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ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 2012-05-17

Bob Rhubart — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:29:05 PDT

Webcast: Conquering Big Data with the Oracle Information Architecture Model - May 30 Webcast: Conquering Big Data with the Oracle Information Architecture Model
event.on24.com
Wednesday May 30, 2012
10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
Two Oracle Enterprise Architects present use cases that will help you expand your information architecture roadmap to include new big data capabilities.
Oracle Database Appliance Best Practices: CIO Webcast
resources.cio.com
May 23, 2012
10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
Join Oracle Database Appliance experts Tammy Bednar, David Swanger, and Intel expert Fabrizio Giamello for this live Webcast and learn how to:
- Achieve a high quality of service at the lowest cost
- Reduce up-front investment in hardware and software
- Implement best practices across a multitude of deployment scenarios.
Webcast series: Identity Management as a Platform
event.on24.com
IT pros from Cisco, Manpowergroup, Simeio Solutions, SaskTel, and ING talk about Cloud-based Identity Management system built on Oracle technologies.
Webcast: Achieving Product Innovation with Purpose-built Master Data Management
event.on24.com
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Time: 9:00am PT / Noon ET
Learn how Oracle Product Hub, part of Oracle’s purpose-built master data management offering, can give you a single view that can be leveraged across your enterprise.
Free Event: Modern #Java Development, in/outside the Enterprise - May 30 - Redwood Shores, CA
www.oracle.com
Network with your peers and Oracle experts while you learn about the modern, lightweight platform that is Java EE 6 – and the productivity it offers - particularly when integrated with other commercial and open source technology. Register now.
Call for Nominations: Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards 2012 - Win a free pass to #OOW12
www.oracle.com
These awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Either a customer, their partner, or an Oracle representative can submit the nomination form on behalf of the customer. Submission deadline: July 17. Winners receive a free pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco.

Thought for the Day

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated."
— Poul Anderson

Source: softwarequotes.com

Poll: Topic for upcoming Oracle webcast

neerajbhatia — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:17:38 PDT

I am collecting feedback about which topic you like to see for upcoming webcast. I am planning to conduct this sometime next month (June).

Any other feedback you like to share – please feel free to do that in the comments section …

Take Our Poll

Cheers,

Neeraj

Work is Killing You and 10 Ways to Stop It From Happening!

Kent Graziano — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:15:49 PDT

This has been a hot button for me for some time – if we don’t find a way to fit exercise, fitness, and some healthy eating into our sedentary lives (like we in IT tend have), we will not live as long as we hope. And life will not be as enjoyable as it could [...]

Podcast Show Notes: Community Roundtable - Agility, Architecture, and the Cloud

Bob Rhubart — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:21:12 PDT

This week the ArchBeat Podcast brings you the first of three programs featuring a roundtable discussion among four far-flung community members as they share their insight and opinions on a variety of topics.

The Panelists

From Toronto: Karina Ishkhanova is Technical Lead, Payment Systems Architecture and Design at School-Pay Solutions Inc.
From Hamburg: Lenz Grimmer is Senior Product Manager for Oracle Linux.
From Boston: Tom Laszewski is a director at Oracle where he specializes in legacy modernization. Tom is the co-author of several books, the latest of which is Migrating to the Cloud: Oracle Client/Server Modernization, published by Syngress.
From Washington D.C: Pat Shepherd is an Enterprise Architect with Oracle.

The Conversation

Listen to Part 1
Agility vs. Architecture: What happens to architecture in the rush to deliver solutions?
Listen to Part 2 (May 23)
Cloud computing may be a new take on not-so-new concepts, but getting it right still requires an architectural approach.
Listen to Part 3 (May 30)
A conversation about some of the security concerns that can leave some organizations wary of cloud adoption.

Coming Soon

A panel of Oracle experts compares and contrasts public, private, and hybrid clouds.
Highlights from the panel discussion at OTN Architect Day in Reston, VA.

Stay tuned: RSS.

