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by Mark Kromer
I'll be at Oracle's Annual User Group Conference in the Quest-sponsored track presenting the business benefits of a asset lifecycle management and capital program lifecycle with Primavera EPPM and PeopleSoft.
There will be many other Oracle Primavera product & program managers there along with many of our users & customers of project portfolio management.
It is occuring the week of April 18 this year at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Here is the website for registration and more info.
Hope to see you there!
The TechCast Live schedule is filling up. Here's the lineup for the next three shows:
As always, tune in at oracle.com/technology at 10am PT. And bring your questions!
Interesting stuff from Dion Hinchliffe on the impact of social computing on enterprise architecture:
"The premise is that as we begin to organize our business processes and the way we collaborate in a fundamentally social manner, we need to manage this activity in a new way that reflects its unique nature. For example, classical hierarchical management structures often don't work effectively when directing the activities of a loosely-coupled social network of people. Then there are the online communities themselves, a new and distinct feature on the business landscape. Businesses generally haven't had a self-aware and continuously connected group of stakeholders in quite this way before. A way of proactively addressing the requirements of and governing online communities is now being seen as needed."I can't help but wonder how much push-back there will be in some businesses against a flatter organizational model driven by social computing. The very idea of social computing in any business context still scares the hell out of many people.
Just came across these yesterday in the Yarra Valley Dairy (which by the way had excellent goat cheese) and still ask myself if Oracle is emerging now into new markets:
Still wondering ... you'll never know ... ;-)
We had a great time today with you all - and thanks to the local Oracle folks as well who'd organize everything so well. And the view from the top floor was the best we've ever had in a workshop so far :-) Hope you all start your upgrade to 11g Release 2 pretty soon - and we'll be very happy to get your feedback once you've gone live.
And - as always - please download the most recent version of the slides from here:
http://apex.oracle.com/folien
Use the keyword (Schluesselwort): upgrade112
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Start your engines – here is a list of upcoming SOA Suite 11g PS2 features (and for future reference all of the below features are based on PCBPEL_11.1.1.3.0_GENERIC_100304.1300.2441).
Buildfile: C:\JDeveloper\11.1.1.3\jdeveloper\bin\ant-sca-compile.xml
scac:
[scac] Validating composite "C:\_Business\11g\samples_new\soa_samples_spring\spring-105-AsyncInterations\composite.xml"
[scac] ### clazz: interface asyncinteractions.spring_105_asyncinterations.com.example.AsyncInteractions
[scac] ### qname: {http://example.com/spring_105_asyncInterations/AsyncInteractions}AsyncInteractions
[scac] ### clazz: interface asyncinteractions.spring_105_asyncinterations.com.example.AsyncInteractionsCallback
[scac] ### qname: {http://example.com/spring_105_asyncInterations/AsyncInteractions}AsyncInteractionsCallback
<process name="Test" targetNamespace="http://samples.otn.com/bpel2.0/ch11.4"
suppressJoinFailure="yes"
xmlns:tns="http://samples.otn.com/bpel2.0/ch11.4"
xmlns:ora="http://schemas.oracle.com/xpath/extension"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsbpel/2.0/process/executable">
<!--
This test case test BPEL 2.0 spec's 11.4. Repetitive Execution - While
-->
<partnerLinks>
<partnerLink name="client" partnerLinkType="tns:Test" myRole="TestProvider"/>
</partnerLinks>
<variables>
<variable name="input" messageType="tns:TestRequestMessage"/>
<variable name="output" messageType="tns:TestResultMessage"/>
<variable name="count" type="xsd:integer"/>
</variables>
[..]
<auditStorePolicy>syncLocalTransaction</auditStorePolicy>
<asyncAuditQueueSize>10000</asyncAuditQueueSize>
<asyncAuditPersisterThreads>5</asyncAuditPersisterThreads>
<auditBatchSize>10</auditBatchSize
<event sid="BpPrc0.1" cat="2" n="8" date="2010-02-24T17:07:05.953-08:00" type="4">
<message>"BPELFault" has not been caught by a catch block.</message>
</event>
<event sid="BpPrc0.1" cat="2" n="9" date="2010-02-24T17:07:06.391-08:00" type="2">
<message> The transaction was rolled back. The work performed for bpel instance "2" was rolled back, but the audit trail has been saved for this instance. </message>
</event>
Warning, the above is a non-exhaustive list and there might be features that ship in preview mode (though I don’t expect it, but there is always a chance).
North East Patches (NEP) Shared System Group has had tremendous success helping its 60-plus member organizations reduce overhead costs and refocus their time on patient care. Now, NEP is preparing an initiative that will help organizations take patient management to a new level.
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It's cleanup time!!
When upgrading to a new database release, especially Oracle Database 11g Release 1 or Release 2, you should always remove old init.ora parameters from the init.ora/spfile when you upgrade. For instance we've had a lot of useful (and necessary) tuning parameters in Oracle 9i environments such as _always_anti_join=off, star_transformation=false or several events.
