Updated Whitepapers for 4.3.0.5.0
With the anticipated releases of the first products based upon Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.3.0.5.0 starting to appear soon, the first set of whitepapers have to been updated to reflect...
View ArticleOracle Help Patches
In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.3.0.1.0, we introduced the new Oracle help engine to provide a better online help experience for online users. Due to a conflict in common libraries a...
View ArticleHappy New Year to my blog readers
Welcome to 2018 for the ShortenSpot readers. This year is looking like another exciting year for the Oracle Utilities Application Framework and a new direction for the blog overall. In the past the...
View ArticleEdge Conference 2018 is coming - Technical Sessions
It is that time of year again, Customer Edge conference time. This year we will be once again holding a Technical stream which focuses on the Oracle Utilities Application Framework and related...
View ArticleSpectre and Meltdown Vulnerability and Oracle Utilities Products
As you may or may not be aware a set of hardware based security vulnerabilities known as Spectre/Spectre and Meltdown have been identified. Vendors are quickly issuing software patches to address these...
View ArticleOracle Utilities Application Framework V4.3.0.5.0 Release Summary
The latest release of Oracle Utilities Application Framework, namely 4.3.0.5.0 (or 4.3 SP5 for short) will be included in new releases of Oracle Utilities products over the next few months. This...
View ArticleOracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.6.0.1.0 Available
Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing V2.6.0.1.0 is now available from My Oracle Support as a patch or available as a complete download in Oracle Delivery Cloud. This release uses the Oracle...
View ArticleOracle Utilities Customer To Meter V2.6.0.1.0 is now available
With the release of Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing V2.6.0.1.0, the Oracle Utilities Customer To Meter product has also been updated to V2.6.0.1.0. This release is now available from Oracle...
View ArticleOptimizing CMA - Linking the Jobs
One of the recent changes to the Configuration Migration Assistant is the ability to configure the individual jobs to work as a group to reduce the amount of time and effort in migrating configuration...
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Using the Infrastructure Version of Oracle WebLogic for Oracle Utilities...
When using Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.3.x with any Oracle Utilities product you need to use the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Infrastructure version of Oracle WebLogic not the vanilla...
View ArticleSecurity Rollups for CCB/OUAF
The Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing and Oracle Utilities Application Framework, ship security rollups on a regular basis (especially for older releases of the products). These patch sets...
View ArticleClarification of XAI, MPL and IWS
A few years ago, we announced that XML Application Integration (XAI) and the Multipurpose Listener (MPL) were being retired from the product and replaced with Inbound Web Services (IWS) and Oracle...
View ArticleManaging Your Environments
With the advent of easier and easier techniques for creating and maintaining Oracle Utilities environments, the number of environment will start to grow, increasing costs and introducing more risk into...
View ArticleCapacity Planning Connections
Customers and partners regularly ask me questions around capacity of traffic on their Oracle Utilities products implementations and how to best handle their expected volumes.The key to answering this...
View ArticleWhy the XAI Staging is not in the OSB Adapters?
With the replacement of the Multi-Purpose Listener (MPL) with the Oracle Service Bus (OSB) with the additional OSB Adapters for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products, customers have...
View ArticleWhat's New with Oracle Certification - May
Stay up to date with the Oracle Certification Program. Keep informed with new exams released into production, get information on current promotions, and learn about new program announcements. New Exams...
View ArticleThe Most Important Stop on Your Java Journey
Howdy, Pardner. Have you moseyed over to JavaRanch lately? Pull up a stool at the OCJA or OCJP Wall of Fame and tell your tale or peruse the tales of others. Ok - I'm not so great at the cowboy talk,...
View ArticleModern Customer Experience 2018 was Legendary
During his keynote at Modern Customer Experience 2018, Des Cahill, Head CX Evangelist, stated that CX should stand for Continuous Experimentation. He encouraged 4,500 enthusiastic marketers, customer...
View ArticleOracle's No-Cost Platinum-Level Support Is the New Baseline in the Cloud Market
Companies may give up their servers, storage, and entire data centers when they move to the cloud, but their need for support services doesn’t go away, it changes. Recognizing a growing need for...
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How Blockchain Will Disrupt the Insurance Industry
The insurance industry relies heavily on the notion of trust among transacting parties. For example, when you go to buy car insurance you get asked for things like your zip code, name, age, daily...
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