Oracle Magazine - July/August 2011

Portable Development for
the Mobile Business
Oracle software continues to support the latest
cloud and mobile hardware.

It’s funny to look back at some of the very large PCs of the 1980s that were called portable—and at early mobile phones that were the size of bricks. Both portable computing and mobile communications devices have certainly evolved.

Portable business software has also evolved, and it continues to support a variety of platforms—for use on a variety of datacenter, desktop, and mobile devices. And the demand continues for portable business software that can run on each new mobile device.

Oracle has been developing portable software for more than 30 years, for a variety of hardware and software platforms that now live in the cloud and the datacenter and do business on the desktop, the laptop, and the newest mobile devices. And today’s mobile devices are just the latest stop for portable Oracle enterprise technology and solutions.

design changes to existing reports and dashboards are required.

PORTABLE ORACLE CONTENT

The Oracle mobile application for iPhone and iPad collects and delivers the latest information about all things Oracle, including the latest news, Oracle Technology Network content, videos, events, blogs, and investor and press information. It also collects and links to the latest Oracle mobile applications available for that platform, including Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile and Oracle WebCenter Spaces 11 g Release 1, as well as Oracle Magazine and Profit: The Executive’s Guide to Oracle Applications.

For the record, the printed Oracle Magazine has been portable and mobile since its beginnings in 1986, and it has been available in HTML format since the 1990s. A browser-based digital subscription has been available since 2006, and Oracle Magazine has been packaged as an application for mobile devices since 2010.

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PORTABLE ORACLE TECHNOLOGY

Oracle recently released Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client (Oracle ADF Mobile Client). With it, developers can define a device-independent representation of an application. They can build an application with Oracle ADF Mobile Client, deploy it to multiple devices, and extend it to new platforms without redevelopment. (For more information, see “Oracle Releases Oracle ADF Mobile Client,” page 16.)

Oracle also recently announced Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Release 11. 1. 1. 5, which introduces support for Apple’s iPad and iPhone through the new Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile feature. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11. 1. 1. 5 content is optimized for use with the iPad and iPhone—no

PORTABLE NOTES

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