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Friday, September 2, 2016

Oracle UX Team Collaborates with NASA on Interactive Tool for Asteroid Watchers | Oracle Corporate Blog

Observers of the night sky have a new, easy-to-use, interactive tool for finding up-to-the-minute information about asteroids and connecting with a like-minded community of skygazers, thanks in part to Oracle Group Vice President Jeremy Ashley and his Oracle Applications User Experience (UX) team.



Oracle UX Team Collaborates with NASA on Interactive Tool for Asteroid Watchers | Oracle Corporate Blog

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Oracle Issues Statement


Oracle Press Release

Oracle Issues Statement

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., August 1, 2012
Oracle issued the following statement today:

“Last March, Oracle made an engineering decision to stop future software development on the Itanium chip.  We made the decision as we became convinced that Itanium was approaching its end of life and we explained our rationale to customers here:  www.oracle.com/itanium.  Nothing in the Court's preliminary opinion changes that fact.  We know that Oracle did not give up its fundamental right to make platform engineering decisions in the 27 words HP cites from the settlement of an unrelated employment agreement.  HP’s argument turns the concept of Silicon Valley ‘partnerships’ upside down.   We plan to appeal the Court's ruling while fully litigating our cross claims that HP misled both its partners and customers.” – Deborah Hellinger

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com

Oracle Introduces Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Service Management


Oracle Press Release

Oracle Introduces Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Service Management

New Suite of Service Management Applications Help Organizations Improve Customer Service and Profitability

Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 1, 2012

News Facts

Helping organizations optimize customer service, Oracle today announced Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Service Management.
The new release is part of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting, a real-time reporting solution that improves productivity and enhances real-time decision making by providing users with a simplified and clear view of the essential data necessary to effectively execute business processes.
To support service management in the areas of service contracts, work orders, equipment and preventive maintenance, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Service Management includes eight new JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting applications.
Empowering end-users to design, create, run and share reports with limited IT assistance, the new release includes a library of 38 pre-built reports that are intuitively designed to reduce reporting costs, enhance real-time decision making and turn data into knowledge.
With JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Service Management, users are able to improve customer service performance by analyzing service contracts for profitability.
In addition, the new release increases visibility into equipment availability and performance, enabling users to improve efficiencies, increase customer equipment uptime and better manage maintenance costs.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting for Service Management and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting are part of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1, an integrated applications suite of comprehensive enterprise resource planning software.

Supporting Quote

“Managing customer services is a complex process that demands real-time access to data that can support quick and informed decision making,” said Lyle Ekdahl, group vice president general manager, Oracle’s JD Edwards. “By introducing a new suite of service management applications to the extensive library of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne One View Reporting solutions, we are empowering individual users to help improve service levels. This ultimately helps organizations improve the bottom line by reducing costs, increasing customer satisfaction and growing revenue.”

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About Oracle Applications

Over 65,000 customers worldwide rely on Oracle's complete, open and integrated enterprise applications to achieve superior results. Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances that improve the customer software experience and drive better business performance. Oracle Applications Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer choice through continuous investment and innovation in current applications offerings. Oracle's next-generation Fusion Applications build upon that commitment, and are designed to work with and evolve Oracle's Applications Unlimited offerings. Oracle's lifetime support policy helps ensure customers will continue to have a choice in upgrade paths, based on their enterprise needs. For more information on the latest Oracle Applications releases go towww.oracle.com/applications

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Oracle Announces Update to Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse


Oracle Press Release

Oracle Announces Update to Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse

Offers Users Increased Flexibility in Application Development

Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 1, 2012

News Facts

Demonstrating its commitment to the developer and open source communities, Oracle today announced the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c.
This release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse introduces new design-time tools forOracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF), the standards based, strategic framework for Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, and enhancements for developing secure Web Services.
The release is the first to support Eclipse Juno (3.8 and 4.2) and provides new JAX-WS design-time features for developers targeting both the Oracle Web Services Manager andOracle WebLogic Server.
A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is a free set of Eclipse-based plug-ins that enables developers to build Java EE, Web Service, Cloud, Spring and Oracle ADF applications for the Oracle Fusion Middleware platform.