Make sure you remove all of them when you upgrade as keeping them will definitely slow down the database performance in the new release. You don't believe this? Then see this result of a customer case having a packaged OLTP workload for the upgrade testing. It shows the comparision of this workload with all "old" 9i parameters to a small and cleaned up init.ora:
In this case we've removed just all "old" 9i parameters from the init.ora and started with a very basic init.ora in Oracle Database 11g with only the required parameters such as diagnostic_dest and the indentical memory parameters taken from the 9i environment.
And this has speed up the processing in Oracle Database 11g by 14,5%!!!
You could always do a 'create pfile='/tmp/init.ora' from spfile;' and modify it. Use the modified init.ora when starting up your database in upgrade mode by typing 'startup upgrade pfile='/tmp/init.ora' and then don't forget to do a 'create spfile from pfile;' once the database is started up.
By the way, the pre-upgrade check script utlu112.sql downloadable from within Note:884522.1 will give you all the parameters to change in the new release. And it can be run anytime before the upgrade to check your current database release.
Give this a try and remove or comment out all the "old" stuff!!
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The
OpenWorld team has offically opened the "Create or View your
Submissions" tab on the OpenWorld site so now is the time to start
submitting your ideas for presentations for this years OpenWorld
Conference. Ideally we are looking for papers from you that cover the
following areas/topics: data warehousing, data services, real-time
analytics, predictive analytics/data mining, exadata/database machine, OLAP, data quality
and data integration.
If you are stuck for ideas and need some inspiration (for product areas, abstract titles etc etc), take a look at the list of presentations from last year's conference:
http://www.oracle.com/ocom/groups/public/documents/webcontent/034315.pdf
Remember, there is no better place than Oracle OpenWorld for you to present your data warehouse ideas, experiences, and accomplishments to the world's biggest gathering of Oracle Customers, Developers, Partners, peers from around the world, and the most-influential members of the media. Tens of thousands of the world's most active developers and most demanding users will be on hand to hear what you have to say.
To start submitting your ideas follow this link here (OpenWorld 2010 Call for Papers) and click on the tab "Create or View your Submissions". If this is the first time you have submitted a paper for OpenWorld then you will need to complete a short registration process.
If you have any questions, drop me an email at charlie.berger@oracle.com. Good luck!
With the introduction of CLUSTERED mode in Oracle Utilities Application Framework V2.2, the Product Fix Document provided with the enchancement gives you an idea of the scope of the new facility.
Additional configutation information and a description of both the CLUSTERED and classic DISTRIBUTED execution modes is now available in the updated Oracle Utilities CC&B V2.2 Batch Operations and Configuration Guides available on My Oracle Support at KB Id: 753301.1.
The guidelines have also been updated with details of how to safely override base product templates.
Sustaining innovation while growing is difficult for most companies, but some seem to consistently deliver like Apple, Amazon, and Walmart. Take Amazon for example. After reading several interviews with Jeff Bezos, I took these things away:
While the stock market seems to value his company differently from year to year, Jeff ignores conventional wisdom and continues to invest in innovation, in good times and bad. A similar retailer is Best Buy. They've been innovating on several fronts. You can read about the genesis of Twelpforce in this posting. Not only does Best Buy look to their employees for ideas, they also look to customers via their IdeaX website (which was recently open-sourced, BTW).
Both of these companies now offer wish list functionality that is independent of their e-commerce operations. That tells me it must be a good idea. I've discussed Amazon's Universal Wish List before, and Best Buy now has a similar offering called Giftag. It allows you to capture gift ideas from all over the web, store them in one place, and share them via various mediums.
Amazon and Best Buy are easy examples, but this blog is full of stories about retailers that are innovating either internally or by partnering with interesting solution providers. If you want to be around in ten years, you can't stop innovating.
I attended a workshop last week and we came to discuss “the Cloud”. Here are some thoughts and I encourage people to comment on what you’ll find below.
The context I am going to base my thoughts on, is the paradigm of IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) [which is one incarnation of "da cloud"]
Hmm, here is what I use every day …
Do I use a cloud now? I would say yes – a private one, since 5+ years [called oracle hosted environment].
So what’s the big difference then? It’s not so much about difference – it’s about the improvements that happened over the last years, and the possibilities that open up with this concept. In other words it’s “that everyone can get access to an environment like this in a matter of seconds (no matter where in the world you are, and no matter how small the company is that you work for”) [Slightly paraphrased from Kevin Clugage’s thoughts]
What are the challenges today?
Let me know what you think, certainly more to follow..
I recently sat down with Ian "Fresh" Burns, design coordinator for the BMW ORACLE Racing trimaran, and talked about how technology helped win back the America's Cup. An amazing sight to see on the water, the BMW ORACLE Racing trimaran is able to travel at 4 times the wind speed, is as large as a baseball diamond, and has a wing sail that's 23 stories tall. Some of you will be interested to learn from Fresh how Oracle Database 11g played a major part in helping BMW ORACLE Racing win the oldest active trophy in International sport. Plus, Fresh shares other interesting information about the 33rd America's Cup and beyond.
To learn more, tune into our podcast conversation with Fresh.
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