Oracle Open World Presentations November 21, 2007
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Some of the presentations from Oracle Open World have been posted online.
Regardless of whether you’re technical or functional – or what modules your company has licensed – there’ll be something there of interest.
http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp
(The username and password you’ll need to download the files is at the top of the page)
Larry gives some Fusion answers November 15, 2007
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From Oracle Open World 2007:
It seems as though the first applications out of the Fusion stable are all going to be CRM related. According to Larry’s keynote, the first three will be sales prospector, sales references and sales tools.
Possibly of more interest was that we’ve had a glimpse of an answer to the ‘what database platforms will Fusion support’ question. It turns out that it’s going to vary for each application. Larry spoke about Financials and said that it’s going to be Oracle, plus DB2 (providing IBM build in some features that Oracle are requesting). There was no word on the other modules.
The best exchange was possibly this one though:
“We will have a Fusion version for every application,” Ellison stated. “So you’re moving off these brands (PeopleSoft, Siebel etc)?” he was asked, LArry responded “No, well yes – by 2025.”
Article here:
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/11/15/ellison_audience_smack_down/
Oracle Open World – PeopleSoft Perspective November 14, 2007
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Brent Martin over at the PeopleSoft Corner Blog is putting together a daily update of the Open World conference from a PeopleSoft perspective. Pretty handy if – like me – you’re trying to keep up to date with what’s going on as it saves us all from wading through the Oracle Apps content …
Is all well with Fusion? November 14, 2007
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There are rumours of hold-ups and delays within the Fusion camp.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that the ‘Head of Fusion’ John Wookey left amidst talk of a fall-out with Larry Ellison. Apparently “Oracle was trying to woo him back, though the circumstances around Wookey’s departure have not been confirmed.”
Now it appears that there is some backtracking – or at least redefining phrases from earlier statements – to allow for delays in the release. Seeing as we are only a couple of months away from the New Year, surely a release date a little more precise than between Jan 1st and Dec 31st 2008 should be possible?
It’s not as if we expect the full suite of Apps on that date. I would anticipate something more akin to the PeopleSoft Version 9.0 release, where a smallish module (was it ELM?) came out first with much fanfare about ‘Oracle meeting schedules to release PeopleSoft v9.0’, and then the main modules (HR, Financials etc) drip-fed out months later.
A Custom Message on the Signon Page (part 3) November 9, 2007
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A further solution to the ‘Message of the Day’ problem has presented itself which may or may not (depending upon the client’s requirements) be a neater solution.
This is quicker and cleaner to implement, but only works with IE. If your client uses Firefox this isn’t the answer for you!
A Custom Message on the Signon Page (part 2) November 6, 2007
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One of the criticisms that could be leveled at the previous post ‘A Custom Message on the Signon Page’ and its attempt to provide ‘Message of the Day’ functionality is that it’s static. If you need to change the message, you need to bounce the PIA. At some clients this would be fine – and at others not – so another solution was needed.
One way is to embed an iFrame in the signin.html page that points to the file containing the ‘Message of the Day’ text. The signin.html loads on PIA boot and knows it has an iFrame in it, but doesn’t look for the file until someone loads the page. Then you can change the text as often as you like without having to bounce the PIA. If the message text is longer than the box, a vertical scroll bar appears.
(This solution is better for mixed browser clients, however if you are Internet Explorer only consider this solution instead.)
A Custom Message on the Signon Page November 5, 2007
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A quick and easy one today. I was asked by a colleague how to have a custom message appear on the signon page. Partly out of curiosity and partly inspired by these posts (1 and 2) I thought I’d have a look.
As the signon page is (obviously) presented before signin, it’s not going to be a ‘PeopleCode and database’ kind of solution, but I wanted something neater than just hacking the HTML each time. It turns out that it’s simpler than I feared.
XML Publisher and Out of Memory Errors October 30, 2007
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I’m getting a lot of comments on the XML Publisher posts about ‘Out of Memory’ errors. I’ve not experienced this myself so can’t give a fix or workaround, but wondered whether anyone else had hit this issue and found a resolution?
Doing a bit of digging there are a number of suggestions, none of them relate to the PeopleSoft implementation of XMLP however so I’m unconvinced by any solution in particular.
There’s a Tools patch out for this issue (8.48.06 and up contains the fix), so check your version of Tools:
http://www.peoplesoft.com/psp/portprd/CUSTOMER/CRM/c/C1C_MENU.C1_SOLN_SUMMARY.GBL?page=C1_SOLN_SUMMARY&SETID=SHARE&SOLUTION_ID=201046967
There’s a suggestion to change a parameter for XMLP (I guess this would be on the Process Defn or more likely the Process Type in PeopleSoft):
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=568832&tstart=0&messageID=2116283
There’s a suggestion to create a config file (it is not delivered) to specify a temporary directory for processing large files:
http://asun.ifmo.ru/docs/XMLP/help/en_US/htmfiles/B25951_01/T421739T422152.htm
And there’s also a suggestion that a patch will fix it:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/xml-publisher/docs/AboutXMLP562.htm
If I was troubleshooting it and was already on 8.48.06 or greater, I’d probably try the parameter followed by the config file.
If anyone has encountered this error and fixed it, it’d be great if you posted a comment to let us know the resolution.
Why go for BEA? October 13, 2007
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It seems BEA has rejected Oracle’s approach, although that reaction didn’t save PeopleSoft from their clutches, and 13% of BEA is already owned by an Oracle friendly investor. By the sound of things Oracle has been stalking BEA for years, but why?
Are they after Weblogic (the Web Server) or Tuxedo (the middleware), or the revenue base? Does SAP use any BEA products?
I don’t know the Oracle world like I do the PeopleSoft one, but I thought Oracle usually trod the path of using open source technology with some in-house extensions for OC4J / Oracle App Server. What does Weblogic/Tuxedo offer that they don’t already have? I can understand going for PeopleSoft, Seibel etc for the strength of their HR and CRM products – amongst other things – but is this an admission that BEAs Middleware and Web Server products are superior to Oracles?
Grey Sparling also have a piece on it here.
SAP to acquire Business Objects? October 9, 2007
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It seems that SAP is going to acquire Business Objects, the Business Intelligence software vendor.
I wonder what this’ll mean for PeopleSoft / Oracle. Was this a response to Oracle buying Hyperion (used by many clients as a reporting solution for SAP)?
It’s also an interesting move as Business Objects owns Crystal Decisions (makers of Crystal Reports) which is of course used by some PeopleSoft clients as a reporting solution.
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