Oracle Announces Plan to Buy Hyperion, A Leading Provider of Performance Management Software
Hyperion provides best-in-class performance management software to over 12,000 customers worldwide, including 91 of the Fortune 100. Hyperion will add complementary products to Oracle's business intelligence offerings, including a leading open enterprise planning system, financial consolidation products, and a powerful multi-source OLAP server.

Oracle Previews New Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Application
Expansion helps companies effectively manage multiple GRC initiatives across the enterprise with the introduction of a new application suite that manages compliance initiatives in heterogeneous environments, provides increased security through automated, pre-defined ERP controls and intends to provide greater visibility through expanded GRC intelligence

Oracle Partners Launch First Oracle Accelerate Solutions
Partners in North America are launching solutions for small and medium businesses (SMB) and local governments (SMG) as part of the Oracle Accelerate program.

Daylight Savings Time Alert for Oracle Customers
This year, Daylight Savings Time starts three weeks early. Be prepared!

New and Improved Oracle.com
We continue to look for ways to improve our website to better serve the needs of our customers. Please take a look at the new layout on oracle.com and email us with your feedback: CustomerForums_ww@oracle.com

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Upcoming Events (In Person | Online)

• March 8, 2007—2nd Annual Oracle JD Edwards World Summit in Redwood Shores, CA
  Network with your peers and share best practices while learning about the future roadmap from Oracle's JD Edwards World product line. For all JD Edwards World customers considering an upgrade or a new project, this event will prove invaluable. Register
• March 11-14, 2007—ALLIANCE 07 in Lake Buena Vista, FL
  Join more than 4,500 Oracle Applications users in higher education, government, and public sector will be in attendence at Alliance 07. The Alliance conference is organized and managed by the Higher Education User Group (www.heug.org). This is the 10th annual event for the HEUG. Register
• March 19–21, 2007—Gartner Outsourcing Summit in Dallas, TX
  Meet with Oracle experts and executives and discuss why organizations of every size are making the smart choice in outsourcing Oracle applications management: Oracle On Demand. Register
• March 19–21, 2007—Oracle Sponsors HCI’s 2007 National Human Capital Summit in Phoenix, AZ
  Participants will share experiences, discuss trends, and learn how others are making human capital part of their global business strategy. Oracle thought leader Row Henson will be speaking. Details
• March 27–29, 2007—Oracle OpenWorld Latin America in San Pablo, Brasil at the Transamerica Expo Center Register
• April 15–19, 2007—COLLABORATE 07, Las Vegas, NV
  As a JD Edwards World customer, you won’t want to miss this year’s Quest COLLABORATE 07 conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center. We'll have many exciting announcements regarding the new JD Edwards World A9.1 release, and a packed agenda with more than 50 JD Edwards World sessions. More

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ONLINE

• March 13, 2007—Oracle's Next Generation of Enterprise Management Systems
  Join Oracle President Charles Phillips and Vice President of Applications and Systems Management Richard Sarwal on March 13, 2007 for the live launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3, and learn about its unique, top-down application management capabilities. Register for this live online event. | Get free Oracle Enterprise Management “See It in Action” CDs
• March 15, 2007 (U.K.)—Unlock the Full Potential of your Project Management Solution
  The majority of project managers today are often pressured to make critical business decisions without timely access to high-quality, reliable, personalised project information on operational and financial performance. Discover how you can gain real advantage from the Oracle Project Management Suite by attending our Live Oracle Projects Web Seminar. Register
• Through April 2007 Online—OAUG FREE Siebel Web Series
  The OAUG and Oracle are partnering to provide unique networking, educational, and training sessions to the Siebel community with a free Siebel Web Series. Sessions are scheduled through the second week in April 2007. Series details, including session abstracts, featured presenters, and session dates and times, are available on the OAUG Website.

Oracle Advisor Webcasts (Requires Metalink Login)

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Podcasts (AppCasts and TechCasts):

Oracle Podcast Center

Oracle TechCasts are online audio interviews (podcasts) with Oracle technology experts about the latest products and technologies for developers and DBAs. Think of them as an audio magazine or portable on-demand radio show.

