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If you've been waiting to take Oracle E-Business Suite for a test drive, now is your chance!

Multiperiod accounting is a flexible, powerful tool available with Release 12 of the Oracle e-Business Suite which allows users to systematically record accounting entries across multiple periods. This post will focus on real world applications of this functionality, and present the detailed steps required to implement the functionality within Payables and Purchasing.

The first installment in BizTech's Oracle CRM On Demand Release 20 Readiness Series provides an overview of the Territory Management and Access Control enhancements.

If you are reading this blog, you are probably like me in that you downloaded a 10.x update to Firefox and found that OBIEE no longer works. Here is a quick and dirty workaround until Oracle is ready with a patch:

The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g, 11.1.1.6 is now downloadable from OTN for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX @ http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/biee-111150-393613.html

And, the OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Documentation Library is online @ http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/bi.htm

This is the OBI Foundation version that is used to support the new Exalytics in-memory BI machine.

Oracle continues to aggressively build out its complete CRM footprint by agreeing to purchase RightNow Technologies for $1.5 billion. RightNow is a provider of SaaS-based call center automation, sales force automation (SFA) and customer relationship management (CRM) services. It is really the service components of this deal that I expect to deliver the greatest value to customers in the next generation of Oracle CRM. RightNow is strong in the social media component of service, as well as call center and industry verticals.

Multiperiod accounting is a flexible, powerful tool available with Release 12 of the Oracle e-Business Suite which allows users to systematically record accounting entries across multiple periods. This blog entry will focus on real world applications of this functionality, and present the detailed steps required to implement the functionality within Payables and Purchasing.

The ink still isnt dry on Release 19, and many customers are still on R18, but recent information has emerged on Release 20. Below are some of my favorite new product highlights for Oracle CRM On Demand Release 20.

Recently I received a request to develop a custom interface to update the salaries of approximately 1000 employees. My response was, “why re-invent the wheel”? Several Web ADI Integrators are delivered out of the box including the HR Update Salary Proposals Integrator.

The HRMS Web ADI Integrators are extremely powerful as long as you know how to use them. They can be tricky to setup since they are dependent on the settings of the browser and the security settings within Excel, however within 10 minutes I was able to get the users up and running and updating salaries for their end of year merit increases. Within a few hours, they had entered and updated the salaries for all of their employees.

Here is a quick summary of the required setups and steps to utilize the HR Update Salary Proposals Integrator:

OBIEE 11g provides a number of different ways to integrate with authentication services. This post shows how to authenticate users with an existing AD solution.