Oracle Security Alert CVE-2010-0073

Unscheduled Oracle Security Alert for CVE-2010-0073 was released on February 4, 2010. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.

This Security Alert addresses a vulnerability in the Node Manager component of Oracle WebLogic Server. This vulnerability may be remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e. it may be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password. A knowledgeable and malicious remote user can exploit this vulnerability which can result in impacting the availability, integrity and confidentiality of the targeted system.

The Security Alert Advisory is the starting point for relevant information. It includes the list of products affected, a summary of the security vulnerability, and a pointer to obtain the patches. Supported products that are not listed in the “Supported and Affected Products” section of the advisory do not require new patches to be applied.

Also, it is essential to review the Security Alert supporting documentation referenced in the Advisory before applying patches, as this is where you can find important pertinent information.

The Advisory is available at the following location:

Oracle Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts.htm
Oracle Security Alert CVE-2010-0073: http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/alerts/alert-cve-2010-0073.html

APICS Course: “Understanding, Justifying & Implementing an ERP System”

February 23 – April 13
Weekly each Tuesday from 3PM-6PM EST

The “Understanding, Justifying and Implementing an ERP System” course presents the training material from the “Introduction to ERP” course developed by APICS, the Association for Operations Management, in webinar format. Sponsored by brij Image & Information, Inc., and led by an APICS instructor, Tim Lyons, CFPIM, the course uses lecture, exercises and a case study to provide a foundation for selection and implementation of ERP software within an organization. Participants will learn how to develop a business case for an ERP implementation, manage business process and organizational changes during implementation, and properly structure an ERP implementation.

More details and registration info….

InsightSoftware.com New Southeastern Regional Executive

Insight Software, a Brij partner that provides an innovative way to address the age old reporting problems in JD Edwards has a new representative in the Southeast. Mark Kolanach from Raleigh, NC, is excited to be joining Brij in bringing INSIGHT®  to JD Edwards customers in the Carolinas.

“JD Edwards customers are always looking for better ways to slice and dice their data, it’s one thing to view it in the system and another to view it in dynamic reports with a summarization of live data with drill down and drill across functionality”, Kolanach said. “It is my goal to ensure that all JD Edwards customers in the Southeast have the opportunity to freely explore their businesses data to identify areas where greater efficiencies can be achieved and dollars can be saved. It’s a critical step to take in this economic environment.”

Brij and Insight Software are hosting a free webinar on February 25th highlighting how JD Edwards users are realizing dollar savings and greater efficiencies.  If you have specific business areas you want to review for efficiency, and would prefer a personal tour to see INSIGHT® in action against your data, please contact us at info@brij.net.

Gmail to drop IE6 support this year

Are you a Gmail user? If you are and also use Internet Explorer, make sure you have plans to update your browser. Google is planning on dropping support for IE6 sometime this year. Details at ComputerWorld…

INSIGHT® 2 JD Edwards – Free Webinar – Feb 25th – Noon

InsightSoftware.com (formerly known as The GL Company) helps JDE users optimize their business and improve productivity with INSIGHT®. More than just a reporting tool, INSIGHT® is a dynamic end-user ad hoc inquiry tool that slices and dices real time JDE information from financials, distribution, HCM, manufacturing and more.

Your JD Edwards system does an excellent job of storing invoices, receipts, journal entries and other financial information. However, it is often challenging to find the information you need to answer your business questions, especially on a real-time, ad-hoc basis. InsightSoftware.com’s product, Insight®, solution delivers a robust ability to retrieve information with never-before-experienced ease. Simple and immediate access to information enables you to make the really important decisions that will drive your business goals and objectives. Insight facilitates increasing revenue, reducing costs, optimizing cash flow and gaining efficiencies. This webinar will show you how Insight can help you streamline your month end operations and expedite reconciliations, audits and requests for information.

Register for this free webinar here….

InsightSoftware.com North American User’s Group Meeting – March 21-23

Insightsoftware.com’s North American User’s Group meeting will be in Scottsdale, Arizona on March 21-23. Insight® Version 10 will be launched introducing a new user interface, community portal, integrated reporting, business optimization solutions and many new features.

More event details…

INSIGHT® by InsightSoftware.com is a real time inquiry and reporting tool designed to optimize your JD Edwards system for improved business performance. Operations such as real-time reporting, data reconciliation, integrity management and entire process optimization are achieved quickly and easily with this powerful, end user tool in areas like Financials, Distribution, HCM, Manufacturing and more.

