RELEASE 9 PAGE User Experience Highlights

August 2, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The Usable Apps website now contains a location for externally facing Release 9 material. You’ll find links to product-specific blog posts, demos, and recordings. (These recordings are for Oracle employees and Oracle partners. Customers do not have access unless otherwise noted.)
If your focus is the Oracle HCM Cloud, watch “Oracle HCM: Manage and Retain Your Key Talent” and watch the simplified UI get the spotlight in this story about the user experience of Ted, a rising star in a global architecture company. See how he can easily understand his individual goals and performance and drive his development in a review with his manager.
EMERGING TECHNOLOGY (AKA GADGET) NEWS: Head to The AppsLab blog if you’re interested in emerging technology that our team is researching as we build the next evolution of the Oracle user experience. There’s a new post on the Android Wear watch and another recent one on Automatic, a gadget that purports to make you a better driver.
Over on the Voice of User Experience (VoX) blog, we’ve given a recent Storify post on the Internet of Things some extra fresh air. Read it to learn how the Internet of Things is influencing Oracle’s user experience strategy.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Have you seen where the Oracle user experience is heading? If you didn’t get to attend one of our recent events in San Francisco or London or if you can’t come to Oracle Headquarters to tour the new Cloud UX lab (and even if you can), check out our new e-book on the Oracle user experience strategy. You can also watch Thomas Kurian, President of Oracle, explain why user experience is pivotal to customer experience in this recent video.

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PaaS4SaaS UX Enablement with Certus Solutions: Valid Business Proposition by Ultan O’Broin

August 2, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Oracle’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a huge opportunity for Oracle partners. Using PaaS4SaaS  for extending the Oracle Applications Cloud and building simplified UI solutions are powerful differentiators combined. Add in user experience (UX), and it’s a competitive must-have move for business. The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) communications and outreach team has been on the road enabling partners to make this competitive potential real.

Our first PaaS4SaaS enablement in 2015 was a three-day, hands-on design and development event with Certus Solutions, which was held at the Oracle London City office in the UK.

An awesome range of UX and technology skills from OAUX and partners was brought to bear on realizing a Cloud solution with attendees self-organizing and working seamlessly together in small agile teams.

All the stakeholders. Certus Solutions, eProseed and OAUX developers and designers collaborate. (L-R) Caroline Moloney (Certus Solutions), Lancy Silveira (OAUX), Mascha van Oosterhout (eProseed), and Julian Orr (OAUX). In the background are Debra Lilley (Certus Solutions) and Amit Kumar Bhowmick (OAUX).

Certus Solutions has partnered with eProseed to accelerate its PaaS offerings for extending the Oracle HCM Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud, and participants from both companies were at the event*. Facilitated by the OAUX design and development chops, this powerhouse of a team wireframed a great business solution for the Oracle Applications Cloud, built it using the simplified UI RDK, and deployed the result using the Oracle Java Cloud Service SaaS-Extension (JCS-SX) PaaS offering. Read the complete article here.

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ACE Director on Clearing the ConFusion – Oracle Cloud Applications by Debra Lilley

June 21, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image001As I typed that title I cringed. I have been an advocate for Oracle’s development of Next Generation Applications from the day they announced Fusion, and I hated the term quickly coined by pessimists of ‘Fusion – Confusion’. But now as Oracle drops the name Fusion, for its applications, I feel there really is some confusion, so I am going to use this post to clarify to this community.

Why am I writing this post for this blog? Well the problem is Oracle knows it has renamed the products, but their customers don’t. If you are attending COLLABORATE in April the stream is called Fusion Applications, and if it wasn’t the number of attendees would be very small, but more and more you need to recognise the Cloud brand. The components of Cloud that Oracle developed in their technology (okay, Fusion applications), are 100% written on Oracle Fusion Middleware, that hasn’t gone anywhere and continues to be developed, and it is the use of these Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies that Oracle AppAdvantage is all about – extending the capabilities of "Fusion" Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware. My starting position and reason I became involved with this AppAdvantage initiative is that there is no better shop window for what Oracle Fusion Middleware can do than the applications that Oracle has developed itself.

I did try an explanation on my own blog after Oracle Open World but this time I will be more succinct.

FACT : All Fusion Applications are now Cloud Applications.

Each pillar is now renamed Oracle …. Cloud , so Fusion Financials is now part of Oracle ERP Cloud, within each pillar there are the separate offerings which are normally desecrate process areas and with discrete pricing.

FACT : Not all  Cloud Applications started Life as Fusion Applications.

As part of their Cloud journey, Oracle has acquired some native cloud-delivered applications, such as Taleo and RightNow. The plan, being executed is that these products are being unified, i.e. integrated with other offerings, where possible being delivered on the same technology stack and being given the same User Experience as Oracle’s home grown offerings.

RightNow has for some time been known as Oracle Service Cloud  and the recruiting module from Taleo as Oracle Recruiting Cloud

FACT: Cloud Applications don’t have to be SaaS

Software as a Service is the deployment of an application in a cloud environment. Oracle, or a third party in some cases, hosts the application and look after not only the infrastructure but the patching and security, and in turn you pay a subscription to use charge.