Mobileize Your Business Process Applications

Pat Shepherd — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:20:03 PDT

Mobileize Your BPM Applications

Recently, there has been a lot more talk about mobilizing corporate applications. One of the customers that I work with wanted to know how they can mobilize their BPM applications. There are a couple ways to do this. Here are two different approaches (using ADF Mobile and/or Actionable Emails):

1. ADF Mobile:
a. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/adf/overview/adf-mobile-096323.html
b. (Datasheet) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/adf-mobile-development-129800.pdf
c. (Documentation) http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26098_01/web.1112/e16178/toc.htm

2. Actionable Emails: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/integration.1111/e10224/bp_workflow.htm

Figured that might help some people understand how you can mobilize your work force.

Enroll to the Lifecycle Management in Solaris 11 eSTEP Techcast on June 7th, 2012

Cinzia Mascanzoni — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:07:41 PDT

Join our next eSTEP TechCast on "Lifecycle Management in Solaris 11" on

Thursday, June 7th, at 12:00 CET (noon).

To see all the details of this TechCast, click here.

Target Audience : Technical Presales Specialists

Recording/Playback/Archive : the webcast will be recorded and made available shortly after the event in the eSTEP portal under the Events tab, where you can find also material on previously delivered eSTEP TechCasts.

Use your email address and PIN eSTEP_2011 to access the TechCast.

Platform Approach to Identity in The Cloud

Naresh Persaud — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:41:36 PDT

If you missed the webcast, you can register to view the on-demand version at this link: Register Here. There were a few questions during the webcast and we have captured the answers below. In addition, you can find an embedded copy of the slides below as well.

Manpower group idm-platform

View more presentations from OracleIDM

1. How is data privacy handled in a cloud identity solution and can you share any thoughts especially on cross-border privacy restriction?

A: Private data is not stored in the cloud. As part of the implementation, the PII data and sensitive information is filtered so that confidential information is not used.

2. Can you describe how you have PeopleSoft integrated with OIM?

A: PeopleSoft is used to source new user identity information. There is not a provisioning connection back into PeopleSoft

3. Do you still keeping some Manual ID provisioning? If does, is this because of some legacy plataforms dependencies or you are looking forward to migrate to Oracle IdM?

A: Yes. There is a process to do provisioning manually in the event the cloud environment is unavailable.

4. Can you provide some insight about how OIM and OIA help you to reduce audit findings due to the closed loop remediation process?

A: Today ManpowerGroup is not doing closed loop remediation, but this is a desirable end state and a next step.

Big Data Episode 1: Overview for the Boss

jgelhaus — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:31:00 PDT

The boss needs to present a big data strategy to the CEO. But what's it all about? And above all, what's the value to the business? In this video two team members give him an overview and will then get to work filling in the details.

Tailoring in Oracle Fusion Applications Sets Stage for Better User Experience

Jay Richey, HCM Product Marketing — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:30:54 PDT

Leave it to Kilian Evers and Kristin Desmond to explain how you can extend and tailor Fusion Apps with Oracle Fusion Family of Composers http://bit.ly/I7JUwG

May 23 Live Webcast: Oracle Database Appliance Best Practices

jgelhaus — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:28:15 PDT

Simplify Database Management with Oracle Database Appliance Deployment Scenarios

Business users increasingly demand 24x7 availability of their data while IT departments face the challenge of ensuring maximum availability while operating with limited budgets.

By deploying Oracle Database Appliance, organizations can benefit from a reliable system that significantly reduces the time spent on routine system administration and maintenance, lowering operational costs, and allowing IT personnel to focus on higher value activities.

Using proven deployment best practices, midsize customers and enterprise departments alike can quickly integrate Oracle Database Appliance into their backup, test, development, and production environments. And since Oracle Database Appliance is based on Intel® Xeon® processors, organizations can ensure a high level of performance and scalability.

