Software and Hardware Considerations

There are many factors that can influence software and hardware decisions. For example, your system may have to satisfy specific performance, availability, or scalability requirements, or to support running in a language other than English. These business requirements, together with the chosen system architecture, should be used in initial software and hardware planning.

Some of the questions that you should answer before beginning the installation include:

• On which hardware platform and operating system will Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing be deployed?

• Which web server product will Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing deploy on?

• Which database product will Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing deploy on?

• Do you plan to deploy multiple Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing instances on the same physical server?

• How do you plan to deploy Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing?

• Web/application/database on the same physical server?

• Web/application on one server and database on separate server?

• Each component on its own server?

For detailed descriptions of various deployment architecture choices that may aid in planning, refer to Oracle Utilities Application Framework Architecture Guidelines (Document ID 807068.1) available on My Oracle Support.

The final hardware and software decisions must comply with the specific Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing requirements as described in this chapter.