Financial Services Accounting Hub(FSAH) is now called Financials Accounting Hub (FAH)

The Financial Services moniker was always misleading because there is nothing specific to the Financial Services industry in the product, now this has been fixed and the official name is Financials Accounting Hub. So that one is cleared up.
I have had a number of people asking for more details on this product, you [...]

FSAH and AGIS Intercompany Implementation thoughts

Written by David Haimes
As Intercompany transactions are very likely to cross systems they are a good candidate for integration in a ‘Hub’ of some sort.
In R12 the Financials Services Accounting Hub (FSAH) allows integration of third party systems to Oracle and is incredibly powerful and flexible.
Let’s use a simple example:
Company A and B both use [...]

Financials Sessions at Oracle Open World 2008

A lot of people are asking when various sessions are, readers of this blog are probably interested in Oracle EBS financials, Helle posted on Oracle Mix a couple of useful links. I recommend looking at this pdf which lists all the financials sessions including demogrounds, apps lounges, presentations etc.
My session is listed there, I [...]

Fixed Assests Intercompany in R12

Something I often forget to mention is the enhancement of Intercompany functionality in Fixed Assets (FA) that has been provided in R12. So here is my attempt to explain it, based on an old email discussion with the FA team, I wouldn’t describe myslef as an FA expert, but if there are any comments [...]

Interesting R12 Upgrade Session at Open World

A session I hope to attend at Open World is the one by Nayyar about Oracle’s internal upgrade to R12.  I spent some time working with Nayyar and his team earlier this year and it was a good experience, at times it was very tough but it’s been very valuable. Oracle has a lot of

Intercompany Session at Oracle Open World

The content catalog is available so you can go and search for sessions.
There’s an Intercompany session (S299151), it is not scheduled yet and as I am one of the presenters I can tell you it definitely isn’t written yet, next week I’ll get started on that with my copresenter from strategy, Helle.  the details of [...]

What is your functional currency?

by David Haimes (with excerpts from an internal document by Seamus Moran)
Regular readers will probably be used to this answer now… it depends.
In General Ledger 11i your functional currency referred to the currency of your set of books, it was one of your three Cs (Calendar, Currency and Chart of Accounts). In R12 [...]

R12 Best Practices White Paper

I noticed today on Stephen Chan’s blog that this White Paper is available on metalink
Best Practices for Adopting Oracle E-Business Suite, Release 12 (Metalink Note 580299.1)
I haven’t reviewed the document yet, despite there being a section on AGIS. As soon as I resolve the problem I’m having with my metalink login I will [...]

Financial Services Accounting Hub (FSAH)

Financial Services Accounting Hub or FSAH (pronounced F-saa apparently) is a great product and is not only for Financial Services companies either, I understand we’ll sell it to anyone.
From a (very) high level perspective it allows you to use Oracle SLA and GL to perform the accounting for third party applications. Companies the Financial [...]

AGIS Out of the Box

When I was about 10 years old I got a new electric train set for Christmas, but before I got to play with it I had to pinch a plug from one of my siblings toys and fit the only available (and dangerously mismatched) fuse in it. Then I had to read a [...]