Join Oracle Database Appliance experts Tammy Bednar, David Swanger, and Intel expert Fabrizio Giamello for this live Webcast and learn how to:

Achieve a high quality of service at the lowest cost
Reduce up-front investment in hardware and software
Implement best practices across a multitude of deployment scenarios

Hitting the Road: Event Updates from IHRIM in Chicago and HCI in New York

Jay Richey, HCM Product Marketing — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:27:36 PDT

Fusion HCM Apps Talk: Follow Steve Boese, Director, HCM Strategy, Oracle, as he hits the roads and speaks at two major HCM Conferences: IHRIM 2012 Annual Conference in Chicago and 2012 Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference in New York.

http://bit.ly/HCMEvents

Oracle Java Olympic Final in Kazakhstan

Tori Wieldt — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:00:00 PDT

Last month, 21 of the best university students from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan met for the Oracle Java Olympic Final, a competition in Java programming. It was held at Kazakhstan-British University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A team of engineers from the Oracle Development center in Saint Petersburg prepared the set of problems to solve during the competition. "It was an intellectual battlefield of Java programming!" exclaimed Alexander Belokrylov, Oracle Java Evangelist.

Each student had five problems to solve and four hours to complete all of them. As in previous round, an automated testing system provided real-time feedback. One contestant raced ahead of the others by completing all the problems in 1.5 hours. Unfortunately, his answer for the final problem (a JavaDB-related task and the most complicated) was incorrect. Another contestant, a woman from Ukraine, solved the the JavaDB task in 1.5 hours correctly, but now she had the other three tasks to complete. This is where it got interesting. The guy in the lead kept submitting solutions to the fourth task, but they were incorrect. Meanwhile, the woman from Ukraine worked her way through the other three tasks. Who would solve all four tasks correctly first? The onlookers were really excited to follow this fight between two great intellects. Finally, the guy in the lead solved the final problem. Congratulations to Igor Ignatiev, from Cheliabinsk, Russia for winning the competition!

Congratulations to all the student who competed, all Java Champions in the making!

Java Olympians

You can follow the Oracle St. Petersburg development team on Twitter @OracleSPB.

Resolve E-Business Patching with MOS Community

cwarticki — Thu, 17 May 2012 06:51:22 PDT

We are happy to announce that Oracle E-Business Suite support will re-launch our patching community with new resources and a new name: E-Business Patching Community.

Starting May 16^th2012 - a direct channel to a newly dedicated team of E-Business Suite patching experts will provide you with a single destination to resolve your patch-related issues. For additional details please see Note 1453113.1.

When you have questions about Oracle E-Business Suite patches, we understand that you need answers quickly.

To help meet that need, the Oracle E-Business Suite support team has launched a NEW My Oracle Support Community called, “E-Business Patching”. The E-Business Patching Community allows users to collaborate and share important information and best practices on E-Business Patch Application.

The E-Business Patching Community offers:

Content that is uniquely indexed by Patch number- making it extremely easy to find
Information sharing of known solutions that will help with faster resolution of patching incidents, without having to create a Service Request
The ability to share information and solutions directly with other industry experts
Starting May 16 2012 - a direct channel to a dedicated team of Oracle E-Business Suite patching experts A rich foundation of information since it is built upon the old Patch Review Community

We encourage you to access the “E-Business Patching Community” prior to applying an E-Business Suite patch. Doing so will allow you to explore perspectives shared by industry peers, get real-world experiences with the patch, and benefit from known solutions and lessons learned. Additionally, Oracle Support engineers monitor discussion topics to help provide guidance and solutions for your E-Business Suite patching needs.

This is a valuable opportunity to “Get Proactive” with the patching and maintenance of your E-Business Suite environment.Start now, and find fast, proactive resolutions before you begin

https://communities.oracle.com/portal/server.pt/community/e-business_patching/358

About

user554629 — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:33:47 PDT

Dick Dunbar is an escalation engineer for the Oracle Business Intelligence product (obiee). I live and work in Santa Cruz, California. The tips I'll be sharing on this blog have been collected from multiple customer incidents.
I'll explain the techniques I use to detect, avoid, and repair obiee problems reported to Oracle.

