Google Releases Google Services for Websites

clipped from www.eweek.com Google has introduced a suite of solutions called Google Services for Websites, allowing users to drive traffic to their individual Websites, monetize their sites via AdSense, and add search capabilities. Yahoo, Facebook and other IT companies have also been equipping users and developers with the tools necessary to customize their online space.

Use of Virtualization on Blades Growing: Survey

clipped from www.eweek.com Enterprises and SMBs continue to increase their use of virtualization technology on blade servers, according to a poll conducted by industry consortium Blade.org. The survey showed that 82 percent of enterprises are using virtualization on blades or have plans to, while 28 percent of SMBs already are and another 36 percent plan to. In both business categories, VMware was the top choice, followed by Xen and Microsoft. Businesses big and small are continuing to grow their use of virtualization technology in blade servers, according to a recent survey by Blade.org. The results, released March 26, showed that 82 percent of the large enterprises surveyed said they already had implemented or are planning to implement projects involving the use of virtualization technology on blade servers in the data center. Enterprises in the survey were those businesses with more than $1 million in their IT budgets.

VMware, Citrix, Microsoft Reap Benefits from Hosted Desktop Virtualization

clipped from www.eweek.com VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and other virtualization companies will benefit as the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market accelerates through 2013, with revenue growing to $65.7 billion in 2013, according to a new research report by Gartner. This growth could mean that HP, Dell and other hardware vendors will be encouraged to take their own steps into the virtual desktop marketplace. VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and other virtualization companies stand to benefit further from their virtualization solutions in coming years, at least according to a March 26 report by research firm Gartner, which said that the worldwide hosted virtual desktop market would accelerate through 2013.

Oracle Improves Database Management in New Enterprise Manager Release

clipped from www.eweek.com Oracle makes a number of moves to round out the database management capabilities of the recent release of Enterprise Manager. Among them is tighter integration with Oracle Database Vault, the company’s database access control technology. Oracle has enhanced integration between Database Vault and Enterprise Manager 10g Release 5, one of several moves the company has made to improve database administration in the latest version of Enterprise Manager.

R12 : Cash Management Period Closure

clipped from www.oracleappshub.com Herewith providing the generic period close process for Cash managment for R12.

R12 :FA Close process

clipped from www.oracleappshub.com In FA, at period end, we require to run depreciation for depreciation books set up for the organization, and to Create accounting for Oracle General Ledger. Oracle Assets has only a single open depreciation period in each depreciation book.

‘Green’ benefits from your document lifecycle

clipped from news.zdnet.com For many companies today, the focus around technology is on increasing efficiency, reducing costs, and embracing a “greener” business model, but does this mean paper documents are finally heading toward their long-predicted obsolescence? Probably not. However, creating, sharing, editing, and printing those documents has proven to be a large drain on productivity, efficiency, and budgets.

Application Express Release 3.2

clipped from www.oracle.com A significant new feature of Oracle Application Express Release 3.2 is Oracle Forms Conversion which helps developers to convert Oracle Forms-based applications into Oracle Application Express Web applications. Oracle Forms Conversion automatically converts most user interface components and provides tracking capabilities to plan for and monitor the manual implementation of business logic post-generation. Once Oracle Forms source files are converted into XML, they are loaded into an Oracle Application Express conversion project. Developers can then specify which user interface components to generate, annotate all components, and produce an initial design. Converting Oracle Forms-based applications to Oracle Application Express enables developers to:

Oracle could do better – licenses for virtualisation

clipped from searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com Microsoft, IBM, and CA are among major vendors that have made their software licensing policies more virtualization friendly in the past year. Other software vendors –namely Oracle — hold to licensing policies designed for the physical world, according to Burton Group virtualization expert Chris Wolf. “Most vendors are moving away from physical-based licensing, [but] Oracle [Corp.] is the biggest example of a company that is a pain point for virtualization users; they don’t officially support VMware, and their licensing is still bound to physical hardware,” Wolf said. The problem with the old school of licensing – which is based on physical CPU, CPU socket, or core – is that virtual machines (VMs) require flexibility. Tying licenses to physical resources complicates compliance auditing and data centers often end up licensing to the greatest common denominator, according to Wolf.

Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites

Gartner’s view on BPMS applications.

Magic Quadrant for Business Process Management Suites

Interestingly in 2007, Gartner published Cool Vendors in Business Process Management:

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