On the floor at the Social Media meet at the IOUG Booth in the Collaborate 12 Exhibit Hall on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012:
- Looks like Oracle is Going Social
- Prepare for the WebCenter Sites Tidal Wave
- E-Business Release 12.2 Introduces WebLogic to the Stack
“IOUG Podcast 24-APR-2012: COLLABORATE 2012 Edition 2”
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These past few months since OpenWorld 2011 we’ve seen an on-rush of news and education related to Exa-everything. So what’s next? OSiN – the Oracle Social Network.
Based upon the existing technologies of Oracle Beehive and Collaboration Suite, Oracle is planning to leverage the popularity and extensibility of WebCenter and Enterprise Content Management to take it to the next level with inter-social document, project and content collaboration, as well as real-time communications blended into the existing WebCenter framework. Initially targeting the Human Capital Management and Customer Relations Management verticals for premium integration, the new extensions are planned for a Summer 2012 release time-frame, well in-advance of OpenWorld 2012. Will Oracle be able to best the feature-functionality of companies like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn by backing it with WebCenter capability and WebLogic extensibility? Stay tuned and let’s watch the OSiN strategy reveal itself in the next few months.
With the recent completion of the acquisition of FatWire, a web-experience management company, Oracle plans its next expansion of WebCenter presence to focus on delivering high-end, content-rich website management and publishing with a new extension set called WebCenter Sites. WCS will be tackling the challenging and most customer-critical part of the market to-date – those of high-end retail and media-intensive web delivery. Backed by all Fusion Middleware components, WebCenter Sites should prove to be an interesting functionality challenge that will place Oracle head-to-head with the world’s leading Web 2.0 content delivery providers. We see this alignment of WCS as closely-matched with Oracle’s contemporary interest in further developing its Retail and Point-of-Sale markets and appears quite recognizable as a business-as-usual strategy to complete Oracle stack integration into the Retail vertical.
E-Business Suite customers are finally seeing the integration of the WebLogic components of Fusion Middleware to their tech stacks. Release 12.2, originally announced at OpenWorld 2011 last October, the revised installation pack and AutoConfig includes support for dual-node port capacity to support the near-zero downtime patching capability being introduced in this release. Key component-level upgrades include requiring Database Release 11.2.0.3, Sun JDK 1.6.0.24 and installation of 11.1.1.4 UIX Framework. Other notable enhancements include auto-stats support being incorporated into FND_STATS designed to leverage 11g’s AUTO_SAMPLE_SIZE feature, and support for 11g’s Edition-based object redefinition technology which is essentially object hash and version control, allowing client connections to choose which version of an object will be accessed. With dual copies of the Middle-tier technology stacks installed, one can remain in Production-mode use, while this other is being patched through Auto-Patch, and then switched over with a brief downtime required to run AutoConfig to switch over control to the patched version of the stack. Integration of other add-on components such as Discoverer 11g and SOA Suite are continuing to be developed at this time. Full Technology Stack documentation for 12.2 is available online at My Oracle Support. The 12.1.4 release will be announced after the final public release of 12.2.