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Since its introduction in July 2005, 10gR2 has become the database version of choice for many E-Business Suite environments. Originally released as 10.2.0.1 it has been regularly enhanced with new patches to 10.2.0.3. In the last several months, the third patch set was released for 10gR2, raising its current version to 10.2.0.4. […]

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Today, Oracle provided a view into their plans for the integration of the BEA Aqualogic products into the Oracle product line. Oracle is very experienced at this effort and it showed in the presentation. They focused a lot on reassuring BEA and Oracle customers that there would be no drastic changes and no […]

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There continues to be confusion about the role of Applications DBAs in supporting the E-Business Suite (EBS). We still encounter organizations that believe that any Oracle DBA can easily transition over to being an Applications DBA (it is still a database after all!). For them, EBS is seen as just another commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) application with […]

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Do you get a kick out of Oracle? I, for one, enjoy Oracle because there is always so much to learn. And, although no one can know everything, Oracle certainly provides a wealth of learning opportunities. If you are reading this, then you are most likely involved with the Oracle E-Business Suite. You may be […]

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It appears that BEA and Oracle will soon be a reality. Now the question is what the impact will be to the existing SOA Suite…
The Oracle-BEA Systems Inc. merger was effectively approved by the federal government yesterday when the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission opted to terminate their antitrust review of […]

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This post is more technical and will drill down into the various Enterprise artifacts that come with the Foundation Pack.
The first are the Enterprise Business Objects (EBO). There are about 30 of these in v2.01 but new ones will be added in subsequent releases. EBO’s are define for Customer, Supplier, Invoice and other […]

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The Foundation Pack provides a foundation for those wanting to start building their own custom integrations. There have been a number of challenges for organizations wanting to use SOA. These challenges according to InforWorld, include:

1. Lack of Architectural Blueprint
2. Inconsistent Business Semantics
3. […]

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AIA and SOA are all based on industry standards that have developed over the last 10-15 years. Several of the key standards were Java and XML.
With the advent of the World Wide Web there was a whole new emphasis on sharing information through the Internet. Everywhere developers were trying to come up with […]

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Let’s look at how AIA fits.
Here’s a diagram of a typical architecture using Oracle’s E-Business Suite. I’ve broken out the AIA components to provide more detail. I apologize in advance for combining both physical an logical tiers in this diagram but I’m hoping it will help those who are less technical about E-Biz.The lowest layer […]

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For years companies have had to guess whether their DBA’s were avoiding the temptation to run a few SELECTS on confidential financial information. After all, who doesn’t occasionally wonder what their manager is making?
And I’ve seen at least one case where it happened deep in the heart of Texas. […]

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