R12 Upgrade

The above reflects Oracles current development plans which are subject to change at any time
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What To Expect When Upgrading To Release 12, New Upgrade Architecture, Best Practices & How To Manage A Successful Upgrade
Matthew Halliday Architect
Jim Horning Chief Scientist, SPARTA Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
Agenda
Release 12: The Global Business Release Is the R12 Upgrade Better than 11i? How Can I Be Successful? What About My Customizations? Unbreakable Linux Oracle Applications Manager How Can I Be Unsuccessful? What Can I Do Now? Questions & Answers
Is the R12 Upgrade Better?
Bigger is Better?
Increased Challenges for Upgrades R12 is a Major Release
Cross product initiatives impact a lot of objects across the EBusiness Suite
Largest E-Business Suite Release by every Matrix

Files
400,000 300,000 00,000 00,000 0 .5. .5.7 .5.8 .5.9 .5. 0 0.7
Database Objects
500,000 400,000 300,000 00,000 00,000 0 .5.7 .5.8 .5.9 .5. 0 0.7 .5.
Products
50 00 50 00 50 0 .5.7 .5.8 .5.9 .5. 0 0.7 .5.
Yes its Bigger, but is it Better?

Yes its not the 11i Upgrade! Technologylot of 11i took a improvements Design improvements Process improvements Resulting in reduced stress and lower medical insurance premiums, except for the Oracle product teams!
Technology Improvements
R12 Applications DBA (AD) Auto Patch replaces Auto Upgrade
Reduced AD overhead
Checkfile and Checkfile Equivalence RDBMS Parallelism scheduling improvements Automatic job deferral Distributed AD
10-20% improvement on DB tasks 75% improvement on generation
AD Parallel infrastructure improvements for work distribution for Large Table Update
Shared APPL_TOP and Distributed AD
Admin/CM Server
adpatch adpatch workers 1-10 workers 1-10
Forms Server Shared APPL_TOP Web Server
adpatch adpatch workers 1-10 workers 11-20
adpatch adpatch workers 21-30 1-10

Database Server
Web Server
adpatch adpatch workers 31-40 1-10
Performance Optimizer Dynamic Sampling (for objects with no stats) Table Monitoring: Gather Auto Option for FNDSTATS for what is new or changed Improved Guidance on database parameters for upgrades (Oracle Applications Upgrade Guide: Upgrading From Release 11i to Release 12) Downtime Reduction Techniques
Subledger Accounting General Ledger E-Business Tax
Design Improvements
Oracle Development Internal standards compliance checker Management of upgrade dependencies Detailed analytics of upgrades
Repository of script performance history against databases Database object growth Dependency enforcement Intense upgrade design review
Upgrade strategy designed at data model stage
Process Improvements
Upgrade Testing Earlier upgrade testing
Process Improvements
Upgrade Testing
Data Statistics for Global Single Instance May 2 (11. .1 .CU2) 1 . 2 . 1 66 1.2 61, Terabytes Billion rows of data Operating Units Sets of Books Million People Customers 2 6, Projects
. Million AR Invoices 6 Million AR Invoice lines 1 Million AP Invoices . Million Sales Orders . Million Sales Order lines 1 Languages 61 Million GL lines
2 Years of SLA Data 2, Vendors
How Can I Be Successful?

Plan! Plan! Plan! Upgrade Strategy Hardware / staffing resources Testing of key features Multiple upgrades
Rehearsal upgrade
Identify upgrade downtime target

Downtime reduction versus ease of upgrade

Activities
R12 Preparation
Obtain R12 DVDs / CDs Rapid Install to Install R12 Code Check / Apply for Family Consolidate Upgrade Patches Review Release Update Notes
Current 11i Environment

Convert to Multi Org Architecture Consider adopting OATM Upgrade RDBMS (Optional) Run TUMS Apply Pre-Upgrade Patches
Upgrade to R12
Upgrade RDBMS (if not done) Apply the R12 Upgrade Driver Apply latest RUP Apply latest Financials Critical Patch Collections Apply any Translations (hot patch) Install R12 on-line Help (hot patch)

Upgrade Paths
<=11. .6
>= 11. .
12
Fusion
11.
11. .1

Upgrade Sizing Upgrade Comparison
Financials roducts only Based on High Volume Customer 11.5.10 database Overall database growth between 3% and 8.3%
Others ZX XL L
11
12 -
Yrs
12 -
Yrs
12 12 Yrs

Involve The Right People
Project Manager
Project owner Decision maker Task & staff coordinator
Functional Owner
Functional impact New feature uptake Testing Upgrade steps
DBA
AD utilities Database administration Tech stack updates Upgrade steps
IT Developer
Functional impact Customization impact Custom development

Read The Appropriate Documentation Utilize the Upgrade Documentation Set
R12 Release Content Document Oracle Applications Upgrade Guide: Upgrading from Release 11i to Release 12 NEW Functional Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12 FREE R12 Product Technical TOI FREE R12 Product Functional TOI eTRM Integration Repository
Let TUMS assist you