Accelerated Pricing Resolution Engine

The purpose of the Accelerated Pricing Resolution Engine is to improve performance when using advanced pricing in 8.12 and later releases.

Oracle has recently published a White Paper covering an overview of this functionality, including:

• Accelerated Pricing Engine Workbench
• Accelerated Pricing Resolution Engine Constant
• Loading the Accelerated Pricing Engine
• Reloading the Accelerated Pricing Engine
• Terminating the Accelerated Pricing Engine
• Memory Management
• Cursor Management
• Subsystem Management
• Multiple Caches
• Exception Conditions
• Cache Memory Footprint

Please Note: A valid user id and password for MyOracleSupport is required to access this document.

Accelerated Pricing Resolution Engine Whitepaper

Change Master: Why Adapting is the Most Crucial Skill You’ll Ever Need – Free Download

An excellent manifesto by M.J. Ryan. She points out the top ten change sinkholes and concludes that “In order to not merely to survive, but to thrive during the greatest period of transformation humans have ever experienced, we are all being called on to stretch mentally, emotionally, and spiritually into the future. “

A member of Professional Thinking Partners who is recognized as a leading expert in change, M.J. Ryan specializes in coaching high performance executives, entrepreneurs, individuals, and leadership teams around the world to maximize performance and fulfillment. Her clients include Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, Hewitt Associates, and Frito Lay. Her work is based on a combination of positive psychology, strengths-based coaching, the wisdom traditions, and cutting edge brain research. Her new book, titled AdaptAbility: How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For, was recently released published by Random House’s Broadway Books. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter.

Oracle Finalizes Acquisition of Sun

We are pleased to announce that Oracle has completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. With this news, we want to reiterate our commitment to deliver complete, open and integrated systems that help our customers improve the performance, reliability and security of their IT infrastructure. We would also like to thank the many customers that have supported us throughout the acquisition process.

There is no doubt that this combination transforms the IT industry. With the addition of servers, storage, SPARC processors, the Solaris operating system, Java, and the MySQL database to Oracle’s portfolio of database, middleware, and business and industry applications, we plan to engineer and deliver open and integrated systems – from applications to disk – where all the pieces fit and work together out of the box.

Performance levels will be unmatched. Oracle’s software already runs faster on Sun SPARC/Solaris than on any other server or operating system. With Sun as a part of Oracle, each layer of the stack will be engineered to further improve performance, reliability and manageability so that IT will be more predictable, more supportable, and more secure. Customers will benefit as their system performance goes up and their system integration and management costs go down.

In addition, our open standards-based technology will give customers choice. Customers can purchase our fully integrated systems, or easily integrate our best-of-breed technologies with their existing environments. Our open technology also enables customers to take full advantage of third party innovations. Oracle also plans to extend its partner specialization program to include Sun technologies to better enable partners to deliver differentiated and value-added solutions to customers.

As always, our primary goal is 100% customer satisfaction. We are dedicated to delivering without interruption the quality of support and service that you have come to expect from Oracle and Sun, and more. Oracle plans to enhance Sun customer support by improving support access, offering better interoperability support between Oracle and Sun products and delivering services in more local languages. Support procedures for your existing Sun and Oracle products are unchanged, so for now you should continue to use the same channels you’ve been using. Customers can continue to purchase products from Sun in the same way they did prior to the acquisition. We will communicate any changes to this through regular channels.

We are very excited about this combination and look forward to delivering to you increased innovation through accelerated investment in Sun’s hardware and software technologies such as SPARC, Solaris, Java, and MySQL. If you weren’t able to join the live event on January 27 where we, along with Larry Ellison and other executives from Oracle and Sun outlined how this powerful combination will transform the IT industry, you are welcome to view the replay that can be accessed at oracle.com/sun.

Sincerely,
Charles Phillips
President Safra Catz
President

6th ERP Vendor Shootout – March 18-19 – Atlanta, GA

An event for mid-sized companies with manufacturing, distribution, and project-oriented requirements to determine your “short list” when evaluating Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software

The 6th ERP Vendor Shootout™, scheduled for March 18-19, 2010 at the Renaissance Atlanta Downtown Hotel in Atlanta, GA, will include the top ERP packages, presented by resellers in a side-by-side comparison. This event’s lineup includes: EPICOR, IFS Applications, Infor ERP Syteline, Microsoft Dynamics AX, and Oracle JD Edwards.

More details here…..