Here are the four things mentioned by Larry Ellison at his key note at OOW2012.

• Oracle will provide cloud services on all three tiers: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.
• Oracle Owned and Managed Private Data cloud
• Oracle Database 12c
• Exadata x3 Database In Memory Machine

You can watch out 3 min video highlight of his keynote ..

You can read the full coverage here

The world has lost a great motivational guru Stephen Covey. I'm sure you've read the CNN report that Stephen Covey passed away Monday July 16 at the age of 79.

Steven's books and presentations paved the way for those of us in the business of improving other people's lives.I think his books influenced almost everyone in business today.He wrote books like

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
• First Things First
• Principle-Centered Leadership

Stephen Covey’s books and principles were a huge part of my personal and professional training. The world at large, not just the business world, are better for his contributions. Thanks you Stephen Covey for the shared wisdom and charity over the years.

R.I.P. Mr. Covey!

Within the latest Version 7.9.7.2 – Available, SAP R3 customers can leverage the following Business Intelligence Applications available today:

Oracle BI Applications for SAP source directly from SAP R/3 4.6c and ECC 6.0

• Oracle Financial Analytics for SAP
• Oracle Supply Chain and Order Management Analytics for SAP
• Oracle Procurement and Spend Analytics for SAPCertification on OBIEE 11g platform

This is Exalytics and Exadata certified and currently fully localized in 28 languages

SAP R3 Based user can get advantage

• Reduce costs and risk with prebuilt integration with SAP R3
• Provide each user with timely and incontext information to improve decisionmaking

SAP customers running databases besides Oracle will not immediately be able to adopt the new application, as the first edition offers only Oracle support.This Reduce the burden on IT resources with comprehensive user self-service capabilities

Other BI Solutions for SAP Customer Running Oracle Database

• SAP BW
  • Fully supported source for Oracle BI, BI Publisher
  • Integrate into Oracle BI Common Enterprise Information Model Mix with other corporate data sources in consistent Oracle
  • BI user interface
• SAP R/3 and ECC
  • Source for Essbase
  • Source for BI Publisher
  • Source for EPM Applications
  • Source for BI Applications

Check out the Oracle Page for more offering and Product datasheet .

Now we are entering into a whole New Year and what would be a better time to thank and wish blog readers than the wonderful New Year 2012?.

I take this opportunity to wish every reader of my blog a Happy, creative and Prosperous New Year 2012.

There are around two thousand e-mail subscribers and around 1 lakh views of this blogs each month across the globe. Hope the same kind of cooperation, comment and suggestion will be provided to us and that will further help to upgrade the standard of blog postings.

I’m delighted to announce the mobile version of Oracleappshub is now available.

If you access this blog from an iphone, ipad, android or other mobile device, the site will automatically switch to the mobile version.

Simply type in the standard url of www.oracleappshub.com and you will be able to view and read the content easily on your handheld.

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Two days back browsed Mysuppot via iphone, looks great.

Yes, you can finally login to metalink aka Oracle my support on your smart phone .Its good to see Oracle launched myoracle support for mobile, which can help you expand online content to new platforms . Though current release seems with Limited functionality as compare with normal HTML version.

Just go to http://support.oracle.mobi/

You just need to sign in with your regular My Oracle Support "SSO" user name and password, and then you should be good to go.

Announced early this week Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 is now available for download.

R12.1.3 is a purly a maintenance patch (RUP) and can only be installed on top of an existing EBS 12.1 environment. which combines error corrections, statutory/regulatory updates, and functionality enhancements into a consolidated, suite-wide patch set.

On the Finance, Procurement and HRMS there is the usual small changes here and there, additional changes for different countries. Compare to 12.1.1 and 12.1.2 had a lot more functionality that we would be interested in all.

Refrence

• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Release Update Pack (Patch 9239090)
• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3 Readme (Note 1080973.1)
• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.3: Release Content Documents (Note 561580.1)

Of interest to reader will keep updated with some new features in upcoming post.

It was big news today evening when Oracle announced general availability of the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite Release 12.1. Therefore the product which you are going to use is R 12.1.1

This time too the focus of R12.1 is again some of existing product enhancements across human resources, supply chain management, procurement, projects, master data management, customer relationship management and financials.

