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CEMLI ANALYSIS PROCESS

CEMLI is an acronym for Configurations, Extensions, Modifications, Localizations, and

Integrations. The term is used to collectively describe various types of customizationsmade to Oracle Applications. The idea is to perform a discovery of Customers application

and database environment in order to assess the extent and level of customizations and

modifications performed on the Oracle applications production instance. The reason whyOracle On Demand does this exercise is to evaluate as to how much effort would be

required to migrate Customers existing instance into the On Demand data center.

This process is divided into 3 steps:

Step 1:

CEMLI analysis is about collecting information about customers installed application

instance by running a bunch of scripts against their production systems in order to get acurrent snapshot of their environment. We do this on a regular basis, and have had no

problems with this approach. The scripts will run quickly, and do not put any noticeable

load on the servers. If Customer has an exact and up-to-date clone of Customers

production environment which they use for development or testing, we can run the scriptsagainst that environment instead, if Customer prefers. However, to do this, the instance

must be an exact and up-to-date clone of the production environment.To create these scripts for Customer to run, Oracle On Demand need some prior

information like hostname, DB name, file structures, tier information etc. So Oracle On

Demand will be sending Customer a excel sheet which would ask questions which

Customers DBA can provide and also it has instructions to run a command which wouldgenerate some text file about Customers environments file systems. Customer need to

send the excel file and the text output files back to Oracle On Demand.With the help of this

data Oracle On Demand will create the CEMLI scripts required to collect data aboutCustomers system.Step 2:

Oracle On Demand will create the CEMLI scripts and send those back to Customer withinstructions on execution. These scripts will scan the application file system and database

instance (without intrusion) to identify modifications made to the baseline code. The

running of these scripts will produce .pkg, .lst and .txt output files, which Customer willsend back to Oracle On Demand.

Step 3:

Once Oracle On Demand receive the output files, Oracle On Demand will process them

with the CEMLI Reporting System, which will analyze the data and produce a reportlisting all the customizations. Simultaneously Oracle On Demand will also send Customer

another Excel sheet, which will request some detailed information about their existing

environment and the methods used to integrate Oracle applications with other data sourcesor applications.

Step 4:

Oracle On Demand will then discuss the output of the CEMLI reporting system and theintegration spread sheet with Customer and find a way to clean up the system as well as

how best can we integrate system with external applications or data sources.