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

Today is special day in this island, so here is my wish.

Happy 43th Birthday Singapore.... May country grows higher and happier...

This is not Oracle acquisition news, rather yet another Big news this morning locally in Singapore for partnership with global bank Citibank Japan and Oracle for enhancing the Oracle Global Cash Management System,that provide a integrated solution for managing Cash Management for global manufacturing operations, retail, transportation, financial services sector of Japanese clients.

"Oracle Global Cash Management System" is SOA based product of Oracle Japan used for managing group corporate finance, fund management and financial risk management, financial transaction management function.

Some of the important Fund management features that product offers are : centralized group of companies in the financial management of pooling funds, payments to suppliers to pay a centralized agency, balances between group companies to make the difference between the settlement and netting capabilities.

"Oracle Global Cash Management System" available for local clients since October 1, 2007 with price tag 15 million yen for 4-user license,supported with most of available platforms(AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, RedHat Linux, Windows).

read this entire story

As need for banking Integration is greatly felt in corporate world, and Lets hope, this might bring some more banking functionality in next releases of Oracle EBS ..what you say...

Last week there was some note in metalink for Oracle Critical patch (CPU)updates. Oracle spends a lot of time producing its Critical Patch Updates, but apparently most DBAs don’t pay much attention to them a website reported....read this intresting research note....

Read this:Research: Oracle Applications Not Secure

Read this:
http://www.oracleappshub.com/news/news-oracle-to-acquire-moniforce/

Last week there was big new for acquisition of Moniforce ,to enhance the Application Performance management capabilities with Oracle existing Product.Gartner's in his report published today, they expected Oracle become a competitor within the application management market.

Read More:
Oracle Strengthens Its Application Management Capabilities
Milind Govekar
11-Dec-2007

This time Oracle acquired Moniforce, a Netherlands-based software company whose products monitor the availability and performance of any Web application which likely to strengthen there Enterprise Manager Application Performance management capabilities. Moniforce's existing two product WebStress and WebProbe monitors network traffic to measure the performance and availability of Web applications from the perspective of the end user.

Seems Oracle's interest is Moniforce's UXinsight module. Built on network protocol analysis technology, the software can measure performance without slowing down the monitored application or the network, according to Oracle. UXinsight can also uncover errors in logic in custom and packaged applications on non-Oracle and Oracle infrastructures. see the FAQ

For Oracle customer, what are the benefits from Moniforce’s products and services capabilities?

In a posting of frequently asked questions about the acquisition, the the key benefits highlighted:

• Enabling application administrators to detect and resolve end-user experience issues before they become emergencies.
• Improving application performance and availability.
• Greater value from business applications.
• Enhancing lifecycle automation.
• Lowering cost of managing applications

Other similar products like Corvil, Quest Software, OpNet and Hewlett-Packard, which acquired some application performance management products when it bought Mercury Interactive last year.

Read these

• Overview and Frequently Asked Questions
• Oracle and Moniforce

Today, in one of post in Eddie Awad's blog , he mention this year Oracle OpenWorld 2007 sessions presentation are available for public download.

Here are the details

url :http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp

Login/password: cboracle/oraclec6

After a long time, the first public news for R12 now finally came into end. Indeed, It was most awaiting news since its release which was happened sometime 9 months ago(31st Jan 2007).

As website reported the important highlight of rollout@SolFocus a CA based solar energy based manufacturer are:

• Multi-Organization Access Control: which Enables transactions for multiple operating units to be entered from single responsibility thereby enhancing user productivity
• Centralized Setups of Intercompany and Intracompany Accounts: Facilitates control, monitoring and reconciliations of intercompany and intracompany transactions
• Order Management: Enables invoicing and revenue recognition to be deferred until customer acceptance

Go to News details

Wow ! this is great news a week before. Hope we will hear some good news & updates for Release 12i in Oracle World.:)