Applications & Apps Technology

On Tuesday I went to my first ever live hockey game. I didn’t know what to expect when James said me he had tickets for the hockey game, but he told me hockey is pretty big in Canada.
I saw the game Calgary Flames against Toronto Maple Leafs, which Calgary won 4-3. They played for a [...]

Update: 12-Nov-08 Extended script for Release 12
The Background
One of the most user-unfriendly and neglected aspects of the eBusiness Suite in my opinion is the homepage. No sooner than you arrive there you really just wanna get out, and get out fast! The majority of people I know, including myself, do one of the following:

Save one [...]

Last month, October 2008, Oracle has released a new version of the initial patchset level of 11gR1 - 11.1.0.6 - downloadable on http://download.oracle.comIf you start a new project with in 11gR1 database, take care to have this version, the file is suffixed by _1013.This new recut of the 11gR1 include a bug fix - see [...]

A little while back we had a request for help from Genentech to solve an issue that was causing them fits. They have several Macs used for ESS and MSS that run Safari 3.x, the latest browser from Apple. The problem is that when Apple released Safari 3.x, they changed a tiny behavior [...]

Last night, rumors began spreading that John Wookey, the former head of applications development at Oracle, has accepted a new post at Oracle archrival SAP. Today, SAP confirmed the news. Wookey, who left Oracle 13 months ago for reasons that the company has never disclosed, is now Executive Vice President of Large Enterprise On Demand [...]

Web Applications Desktop Integrator (Web ADI) is a self-service Oracle application, accessed using a browser. Unlike ADI, the  Web ADI software is not installed on individual client machines, as the processing takes place on the server rather than on individual client PCs.
Web ADI generates Microsoft Excel or Word documents on your desktop, and downloads the [...]

This feature of the week is for anyone using Oracle HRMS and Purchasing 11.5.10. When the contingent worker functionality was rolled out to Oracle Financials in this release, (see the original story from February 2006), the contractors could charge their time and expenses to projects, and have their costs calculated based on their time or [...]

Here is an updated compilation of application-related blogs I read and know about at this point.
AppsBI : Applications Business Intelligence By Nilesh Jethwa. Nilesh has worked on various reporting, Data warehousing, Daily Business Intelligence, Discoverer and Enterprise Planning and Budgeting projects and wants to share and write about different BI tools and techniques. He enjoys [...]

Every PeopleSoft developer has read something about the new Oracle products incorporating web 2.0 functionality like personalized pages. But what if you’re not among the lucky developers that use those new, modern, up2date products? In this post I’d like to show how we can create web 2.0 functionality in older PeopleSoft versions step by step.
First [...]

Following the last post about Agile PLM - Web Proxy Server Installation, in this post I’ll show how to enable SSL for Agile Proxy server to make Web access to Agile more secure. Apply the SSL certificate Have a signed SSL certificate file (.pfx file) from a Well-known Certificate Authorities [...]