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TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles 4. More4Apps Software a Revelation for Travel Company
by: Ben Pentelow, RCI Europe (UK) for More4Apps Ltd.
6. Accelerating Positive Business Outcomes with Data-Intensive Applications
by: Informatica
8. How to Capitalize on Subledger Accounting in Oracle R12 with Excel-based Reporting
by: Gregg van der Westhuizen, Solutions Specialist, Excel4apps
10. Oracle EBS Data Loading Using appLOAD™ at LifeWay Christian Resources
by: Austin Davis, Vice President of Marketing, Chain-Sys
12. Post-merger Integration: Six Essential Steps that Add Value to Mergers and Acquisitions of Companies Using Oracle® E-Business Suite
by: Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise
14. Enabling Process Transformation
by: Monica Mehta, Content Specialist, Sprocket Media
20. Why Belong to the OAUG? 96% of OAUG Members Would Recommend Membership
Buyer’s Guide Categories 17. Product Families 18. Services 19. Solution Areas 22. Company Listings
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More4Apps Software a Revelation for Travel Company AP Invoice Wizard, AR Invoice Wizard, Upload Wizard, Supplier Wizard by: Ben Pentelow, RCI Europe (UK) for More4Apps Ltd. More4Apps has been something of a revelation to me and is now heavily relied on by our business as we move forward with our migration from JD Edwards to Oracle R12. We have a number of AP and AR interfaces that I had written over the years, and when initially faced with the move to Oracle, my first thought was “How are we going to get this data in?” For GL data we use Web ADI, but nothing like this exists for AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, etc.
I have recently made use of the More4Apps Upload Wizard to enable us to load bank statement data into Cash Management tables in order to enable automatic reconciliation of our bank accounts. This meant that we did not have to rely on an expensive (and inflexible) solution developed by external consultants. We saved a substantial amount of money, and I retain control of the process and can adapt it as and when required by our ever-changing business needs.
On hearing of the More4Apps tool from our parent company in the US, we immediately purchased perpetual licenses for nearly all of the wizards. To my mind it has been the best investment ever!
“Process improvement is part of my role, and increasingly More4Apps Wizards are the enabler of these improvements. I look forward to continuing what has, so far, been an extremely rewarding relationship.”
It seems that every week I was asked to build a new interface, which now can be replaced with AP Invoice Wizard or AR Invoice Wizard. The ease in which they can be implemented, coupled with the extraordinary level of service and support from the More4Apps team, is simply fantastic. This makes what once seemed to be a daunting effort now a straightforward exercise. There have been a couple of instances where we requested enhancements to the wizards, and these have been delivered with astonishing speed. Working in a world where product releases happen every quarter at best, this is truly refreshing! We recently also faced issues with custom load scripts that had been written for us by our integration partner to migrate our legacy AP Supplier data into Oracle. With deadlines fast approaching, we had to cease development and use the More4Apps Supplier Wizard. While this method was not quite as speedy as our bespoke process for loading, it worked and worked flawlessly.
Throughout the project to move our entire European, Middle Eastern and African regions of the business to Oracle R12, More4Apps software has been, hands down, the most impressive and reliable piece of software I have come across. It has helped to get the project on track and firmly keep it there. Process improvement is part of my role, and increasingly More4Apps Wizards are the enabler of these improvements. I look forward to continuing what has, so far, been an extremely rewarding relationship. I can highly recommend More4Apps to anyone who uses Oracle and wants to improve efficiency – it is simply unbeatable.
ABOUT MORE4APPS More4Apps is an award winning Software Company offering a broad range of Excel-based solutions enabling Oracle E-Business Suite users to smoothly integrate information with superior speed and accuracy. They are represented worldwide with clients in more than 20 countries. www.more4apps.com
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Accelerating Positive Business Outcomes with Data-Intensive Applications Smart partitioning helps organizations deliver predictable performance to the business while supporting cost containment initiatives for high-growth applications. stored and aggregated can become a valuable business asset and a competitive advantage. However, collecting this data and providing timely access while controlling costs can be challenging, and can even derail projects that could be valuable to the business.
Q: What is the impact of high data growth in business applications?
