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Special thanks go to Jeff Vold, the Apps DBA at Hazelden Foundation, who wrote this article about RUP6.

Hazelden Foundation is running Release 11.5.9 in production and is in the midst of a Release 12 upgrade. We recently applied the 12.0.6 Release Update Pack (RUP6) on top of our 12.0.4 development environment, and were asked to [...]

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In a previous post we discussed the new patching bundle, the Critical Patch Collection (CPC) that Oracle began issuing in October.  As a recap, this is what Oracle says about CPC’s.
R12 Financials Critical Patch Collections (CPC) are consolidated critical patches that all R12 Financials customers must apply to ensure proper operation of their systems. Advantages [...]

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I recently applied the latest RUP for Release 12 at a client that is in the midst of a new R12 installation.  I thought I’d recap my experience.
The 12.0.6 patch was released on Friday, November 7th.  We were alerted to it because we ran a fresh version of patchsets.sh during the week and it indicated [...]

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I have to admit, I was taken completely by surprise while at a client site this week working on a Release 12 Implementation Assessment when John Stouffer pointed to a News & Notes article on MetaLink called EBS: Oracle Releases R12 Financials Critical Patch Collections September 2008. “Critical Patch Collections?!! Is that a CPU?” Nope. [...]

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These are the types of presentations that seem hot (in descending order):

Service Orient Architecture Integration/Fusion Middleware
E-Business Suite, Release 12
Functional Seminars (focusing on various E-Business Suite modules)
Hyperion
11g Database
Enterprise Performance Management

This may change as the week progresses and Oracle continues to make new announcements.  For full-disclosure there are also sessions for BEA, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and Siebel [...]

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As noted in a previous post, the current release of EBS R12 is 12.0.5 and a future 12.0.6 is expected that will include a Financials Family Pack.  Soon after that we should expect Release 12.1.
What will R12.1 include?  In one of the sessions today at OOW 2008, a glimpse was provided.
From Oracle’s perspective R12 is [...]

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This morning’s session with the OAUG Upgrade SIG was accented by the attendance of Stephen Chan, who many of you probably recognize from his well-known blog.
During the session there was a discussion on the future of R12 updates and he noted that there are plans to to release one more Financials Family Pack for Release [...]

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Today, Oracle provided a view into their plans for the integration of the BEA Aqualogic products into the Oracle product line. Oracle is very experienced at this effort and it showed in the presentation. They focused a lot on reassuring BEA and Oracle customers that there would be no drastic changes and no [...]

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PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU START!
While performing a recent upgrade FROM Release 11.5.9.2 / RDBMS 9.2.0.8 TO Release 12.0.4 (with the 12.0.5 Financials Family Pack) on RDBMS 10.2.0.3, we encountered many issues that stemmed from the same root cause. With a little research, we determined that two database options, OLAP and Data Mining, needed to [...]

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A Technical Roadmap for Oracle Fusion, E-Business Suite Release 12, and Oracle Fusion Applications – John Stouffer, Triora Group, LLC – Many companies who have purchased best of breed applications [...]

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