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In Avoiding Customization Regret – Part 1 covered the first three critical steps Train. Justify.Validate. In Part 2 we covered making them part of the process, having a realistic ROI, and  making the user(s) own it.  Over the past two decades I have seen the good, the bad , and the ugly when it comes […]

When generating revenue and invoices from Projects in Oracle Cloud PPM, revenue is transferred to the general ledger, but, the invoice information is sent to receivables. This might cause issues in accounting if not paying attention during configuration. We will look at how we got here. In most cases, setup is a straight forward SLA […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. In addition to the usual end-of-year activities, businesses of all sizes need to consider something new this year: The effects of 2018 on sales tax compliance in 2019. New sales tax requirements for remote sellers are coming online in numerous states since the June 2018 […]

System Requirements The system requirements for Oracle BI Applications installation: Oracle Fusion Middleware requires a minimum 1-GHz CPU Windows minimum physical memory required – 4 GB. Windows minimum available memory required – 8 GB. Additional System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Business Intelligence EE Release 12.2.1 can be found in Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c (12.2.1.0.0) […]

Oracle’s commitment to rapidly expanding Enterprise Data Management Cloud Service (EDMCS) features can be seen in the latest updates to the SaaS offering. The enhancements outlined below represent a significant advancement in EDMCS’s ability to simplify dimension and hierarchy administration facing many organizations today.   Subscriptions Systematically applying dimension alignment across target systems is a […]

In Avoiding Customization Regret – Part 1 covered the first three critical steps Train. Justify.Validate. At this point we will assume those steps are done and we are moving along in the process. Step 4 – Make Them Part Of The Process The end user needs to be part of the design process. The requirements […]

Introduction This document is for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Developers and Designers. These standard guidelines may vary from project to project. Below mentioned OBIEE Standards are more in generic form & developers can follow these guidelines to standardize their code & minimize post development defects.   Repository – Physical Layer best practices Database […]

We have all been there. Deciding to pull the trigger on a big (or sometimes small) customization Yet it didn’t work out how it was intended Take these three steps before ever considering a customization! Step 1 – Make Them Get Good At It Customization’s are frequently based on lack of exposure to the out […]

Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud BI Admin Tool is similar to the BI Admin tool. You can download the tool from the following link: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/oac/downloads/oac-tools-4392272.html When you try to establish the connection to Essbase Cube for import using this tool, you might get the following error: Essbase Error 1040048: HTTP communication failed with error [Failed to […]

In order to best deliver an intuitive and interactive end-user experience, architecture and UI elements have been redesigned from the ground-up in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g Release (Oracle BIEE). The 11g UI is dynamically generated using scripts which makes it highly customizable as per client’s needs and standards. This blog post illustrates the […]

Let’s face it… Trying to source orders from multiple locations can be a real pain. Thankfully the days of endless phone calls and spreadsheets are coming to end… Thanks To Oracle Cloud Now lets take a look at this slick graphical feature! Cloud now provides a graphical view of inventory availability across multiple locations during […]

Editor’s Note: This guest blog post comes courtesy of Gail Cole with Avalara. Approximately 20 states have started requiring remote sellers to collect and remit sales tax since June 21, 2018, when the Supreme Court of the United States removed the physical presence rule that long prevented states from taxing remote sales. Eight more states will do the […]