Welcome Rohit and Bidisha

I am very happy to say we have some new contributors to the blog, who I hope will be posting now ad again to help keep this blog fresh.
Rohit Kathuria is a product manager here at Oracle, working specifically on the Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) product in R12.
Rohit was the main author of this [...]

Defining Intracompany Balancing Rules

Written by Rohit Kathuria and David Haimes
In order to take advantage of the automatic Intercompany balancing during GL posting and SLA Accounting you first need to define the accounts you want us to use.
Intercompany and Intracompany Accounts in R12 are defined in two different Set Up Pages, the Intracompany Balancing Rules are what we [...]

Virgin Beta Experience

The other weekend I flew back from Las Vegas to San Francisco on Virgin America, there has been no end of hype about their new planes and the software so I was interested to what it was all about. It all runs on a linux box hidden in the belly of the plane, [...]

New Grant based Security in AGIS

 
Managing a large number of responsibilities can become a complex, time consuming and expensive activity. It is also very frustrating for users if they have to constantly switch responsibility if they have a number of roles, this is a big issue in 11i Global Intercompany System as you could only have one Balancing Segment [...]

Ora-Click is like Digg but better

I’m not a fan of digg, just doesn’t do anything for me, but Matt Topper has created something which I like the look of. Ora-Click is like a digg but specific to Oracle articles and has nice Oracle related categories that should help me get to aritcles in my interest areas fast. Check [...]

Do I need a new TV?

I was in Las Vegas (by coincidence) at the same time as The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), this is a huge conference with over 150,000 attending (compare with around 40,000 that overwhelm San Francisco for Oracle Open World) so I did meet a few people attending it. In my far from scientific survey, based on [...]

Thanks to Marian from The Feature

I spent almost two hours yesterday chatting with Marian Crkon from The Feature, which has the excellent tag line ‘Using Oracle Applications without losing your mind…’. This was my first interview for another Blog and I enjoyed it. Those who know me, are well aware of my ability to talk a lot and [...]

8 Things or OraBlog Tag Round 2

Jake over at Oracle AppsLab has started a game of tag, which involves writing 8 things about you people might not know and then tagging 6 friends to do the same, creating some sort of blog network monster. This is like when you go to a training class and they decide to chuck a [...]

Why do I need another period ?

In R12 we introduced AGIS periods that control the transactions entered in AGIS, this is a feature that is often misunderstood. The usual question is - Why do I want another period? I’ll give some ideas why you might want one, but if you decide you don’t need one, don’t worry we made [...]

Useful Oracle Financials Resources

I am often asked what book to read to learn Oracle Financials, there is no one complete answer, it is so huge an area it is best to start with overviews and dig into details as needed/time available. If you get the concepts right everything else will drop into place much more easily than [...]