In this best practice series I will describe how you can enrich your delegates access to Training on Demand videos by developing a scenario which enables your learners to access the ToD videos from within an Oracle Learning Management Systems. As you know Oracle currently offers 3 flavors for a professional learning infrastructure:

1. Peoplesoft ELM 9.2

2. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne HCM

3. Oracle Taleo Learn Cloud Solution

Starting with Peoplesoft ELM (PSFTELM) I will describe how to integrate Training on Demand in PeopleSoft ELM catalog structure so that PeopleSoft ELM named user lerners can benefit from OU content using their familiar learning environment.

The test bed is built on virtual templates provided by Oracle Support. As VMs have in general a huge demand for hardware resoruces the given scenarios have been set up on the following specs:

- Intel Quad Core i7 2.3 MHz Processor

- 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

- OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)

but it will also run on any other x64 based infrastructure. Please refer to support.oracle.com  for references.

First prepare your environment for a PSFTEML demo instance download from PeopleSoft Demo Images Home Page (Doc ID 1552548.1)

The PeopleSoft ELM 9.2.004 Software Manifestdescribes the software layer which comes with the zip files:

After accepting the T&Cs download all 7 zip files. No 1. just stores the unzip and concat scripts - but its needed.

Checksums are important so please test either MDA or CHKSUM (sh-3.2#shasum -a 1 85310.ova) after you have downloaded all files.

Import the appliance 85310.ova into VirtualBox leaving it up to you wether you want to work with a bridged network or host-only. I have made good experiences with the open NIC as I wanted to access the ELM client from a remote workstation.

It schould look like this:

When starting the PSFTELM VM you will be asked to select a root, DB and PSFT user password. You also will be asked for a full domain name so the your DHCP server can assign the IP addresses correctly.

After the VM server is up and running connect to the PSFT ELM DEMO instance with:

http://<PSFTELMINSTANCE-IP-ADDRESS>:8000/ps/signon.htm

PeopleSoft Login Page will appear and you can Login using PS/PS after you set local language to English.

As LMS admin go to <maintain catalog> under admin quick links and create new value (learning object). Treat this reference as any other learning object you have in your PSFT ELM instance.

Now load your xml file into the catalog describing the url locator of your ToD html access path. This must be in xml format but you can list multiple url access pathes containing the OU ToD source indentifier.

Finally the new learning object can be viewed as a standard Peoplesoft ELM class within the ELM course catalog. As with other resources you now can assign user specific learning plans, learner-related tasks and all management functions to this object.

Note: The only restrictions applies to the named user license which comes with the subscription for each of the Training on Demand urls. Only those named users can access the Training on Demand videos who were originally assigned to the subscription and who got and opened the authorization link.

Now the test bed is prepared to take over the content from the external source provided by Oracle University Training on Demand. To make this a dynamic handover we will look into how PeopleSoft ELM can handle this. In the following post I will describe how PeopleSoft ELM handles dynamic URL via the integration broker using XSLT transformation.

To be continued ...

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with our resident expert on Innovation Management, Gayle Hayes.I picked her brain on what’s going on in the world of product and service innovation and how Oracle is helping.A new phenomenon is sweeping product development – thanks to an explosion of ideation tools and techniques such as crowd-sourcing, big data, mashups, customer immersion labs, etc, finding ideas is not the problem.With so many to choose from, the biggest questions are now “which idea?” and subsequently, “how do you translate the right idea into a profitable product?"

This is precisely the challenge the new Oracle Innovation Management is designed to address.To learn more about the idea glut and how the new solution helps organizations improve return on innovation investments, read the transcript of our discussion below or stream our podcast.You can even find us on iTunes!

Kerrie Jordan: Hello and thanks for tuning in! My name is Kerrie Jordan, and I’m the PLM Product Marketing Director at Oracle and one the hosts of this Podcast series called AppCasts.Our goal is to help you get the most out of your Oracle Applications by listening to thought leaders, customers, partners and Oracle executives along with commentary and opinions from me, your host!So, here we go…

I am very pleased to have with me today Gayle Hayes, Senior Director of PLM Product Strategy at Oracle. Today I'll ask Gayle about Oracle's new solution Oracle Innovation Management and the unique value that it offers business leaders looking to maximize their return on innovation.Gayle, we see companies around the world looking to become more innovative.What sort of implications does this innovation imperative have on businesses and how they operate?