Additionally, R12.1 also features industry specific features and solutions that help drive greater value across the companies. Industries with significant new functionality advancements include Wholesale Distribution, Public Sector, High Technology, Engineering & Construction, Life Sciences, Retail, Professional Services, Communications, Consumer Goods and Utilities.

Here is extract of information for Release 12.1 Details and Features from Oracle website

• The Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 helps companies achieve rapid value by offering stand-alone solutions that complement existing Oracle E-Business Suite 11i or Release 12 environments. Customers can take advantage of rapid value solutions without having to upgrade to this latest release.
• • There are 9 new products been added in this version.
  • R12.1 will be available as stand-alone solutions available for some of major products like
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Oracle Sourcing On Demand
    • Oracle Incentive Compensation
    • Oracle Warehouse Management.
  • Release 12.1 will be delivers integrated analytics from Oracle BI Applications.
• Some of existing module have been enhanced, which includes
  • Enhancement in the some of the key features of the R12.1 which include an integrated talent management solution with enhancements to Recruiting, Succession Planning, and Performance and Learning Management.
  • A new addition in product called Oracle Landed Cost Management will give organizations financial visibility into their extended supply chain costs.
• R12 EBS also brings some rich industry-specific solutions that help companies strengthen their position in the market.
  • Distributors will benefit from greater visibility into ROI of promotional funds, accrued assets, the effect of supplier price changes and related liabilities with Oracle Supplier Ship and Debit and Oracle Price Protection for Wholesale Distribution.
  • Oracle Site Hub a new application helps organizations centralize information to help eliminate the problems associated with fragmented, incomplete and inconsistent site data resulting from rapid business expansion or mergers and acquisitions.
  • Retail industry can now leverage to Oracle Product Information Management for Retail (PIM for Retail) which is centralize product information from heterogeneous systems into a single view that can be used across all functional departments.
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 provides out of the box Federal accounting support with Project Accounting for automating funds consumption and billing in compliance with funding rules, supporting advance processing and ultimately helping to reduce overhead.
  • Oracle Subcontractor Payments for Engineering & Construction helps owners and general contractors manage cash flow and ensure their subcontractors are satisfying contract deliverables by controlling the payment of subcontractor invoices.

Other key information for R12.1 are :

1. You can check it out R12.1 RCD from metalink.
2. Steve blog did mention announcement of software downloads will be publicly available from metalink.
3. Oracle.com have R12.1 dedicated publicly available .

Reference Notes for Interest

• Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1
• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 : Release Content Documents, a good list of "what's new" for this release.
• Oracle Applications Documentation Resources, Release 12.1. related links covering a lot of topics and products, and a good place to start reading when it's time to think about implementation.

This year in OOW 2008, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced a new storage server product, Exadata, a hardware/software solution for offloading I/O processing to proprietary storage nodes. This is first time when Oracle moved in hardware side.Exadata is joint effort by Oracle and HP .

Oracle has put up in 22 page paper. The newly Exadata performs joins between large tables and small lookup tables, a very common scenario for data warehouses with star schemas. Read details

Take a note , current release is limited for data warehouse.

• Oracle's Exadata white paper
• Exadata Website

More on Oracle Exadata Architecture

• Oracle’s New Exadata Architecture

Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 release likely to announced sometime by Sept'08 OOW Event.

The reason ..RCD’s for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 are now available on Metalink. According to Metalink note 561580.1 - this document contains links to the published Release Content Documents for Oracle Applications, E-Business Suite Release 12.1.These RCD communicate information about new or changed(Delta) functionality introduced between Release 12.0.4 and 12.1

There are 15 RCD’s available as listed below:

1. Applications Technology
2. Asset Lifecycle Management
3. Financials
4. Human Resources
5. Logistics
6. Manufacturing
7. Marketing and Sales
8. Master Data Management
9. Order Management & Contracts
10. Procurement
11. Projects
12. Service
13. Supply Chain Planning
14. Aerospace, Defense, and Transportation
15. Financial Services

Lets hope formal announcement for release date would be at Open World in September. Should be guess Product will be avaible by sometime Oct 08.

Metalink Note

• 561580.1: E-Business Suite Release 12.1: Release Content Documents