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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Oracle Openworld 2011 - Highlights

Its fun to fly out to SFO just a day before OOW that translates to huge head start. Especially when the flight is filled with OOW attendees, which in turn provides ample networking opportunities.
This year’s Buzz at OOW is Fusion. Its everywhere ranging from Apps to middle-ware to BI.
Fun to watch the strategies Oracle proposes to adapt fusion apps. Nonetheless, they have a co-existence strategy to help early adapting customers. Even though the fusion sessions portray 100+ customers in Fusion Apps and more to follow, talking to Fusion product directors had a different view-point, which is to wait for Fusion V2.
Fusion early adapters in co-existence strategy are on HCM. But the product group’s viewpoint is to have performance management module in Fusion and the rest in R12, which makes sense. Especially when Fusion is still transforming into production state. I Will be writing more on my first-hand experience with the Fusion Apps soon. My favorite thus far is Fusion HCM's Predictive Analytics. Example of that is to analyze the pattern on work force attrition and make apposite recommendations.
Other than Exalytics (Appliance focused on BI) and newer version of ExaData and ExaLogic servers, Oracle introduced 12c Cloud-control Enterprise Manager. Lucky enough to play around with the key features of 12c and I am really impressed with EM team. Oracle EM team did a fantastic job in completely revamping the UI and flooding with 200+ solid new features. Good ones are out-of-place patching, Incident management within 12c, iPad and other mobile device capabilities, Real-Time ADDM Analysis and the list goes on. Details to follow.

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