Alas poor 2007, we knew him so well

Goodbye 2007, its been good, but all good things come to an end. I’m working at home and I’m looking out from my desk to where the San Francisco fireworks will be in about seven hours time. That big green tower wasn’t there this time last year, which might spoil the view [...]

Top 5 posts of 2007

So this is the time of the year when every media outlet takes a break from creating real content and creates top lists of anything they can think of from the past year and why should I be any different? Letterman has a whole team of writers that help him do this all year [...]

One Laptop per Child - Better than an iPhone?

The One Laptop per Child program has had somewhat of a rocky ride, it was envisaged that they would cost $100 and be made available to all school age children in developing countries. However they’re costing $200 and the orders have not been flooding in from the governments of developing countries. They’re [...]

Legal Entity Configurator - Why?

In Oracle Ebusiness Suite 11i, the Legal Entity is tied closely to a set of books and operating Unit, so your Legal Structure has to be defined in the way you set up your apps partitions (OU, Set of Books etc.). In R12 financials breaks away from that with the introduction of the Legal [...]

Friday Night Writes

My primary reason for starting this blog was to discuss issues customers asked me a lot at about at Open World and on various forums. My rationale being that if I blog about our products we might help people understand them and a) Make informed choices implementing them, get more value from them [...]

Can I assign an Operating Unit to Multiple Legal Entities?

The short answer is sort of. Which is not much help to anyone, hopefully you will have a few moments to read on and I can explain myself. This post assumes that you understand the relationship between Legal Entities and Ledgers which I discussed in an earlier post.
In R12, a new [...]

Is Google Just an Oracle Wannabee?

I was surprised that my pondering if Oracle was cool again got so much attention, the piece from Tim DiChiara turning around my comment to ask if Oracle is as cutting edge and risk taking as google I think was intentionally provocative, but I’ll bite.
So what do Google and Oracle do, where do they make [...]

What Exchange Rate to use for Intercompany

Leslie posted some excellent comments, which touched on the exchange rates to use on intercompany transactions, a very interesting and complex topic. I have discussed this at length with Seamus Moran many times, he has educated and enlightened me and I use an example of his here.
Consider Top Hat Global Corp

The group reports [...]

Intercompany Reconciliation Reports just got Interactive

In R12 the Advanced Global Intercompany System was introduced and one of the main goals was to make the reconciliation process more efficient. Intercompany is often the top barrier to a fast period close, because you have to be sure you eliminated it all to zero, so your parent company does not report a [...]

What can we do for you ?

I have an Intercompany group on Oracle Mix and I want to invite all readers of this blog to join and start posting ideas, discussions and also sharing experiences.
It doesn’t have to be specific to Oracel products, it could be ideas for new features, better collateral or whatever you want to start discussions about and [...]