More and more enterprises are using Single-Sign-On (SSO) for there on-premise applications today, but what if they want to use SSO for there cloud applications as well? This blog post is addressing this topic for Single-Sign-On to Oracle ERP Cloud in a hybrid environment. First of all lets focus on […]
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite aka Oracle Applications, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards and Retek related articles.
OOW13: What questions to get answered and plans to see evolved at this year at Oracle OpenWorld Conference
As I am about to start my ninth Oracle OpenWorld Conference, I am wondering what this year’s conference will have in store for me. My schedule is largely filled up, I know who I am going to meet, where I have to speak and where I need to go. Now […]
Training Oracle ADF 11g, 15 tot en met 19 april
Van 15 tot en met 19 april geeft Luc Bors de 5-daagse ADF 11g training op het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. In 5 dagen leer je de basis van Oracle ADF 11g. De training bestaat basis uit presentatie, demonstratie en hands on, doorspekt met best practices en voorbeelden uit […]
Advert: Dutch preview event ‘Collaborate 12’
‘COLLABORATE 12: Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community’ is de grootste Oracle gebruikersgroep conferentie ter wereld en wordt jaarlijks georganiseerd in de Verenigde Staten. Het is hét evenement om bij te zijn wanneer je geïnteresseerd bent niet alleen in Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, Siebel, etc.) maar […]
2 dagen seminar door Steven Feuerstein: Best of Oracle PL/SQL (8 en 9 december)
In dit tweedaagse seminar neemt Steven Feuerstein je mee ver voorbij de basismogelijkheden van PL/SQL. Steven zal tijdens dit seminar de best practices behandelen die hij op tientallen plekken in de wereld heeft verzameld en die hij ook mede door zijn nauwe samenwerking met het PL/SQL product team van Oracle […]
Being Mr. Ellison…
Its almost Christmas and the end of this 2010 year and I keep wondering what will happen, Oracle wise, in 2011. I have, had, my idea’s about what might happen, will happen, if I would be Mr. Larry Ellison. Being “in the trade”, a Oracle geek, since 1993, I have […]
More than five years later – we are finally there: Larry Elison announcing Fusion Applications
Larry Ellison: We set out to deliver the next generation of business applications. Our task: Take all of the best features from Oracle’s major application products – including E Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel and JDEdwards. Rebuild them, on top of modern middleware infrasructure, all written in Java. It took us […]
Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.
Oracle posted a press release about their involvement and commitment for UBMatrix XBRL technologies last Wednesday saying (among others):
“To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing and automatic exchange of financial statements in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), Oracle will embed UBmatrix, Inc.’s leading XBRL technology into Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) System, Oracle announced today.”
“Oracle and UBmatrix are also working together to provide enterprise class storage and management for XBRL-based information in Oracle® Database 11g. Using Oracle Database’s XML DB feature, organizations can easily and quickly store, access and query their XBRL data.”
A lot of you might ask themselves: “Who are or what is UBMatrix ???” and how does it all fit in…
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Oracle Fusion Applications – it is for real! (and impressive too)
When Oracle started acquiring companies in the ERP space, they unfolded (the outline of) the Fusion strategy. With three aspects to it as I understood it: the Fusion Middleware stack, the integration of the acquired companies into the Oracle fold and the development of the next generation of Enterprise […]
Oracle Workflow, a brief introduction – Part 2 Building a simple workflow
In this blog I will show you how easy it is to build a process with Oracle Workflow. This demo consist of an automatic step (plsql function) and a FYI notification. The process will be deployed in the workflow environment described in my previous blog (Part 1). Workflow […]
Personalizations in CRM foundation
The Case At the customer we use Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC). OIC is used to compensate external partners. These partners are maintained in CRM foundation. The partners are set up as salesperson. Salespersons can be used inside OIC. The customer has two operating units. In CRM for each operating unit, […]
Some sql scripts for analyzing Oracle eBS
While working in Oracle eBS it can sometimes be very helpful to have a quick overview of how and/or what is setup. Sometimes it is enough to just use what was made available to you and by clicking through the available setup screens you will simply find what you are […]
The AMIS team reports from Oracle Open World – big and small announcements, guidance and tips
Last night, the AMIS crew that visited the Oracle Open World conference reported their findings in a 3.5 hour session. In segments on SOA & BPM, Middleware, Database, Oracle Applications (AIA) and Development technology, we presented the highlights from close to 1900 sessions – no small feat. And utterly incomplete […]
Oracle Workflow, a brief introduction – Part 1 Setting up an environment
Maybe the following question will arise after reading the title: Oracle Workflow isn’t that obsolete technology? The answer can be very short: Yes it is. (Read the SOD on http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/workflow/workflow_sod.html)But it’s still interesting enough to dive into it. Oracle Workflow is heavy used in the E-Business Suite and also used […]
Oracle Data Mining meets performance method "GAPP"
Sunday 21 September 2008 at Oracle Open World, I had the opportunity to present my method “GAPP” once more (HOTSOS 2008 and Planboard may 2008). This time I also mentioned how the method can be used with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). For people not knowing what “GAPP” is all about […]
Incentive Compensation Classification Ruleset stays in status Install Pending.
