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Oracle EBS Release 12.2 from A to Z. Real Experience of a Technical Upgrade
Presentador: Gustavo Gonzalez, CTO [email protected] @ggonza4itc
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Presenter
Co-Author of “Oracle E-Business Suite Financial Handbook Third Edition” McGraw-Hill / Oracle Press
Gustavo González IT Convergence, Chief Technology Officer
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More about Gustavo
§ Oracle ACE Director Specialty Applications § More than 15 years Oracle Applications Experience § Head of IT at IT Convergence since 2006 § Co-Author “Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Handbook 3rd Edition” § Technical Editor “Oracle Fusion Applications Development and Extensibility Handbook” § Member of the Oracle EBS Customer Advisory Board § Member of the Oracle Usability Advisory Board § Project Manager of the R12 Upgrade at IT Convergence § Project Manager of R12.2 Beta Program & Early Adopter § Project Manager of Fusion Apps Implementation at ITC
@ggonza4itc
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About IT Convergence
§ Premier Global Oracle Services Company § Consulting, Education, Development, Testing, Hosting & Managed Services § International Staffing / Delivery Model § Deep relationship with Oracle Development – 12.2 Beta Partner § Oracle Platinum Partner and OAUG Star Partner Level Five § Recognized by Gartner § 80+ R12 Upgrades Plus Roll Outs and Training Workshops § Focus is Long-Term Business Relationships § Full-Service Oracle Provider with 850+ FTE’s globally
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Taking our own medicine
And we host our systems running Oracle VM
Used the E-Business Suite since
2004
Upgraded to R12 in January
2009
Implemented OBIEE in January
2010
R12.2 Early Adopter
since October
2013
R12.2 Beta Program in
January 2012
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Oracle E-Business Suite Support Timelines Updated Support Polices for 11.5, 12.0, 12.1& 12.2
2010 2011 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2012 2013 2014 2021
12.0 Jan '12 Jan '15 Jan ‘07
PREMIER EXTENDED SUSTAINING
12.1 May ‘09 Dec‘16
PREMIER EXTENDED Dec’19
Extend 12.1 Premier Support thru Dec ‘16
12.2
11.5.10 Nov '10
EXTENDED SUSTAINING Nov '13 Dec ’15
EXEPTION
Offer Exception to Sustaining Support
PREMIER Sep‘18 Sep‘13
EXTENDED Sep’21
Today
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SOA Suite Uptake
E-Business Suite 12.2
Integrated SOA Gateway
SOA Suite
WebLogic Server 11g
E-Business Suite 12.1.3
Integrated SOA Gateway
Oracle AS & 10g for E-Business Suite
WS Framework
Adapter Framework & EBS Adapter Lib WSIF
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Oracle Weblogic and Licensing
§ Customers' existing E-Business Suite licenses will cover Oracle Weblogic Server (WLS). § Existing E-Business Suite licenses include iAS EE, which in turn includes WLS Basic. § EBS customers who have customized their environment must purchase full-use iAS EE licenses. § Customers' optional use of EBS 12.2's Integrated SOA Gateway components will require additional full-use licenses for both SOA Suite and the Oracle Applications Adapter.
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Advantages Integrated SOA Gateway in E-Business Suite R12.2 § Use the Integration Repository user interface to generate and deploy Oracle E-Business Suite Web services into Oracle SOA Suite § Leverage Oracle SOA Suite to handle SOAP requests and responses from Web service clients and consumers at run time § Support multiple authentication types for inbound service requests in securing Web service content and authenticating Web service operations § Support synchronous and asynchronous (callback without acknowledgement only) Web services § Audit and monitor Oracle E-Business Suite inbound service operations from Service Monitor
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Single Sign On integrations with E-Business Suite R12.2
Release 11i, 12.0 & 12.1 Release 12.2
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E-Business Suite R12.2 Online Patching
E-Business Suite will remain
available to users during patching
operations
Downtime window will
be predictable and in minutes
Patches are applied while the
production application
remains online
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Online Patching Cycle - Phases
Apply one or more patches
to the copy
Ready the system for
cutover
Restart application on patched copy
Remove obsolete objects
Copy the production application
code
Prepare Apply Finalize Cutover Cleanup
Users Online Users Online Users Offline
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Online Patching Cycle - Actions
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E-Business Suite R12.2 Readiness Report
§ Online patching Readiness Report (MOS Doc ID #1531121.1)
§ Online patching Analysis Report (Patch #16236081)
§ Available for all releases prior to 12.2
§ Reports all violations of “Non-Editioned Objects can’t reference Editioned Objects” § Some EBR violations are automatically fixed by the 12.2 upgrade § The report is key to determine the scope of effort on custom code
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E-Business Suite R12.2 Online Patching New Development Standards
§ Views (ordinary, not materialized) § PL/SQL code § Synonyms § User Types § Virtual Private Database Policies
§ Tables § Temporary Tables § Indexes § Materialized Views § Sequences § Database links
Editionable Objects Non-Editionable Objects
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Development challenges
§ Objects that contain data are Noneditioned § Patching a table structure, must be done through “adop” and the EVs § Changes to a table are made on the base schema and the Editioning Views publish the correct object layout based on the current Edition
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Functional Enhancements
§ Oracle Financials § Integration with Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub and Oracle Data Relationship Management.