• The New SOA Standards: Next-Generation User Interfaces (posted on 2/5/07)
  OracleJDeveloper product manager Ric Smith explains how JavaServer Faces can help you build rich, Ajax-based UIs without being a Javascript expert. Listen
• Meet the Oracle Linux Kernel Experts: Zach Brown (posted on 2/1/07)
  Zach Brown of the Oracle Linux Kernel Team provides more insider info about the team's projects--this time, about work on RDS and Asynchronous I/O. Listen

Click to See List of All TechCasts

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Oracle AppCasts are on demand online audio interviews with Oracle customers, partners, product and industry experts.

Oracle E-Business Suite AppCasts

• How Oracle Customers Can Prepare their Enterprise Applications for Daylight Savings Time (8 min.) 3/1/07—Live with Cliff
  Jeff Robbins, Senior Director at Oracle, speaks with Cliff about the issues and risks to Enterprise Applications associated with Daylight Savings Time, what Oracle is doing to prevent any disruption of service for their customers, and the challenges for customers who have moved to a Third Party for support. Listen
• Details of Oracle E-Business Suite Adaptor based on SOA (12 min.)
  2/27/07—Live with Cliff
  Cliff speaks with Veshaal Singh, Oracle's Director of Application Technology about SOA-based integration for our EBS customers, what EBS Adaptor is and how business events are supported through our EBS Adaptor and finally, the key differentiators of the EBS Adaptor. Listen
• Oracle's iSetup: Helps Customers Simplify and Manage Implementation Issues (9 min.) 2/20/07—Live with Cliff
  Santhosh George, Oracle's Application Technology Senior Director, speaks with Cliff about a Life Cycle Management Tool called iSetup, a simple yet highly versatile solution for diverse business problems that helps customers streamline, simplify, and manage implementation issues. Listen
• Technology Advances for Oracle E-Business Suite R12 (11 min.) 2/6/07—Live with Cliff
  Cliff speaks with Lisa Parekh, Oracle's Vice President of Technology Integration, about the technologies used in E-Business Suite Release 12, the new features offered by those technologies, and the benefits they bring to customers. Listen

E-Business Suite Advisory Webcasts (Requires Metalink Login)

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PeopleSoft Enterprise AppCasts

• How Oracle Customers Can Prepare Their Enterprise Applications for Daylight Savings Time (8 min.) 3/1/07—Live with Cliff
  Jeff Robbins, Senior Director at Oracle, speaks with Cliff about the issues and risks to Enterprise Applications associated with Daylight Savings Time, what Oracle is doing to prevent any disruption of service for their customers, and the challenges for customers who have moved to a Third Party for support. Listen

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Siebel AppCasts

• How Oracle Customers Can Prepare Their Enterprise Applications for Daylight Savings Time (8 min.) 3/1/07—Live with Cliff
  Jeff Robbins, Senior Director at Oracle, speaks with Cliff about the issues and risks to Enterprise Applications associated with Daylight Savings Time, what Oracle is doing to prevent any disruption of service for their customers, and the challenges for customers who have moved to a Third Party for support. Listen
• Siebel 8.0 and the Value of Applications Unlimited (18 min.) 1/30/07—Live with Fred
  Fred Studer interviews Ed Abbo, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Oracle's Siebel Applications Development, about the latest Siebel CRM release, CRM on Demand and Oracle Applications Unlimited and the benefits they provide customers. Listen

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne AppCasts

• How Customers Benefit from Using Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools (12 min.) 2/13/007—Live with Cliff
  Customers Al Romanowicz and Laurie Nice from Symmons Industries along with Gary Grieshaber, Senior Director for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Product Strategy, speak with Cliff about the benefits of upgrading to the latest product release, how customers can lower TCO and further leverage Fusion Middleware. Listen
• How Oracle Customers Can Prepare Their Enterprise Applications for Daylight Savings Time (8 min.) 3/1/07—Live with Cliff
  Jeff Robbins, Senior Director at Oracle, speaks with Cliff about the issues and risks to Enterprise Applications associated with Daylight Savings Time, what Oracle is doing to prevent any disruption of service for their customers, and the challenges for customers who have moved to a Third Party for support. Listen

