Why Product Development Should Blog - Part 3

I appreciate the shout out from Jake, I’d like to get more opinions on this from other bloggers, particularly my colleagues in Apps (Are you listening Joe, Anne, Puneet, Meg, Gretchen?). So in this edition I explain how blogging saves you time and makes you more productive in your day job. If [...]

Why Product Development Should Blog - Part 2

In part 1 I talked about how a conversation on my blog took a frustrated customer with problems to a situation where they got sales to quote them for another Oracle product. Part 2 is a more personal branding issue.
Generating Consulting Opportunities
I contacted a reader of my blog who’d added some comments and [...]

The Armchair Architect

One of the more powerful additions to Oracle financials in R12 is the Subledger Accounting Architecure (SLA or SLAA) and it brings new concepts and terminology which may be hard to figure out.
The good news is there is a blogger to the rescue.  Anne Wong is The Armchair Architect and she’s starting to get SLA [...]

Intercompany Invoicing in AGIS

One of the key features introduced with the new Advanced Global Intercompany (AGIS) in R12 of Oracle E-Business Suite is the ability to create documentation for Intercompany transactions. The correct documentation is required in many countries for Intercompany trading, this essentially means I need to provide a Receivables Invoice for the Legal Entity Providing [...]

Speaking Our Customers’ Language

Eddie Awad discussed an interesting oracle Press release in his blog and the reaction of the Wall Street Journal Tech Blog too it. Eddie mused that as he is not a network techie it doesn’t mean much to him, this is intentional. The pres release was made at a network industry conference and [...]

Why Product Development Should Blog - Part 1

I was talking with Jake about how my blog was going, I recounted some stories of great outcomes that had surprised me since I stepped into the blogosphere a few months ago. “Blog those” was his reply, he’s a very active blogger and has already blogged our conversation. This is part 1 in [...]

And General Ledger too

It’s been a busy week for me and I have a lot of homework to get through this weekend. I was asked to take on the General Ledger(GL) product ‘ownership’ in addition to Legal Entity and Intercompany.
I am a little uncomfortable calling myself owner of products, we use this to mean that the product [...]

Using BIP for Interactive Reconciliation Reports

Written by Bidisha Silveira
I’m going to give a little more detail on how the Interactive Financial reports David described here were put together. In 4 simple steps (with pictures!)
Step 1:
The Reconciliation Data Extract background program is submitted which collects all the data and generates an xml file
Step 2:
To view the reconciliation data we use [...]