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Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Release 11.5.10 Financials - New Features

Two weeks ago I spoke at the Atlanta Oracle Applications User Group meeting and also attended a breakout session headed up by Karen Brownfield of Solution Beacon which discussed the new features in 11.5.10. This post contains the presentation which Karen kindly agreed for me to upload and also has links to other sources of information on 11.5.10. 

The presentation in question was presented at the OAUG Connection Point 2004 Conference and I thought it would be useful to share it with readers of the blog. It covers the following areas of Financials: -

• Payables
• Internet Expenses
• Cash Management
• Property Manager
• Assets
• iAssets
• Receivables
• Bill Presentment
• Advanced Collections
• iReceivables
• General Ledger
• Enterprise Budgeting and Planning

Credits for the preparation of this presentation on Release 11.5.10 Financials New Features should go to the following: -

• Karen Brownfield - Solution Beacon
• Don Driggs - Solution Beacon
• Mark Clark - O2Works
• Judy Vales - DARC Corporation

Additionally, you can visit the Oracle 11i10 page for various presentations and videos on the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.

Saturday, November 20, 2004

11.5.10 (11i10) Release and Documentation

11i10 was released by Oracle last week. This post contains the link to the new downloadable documentation CD (note if you have not already done so, you will have to register with OTN).

You can now download the 11.5.10 documentation CD as I understand 11i10 was released last week. It contains documentation according to the following categories: -

• Technology
• Intelligence
• Marketing and Sales
• Order Management
• Logistics
• Supply Chain Planning
• Procurement
• Manufacturing
• Maintenance Management 
• Service
• Projects
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Financial
• Human Resources
• Customer Data Management
• Interaction Center Technology
• Communications/Utilities
• Public Sector University
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Aerospace, Defense and Transportation

The zipped documentation file is about 475MB and I understand it explodes to more than 1 CD now. There’s lots of new products and functionality - happy downloading and reading.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 (11i10) release date

In a previous post I speculated when Oracle Apps R11.5.10 might be coming out, this post provides further clarity on the expected release date.

My previous post on an expected release date for Oracle 11i10 stated that it would be out in November 2004. It seems that this date was correct as an article I read in the UK Computing Magazine recently reported the following: -

Oracle’s new 11i.10 e-business suite will be available in 60 days and will feature over 2,100 enhancements, the company said today at its Oracle Openworld event in London.

Improvements include new industry-specific modules, and horizontal features such as the Daily Business Intelligence module for real-time reporting.

Since Oracle OpenWorld took place two weeks ago it seems reasonable to assume that this new release will be out in November 2004.

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10 Documentation

This post directs you to where some good documentation can be found on the new version of Oracle E-Business Suite which is to be released shortly, namely 11i10.

I have over the last week been involved in preparing a proposal for a customer who is planning to implement the new version of Oracle E-Business Suite, namely 11.5.10. I came across some really useful documentation which can be found on Metalink. To find the documentation, log on to the Metalink site, click on the E-Business 11i button then select

Release Content Documents, ‘About’ Documents and Features Summary Matrices

and choose to download 11.5.10 Release Content Documentation (18.56MB).

The documentation pack that you will download contains the information on the following modules: -

• Healthcare
• Advanced Planning
 
• Contracts
• Procurement
• Projects
• Sales
• Service
• Discrete Manufacturing
• Complex Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul
• Configure to Order
• Cost Management
• Enterprise Asset Management
• Flow Manufacturing
• Item Master and Manufacturing BOM management
• Project Manufacturing
• Quality
• Shop Floor Management
• Work in Process
• Financials
• HRMS
• Intelligence
• Balance Scorecard
• Business Intelligence System (BIS) Purchasing
• Business Intelligence System (BIS) Service
• Business Intelligence System (BIS) Service Contracts
• Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) Financials
• Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) Purchasing
• Intelligence
• Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) 6.0
• Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) 7.0
• Interaction
• Logistics
• Inventory
• Mobile Supply Chain Applications
• Transportation Execution
• Transportation Planning
• Warehouse Management
• Marketing and Sales
• iStore
• Marketing
• Sales Contracts
• Sales
• Order Management
• Advanced Pricing
• Configurator
• iStore
• Order Management
• Release Management
• Shipping Execution
• Process Manufacturing
• e-records
• Cost Management
• Execution
• Inventory Control
• Logistics
• Planning
• Product Development
• Quality Management
• System Administration
• Regulatory Management
• Procurement
• iProcurement
• iSupplier Portal
• Contracts
• Purchasing
• Services
• Sourcing
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Projects
• Grants Accounting
• Project Contracts
• Projects
• Service
• Advanced Scheduler
• Depot Repair
• Field Service
• Install Base, Enterprise Install Base, Counters
• Mobile Field Service
• Mobile Field Service: Wireless and Voice
• Service Contracts
• Service
• Spares Management
• Student System
• Technical
• Applications DBA
• Oracle Applications Technology

Friday, August 20, 2004

Oracle ERP implementation - the Douglas Omaha Enterprise Resource System 〈DOERS〉

This post contains a review of the Douglas Omaha Enterprise Resource System (DOERS) site and highlights useful documentation which can be downloaded. 

Last week I came across a really good site documenting an Oracle ERP implementation at the City of Omaha which has been named the Douglas Omaha Enterprise Resource Systems (DOERS). According to their site and related documentation: -

The City of Omaha, Douglas County, and the Omaha Douglas Public Building Commission are participants in a joint implementation of Oracle HRMS application suite, a project called DOERS (Douglas Omaha Enterprise Resource System). The DOERS project is a phased implementation and Oracle HRMS is Phase 3 of the total project.Phase 2, which includes Inventory, Grants Management, Projects and Public Sector Budgeting, began in early 2002. Phase 1, involving the Oracle Core Financials, began in early 2001 and includes General Ledger, Receivables, Payables, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Purchasing and iProcurement.

Following is a summary and analysis of key areas of the site: -

HRMS

According to this section of the site: -

The City/County DOERS project continues building an Oracle Solution to integrate HR, Payroll, and Benefit functions with the new Oracle Financial modules. This initiative falls under the DOERS project umbrella specifically called Phase 3. This Phase of the Oracle implementation also named HRMS for Oracle’s Human Resource Management System has been made significant progress. Douglas County and the Omaha Building Commission went live on version 11.5.5 in January of 2004. Due to the complexity of this phase and limited resource availability the Go Live date for the City has been pushed back.

Here you will find two very good documents to download, namely the RD.020 documents for Human Resources and Benefits. The RD.020 Current Business Requirements is an Oracle AIM (Applications Implementation Methodology) document which is designed to identify and document current business processes and requirements. This document often incorporates a questionairre and is completed during the Definition phase of a project.

Inquiry and Reports

Contains business forms, chart of accounts and end user documentation and training material for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Ledger.

Chart of Accounts

Here you can download the latest Chart of Accounts which is structured according to the following segments: -

• Funds
• Orgs
• Activities
• Assets
• Liabilities
• Fund Balance
• Expense
• Revenues

Current Practices

Here you will find the RD.020 documents for the various modules implemented in each phase of the project.

Future Processes

Contains the RD.030 documents for the following future processes: -

• Payables
• Purchasing
• General Ledger
• Fixed Assets
• Accounts Receivable
• Grants and Projects

The RD.030 document is an Oracle AIM document which is used to establish a process and mapping summary for your organisation. It is normally completed within the Operations Analysis phase of the project lifecycle. In this task, you create the repository for key project findings and decisions that occur during the process and functional requirements gathering activities.