The following Oracle Utilities Application Framework technical whitepapers are available from My Oracle Support at the Doc Id's mentioned below. Some have been updated in the last few months to reflect new advice and new features.
Unless otherwise marked the technical whitepapers in the table below are applicable for the following products (with versions):
- Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing (V2 and above)
- Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management (V2 and above)
- Oracle Utilities Mobile Workforce Management (V2 and above)
- Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway (V2 and above) – All Adapters
- Oracle Utilities Business Intelligence (all versions) - Not Oracle Business Intelligence for Utilities
- Oracle Enterprise Taxation Management (all versions)
- Oracle Utilities Operational Device Management (V2 and above)
- Oracle Enterprise Taxation and Policy Management (all versions)
- Oracle Revenue Management and Billing (all versions)
| Doc Id | Document Title | Contents |
|---|---|---|
559880.1 | ConfigLab Design Guidelines | This whitepaper outlines how to design and implement a data management solution using the ConfigLab facility. This whitepaper currently only applies to the following products: |
560367.1 | Technical Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based Products Updated! | Whitepaper summarizing common technical best practices used by partners, implementation teams and customers. |
560382.1 | Performance Troubleshooting Guideline Series | A set of whitepapers on tracking performance at each tier in the framework. The individual whitepapers are as follows:
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560401.1 | Software Configuration Management Series Updated! | A set of whitepapers on how to manage customization (code and data) using the tools provided with the framework. The individual whitepapers are as follows:
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773473.1 | Oracle Utilities Application Framework Security Overview | A whitepaper summarizing the security facilities in the framework. Now includes references to other Oracle security products supported. |
774783.1 | LDAP Integration for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products | A generic whitepaper summarizing how to integrate an external LDAP based security repository with the framework. |
789060.1 | Oracle Utilities Application Framework Integration Overview | A whitepaper summarizing all the various common integration techniques used with the product (with case studies). |
799912.1 | Single Sign On Integration for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products | A whitepaper outlining a generic process for integrating an SSO product with the framework. |
807068.1 | Oracle Utilities Application Framework Architecture Guidelines | This whitepaper outlines the different variations of architecture that can be considered. Each variation will include advice on configuration and other considerations. |
836362.1 | Batch Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products Updated! | This whitepaper outlines the common and best practices implemented by sites all over the world. |
856854.1 | Technical Best Practices V1 Addendum | Addendum to Technical Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing V1.x only. |
942074.1 | XAI Best Practices | This whitepaper outlines the common integration tasks and best practices for the Web Services Integration provided by the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. |
970785.1 | Oracle Identity Manager Integration Overview | This whitepaper outlines the principals of the prebuilt intergration between Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based Products and Oracle Identity Manager used to provision user and user group security information. For Fw4.x customers use whitepaper 1375600.1 instead. |
1068958.1 | Production Environment Configuration Guidelines Updated! | A whitepaper outlining common production level settings for the products based upon benchmarks and customer feedback. |
| 1177265.1 | What's New In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4? Updated! | Whitepaper outlining the major changes to the framework since Oracle Utilities Application FrameworkV2.2. |
| 1290700.1 | Database Vault Integration | Whitepaper outlining the Database Vault Integration solution provided with Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.1.0 and above. |
| 1299732.1 | BI Publisher Guidelines for Oracle Utilities Application Framework | Whitepaper outlining the interface between BI Publisher and the Oracle Utilities Application Framework |
| 1308161.1 | Oracle SOA Suite Integration with Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products | This whitepaper outlines common design patterns and guidelines for using Oracle SOA Suite with Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products. |
| 1308165.1 | MPL Best Practices Oracle Utilities Application Framework | This is a guidelines whitepaper for products shipping with the Multi-Purpose Listener. This whitepaper currently only applies to the following products: |
| 1308181.1 | Oracle WebLogic JMS Integration with the Oracle Utilities Application Framework | This whitepaper covers the native integration between Oracle WebLogic JMS with Oracle Utilities Application Framework using the new Message Driven Bean functionality and real time JMS adapters. |
| 1334558.1 | Oracle WebLogic Clustering for Oracle Utilities Application Framework | This whitepaper covers process for implementing clustering using Oracle WebLogic for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products. |
| 1359369.1 | IBM WebSphere Clustering for Oracle Utilities Application Framework | This whitepaper covers process for implementing clustering using IBM WebSphere for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products |
| 1375600.1 | Oracle Identity Management Suite Integration with the Oracle Utilities Application Framework | This whitepaper covers the integration between Oracle Utilities Application Framework and Oracle Identity Management Suite components such as Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Adaptive Access Manager, Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Virtual Directory. |
| 1375615.1 | Advanced Security for the Oracle Utilities Application Framework | This whitepaper covers common security requirements and how to meet those requirements using Oracle Utilities Application Framework native security facilities, security provided with the J2EE Web Application and/or facilities available in Oracle Identity Management Suite. |
| 1486886.1 | Implementing Oracle Exadata with Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing | This whitepaper covers some advice when implementing Oracle ExaData for Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing. |
| 878212.1 | Oracle Utilities Application FW Available Service Packs | This entry outlines ALL the service packs available for the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. |
| 1454143.1 | Certification Matrix for Oracle Utilities Products | This entry outlines the software certifications for all the Oracle Utilities products. |
| 1474435.1 | Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Utilities Overview | This whitepaper covers the Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Utilities. This is a pack for Oracle Enterprise Manager. |
| 1506830.1 | Configuration Migration Assistant Overview Oracle Utilities Application Framework New | This whitepaper covers the Configuration Migration Assistant available for Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.2.0.0.0 |
| 1506855.1 | Integration Reference Solutions Oracle Utilities Application Framework New | This whitepaper covers the various Oracle technologies you can use with the Oracle Utilities Application Framework. |
| 1544969.1 | Native Installation Oracle Utilities Application Framework New | This whitepaper describes the process of installing Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products natively within Oracle WebLogic. |
| 1558279.1 | Oracle Service Bus Integration New | This whitepaper describes direct integration with Oracle Service Bus including the new Oracle Service Bus protocol adapters available. Customers using the MPL should read this whitepaper as the Oracle Service Bus replaces MPL in the future and this whitepaper outlines how to manually migrate your MPL configuration into Oracle Service Bus. Note: In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.2.0.1.0, Oracle Service Bus Adapters for Outbound Messages and Notification/Workflow are available. |
| 1561930.1 | Using Oracle Text for Fuzzy Searching New | This whitepaper describes how to use the Name Matching and fuzzy operator facilities in Oracle Text to implemement fuzzy searching using the @fuzzy helper fucntion available in Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.2.0.0.0 |