lunes, 18 de diciembre de 2017

Oracle Hot Topics: COULDN'T CATALOG BACKUP PIECES IF BACKUP TAKEN W"MAXPIECESIZE" OR "SECTION SIZE"

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Press Release Oracle Buys Aconex



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Oracle Buys Aconex
Creates the World’s Most Comprehensive Cloud Offering for Managing All Aspects of Construction Projects

Redwood Shores, Calif—Dec 17, 2017

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Aconex Limited (ASX: ACX), a leading cloud-based solution that manages team collaboration for construction projects, for A$7.80 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately US$1.2 billion, net of Aconex cash.

The Aconex project collaboration solution digitally connects owners, builders and other teams, providing complete visibility and management of data, documents and costs across all stages of a construction project lifecycle. Aconex has been used in over $1 trillion in projects across 70,000 user organizations in over 70 countries.

The Oracle Construction and Engineering Cloud already offers customers the industry’s most advanced solutions for planning, scheduling and delivering large-scale projects. Together, Oracle and Aconex will provide an end-to-end offering for project management and delivery that enables customers to effectively plan, build, and operate construction projects.

“Delivering projects on time and on budget are the highest strategic imperatives for any construction and engineering organization,” said Mike Sicilia, SVP and GM, Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit, Oracle. “With the addition of Aconex, we significantly advance our vision of offering the most comprehensive cloud-based project management solution for this $14 trillion industry.”

“The Aconex and Oracle businesses are a great, natural fit and highly complementary in terms of vision, product, people and geography,” said Leigh Jasper, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aconex. “As co-founders of Aconex, both Rob Phillpot and I remain committed to the business and are excited about the opportunity to advance our collective vision on a larger scale, and the benefits this combination will deliver to our customers.”

The Board of Directors of Aconex unanimously recommends the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2018, subject to Aconex shareholder approval and certain regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.

More information about this announcement is available at www.oracle.com/aconex.

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Oracle Corporate Communications
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Oracle Investor Relations
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The new Excel-killer from Oracle


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Sten Vesterli

Sten Vesterli

I make IT organizations perform at peak efficiency and effectiveness

For a long time, APEX was Oracle’s Excel-killer. With the ability to upload a CSV file and create a matching table and then build an application on top of that, this was the easiest way to convert a spreadsheet into a secure multi-user application.

Visual Builder Cloud Service (VBCS) has now appeared as a serious challenger, offering some improvements over the way APEX handes Excel files. For example, the December 2017 version of VBCS has the ability to import Excel files directly without having to turn them into CSV files first. Separate worksheets in the Excel files become separate business objects. During the import, you can also define reference relationship for lookup values. This allows you to upload an Excel file with one master worksheet and a number of value lists as separate sheets, and produce a business object with all lookups in one operation.



VBCS is one of Oracle’s cloud-native applications, so it only runs in the cloud and requires a subscription. But if that is not a problem for you, I encourage you to take a look. If you are already using VBCS, I’d love to hear from you.

This post originally appeared in the Oracle Tool Watch newsletter. Don’t miss the next post, sign up and receive a free copy of my whitepaper “What Oracle is Doing Wrong (and Right) in the Cloud”.

viernes, 15 de diciembre de 2017

Oracle Hot Topics: Bug ORA-00979 WHEN A CASE STATEMENT IS THERE IN THE "GROUP BY" EXPRESSION

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Oracle Q2 FY18 Cloud Revenues Up 44% to $1.5 Billion and Total Revenues Up 6% to $9.6 Billion


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Q2 FY18 GAAP EPS UP 8% TO $0.52 and NON-GAAP EPS UP 14% TO $0.70

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Dec 14, 2017

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) today announced fiscal 2018 Q2 results. Total Revenues were up 6% to $9.6 billion, compared to Q2 last year. Cloud plus On-Premise Software Revenues were up 9% to $7.8 billion. Cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) revenues were up 55% to $1.1 billion. Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) plus Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) revenues were up 21% to $396 million. Total Cloud Revenues were up 44% to $1.5 billion.

GAAP Operating Income was up 1% to $3.1 billion and GAAP Operating Margin was 32%. Non-GAAP Operating Income was up 10% to $4.2 billion and non-GAAP Operating Margin was 44%. GAAP Net Income was up 10% to $2.2 billion, while non-GAAP Net Income was up 16% to $3.0 billion. GAAP Earnings Per Share was up 8% to $0.52, while non-GAAP Earnings Per Share was up 14% to $0.70.