I've been collecting these issues since 2003 when I was an IBM onsite support engineer to Siebel.
The first few entries will come quite slowly as I struggle to find the "proper voice" to explain common technical issues that relate directly to obiee.

I believe the best documentation is read and followed by a machine ( executable scripts); few of us have the time to read, understand and implement everything related to our work.

These are my own views, not necessarily the views of Oracle.

満を持して登場!!　Intel Xeon E5-2600搭載 Sun x86 M3 サーバー

user13138700 — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:44:57 PDT

　既にアナウンスされて一月経過している訳ですが、、、さる 2012年4月10日に Intel Xeon processor E5-2600搭載「Sun x86」　M3 サーバーがアナウンスされました。

そして、昨日の2012年5月16日に「Sun x86」 M3 サーバー製品群の国内提供が開始されました！！。

　今回、Oracleから出荷が開始された新型「Sun x86」サーバー群は Intel の Romly プラットフォームアーキテクチャですので、他社がリリースしている E5-2600 プラットフォームと同じだろう？！っていうかどこも x86 サーバーについては基本 HW は同じ？っと思われる方が多いと思います。

　しかーし、今回出荷開始された「Sun x86」 M3 サーバーの中でも Sun Fire X4170 M3/Sun Fire X4270 M3 はちょっと違います。

　それは、Oracle のエンジニアリングが LVDIMM(メモリ) で Intel の　POR (Plan-of-Record) に比べてより低い消費電力で高いパフォーマンス (DDR3-1600)* を提供することを可能にした点です。
　< *メモリのクロックは Processor の型番とメモリのランクに依存します >

　この Oracle 独自のエンハンスメントによって、他社よりも高いアプリケーションパフォーマンスと省電力性が提供できることをサーバーアーキテクチャの点で可能にしています。当然のことながら、オラクルのデータベース、ミドルウェア、業務アプリケーションに最適化することにより、高い性能と信頼性を提供します。

　また、通信事業者向け機器の仕様規定で最高レベルの「NEBS Level 3」の認定を受ける、電源安定性、電磁波放射、耐震性など安定運用に関わる高い水準を満たす Netra シリーズもありますので、選択肢はさらに広がります。

　そういった点で x86 サーバーのコストパフォーマンスや通信事業者様向け環境仕様にご興味がある方は是非、Oracle の「Sun x86」 M3 サーバー群をご検討いただきたいと思います。

　当然、Bladeタイプもありますのでこちらもよろしくです。

　M3 製品群を代表して Sun Fire X4170 M3/Sun Fire X4270 M3 の基本仕様を記載しておきます。

< Sun Fire X4170 M3 サーバー : 3タイプ >

Sun Fire X4170 M3 サーバー基本仕様

Computing
- 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600
- 16 x DDR3-1600/1066 DIMM (Max 512 GB : 32GB DIMM 使用時)
I/O and Storage
- 4 x PCIe 3.0 スロット ( Slot4 : インターナル用 )
- SAS-2 & SATA-2 HDD/SSD ならびに DVD Drive の組み合わせは3タイプ（上記イメージ参照）
- 6 x USB 2.0 ポート ( 2x フロント, 2x インターナル, x2 リア )
- 4 x 10Gb Ethernet ポート
可用性
- ホットスプラグ対応ディスク
- HW RAID 0,1,5,6,10,50,60 (w/ HBA)
- ホットスワップ対応 2N(1+1) 電源, 600W
- ホットスワップ対応 N+1 ファン
管理
- Oracle ILOM Service Processor 3.1
- Solaris, Linux, OVM, Windows, VMWare
- OHMP 2.2.1

