Optimizing Log levels in OUAF based applications
Typically the default setup of logging in Oracle Utilities Application Framework based application favors non-production environments. This can cause excessive logging in specific situations in the...
View ArticleWS-Policy Support for IWS
One of the major advantages of Inbound Web Services (IWS) is the support for security based around the WS-Policy standard. By supporting WS-Policy it is now possible to support a wide range of...
View ArticleProduct vs Solution vs Infrastructure
One of the most common questions I get from partners is support for features that are typically in the infrastructure. The main issue here is that some partners confuse what is in the product and what...
View ArticleOracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Utilities 13.1.1.1.0 available
We are pleased to announce that a new version of the Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle Utilities has been released to support the new release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c. We are...
View Article2016 Oracle Utilities America’s Product Development Customer Advisory Board
I will be attending the 2016 Oracle Utilities America’s Product Development Customer Advisory Board this year which is in Phoenix Arizona from the Feb 29th till 3rd March. This year we are running a...
View ArticleRunning To Do Purge regularly, improves your performance
One of the most common issues in implementations of Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products is the growth of To Do object. The To Do object is to catch errors or events that need human...
View ArticleExtending the Product - Supporting technologies
First of all I want to thank all the customers and partners who attended the technical stream at the annual Oracle Utilities Edge Conference in Phoenix Arizona. I hope those attended found the sessions...
View ArticleCloud and not to Cloud
At the Oracle Utilities Edge Conference the word most said was "Cloud" and whilst I tried to avoid overusing the word in my sessions I think it is important to clarify and understand what this means to...
View ArticleOptimizing Your To Do Experience
One of the key objects in the Oracle Utilities Application Framework is the To Do object. It is one of the most commonly used objects and I am asked by customers and partners on various techniques they...
View ArticleOSB 12c Adapter for Oracle Utilities
In Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.2.0.3.0 we introduced Oracle Service Bus adapters to allow that product to process Outbound Messages and for Oracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing,...
View ArticleApplication Testing: The Oracle Utilities Difference
Late last year we introduced a new product to the Oracle Utilities product set. It was the Oracle Functional/Load Testing Advanced Pack for Oracle Utilities. This pack is a set of prebuilt content and...
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Enterprise Manager: Using Metrics Extensions (SQL)
One the major features of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) is the ability to create Metrics Extensions. These are metrics you want to track that may or may not be provided with the underlying products....
View ArticleService Based Testing
The Oracle Functional/Load Testing Advanced Pack for Oracle Utilities is a service based automated testing solution based around the popular Oracle Application Testing Suite. The main focus of this...
View ArticleOracle Coherence Use in the product
One of the most common questions I get from people is about the use of Oracle Coherence in our product. We bundle a subset of the Oracle Coherence libraries for use in our Batch Architecture. The...
View ArticleOEM and Passwords
I wanted to outline an interesting experience I had recently around security. Oracle, like a lot of companies requires their employees to regularly change their passwords as it is considered good...
View ArticleUsing Database Resource Plans for effective resource management
In a past article we announced the support for Database Resource Plans. This facility is a technique that can be used by implementations to set limits and other resource constraints on processing to...
View ArticleOracle Utilities Customer Care And Billing 2.5 Benchmark available
Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing v2.5.x marked a major change in application technology as it is an all Java-based architecture. In past releases, both Java and COBOL were supported. Over...
View ArticleMigrating Oracle Utilities products from On Premise to Oracle Public Cloud
A while back Oracle Utilities announced that the latest releases of the Oracle Utilities Application Framework applications were supported on Platform As A Service (PaaS) on Oracle Public Cloud. As...
View ArticleDISTRIBUTED mode deprecated
Based upon feedback from partners and customers, the DISTRIBUTED mode used in the batch architecture has been deprecated in Oracle Utilities Application Framework V4.3.x and above. The DISTRIBUTED mode...
View ArticleAdditional CCB 2.5 benchmark information
Recently I published a link to a summary report for the recent Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing 2.5 benchmark. Due to popular demand, we have released additional information about the...
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