For the week of August 3rd, 2012:
- Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 Now Available
- Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6.2 New Features Including new BI Mobile iPad App
- Couchbase NoSQL Server 2.0 Beta Now with JSON Support
- Oracle OpenWorld IOUG Update – Sunday Sessions and Party On!
“IOUG Podcast 03-AUG-2012: OIM11gR2 / OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 / NoSQL 2.0 Beta / OpenWorld Update”
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Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2
Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 addresses key new business requirements such as integrating with social media identities in order to power customers’ marketing plans, and safely expanding their offerings through mobile applications. The new release brings together Oracle’s portfolio of Identity Management offerings, consolidating them into three main categories
Oracle Identity Governance to address access requests, provisioning and certification with a simple common user interface now includes Oracle Privileged Account Manager, a product designed to extend advanced user privileges on a brokered basis.
Oracle Access Management now includes new features such as native mobile security and single sign-on, support for Social Sign-ons (such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and LinkedIn), and the representational state transfer (aka REST) API for custom and mobile application development using simplified HTTP calls. Support for multiple identity stores and multi-datacenter configurations, enhanced third-party integrations, and enhanced fraud detection have also been added to this release;
And third, Oracle Directory Services comes with new features, including proximity-based searching and virtual attributes enabling frequent updates to the directory made by location-based services to support mobile and social applications; ODS also now has an optimized solution for Oracle Unified Directory, featuring carrier-grade scalability and reliability that enables increased performance for cloud, mobile and social ecosystems;
Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6.2 New Features
Oracle BI (OBIEE) 11.1.1.6.2 has been released, followed by the first bundle patch (BP1) that fixed a few bugs in the primary release. Also available is Oracle’s SampleApp demonstrating these new capabilities. The two major features in this release are a new version of BI Mobile with a new iPad app, and the release of Trellis Views and Microcharts, which were shown at last year’s Oracle OpenWorld in the Exalytics presentations. Other new features include new nested folders, ability to hide presentation layer objects, and Scorecard and Strategy Management improvements.
Couchbase NoSQL Server 2.0 Beta Now with JSON Support
Couchbase, the primary innovator behind NoSQL technology announced availability last week of the new 2.0 Preview 4 Beta of its flagship server product. Some of the key new features of this release are the transition from a key/value based indexing architecture to a true document database model, and full adoption of JavaScript Object Notation or JSON storage standards. Newly improved support for synchronization of data across multiple clusters for disaster recovery or for proximal data source relocation by geography is now included. Data can now be replicated uni-directionally or bi-directionally with the ability to modify data on either cluster. The GUI’s and SDK’s have also been updated for increased usability, incremental MapReduce introduced for dynamic updates to views as data changes, and finally, in response to user community requests, sample databases are now included with the 2.0 installation.
For those unfamiliar with the evolution of JSON and its relationship to NoSQL databases, take a step back to the emergence of eXtensible Markup Language or XML as a data interchange serialization format. XML provided two enormous advantages as a data representation language by being based on simple text and having data position independence.
Unfortunately, XML is not well suited to data-interchange, as it carries a lot of metadata definition overhead, and it doesn’t match the data model of most programming languages. JSON structures are based on arrays and records, similar to the data being moved. So just as XML is a better document exchange format, JSON is a better data exchange format.
IOUG at Oracle OpenWorld
Remember to take advantage of IOUG’s four dozen and counting technical sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 this year, including today’s most relevant topics:
- Database Administration & Performance
- Virtualization
- Exadata
- Security
- RAC
- High Availability
- Manageability
- Fusion Middleware
- And more!
We also have an exclusive line-up of the best independent technical education sessions available all Sunday long, so be sure and save time in your schedule for the best practices breakdown to start the week offloaded with the knowledge you’ll need to navigate all the other sessions.
And be sure to stop by and catch up with your IOUG in the User Group Pavilion in Moscone West, on the 2nd Floor, Sunday through Wednesday. Come by and learn more about your IOUG membership, connect with the Board of Directors and pick up some IOUG swag!
Of course, what would an IOUG event be without a user group celebration and OpenWorld is no exception – so come join IOUG members at the IOUG Community Happy Hour, sponsored by Embarcadero, on Monday, October 1st for cocktails, food and your chance to win great prizes. All IOUG members are invited to attend, so please stop by the IOUG booth in the User Group Pavilion for your entry pass and directions to the most fun user event in the town on Monday night! If you’re not already an IOUG member, then just sign up at the booth and you’ll be included in our exclusive IOUG-only benefits all year long.