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JD Edwards World AppCasts

• How Customers Benefit from Using Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools (12 min.) 2/13/007—Live with Cliff
  Customers Al Romanowicz and Laurie Nice from Symmons Industries along with Gary Grieshaber, Senior Director for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools Product Strategy, speak with Cliff about the benefits of upgrading to the latest product release, how customers can lower TCO and further leverage Fusion Middleware. Listen
• How Oracle Customers Can Prepare Their Enterprise Applications for Daylight Savings Time (8 min.) 3/1/07—Live with Cliff
  Jeff Robbins, Senior Director at Oracle, speaks with Cliff about the issues and risks to Enterprise Applications associated with Daylight Savings Time, what Oracle is doing to prevent any disruption of service for their customers, and the challenges for customers who have moved to a Third Party for support. Listen

Click to See List of All AppCasts

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Applications

E-Business Suite:

• Oracle Delivers Advanced Procurement Release 12
  This release was specifically designed to meet the changing needs of procurement professionals with a consolidated workcenter for all procurement responsibilities, improved support for complex goods and services and expanded supplier management and enablement. Press Release | More
• Announcing Linux Support for Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management
  Application extends Oracle’s commitment to the Linux platform; responds to customer need for efficient scalability, greater flexibility and lower total cost of ownership. Press Release | More
• Oracle Collaboration Suite Downloads
  Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1 (10.1.2.2) for Microsoft Windows. (27-JUL-06) Download
• Oracle Creates Oracle(R) Communications to Enable Streamlined Business Processes, Faster Time to Market and Next-Generation Service Delivery
  Oracle has created Oracle Communications, a new brand that brings together a unique portfolio of proven software that enables service providers to leverage next-generation convergent services. Press Release
• Oracle Identity Management Certified with New Releases of Oracle Applications
  Oracle Identity Management is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 12, as well as Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and Siebel 8 applications and is planned to be certified with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications by June 2007. Press Release

Oracle E-Business Suite AppCasts

E-Business Suite Advisor Webcasts (Requires Metalink Login)

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PeopleSoft:

• Oracle Introduces PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0
  PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Capital Management 9.0 enables organizations to successfully deploy fully integrated talent management strategies and configurable business processes across the enterprise. Website
• PeopleSoft eProcurement iSeminar
  Access an exclusive iSeminar titled Drive Dramatic Improvements with PeopleSoft Enterprise eProcurement, and learn how purchasing organizations can address today’s business challenges and achieve world-class self-service procurement. Register
• PeopleSoft Announces Compliance with Cybersource Upgrade to Payment Systems
  If your organization processes credit card transactions from PeopleSoft applications, you may be doing so through the use of CyberSource Payment Services. CyberSource Payment Services are used to provide fast, reliable, and secure payment processing and to simplify the process of electronic payments. More
• New PeopleSoft HCM White Paper Available
  PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM 9.0 is based on extensive customer feedback, industry best practices, analysts’ research, and Oracle’s own commitment to thought leadership. Read
• Important Course Curriculum Update
  Over the last several months, Oracle has announced the general availability of PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 applications and PeopleTools 8.48 tools and technologies, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and 8.96 products. Oracle University would like to provide you with an important update about curriculum availability for these new products. More

PeopleSoft Enterprise AppCasts

PeopleSoft Advisor Webcasts (Requires Customer Connection Login)

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Siebel:

• Forrester Research Names Oracle's Siebel CRM Professional Edition A Leading Mid-Market CRM Suite
  Oracle's Siebel CRM Professional Edition is said to have the strongest current offering in the latest Forrester Wave Evaluation: Midmarket CRM Suites, Q1 February 2007. Press Release | Report
• Oracle Identity Management Certified with New Releases of Oracle Applications
  Oracle Identity Management is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 12, as well as Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and Siebel 8 applications and is planned to be certified with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications by June 2007. Press Release
• Through April 2007 Online—OAUG FREE Siebel Web Series
  The OAUG and Oracle are partnering to provide unique networking, educational, and training sessions to the Siebel community with a free Siebel Web Series. Sessions are scheduled through the second week in April 2007. Series details, including session abstracts, featured presenters, and session dates and times, are available on the OAUG Website.
  