Short-term deferred revenues were up 9% to $8.1 billion. Operating cash flow on a trailing twelve-month basis was up 2% to $14.6 billion.

“Overall cloud revenue growth of 44% drove our quarterly revenue and earnings higher,” said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. “With non-GAAP Cloud SaaS Applications growth of 49% leading the way, Oracle delivered 14% non-GAAP earnings per share growth and 6% overall revenue growth. Our success in the quarter was based on the increasing scale and the gathering momentum in our cloud business. I expect the business to continue to grow and strengthen over the coming quarters.”

“Our Fusion ERP and Fusion HCM SaaS applications suite revenues grew 65% in the quarter,” said Oracle CEO, Mark Hurd. “We are now the clear market leader in enterprise back-office SaaS applications with over 5,000 Fusion customers. And we expect to extend our lead by selling around $2 billion in new enterprise SaaS application cloud subscriptions over the coming four quarters. That’s more new SaaS sales than any of our competitors.”

“Oracle will soon deliver the world’s first autonomous “self-driving” database,” said Oracle CTO, Larry Ellison. “The new artificially intelligent Oracle database is fully automated and requires no human labor for administration. If a security vulnerability is detected, the database immediately patches itself while running. No other system can do anything like this. Best of all, we guarantee the price of running the Oracle Autonomous Database in the Oracle Cloud is less than half the cost of running a database in the Amazon Cloud.”

The Board of Directors increased the authorization for share repurchases by $12 billion. The Board of Directors also declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.19 per share of outstanding common stock. This dividend will be paid to stockholders of record as of the close of business on January 10, 2018, with a payment date of January 24, 2018.
Q2 Fiscal 2018 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast

Oracle will hold a conference call and webcast today to discuss these results at 2:00 p.m. Pacific. You may listen to the call by dialing (816) 287-5563, Passcode: 425392. To access the live webcast, please visit the Oracle Investor Relations website at http://www.oracle.com/investor. In addition, Oracle’s Q2 results and Fiscal 2018 financial tables are available on the Oracle Investor Relations website.

A replay of the conference call will also be available by dialing (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406, Passcode: 9396959. 

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Ken Bond
Oracle Investor Relations
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Deborah Hellinger
Oracle Corporate Communciations
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jueves, 14 de diciembre de 2017

Oracle Hot Topics: Bug ORA-600 [KTCXBR0_1] ON ALTER JAVA CLASS CHECK AFTER UPGRADE

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Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:26 GMT-08:00

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Thu, 14 Dec 2017 02:40 GMT-08:00

Oracle Hot Topics: BUG FIX 21258096 CAN CAUSE UNNECESSARY STATS REGATHERING

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Tue, 12 Dec 2017 23:17 GMT-08:00
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martes, 12 de diciembre de 2017

Oracle Hot Topics: ORA-00600[KCBO_SWITCH_Q_BG_1] FROM DBW0 AND STANDBY INSTANCE CRASH

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Oracle Hot Topics: ORA-600 [kkqcby: qbcfkkc not zero] and More

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Oracle Expands Security Portfolio with New Capabilities and Partner Program Designed to Help Organizations Detect and Protect Against Threats


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New Identity Governance, A.I.-based Configuration Management, and Consumer Identity Management are features designed to help organizations protect their clouds and digital services

Redwood Shores, Calif.—Dec 11, 2017

Oracle today announced that it is expanding its security portfolio and unveiling a new partner program. The Oracle Identity SOC portfolio now includes new capabilities to help enterprises manage and certify user identities, applications, and confidential data more securely and through a richer, consumerized user experience. Additionally, the new partner program will help improve collaboration with security vendors and simplify customer adoption.

First unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld 2017, Oracle’s integrated suites—Oracle Identity Security Operations Center (SOC) portfolio of services and Oracle Management Cloud—are designed to help enterprises forecast, reduce, detect, and resolve security threats and assist in efforts to remediate application and infrastructure performance issues. Leveraging artificial intelligence to analyze a unified data set consisting of the full breadth of security and operational telemetry, as well as provide automated remediation, Oracle’s integrated suite is designed to enable customers to quickly adapt their security and operational posture as their risk landscape changes. This application of machine learning can potentially help thwart attacks, reduce the detection window from months to minutes, and more quickly address security breaches and performance outages.

