Google Maps Integrated to Oracle Business Suite 12

Oracle announced that Google Maps has been integrated to Oracle Business Suite 12. Google Maps is placed in Oracle Field Service Release 12 which delivers advanced capabilities to help reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with enhanced mobility, scheduling and spares management capabilities.

Integrating the Google Maps API with Oracle Field Service creates a high performance mapping experience for the field service dispatcher and field technician. Field service dispatchers are now able to quickly and easily identify technician routes and problem locations on the Google Maps based interface to track and manage resources and customer issues. They are able to zoom and navigate the map with ease and without having to reload an entire map image. In addition, field technicians can view their jobs easily on a map or satellite image from the Google Maps API.

According to Noah Doyle, Product Manager for Google Maps for Enterprise:

We are pleased to see the innovative ways in which Oracle is using Google Maps for Enterprise to deliver geo-based capabilities that are both powerful and easy-to-use. With Google Maps as context, service organizations can connect customers with the most appropriate technician, equipped with the right parts in a timely manner.

The Google Maps for Enterprise integration is currently available as a part of Oracle Field Service 11.5.10 and above. Oracle Field Service Release 12, part of the Oracle E-Business Suite, is also currently available.

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Russian Book Retailer Top-Kniga Choosed Oracle Retail Applications to Improve Inventory Management and Enhance Customer Service

Top-Kniga, a leading retailer and wholesaler in the Russian book market, chooses Oracle Retail Merchandising System, Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting and Oracle Retail Data Warehousing to help increase sales, performance and levels of customer service.

Top-Kniga expects the Oracle Retail platform to help improve forecasting capabilities, automate stock replenishment and provide management with valuable real-time data and analytics aimed at increasing inventory turnover and profitability, particular among its wholesale customers. According to Georgy Lyamin, general director of Top-Kniga:

We expect the Oracle Retail applications will improve the analysis of customer demand, the forecasting process and streamline the process of stock replenishment along the whole supply chain, from the suppliers to warehouses and stores. We anticipate this will result in long-term competitive advantages for our company, increasing both customer numbers and loyalty. We expect to see the first results at the beginning of autumn 2007

Top-Kniga is an existing Oracle Enterprise Planning and Budgeting and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customer. They understood the value of a phased implementation path and simplifying the integration process to achieve a rapid return on investment.

Based from my experience as an Oracle Retail Applications Technical Lead for various retailers(btw, I’m not part of Top-Kniga), the Replenishment function of Oracle Retail Merchandising System relies on the predictive application to fully use it’s capability. Replenishment is the ability to maintain the quantity of items stored in warehouses and stores. This feature will create automatic orders for items below the specified quantity. The Oracle Retail Merchandising System itself has it’s own predictive functionality but with the implementation of Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting, it will provide Oracle Retail Merchandising System a better performance in predicting the amount of items needed to be ordered. The power of Oracle Retail Demand Forecasting will come if the collected historical sales data is at least one-year because the sales record will cover the whole year holiday, special events and normal daily sales. I would say that a whole three years of historical data will accurately predict the demands on the items for sale.

Oracle Retail Data Warehousing will provide reporting capabilities that will help the business in their planning for their company.

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eHarmony and Millipore Migrated to Oracle

eHarmony and Millipore decided to migrate to Oracle because Oracle satisfied all their business needs.

eHarmony decided to migrate from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle 10g infrastructure to meet their need for greater scalability and resolve locking issues which were encountered whenever multiple users is accessing the database.

According to Mark Douglas, eHarmony’s vice president of technology:

Scalability was the main issue with [Microsoft SQL Server]. We just physically outgrew it because it doesn’t have the same kind of functionality that [Real Application Clusters] provide with Oracle.The way locking works in SQL Server becomes a big scaling issue over time. We’re running anywhere [up to] 1,000 transactions per second, so that turns into hundreds of thousands of locks, and it just is not scalable

Now, eHarmony is operating a clustered Oracle Database 10g environment with Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g on multiple Sun Fire X4600 servers running Windows. The company also implemented an Oracle data warehouse to support real-time and historical business intelligence reporting initiatives. Douglas said Oracle Partitioning software is being used in conjunction with the data warehouse to improve performance.

Millipore decided to migrate from SAP to Oracle because Millipore has long sought to standardize on Oracle applications throughout its many business units. According to Tom Roy, Millipore’s manager of application services:

We’ve been pleased with Oracle applications over the years and so it pretty much seemed a no-brainer that we would bring this acquisition onto Oracle.

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Linux Foundation’s Portress of Defense Against Microsoft

Last week, Microsoft filed charges against Free Open Source Software (FOSS) which violated 235 patent violations. Linux violated 107 patents, 42 from Linux kernel and 65 on graphical user interface. Linux Foundation’s membership comprises of numerous companies, organization and individuals which contributes in success of Linux development. Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of Linux Foundation fires back to protect Linux developers and users1.

According to Zemlin, the current patent system should be reformed and fundings should be use in research and development instead of litigation.

Linux Foundation believes that the current software patent system is problematic. The superpowers have their stockpiles. The trolls have their stashes. Rather than spurring innovation, which is of course the raison d’être of the patent system, today’s patent games will divert dollars away from research and development in the U.S. Instead, those dollars will fund innovative activities in countries that have better things to do with their time and money than litigate.

Zemlin also warned all entities that will threaten the Linux community.

Touch one member of the Linux community, and you will have to deal with all of us. Microsoft is not the only—perhaps not even the largest—owner of patents in this area. Individual members of the Linux ecosystem have significant patent portfolios. Industry groups, such as the Open Innovation Network and our own legal programs at the Linux Foundation, aggregate our membership’s patents into an arsenal with which to deter predatory patent attacks. With our members’ backing, the Linux Foundation also has created a legal fund to defend developers and users of open-source software against malicious attack. We don’t expect to but, if needed, we will use this fund to defend Linux.

1. http://www.businessweek.com/technolo…x _technology [↩]

Debugging Using Eclipse

Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) that provides workspace management, code and debug application. Eclipse is known to many Java developers because of its rich features that make their programming task easier. IBM Developer Works discussed about debugging your code using Eclipse.

Find out how to use the built-in debugging features in the Eclipse Platform for debugging software projects. Debugging is something programmers can’t avoid. There are many ways to go about it, but it essentially comes down to finding the code responsible for a bug. For example, one of the most common errors in Linux® applications is known as a segmentation fault. This occurs when a program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and terminates with a segmentation violation. To fix this kind of error, you need to find the line of code that triggers the behavior. Once the line of code in question has been found, it is also useful to know the context in which the error occurs, and the associated values, variables, and methods. The use of a debugger makes finding this information quite simple.1

1. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/op…ipse-Debugging [↩]

SQL*Unloader - The Method of Unloading Data

Since Oracle provide SQL*Loader, you might think that there is a SQL *Unloader. The truth is there is no SQL *Unloader. The following script will do what your looking for unloading data from the database. The output file can be use as the control file for the SQL*Loader.

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