Oracle released a free dev tool for its Fusion middleware. The new productivity tool is called Oracle Developer Depot and provides access to a library or reusable and sample code for rapid development of Java app prototypes.
After the mega acquisition of rival PeopleSoft, the database world leader has many opportunities for the future. Database marketing secures Oracle future; the strong revenue growth will be in two areas: oracle.com application service provider (ASP) business that allows companies to rent Oracle’s e-business software over the Web, and its application-server software business technology, that runs e-business and Web site transactions.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California (US), Oracle develops and deploys Internet enabled enterprise software across its entire product line, which includes database, server, enterprise business applications and application development, and decision support tools. Oracle offers e-business solutions that extend from front- office customers relationship management to back-office operational applications to platform infrastructure.
Oracle co-president Charles Phillips offered a few hints as to what partners can expect from the company’s next database and applications generation. The upcoming Oracle 11g database, for example, will allow segregation between applications users and the database that feeds their applications. Application users will not be able to see underlying data in the database unless they have the rights to see it.
What is being done now in compliance is the “tip of the iceberg”. “Future Oracle users will be able to audit database information and access by applications and users. It will track not only which applications it is possible to use, but what data must be viewed, what changes was made; it will identify the person once and track him across all apps and the stack. It will be a complete audit trail from keyboard to disk,” Phillips said.
Oracle’s current technology can monitor user response times across the stack and isolate problems, Phillips said. Future applications will be able to initiate a rollback of the application server and database. Phillips also talked up tighter integration and going forward between the core Oracle database and middleware stack and applications going forward. “We have assets on the tech side that apply elsewhere. In our umbrella strategy, we have single core foundation of the technology stack – the database and middleware. Around that we have industry-oriented applications, ERP and CRM. The applications should leverage the core stack.”
Oracle has pledged continued upgrades not only to its homegrown apps suite but for Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards apps as well. The company can do more for customers and partners in terms of security, high availability and compliance in its next product wave. Many JD Edwards and PeopleSoft customers run their applications on IBM’s DB2 database, which competes with Oracle’s bread-and-butter database. Likewise, Oracle has promised that its database will continue to fully support third-party applications that compete with its own software.
Also was announced new Business Accelerators for the mid market. These wizard-like programs let partners and users easily enter information about the desired application and automate its optimal set up, Oracle said. A new Oracle Accelerate program aims to get partners to extend these accelerators for their verticals. Phillips also announced a new Configuration Support manager to ease deployments and optimize performance. It will be part of Oracle’s Premier support options.
In the future, Oracle products will enable centralized entitlements, so a user’s access to data and applications will automatically follow him or her thought applications and tasks. Oracle’s business information is about how to manage it, use it, share it, and protect it. The word’s largest enterprise software company, Oracle is the only vendor to offer solutions for every tier of your business: database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, information that helps to measure results, improve processes, and communicate a single truth to the constituents is possible quick and in a correct manner.
Oracle has made a number of strategic acquisitions to help the users get the broadest functionality and the most value from the business applications. In the future they will make it even easier for the users to take advantage of the rich customer relationship management capabilities of Oracle’s Siebel CRM, by helping the users to integrate Siebel applications with the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise applications.
Oracle’s Siebel Customer Relationship Management applications help provide insight to the right person at the right time, leading to faster, better informed decision. With solutions tailored to the specific needs of more than 20 industries, Siebel provides predictive analytics capabilities that deliver real-time intelligence, greater flexibility through support of both J2EE and .Net, and a lower total cost ownership.
Siebel Integrations are software bridges that reduce implementation costs by accelerating the deployment time required for front to back office integration – all without disruption to existing business operations. By allowing information to flow across entire enterprise business processes, Siebel integrations provide immediate value.
In addition to Siebel CRM Call Center on Demand to Oracle E-Business Suite, which was just released, Oracle is developing these Siebel Integration offerings:
- Siebel Order Capture to Oracle Order Management, that combines Siebel’s campaign to opportunity product set with Oracle’s order management, fulfillment, and financials capabilities, giving to the users a single view of his opportunities to cash business process.
- Siebel CRM on Demand to Oracle E-Business Suite provides consistent customer data across the front and back office applications, enabling a true 360-degree view, so the user can provide more knowledgeable and personalized customer service.
- Siebel CRM to I-flex FLEXCUBE Integration enables a quick, integrated account and fulfillment process, reducing the time required to open an account, while allowing fast service request processing across multiple request channels.
Oracle’s commitment to providing industry solutions has never been stronger; they customers experience it, their partners share it, and analysts recognize the scope and strength of offerings that have been carefully developed with the input of thousand of valuable customers.
Oracle industry applications are based on a wealth of industry experience and are tailored to address the unique challenges and processes that drive the business. Oracle applications and technologies provides a uniquely platform that is helping industry leaders around the world get the most accurate and up-to-date information from their business systems.
Recovery Manager (RMAN) was introduced in Oracle 8.0 and enabled true incremental backups for the first time. Prior to RMAN, database exports could be taken incrementally, but if any block in a table was changed, the entire table was written. RMAN incremental backups write only the changed blocks from a given data file, thus saving space.
Priori to the version 10g, however, incremental backups required a scan of an entire data file to detect which blocks in it had changed. For very large databases, this made the time required for incremental not much better than for full backups, even though space was saved. Change tracking, sometimes called Block Change Tracking, provides a solution by recording to a separate Change Tracking file, which blocks have changed. The changes are written in real time by a background process.
This is a performance impact to enabling Change Tracking, so unless you are using RMAN’s incremental backup feature, it is best left disabled. But if you are doing incremental backups, the time lost recording changes will be more than made up in faster backups.
Some industries are aerospace and defense, high technology (semiconductor, complex electronic equipment, computers, peripherals and consumer electronics, electronics contract manufacturing), oil and gas, professional services, public sector (national and local government, defense, justice and public safety), chemicals, industrial manufacturing (durable goods, heavy equipment and machinery manufacturing, industrial products), retail, telecom, education and research (higher education and research, k-12 primary and secondary education), life sciences (clinical applications, medical services, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology), travel and transportation (airlines, airports, logistics), financial services (banking, insurance, capital markets), media and entertainment, utilities (electricity, gas, water, waste), natural resources (raw material producers, mining, mill products), healthcare (health payers, health providers, government healthcare agencies). The future is looking so bright for Oracle!