Recently we where doing a test at our customer site and part of that test was changing an existing Classification Ruleset. This had been done before, but for some reasons when we tried it then the Synchronization of the Rulesets completed successfully but the Ruleset itself stayed in status Install […]
How to change the retained earnings account in General Ledger
Changing the retained earnings account in General Ledger is pretty easy. Just go to the define Set of Books form and change the retained earnings account. But is this a proper method? No it isn’t. If you change the retained earnings since 11i there will be a warning displayed. In […]
Oracle Incentive Compensation – bad performance due to Custom Flag setting
While implementing some additions to the existing Oracle Incentive Compensation implementation at our customer site we got complaints from the end users about the performance of some of the processes in Incentive Compensation. Specifically adding a new rate table to an existing plan element was taking a lot more time […]
Not able to open forms pages
The problem Last week I installed some updates for windows and internet explorer. After installing I tried to open a form page, but instead of opening forms my internet explorer disappeared without any warning. I retried this a few times, also in other environments but the problem occurs every time. […]
Moving warehouses in Oracle 11.5.9
One of the latest challenges I was involved in, was a project for a worldwide organization that closed the acquisition of another brand.The company of that other brand was using a mixture of all sorts of home-brewn systems and packages to get their business done. Our challenge was to get […]
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 update 1
Oracle recently announced certification for E-Business Suite 11i on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 So, today I gave it a try, together with a colleague. The requirements for installing E-Business Suite on OEL5 can be found in Metalink Note 316806.1 Basically this was the note I followed. We set up […]
E-Business Suite 11i Certified on OEL5, RHEL5 and SLES10
With the end of full support for RedHat’s Enterpris Linux 4 as of May 15 (2008), Oracle was just in time announcing support for Enterprise Linux 5 (both Oracle’s and Red Hat’s) for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i. Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 has been available for a while now, and the […]
IPv6 support for Oracle E-Business Suite 11i and R12
Today I stumbled on a blog post of Steven Chan, Sr. Director, Oracle Applications Technology Integration at Oracle. His blog post announces the support for IPv6 for E-Business Suite release 11i and 12. There have been numerous rumors going around about the IPv4 addresses becoming exhausted in the near future. […]
DBA Conference Holland & XMLDB Whitepaper
Given by Dutch DBA’s for DBA’s: The DBA Conference in Holland next week, the 27th of May 2008, Zeist. Oracle DBA Symposium Yours truly will also present as you can see in the Dutch Agenda below. Harald van Breederode Client Connectivity in een DataGuard omgeving Hoe je de Client Connectiviteit […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 4 – The Final Day
Being the last day of the conference there was a shorter program, only until early afternoon. I must say, this has been a very valuable conference for me. I have seen great presentations, received very valuable information on current and future products of Oracle and, not the least important, I […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 3
I am supposed to be at a party tonight, but I am too exhausted, to be honest to go out and my head is too full with all kinds of new stuff… (poor me!;-) Today was another day of very interesting stuff, even though a couple of presentations covered things […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 2
This was my second day of Collaborate 08. I attended 3 sessions today: Oracle Unbreakable Linux and Oracle VM – by Monica Kumar, Oracle Building E-Business Suite Interfaces using BPEL – by Asif Hussain, Innowave Technology Using BPEL and Workflow to build integration components for the E-Business Suite – […]
Collaborate 08 – Day 1
Today I have started my very first Collaborate Experience. It was a very interesting day indeed, all of the presentations I went to were of high value. My program for today was: 10 thing you can do today to prepare for Fusion Applications – by Nadia Benjedou, Oracle Corp. […]
