Oracle Unified Method (OUM)

on Friday, December 27, 2013



The OUM aka Oracle Unified Method supports the entire Enterprise IT Life cycle, including support for the successful implementation of every Oracle product.
It is a robust, technology agnostic methodology Oracle Methods …
  • Based on industry standards and field experience
  • Highly scalable to support project or program specific requirements
  • Iteratively developed through a continuous, evolutionary process
OUM Principal
This is based out of five main principles
  1. Business: Focus on the business and assure stake holder acceptance and delivery of the development’s efforts.
  2. Architecture: Define architecture before resources are committed for development and implementation.
  3. Adaptability: Encourages adaptability for scalable delivery across small and large projects possessing disparate resources and skill levels.
  4. Implementation: Provides rapid implementation techniques to ensure business solutions in short time frames
  5. Standards: Leverage the Unified Modeling Language and the Unified Software Development Process
OUM is able to…
Support the complete range of Oracle technology projects including
  • Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
  • Enterprise Integration
  • Custom Software
  • Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)
  • Business Intelligence (BI)
  • Enterprise 2.0
  • Enterprise Application Implementation
  • Software Upgrade
Currently Oracle Consulting using this methods, tools support a complete range of technology engagements.
In Summary... OUM structure
  • is a comprehensive set of method materials that is applicable to any type of information technology project.
  • is a plan-based method – that includes overview material on various approaches and standards.
  • It includes base guidelines for focus areas, views, phases, activities, processes and tasks, as well as work product descriptions.
OUM basically have focus areas and there underline phases and processes , in summary
OUM FOCUS AREAS
These 3 Focus Areas provide a frameworks for enterprise level planning, project and program management and implementing .
  1. Envision Focus Area deals with development and maintenance of enterprise level IT strategy, architecture, and governance. This also assists in the transition from enterprise-level planning and strategy activities to the identification and initiation of specific projects.
  2. Manage Focus Area provides a framework in which all types of projects can be planned, estimated, controlled, and completed in a consistent manner.
  3. Implement Focus Area This focus Area provides a framework to develop and implement Oracle-based business solutions.
Understanding OUM's Implement Focus
This focus area typically based out of milestone based approach.Typical Milestone are:
  • Life cycle objective milestone
  • Life cycle architecture milestone
  • Initial operation capability milestone
  • System in production milestone
  • Sign-off milestone

Import Items Concurrent Program

on Wednesday, December 18, 2013



After you insert valid data into Interface table, you can go to Items > Import > Import Items and run the standard concurrent program. Here is the parameter form




1] All Organizations:
  • Yes: Run the interface for all organization codes in the item interface table.
  • No: Run the interface only for the organization you are currently in. Item interface rows for organizations other than your current organization are ignored.
2] Validate Items:
  • Yes: Validate all items and their data residing in the interface table that have not yet been validated. If items are not validated, they will not be processed into Oracle Inventory.
  • No:  Do not validate items in the interface table.
3] Process Items:
  • Yes: All qualifying items in the interface table are inserted into Oracle Inventory.
  • No: Do not insert items into Oracle Inventory.
4] Delete Processed Rows:
  • Yes: Delete successfully processed items from the item interface tables.
  • No: Leave all rows in the item interface tables.
5] Process Set:
       Enter a number for the set id for the set of rows you want to process. The program picks up the rows marked with that id in the
       SET_PROCESS_ID
column. If you leave this field blank, all rows are picked up for processing  regardless of the SET_PROCESS_ID
       column value.