Press Summary
Oracle Virtual Networking
April 22nd, 2013
Written by Centroid
For today's businesses, your IT requirements are rapidly changing. Your data centers are moving into roles that have to respond to your customers' needs with high levels of agility, speed, as well as 24/7 access to your applications and servers. There is also the rapidly growing cloud computing that has to allow access to services any time. As a result, you need to move your infrastructure to one that has even more efficiency and agility.Oracle Virtual Networking helps do just this. When it's...
What To Expect from Oracle’s Release of World’s Fastest Chip
April 1st, 2013
Written by Centroid
On March 26th 2013, Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle unveiled a new Sun Microprocessor. Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 and made several changes to the company, they now claim that they surpassed their competition in microprocessor industry, and that the new chip is the fastest in the world. This chip will now be used to run Oracle’s server, and it is expected that Oracle databases and applications will now function faster than ever. Larry Ellison also mentioned that the new ‘SPARC T5’ chip is just...
Streamline Your EBS Upgrade Using the Application Testing Suite
March 18th, 2013
Written by Paresh Patel
One of the biggest concerns during an EBS upgrade involves the amount of time required from business analysts and end users for regression testing. With multiple test cycles required during any upgrade, repetitive testing is time consuming and can become frustrating for users and business leaders trying to balance the needs of the business with IT participation in IT projects. During an upgrade process, customers will typically allocate between 30%-40% of the overall project timeline...
Oracle EBS Period Close Advisor
July 30th, 2012
Written by Paresh Patel
The Oracle Period Close Advisor provides guidance on recommended period-end procedures for E-Business Release 12.x. It is intended to be generic and does not relate to a specific organization or industry. Step-by-step best practices with tips and troubleshooting references are provided to assist you through each phase. Period Close Advisors are a series of checklists and documents that detail the steps involved in closing the month-end books and show how the tools in Oracle...
Technology Managers Need to Learn How to Putt
July 10th, 2012
Written by Frank Yang
At the beginning of our careers back in 1989 as programmers, a colleague and I decided to learn how to play golf. This was at a time when computer gaming was still in its infancy so we actually preferred spending time outdoors. Anyway, we took a group lesson geared towards beginners for 6 weeks. We spent 2 lessons on learning how to “drive” and the remaining two-thirds of the course on pitching and putting. One of the other participants asked why we didn’t spend more time on driving and our...