Gayle Hayes: For starters, product Innovation is a top priority for many executives – several research studies show that less than 20% of CEOs currently believe their investments are paying off.Now, combine this with market pressures of shortened product lifecycles, increasing and fairly visible customer sentiment, and global competition… It’s raising the stakes to deliver quality, innovative products to the market.

Do nothing is not a risk that most companies are willing to take as that can result in missed market opportunity, lost market share, etc.Also, innovative ideas can spawn from many different sources like customers, suppliers, partners, field resources.You can even get them from your service, quality, and field operations.Innovations can be disruptive (like the tablet devices) or evolutionary (new features) or they could just be around new packaging, new processes.The challenge is first sorting through all this information to identify the best ideas and then secondly translating each idea to determine if it’s an investment that can meet targeted expectations and fit within the company strategy. Bottom line – there is a lot of pressure to innovate and make the right investment choices.

Jordan: That must cause a lot of frustration for businesses.Could you elaborate on the specific business processes that are broken, and what companies may be doing as a work-around?

Hayes: Yes it definitely does cause frustration and multiple key processes are disconnected which is leading to lower returns on innovation investments.I’ll start at a high level; executives lay out a company strategy – the growth plans, target areas for growth, risk tolerance, etc. – at the lowest level there are teams executing against a plan.In the middle is where there is an issue.This is the intersection where the selection and translation of potential investments are made to achieve the company strategies.One of the challenges is idea selection.This is what goes into the proverbial funnel and the inconsistencies in how they got there. Business cases can be inconsistent and sometimes things end up in the funnel without a vetted justification, consuming precious resources and budgets.

The next challenge is managing the requirements which translate the idea.This is often a disconnected waterfall process where requirements for customers and/or markets are later handed off to design teams to turn into a concept.The requirement document is often in a separate location.Two issues we heard from companies we interviewed were 1) marketing teams don’t know if requirements can’t be met until the back-end of the concept process and 2) requirements are often refined during this process and the history of decisions made are difficult to maintain.This is a critical issue because if requirements can’t be met – that affects the business case and possibly affects the target markets, revenue plans, time to market, etc.

The result is that in the portfolio you end up with a mix of opportunities, some justified, some not, some that should be killed because the requirements can’t be met. The cost of failure gets more expensive at each stage of the innovation process.The goal should be to shut down ideas that don’t live up to the business case and requirements sooner and convert those investment dollars into more promising ideas.Unfortunately many companies don’t have connected innovation processes.Key data is scattered all over a variety of systems making it very difficult to expose potential failures sooner.When that is the case, projects get commercialized and results in what we mentioned earlier – executives not happy with their return on investments.

Jordan:It seems like companies are really struggling with questions such as, first, 'how do you identify which product idea to invest resources in,' and secondly, 'how do you then execute as effectively as possible to maximize your return.' How does Oracle Innovation Management help?

Hayes: Great question.Oracle Innovation Management helps companies identify andtranslate the best ideas that carry the most profit potential as product offerings.So how can this solution do that?The solution offers a two-fold approach: First, it offers a bottoms-up approach where stakeholders participate in the product invention, definition and translation processes.These are the ideation selection, requirements and concept definition processes.Second, it provides a top-down approach to analyze the financial impact and long-term strategic fit within the innovation portfolio.

This enables a company to establish a more comprehensive, consistent, systematic approach to portfolio decision making that aligns with company objectives for long-term success.The solution also keeps all stakeholders on the same page as to the definition and priority of requirements, whether or not the concept can meet the requirements and stay within supply chain risk objectives, and if the overall business case justification can be met.Then in order to make certain you execute on that investment as effectively as possible, Innovation Management integrates directly to your Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions.This allows a company to track the product through development, ensure quality, control cost, launch the product quickly, and leverage performance analysis to improve the next generation of products.

Jordan:On that note, let’s talk about value.What benefits can companies hope to achieve by using Oracle Innovation Management?

