Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 560 pages
• Published by: Reed-Matthews, Inc. March 7, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0615141226
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0615141220
• Book Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.7 pounds

Product Description
"Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Release 11.5.10+" is OnCallDBA and Solution Beacon's latest collaboration. Topics include Release 11i Concepts and Architecture, Oracle10g, Installing Release 11i, Upgrading or Migrating to Release 11i, Maintaining Release 11i, Administering Release 11i, Securing Release 11i, Setting Up the Concurrent Manager, Using the Concurrent Manager, Release 11i Reporting, and Tuning and Troubleshooting. Co-authored by Barbara Matthews, John Stouffer, Randy Giefer, Karen Brownfield, Jeff Holt, James Morrow, Bruno Coon, Tim Sharpe and Faun deHenry, this book covers Oracle10g and E-Business Release 11.5.10+

About The Author
Barbara Matthews (barb@oncalldba.com) is the founder and principal consultant at OnCallDBA, the Oracle Applications System Administration consultancy. As a recognized expert on taming Oracle's Concurrent Manager, Barbara wrote her first book, Administering Oracle Applications, (or, Herding Cats Made Easy), which established her reputation by sharing hard-won knowledge about the nuances of supporting Oracle Applications. Barbara collaborated with John Stouffer, Randy Giefer, and Karen Brownfield to write Installing, Upgrading and Maintaining Oracle Applications 11i, (or, When Old Dogs Herd Cats - Release 11i Care and Feeding) in 2003.

John Stouffer (jstouffer@solutionbeacon.com) co-chairs the Oracle Fusion Council, Oracle Applications User Group Upgrade Special Interest Group (SIG) as well as the OAUG Release 10.7/11.0/11i De-Support Focus Groups. He was selected as the International Oracle Applications User Group Member of the Year for 2004 and was a featured speaker at Oracle OpenWorld 2004, 2005, and 2006. John has presented papers and moderated panels at numerous local, regional, national, and international conferences for Oracle Applications users and support staff including DOUG, FWOUG, HOUG, Atl-OAUG, SROAUG, SCOAUG, NWOUG, MAOP, NEOAUG, OATS and NCOAUG conferences, Oracle AppsWorld, and numerous OAUG conferences for many years. He has over 18 years experience with Oracle database administration including more than 14 years supporting Oracle Applications environments including installation, implementations, upgrades, and system assessments. John is a Senior Applications Technologist, DBA, and Architect with Solution Beacon, LLC.

Randy Giefer (rgiefer@solutionbeacon.com) has over 21 years of practical business experience in the Information Technology and systems integration arena, with experience in the Federal and local Government, Higher Education, energy, airline, mortgage banking, and automotive manufacturing industries. This business experience is coupled with over 8 years of experience in the implementation and administration of Oracle Financial (Commercial and Federal/Public Sector), COTS/GOTS, and Manufacturing software applications in the role of an Applications Database Administrator, Systems Architect and Security Architect. In addition to his Oracle Applications and Security experience, Randy has over 12 additional years of Oracle database development and administration. His project experience includes systems architecture, database architecture, security architecture, installation, upgrades, performance tuning, development, testing, database administration and production systems management. He is active in the Oracle community and is recognized as an industry expert, presenting at Oracle and OAUG conferences and workshops as well as chairing the OAUG SysAdmin SIG. In addition to performing consultant and management roles at prior companies, Randy is also the founder of Solution Beacon, LLC.

Karen Brownfield (kbrownfield@solutionbeacon.com) has 25+ years experience programming, installing, and managing applications used in various industries including Chemicals, Entertainment, Defense, Recruitment, and Hospitality. The past 11 years she has focused on Oracle Applications specializing in Financials and Workflow as functional specialist, programmer, team lead, and/or project manager. Karen is also a member of the OAUG board of directors, serving in multiple capacities in the last ten years, including President, Past President, other Executive Committee roles, and has presented many papers and training sessions at the various OAUG and user group conferences locally, regionally, and internationally.

Jeff Holt (jholt@solutionbeacon.com) is a Senior Technical Consultant and Oracle Database Administrator. He has more than 16 years experience in information technology and over ten years of experience as a technical consultant and database administrator. He has extensive experience with the architecture and administration of Oracle's e-Business Suite applications. Jeff has provided technical expertise for numerous upgrades and installations including versions 9.x, 10.x, 10.7NCA, 11.0.x and 11.5.x. He also has experience with advanced options such as Real Application Clusters, Oracle Single Sign-on, firewall configuration, and reverse proxy servers. He has experience implementing and configuring internet applications using Apache, Oracle 9iAS, Java, Java servlets, and CGI programs. Jeff is an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) Database Administrator and has served as a panel member on Oracle Applications 11i Upgrade panels at various OAUG conferences and workshops.

Bruno Coon (bcoon@solutionbeacon.com) is a Technical Consultant and Oracle Applications Database Administrator. He has over 25 years experience in working as a DBA and developer with Oracle databases and has extensive experience in database architecture, design, modeling, tuning, and PL/SQL programming. He has several years of experience as an Oracle Applications DBA.

James Morrow (jmorrow@solutionbeacon.com) is a Senior Technical Consultant and Oracle Applications Database Administrator. He has over 15 years experience in the Information Technology industry including 12+ years as an Oracle Applications DBA and Unix Systems Administrator. He has extensive experience in systems architecture including installations, upgrades, and advanced configurations of Oracle's E-Business Suite applications. Mr. Morrow also has experience with a wide variety of operating systems and platforms, including every major variant of the UNIX operating system and on Microsoft Windows NT.

Tim Sharpe (tsharpe@solutionbeacon.com) has over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and has worked with various Oracle systems, tools and concepts. He has served as data base administrator, developer, system architect, technical manager with his primary focus on reporting, Business Intelligence, system integration and web enabled interfaces. Tim has worked with Oracle Applications for the past 7 years and has been involved in implementations, upgrades and development of advanced reporting solutions. Prior to joining Solution Beacon, LLC, he has held positions as DBA, technical developer, senior consultant, technical project lead, Director of Business Intelligence and various other technical and management positions. Tim is currently a Director of Services specializing in Business Intelligence

Faun deHenry (faun.dehenry@fmtsystems.com) is President and CEO of FMT Systems Inc. Ms. deHenry has managed regional consulting organizations during the last two decades. She is an officer in the Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Special Interest Group and past chair of the Oracle Applications Users Group Education Committee. Ms. deHenry is a recognized speaker on a variety of topics including Oracle's e-Business Suite, Business Intelligence, Managing and Sustaining Virtual Teams, and Best Practices for Virtual Organizations.