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.

General Open World news

General Facts
As Oracle OpenWorld expects to attract 43,000 attendees and deliver 1,800 conference sessions during its September 21 – 25, 2008 conference, the company is leveraging mobile and enterprise 2.0 technologies to help attendees customize their experiences for maximum relevance.

Using Oracle Mix, Oracle’s business networking technology for bringing Oracle customers, partners, developers and employees together, more than 300 users in the community voted on the sessions they would like to see Oracle offer at this year’s Oracle OpenWorld conference. The results of the voting can be found here. Oracle Mix is also helping attendees connect and create communities around common interests.

New this year, the Oracle OpenWorld Blog has started a dialogue about the conference and enables content-area experts and attendees to share insights about all aspects of the conference — from where to stay and things to do in San Francisco to session content.

For up-to-the-minute schedule information, Oracle OpenWorld attendees will be able to voluntarily subscribe to a mobile messaging service to receive reminders of their schedule, as well as information on any changed sessions.

Oracle Announces Oracle OpenWorld(R) San Francisco 2008 Keynote Lineup
Here you can find the keynote schedule. It looks like no special Apps key note is planned.

In addition to my post of yesterday, I found out how to read PeopleSoft table definitions into the Topology manager of ODI.

After creating the SQL Server 2005 Data Server create a new Physical Schema specifying your PeopleSoft database (for instande HRMS9 for a HR 9.0 environment) and the owner of the schema (= dbo for SQL Server). In the Context tab give the Logical schema a logical name.

To actually load table definitions you can use furtheron for integration, start the ODI Designer.

I’ve been busy trying to get Oracle Data Integration to work. First step after installation is to connect one or more data sources using the Topology Manager. Although ODI is a fairly new product, it only comes with a SQL Server 2000 driver.

To install the SQL Server 2005 JDBC driver and use it to connect to the database you need to follow the following steps:

As an attendant to the latest LOUD meeting, during the speeches we were confronted with 2 opposing statements. The first speaker stated we should go back to the roots of application development using the rich technology databases nowadays possess, like PL/SQL and triggers. The second speech was about the new development tool from Oracle, WebCenter and Web 2.0 which has all functionality in the application instead of the database.
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