Siebel Appcasts

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JD Edwards EnterpriseOne:

• Oracle Identity Management Certified with New Releases of Oracle Applications
  Oracle Identity Management is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 12, as well as Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and Siebel 8 applications and is planned to be certified with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications by June 2007. Press Release
• Production Releases! Oracle Containers for J2EE Standalone Distributions Application Server 10g Software Downloads
• Introduction to ADF Security—Oracle JDeveloper "How To" Article
  ADF Security is a key feature of the Oracle ADF binding layer. ADF Security allows developers to declaratively define fine-grained access control to iterators, attributes, and methods exposed by a business services. The goal of ADF Security is to ease and promote secure application development based on standard J2EE security features and the Java Authentication and Authorization Service. Article
• Important Course Curriculum Update
  Over the last several months, Oracle has announced the general availability of PeopleSoft Enterprise 9.0 applications and PeopleTools 8.48 tools and technologies, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and 8.96 products. Oracle University would like to provide you with an important update about curriculum availability for these new products. More

JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Appcasts

JD Edwards Advisor Webcasts (Requires Customer Connection Login)

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JD Edwards World:

• April 15–19, 2007—COLLABORATE 07, Las Vegas, Nevada
  As a JD Edwards World customer, you won’t want to miss this year’s Quest COLLABORATE 07 conference at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center. We’ll have many exciting announcements regarding the new JD Edwards World A9.1 release, and a packed agenda with more than 50 JD Edwards World sessions. More
• Announcing the JD Edwards World Consortium
  The JD Edwards World Upgrade Consortium will connect customers who are upgrading to JD Edwards World A9.1 with Oracle representatives to share lessons learned, tips, techniques, and best practices. To subscribe to the consortium Click “Affiliated User Groups,” and then click “JD Edwards World Upgrade Consortium” to access the subscription link.
• Oracle Previews JD Edwards World A9.1
  As a proof point to Oracle's "Application Unlimited" program, the new JD Edwards World release is expected to offer enhanced functionality including upgrade tools and processes and to provide customers with compliance support, operational excellence, technology improvements and capabilities for global operations to better meet the critical needs of its installed customers. Press Release | Website
• JD Edwards World Tools Now Available
  Tools are now available to address some of the challenges that customers face when preparing for an upgrade. More (Requires Customer Connection Login)
• JD Edwards World Customer Briefings in Denver, CO
  Oracle is offering JD Edwards World customer briefings in Denver, Colorado through December 2007. If you would like more information on these meetings or would like to register, please contact Fabio Araujo at Fabio.araujo@oracle.com.
• March 8, 2007—2nd Annual Oracle JD Edwards World Summit in Redwood Shores, CA
  Network with your peers and share best practices while learning about the future roadmap from Oracle's JD Edwards World product line. For all JD Edwards World customers considering an upgrade or a new project, this event will prove invaluable. Register
• Have Questions about JD Edwards World?
  For answers to your questions about JD Edwards World products, support, or training, please e-mail: worldinfo_us@oracle.com.