Hayes: With Oracle Innovation Management, companies can increase revenues and product profitability, improve customer satisfaction, and deliver greater return on innovation investments.This is made possible by having a single repository for ideas, requirements, product concepts, proposals/business cases and the portfolio – doing away with disparate systems and scattered data.With Innovation Management, companies can analyze each potential product investment across a 360 degree view ofcost, supply risk, resources, ability to meet requirements.Businesses can analyze the business case to determine if it can be met, how well it achieves the company strategy, and whether it fits within budgets or resource constraints.Leaders are able to make more informed and confident decisions about where to place their limited resources for maximized value.

Jordan:Now, for people reading or listening to this conversation, they may be thinking, this isn't the first product in the market claiming to help companies manage their innovation.What makes Oracle's solution different, and why should a company consider this solution over the others?

Hayes: Well, a lot of the solutions that are offered today under the term “innovation” are primarily what are called Social Ideation solutions.There are probably about 50 such tools on the market right now.These are specifically focused on gathering the voice of customers and/or crowd-sourcing.What we found was that many companies didn’t have a shortage of ideas – the key challenge was in making the right choices in where to invest the innovation budget.And if a customer has invested in one of these solutions, Oracle’s Innovation Management offers the web services to bring the idea output to further evaluate, translate and ensure the best ideas are selected in alignment with the targeted portfolio strategies.

So what makes us especially different? Well, there are so many advantages with Oracle’s Innovation Management versus point tools addressing ideas, portfolio requirements, or even PLM, but let me highlight a few of the key ones.First, design teams can directly link specific requirements to the targeted area within the product concept.This provides visibility to the product management teams that their requirements can or can’t be met, greatly improving the evaluation of requirements to concept feasibility.

A second advantage is a solution to what worries a lot of companies – that the end-to-end view of traceability from ideas or problem reports linked to requirements, which are linked to the concept structure.Being tightly tied to PLM provides additional differentiated value.For example, Innovation Management provides the ability to link quality problem reports to ideation, which provides closed-loop corrective action to the next generation or product iteration.Another example is where Innovation Management provides the ability to reuse existing products or parts as the basis for new products, reducing product and supply chain risks by using known, proven materials.

Another advantage is that Innovation Management provides linkage to the PLM projects and reads status back to the business case exposing if the project is running over budget, is late, or even under-resourced.This is powerful.Within the context of the portfolio, adjustments can be made.If it makes sense, you continue the project with an updated business case.This prevents choking the funnel with ideas that can’t or won’t deliver the value.

Bottom line: Oracle Innovation Management is the only solution integrated with a world-class product lifecycle management solution to track the conversion of ideas to projects and then ultimately to profitable products.

Jordan: I see how this Oracle solution offers much more than a hub for ideas but rather that complete linkage to helping companies commercialize profitable products. You must have had many discussions with businesses while developing and now launching this solution.What is some of the feedback you have heard?

Hayes: This solution has been 3 years in the making, so our customers are as delighted as we are!The customers that were part of our validation processes during these past three years are very happy to see this solution released to market. In fact, the reception shown across the various industries, whether it be high tech, industrial, life sciences, telecom, consumer goods, etc. has been exciting as each of these industries sees value from the capabilities we’ve integrated with the complete Innovation Management solution.

Jordan: Well, that is all the time we have.Thank you Gayle for joining me!

Hayes: Thank you for giving me this opportunity to talk about Innovation Management!

Jordan:And thanks to everyone for tuning in.We have many more AppCasts available for you to listen to and will continue to have new AppCasts each week.So if you haven’t had a chance to tune in to other AppCasts, you can download a show from iTunes, subscribe to an RSS feed or go to www.oracle.com/appcasts and listen on your computer.

Until next time, this is Kerrie signing off!

Learn more at www.oracle.com/InnovationManagement

Roy today presented about Upgrade Best Practices to Oracle Database 12c including moving into the world of Multitenant and Pluggable Databases at COLLABORATE 2014 in Las Vegas.. And the slides can be downloaded via this link:

COLLABORATE 2014 - Database Upgrade to Oracle 12c

-Mike 

Enable the Java SE 7 ULN channel for Oracle Linux 6

- Start with a server or desktop installed with Oracle Linux 6 and registered with ULN (http://linux.oracle.com) for updates

This is typically using uln_register on your system.