§ New tax rule Operators § Ability to schedule AP/AR Netting Batch Program § New Legislative & regulatory updates for many countries
§ Oracle Projects: § Costing using HR rates or using Payroll actuals § Total Time Reporting for Exempt Employees
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Functional Enhancements (Cont.)
§ Oracle Purchasing: § Parallel approvals § Improved Supplier User Interface Registration
§ Oracle Payroll and Oracle Time and Labor: § Simplified functions for local payroll administrators § Allow update person with future person type changes
§ Oracle Order Management: § Selling subscriptions § Enhanced Billing for Extended Warranty.
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Functional Enhancements (Cont.)
§ Oracle Inventory Management § New Lot Allocation § Distributed WMS integration with R12
§ Oracle Warehouse Management: § Streamlined mobile user interfaces, enhanced managerial workbenches, improved catch-weight functionality and better extensibility supports greater fulfillment flexibility.
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New in EBS Release 12.2.3
Flexfield Value Set Security Enhanced
Setup
Advanced Password Hashing
Worklist Header Icon
Skyros Look-and-Feel
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User Experience Design Patterns
u Informed by consumer
expectations
u Deep understanding of
Oracle toolkit
u Best of Oracle
applications
u Proven scientific usability u Design pattern
website u Productivity for
applications developers
u Result: Consistent, high-quality user experience built by
ADF enterprise community
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Common UX Design Patterns
Persistent Global Area High-Level Actions Streamlines Navigation
u People Soft 9.1
u E-Business Suite 12.1.3
u Fusion Applicati
ons
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IT Convergence Internal Upgrade to R12.2
§ More than 50 customizations (multiple types) § Integrations (Payroll & others) § More than 350 test script ran § Multidisciplinary team
§ DBA, Functional, Technical, Developers, Testers
§ Unit & Stress tests § Latest cutover last 16 minutes § DB Size: 500Gb
u Performance metrics during online patching u CPU & I/O on Apps and DB Servers
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Recommendations
§ EBS 11i. 12.0 & 12.1 users should upgrade to 12.1.3 or 12.2. § Before upgrading, 11i users should be on the minimum 11i patching baseline.
§ Before upgrading, 12.0 users should be on the minimum 12.0 patching baseline,
§ Oracle Database 10gR2 and 11gR1 users should upgrade to 11.2.0.4 or 12.1.0.1 (not certified for 12.2 yet) § EBS 12 users of Oracle Single Sign-On 10g users should migrate to OAM 11gR2 Patchset 1 11.1.2.1.0 § EBS R12.2 it is “mandatory” to apply R12.AD.C.Delta.4 and R12.TXK.C.Delta.4 Release Update Packs (Note id: 1617461.1)
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Recommendations (Cont.)
§ EBS 11i users of Oracle Single Sign-On 10g users should migrate to OAM 11gR2 Patchset 1 11.1.2.1.0 § Oracle Internet Directory 10g users should upgrade to Oracle Internet Directory 11g 11.1.1.7 § Oracle Discoverer users should migrate to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA), or Discoverer 11g 11.1.1.7 § Oracle Portal 10g users should migrate to Oracle WebCenter 11g 11.1.1.7 or upgrade to Portal 11g 11.1.1.6 § All Windows desktop users should migrate from JInitiator and older Java releases to JRE 1.6.0_65 or later 1.6 updates or JRE 1.7.0_45 or later 1.7 updates § All EBS 11i, 12.0, 12.1, and 12.2 users must sign their environment's JAR files now.
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YES
NO
YES
YES
NO
NO YES
NO
Are you on 11.5 with no direct access to 12.2?
Do you prefer a release with 1,000’s customers
running it?
Would you prefer to invest in a single upgrade project?
Are you in a phase that can move the target
release?
YES
Prefer to stay in R12.1.3 for 3-5 years?
Do you need high availability provided by
Online Patching?
Are functional enhancements in R12.2 a
priority for your business requirements?
Have you started your upgrade to R12.1.3?
EBS Release 12.1.3
EBS Release
12.2
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Gustavo Gonzalez, CTO @ IT Convergence [email protected] [email protected] +1 (415) 962-8604 // +54 (11) 4000-8484 Twitter: @ggonza4itc LinkedIn: bit.ly/ggonza4itc