Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Application Management Preview

The Olympics is over. The political conventions are over. What is the next mega-event? Oracle OpenWorld of course. In two weeks, we will once again pack Downtown San Francisco with tens of thousands of Oracle customers, partners and employees to talk about the latest developments in enterprise software.

We will feature our strongest lineup of breakout sessions dedicated to application management ever. Here is a preview.

E-Business Suite Management

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Customer Case Study: Centrally Managing Your Oracle E-Business Suite, Using Oracle Application Management Pack
Benjamin Cabanas, General Electric, Infrastructure ; Biju Mohan, Oracle

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Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Install and Cloning Techniques Deep Dive
Max Arderius, Oracle; Biju Mohan, Oracle

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Managing Oracle E-Business Suite Customizations and Patches, Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
Uma Prabhala, Oracle

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Oracle E-Business Suite Management: Performance Optimization Best Practices Using Oracle Enterprise Manager
Chung Wu, Oracle

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Improve Performance of Your Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel Applications with Oracle's Real User Experience Insight
Henk de Koning, Oracle; Jurgen de Leijer, Oracle

Siebel Management

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Improve Performance of Your Oracle E-Business Suite and Siebel Applications with Oracle's Real User Experience Insight
Henk de Koning, Oracle; Jurgen de Leijer, Oracle

S298532
Siebel Application Management: Three Steps to Better Performance and Better User Adoption
Chung Wu, Oracle

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Performance Optimization Best Practices with Siebel Application Response Measurement and Oracle Enterprise Manager
Sandra Cheevers, Oracle; Chung Wu, Oracle

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The Oracle Stack Promise for Siebel Customer Relationship Management: MAA, Oracle Clusterware, and Oracle Real Application Clusters
Richard Exley, Oracle; James Qiu, Oracle

PeopleSoft Management

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Leveraging Oracle Enterprise Manager to Manage and Monitor Your PeopleSoft Applications
Scott Schafer, Oracle

Oracle Business Intelligence Management

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Oracle Business Intelligence Management: Achieving High Performance and Availability with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Amjad Afanah, Oracle; Vishal Doshi, Fiberlink Communications

General Application Management Topics

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Go Beyond Web Analytics: Build Business Intelligence with Oracle Real User Experience Insight
Rajiv Taori, Oracle

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How Real User Monitoring Can Improve Application Performance: Go Beyond Web Analytics and Systems Monitoring
Michel Knops, Measureworks; Mark McGill, Oracle; Jurgen de Leijer, Oracle

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Application Transaction Management with Oracle Enterprise Manager: The Key to End-to-End Monitoring virag Saksena, Oracle; Rajiv Taori, Oracle

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Application Diagnostics for DBAs: Visibility into Your Application That the Middle-Tier Administrator Cannot Provide You
Shiraz Kanga, Oracle; Rajagopal Marripalli, Oracle

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Optimizing Application Performance: Application Testing Suite to the Rescue
Matthew Demeusy, Oracle; Joe Fernandes, Oracle

S298699
Application Upgrade Secrets: Avoid Surprises While Making Database Changes
Jagan Athreya, Oracle; Sandra Cheevers, Oracle; Ravi Pattabhi, Oracle

S298529
Managing Your Service Bus with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Nadu Bharadwaj, Oracle; Arvind Maheshwari, Oracle

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Tips and Tricks for Managing Your Oracle Forms and Web Applications with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Nadu Bharadwaj, Oracle; Richard Mertz, City of Evanston, Ill; Daniel brint, SUNY

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Active User Monitoring: Measure Your User’s Experience Without Instrumenting Your Applications
Rajagopal Marripalli, Oracle; Richard Mertz, City of Evanston, Ill

More details on these sessions can be found on this website: http://www28.cplan.com/cc208/catalog.jsp

See you in San Francisco!

Monday, August 18, 2008

Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite 10gR4 is Available

Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite 10gR4 (version 2.0.2) is now available. This release runs on Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10.2.0.3 and 10.2.0.4, and supports the following operating system platforms:

  • Linux x86 and x86-64 (the same patch is applicable to both Linux-based platforms)

  • Solaris SPARC

  • AIX5L-based

  • HP-UX PA-RISC

  • HP-UX Itanium

  • Windows (Note: The 2.0 and 2.0.2 versions of the pack are supported on the Windows platform only with Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 4.)

The pack can be used to manage the following E-Business Suite releases

  • Release 11.5.10 CU2 ATG PF RUP4.H

  • Release 12.0

This version of the pack can be downloaded immediately through Oracle Metalink, as patch 6809246. It is an OPatch rollup update on top of the pack’s earlier 10gR3 release (version 2.0). This release of the pack is the first version that is certified to run on Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10gR4 and contains a cumulative collection of bug fixes.