OOW 2007: (most) presentations available for download
Most of the presentations for the sessions presented at Oracle Open World 2007, last week in San Francisco, can be downloaded from the Content Catalog at: http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp. You will need to use the username/password combination cboracle/oraclec6 to download presentations. At http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/keynotes.html are all the keynotes, of which the one by […]
Presenting at OOW: Mixing E-Business & Pleasure – integration scenarios for Oracle E- Business Suite and SOA Suite
On Sunday afternoon Peter Ebell and I presented at the Oracle Open World (OOW) conference in San Francisco as part of an “afternoon of business cases†that was put together by the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG). Our story is related to the work that we do for customer […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part IV
The past days have been really interesting. During last Wednesday (november 24) we finished the XML topic, covering Generating XML from an Oracle Database, Managing XML data in an Oracle Database, XML type Views and executing SQL operations on XML. These were very interesting topic indeed. Especially the generation of XML from the […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part III
Hi there! Today we continued our journey into the XML realm, by exploring the XML Schema, XPath, XSL and XML DB. XML Schemas XML Schemas are based on XML language and define and validate the structure of an XML document. They can define simple and complex types, declare elements and […]
Custom sql scripts in OAM
I noticed Oracle Applications Manager has some very handy sql script you can use when monitoring your EBS environment. When starting up OAM, navigate to Site Map —-> Monitoring —-> SQL Extensions The following scripts are available… There is also a way to add your own personal sql scripts to […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part II
Today was the first day of the FM BootCamp. After a brief introduction of the program we started with our first topic of this two-week intensive hands-on Fusion Middleware Experience. Roughly, the four topics to be covered during this BootCamp are: Introduction to XML – 2.5 days WebServices – 1.5 days BPEL – 3 […]
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part I
Well,Today finally was the day. I have been looking forward a lot coming to Chicago for the Fusion Middleware Bootcamp. Getting up around 5:30am to get to the train station in time. Not a really difficult task for me, because I usually get up around 5.45am to go to work […]
EBS Custom Applications using Forms Listener Servlet
I was verifying a custom application installation in E-Business Suite for a customer lately. While looking for the documentation the installation was done with, I came across Metalink Note 70276.1, which is a Release 11.0 version of this task. Because my customer is using E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2 (11i in short), […]
Sharing only the APPL_TOP in 11.5.10
In the past days I have implemented a well known architecture to many of my fellow Oracle E-Business Suite DBAs: An architecture that consists of multiple Application Servers. Until version 11.5.10, the common practice was to share the APPL_TOP between multiple Application Servers, and from 11.5.10 onwards Oracle started supporting […]
My rediscovery of vi
I am sure I am one of those humans that are using something for a long long time, and suddenly find out they have been doing things in a not so optimal way… One easily gets used to a personal style of working with (software) tools or devices. Nothing wrong […]
invalid oraInventory in Oracle e-Business Suite
When running the http (CPU April 2007) patch on the Oracle EBS 11.5.9, I received some errors…It seemed the oraInventory was not valid, at least the http entry was missing. The oraInventory that was incomplete was the global oraInventory. I noticed that the local oraInventory in the $IAS_HOME was complete, but […]
Working with Mercury Quality Center
Last few weeks I’ve worked with Mercury Quality Center (MQC). This product can be used to register the test scenario’s you made. For example the functional tests in Oracle E-business Suite. In MQC the scenario’s can be registered so tests in the future can be done in the same way […]