Recent happening last week from Oracle was that “Bharosa” is now part of Oracle. Guess 32th company acquired in last 31 months. Bharosa has online identity theft package. It is expected that with Tracker and Authenticator software will be available on a standalone basis or as part of an Oracle suite. Hopefully this is boost in Oracle identity management. Guessing Single sign-on(SSO) would be armed with new software in near time.

more details can be found at
http://www.oracle.com/bharosa/index.html?msgid=5791959

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2007_jul/bharosa.html

News is that my ex-company completes Acquisition of Covansys last week.Since five years CSC has hardly have any acquisition or merger. If i am not wrong they brought some companies under there umbrella some time early 2000. It is expected , with the merger of convansys, the Indian presence will increases.And guess GTS customers are finding new delivery centers…or is this a threat to others MNC like IBM,EDS, Accenture …who have seen bit aggresive in at least in India…

Links to others news;
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAM15102072007-1.htm

So, the big news for this fortnight is ..on 16th June Oracle celebrated his 30th Birthday.

The 30 year journey from “Systems Development Laboratories(SDL)” to “Oracle” has been recalled by Rich on this great day.So, Guys, its perfect time to take a quick look on all goodies the oracle have in last 30 years.

1.Oracle 30 Years History

2.A power point by Rich Niemiec, How Oracle Came to Rule the Database World.

3.Oracle Application Evalution History

4. Oracle Celebrates 30 Years of Innovation by By David A. Kelly

More over, you have to wait for July-Aug edition of Oracle , that has featuring “Oracle Celebrates Thirty Years of Innovation”..so keep watching

Happy Beleted Birthday Oracle !!

As expected, finally Oracle has announced and released five major product lines in there “Applications Unlimited” program at 31st Jan 2007 , the big event was much awaited . Few highlights on the event are:

• Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: What they call “Global Business Release”, 18 new products with 2443 new enhancements.
• PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0: This contains two new products and 1478 enhancements
• Siebel CRM 8: This offers ten new products and 366 enhancements.
• JD Edwards World A9.1: This they called Renaissance Release as this is major release of JD Edwards World in ten years, this new version offers 4 new products and 1297 enhancements.
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12: The Continued Innovation Release. The latest EnterpriseOne had 5 new products, including a new Operational Sourcing and three new modules for the food and beverage industry, as well as 291 enhancements.

More information can be browsed @Link

Today is 31st Jan, 2006, the day when oracle had schedule to release 5 different products across 6 continent, out of which one is Oracle application i.e. R12.Thus,I thought to bring this topic here, to let everyone know how oracle helps in understanding the evolution of ERP Suite in last 20 years. 14000 installations worldwide is a wildcard entry while considering for product evaluation by companies who are looking for some ERP product. I hope everyone is bit excited to know.

Journey from 1978 till 1987

These 9 years oracle has seen lot many achievement like becoming first DBMS based Database Company. They have released 7 different database versions with technology enhancement, and they become Public company as sometime 1986 had IPO in market. The start up has turned in recognized DBMS company, thus it was perfect time for them as well as Industry expert are looking Integration with in area like Finance , Manufacturing etc..Thus ERP evolution takes place.

The application group Formed

Some times in August 1987 Oracle started there Oracle Applications division, a group focusing and building business management software closely integrated with there own database software.

The First “Oracle Application ”Product Launched

Sometime in August 1988 they released there first ERP application called accounting system that has only general Ledger functionality enabled. This is one of the reason of having General ledger application_id is 101.Intresting..

i-era/Dot com Time

The year 1997-98, the attention was primininlly focused on Internet, which already takes off in Information Technology sometime back. The concept of thin client was a baby at that time. This year oracle strategy shifts toward the internet and browser based development. The middle of year oracle launched and shipped there 11i product which was armed with 8i database, with lot many new features.

2000-2002

In 2000, Oracle9i Application Server released at Oracle becomes the first database with middle-tier cache. This 9iAS leads to launches of E-Business Suite. The suite combined with all inbuilt products.

2003 Onward

Since 2003 onward, oracle keep there attention on oracle application product and same time they make ready with departure of old 10.7 products, by simply de-supporting.

2005-06

These two year have seen acquisition and movement of oracle from DBMS to grid database, thus EBS suite does come out with MobApps, has feature of RFID and other need for manufacturing area. The year 2006 seen a release of yet another ..11.5.10.2 version.

2007 onward

Oracle is ready with there new version ready to release in market. This times a new member i.e. R12.

A new headline for Release Content Documents would be appearing once you logged in Metalink. The document id 404152 describe with a note and the links for Release Content Documents of various Oracle EBS products. These documents mostly covered brief discussion for new and updated features in R12.Metalink user can access these documents and get the feeling of R12 before actual release which is schedule to be on month end. Take a note, these documents does not describe any existing functionally so, bit disappointed to those who are looking for comparative study.

Japan based Automobile manufacturing subsidray MEAI(Mitsubishi Electric Automotive India) selects Oracle EBS
to facilitate real time accounting and integration with tight integration with the existing production control systems
at MEAI’s parent company in Japan.
Oracle Procurement, Oracle Financials, Oracle Order Management and Logistics the areas which covered within the scope. a news paper reported.

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