New Release Enhances Application Development Capabilities and Increases Security

New Design-Time Tools for Oracle ADF give users an integrated environment with seamless support for developing ADF based applications in conjunction with EJBs, POJOs, JSF and more. Building on previous ADF design time tools, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12.1.1.1 adds new features for the ADF Model making it easy to create ADF Data Controls and ADF Bindings. New tools and capabilities include:
Creation of ADF Data Controls from EJB and POJOs;
Redesigned Palette displays Tags (HTML, JSP, JSF, ADF Faces) and Data (Page Variables, Managed Beans, ADF Data Controls);
New Drag and Drop ADF Faces Patterns including Master-Detail, Forms, Data Visualizations;
Property sheet binding wizards are now ADF Bindings aware;
New AppXRay content assist, hyperlink navigation, and validation for ADF Data Controls and Page Bindings;
AppXRay-driven refactoring support for ADF Bindings and Page Definitions;
New ADF Page Definition Editor provides form-based editing, wizards, and validation;
AppXaminer dependency viewer displays ADF Bindings relationships within the application;
Eclipse Debugger enhancements for ADF Data Controls and Bindings including breakpoint support in ADF Page Definitions;
Improved iterative development of ADF applications with Oracle WebLogic Server.
Web Service Security for JAX-WS enables developers to implement secure, SOAP-based web services and clients for both the Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle WebLogic Server’s Web Services. New capabilities include:
Support for Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle WebLogic Web Service Security implementations;
Configure and browse Web Service Policy Store;
Add and Configure Web Service Policies for Java-based Web Service development;
Attach Web Service Policies to web service clients;
Deployment and testing against Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.4 and higher.

Supporting Quote

"Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse is driven by its community and that community has asked for more ways to be productive building enterprise-ready applications for Oracle Fusion Middleware,” said Bill Pataky, vice president Tools and Middleware Product Management, Oracle. “In this release, we are excited to offer new ADF and Web Services security features that will help Eclipse users be more productive in building applications to the Oracle platforms.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 12c (12.1.1.1) is a free download with Oracle WebLogic Server, standalone zips or via Eclipse Update. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Choice Hotels Uses Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite to Modernize Global IT Architecture


Oracle Press Release

Choice Hotels Uses Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite to Modernize Global IT Architecture

Oracle Fusion Middleware Enables Hotel Franchiser to Reduce IT Complexity and Time-to-Market for New Services

Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 31, 2012

News Facts

Choice Hotels International, one of the largest and most successful hotel franchises in the world, has implemented Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite.
To support the growing IT demands of more than 6,100 hotels worldwide in 35 countries, Choice Hotels needed to replace its homegrown and legacy systems built over 25 years with a modern and flexible IT architecture.
By leveraging Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite to replace dozens of complex systems and hundreds of point-to-point connections in its legacy architecture, Choice Hotels simplified application development, reduced IT costs and streamlined business processes.
Using components of Oracle SOA Suite, including Oracle Service Bus and Oracle BPEL Process Manager, coupled with Oracle BPM Suite and Oracle WebLogic Server, Choice Hotels has standardized application development projects, enabling it to cost-effectively deliver innovative services to its customers faster than ever before.
As part of its SOA initiative, Choice Hotels has been able to lower development costs by re-using existing IT investments and assets to launch 19 new services including an enhanced Online Travel Agent interface, Google API and other innovative solutions.
Choice Hotels leveraged Oracle SOA Suite to dynamically integrate with the Google API to handle more than 3.7 million data points and 2.1 GB of data per week.
The standardized architecture has also streamlined processes by empowering the IT department at Choice Hotels with the knowledge necessary to meet the rapidly changing demands of its global franchise network.

Supporting Quote

“To support a vast global network and maintain a proud history of innovation, we needed to fundamentally rethink our IT architecture,” said Rain Fletcher, vice president of application development and architecture, Choice Hotels International. “Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite have allowed us to replace a complex maze of legacy systems and point connections. With Oracle Fusion Middleware we have achieved faster time-to-market for new services and reduced operating costs.”

Supporting Resources

Join the Oracle SOA Suite online communities: Twitter and Facebook
Join the Oracle Fusion Middleware online communities: Twitter and Facebook

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Oracle Unveils Oracle Tuxedo 12c


Oracle Press Release

Oracle Unveils Oracle Tuxedo 12c

New Release Offers the Most Comprehensive Feature Set for the Development, Deployment, and Management of C/C++/COBOL Applications in the Data Center and in the Cloud

Redwood Shores, CA – July 31, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced Oracle Tuxedo 12c, the latest edition of the industry's #1 application server for conventional and cloud-based C/C++/COBOL applications.
Optimized to run on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and tightly integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, Oracle Tuxedo 12c provides mainframe-class scalability and performance for mission critical enterprise applications.
Oracle Tuxedo 12c introduces the new Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue 12c, which provides transaction management, enhanced performance and improved availability of enterprise messaging applications.
Oracle Tuxedo 12c delivers innovative features, development tools and product enhancements to help lower the total cost of ownership of existing Tuxedo applications and reduce time-to-market for new application development.
With the introduction of Oracle Tuxedo 12c, along with the new and enhanced Oracle Tuxedo products, Oracle offers the most comprehensive solution for the development, rehosting and deployment of C/C++/COBOL applications in traditional data centers, engineered systems and enterprise clouds.

