Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 - Architecture and Tools Overview

Presenter: Sandra Vucinic VLAD Group, Inc.

Speakers Background
Over 16 years of experience with Oracle database, applications, development and administration tools Director, OAUG Database SIG Board Director, OAUG SysAdmin SIG and Committee Chair, Oracle Tools and Utilities Director, OAUG E-Business Applications Technology SIG Board Director, SROAUG Board Member, OAUG GEO/SIG Committee NCOAUG Distinguished Service Award for 2007 OAUG Member of the Year for 2008 Oracle ACE Presented at OAUG, NCOAUG, CSOAUG, OVOAUG, SROAUG, Apps World and Open World conferences (70+ sessions) Founded VLAD Group, Inc. in March, 2001

Agenda
R12 Architecture Components New features and enhancements in:
Applications Object Library Oracle Applications Manager OA Framework AD Utilities Workflow 11g Database

Tasks to complete to ease R12 upgrade

R12 Architecture Components

Release 12
Client Tier

Native Sun JRE

Web HTTP Servers Middle Tier Application Technology Stack

Instance Home Apache Server

Concurrent Processing Server Forms Server 10g Reports Server 10g

10.1.3.4 ORACLE_HOME 10.1.2.3 ORACLE_HOME Database Tier

10.2.0.4
Database

10.2.0.4 ORACLE_HOME or 11g R1 (optional)

R12.1.1 Architecture Components

Release 12.1.1
Client Tier

Native Sun JRE

Web HTTP Servers Middle Tier Application Technology Stack

Instance Home Apache Server

Concurrent Processing Server Forms Server 10g Reports Server 10g

10.1.3.4 ORACLE_HOME 10.1.2.3 ORACLE_HOME Database Tier

11.1.0.7
Database

11g R1 ORACLE_HOME or 10.2.0.4 (optional)

R12 Architecture Components

New versions of middle tier technology:
Applications server (J2EE) version 10.1.3.4 Forms and Reports version 10.1.2.3 Discoverer Server version 10.1.2.3 Servlet Container (OC4J, no longer JServ) JDK version - 1.5.0_13 1.6_03 certified Oracle SOA Suite version 10.1.3 Oracle Business Intelligence version 10.1.3.4 Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 3

R12 Architecture Components

New versions of middle tier technology:
Technologies External to EBS R12 SSO and OID version 10.1.4.3 Portal version 10.1.4.2

Instance Home (INST_TOP) file system:

$INST_TOP = $HOME/inst/apps/<context_name>

JInitiator is not certified or supported in R12 New version of database - 10g R2 available with Rapid Install and 11g R1 certified
Tablespace model in R12 - OATM

Applications Object Library features and enhancements

Identity Management Integration
User Name Enhancements

User name changes in EBS are automatically synchronized to Oracle ID

On Demand User Creation

AOL now supports a mode in which EBS user account is automatically created for SSO users when they first visit a page in EBS
Mixed Case Passwords

EBS now supports case-sensitive passwords

Automatic Linking Of User Accounts

EBS accounts are automatically linked to existing accounts with the same user name in OID

Applications Object Library features and enhancements

Security
New File System Layout
EBS code tree is free of configuration, log and output files and can be mounted in a read-only mode at runtime (when not patching)

Schema Passwords The base product schemas are locked except during patching

Applications Object Library features and enhancements

User Management
Proxy User
Allows a user to specify a proxy who can act of their behalf

Integration with Oracle Internal Controls Manager

Facilitates enforcement of constraints used for preventive separation on duties

Applications Object Library features and enhancements

Concurrent Processing
Multi-Org Support
Multi-Org Access Control (MOAC) allows a user to access data for a different operating units without switching responsibilities Concurrent Program Definition window is now MOAC enabled. A new field Operating Unit Mode allows user to specify the category for a concurrent program Standard Request Submission window allows users to execute single-org or a multi-org concurrent programs

Applications Object Library features and enhancements

Concurrent Processing
Restarting a Request Set
If concurrent request set fails, once fixed user can restart the request set from the failure point

Failover Sensitive Workshift

Can specify how many processes for each workshift should run when instance fails over to another PCP node

Applications Object Library features and enhancements

Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM)
New Tools tablespace includes the database schema objects for products such as Oracle Portal (repository), Oracle Discoverer (EUL), Oracle Internet Directory (repository), Oracle Application Sever Single Sign-On Configurable Default Extent Size - allows DBA to specify the default extent size a part of migration process

Oracle Applications Manager

Patch Impact Analysis Enhancements
The ability to identify and to merge multiple language patches that are applicable to the environment The ability for users to crate a list of patches for analysis as a single set Analysis of patch changes to customized files that are registered with system

Oracle Applications Manager

Diagnostics
Allows to schedule and run diagnostics test as batch programs

Grid Control Plug-in for Oracle EBS

Seamless integration with OAM (concurrent manager administration, workflow administration, forms monitoring, configuration and patch management) Clone Automation

OA Framework features and enhancements

Service Interface
Java interface designed to support both Web services and local Java APIs. Includes support for Service Data Object standard.