A: Data growth in applications can negatively impact the business in terms of reduced performance and poor cost control. Degrading performance can result in lost orders and customer dissatisfaction, creating a downstream impact that affects revenues. As a result, IT invests in continually upgrading hardware and software while increasing the overall cost of maintenance and support. Business users simply want predictable and sustainable performance regardless of the data growth challenge presented to IT.
Micah Deriso, Senior Director, Informatica’s Global Customer Experience group Leaders today are looking for ways to exploit competitive advantages by using every aspect of the data they collect. This means collecting and keeping data for longer, using it broadly across the organization to gain powerful insights. IT is challenged with delivering to service level agreements while simultaneously reducing costs across the supporting infrastructure. Micah Deriso, senior director of Informatica’s Global Customer Experience group, explains how Informatica Smart Partitioning can help Oracle customers solve this challenge.
Q: How does Informatica Smart Partitioning help support these business trends?
A: Informatica Smart Partitioning helps Oracle customers manage large volumes of data in complex applications by organizing the data at a business level. Leveraging Oracle’s native partitioning capability, Informatica Smart Partitioning is designed to abstract the technical layer of the database into understandable business terms such as Oracle E-Business Suite General Ledger, North America Sales or Order Management. This allows our Oracle clients to then:
to look for alternative methods to manage their IT investments?
• Partition data across these business concepts as opposed to individual tables in the database. • Compress older data. • Optimize queries to only relevant data. • Safely tier storage across highly complex applications.
A: We are literally seeing an explosion of data that
Q: What are some examples of Oracle clients using
Q: What business trends are driving IT managers
is being driven by the Internet of Things. Businesses realize that every piece of data that can be captured,
Informatica Smart Partitioning toward a successful business outcome?
A: A large manufacturer is using Informatica Smart Partitioning to deploy across dozens of Oracle Applications around the world. Their main business driver was to accelerate the performance of the applications to drive efficiencies in manufacturing facilities, order processes and financial reporting.
Business users simply want predictable and sustainable performance regardless of the data growth challenge presented to IT.� Their secondary concern was the cost of the overall infrastructure required to support over 150TB of application data spread out in over 30 countries while being able to aggregate that data for financial reporting and analysis. Using Informatica Smart Partitioning as the standard best practice for Oracle data management, they are on track to deliver over US$23 million in cost savings related to hardware and storage. The average performance gain in the system was between 40 to 50 percent, allowing for faster end-of-period closes and better operational visibility.
Another successful client in the telecommunications industry was able to use Informatica Smart Partitioning to take control of a high growth sales application that increased their sales effectiveness and delivered visibility to the activities of thousands of sales people across the company. This mission-critical application was experiencing performance problems and impacting the ability of the front-line sales team members to deliver service to their clients. They had reached a point where field managers in certain markets were reverting to other methods outside of the application, which caused management to lose the visibility into the operations that it had planned when the application was first deployed. After exploring hardware alternatives as well as performing manual tuning exercises, the IT team was out of options. With Informatica Smart Partitioning, the IT team was able to deploy the software on their Oracle E-Business Suite environment and bring system resource utilization from 100 percent to a sustainable and predictable 25 percent, creating performance improvement of over 90 percent on critical processes. The system has now been adopted by all markets, which has restored the business visibility and increased the sales effectiveness of critical front-line employees.
ABOUT INFORMATICA To learn more about how Informatica Smart Partitioning can drive performance improvements in your Oracle applications, visit Informatica at www.informatica.com/solutions/oracle.
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How to Capitalize on Subledger Accounting in Oracle R12 with Excel-based Reporting by: Gregg van der Westhuizen, Solutions Specialist, Excel4apps For corporate finance teams, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) R12 provides a powerful tool in the form of subledger accounting (SLA). The SLA architecture, which sits between the EBS subledger applications (such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, etc.) and the general ledger (GL), offers a user configurable, centralized accounting engine. It supports a summarized GL while also maintaining a detailed repository of accounting entries within the SLA. Here, Excel4apps discusses some of SLA’s benefits and how to capitalize on them with Excelbased reporting in GL Wand.