- Log into ULN, go to the Systems tab for your server/desktop and click on Manage Subscriptions

-> Ensure your system is registered to the "Oracle Linux 6 Add ons (x86_64)" channel (it should appear in the 'Subscribed channels' list)

if your system is not registered with the above channel, add it :

-> Click on "Oracle Linux 6 Add ons (x86_64)" in the Available Channels tab and click on the right arrow to move it to Subscribed channels. -> Click on Save Subscriptions

- In order to register with the 'Java SE 7' channel, you first have to install a yum plugin to enable access to channels with licenses

# yum install yum-plugin-ulninfo
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin
This system is receiving updates from ULN.
ol6_x86_64_addons                                        | 1.2 kB     00:00     
ol6_x86_64_addons/primary                                |  44 kB     00:00     
ol6_x86_64_addons                                                       177/177
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package yum-plugin-ulninfo.noarch 0:0.2-9.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================
 Package                          Arch                 Version                    Repository                       Size
========================================================================================================================
Installing:
 yum-plugin-ulninfo               noarch               0.2-9.el6                  ol6_x86_64_addons                13 k

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)

Total download size: 13 k
Installed size: 23 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
yum-plugin-ulninfo-0.2-9.el6.noarch.rpm                                                          |  13 kB     00:00     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : yum-plugin-ulninfo-0.2-9.el6.noarch                                                                  1/1 
  Verifying  : yum-plugin-ulninfo-0.2-9.el6.noarch                                                                  1/1 

Installed:
  yum-plugin-ulninfo.noarch 0:0.2-9.el6                                                                                 

Complete!

- In future versions of Oracle Linux 6, this RPM will become part of the base channel and at that point you will no longer need to register with the Add ons channel to install yum-plugin-ulninfo

- Add the Java SE 7 channel subscription to your system in ULN

-> Click on "Java SE 7 for Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64) (Public)" in the Available Channels tab and click on the right arrow to move it to Subscribed channels

-> Click on Save Subscriptions

-> A popup will appear with the EULA for Java SE 7, click on Accept or Decline

- Now your system has access to the Java SE 7 channel. You can verify this by executing :

# yum repolist
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, ulninfo
This system is receiving updates from ULN.
ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public:
By downloading the Java software, you acknowledge that your use of the Java software is 
subject to the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement for the Java SE Platform Products and 
JavaFX (which you acknowledge you have read and agree to) available 
at http://www.java.com/license.

ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public                                                                        | 1.2 kB     00:00     
ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public/primary                                                                | 1.9 kB     00:00     
ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public                                                                                           2/2
repo id                        repo name                                                                          status
ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public      Java SE 7 for Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64) (Public)                                          2
ol6_x86_64_UEKR3_latest        Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 3 for Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64) - Latest          122
ol6_x86_64_addons              Oracle Linux 6 Add ons (x86_64)                                                       177
ol6_x86_64_ksplice             Ksplice for Oracle Linux 6 (x86_64)                                                 1,497
ol6_x86_64_latest              Oracle Linux 6 Latest (x86_64)                                                     25,093
repolist: 26,891

- To install Java SE 7 on your system, simply us yum install :

# yum install jdk
Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, ulninfo
This system is receiving updates from ULN.
ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public:
By downloading the Java software, you acknowledge that your use of the Java software is 
subject to the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement for the Java SE Platform Products
 and JavaFX (which you acknowledge you have read and agree to) 
available at http://www.java.com/license.

Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package jdk.x86_64 2000:1.7.0_51-fcs will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

========================================================================================================================
 Package           Arch                 Version                           Repository                               Size
========================================================================================================================
Installing:
 jdk               x86_64               2000:1.7.0_51-fcs                 ol6_x86_64_JavaSE7_public               117 M

Transaction Summary
========================================================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)

Total download size: 117 M
Installed size: 193 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
jdk-1.7.0_51-fcs.x86_64.rpm                                                                                                         | 117 MB     02:27     
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : 2000:jdk-1.7.0_51-fcs.x86_64                                                                                                            1/1 
Unpacking JAR files...
	rt.jar...
	jsse.jar...
	charsets.jar...
	tools.jar...
	localedata.jar...
	jfxrt.jar...
  Verifying  : 2000:jdk-1.7.0_51-fcs.x86_64                                                                                                            1/1 

Installed:
  jdk.x86_64 2000:1.7.0_51-fcs                                                                                                                             

Complete!

- You now have a completely install Java SE 7 on your Oracle Linux environment.

