February 29, 2016 Posted in Blogs

One of my clients is facing JD Edwards upgrade from v.8.0 to v.9.2. As we know, ERP system involves many departments of an organization, with many data entries and aggregations. An upgrade of an ERP system could take years long and the cost is significant, so to understand the ROI (Return on Investment) of the upgrade makes a lot of sense.

Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne comes with multiple modules, including Financials, Inventory Management, Asset Management, Case Management, Project Management, Order Management, Human Capital Management, Mobile Solutions, etc.

IBM offers a neat JD Edwards Upgrade ROI Tool to calculate the return based on JDE version number, user amount and other factors. It’s Excel-based, easy to use and understand...

January 31, 2016 Posted in Blogs

Prerequisites: Oracle WebCenter Content, UCM, WebCenter Portal, RIDC

When we do large portal site development, we usually store enterprise content and images in content repository. Content repository offers library services, content check-in / out and versioning, etc., which allows content more manageable and traceable.

A common use case is to present images that store in content repository in portal page directly. Let’s see how we do this under Oracle WebCenter Content and Portal environment.

The idea is to build up a HashMap which holds key-value pairs docName-docURL. When portal page renders, it references to the specific docName key defined in the image tag and loads the image based on the value of docURL from content repository...

December 30, 2015 Posted in Blogs

Prerequisites: Oracle WebCenter Content, UCM, Security, Roles

To manage enterprise content security is always a sensitive and important task since it involves the intellectual property, legal documents and business contracts of an organization.

Oracle WebCenter Content (WCC, previous UCM) provides comprehensive security features through Security Groups, Roles, Permissions, Accounts, Access Control List (ACL) and WebLogic-based Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS). It is complex, isn’t it? But once you read through this article, you will understand how it works.

Oracle WCC runs as a managed server on WebLogic Server. How does the security login connect to directory services? The answer is Oracle WCC security is driven by WebLogic Server...