What were Oracle’s accounting changes from version 11i to R12? In 11i, the accounting rules were maintained in each module’s setup. It was often difficult to customize these rules to meet complex accounting requirements, and the limited customization that was possible required intervention from IT. The accounting engine was highly inconsistent from one module to the next. SLA entries were posted directly to the GL, and it was impossible to maintain a summarized GL without forfeiting the detail, resulting in limited reconciliation ability. With the release of R12, Oracle introduced the SLA architecture. SLA provides an intermediate step between the subledger applications and the GL. This is achieved by a central model that allows for the configuration of many aspects of journal entries, providing consistency across the subledger applications. The transactions are entered in the subledger application, but the accounting treatment
is derived in the SLA, eliminating the direct interface from the subledger application to the GL. A centralized engine creates detailed journal entries in the SLA repository, which are then interfaced to the GL.
What are the limitations of standard Oracle reports with SLA? Having a user configurable, rules-based accounting engine removes all limitations on what information the user can specify to be transferred to the SLA, meaning that you need a powerful, but flexible, reporting tool to capitalize on the detailed accounting repository. The detailed accounting data generated in the SLA repository is very useful for financial reporting and reconciliations, yet the standard SLA reports are very rigid and can only accommodate user needs after complex customization. The reports output a static text format, making it impossible to drill back to the source of the transaction
How do users benefit from using an Excelbased reporting tool with SLA? GL Wand, an Excel-based financial reporting tool, gives finance users easy access to the incredibly rich detail provided by SLA without the help of IT. Its Excel interface delivers flexibility for end users to create sophisticated reports with the exact information needed from SLA or GL data and the ability to refresh these reports in real time. GL Wand allows you to drill from the balance in a report down to the detailed balances, journals and subledger information.
ABOUT EXCEL4APPS Excel4apps is a best-in-class provider of Excel-based reporting and budget-loading software for Oracle. The company serves over 16,000 users in 62 countries. Learn more at www.excel4apps.com.
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Oracle EBS Mass Data Loading Using appLOAD™ at LifeWay Christian Resources by: Austin Davis, Vice President of Marketing, Chain-Sys
LifeWay Christian Resources is a religious nonprofit organization and is an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention. LifeWay produces Bibles, church literature, books, music, audio and video recordings, church supplies and Internet services. The ministry operates 154 LifeWay Christian Stores across the country. LifeWay’s home office is in Nashville, Tennessee, where about 1250 employees work. LifeWay has successfully implemented Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Financials, Projects, APC, Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management and Advanced Pricing modules for its global operations. LifeWay is on version 11.5.10.2 and their production database size is 1200 GB.
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The Struggle with DataLoader Manual mass data loading/maintenance within Oracle EBS can be tedious and very time consuming. LifeWay utilized DataLoader for performing data loading as an alternative to manual methods. The DataLoader tool took a lot of time and still could not provide a fool-proof and robust solution. Amy Goolsby recalls that for about 1500 items loading, it required constant monitoring and took two weeks with eight computers in the conference room. This time does not include the data loader spread sheet preparation time. A database specialist tended over about 25 desktops in a conference room each month for two or three days, each loading parts of Excel data through the EBS front end, simulating keystrokes.
LifeWay Chooses appLOAD™ LifeWay evaluated and selected appLOAD™ productivity tool from Chain-Sys Corporation for its data loading activities in Oracle EBS. appLOAD™ is a new-generation data conversion tool for Oracle EBS 11i/ R12. The tool significantly reduces project timelines and cuts costs. It is extremely useful during implementation or reimplementation and for routine production data maintenance. It is very easy to use, does not need programming and supports all open interfaces and APIs. appLOAD™ is a reliable and scalable back-end web-based application that is not front-end driven and not Excel-macros driven. Business users can confidently use this tool and convert data without technical assistance.
Productivity Gains Using appLOAD™
appLOAD™ Benefits
Within a week of installing appLOAD, the business users started using the tool very effectively for their data loads. Amy Goolsby remarks, “What I like about appLOAD is how fast it is. appLOAD executes the data loading processes in the background with no baby sitting needed. I can do the same task in four hours that used to take two weeks.”
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David Jamieson of LifeWay says, “The projected return on investment provided through use of the appLOAD application easily justified the cost of the product. We have identified uses that impact all business areas within E-Business Suite. Chain-Sys has been extremely responsive in identifying the most efficient uses of the tools and responding to our questions as we have begun to use the tool.”