# ls /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_51/
bin  COPYRIGHT  db  include  jre  lib  LICENSE  man  README.html  release  src.zip  
THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME-JAVAFX.txt  THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt

A number of PSRM implementers have asked about the new Attachments functionality in Oracle PSRM.  This has been added to the PSRM product training, and the following gives an overview of how it works.

https://blogs.oracle.com/tax/resource/PSRM_Attachments_Overview.pdf

by John Parisi

In today’s challenging business environment, accounting and financial departments continually rely on spreadsheets for core financial planning, budgeting and forecasting. This rather time-consuming process is clearly inadequate and fraught with risk. While there are many packaged planning and forecasting solutions available in the marketplace, these solutions remain largely out of reach for many organizations due to a lack of IT resources or capital budgets to support the investment needed.

To help put this spreadsheet dependency into perspective, a recent Oracle survey on planning, budgeting and forecasting revealed that 93% of finance managers globally believe that their organizations are “drowning in spreadsheets.” While spreadsheets are easy to use and a familiar technology for most finance professionals, they are not well suited for enterprise wide functions like planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting. Data integrity, data quality and version control issues are common with spreadsheet based solutions. As a result, finance teams spend too much time gathering and validating information and too little time performing value added analytics.

There is a solution to this spreadsheet dilemma entitled theOracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service removes many of the barriers to adoption of the traditional “on premise” solutions and makes it much easier for businesses to deploy world-class finance solutions quickly.

Getting started with PBCS is simple using the PBCS Rapid Start from Oracle Consulting. Leveraging the PBCS Rapid Start, your implementation of PBCS is faster, less risky and requires a fraction of the time and cost of traditional implementation methods. Oracle Consulting’s PBCS Rapid Start provides the comprehensive application framework, implementation methodology and consulting services needed to help you efficiently and successfully deploy your PBCS solution. To ensure the most effective implementation, the Oracle Consulting PBCS Rapid Start service offering provides a set of structured templates designed to be completed by you and your team, as part of the implementation. The templates, in conjunction with the Planning and budgeting Cloud Service and consulting support will guide you through the process of integrating your information into the Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service solution.

The Oracle Consulting Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service Rapid Start service provides some key benefits including:

• Proven methodology for rapid application implementation– Oracle has been leading traditional tailored implementations of Planning and Budgeting solutions for more than 25 years. We have incorporated that experience into this Rapid Start service.

• Rapid time to value for your organization– Deploy the solution in weeks rather than months leveraging the Oracle Consulting Rapid Start approach.

• Reduced implementation risk– the Oracle Consulting Rapid Start brings structure to not only the approach but to the underlying solution itself. This structure allows you to quickly deploy your solution with confidence.

• Lower implementation cost as compared to traditional implementation approaches – The Oracle Consulting PBCS Rapid Start approach is designed to reduce the amount of consulting support needed to deploy your PBCS solution. This rapid project approach reduces the implementation costs and time to value and dramatically improves your ROI. 

Harnessing the value ofOracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) starts with choosing the right IT consulting partner. At Oracle Consulting Services, our global teams of over 1300 Oracle Consulting experts share an uncompromising commitment to plan, build, migrate and optimize Oracle software and hardware solutions that drive transformative business results for our customers. 

On April 8th, Oracle announced the new Sun Server X4-4 system, based on the latest Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8800 v2 Family, also known as Ivy Bridge-EX processors.

This server is currently available for quoting, ordering and shipping.

This product replaces the Sun Server X2-4. End of life (EOL) for the Sun Server X2-4 is April 8th, 2014. The last order date (LOD) for Sun Server X2-4 will be August 31st, 2014.

Please read the Product Bulletinon Oracle HW TRC for more details.

(If you are not registered on Oracle HW TRC, clickhere ... and follow the instructions..)

Oracle WebLogic Server on Oracle Database Appliance 2.9 offers a complete solution for building and deploying enterprise Java EE applications in a fully integrated system of software, servers, storage, and networking that delivers highly available database and WebLogic services. The world's most popular database, Oracle Database and the industry's best application server, WebLogic Server have been combined in this industry-unique appliance to provide high availability and the simplicity of One-Button deployment. And to top it all off, it reduces IT cost with a unique capacity-on-demand software licensing model.

