OpenJDK Project announced for Mac OS X

November 12, 2010 · Filed Under Software News · Comment 

Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical client. OpenJDK will make Apple’s Java technology available to open source developers so they can access and contribute to the effort.

“We are excited to welcome Apple as a significant contributor in the growing OpenJDK community,” said Hasan Rizvi, Oracle’s senior vice president of Development. “The availability of Java on Mac OS X plays a key role in the cross-platform promise of the Java platform. The Java developer community can rest assured that the leading edge Java environment will continue to be available on Mac OS X in the future. Combined with last month’s announcement of IBM joining the OpenJDK, the project now has the backing of three of the biggest names in software.”

“We’re delighted to be working with Oracle to insure that there continues to be a great version of Java on the Mac,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “The best way for our users to always have the most up to date and secure version of Java will be to get it directly from Oracle.”

Apple also confirmed that Java SE 6 will continue to be available from Apple for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and the upcoming release of Mac OS X Lion. Java SE 7 and future versions of Java for Mac OS X will be available from Oracle.

Java is a general purpose software development platform that is specifically designed to be open and enable application developers to “write once, run anywhere.” The Java platform is most widely used in business software, web and mobile applications.

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Excel4apps Achieves Oracle Validated Integration of GL Wand with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1

September 21, 2010 · Filed Under Software News · Comment 

Excel4apps to demonstrate GL Wand at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco

Oracle partner Excel4apps announced that its GL Wand 4.1 software has achieved Oracle Validated Integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Oracle Validated Integration, through the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), applies a rigorous technical process to review integration of third-party software like GL Wand with Oracle Applications products. For GL Wand, this means Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 users can confidently and easily access and report financial information real-time  through a familiar Excel front end.

“As part of the Oracle PartnerNetwork, Excel4apps is excited to announce Oracle Validated Integration for our flagship GL Wand product, as it assures our customers that the software has been found technically and functionally sound, and performs as documented with the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1,” said Michele Buson, director and co-founder of Excel4apps. “Our customers who use Oracle benefit greatly from the integration with GL Wand, which supports faster finance reporting and monthly closes, as well as data integrity with real-time information access.”

Excel4apps achieved Oracle Validated Integration through the Oracle PartnerNetwork.. This program provides partners with access to Oracle Applications software, tools, technical resources and training to assist them in developing integrations based on Oracle standards and best practices.

GL Wand is Excel-based and integrates directly with the Oracle E-Business Suite, so there is no need to learn a new interface. Installed within minutes and easy to use, GL Wand requires little support from information technology staff for maintenance and programming. Report creation and queries for Oracle data are easily accomplished by accountants and other financial users with minimal training, allowing more time for data analysis and faster ad-hoc reporting. In addition, the direct integration with Oracle inspires confidence in reports at all organizational levels.

“With GL Wand, our executives are much more comfortable with what they see on paper,” said Jason Burgos of the Business Applications group at FICO, an analytics software and services provider. “GL Wand pulls directly from the transactional system in real time, without offline processes that could introduce costly errors, enabling us to manage our business effectively.” Read more

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Oracle unveils first phase of Oracle Identity Management 11g

July 6, 2009 · Filed Under Security Software, Software News · Comment 

Industry’s First Service-Oriented Security Approach to Identity Management

  • As part of today’s Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g launch, Oracle announced the availability of the first components of Oracle Identity Management 11g including Oracle Platform Security Services, Oracle Internet Directory 11g, Oracle Virtual Directory 11g, and Oracle Identity Federation 11g.
  • Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS), a new layer for security services available through Oracle Fusion Middleware, delivers the industry’s first Service-Oriented Security foundation. As a comprehensive declarative security framework Oracle Platform Security Services allows developers to easily build security into their applications and deploy them into a centralized identity management framework.
  • Oracle Directory Services features a newly integrated administration console – Oracle Directory Services Manager – to manage and configure LDAP directories, virtual-directories and meta-directories from a single point. It also features new wizards to help accelerate directory deployments by simplifying tasks such as sizing, tuning, and replication.
  • Oracle Web Services Manager and Oracle Access Manager have significant enhancements to provide integrated access control including message encryption, identity propagation, and policy management for Web-based applications and Web services in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor environment.
  • Oracle Identity Federation now features the Universal Federation Framework, extending connectivity to a broad set of protocols including SAML 2.0, Microsoft CardSpace, Liberty, WS-Federation, and more. Oracle Identity Federation 11g has also passed Liberty Alliance SAML 2.0 Interoperability Testing, thereby demonstrating how user-driven, identity-enabled applications can interoperate across networks, devices and regions.
  • Oracle is also announcing Oracle Identity Analytics, an integrated audit and compliance solution. Oracle Identity Analytics provides rich compliance dashboards, along with intelligent analytics, by aggregating identity data from multiple enterprise systems, applications, and network monitoring solutions into an Identity Warehouse.