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The Right Tool The appLOAD™ tools are a right choice for the IT environments of today and the technology changes that are coming up. Rooted in Enterprise Java/J2EE standards, it takes advantage of the enterprise quality scalability and reliability of the platform and is amenable to traditional deployments within the enterprise as well as to the Software as a Service model. appLOAD™ is currently available in the cloud in Managed SaaS and Subscription SaaS for EBS Data Conversion needs.
ABOUT CHAINSYS Chain-Sys is an Oracle Platinum Partner and has been highly successful in EBS implementations. The appLOAD Productivity tools accelerate technical implementation and data conversion, ease production data maintenance, migrate data to R12, interface EBS with external applications and provide huge cost savings. appBI™ is an out of the box BI solution for EBS with pre-built data warehouse and dashboards. appAUGMENTER™ allows personalization of OAF pages without any programming. Customers include Lifeway, Teknion, Comcast, Boart-Longyear, BILT, Canon, Patel Logistics, Greatbatch, Expedia and Ingersoll-Rand. Contact: www.chain-sys.com. austin@chain-sys.com.
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Post-merger Integration: Six Essential Steps that Add Value to Mergers and Acquisitions for Companies Using Oracle® E-Business Suite by: Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise, www.eprentise.com Few things generate excitement like the announcement of a merger and acquisition. Almost without exception, the promise is to increase stakeholder value; however, this is not always the result. With an estimated 70 percent of deals failing to deliver, how can you really maximize M&A deals? A focus on the consolidation of core processes and data reduces the time, effort, and costs associated with the merger; leverages both organization’s synergies; and increases the likelihood of success. Furthermore, companies using Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) can increase value by following these six post-merger integration steps: 1. Align calendars and charts of accounts. In order to quickly produce financial reports for the integrated company, you should align your chart of accounts (COA) and calendar to the acquiring company within the first 60-90 days. Plan to adopt a single global COA and calendar for the entire business. Rather than creating multiple “fix” spreadsheets to bridge the gaps, use eprentise software to quickly streamline integration of the companies. 2. Investigate statutory and regulatory requirements in all countries in which the combined entity will operate. Establish or revise tax structures and regulatory compliance features for each country where the company operates, and submit necessary regulatory filings and/or reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Select a reporting structure that accommodates both GAAP and IFRS rules. 3. Revalue assets and date placed in service. GAAP rules require that all assets have a date placed in service as of the date of the acquisition, the value (i.e., fair market value – usually net value) of the original asset cost and the depreciated value. In EBS, this is accomplished by revaluing the assets in new asset books. 4. Align versions of EBS. Aligning operations with inconsistencies requires a huge manual effort for reconciliation, translation and
maintenance. Patch or upgrade EBS versions so all are at the same level. Adopt a company-wide patch program to install, test and implement to ensure consistency. 5. Consolidate instances. Consolidation drives collective agreement on how the business should run, what data assets need to be shared and how business processes should be standardized enterprise-wide. 6. Reorganize within a single instance to align sets of books (ledgers), legal entities, operating units, and inventory organizations to standardize business processes. Without alignment of business processes, each company is unable to capitalize on its strengths, leading to lost value and risk of failure. In the past, companies seeking to align core EBS configurations would either create cumbersome workarounds (resulting in inaccurate reporting data), or undergo a costly and time-consuming reimplementation. eprentise can remodel existing EBS instances to streamline operations and reduce silos for both the acquiring and acquired companies without losing history, without a reimplementation, and without building bridges to reconcile gaps. A merger is an exciting – and disruptive – event in the life of a company. It presents opportunities to leverage synergies, offer new products and services, and increase shareholder value. With the right postmerger integration planning, companies can establish a foundation for success.
ABOUT eprentise eprentise serves the Oracle® E-Business Suite (EBS) community with transformation software that improves business agility, supports changing requirements and eliminates the need for a reimplementation. With eprentise software, companies are able to receive access to complete, consistent and correct data. www.eprentise.com
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Enabling Process Transformation Flexera Software shortens its monthly financial close process by 40 percent with the help of Oracle and CSS. by: Monica Mehta, Content Specialist, Sprocket Media Flexera Software is the leading provider of strategic solutions for application usage management. The company helps application producers and enterprises strategically manage application usage to achieve continuous compliance, optimized usage and maximized value. In April of 2008, Flexera Software was spun off as an independent company from its previous owner. Executives soon realized that they needed an ERP environment that would support the organization’s business needs for financials and human resources. With the help of Oracle Platinum Partner CSS, a leader in providing consulting services for the deployment of Oracle enterprise solutions for midsize and large companies, Flexera Software implemented a number of Oracle Applications that would meet its complex business requirements and support the growing new business.
