Managing a Complex Migration to Oracle Cloud

Jimmy LutzCloud and Virtualization, Identity & Access Management, Oracle, Problem SolvedLeave a Comment

A publicly-traded company dealing with health information planned to migrate their primary business application suite to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), including Fusion Middleware components (SOA, IdAM, EDQ). The initial challenge was the number of interconnections between applications (over 70), each with complex security requirements. If the various components of the migration were not carefully timed and coordinated, the availability of critical business functions could be affected. To make it more challenging, the migration needed to be transparent to the business owners and thousands of users, with minimal downtime during cutover. Our combined team, in close collaboration with the customer, performed … Read More

Discovering Version Numbers for Oracle Products

Steve EngelTechnical TipsLeave a Comment

Determining Oracle Version Numbers

Knowing the version numbers of the handful of products that you have installed in your Fusion Middleware environment is very important. But how can we check the version numbers of each product? This can be completed by using an Oracle provided tool called OPatch which is located within the binary directories of each Fusion Middleware product. I will show you a few locations and examples of how to use OPatch to discover the version number of a given product. Oracle_BI If you are running a BI domain, head to the following directory located in your Middleware home: To discover the current … Read More