Most of these same applications could be deployed on-premise with you being responsible for all the above and with the more traditional upfront licence costs.

Oracle have called the products Cloud because they are available and are being deployed as such more and more that way.

FACT : Oracle are trying to make it easy for you to find this all in one place.

This is a great place to start: https://cloud.oracle.com/home. The Applications tab goes through the offerings and you can find the PaaS offerings to extend and strengthen your SaaS. Read the article here.

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UX WHAT’S COMING IN 2015?

June 20, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002Catch up with the Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team in Santa Fe, Mexico, next. Register now for one of our executive briefings for select partners and customers, where you’ll see the strategy and roadmap for the Oracle user experience. Read the Voice of User Experience, or VoX, blog for more information, or go to the registration page directly.

The VoX blog also has a post on what’s next for the Oracle Applications Cloud user experiences, and the Usable Apps Events pages shows where our team members will be in 2015.

RELEASE 9: Head to the VoX blog for new posts with screenshots of Oracle HCM Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud.

AT UKOUG APPS14 IN DECEMBER: The Oracle Applications User Experience team held several very focused events in the United Kingdom, timed to coincide with the UKOUG Apps14 conference. Visit the Usable Apps Storify channel for an overview in tweets and images called “In the U.K.: Special Events and Apps14 with UKOUG.”

Debra Lilley, OAUX Speaker and longtime friend of the team, also wrote an article on user experience for UKOUG’s current issue of Oracle Scene online magazine.

UX DIRECT: The Oracle Applications User Experience team continues to take the pulse of our customers and obtain feedback on making usability a priority. The UX Direct site has been updated to include new design tools to help Oracle customers move toward cloud applications and understand how to simplify solutions. We have created simple checklists for UX Readiness for Cloud and Design Best Practices.

Whether you are deploying our applications as-is or customizing, extending, or building solutions to fit to your business needs, you will find our simple, user-centered process useful for increasing adoption. Download our best practices for introducing user-centered design thinking into your IT enterprise deployments. For Oracle partners moving toward cloud applications, we also have other new resources available online:

Members of the AppsLab team, part of the Oracle Applications User Experience group, headed to Las Vegas for the 2015 AT&T Developer Summit Hackathon in early January. Anthony Lai and Raymond Xie won the Accelerator entry with their project, Sensus. Read more about their project and other entries on the AppsLab blog. ORACLE VOICE: A new press release went live in the last month on Oracle Voice for the Oracle Sales Cloud. The news was published quickly on CNN’s Money page, by the Computer Business Review, and on Market Wired.

ON RELEASE 9: Head to the Usable Apps YouTube channel for a new play list on Oracle Applications Cloud Release 9 demos. You’ll see demos that focus on user experience highlights in the Oracle Sales Cloud.

The Voice of User Experience, or VoX blog, also recently published “More Power to the IT User: Release 9 Applications Cloud Customization and Extensibility.” This post gives an overview of new extensibility features in Release 9. For a more technical post on extensibility in the cloud, visit the AppsLab blog for a post called “Mash up Oracle Cloud Application Web Services with Web APIs and HTML5 APIs.”

INTERNET OF THINGS: Check out a new post on the Storify Usable Apps channel that explores Oracle’s user experience perspective on the Internet of Things, “The Internet of Things and the Oracle user experience.” John Cartan also posts about the Internet of Things in “Dowsing for Smarties,” a new post from The AppsLab. And if you’re interested in reading a more on the gadgets that enable the Internet of Things, stay with The AppsLab for Julia Blyumen’s post, “An Interaction Designer’s Perspective: Samsung Gear vs. Samsung Gear Live.”

FOR ORACLE PARTNERS: Visit the Usable Apps website for new information directed at Oracle partners. Find links to the new OAUX strategy ebook, the UX Specialist Role, and upcoming partner events. Learn how you can be more connected and be among the first to see our latest demos.

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The Internet of Things Will Be Huge, Is Your IT Infrastructure Ready to Support It? by Harish Venkat

June 8, 2015 Leave a comment

clip_image002IDC predicts that the worldwide IoT market will grow from $1.3 trillion in 2013 to $3.04 trillion in 2020 (1). IDC also states that within three years, 50% of IT networks will transition from having excess capacity to handle the additional IoT devices to being network constrained. (2)
As further evidence, analyst firm 451 Research reported an increase in M&A spending in 2014 that pushed ‘Internet of Things’-related deal-making past the $14bn mark, a fortyfold increase in acquirer spending compared to 2013. (3)
This rate of growth cannot be ignored. IoT is inevitable and will create tremendous opportunity for a new wave of services built around connected devices. It will also pose challenges to IT and infrastructure leaders for the following reasons:

  • The volume of data that will come off devices will be enormous and capable of completely overwhelming network infrastructures.
  • IT infrastructures will need to support these vast amounts of data.
  • Solutions that aren’t fully integrated will fail to deliver needed data and analytic capabilities. All devices will need to be integrated with all other devices, so seamless integration of applications and technologies will be critical.
  • Realizing business value from IoT will be dependent upon scalable and flexible infrastructures that can integrate and secure data received from various components and devices.

