{"id":7443,"date":"2018-10-23T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/?p=7443"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:57:12","slug":"e-business-suite-oracle-cloud-oow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.version1.com\/en-us\/e-business-suite-oracle-cloud-oow\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Oracle E-Business Suite Changes and How Oracle Cloud Compares to the Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken MacMahon, Head of Oracle Integration, Version 1 <\/h2>\n

Oracle OpenWorld\u00a0is an annual\u00a0Oracle\u00a0convention for business decision-makers, IT management, and line-of-business end users to learn about trusted products and up-and-coming technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oracle OpenWorld kicked off in San Francisco yesterday, the 22nd of October and will run until Thursday, the 25th of October. Version 1 representatives were invited to attend the 19th\u00a0of October for the exclusive Oracle pre-advisory briefings and will be keen to hear from other attendees in our network. Keep up to date with us throughout Oracle OpenWorld\u00a0@Version1Tweets.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Today, Ken MacMahon, Head of Oracle Integration at Version 1\u00a0shares important news from the first day of Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Oracle E-Business Suite Continuous Innovation Delivery from 12.2<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Big news and roadmap clarification for all customers of\u00a0Oracle E-Business Suite<\/strong>. There will be no release 12.3 as we may have expected \u2013 but instead we will have 12.2 around until 2030<\/strong>, with roughly annual releases which will allow take up of technology upgrades without major<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0release upgrades. The image below from Cliff Godwin\u2019s\u00a0Oracle E-Business Suite Strategy Update<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0explains this nicely from 11i to where we will be until 2030.<\/p>\n

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What Does Continuous Innovation Delivery Mean for Oracle E-Business Suite Customers? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Oracle are committing to Continuous Innovation on Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 onward with premium support until at least 2030. This means that ongoing innovation and underlying technology stack updates will be delivered continuously without major upgrades.<\/p>\n

Major Change in Support for 12.2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before today, the lifetime support policy was as follows for Oracle E-Business Suite:<\/p>\n

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But after today\u2019s announcement, it now is as follows for 12.2, and it may go beyond 2030<\/em><\/strong> in one-year increments at Oracle\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n

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Now, this is big news! In short, for Oracle E-Business Suite customers, our advice is to upgrade to 12.2 as soon as possible \u2013 if not already – and you are in Premier Support until at least 2030!<\/p>\n

Larry Ellison\u2019s Key Note \u2013 How Oracle Cloud Compares to the Competition<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

As is expected now from the major Cloud provider events, in the first keynote of Oracle OpenWorld yesterday, \u2018Think Autonomous\u2019 Larry Ellison placed a focus on providing like-for-like comparisons between Oracle Cloud and one of its competitors \u2013 AWS.<\/p>\n

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Overall the keynote featured some considerably lofty claims that are spectacular enough to at least be called out for us all to make our judgements on the impact when we move Oracle workloads to Cloud all flavours.<\/p>\n

There were several key points of attack on the architecture provided in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Gen 2, or not \u2018Classis\u2019) some clarification on terminology did help, for those not au fait with it, versus AWS.<\/p>\n

The key point of this was the security and ring-fencing of the architecture which is built in to Oracle\u2019s Cloud versus AWS. But what was of more interest, as so often is the case with these, was the benchmarks provided for Oracle Database versus AWS (Aurora \/ Redshift).<\/p>\n

This year the focus was on the Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI versus the competitor. The claims which were oft repeated in slides and words by Larry Ellison were that Oracle would:<\/p>\n

\u201cCut your Amazon bill in half \u2013 guaranteed!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that is a big claim and sounded extremely ambitious \u2013 but then when you understand the intricacies of licencing for Oracle on non-Oracle clouds, it becomes a less surprising claim. In reality it could be put down to nuances of the licencing of Oracle on other Clouds, than any technical superiority and that\u2019s a pity because the tech side really is very impressive based on the benchmarks completed by Oracle.<\/p>\n

Some of these which were called out were as follows from Ellison\u2019s slides:-<\/p>\n

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So, these are impressive claims, but let\u2019s try and summarise what the key conclusions to take away from this presentation.<\/p>\n