< Sun Fire X4270 M3 サーバー : 3タイプ >

Sun Fire X4270 M3 サーバー基本仕様

Computing
- 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600
- 16 x DDR3-1600/1066 DIMM (Max 256 GB : 16GB DIMM 使用時)
I/O and Storage
- 6 x PCIe 3.0 スロット
- SAS-2 & SATA-2 HDD/SSD ならびに DVD Drive の組み合わせは3タイプ（上記イメージ参照）
- 2 x 2.5” SAS-2 & SATA-2 リア HDD/SSD 搭載 (DVD-Drive無しのタイプ)
- 6 x USB 2.0 ポート ( 2x フロント, 2x インターナル, x2 リア )
- 4 x 10Gb Ethernet ポート
可用性
- ホットスプラグ対応ディスク
- HW RAID 0,1,5,6,10,50,60 (w/ HBA)
- ホットスワップ対応 2N(1+1) 電源, 1000W
- ホットスワップ対応 N+1 ファン
管理
- Oracle ILOM Service Processor 3.1
- Solaris, Linux, OVM, Windows, VMWare
- OHMP 2.2.1

USの製品ページはこちら。

New Marketing Kits available

Cinzia Mascanzoni — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:16:48 PDT

Invite your partners to check out these new and updated marketing kits to help generate sales around Oracle's solutions.

Help your Resellers accelerate their Engineered Systems Momentum with an Exalogic specialization

Cinzia Mascanzoni — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:56:22 PDT

Exalogic is a secret weapon in driving optimized performance – especially in conjunction with Exadata for a double-X factor – around all of Oracle’s applications and migration to Fusion applications. Please consider asking your resellers to think about expanding their engineered systems capabilities by adding an Exalogic specialization to their capabilities. To learn more go here.

Thursday Thought - Busy busy busy

Scott Wesley — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:50:23 PDT

Over the next month or so, my posts may slow down a touch.

One exciting reason involves this little device pictured. I won't let too much out of the bag just yet, but an opportunity presented itself and I just had to take it.

This means I need to start prioritising a few things.

I've been trying to do a technical post every Wednesday, and this has been assisted by a flurry of posts I wrote earlier in the year that I scheduled over the weeks, with the occasional scheduling mistake - a couple of posts per day. The scheduling interface could be better, but I won't complain.

Unfortunately, these pre-written posts are drying up, I have plenty of e-mails tagged ready to write about, but the task involving the pictured device will take priority. When I get ahead on that schedule, I'll make sure my presentations for the conferences this year are on track, then I'll write some more posts - because I'm enjoying it quite a lot, and I'm also finding my own blog quite useful as a self-reference. It seems the quickest way to find information is to search where you now exactly how/where to look!

Further down on the list, I also want to re-design my blog re-design, especially after following what that Jeff Smith has been up to recently. I would like to ease the clutter and modernise a little more.

Oh, and I have my regular day job, not like some people ;-)

I'll also probably be somewhat quiet in the social media arena for a while. Partially to limit the consumption of information and keep focus, and (fortunately for me) I'll be on staggered holidays over the next month.

I hope all of you aren't working too hard, and I'll see you on the other side.

Scott.

An article suggestion from PacktPub.com

sbhoracle — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:23:49 PDT

Dear All All Packt publishers have extracted a chapter of my book as an article. PL/SQL: Using Collections The Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Professional Guide helps you master advanced PL/SQL concepts. Besides the clear and precise explanation on advanced topics, it also contains example code and demonstrations, which gives a sense of application and usage … Continue reading »

jQuery Support

Petr — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:59:50 PDT

In one my post I mentioned that I work on the new JavaScript editor. Today I would like to show a few pictures from new jQuery support.

The code completion for jQuery methods with documentation:

The code completion for jQuery methods works also in a chain of methods:

If you invoke the code completion in argument place of a jQuery method, then the code completion offers html tags:

attributes of a tag:

css elements (rules, classes) that are used in the project

and selectors with their documentation.

The code completion doesn't work only for one selector, but you can use it for defining more complex selectors.

All the described functionality is available in a build from javascript2 branch that you can download from our continual build server. I hope that the new JavaScript editor we will be able to put into trunk soon, so it will be part of daily build of NetBeans 7.2.next.