How can you prepare? A good first step is to modernize IT infrastructures and upgrade legacy architectures. As is the case with other technology trends like mobile, big data, and social, IT needs to be agile and strongly aligned with the business. This means anticipating and responding to business needs quickly, providing real-time information that informs decision-making, and being scalable to support planned and unplanned growth. Read the complete article here.

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Maven Repository – Index now available – more to come by Mark Nelson

May 16, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002I am happy to announce that we now have an index available for the Oracle Maven Repository.  This is a standard Maven index, built with the Maven Core Indexer code (donated by Sonatype to Maven – thanks!) and is available at https://maven.oracle.com/.index/nexus-maven-repository-index.properties and https://maven.oracle.com/.index/nexus-maven-repository-index.gz.

The easiest way to view it is to use an IDE like NetBeans, as shown below:

We are actively working with Maven Repository Manager and IDE teams to make this work for you across a variety of common tools you may use. Read the complete article here.

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AppAdvantage On-Demand Webcast Series on-demand

May 13, 2015 Leave a comment

clip_image001· Multi-Channel Enablement for a Digital Business

· Bridge the Cloud Gap with SaaS to On-Premise Integration

· Platform Optimization with Exalogic

· Customer documentary webcasts discussing integration, mobility, digital experience and more: Oracle AppAdvantage IT Leader Series

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See the Oracle Cloud UX roadmap in action at our lab

May 12, 2015 Leave a comment

 

clip_image002The new Oracle Cloud User Experience (UX) lab is officially open for business! Located on the bottom floor of the 200 building at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., it hosted its first tour during Oracle OpenWorld 2014. We can’t stop talking about it though. The Oracle Applications User Experience (OAUX) team has written about it on the Voice of User Experience, or VoX blog, and again on the AppsLab blog.

Can’t come to HQ to see the Oracle Applications user experience for yourself? Learn about the UX roadmap in a new, free eBook from the Oracle Applications User Experience team. Find the download link on the VoX blog.

Oracle Applications User Experience Vice President Jeremy Ashley in the new Oracle Cloud UX lab.
Onsite labs: Head to YouTube for a new video that shows what happens in the OAUX onsite labs, held at user group conferences near you! The video has also been posted on the Oracle Media Network.
Oracle Voice: Also on YouTube is a series of videos that show Oracle Voice, a new voice-activated application, in action. Visit the Usable Apps YouTube channel for a playlist  that collects up all the latest demos.
Simplified UI in PeopleSoft, EBS: The simplified UI is continuing to enhance the user experience in recent versions of PeopleSoft and E-Business Suite. Visit Oracle blogs to see the PeopleSoft Fluid UI  and new user interface features in E-Business Suite.
Oracle Partner Network (OPN): Misha Vaughan, director of the OAUX Communications & Outreach team, takes part in a discussion on the Oracle Applications User Experience in this video for Oracle partners.
UX Direct website: The Advanced Research and Tools (ART) team has rolled out a newly redesigned UX Direct site for customers and partners. Among the resources on the site are:

•    A simple user-centered design process
•    Oracle user experience design patterns and guidelines
•    Oracle templates, tools, and examples
•    A user-experience readiness checklist

Wearables: The AppsLab team has been digging into discussions on wearable technology on their blog. Wearables have been part of the OAUX team’s research and development for some time now. Head over for a post on “Google Glass, Android Wear, and Apple Watch.” Also posted in the last month: “Pseudo-Philosophical Observations on Wearables, Part 1,” and you’ll find a bit about wearables from Samsung, among other things, in this post as well: “Musings on Samsung Developer Conference 2014.”
Hack space; save the planet: In case you didn’t hear about the very cool asteroid hackathon in which members of the OAUX team participated — or if you want to know more about what happened there – here are a few new blog posts:

· Asteroid Hackathon, from co-host EchoUser

· Asteroid Hackathon, from Oracle’s The Apps Lab

· Asteroid Hackathon – The Winning Team

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AppAdvantage Benefits for Partners

April 1, 2015 Leave a comment

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Thank you once again for a great PartnerCast on November 12! Individual show segments are now hosted on Oracle Media Network’s PartnerCast channel for replay.

Replay links:

§ PartnerCast: Oracle AppAdvantage and Benefit to Partners

§ PartnerCast: Oracle Mobility and Opportunities for Partners

§ PartnerCast: 3Di Systems and Oracle Mobility Projects

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Reduce Operational Expense and Improve Performance With Platform Optimization – ondemand webcast

February 26, 2015 Leave a comment

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Grupo Farmacos is the leading distributor of medical equipment and medicine in Mexico, and services customers across the public and private sectors. In order to support its diverse business operations, the company built a high-performance virtualized infrastructure in the cloud.
Access this on demand webcast for an in-depth look at how Grupo Farmacos implemented Oracle’s engineered systems and middleware to:

  • Consolidate its architecture to control costs and improve IT efficiency
  • Support high-volume transactions and ensure high availability of critical Oracle applications
  • Leverage common, SOA-based integration architecture for Oracle and third-party applications

Register today for the webcast.

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