PeopleTools – the next version

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Oct 162011
 

Almost all of the technical PeopleSoft sessions at OpenWorld were using PeopleTools 8.52 which in not GA yet. I was pleasantly surprised that Oracle showed commitment to PeopleSoft platform and desire to develop not only the PeopleTools but also enhance the product offering by providing more integrations and run-times of the other products that Oracle owns, for example Oracle SES Search will replace Verity in the next version PeopleTools and will also provide enhanced search capability throughout the application. Here is a sneak peek of the new stuff:

  • Pivot Grids – interactive analytics based on the query
  • Related Content/Actions – additional action in the context of current transaction without leaving the current page
  • Application Search / Component Search (SES) – navigate to transactions, items in the catalog and whatever else you have indexed
  • Pagelet Improvements – Enhanced ability to drill, edit fields in the pagelets
  • Modal Windows – removed limitations intorduced in 8.51, more widely used in Applications 9.2
  • InterWindows communications are intorduced
  • Application Designer–  (finally) drilling into Application Classes/Packages, Find Definition references for Application Classes

It seems that there are more good news across the Oracle products – in order to gain competetive advantage we should be seen more and more products being better integrated and even some of them being offered for free within a product you already own. Fusion Apps for example utilize Hyperion Analytics for grids. Of course those “free” components will have just a run-time license.

For full overview of the new features coming out in 8.52  you can download the PeopleTools Highlights session presentation from the OpenWorld Site

 Posted by Iouri Chadour at 9:47 pm  Tagged with: , ,

Oracle Public Cloud – The True Cloud?

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Oct 162011
 
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Wednesday keynote was for the major part about Oracle applications direction. Steve Miranda talked about Oracle having entire stack – hardware and software, and the fact that Oracle software will run better and will be optimized for Oracle / Sun hardware.

The biggest news was introduction of Oracle Public Cloud by CEO Larry Ellison. Although not similar to traditional cloud software platforms like Salesforce.com or Workday, Ellison emphasized that the differences are the key advantages of the Oracle Cloud platform:

  1. Oracle Cloud consists on Oracle Fusion Applications  that utilize  industry standard technologies :  SOA, Architecture, security built into middleware, Database , OS
  2. Modern user interface with actionable news,  Analytics,  BI
  3. Ability to run Fusion Apps – on premise, hosted or in the cloud

Larry Ellison spoke about the lengthy 6 year journey to Fusion apps and the reasons behind

  1. Approximately 100 Fusion modules are in GA (Generally Available) now
  2. Oracle Fusion Applications utilize industry standards on all application layers – Java, Oracle Database and Weblogic. This allows Fusion applications to be easily migrated from On-premise to Hosted or Cloud solutions.
  3. The vision has changed from what it was 6 years ago – Facebook, Twitter have inflluenced the way people work. Hence, Oracle has added Oracle Social Network for Enterprise, which is also integrate into Fusion apps.

Last years heavyweights continued  the sparring match about “Clouds”.  This time around Larry Ellison first cancelled Marc Benioff’s scheduled keynote, that generate quite a media frenzy and he also added a slide about the “false clouds”.

 

A picture is worth a 1000 words so here are some of  the slides that I found notable:

false_clouds  fusion_cloud  fusion_cloud2 fusion_cloud3fusion_cloud5  fusion_cloud5  fusion_cloud6  fusion_cloud7

 

 

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Oracle Keynote – Tuesday

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Oct 042011
 

Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine

This was so far the shortest keynote by Oracle.

Mike Hurd took another couple of jabs at IBM hardware and P-series, those were actually called “IBM Mainfraimes”,  and showed a couple of clips with Larry Ellison, but there were not much change from Larry Ellison’s presentation yesterday with the exception of:

  • Oracle license sales has increased 20%  this year
  • Exadata and SPARC machines are optimized to run Java, and according to Larry run java faster than IBM 7 series

But overall I get a feeling that Oracle tries to model their enterprise hardware/software strategy after Apple’s. As we all know Apple follows this model to a tee – software is optimized to run perfectly on it hardware. Larry Ellison is on the path of creating the Apple in the enterprise hardware market, the motto is -  Oracle software is optimized to run on Oracle hardware.

Oracle will continue to support other platforms, but the repeating message is – applications, middleware , databases will have more features on Oracle hardware.

And as we all know Mac Pro of Oracle is called Exadata and all of the middleware is called … surprise – ExaBusinesslogic and ExaAnalytics

 Posted by Iouri Chadour at 7:58 pm  Tagged with: ,

VMWare and EMC – startegic partnerships

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Oct 042011
 

It seems that a lot of hardware companies are making strategic partnerships to provide solutions oriented towards infrastructure as a cloud. VMWare and EMC especially have introduced a few new products oriented towards traditional database platforms that make a things simple and a lot more attractive. EMC’s vFabric product does just that – imagine being able to provision a database instance – CPU, memory and then restore a backup, set expiration, manage storage and so on  in a matter of minutes. EMC has also mentioned their latest storage products – called Lightning that utilizes flash.   There solution is running on commodity hardware, unlike Oracle Exa – series, with VMWare and EMC proprietary software.  Pat Gelsinger, COO of EMC,  continued talking about EMC’s Big Data product – Greenplum database and provided an example of how massive amounts of data, coming from structural and unstructured  sources like Facebook, Youtube can be analyzed reported on to provide a SocialGraph view of an individual.  It did look very pretty and fast on the screen and if it does really work – the days of Minority Report type of advertising are within the reach of insurance and retail companies.

The main highlights of the EMC offering are:

  • Optimize workload execution
  • Fully automated storage tiering
  • Use of High performance commodity servers for cloud
  • Ligttning enabled products – flashcards and software that uses it. Increase of IOPS.
  • Big data -> driving business , enterprise data will grow 50x times

With Amazon EC2 and Database.com being out there already, we should see a lot more vendor partnerships and consolidation on the hardware market.

 

 Posted by Iouri Chadour at 7:41 pm  Tagged with: , ,

We are here!

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Oct 022011
 

As always it is great to be in the city of San Francisco – it  beautiful and friendly as always. I hope I get to meet some of the folks I have not seen in awhile and meet new people. And as always I will try to post as much useful information on the conference as I can. Talk to you soon

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