Updating a Legacy Environment When Flexera Software became an independent entity, the company inherited a legacy Oracle environment that included older releases of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), including Oracle Human Resources Management System. At the time, this approach was expedient and cost-efficient. Over the years, however, the company encountered data that was inaccurate and in some cases irrelevant to its business. The old system, which had been customized for the previous owner, included a number of misconfigurations and nonfunctional parts, resulting in a lot of manual work in order to process certain transactions. In 2011, Flexera Software made the decision to implement Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, including Oracle Human Resources management System. These implementations would help to handle its complicated reporting processes related to product and solution area performance and to comply with complex, country-specific regulations in its offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. To enhance budgeting and forecasting capabilities, executives also decided to implement Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Business Intelligence Analytics Applications.
Aligning Business and IT After evaluating a number of consulting services companies, Flexera Software selected CSS because of the consulting firm’s proactive strategy of aligning the company’s IT goals with its business goals.
Joe Frieda, CIO at Flexera.
“CSS really understood our business better than the other firms did,” says Joe Frieda, chief information officer at Flexera Software. “They understood that this was the first step of many in terms of building a foundation for future initiatives and enhancements, as well as additional capabilities down the road. They also understood how we should re-implement the Oracle solutions in relation to our business requirements.”
The newly implemented Oracle Applications have enabled Flexera Software to dispense with numerous manual processes and replace them with automated tasks, which saves time and resources. Old customizations were replaced with standardized processes and predesigned workflows, which benefitted Flexera Software from a business process perspective. Finance users are now able to perform processes independently of IT, freeing the IT staff for more strategic projects.
“Our ability to get accurate financial information as quickly as possible to report to management, to report to our investors, etc., is critical. Shortening our monthly close is vital to getting that information out expediently.”
Optimizing the Reporting Process The process transformation and automation enabled Flexera Software to shorten its monthly close cycle by about 40 percent. “We’re a very dynamic business with a lot of things going on,” says Freda. “Our ability to get accurate financial information as quickly as possible to report to management, to report to our investors, etc., is critical. Shortening our monthly close is vital to getting that information out expediently.” Freda says Flexera Software benefitted from CSS’ strong knowledge of Oracle Applications and its proactive approach to the implementation. “CSS spent time in the initial stages talking to us about our needs. They were the only company that understood we needed to build out a roadmap for the future that viewed our IT investment in relation to our business goals,” says Freda. “In terms of my experience with these sorts of projects over the years, they did a good job with the overall project management, ensuring that we stayed on track. With a project of this magnitude, there are many risks of it going askew. They did a really nice job of mitigating the risks.”
ABOUT CSS Oracle Platinum Partner specializing in system integration, implementation and managed services for the Oracle community. Serving mid and large-sized organizations and solely focused on Oracle solutions since 1997 inception. Seven Oracle Specializations and certified in the Oracle Business Accelerator program. http://www.cssus.com/
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Hyperion Thirdware Solution Inc. Tier1, Inc. Zebra Technologies
JD Edwards Global Software, Inc. Rimini Street, Inc. Q Software Global Limited
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Thirdware Solution Inc.
Oracle Retail Zebra Technologies
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PeopleSoft Enterprise AT&T EiS Technologies Informatica Rimini Street, Inc.
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CSS International, Inc. EiS Technologies O2Works, LLC SmartDog Services LLC Thirdware Solution Inc.
Managed Services AT&T Centroid OneNeck IT Services SoftArt Solutions Inc. Thirdware Solution Inc. Tier1, Inc.
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Governance, Risk & Compliance
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Customer Experience InsightSoftware.com OneNeck IT Services
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Project Portfolio Management Collabro Legare
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COMPANY LISTINGS AT&T
Sales Contact: Sales 2500 Riva Road Annapolis, MD 21401 Phone: 800-809-3003 Website: www.att.com/oracleservices AT&T’s Hosting & Application Services combines the power of AT&T’s global network, hosting capabilities, and proven application services expertise. As a Platinum Level Partner in the Oracle Partner Network, AT&T delivers implementation and support services for the complete Oracle application lifecycle.