Here you can download the new version of WebLogic on ODA 2.9 which offers WebLogic templates for 11g  (10.3.6), 12c (12.1.1 and 12.1.2).

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic-oda/downloads/index.html

The following highlighted new features are included in this release:

• Supports new X4-2 hardware with more capacity, faster processor, better networking with no price increase!
• WebLogic on ODA provisioning tool now offers multi domain and multi cluster options in the wizard-driven templates.
• New licensing options include a 'pool' of WebLogic licenses with min/max range, that can be allocated to WebLogic, Oracle Traffic Director and other Oracle Cloud Application Foudation products.
• Provides a 'silent provisioning' option.
• A new WebLogic on ODA provisioning wizard-driven template with a nicer GUI.
• Shared storage repository option.
  

Se você nunca foi ao JavaOne, mas tem muito interesse, curiosidade, e muita disposição (são várias sessões, e muitos eventos pós-sessões como happy hours, shows musicais, hackathons, etc!), e quer uma ajudinha para ir no evento, um bom patrocínio, existem duas formas de você fazer isso. A melhor opção é participar do JavaOne 2014 IoT Developer Challenge!.

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Good afternoon, partners! Day two of COLLABORATE 14 is a wrap and it seems like everyone’s having a blast and enjoying the heat in sunny Las Vegas.

Partners, don’t forget to show off those Specializations at your booth for a chance to win some pretty legit Oracle PartnerNetwork prizes – including certification exam vouchers and the spiffy shirts you see below! We’ll be walking around keeping an eye out for creative displays.

Today’s opening general session from Adam Savage on “Curiosity: Asking the Right Questions” was great, we hope you were able to attend it. Have any thoughts about other sessions you’ve seen so far? Tweet them at us (@oraclepartners & @lemmes).

Onward!

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New York in the spring -- or, anywhere on the web. Either way, you're invited to join us on April 29th, as we introduce Oracle Solaris 11.2.

These events are always a lot of fun, and this one promises to be no exception. Our hosts will be Mark Hurd, John Fowler, and Markus Flierl, and they'll take us all through some significant new capabilities we're introducing, reinforcing that Oracle Solaris is Engineered for Cloud.

Register now -- space at the event will be limited!  (We'll have more room on the web, of course.)

Note: At the moment, only registration for the live event in New York is open.  Stay tuned for more details, including web event registration.

Announcing Oracle Solaris 11.2
Tuesday April 29, 2014
12:00n (ET) / 9:00am (PT)
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Thanks for all the partners for the excellent contribution and on-going business! You are the key for the joint Fusion Middleware success. It becomes every year harder to choose the winners, due to all the excellent work and contributions.

The awarded partners have proven cutting edge projects with the latest Oracle technology and most important their contribution to the community like blogs, newsletters, conferences, papers, twitter, Linkedin and their participation in the partner advisory councils.

THANKS to the whole community and congratulation to the winners:

• Amis
  Oracle SOA Community Award
  SOA Partner Community Award 2014

• OPITZ Consulting
  BPM Partner Community Award 2014

• Oracle Internal Award to Ritu Chhibber
  Oracle Partner Community Award - Oracle Contribution 2014
  The Oracle internal award also acknowledges the special contribution to the community. Ritu Chhibber publishes since years every month the newsletter you read. Ritu, as you could not come to Malta to receive it in person, when you read these lines THANKS for your great work!

SOA & BPM Partner Community

For regular information on Oracle SOA Suite become a member in the SOA & BPM Partner Community for registration please visit www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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Java SE 8 is a revolutionary release of the world’s #1 development platform. It is the single largest upgrade ever to the programming model, with coordinated core code evolution of the virtual machine, core language, and libraries. With Java SE 8, you are uniquely positioned to extend innovation through the largest, open, standards-based, community-driven platform. Want proof? Attend the Java 8 Launch webcast for all the authentication you need!

• Download Java JDK 8.
• Register now for the Java 8 keynote address and more than 35 deep-dive technical sessions.
• Use #Java8QA to tweet questions for the Oracle Java Architect Team in advance of and during the webcast.
• Join the discussion on the OTN Java 8 Questions Forum.

Java 8 Release
Java 8 SE and Java 8 ME Embedded releases are available on March 18th, 2014, check out Oracle.com/Java8 now for all things Java 8.

