VCP Cloud - Planning Central

Oracle Supply Chain Planning Cloud - "Planning Central" surely seems impressive with the new simpler GUI, in-memory planning engine and pre-integrated cloud. Release 11 is first release for Fusion Planning Central. 

Planning Central provides demand planning, inventory planning and supply planning capabilities all in one application with linkage to execution systems. 

• Demand Management: Forecast based of shipment/booking history with sales orders consuming forecast. Stat engine supporting causal factors with NPI capabilities inbuild
• Inventory Planning: Stat safety stock derivation based of demand volatility & stocking goals. 
• Supply Planning:  Material and Resource requirement calculation based of SS and customer demand with lead times, calendars, availability etc. in consideration.

Planning Central key features:

• Unified Data model with common set of dimensions for supply & demand plans
• 200+ Seeded measures
• End to End business process flow support (CollectData>PlanDemand>PlanInventory>PlanSupplies>Execute)
• Integrated with OrderMgmt, MaterialsMgmt, InventoryMgmt, Mfg & Purchasing Cloud Services
• Integrated with Fusion ERP for collections & planning output releases
• OOTB Plan Summary dashboard
• Planner Workbench (Configurable)
• Seeded Data views (Configurable)
• Seeded Analytics (Configurable)
• Embedded Analytics (Configurable)
• Excel Export/Import option

Here is a demo from Oracle on Planning Central's first release. 

Remember all the configurations/setups for Planning Central very much like other Cloud applications is required to be done using Functional Setup Manager(FSM). Offering is Value Chain Planning and functional area is Planning Central. FSM should be used for setting up source systems definition, profiles, loading data and configuring planning analytics. 

Prep for a Cloudy time ahead - Adopting Cloud

Moving Development & Testing to Cloud:

• Development and test environments soon will be all on Cloud, as strategy to move from on-premise infrastructure and application installation into cloud for temporary needs seems surely beneficial to businesses
• Even for doing POCs and evaluations before taking up journey to implement a software can be better handled by using a Cloud for the time needed

Deploying Business Process to Cloud:

• Review OOTB Cloud service offering
• Map & align current business process to OOTB offering
• Configure the service offered
• Integrate the service to rest of the ecosystem (other clouds/non-cloud systems)
• Migrate data, Test & Adopt

Hybrid & Mix: 

• Many businesses are gong with Hybrid approach by carrying combination of on-premises, private cloud & public clouds
• Even going to multiple vendors for different cloud services is seen often as per recent market research on customers using Cloud

IT Department:

• Need for new learning and skills 
• Prepping for right partnership for journey to Cloud
• First Cloud experience & Maintenance to upgrade/enhance/support Cloud services afterwards

Demantra on Cloud

Demantra is now available on Cloud with Oracles' Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) allowing customers to setup a Demantra instance on Cloud or to clone an existing instance into Cloud. There are currently though some limitations on usability, and this platform is supported for setting up instance for development, demo & QA purposes mainly. This surely allows customers to setup a cost optimal way of doing development, POCs and testing using Demantra instances setup on Cloud rather than setting up servers and supporting in house.

Current support is limited to release 12.2 and 12.1.3-based environments on Oracle Linux, and currently excludes configurations with Oracle RAC, DMZ, and external integrations.

VCP on Cloud benefits:

• Infrastructure cost savings
• Allocate temporary infra for Project POCs, testing, training and development
• Monitoring and automated patching abilities using Oracle Application Management Suite(AMS) for on-premises & cloud environments simultaneously

You need subscription of Oracle Compute Cloud services (like any other SaaS).With IaaS though you are supposed to purchase license for VCP suite and will be responsible for maintaining your VCP instance hosted on Cloud. Oracle does offer through Oracle managed Cloud Services option of Oracle managed VCP instance. 

Read on for more details @ https://blogs.oracle.com/demantra/entry/demantra_in_the_cloud_you

Oracle E-Business Suite, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Oracle E-Business Suite, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Oracle E-Business Suite, Virtualization and Cloud Computing

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February 3, 2010,
Volume 144, Issue 1

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 in a five-part nutshell.

In a five-part series on virtualization and cloud topics, Ivo Dujmovic, an architect in Oracle's Applications Technology Integration group, offers a detailed view of the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 for prospective and current users.

Read the complete article by clicking on this link "Oracle E-Business Suite, Virtualization and Cloud Computing"

Oracle Cloud Computing - Oracle Wiki

Oracle Cloud Computing - Oracle Wiki

Cloud Computing

Definition:

As defined by NIST(national institute of technology) Cloud computing is essentially on demand access to computing resources.

It has essential characterstics of on demand self service, resource pooling, rapid elasticity to scale out and scale in, the ability to meter who is using what and broad network access.

Three service models for cloud computing are:
1. SaaS software as a service, is a prebuilt, vertically integrated application/solution delivered to customer as a service.

2. IaaS infrastructure as a service, is purely providing computing resources, storage and network, as service to the client.

3. PaaS platform as a service. is a flexible combination of above two service models and thus customer can develop and deploy their own application using best of both the worlds.

Deployment models:

1. Public cloud, is shared across multiple customers or tenants and is hosted and managed by a service provider.

2. Private cloud on the other hand is exclusive for an organization and is controlled and governed by that organization.

3. Hybrid cloud is where an organization with a private cloud model uses public clouds for any excess cloud service requirements occassionally. Eg an overflow or for additional workload needs

4. Community cloud is a semi private cloud with access to only a set of defined tenants who share backgrounds or needs

What is driving clouds ?

AGILITY AGILITY AGILITY
The fact that users can provision resources on demand, acquire more resources when needed and release them when done with them, is the key driver for cloud computing.

Any drop off which may occur in the interaction happening between two clouds, might just mean a complete loss of valuable services. It is like two clouds up in the sky and informatiin flashin like lightening going from cloud to cloud and cloud to ground, the possibiltiess of loss of energy is inevitable and that is where the core problem of cloud computing lies.

Amazon web services are already in this niche market. For a public cloud to become a feasible solution for small businesses, the need to ensure the security of transaction and data.

Google OS is another such initiative where we will see a huge participation and usage of cloud computing capabilities.