With Oracle Tuxedo 12c Customers Can:

Run Mission Critical, Conventional and Enterprise Cloud C/C++/COBOL, Applications
Achieve increased performance and lowered latency through Oracle Exalogic optimizations: Shared memory for inter-process communication provides an 8x increase in throughput and lowers response time by 80 percent for Oracle Tuxedo applications, irrespective of deployment topology.
Support for multiple application types: Oracle Tuxedo 12c is the only application server that allows for optimized, co-existence of C, C++, COBOL, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby applications.
Dynamic provisioning and automatic scaling in the cloud: Oracle Tuxedo applications can be dynamically provisioned and deployed, and automatically scaled up or down within a private cloud environment.
Improve Operational Efficiency with State of the Art Management
Monitor and manage full application stack: Oracle TSAM 12c is now integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, enabling customers to monitor and manage Oracle Tuxedo and its applications, as well as other Oracle applications, from a single console.
Improve productivity and avoid downtime: With business transaction monitoring for cross-product applications and the ability to run more than one version of the same application side-by-side, Oracle Tuxedo 12c reduces diagnostic time and allows application upgrades without system downtime, to help customers maintain a 24x7 operation schedule.
Lower total cost of ownership: New capabilities allow for more efficient workload management across applications based on actual machine usage, within or across domains. Configuration wizards reduce deployment time for new applications.
Accelerate Time to Market with Developer Efficiency Innovations
Enhanced application development capabilities: Customers can develop Oracle Tuxedo applications using Java and leverage the new Oracle Tuxedo integrated development environment plug-in for Oracle Solaris Studio to develop C/C++ applications.
Third-party application integration: Through an easy-to-use configuration tool for deploying Web services, Oracle Tuxedo 12c makes it easy to connect with third-party applications. In addition, it provides a configuration only approach to access Oracle Tuxedo applications from Oracle SOA Suite through Java Connector Architecture (JCA) based integration.
Enhanced Security: With an enhanced security framework, Oracle Tuxedo 12c applications can be integrated with various security providers to provide improved application security.

Supporting Quotes

“To meet the increasing demands of conventional and cloud-based applications, organizations need a modern and open platform that can deliver mainframe-class scale and performance,” said Frank Xiong, vice president, Software Development, Oracle. “With Oracle Tuxedo 12c and the new and enhanced Oracle Tuxedo products, current and new customers can cost-effectively take advantage of high-performing business-critical applications to increase productivity and reduce costs. In addition, the optimized integration between Oracle Tuxedo 12c and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, provides tremendous improvements in application performance, elastic scalability to accommodate load fluctuations and simplified provisioning delivered in a cloud environment.”
“Oracle Tuxedo on Oracle Exalogic provided better than expected performance for our GTX application. GTX is a mission-critical financial messaging application, which requires high level of reliability and scalability. Oracle Tuxedo on Oracle Exalogic not only meets these requirements, this configuration also lowers overall TCO,” said Etienne Savatier, International Sales & Partnerships Director, Sterci.

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About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

Oracle Enhances Mainframe Rehosting Products for Oracle Tuxedo 12c


Oracle Press Release

Oracle Enhances Mainframe Rehosting Products for Oracle Tuxedo 12c

New Product Features Further Reduce the Cost, Complexity and Risk of Mainframe Migrations

