An Oracle EBS upgrade, in half the downtime

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Oracle EBS upgrade in half the time

A global leader in the building products industry with a presence in over 45 countries was facing a common but critical challenge with their Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS): they needed to upgrade or risk losing support. However, as a manufacturing company, any downtime would mean lost revenues and no work for their employees. This customer was using EBS 12.1.3 and needed to upgrade to 12.2.10 quickly to avoid a loss of support. However, they also needed to upgrade the operating system (AIX), database (from 19c), and multiple other components of the technology stack. To further complicate the challenge, they had … Read More

Rebuilding a Solid Oracle EBS Foundation for a Quickly Growing Company

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rebuilding a foundation in Oracle EBS

A mid-sized federal government contracting company had been using Oracle E-Business Suite for many years. The good news for the company was that it had experienced monumental growth and opened new business lines. The bad news was that their Oracle environment had accumulated a lot of deferred maintenance and was an out-of-date version which could lead to Oracle desupport, risking their government compliance and contracts. In addition, with their changing business models, the system needed new functionality which required additional Oracle modules. They needed to find a competent partner, quickly. …documentation was sparse, despite heavy customization, and high turnover meant … Read More

Architect and Migrate Oracle Products Into AWS for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Lift and shift oracle to aws

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts – Department of Industrial Accidents (DIA), which oversees the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system, faced the challenge of migrating from legacy hardware while upgrading existing infrastructure. In addition, a large Oracle workload needed to be upgraded and migrated while adding a level of redundancy to the application’s middleware. To solve these challenges, the M&S team evaluated and created a strategy for DIA’s upgrade and migration. DIA had chosen Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a good fit for their needs and wanted to migrate over 90% of their servers to the cloud, utilizing AWS native services in lieu … Read More

How to Register A Custom Scheduled Job or Plugin in Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)

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There are multiple scenarios where we may have to develop a custom scheduled job to perform tasks to meet client requirements. Once the expected job functionality is developed, below are the steps to register the expected job/plugin in OIM so that it can be used. Create the folder structure as follows.                 lib                 META-INF                 Plugin.xml The “lib” folder would have the jar file of the functionality that has been developed along with the dependent jar files. The “META-INF” folder should have the scheduledtask.xml file, which should hold the below content. The text displayed in RED … Read More

End-of-Life Impact of Adobe Flash on Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE 11g) and Alternatives

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If you have recently installed Adobe Flash Player before December 31, 2020, you may have noticed a popup displayed by the program that informs you that Adobe Flash support is ending on December 31, 2020. As of January 12, 2021, Adobe has put the final nail into the EOL coffin and will block Adobe Flash content from running Adobe Flash Player, and all browsers before 2021 will have a “kill switch” to deactivate Adobe Flash. Adobe strongly recommends users to make the transition out of Adobe Flash in order to help protect their systems as vulnerabilities may be present in … Read More

Selecting the Best Cloud Option for an Oracle E-Business Suite Migration

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Strategic Oracle EBS Move to OCI

A nation-wide professional services company was running an on-prem version of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Financials and Projects and needed an unbiased evaluation as their hardware aged, support costs began to increase as relative performance decreased. Like many other companies, they began to explore moving to the cloud, but they were unsure how to choose from the wide range of cloud options with licensing and compliance implications to consider. Our team evaluated hosting Oracle EBS on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). After careful evaluation, OCI provided the best combination of low total cost of ownership, flexibility, and … Read More

Managing a Complex Migration to Oracle Cloud

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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