12/10/2009 by Simon Tomey.

Here’s my notes from another good presentation on re-implementing R12 from the recent public sector SIG (UKOUG). Presentation by Dave Maskell, PDG Consulting

Why re-implement rather than upgrade:

• New chart of accounts
• Platform migration (to Linux)

Interesting points:

• PDG performed this at a fixed price for Neath Port Talbot Council
• NPT were on 11.5.8
• PDG stands for “Pretty Dam Good”
• PDG took NPT staff onto their own team. This worked well because of their ability to share workload, provide NPT specialist knowledge and give an “insider” to co-ordinate NPT efforts. This didn’t work so well because it made it harder for PDG to manage the contract resource for this fixed price contract.

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12/10/2009 by Simon Tomey.

I attended Debra Lilley’s presentation on Fusion at a recent Financials SIG (UKOUG). She’s an enthusiastic speaker with lots of knowledge and her presentation was very well received.

Debra gave an inspiring insight into Fusion which made me feel proud to be an Oracle Partner. Here are my takeaways:

• Fusion will be to the next generation what instant messaging and windows GUI was to the character based generation.
• Fusion will work in many layers and will allow you to add in other applications, in fact…
• Fusion will work with any other applications (so long as they are open source). This happens in the middleware layer which will be complete, open and integrated.
• The data model as used in R12 is a preview of the Fusion data model. The data model comes from R12 for EBS and Siebel for CRM.
• BI Publisher is excellent and will be firmly in Fusion. We should get started in adopting and becoming proficient in BI Publisher now (see also Dr Bendjedou’s comments below).
• EBS and Hyperion will come together so that EBS will processes the transactions and Essbase will hold the balances.
• Moreover OBIEE will give very efficient queries of real time information by combining yesterday’s optimised warehoused data (Essbase) with today’s OLTP EBS data. (How cool is that!)
• There might be some light blue in the screens (and there might not be too). When Debra spoke about what she saw she made me think that EBS Fusion will look like the Oracle Smart space screen shots from Thomas Kurian’s article (see below).

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12/10/2009 by Simon Tomey.

I hope you enjoy this video which demonstrates some of the things you can do to achieve Great Oracle Reporting. Includes data templates, conditional formatting, output as Excel and bursting

Click here to see me talking about how you can do almost anything with Oracle BI Publisher

http://www.bipublisher.co.uk

Let me know what you think.

Simon

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