Evaluate Functional Upgrade Guide Detailed information regarding Functional Impact of the R12 upgrade.
What happens to my Tax Codes? How are the new AP Lines derived? How are the Legal Entities derived? How does the Accounting Setup Manager get setup? How will my Bank Accounts get migrated? How are Suppliers and Sites moved into TCA? Global Descriptive Flexfield changes in R12 Profile Options changes in R12 And many more!
Want to Know More?
Oracle Financials & Oracle Procurement Release 12 Functional Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12
What About My Customizations?
XML Publisher
Making Reporting Manageable
Separate data / layout / UI translation ata ay ut Translati n

Flexibility Reduced maintenance
ic
XML Publisher
Report output

Eliminate Custom Reports With XML Publisher R12 is the ML Publisher release
500 ML Publisher extracts 800 ML Publisher templates Used by 60 products
Examine extracts before building custom reports Many Extracts will include all columns from tables Descriptive flexfields included The vast majority of custom reports can be replaced with an ML Publisher template
Financial Reporting with XML Publisher

Nearly Product
Assets Cash Collections Common Modules Financials Consolidation Hub General Ledger Globalizations Internal Controls Manager 2 1 1 21 1 2
Configurable Formats Formats

22
Product
IT Audit Loans Payables Payments Public Sector Receivables Subledger Accounting Tax
Formats
2 6 12 6 1 1 2

Global Descriptive Flexfields Most Global Descriptive Flexfields eliminated in R12
These are now named columns in the base tables Any customizations using those will need to be modified Any custom reports based on them may be covered by the product teams ML Publisher extracts
This migration is documented in the Functional Upgrade Guide This should simplify any on-going customizations compared with 11i
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Flagged Files Integrate customized files from applcust.txt into patch impact report in OAM Extend concept of customized files to flagged files meaning any files customer has special interest in Record flagged files in DB instead of in a text file Provide program to upload applcust.txt into flagged files tables Provide GUI page for managing flagged files Display flagged files changed by patch in patch impact report

Flagged Files
How Can I Be Unsuccessful?
How Can I Be Unsuccessful?

Things NOT to do! Dont plan Let the DBA do the upgrade in isolation Do production upgrade first Dont read the documentation Ignore TUMS Skip testing Skip jobs Drop indexes Run adpatch in serial mode
What can I do Now?
What Can I Do Now?

Maintenance Best Practices Keep up-to-date on latest AD/OAM code Schedule periodic, proactive maintenance Combine patches with AD Merge Patch Perform uptime maintenance
Gather schema stats Apply translation database updates Patch help system
Use a Shared APPL_TOP and Distributed AD Use cheaper, faster Middle-tier hardware
What Can I Do Now?

Consider Converting to Multi-Org Consider Adopting OATM Archive & Purge Partners e.g. Ensure your new customizations comply with the Developers Guide for Customizations Read the Upgrade Documentation Set
What Can I Do Now?

Additional Resources
Sharing the Application Tier File System in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Metalink Note 384248.1
Release 12 Documentation Library :

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B40089_02/current/html/docset.html
Oracle Applications Release 12 Upgrade Sizing and Best Practices

Patch Best Practices and Reducing Downtime

Best Practices for Upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite White Paper

http://www.oracle.com/consulting/library/white-papers/best-practices-e-business.pdf
Oracle Application Patch Procedures Release 12

http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B40089_02/current/html/docset.html
R12 Upgrade Road Map

R12 Financials Critical Patches

Questions & Answers
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The above reflects Oracles current development plans which are subject to change at any time

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Is the R12 Upgrade Better?

Largest E-Business Suite Release by every Matrix

Yes its Bigger, but is it Better?

adpatch adpatch workers 1-10 workers 1-10

Forms Server Shared APPL_TOP Web Server

adpatch adpatch workers 1-10 workers 11-20

adpatch adpatch workers 21-30 1-10

adpatch adpatch workers 31-40 1-10

Upgrade strategy designed at data model stage

2 Years of SLA Data 2, Vendors

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How Can I Be Successful?

How Can I Be Successful?

Identify upgrade downtime target

How Can I Be Successful?

Current 11i Environment

How Can I Be Successful?

How Can I Be Successful?

How Can I Be Successful?

How Can I Be Successful?

Let TUMS assist you

How Can I Be Successful?

Want to Know More?

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What About My Customizations?

Separate data / layout / UI translation ata ay ut Translati n

What About My Customizations?

Financial Reporting with XML Publisher

Configurable Formats Formats

What About My Customizations?

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Oracle Applications Manager

Oracle Applications Manager

Oracle Applications Manager

Oracle Applications Manager

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How Can I Be Unsuccessful?

How Can I Be Unsuccessful?

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What can I do Now?

What Can I Do Now?

What Can I Do Now?

What Can I Do Now?

Release 12 Documentation Library :

Oracle Applications Release 12 Upgrade Sizing and Best Practices

Patch Best Practices and Reducing Downtime

Best Practices for Upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite White Paper

Oracle Application Patch Procedures Release 12

R12 Upgrade Road Map

R12 Financials Critical Patches

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Questions & Answers

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