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1 Oracle EBS Release 12.2 from A to Z. Real Experience of a Technical Upgrade Presentador: Gustavo Gonzalez, CTO

2 Presenter Gustavo González IT Convergence, Chief Technology Officer Co-Author of Oracle E-Business Suite Financial Handbook Third Edition McGraw-Hill / Oracle Press

3 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

4 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

5 Taking our own medicine Used the E-Business Suite since 2004 Upgraded to R12 in January 2009 Implemented OBIEE in January 2010 R12.2 Beta Program in January 2012 R12.2 Early Adopter since October 2013 And we host our systems running Oracle VM

6 New Features INTRODUCTION

7 Joe s Volvo 1996

8 New Volvo XC90

9 E-BUSINESS SUITE RELEASE 12.2 GENERAL AVAILABILITY & SUPPORT

10 Oracle E-Business Suite Support Timelines Updated Support Polices for 11.5, 12.0, 12.1& Nov '10 EXTENDED Nov '13 Dec 15 EXEPTION SUSTAINING Offer Exception to Sustaining Support 12.0 Jan 07 Jan '12 Jan '15 PREMIER EXTENDED SUSTAINING 12.1 May 09 PREMIER Dec 16 EXTENDED Dec 19 Extend 12.1 Premier Support thru Dec 16 Sep 13 Sep 18 Sep PREMIER EXTENDED Today

11 E-BUSINESS SUITE RELEASE 12.2 TECHNOLOGY CHANGES

12 Technology Stack Changes

13 SOA Suite Uptake E-Business Suite E-Business Suite 12.2 Integrated SOA Gateway Integrated SOA Gateway WS Framework Adapter Framework & EBS Adapter Lib WSIF SOA Suite Oracle AS & 10g for E-Business Suite WebLogic Server 11g

14 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.

15 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

16 Single Sign On integrations with E-Business Suite R12.2 Release 11i, 12.0 & 12.1 Release 12.2

17 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

18 Online Patching Cycle - Phases Users Online Users Offline Users Online Prepare Apply Finalize Cutover Cleanup Copy the production application code Apply one or more patches to the copy Ready the system for cutover Restart application on patched copy Remove obsolete objects

19 Online Patching Cycle - Actions

20 E-Business Suite R12.2 Readiness Report Online patching Readiness Report (MOS Doc ID # ) Online patching Analysis Report (Patch # ) 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

21 E-Business Suite R12.2 Online Patching New Development Standards Editionable Objects Views (ordinary, not materialized) PL/SQL code Synonyms User Types Virtual Private Database Policies Non-Editionable Objects Tables Temporary Tables Indexes Materialized Views Sequences Database links

22 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

23 E-BUSINESS SUITE RELEASE 12.2 FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS

24 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

25 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.

26 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.

27 New Release Tech Stack Online Patching Log Analyzer: This utility automates analysis of adop log files, locating warnings and errors and then displaying messages to help you quickly and easily identify any problems that occurred in an adop run. Online Patching Standard Cleanup: The new 'standard' cleanup mode performs the same cleanup actions as the existing 'quick' mode, and in addition removes obsolete editioned code objects. This new mode is the default. Online Patching Downtime Mode: This new adop option can be used to apply patches to the run edition of the Oracle E-Business Suite database and file system without the need to run an online patching cycle. Patch application in downtime mode is faster than online mode, but requires longer system downtime. Downtime mode is only supported for production use where explicitly documented, or when directed by Oracle. Oracle E-Business Suite Product Specific Release Notes, Release (Doc ID )

28 New Simplified Home UX

29 Oracle E-Business Suite Mobile App Oracle EBS Mobile App Oracle Mobile Timecards for Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle Mobile Approvals for Oracle E-Business Suite Note Note MOS Note Oracle Mobile Field Service Implementation Guide R12.2 Oracle Fusion Expenses Note

30 EXPERIENCE AND RECOMMENDATIONS

31 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

32 Brazil Standard Solution on R12 with Localization

33 Recommendations Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Information Center - Documentation (Doc ID ) EBS 11i & 12.1 users should upgrade to or 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 or (not certified for 12.2 yet) EBS 12 users of Oracle Single Sign-On 10g users should migrate to OAM 11gR2 Patchset EBS R12.2 it is mandatory to apply R12.AD.C.Delta.4 and R12.TXK.C.Delta.4 Release Update Packs (Note id: )

34 Recommendations (Cont.) EBS 11i users of Oracle Single Sign-On 10g users should migrate to OAM 11gR2 Patchset Oracle Internet Directory 10g users should upgrade to Oracle Internet Directory 11g Oracle Discoverer users should migrate to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA), or Discoverer 11g Oracle Portal 10g users should migrate to Oracle WebCenter 11g or upgrade to Portal 11g 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.

35 YES Have you started your upgrade to R12.1.3? NO Are you in a phase that can move the target release? Are you on 11.5 with no direct access to 12.2? YES NO Prefer to stay in R for 3-5 years? NO Are functional enhancements in R12.2 a priority for your business requirements? YES EBS Release 12.2 EBS Release NO Would you prefer to invest in a single upgrade project? YES YES Do you need high availability provided by Online Patching? Do you prefer a release with 1,000 s customers running it?

36 How to get in touch Gustavo Gonzalez, IT Convergence gfgonzalez@itconvergence.com release12@itconvergence.com +1 (415) // +54 (11) LinkedIn: bit.ly/ggonza4itc LinkedIn Blog itconvergence.blogspot.com YouTube

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