API Wizard
Sales Contact: Richard Volpitta 1127 High Ridge Road, #238 Stamford, CT 06905 Phone: 800-691-8714 Toll Free Phone: 800-691-8714 Website: www.api-wizard.com API Wizard combines the best of Oracle and Excel to streamline data entry, data updating and reporting in every Oracle EBS module. Saves time, benefits the IT team and Oracle business users. Speeds day-to-day work and periodic projects.
Business Technology Services (BizTech) Sales Contact: Margot McDonnell 1150 First Ave. King of Prussia, PA 19406 Phone: 610-592-0600 Toll Free Phone: 1-877-BizTech Website: www.biztech.com BizTech is an award-winning Oracle consulting and technology services firm helping organizations maximize the value of their Oracle investments through the entire applications and technology lifecycle. BizTech delivers the flexibility and performance customers need from Oracle’s traditional and cloud-based solutions.
COMPANY LISTINGS Centroid
Sales Contact: Jim Brull 1050 Wilshire Drive, Suite 170 Troy, MI 48084 Phone: 877-868-1753 Toll Free Phone: 877-868-1753 Website: www.centroid.com Centroid is a national provider of Oracle consulting and hosted managed services providing expertise from Applications to Technology to Hardware. Centroid’s Apps to Iron expertise delivers fully-integrated Oracle solutions from EBS, BI, Database, Middleware, to Servers and Storage. We are committed to helping clients realize measureable business value and achieve sustainable ROI.
Chain-Sys Corporation
Sales Contact: Austin Davis 325 S. Clinton Street, Ste. 205 Grand Ledge, MI 48837 Phone: 517-627-1173 Option 1 Toll Free Phone: 855-app-LOAD Option 1 Website: www.chain-sys.com appLOAD™ Suite Oracle EBS mass data loading, data maintenance, interfacing and migrating. Scalable server based hub-n-spokes model and not driven by frontend excel-macros. EBS Implementations, Upgrades and Support. Reduced timeline for data migration/conversion. appBI™ Business Intelligence and appAUGMENTER™ Personalizations.
Collabro Legare
Sales Contact: Allan Sutherland Enterprise Centre, Exploration Drive Aberdeen, UK AB23 8GX Phone: +44 (0)1224 853420 Toll Free Phone: +44 (0)1224 853420 Website: www.collabro-legare.com Many companies struggle to automate the process of getting data into Primavera P6. Legare is a simple, inexpensive tool that automatically moves data from Oracle, SAP, Maximo, and contractor systems into Primavera using technology connectors for XER, Oracle, Access, Excel, and Microsoft Project.
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COMPANY LISTINGS ConfigSnapshot - Rookery Software Limited Sales Contact: Martin Jenkinson Rookery House, Hankerton Wiltshire SN16 9JZ Phone: 646-652-6855 Website: www.configsnapshot.net ConfigSnapshot is the most comprehensive and flexible configuration management software for the E-Business Suite; reducing time, cost and risk at all stages of the application lifecycle. Document – Analyse – Compare – Plan – Migrate – Track – Comply Highlights include: Automatic setup documentation and comparison, setup planning and migration, change tracking and audit, customisation and patch impact analysis, security, access control and segregation of duties reporting. Contact us for a demonstration and free trial to understand how ConfigSnapshot can transform your approach to application management.
Core Services Corporation Sales Contact: Joseph Ung
130 Belmont Drive Somerset, NJ 08873 jung@coreservices.com Phone: 877-267-3797 Website: www.coreservices.com Profitable every year since its founding in 1990, Core Services Corporation, an Oracle Platinum Partner and OAUG Three Star Partner, delivers expert Oracle Applications implementation, development, and support to clients worldwide via its Hosting, Cloud, and Consulting services. Additionally, Core Services is authorized to sell and service the Oracle Applications.
CM Mitchell Consulting Corporation Sales Contact: Carol Mitchell
1510 W. Canal Court, Ste. 2500 Littleton, CO 80120 Phone: 303-526-2796 x101 Website: www.cm-mitchell.com CM Mitchell Consulting (CMMC) is an Information Management solutions company helping clients electronically manage their unstructured paper and content. CMMC is a provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions, and specializes in document management, imaging, file repository and custom Accounts Payable (AP) automation. CMMC is a certified reseller and business partner with Kofax, IBM and Oracle. As an infrastructure alternative, our solutions can be implemented on an enterprise-class hybrid platform in a secure cloud environment or on-premise with optional administrative services.