“Built on our advanced artificial intelligence and automation technologies, Oracle Identity SOC portfolio now offers cloud-native identity governance combined with adaptive security designed to protect our customer’s cloud and digital services,” said Rohit Gupta, group vice president, Cloud Security, Oracle. “In addition to strengthening internal security monitoring, Oracle’s comprehensive cross-stack threat detection capabilities provide broad threat detection range, less noise from false positives and a high level of accuracy in detecting and remediating threats against the enterprise’s most important IT asset–its data.”

The Oracle Identity SOC portfolio now includes new automated identity governance for hybrid clouds, expanded consumer identity management, machine learning-driven configuration management and enhanced artificial intelligence capabilities.
First Cloud-Native Identity Governance Offering

Oracle announced the first cloud-native identity governance service for hybrid cloud environments, which will be fully integrated and native to Oracle’s SaaS applications, Oracle Identity SOC portfolio (including Oracle Identity Cloud Service and Oracle CASB Cloud Service), as well as Oracle Management Cloud. This combination helps provide a better user experience for identity governance and automation of traditional processes and assessments through intelligent machine learning and cloud application risk feeds from Oracle CASB Cloud Service, all of which can be unified with security and operational telemetry from on-premises and hybrid environments. The new identity governance service features out-of-the-box connectors for integration with external systems and a consumer-grade interface for enterprise campaigns including application access requests, approvals and certifications.

Oracle CASB Cloud Service now also includes risk-based cloud access control to help enterprises mitigate risks to cloud applications. The new controls help manage configuration changes or application access based on rich context including device type, geo-location, and dynamic risk scores. Combined, these factors are designed to help prevent user access based on stolen credentials and mitigate the risk of cloud application administrator privileges misuse.

Industry-First Machine Learning-Driven Configuration Management

Additionally, Oracle introduced a game-changing feature in Oracle Configuration and Compliance Cloud Service, built on Oracle Management Cloud, which automatically discovers the configuration settings across a customer’s entire organization in real time and uses machine learning to find outlier configurations, which can then be automatically remediated. In addition, Oracle Management Cloud now supports rulesets to enforce DISA’s Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) against the Oracle Database. Oracle has also now extended its user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) across the entire stack. Specifically, Oracle Security Monitoring and Analytics (SMA) Cloud Service continuously baselines data access patterns at the SQL level and then detects anomalies by user, database or application.
Expanded Consumer Identity Management

Recognizing the need for enterprises to correlate consumer data with marketing information, Oracle expanded its consumer identity management capabilities in Oracle Identity Cloud Service with integrations with Oracle Marketing Cloud and Oracle Data Cloud. By leveraging built-in consent management, social profiles, preference management and activity attributes from Oracle Identity Cloud Service with these solutions, enterprises can build more targeted marketing campaigns with better consumer insights and analytics. In addition, easy integration with third-party or custom applications via Oracle Self-Service Integration Cloud Service will allow marketers to incorporate additional services.
New Partner Programs Help Deliver Complete Security Solutions

Continuing its commitment to supporting the development of a heterogeneous security ecosystem, Oracle today launched the Identity SOC Security Network in Oracle Cloud Marketplace. This program offers technology integrations with leading security vendors across critical areas including Enterprise Mobility Management, Next Generation Firewalls, Endpoint Security and Threat Intelligence, enabling enterprises to enrich the dynamic context, intelligence and automation capabilities of Oracle Identity SOC. In addition, Oracle continues to enable hundreds of partners worldwide to achieve Oracle PartnerNetwork Specializations in Security and Systems Management Cloud Services.

"We're incredibly excited to work with the Oracle Identity SOC portfolio," said Prakash Linga, CTO and co-founder of Vera. "Identity is the single most critical element of all modern applications and systems. Enhancing Oracle’s portfolio with Vera’s data-centric security and encryption solution makes Oracle’s services incredibly compelling for businesses.”

“We are excited to work with Oracle to introduce Compromised Credentials as a new category in Oracle CASB Cloud Service for refining organization and identity-centric risk assessment,” said Steve Tout, CEO of Seattle based VeriClouds. “With VeriClouds-powered credential monitoring and detection, more than 7 billion compromised credentials are surfaced to enable the automation of risk insight from the dark web into actionable intelligence for the Oracle Identity SOC.”

“Our digital workspace platform, VMware Workspace ONE powered by AirWatch unified endpoint management technology, helps IT secure apps based on conditional access policies and provides a seamless end user experience for any app from any device,” said Ashish Jain, vice president of product management, End-User Computing, VMware. “Workspace ONE and Oracle’s security solutions enables us to strengthen application security and provide data-driven insights to help mutual customers make better informed decisions related to device and app management.” 


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Oracle
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