OpenWorld 2009: Day 4

General OpenWorld News

Ellison touts new products at Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison fired up the crowd at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco on Wednesday by showing off new business software and a new data-storage system that he dubbed “the fastest business computer in the world.” Read more …

Schwarzenegger praises Oracle’s deal for Sun

Adding a little star power to Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took the stage at the Moscone Center on Wednesday and congratulated CEO Larry Ellison on the deal even though it’s been stalled by a European antitrust investigation. Read more …

Oracle’s Larry Ellison to IBM: “make our day”

… Ellison fought back Wednesday in a speech in San Francisco, promoting a $10 million prize Oracle is offering to any organization that finds Oracle’s database software doesn’t run at least twice as fast on Sun servers as it does on IBM’s fastest computers. Read more …

Thanks to this year’s crew

Bob, Frank and Ellen, a big thanks for your contribution.

Fusion

by Peter Slager

Ellison: Fusion Applications in 2010

Oracle plans to launch its long-awaited Fusion Applications in 2010, and they will be deployable both on-premises and as SaaS (software as a service), CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Read more …

Oracle’s Ellison: Fusion Will Dawn in 2010

After spending years and years gestating a significant new lineup of business software, Oracle (ORCL) Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Oct. 14 that the company’s long-awaited Fusion applications would make their debut next year. Read more …

e-Business Suite

By Bob van den Ende

Oracle plans to launch its long-awaited Fusion Applications in 2010, and they will be deployable both on-premises and as SaaS (software as a service), CEO Larry Ellison said Wednesday during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
Ellison’s keynote contained the most specific information the company has provided about Fusion Applications since first announcing the project several years ago. The CEO took pains to tell the packed room of Siebel, JD Edwards and E-Business Suite users that Oracle has no plans to abandon the product lines anytime soon.

“Oracle will continue to enhance those applications for the next decade and beyond. We’re absolutely committed to do that,” he said to applause. “We can afford to not only maintain the software you’re running today, but also build the software you may want to move to tomorrow.”

11g Performance & Scalability Features

An interesting article based on the event “Next Generation Oracle Database Performance & Scalability: A Sneak Peek”.
http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/10/26/oracle-open-world-day-4-11g-performance-scalability-features/

Univa Puts Oracle E-Business Suite In Cloud

The software maker demonstrates at Oracle OpenWorld, how Oracle’s enterprise apps can be run remotely, in the cloud.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/hosted/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220600183

Toad

Quest Software, Inc. announced the next generation of Toad for Oracle, a comprehensive solution for Oracle development and administration. Toad for Oracle 10 offers DBAs greater manageability and automation, making it easy to view all managed servers while simultaneously performing daily tasks across multiple instances. Toad 10’s Automation Designer enables DBAs to automate, save and multi-execute tasks against multiple database connections. Toad can now execute more than 120 database analysis checks (included in DBA Suite and DB Admin Module), giving DBAs access to an even deeper assessment of potential problems.

Available Now: Oracle Secure Enterprise Search with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i & R12 releases. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) is integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite applications Releases R11.5.10, R12.0.4 onwards and R12.1.1. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets.
More info: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oses/index.html

PeopleSoft

By Frank Kortekaas

First PeopleTools 8.50 user experiences

On OpenWorld beta customers (Arizona State University, Boise Corporation, Boeing and Oxfam) discussed their first experience with the new PeopleTools 8.50 release in a session led by Grey Sparling Solutions. Their first finding was that the installation process was straightforward. A plus is the possibility to allow customers to manage their binaries separately from their logs and configuration settings by using the new psconfig home setting. Also Verity is a separate install now. On usability the grid enhancements (users are able to customize/drag and drop at run-time) was appreciated. Also the new modal lookup prompt and the type-ahead functionality are improvements. Furthermore the new collaboration features are a plus. Performance wise the use of partial page refresh increases productivity because users have to wait less.

Oracle Enterprise Manager PeopleSoft plugin

Another interesting session was about the use of Oracle Enterprise Manager with PeopleSoft. First you have to install the PeopleSoft plugin on the different hosts that are running PeopleSoft, then you go online and have it discover what PeopleSoft environments that you have up and running. You can define a single PeopleSoft “system” to include all web servers, app servers, process schedulers, and database, but also define the database separately so that when you do things like blackout the system he can manage the database blackouts separate from the appserver blackouts. Different graphs and charts are available, and you can also define your own.

Siebel

By Ellen Koenen

Successful Siebel Implementations-directly from Siebel Customers

The cloud continued pour rain in San Francisco yesterday, but that did nothing to dampen the spirit of Oracle Open World. There was not many news on the Siebel side but tips for successful Siebel implementations are always welcome.

The customer present were Sabre Travel Networks, UPS, Agilent Technologies an CSL Behring. They had common suggestions for a successful implementation:
• Standardize on tools and languages across your geographies
• Keep customization to the minimum- your application the more successful it will be for you
• Increase user adoption by involving the users during the design process, that way they will be ready to embrace it when you do the actual rollout
• Find people to “help”, like others who have been through the same process before, partner with the Oracle community-Oracle team as well as other customers
• Reduce the number of time spent on training, try to implement online or regional training, it is a big cost saving.

Looking at the weather forecast, tomorrow will be better. The sun will shine!

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