COMPANY LISTINGS CSS International
Sales Contact: James Landry 115 River Landing Drive Charleston, SC 29492 Phone: 904-571-8552 Toll Free: 800-814-7705 Website: www.cssus.com CSS is an Oracle Platinum Partner specializing in system integration, business process improvement, implementation and managed services for the Oracle community. Serving mid and large-sized organizations and solely focused on Oracle since inception in 1997. CSS is Oracle Specialized across 7 areas and certified in the Oracle Business Accelerator program. A 3-time Oracle Partner of the Year and 2-time runner up in the last 6 years. Read about our work on the pages of PROFIT, Insight and Q&A magazines.
EiS Technologies
Sales Contact: Tom Ericson 3067 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Duluth, GA 30097 Phone: 214-801-6500 Toll Free Phone: 678-534-3968 Website: www.eistech.com EiS Technologies, an Oracle Platinum, Education and a Validated Partner, is dedicated to empowering customers with enterprise-wide solutions for insightful decision-making. Founded in 2001, EiS leverages cutting-edge technology to provide products and services focused on providing clarity: data access and integration, discovery, formal reporting, analysis and visualization with ready to use “out-of-the box” solutions (including pre-built-content) for Oracle E-Business Suite, TALEO, PeopleSoft, and OBI. Learn more about EiS Technologies at http://www.eistech.com.
eprentise
Sales Contact: Ingrid Houghton 6052 Turkey Lake Road, Suite 202 Orlando, FL 32819 Phone: 407-591-4950 Toll Free Phone: 4075914950 Website: www.eprentise.com eprentise accelerates ERP simplification efforts with transformation software that makes Oracle® E-Business Suite more agile. While providing access to complete, consistent and correct data, eprentise supports changing requirements, helps lower the total cost of ownership of EBS, and enables companies to avoid a reimplementation. With eprentise software, businesses can make necessary modifications to any underlying EBS configuration, including changing charts of accounts, calendars and currencies, merging or splitting operating units or sets of books, consolidating multiple instances, and more. www.eprentise.com.
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COMPANY LISTINGS Excel4apps
Sales Contact: Scott Stollwerk 8514 Six Forks Road, Suite 102 Raleigh, NC 27615 Phone: 919-238-4040 Toll Free Phone: 1-800-991-4607 Website: www.excel4apps.com Excel4apps is a best-in-class provider of Excel-based reporting and budget-loading software for SAP and Oracle. Designed for financial professionals, its award-winning GL Wand, Reports Wand and Budget Wand products easily and securely deliver realtime ERP data using Microsoft Excel to save reporting time and effort. Excel4apps serves over 15,000 SAP and Oracle users worldwide, with offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, United Arab Emirates and South Africa. To schedule a demonstration or a free trial, visit www.excel4apps.com.
Global Software, Inc.
Sales Contact: Tonya Cannady 3201 Beechleaf Court, Suite 170 Raleigh, NC 27604 Phone: 919-872-7800 Website: www.globalsoftwareinc.com Global Software, Inc. is the No.1 provider of Microsoft® Excel-based reporting solutions for Oracle®, JD Edwards® and PeopleSoft® ERP platforms. Global’s tools enable spreadsheet users to gain live access to Oracle EBS data within Excel for secure financial and operational reporting, budgeting and automated report delivery. The Reporting Solutions Suite is comprised of the flagship Spreadsheet Server, Distribution Manager, Enterprise Budgeting and Spreadsheet Writeback. Global’s tools are used in 50+ countries, support over 5,000 customers and 500,000+ users.
Informatica
Sales Contact: Julie Lockner 2100 Seaport Blvd. Redwood City, CA 94063 Phone: 650-385-5000 Toll Free Phone: 650-385-5000 Website: www.informatica.com Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world rely on Informatica to drive top business imperatives in the data-centric world. Over 5,000 enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets in Oracle Applications from devices to mobile to social to big data residing on-premises, in the Cloud and across social networks. Informatica delivers solutions to keep your Oracle data clean, safe and connected.
