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E-Business Suite High Availability Scalability
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Why Should We Care About High Availability and
Scalability?

• The increased importance and user loads due to
  global deployments capabilities and self- service
  aspects are driving the need for increased system
  availability, and system scalability.
• Current economic conditions have increased focus
  on reducing costs. This is driving companies to
  explore ways to decrease hardware costs.

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Business Drivers

• TransparencyRequire no changes to existing
  applications

AffordabilityAllow low-cost computing on a
smaller servers
Availability
No single pointof failure
Scalability
Ability to add servers when needed
FlexibilityAllow users to easily adapt to their
hardware infrastructure over time
ManageabilityAllow users to managea cluster of
servers as if they were one
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Business Goals
Technology that equals real business value
High availability capabilities should allow for
decreased downtime which can directly effect lost
revenue
Scalability capabilities should deliver the same
performance and management as higher priced
servers on moderately priced hardware
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Current Approaches

• Buy more hardware
• Increase server size when additional processing
  poweris required
• Add a server for failover purposes
• Add load balance routers to mask failures in
  middle-tier
• Functionally partition applications
• HR on one server
• AR on one server
• Distribute load to client machines
• Off-load reporting software to end-users

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The Oracle Solution
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Oracle E-Business Solution

• Architecture
• Security
• Admin Mgmt
• Configuration vs. Customization
• High-Availability Scalability

• Business Intelligence
• Performance Benchmarks
• Integration
• Sizing
• Portal

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Oracle Solution
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High Availability Scalability with EBS
High Availability Scalability
Achieve high availability and scalability
forE-Business Suite by utilizing Oracle9i RAC on
the database tier
Achieve high availability and scalability by
leveraging Oracle9iAS clustering and
load-balancing feature forE-business Suite
Provide a total disaster recovery solution for
11i by utilizing Oracle9i Data Guard
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Key Capabilities Using the Oracle Solution
Enables you to

• Achieve High Scalability
• Balance the Load
• Achieve Fault Tolerance
• Reduce Your TCO

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Achieve High Scalability
HighScalability
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Balance the Load

• Utilizing Oracle supplied capabilities to achieve
  load balancing across your middle and database
  tiers
• Achieve load balancing without purchasing
  additional software or hardware products
• Enable effective utilization of all hardware
  resource

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Achieve Fault Tolerance

• Achieve fault tolerance with your 11i E-Business
  Suite
• Have users on surviving nodes unaffected by node
  failure
• Seamlessly fail-over Concurrent Manager requests
  in case of hardware failure
• Provide complete disaster recovery for your 11i
  Applications utilizing Oracle Data Guard

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Reduce Your TCO

• The move to Linux/Intel high-performance clusters
  from large and costly RISC based servers has been
  a win-win decision for Oracle IT. The
  deployment of 18 Dell-2650s replaced 4 high-end
  UNIX/RISC servers in the middle tier. Oracle ERP
  users have noticed marked improvements in
  application performance since migration to
  Linux/Intel middle tier.
• Cost of ownership can be reduced by migrating
  middle-tier for Oracle E-Business Suite to
  Linux/Intel architecture.
• Orace9i RAC on Linux presents a very attractive
  solution at very low cost. It is also a very
  scalable solution withhigh availability.

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Customer Adoption
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Case Study
When you operate 24/7, when there are literally
hundreds of businesses at stake at any moment in
time, availability, speed, and reliability are
critical in an IT system. That's why we selected
Oracle.
-- Fotis Karonis, Director of IT and Telecomm.,
Athens International Airport

• Oracle E-Business Suite Purchasing, Financials
  and Sales Analyzers, Financials, Inventory
• Key Points
• Productivity improvement
• Centrally managed IT systems and networks

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Case Study
Oracle has simplified our business practices and
will meet our needs for scalability and
performance as we continue to grow.
-- Doug Reynolds, Information Services Leader,
Best Buy Co., Inc.

• Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resources,
  Advanced Benefits, Self-Service Human Resources,
  Discoverer, Financials
• Key Points
• 1,800 retail stores, with over 90,000 employees
  in the U.S. and Canada
• 4 TB of sales and inventory data needed to run
  operations
• Simplified data and applications migrations
• Reduced complexity and administration costs
• Increased performance and scalability
• Streamlined business processes

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Case Study
Oracle delivers flexibility and scalability,
their applications are mature, and they're here
to stay.
-- John Black, VP of Information Services, Papa
John's International

• Oracle E-Business Suite Interaction Center,
  iStore, Marketing Online, Order Management
• Key Points
• Self-service order volume of 50 per minute
  attained
• Ticket average through iStore 10-12 higher than
  offline average
• Order accuracy is 15 improved because it is
  completely in the hands of the consumer

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Case Study
Particularly in the world of banking, high
performance and utter reliability are critical
system requirements. Our benchmark shows that
Oracle software can reliably deliver one of the
world's largest general ledgers and still fulfill
our stringent requirements for performance - an
impressive result.
-- Thierry Schaffluetzel, Project Director, GEAR
CH, UBS Switzerland

• Oracle E-Business Suite Financials
• Key Points
• Period open on 500 million balances in 11 hours
  and 8 minutes
• Extracted 500 million balances (including the
  merge of 26 dimension values) in 48 minutes
• Generate daily balance sheet based on 500 million
  balances in23 minutes
• Import and post of 11.42 million journals per hour

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Case Study

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Analyst Quotes
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"Oracle9i Application Server is designed to meet
the availability, manageability, performance and
security requirements for mission-critical
Internet applications.
Analyst Testimonials
9iAS and the Oracle9i Database have been
optimized for one another so that the combination
provides a complete framework that covers
front-end applications (Web Server) to middleware
(Application Server) to back-end business systems
(Database)."
-- Gartner Product Report, Oracle9i Application
ServerAugust 2002
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Customer Questions
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Customer Questions
Question
Can I also deploy my other application on RAC?
Answer
All types of applications can scale effectively
without having to be specifically tailored for
clustering environments. Migration is
transparent no specific redesign or code changes
are required for existing applications, no
explicit application segmentation or data
partitioning is required. Initial investments
made for application and database software
running on single node environments are preserved.
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Customer Questions
Question
What hardware scalability does 11i provide?
Answer
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, comprising both
Oracle9iAS and the Oracle9i Database, is
available on a large selection of hardware and
operating systems, scaling from low-end hardware
to high-end clusters. Suite supports all major
Unix platforms, and a variety of other systems.
Therefore administrators can upgrade hardware and
operating systems without changing their software
platform or rewriting their applications.
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Customer Questions
Is there a single point of failure with 11i
technology?
Question
Answer
Oracle9iAS has no single point of failure and can
be deployed in a fully redundant configuration.
Oracle9iAS automatically detects system
components failures, re-routes connections,
restarts failed processes, and can move executing
application code to a different node in some cases
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Summary
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Oracle Solution

• Oracle 11i E-Business Suite
• Oracle 9iAS
• Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters
• Oracle Data Guard

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