JD Edwards World Advisor Webcasts (Requires Customer Connection Login)

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Technology

Database:

• Oracle Unveils Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database 7
  New release features enhanced integration and caching with Oracle Database 10g to meet the instant response times and high-throughput requirements of real-time enterprises. Press Release | Downloads
• Oracle Introduces Oracle Information Lifecycle Management Assistant
  Announcing general availability of Oracle ILM Assistant, the industry's first, free tool to provide customers with a comprehensive range of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) capabilities for Oracle Database 10g. Press Release
• DBA & Developers Linux Series! Guide to Advanced Linux Command Mastery, Part 2
  In Part 1 of the series, you learned some useful commands not so widely known and some of the often used commands but not-so-well-known parameters to do your job more efficiently. Continuing on the series, now you will learn some slightly more advanced Linux commands useful for Oracle users, whether developers or DBAs. Tune in to Part 2
• Oracle Database 2 Day + Performance Tuning Guide 10g Release 2 Read the Guide
• Get Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g
  Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use search across all enterprise information assets. Download
• Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Sets New Industry World Record with TPC-C Benchmark
  Oracle announced a new world record with a TPC-C benchmark result of more than 4 million transactions per minute. The result was achieved with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on an HP Integrity Superdome server running HP-UX 11i v3 and HP StorageWorks Arrays(1). Press Release
• Oracle Database 10g Achieves Record-Breaking Performance for Itanium Platform with Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 540 Server
  Running on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 540 server with 16 Intel Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors, Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4* operating system achieved 1,238,579 tpmC (transactions per minute) with a price-performance ratio of $3.94/tpmC. Press Release
• Oracle Supports W3C’s XQuery 1.0 Standard
  Furthering its commitment to open standards, Oracle announced support for the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) XQuery 1.0, a new standard for accessing XML data. Press Release | More

Oracle Tech Advisor Webcasts (Requires Metalink Login)

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Middleware:

• Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle® WebCenter Suite
  A new component of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Oracle WebCenter Suite represents a step forward in increasing information worker productivity by integrating the latest Web 2.0 technologies with business processes and data sources to improve the way users work. Press Release | More
• Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle® Data Integrator
  Oracle Data Integrator, a new component within the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family, is a key enabler for mission-critical business initiatives, including, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing; Master Data Management; Service-OrientedArchitecture and Business Activity Monitoring; and Application Migration and Consolidation. Press Release
• Oracle Identity Management Certified with New Releases of Oracle Applications
  Oracle Identity Management is now certified with Oracle E-Business Suite 12, as well as Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and Siebel 8 applications and is planned to be certified with Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 applications by June 2007. Press Release
• Oracle Unveils Systems Management and Monitoring Offering for Oracle Identity Management
  Oracle Management Pack for Identity Management is a comprehensive, integrated management solution that enables customers to improve service levels and improve agility through capacity on-demand. Press Release
• Oracle Delivers Key Communications Industry Milestone with Release of Carrier-Grade Oracle Communication and Mobility Server
  A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, OCMS includes a third generation, programmable Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Presence application server; proxy and registrar services; and a SIP-based VoIP soft phone client. OCMS combines carrier-grade scalability and reliability with the flexibility of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to enable rapid service development and cost-effective deployment. Press Release
• Building Event-Driven Architecture with an Enterprise Service Bus
  Learn how to configure an ESB to "publish" enterprise events using a simple example. View

Oracle Server Advisor Webcasts (Requires Metalink Login)

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Enterprise Management:

• March 13, 2007—Oracle's Next Generation of Enterprise Management Systems
  Join Oracle President Charles Phillips and Vice President of Applications and Systems Management Richard Sarwal on March 13, 2007 for the live launch of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Release 3, and learn about its unique, top-down application management capabilities. Register for this live online event. | Get free Oracle Enterprise Management “See It in Action” CDs
• Oracle Unveils Systems Management and Monitoring Offering for Oracle Identity Management
  Announcing the Oracle Management Pack for Identity Management, which provides a single, unified management solution for Oracle Identity Management customers. Press Release
• New Oracle Enterprise Manager Downloads. Download

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Oracle Tools:

• Introduction to ADF Security—Oracle JDeveloper "How To" Article
  ADF Security is a key feature of the Oracle ADF binding layer. ADF Security allows developers to declaratively define fine-grained access control to iterators, attributes, and methods exposed by a business services. The goal of ADF Security is to ease and promote secure application development based on standard J2EE security features and the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS). Read
• New Zipper Extension for JDeveloper! Gerard Davison's Weblog
• Oracle ADF Faces Additional Skins.