NetBeans IDE 8.0 Release Candidate
NetBeans 8.0 is a step closer to final release. Download the release candidate and try out the latest editors and tools for Java 8, Raspberry Pi, AngularJS and more.

Java 8 and Adopt OpenJDK
Learn about Java 8 by using and testing it early. Cloudbees offers free Adopt OpenJDK instances to build and test projects on Java 8.

Pay Less for Java-Related Books!
35% discount on a list of Java 8 books from Apress. This special discount is for newsletter subscribers. Just use the code ORST3.

The March/April issue of Java Magazine jam-packed with information to get you started with Java SE 8, a revolutionary release of the world’s #1 development platform.

The biggest change in Java SE 8 - what some have called the most significant upgrade to the Java programming language ever - is lambda expressions, or closures. “Lambda expressions are anonymous methods that provide developers with a simple and compact means for representing behavior as data,” explains Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle. “In a few years, developers will wonder how they ever lived without [them].”

In “Java 8: Explore the Possibilities,” we give you an overview of lambdas, the Nashorn JavaScript engine, Compact Profiles, the new date and time API, the role of community, and more. We also explore the new features that make Java ME 8 a comprehensive platform for connected devices and show you how to get started with embedded development. There are also articles on processing data with Java SE 8 Streams and the benefits of type annotations. Get started with Java 8 today with this issue of Java Magazine.

Java Magazine is a FREE, bi-monthly, online publication. It includes technical articles on the Java language and platform; Java innovations and innovators; JUG and JCP news; Java events; links to online Java communities; and videos and multimedia demos. Subscriptions are free, registration required.

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For regular information become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea ( OPN account required). If you need support with your account please contact the Oracle Partner Business Center.

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Java SE 8 is a revolutionary release of the world’s #1 development platform. It is the single largest upgrade ever to the programming model, with coordinated core code evolution of the virtual machine, core language, and libraries. With Java SE 8, you are uniquely positioned to extend innovation through the largest, open, standards-based, community-driven platform. Want proof? Attend the Java 8 Launch webcast for all the authentication you need!

• Download Java JDK 8.
• Register now for the Java 8 keynote address and more than 35 deep-dive technical sessions.
• Use #Java8QA to tweet questions for the Oracle Java Architect Team in advance of and during the webcast.
• Join the discussion on the OTN Java 8 Questions Forum.

Java 8 Release
Java 8 SE and Java 8 ME Embedded releases are available on March 18th, 2014, check out Oracle.com/Java8 now for all things Java 8.

NetBeans IDE 8.0 Release Candidate
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The March/April issue of Java Magazine jam-packed with information to get you started with Java SE 8, a revolutionary release of the world’s #1 development platform.

The biggest change in Java SE 8 - what some have called the most significant upgrade to the Java programming language ever - is lambda expressions, or closures. “Lambda expressions are anonymous methods that provide developers with a simple and compact means for representing behavior as data,” explains Brian Goetz, Java language architect at Oracle. “In a few years, developers will wonder how they ever lived without [them].”

In “Java 8: Explore the Possibilities,” we give you an overview of lambdas, the Nashorn JavaScript engine, Compact Profiles, the new date and time API, the role of community, and more. We also explore the new features that make Java ME 8 a comprehensive platform for connected devices and show you how to get started with embedded development. There are also articles on processing data with Java SE 8 Streams and the benefits of type annotations. Get started with Java 8 today with this issue of Java Magazine.

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2014年3月18日正午(日本時間3月19日:午前4時)、予定通りJavaの開発者待望のJava SE 8が正式にリリースされました。当日は、多くのメディアでも取り上げられた他、Twitter上でも非常に多くのお祝いメッセージや期待するメッセージを見受けました。また、2014年3月21 日（金）日本 Java ユーザ・グループ主催の Java SE 8 正式リリースお祝いイベント「祝☆Java 8 Launch」が開催されました。
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2014年3月5日付でSPARC T5-2サーバーの新構成(1ソケット構成)がオーダー可能になりました。
筐体サイズ、コア数、スレッド数でSPARC T4-2の後継として位置づけられるT5サーバーの新しいエントリー構成となります。
世界最速性能が更にお求めやすくなりましたので、ぜひご活用ください。