When Logica focus on “Committed, Innovate & Open” (CIO) it inspired oracle to “Complete, Open & Integrated (COI)”
• The main news was about Hardware. Co-operation between oracle and HP for storage systems
• Charles Philips had dinner with customers but couldn’t cook ….. score for Paul Schuijt.
Also check the photo impressions. http://picasaweb.google.com/leovlist/2008092224OowFotos#
OpenWorld 2008: Day 2
General Open World news
Today mr Oracle himself will give his vision, will we finally hear about the ‘X’?
Oracle’s Kurian: Integration Fundamentals
Oracle Senior Vice President of Fusion Middleware Thomas Kurian showcased how Oracle’s middleware stack can help companies gain a competitive edge during his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld on Tuesday afternoon. Kurian focused on how Oracle’s data integration, business intelligence, and enterprise performance management products help companies clean up information, analyze it, and use it to make management decisions. He showcased Oracle products that help businesses share information, including solutions for content management, collaboration, portals, and identity management.
Kurian introduced Oracle EPM Architect, a new product that unifies and aligns processes across EPM systems. “[Oracle] EPM Architect allows you to define the facts, dimensions, and calculations you use to do your planning and financial management processes in a consistent way,” said Kurian. The new release includes a number of new features and modules, including Oracle Workforce Planning, Oracle Capital Budget Planning, and Oracle Capital Expense Planning. Also included is a new capability for predictive analytics. “This new capability allows you to take your plan and budget, load it into a spreadsheet interface called [Oracle] Crystal Ball, and run simulations and make decisions based on the simulated data and the different kinds of simulations that you do,” said Kurian.
Kurian also introduced Oracle Profitability Management, a solution focusing on an area that is important for companies as they go through the budgeting cycle. “It’s different from other profitability management solutions in that it allows you to do a top-down allocation of revenue, cost, and other profitability drivers,” said Kurian. “It’s also built on Oracle Essbase, so you can correlate your profitability calculations with your plans and budgets.” In the second part of his keynote, Kurian focused on Oracle’s Enterprise 2.0 space. He showcased the integration between Oracle WebCenter, Oracle Universal Content Management, and Oracle Beehive.
He then discussed how Oracle WebCenter and Oracle Beehive allow people to work together more effectively using the information they have, and how Oracle Identity Management ensures that that information is secure.
L’ERP est mort, vive L’AIA!?
L’ERP est mort, vive L’AIA!?
The scholars have not yet agreed whether all dinosaurs died via a big bang or that this is done gradually. Thus, the trend watchers cannot even agree where ERP will extinct. It’s clear that these systems have had their longest time. As the newest ICT generation now looks pity at the Mainframe cowboys, over 20 years we will look with great surprise to the ERP people.