Added Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g – The Foundation for Application Security

  • Oracle Identity Management 11g delivers single sign-on and access management for all Oracle Fusion Middleware products including Oracle WebCenter Suite, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle WebLogic Suite, and Oracle ADF and ADF Desktop Interface, as well as for Oracle Enterprise Manager, through the integration of Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Platform Security Services.
  • The suite strengthens integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware, including new common components, such as a modern, unified user-interface based on AJAX/JSF technologies, shared infrastructure services for encryption, credential management, security policy and meta-data management, auditing and systems management.
  • The added integration between Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Fusion Middleware provides greater flexibility in deploying Applications in an operational environment, helps streamline compliance and controls enforcement, and enables reduced management and operational costs.
  • Partners can also leverage Oracle Identity Management 11g to declaratively build security into applications and automate the integration and deployment of applications into security infrastructures. This is a critical benefit for all partners who build and extend enterprise applications.

Supporting Quotes

  • “Enterprise security is an absolute necessity and businesses cannot afford to compromise,” said Amit Jasuja, vice president, Oracle Identity Management. “Oracle developed Oracle Identity Management 11g with our customers in mind, delivering the most integrated, comprehensive and hot-pluggable security solution on the market. With the Service-Oriented Security approach, businesses can seamlessly build and integrate security into their key technologies to help lower the costs and resources required to implement world-class security.”
  • “The release of Oracle Identity Management 11g marks a significant advance in the integration and manageability of identity management software. The declarative security framework in Oracle Identity Management 11g will allow a dramatically simplified process of incorporating security into applications, and the suite-wide integration combined with a rich Web 2.0 administrative interface will help reduce the resources required to deploy and manage security within the enterprise,” said Kris Virtue, Staff IT Manager, Identity Solutions and Security Operations, Qualcomm.

Supporting Resources

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g Datasheet
  • Oracle Identity Management 11g Whitepaper
  • Oracle Unveils Strategy for Service-Oriented Security

Source: Oracle

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Oracle Announces General Availability of Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1

May 6, 2009 · Filed Under Communications, Networking Software, Software News · Comment 

Application Enhancements Empower Communications Service Providers to More Rapidly Introduce and Deliver Next Generation Services

  • To enable the rapid introduction, fulfillment and ongoing management of next-generation, customer-centric services, Oracle announced the availability of Oracle(R) Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1.
  • The application is designed for cost-effective introduction in a discrete fashion into an existing inventory environment through a modular, service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based framework and inventory federation capabilities for unifying disparate data across multiple systems. This approach enables service providers to deploy only the specific inventory capabilities required in their environments.
  • Since the product’s initial launch, service providers worldwide have purchased and/or deployed the application – including Etihad Atheeb Telecom “GO,” Cellular South, Com Hem AB and Tikona Digital Networks – to support enterprise and consumer services across fixed, cable and mobile networks.
  • Building on best practices derived from these implementations, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 provides new capabilities with improved usability and integration that will help customers accelerate deployment and optimize the application’s benefits, while reducing total cost of ownership.

New Features in Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1

  • Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 introduces pre-built technology packs that provide out-of-the-box functionality for accelerated rollout of the most common IP multi-play and higher layer services including voice over IP (VoIP), multiprotocol label switching layer 3 virtual private network (MPLS L3 VPN) and Metro Ethernet/virtual local area network (VLAN) services.
  • The application enables true inventory federation through a federation framework that allows integration and collaboration with external inventory systems without requiring capital intensive data migration and/or consolidation, or a risky complete inventory system transformation.
  • Further, Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 delivers out-of-the-box integration with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, which many service providers use to create tailored reports that draw upon real-time and historical inventory data, as well as Oracle Spatial, which supports geographical mapping and geocoding across the application. These pre-built integrations deliver rapid, seamless incorporation of business analytics and powerful geospatial representations to the inventory arena.
  • The new release also features an enhanced graphical design time modeling tool, Design Studio, which offers best practices modeling of customer services and resources. It also simplifies the configuration and development of Web services to support service fulfillment for enterprise and consumer multi-play services.
  • Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 also provides additional documentation and use cases to empower service provider implementation teams with tools to deploy the application faster and with less in-house development.

Supporting Quotes

“Communications service providers around the world are already benefitting from the integrated inventory tools that Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management offers. With this new release, Oracle has demonstrated the application’s strength through documented successes that service providers and their systems integrator partners can replicate, as well as productized technology packs to accelerate the delivery of key next generation services. Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management 7.1 will empower service providers to quickly and efficiently introduce, deploy and manage a range of services, from convergent consumer multi-play to advanced enterprise services,” said Liam Maxwell, vice president of products, Oracle Communications.

“With the intent to create the largest WiMax network in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, GO had the unique opportunity to define a strategic systems architecture that is not burdened by legacy applications or approaches but instead embraces innovative applications that natively support contemporary technologies, are readily extensible to support additional technologies and ensure close alignment with key TM Forum standards. Consistent with that goal, GO has deployed Oracle Communications Unified Inventory Management as our strategic inventory platform, which provides GO the confidence and flexibility to support both current and next-generation services and technologies,” said Craig Humphreys, vice president, information technology at Etihad Atheeb Telecom “GO.”

Source: Oracle

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