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Oracle Recognized as a Leader in Human Capital Management by Independent Research Firm

by areimers | May 22, 2023 | PROMATIS recommends

Oracle has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Human Capital Management, Q2 2023. The report, published by Forrester Research in May 2023, evaluated 11 vendors based on 28 criteria across three categories: current offering, strategy and market presence. Of the 11 cloud HCM providers recognized, Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) was one of only three Leaders and received the highest score in the current offering category.

For more information on the achievement, read the full article here.

PROMATIS receives Certificate: Expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite Applications to Oracle Cloud in Western Europe

by areimers | May 8, 2023 | What’s new at PROMATIS

We’re delighted to announce that we’ve achieved Service Expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite Applications to Oracle Cloud in Western Europe. This further demonstrates our commitment to provide holistic and seamless Oracle Cloud implementations.

This award not only testifies to our high level of expertise in Oracle E-Business Suite, but it also presents the satisfaction of our customers.

The Expertise Initiative was launched by Oracle to provide more transparency on the specific capabilities of Oracle partner companies. To receive a certification, an Oracle partner company must meet strict criteria: On the one hand, the requirements include the availability of enough certified consultants in the company, and on the other hand, corresponding customer references must be submitted, which confirm the company’s own project successes for the respective focus field.

First impression on E-Business Suite Cloud Manager 23.1.1

by areimers | April 28, 2023 | Techblog

Johannes Michler

Executive Vice President – Head of Platforms & Development

This week, the Oracle E-Business Suite on OCI team released the latest release 23.1.1 of E-Business Suite Cloud manager: “Getting Started with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Doc ID 2517025.1)”.

Let’s have a quick look at the new features.

New Compute and Database Shapes

Finally, E-Business Suite Cloud Manager is supporting the latest AMD E4.Flex and Intel E3.Flex shapes not only for running the application server or the database tier “on compute” but also with the PaaS service for the database. This is especially important in situations where no / not enough tech licenses for the Database EE are available.

While still with the database PaaS service it is not possible to flexibly scale up and down the available memory as those new shapes have way better performance/price ratio than the previous VM.Standard.2 shapes. Furthermore, typically there is a little bit more memory available which comes in handy especially for small dev/test environments.

For performance measurements on the relevant CPU cores, see the article Benchmarking CPUs for Oracle E-Business Suite (Database).

The new shapes are nicely integrated into the provisioning flow:

Hopefully, in the future it will be possible to change the memory assigned flexibly there as well – this is something the Database team will need to implement first though.

Furthermore, the new release allows to use VM.Standard3.Flex for Compute instances (Apps- or Database tier). However I still think that E4.Flex provides the better performance/price ratio, so that is not so important for me and my customers so far.

More features

Beside those new shapes, with the new release the regions Madrid and Chicago can be used.

Finally, when running the database on Exadata Database Service Dedicated it is now possible to do cloning using snapshots.

Summary

Especially the new database service shapes come in very handy for some upcoming projects of ours. I’m looking forward to using those services and will blog again on some insights during that usage soon.

From a stability point of view the 23.1.1 release luckily so far caused no new regression issues. 🙂

Oracle User Meeting ‘EPM und Hyperion’

by areimers | April 13, 2023 | PROMATIS recommends

On May 9, 2023, the Oracle Community will meet in Berlin for the user meeting “EPM and Hyperion”. Exchange ideas with experts and benefit from the expertise of other companies.

Oracle has put together an interesting agenda. Trend-setting use cases such as AIDA Cruises and Tobaccoland enrich the program. Whether you stay on-premises or move to the cloud, there are plenty of exciting topics waiting for you:

Cash Forecasting
ESG Reporting
Integrated Business Planning Experience (IBPX)
Steuer-Reporting / Pillar 2
Intelligent Performance Management

Agenda and Registration

Location:

May 9, 2023 | 10:00 – 16:00 Uhr
Oracle Berlin
Invalidenstraße 65, 10557 Berlin

Oracle recognized a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems

by areimers | April 3, 2023 | PROMATIS recommends

Oracle has been recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems. Oracle is positioned the highest for “Ability to Execute”, and furthest overall for “Completeness of Vision”. This is the 16th time Oracle has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Transportation Management Systems™ report.

Read the report here.