Redwood Shores, CA – July 31, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced the release of Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c, which includes Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for IBM CICS, IMS and Batch; and Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench.
Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c helps customers reduce IT costs significantly, compared to their current mainframes, by rehosting larger-scale mainframe applications more rapidly and running them more efficiently on traditional Linux/UNIX servers, engineered systems and in enterprise clouds.
Powered by Oracle Tuxedo 12c and optimized for Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c delivers up to 8x performance gains for rehosted IBM CICS and IMS applications
Oracle Tuxedo ART 12c provides numerous new features to help migrate IBM CICS, IMS, and batch applications faster, by automating configuration and deployment with new Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench tools and supporting new client UI options.
The latest release also makes the post-migration evolution of these applications easier with new Java services extensibility and enhanced standards-based integration options.
Delivering the most scalable, ultra reliable and high-performance mainframe rehosting platform, Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtimes 12c can be used to run large scale mainframe applications more efficiently on horizontally scalable open systems and enterprise clouds with simplified provisioning, virtualization, dynamic scale-out, accounting/chargeback and integrated monitoring and management – at a fraction of mainframe cost.
By rehosting on Oracle Tuxedo 12c, organizations can take advantage of industry-leading performance and flexibility to accelerate and simplify the migration and evolution of enterprise-class, mission-critical applications. (See related news release on Oracle Tuxedo 12c)

Enterprise Application Rehosting Without Changing Business Logic

Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtimes 12c provide mainframe programming models, while leveraging the distributed infrastructure and the high performance of Oracle Tuxedo 12c. Combined with the automated code and data migration tools in Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench 12c, this solution can simplify and accelerate mainframe rehosting projects while reducing overall cost and risk. With the new products customers can:
Dramatically reduce IT costs:
Reduces infrastructure and operations costs by more than 50 percent by rehosting IBM mainframe applications on an open, dynamically scalable enterprise cloud environment.
Improves batch operations and reduces support costs with Oracle Tuxedo System and Application Monitor (TSAM) 12c’s best-in-class monitoring, with enhanced tracing capabilities, and file catalog.
Eliminates third-party licensing costs across large numbers of desktops via new support for Web UI integration with rehosted CICS applications to replace tn3270 emulators or screen scrapers.
Simplify and accelerate mainframe application rehosting:
Further automates the migration and deployment lifecycle, including automated generation of application and system configuration files, to reduce the cost and risk of migration, improve ease-of-use and enable customers to achieve a faster return on investment.
Integrates existing Windows clients, using CICS Universal Client with Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for CICS, to help avoid any impact on clients and front-end applications, while rehosting the back-end CICS services to Oracle Tuxedo.
Improve performance, availability, scalability and manageability of larger-scale CICS, IMS, and batch applications:
Oracle Tuxedo optimizes inter-process communications on Oracle Exalogic through an innovative in-memory model, which doubles the throughput and lowers response time by a third, irrespective of deployment topology. Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Tuxedo are engineered to work together and offer a powerful platform to run applications rehosted from mainframes, with high performance, availability and scalability at lower costs.
Offers enhanced CICS queuing via Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue 12c, providing highly scalable and available temporary storage and transient data queues across multiple cluster nodes.
Automatically recovers IBM MQ, Oracle Database and Oracle Tuxedo mainframe connections, which further improves autonomous self-recovery and application availability.
Delivers enhanced features for multi-node batch deployments in Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for Batch 12c, which also provide improved integration between CICS and batch, and enhanced batch file management through a file catalog with Web UI.
Monitors and manages the full application stack with Oracle TSAM 12c, which is now integrated with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, helping customers easily deploy, monitor and manage rehosted CICS, IMS and batch applications in traditional deployments and enterprise clouds.
Run IBM CICS, IMS and batch applications in a cloud:
Provides a solid foundation for enterprise cloud deployments of rehosted mainframe applications using application runtimes for CICS, IMS and batch.
Simplifies application provisioning and virtualization using Oracle Exalogic and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder to package rehosted applications into software appliances and automate deployment through Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.
Scales-out CICS and IMS regions and batch environments dynamically, using the distributed resource broker in Oracle TSAM 12c, based on load and utilization metrics for online transactions and batch jobs.
Generates detailed accounting data and summary reports for internal chargeback or to support multi-tenant environments.
Easily extend and modernize rehosted applications:
Extends rehosted applications with integrated Java services directly on Oracle Tuxedo 12c to leverage a single environment and gain performance benefits.
Integrates with Java EE application servers through enhanced Oracle Tuxedo JCA Adapter 12c and simplifies integration with web services and SOA, using enhanced tools in Oracle Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT) 12c.

Supporting Quote

“The perceived costs, complexities and risks tied to large-scale mainframe migration projects can deter some organizations from reaping the benefits of moving to open, flexible and scalable cloud environments,” said Frank Xiong, vice president, Software Development, Oracle. “Oracle ART 12c greatly simplifies application rehosting for larger-scale applications by reducing the cost and time associated with mainframe migration projects. This gives customers the flexibility they need to transition to high performance cloud environments and reduce IT costs.”

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About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.