New ROI and Cost Comparison studies

Forrester Consulting: Oracle Real Application Testing Delivers 224% ROI

Forrester Consulting conducted a multi-customer study revealing customers gain significant benefits and cost savings from Oracle Real Application Testing, an Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition option.  Please go to this  Oracle.com page to download the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact^TM of Oracle Real Application Testing study.

Cost Comparison Whitepapers: Oracle Database 11g’s Industry-Leading Manageability Significantly Lowers Operational Management Costs

Once again Oracle Database 11g continues to outperform IBM, Microsoft and SAP Sybase with its self-manageability, delivering the industry’s best performance and availability. These cost comparison studies show how Oracle Database 11g takes less time and effort to manage helping you save more in database administrator productivity per year compared to other databases. Here are the IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and SAP Sybase cost comparison studies so you can see the clear benefits of choosing Oracle Database 11g and its manageability using Enterprise Manager.

How Enterprise Manager helps with PeopleSoft Management

How Enterprise Manager helps with PeopleSoft management. 

1.       The Enterprise Manager AMS Suite for PeopleSoft shows a topology of all PeopleSoft components,  including the PS App Server, PS Web Server, PS Process Scheduler, PS App Database and so on. All these components are monitored as per warning and critical thresholds and alerts will be raised if thresholds are crossed. The Topology view uses Root Cause Analysis to test each component and highlight in red the component that has failed. For example, a PeopleSoft system can be down just because a small component like the listener is down, which prevents connection to the database. Root Cause Analysis pinpoints the failed listener and the DBAs can fix quickly. You are back in business, faster.

2.       PeopleSoft Domain Administration can be centralized, with the ability to create and configure domains, and PeopleSoft Process Scheduler Management can be performed through Enterprise Manager. The PeopleSoft Admin can centrally access all logs on all servers to aid in trouble shooting, and can centrally purge or archive logs. All this reduces admin time and makes the PeopleSoft Admin have improved productivity.

3.       Configuration of various PeopleSoft components can be compared to vastly aid in trouble-shooting and there is an audit-trail of all changes to PeopleSoft systems, which allows you to enforce configuration and security compliance. There is change tracking of PeopleSoft System Parameters so more security.

4.       Real user monitoring of the PeopleSoft application can be performed to pinpoint the slowest pages or modules and the real life experience of the users can be understood. This reduces the problem resolution time of the issues reported by end users. More user satisfaction.

      

     Regards,

      Porus. 

Cloud Control 12c released for Windows 64-bit

Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1) for Windows x86-64 (64-bit) has been released:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/oem/enterprise-manager/downloads/oem-windows64-download-1619155.html

Notes from EM Product Management:

EM12c OMS is now supported on Windows x64 and the EM12c agents can be deployed on Windows x64, Windows 32 and zLinux. The software is available for download on OTN and EM Store (Self-update). A few tips:

1   1.   You should use the OTN download link only if you want to install the EM12c OMS on Windows. If you have an existing EM12c OMS running on Linux, the new agent image will be available to you through the EM12c self-update functionality.

     2. Please note that the Windows port already includes BP1. So if you do a brand new install of OMS on Windows, you already have all the BP1 fixes. On other platforms (e.g. Linux), you will either need to have a BP1 environment available to apply the Windows update or you will have to undertake the process of applying the BP1 update as a part of the Windows update process (i.e. apply the BP1 update first on your existing non-Windows OMS).

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       3. You will need to apply some patches on the Linux EM12c OMS before you can push the new agents and  monitor targets on the above three platforms. See the guide below for details. 

-     4. Also, if you are thinking of starting a new update from EM 10g/11g, please download the latest version of the Pre-Upgrade Console patches. See the guide below for details. 

The details are in the BP1 application guide. Please see the BP1 workbook which has been revised for the Windows update and is now part of the doc library.

A quick update: the SQL Server plug-in is now also available via self-update.

Courtesy, EM Product Management.

Regards,

Porus.

My New Book on Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Dear Friends,

I am happy to announce my new book on Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c, published by a different Publisher PACKT, will be available in September 2012. 

You can pre-order now. Electronic copies will be available too. This reached the HOT pre-order list on their site very soon after announcement.

http://www.packtpub.com/oracle-enterprise-manager-12c-cloud-control/book

Thanks to all my readers who have encouraged me to write this book. This will be my second book on Enterprise Manager and is totally rewritten for the new version, and has a totally different publisher from the previous one.


A lot of topics have been covered, including Database Diagnostics/Tuning, Database Lifecycle Management Pack, Data Masking, Data Subsetting, and so on. Its going to be a great primer for the new EM 12c. I have even included Exadata Management with EM12c.


On the theme of Managing Data Center Chaos, I have introduced the reader to a number of Enterprise Manager capabilities. Database LifeCycle Management includes Configuration Management, Security Compliance, Provisioning, Patching and Schema Change Management. I have also included Test Data Management (Data Subsetting), Data Masking, as well as managing Exadata with Enterprise Manager. Please note this is a list of probable topics that will be included and is not final. When the book is published, the final chapter of contents will be seen.

Regards,

Porus.

Launch Webcast: Total Cloud Control for Systems

 Join Oracle executives to find out how to accelerate mission-critical cloud deployment, unleash the power of Solaris 11 and simplify Oracle engineered systems management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. Register today for this interactive Webcast with live chat on April 12.

http://bit.ly/HmllJT

New Database assemblies available

New Database assemblies are available now to simplify cloud deployment via Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Self-Update

By Anand Akela on Apr 09, 2012

Deploying application in the cloud is a huge challenge.  Typically customers either deploy various components of the application individually and then manually wire them together.  Some vendors even allow you to deploy a bunch of VMs together but you still have the hard and painful job of connecting the dots. The problem gets even worse if you start to think other deployment constraints – such as which components should be co-located and which not, what should be the network topology of the application (i.e. database and middleware should be in different network segments), which components can scale out and if so how should the scale out happen.

Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder (OVAB) and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c address this challenge. Using OVAB, application developers and architects  can model the application topology graphically, define all dependencies and deployment constraints, and package the entire application in form of what we call an application assembly. These assembly can then be uploaded to the centralized software library in Enterprise Manager for self-service deployments.

At the launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c last year, we talked about Oracle's plan to offer assemblies for all our products which will allow you to deploy any of our products – including packaged applications – by click of a button. Enterprise Manager has a live link back to Oracle which will notify you of the availability of new assemblies and download them if you are interested.

Last week, we made new Database assemblies available via Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Self-Update. The release of assemblies will help customers deploy the cloud solution more easily on Oracle VM platform. Customers can create a zone of Oracle VM 3.x servers and deploy these assemblies from the Enterprise Manager 12c Self-Service interface. Following screenshot shows how they look like in the self-update interface of the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c.

Launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c.

Friends,

This is the Launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c.

Join Oracle executives to find out how to accelerate mission-critical cloud deployment, unleash the power of Solaris 11 and simplify Oracle engineered systems management with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c. Register today for this interactive Webcast with live chat on April 12. Please use the link below.

http://bit.ly/HmllJT

Regards,

Porus.