Service Tester
User interface used to create unit and integration tests. The tests are recorded in documents as structured XML data.

Swan User Interface

EBS will use only Swan look and feel for Release 12.

Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 3 (10.1.3)

R12 leverages Oracle JDeveloper 10g Release 2 (10.1.3).

OA Framework features and enhancements

BI Publisher integration Extensive personalization capability Allows integration of content from multiple vendors into portal pages Record history Allows EBS content to be exposed in third party Portal server

AD Utilities features and enhancements

AutoConfig: Parallel Run Option
The Parallel Run feature enables AutoConfig to be executed simultaneously across multiple nodes EBS instance

AutoConfig: Profiler
Consolidated HTML report of an AutoConfig run
Source and target location of each template Time consumed to instantiate/execute individual template scripts Execution report for each template script

AD Utilities features and enhancements

AutoConfig: Enhanced Check Config Tool
The Check Config tool (adchkcfg) is used to identify the potential changes that would take effect on an EBS customer instance during the next AutoConfig run. The tool has been enhanced to report important database updates, generate a text report for database changes, and offer improved readability of reports.

AutoConfig: Support for Oracle Database 11g Features

AutoConfig has been enhanced to support the use of Access Control Lists and other Oracle Database 11g features.

AD Utilities features and enhancements

Rapid Install
Ability to store base environment configuration in Oracle EBS database Multiple Domain Support for database and middle tier Read-Only Shared File System Support appl_top, common_top, tech stack homes can be deployed on a read-only shared file system

Rapid Clone
Added RAC support for ASM and features to expand RAC system by adding a node to existing RAC cluster

Workflow R12 Features

Digital Signatures
Ability to digitally sign the entire notification contents Ability to verify the signed documents through an evidence store user interface after the signing process Can exclude purging of a signature-enabled notifications

Worklist Flexfields a new pages are added:

Worklist Flexfield Rules a setup page for creating rules to populate worklist flexfield columns Worklist Flexfield Rules Simulation test page used to show the effect of multiple worklist flexfield rules on the worklist

Workflow R12 Features

Workflow Notification Mailer
System Alerts integration Sends a system alert as to the status of mailer server SSL Support Mailer service can connect to IMAP and SMTP mail servers using SSL authentication Enhanced error handling for mass failures In cases where many users have been setup with invalid email addresses, the workflow directory service is updated to no longer send emails to those users

EBS Release 12 database support

10g R2 database is part of EBS R12 technology stack 10g R2 database is certified to run with EBS R12.1.1 The latest certified 10g R2 database release - 10.2.0.4 with EBS R12 Premier Support ends for database version 10g R2 on 7/31/2010 Extended support fees waived until 7/31/2011 10g R2 Terminal Patch Set is 10.2.0.5 (Projected to be released in 2009) Oracle Metalink Note 454616.1 - Export/Import Process for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Database Instances Using Oracle Database 10g Release 2

11g Database
Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0) is certified, on all Certified E-Business Suite Platforms, on R12 (12.0.4). Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0) is part of EBS R12.1.1 technology stack Premier support for 11.1.0.6 database ends in October 2009

11g Database
Oracle Metalink Note 735276.1 Interoperability Notes E-Business Suite R12 with Oracle Database 11gR1 (11.1.0) Oracle Metalink Note 466649.1 - Using Oracle 11g Release 1 Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Oracle Metalink Note: 741818.1 Export/Import Process for Oracle EBusiness Suite Release 12 Database Instances Using Oracle Database 11g

11g Database New Features

Access Control List (ACL) : Introduced support for ACL
which is a new feature in 11g database

Oracle Advanced Compression

Comprehensive set of compression capabilities to help organizations reduce costs, while maintaining or improving performance. Reduces the storage footprint of databases through compression of structured data (numbers, characters) as well as unstructured data (documents, spreadsheets, XML and other files). Provides enhanced compression for database backups and also includes network compression capabilities for faster synchronization of standby databases.

Tasks to complete to ease R12 upgrade

Upgrade database to 10g R2 or 11g R1 Convert tablespaces to OATM model Evaluate impact of R12 on customizations and extensions Introduce BI Publisher and JDeveloper Integrate Discoverer Server Release 10g with EBS 11i Configure Oracle iAS Release 10g for external apps (SSO, OID, Portal) and integrate with EBS 11i Position for high availability and scalability Evaluate and complete platform change based on ROI

Questions

Thank You
Sandra Vucinic sandrav@vladgroup.com (630) 202-1248 www.vladgroup.com