Here is a nice article explaining some details about widely anticipated Oracle Fusion Applications. I read this on a blog called ORCLVILLE by Floyd Teter.
For convenience of my readers I am posting the important excerpt of the post below If you want to read the complete post you can click here.
Some observations I made and [...]

Requirement:
Need to get last 5 characters of a string.
My Thoughts:
Sounds a simple requirement but the place from where I read this requirement had mentions of assigning it to buffer and the finding out the size
When I thought about this requirement the first thing that came to my mind is that it is possible [...]

I read an article at computerworld.com today which was discussing oracle strategy for countering SalesForce.com increasing reach in CRM On Demand space. It is always good to remain informed and updated as I read somewhere few days ago
“The day you stop upgrading your skills is the day you have actually started shrinking them”
Also whatever I find useful, [...]

Here is a piece of code that I had written for a friend.
Requirement:
He needed following information for some list applets in Siebel Application

Display Names of Fields in those list Applets
Data Type of the fields associated with it
Fields have Picklist associated with them or not
Fields have their Runtime Flag checked or not

One way to do was [...]

One fine day I got an assignment of working on Siebel EAI. I had to create an example workflow where I had to

Query an Attachment Record using EAI Siebel Adapter.
Convert it into MIME Hierarchy using EAI MimePropSet Converter
Convert it into MIME Doc using EAI MIME Doc Converter
Finally write it to a File using EAI File [...]

This has taken long time coming but here it is at last. I had posted introduction of SARM provided by SARM Product Manager himself. So continuing that post I will post the instruction to enable SARM on Siebel.

Here are links to two Metalink documents that explain concepts like Garbage Collection and Memory Management. Provides answers to important questions such as

While working on Performance issues, I came across a rarely used user property known as ‘Use Literals For Like’.
Purpose:
If you have gone through logs sometime then you might have noticed that if you query with a text in a field then the query generated at backend has lot of like clauses which queries with all [...]

According to Siebel Bookshelf
Siebel CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) provides voice-channel support for call center agents using Siebel Business Applications. CTI capabilities are provided through integration with third-party CTI middleware packages, such as Intel NetMerge.
and rsmorais a user of Siebel Unleashed forum had a chance to work on Siebel and CTI integration.

Requirement:
If the user that has logged in is SADMIN then and he goes to Administration – Data > List of Values view then he should only be able to see LOV’s with Type as SR_STATUS.
My Thoughts:
This is a really strange requirement as SADMIN is suppose to have access to all the Admin views . If [...]