COMPANY LISTINGS InsightSoftware.com
Sales Contact: Patrick Aubry 5613 DTC Parkway, Suite 570 Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: 303-552-0572 Toll Free Phone: 720-279-0089 Website: InsightSoftware.com InsightSoftware.com develops award-winning software that provides E-Business Suite, JD Edwards,and PeopleSoft customers a powerfully simple, fast way to understand, manage, and plan their business. End-user solutions for reporting, planning, and business performance management work directly with the ERP in real-time
Inspirage
Sales Contact: Jon Corbett 40 Lake Bellevue, Suite 100 Bellevue, WA 98005 Phone: 855-517-4250 Toll Free Phone: 855-517-4250 Website: www.inspirage.com Inspirage is a high expertise global consulting firm that helps clients realize breakthrough improvements across the value chain in areas from Innovation through Execution™.
We bring industry-specific experience and proven solutions to help our clients solve problems and build an effective supply chain. Inspirage is an Oracle Platinum Partner specializing in Oracle “Edge” applications, including Value Chain Planning, Value Chain Execution, and Product Lifecycle Management.
Magnitude Software (formerly Noetix) Sales Contact: Sally Hicks
5010 148th Ave. NE Redmond, WA 98052 Phone: 425-372-2699 Toll Free Phone: 866-466-3849 Websites: www.noetix.com or www.magnitudesoftware.com Magnitude Software’s brands are leaders in enterprise information management with award-winning solutions in business intelligence, data warehousing and master data management. For more than two decades, Noetix has enabled customers to simplify access to application data in support of enterprise-wide reporting and analytics. Kalido enables companies to manage data as a shared enterprise asset with speed, agility and flexibility.
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COMPANY LISTINGS More4Apps
Sales Contact: Sarah Conzemius 4695 MacArthur Court, 11th Floor Newport Beach, CA 92660 Phone: 310-430-0245 Toll Free Phone: 310-430-0245 Website: www.more4apps.com More4apps provides Excel-based products that helps users validate and upload data into Oracle E-Business Suite more quickly and accurately from Excel. Data loading Wizards are available for Financials, Project Accounting, Manufacturing, Supply Chain , Fixed Assets, HR and more!
Noetix Corp. (see Magnitude Software) Sales Contact: Sally Hicks
5010 148th Ave. NE Redmond, WA 98052 Phone: 425-372-2699 Toll Free Phone: 866-4NOETIX Website: www.noetix.com Noetix provides instant operational reporting and a packaged data warehouse for Oracle E-Business Suite. Our patented metadata-driven software and lean architecture deliver the lowest cost BI solution to acquire, implement, and maintain. Noetix uses innovative technology to quickly eliminate the costly manual mapping efforts required to set up an enterprise reporting environment. Easy search and navigation capability allows users to create ad hoc reports and answer their own questions without help from IT.
O2Works, LLC
Sales Contact: Mark Clark 703 N. Mckinney Avenue, Suite 302 Dallas, TX 75202 Phone: 972-466-2260 Website: www.o2works.com O2Works focuses exclusively on putting Oracle’s E-Business Suite to work for your organization – on time and within your budget. Comprised of some of the first consultants from Oracle to work on the initial version of the Applications in the late 1980s, our consultants have been implementing, integrating, upgrading, supporting, and extending Oracle’s E-Business Suite, from some of the very first releases, through Release 12.2.
COMPANY LISTINGS OneNeck IT Services
Sales Contact: Brian Lamberger 5301 N. Pima Rd., Suite 100 Scottsdale, AZ 85250 Phone: 480-315-3000 Toll Free Phone: 855-One-Neck Website: www.oneneck.com OneNeck® IT Services, a TDS company, is a leading provider of hosted application management, managed hosting, cloud services, infrastructure and colocation services. Our offerings include application, database and network management, data center management, DR, DaaS, managed backup/storage and 24/7 support.
Q Software Global Limited Sales Contact: Steve Spencer
4600 S. Syracuse Street, 9th Floor Denver, CO 80237-2719 Phone: 866-764-5819 x704 Website: www.qsoftware.com Make risk management and compliance manageable! Say goodbye to time consuming, onerous manual processes. We specialize in Advanced Control solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite. Designed to reduce the cost and hassle of managing compliance, CS*Application Controls are embedded into Oracle E-Business Suite, require no additional hardware and are affordable for organizations of all sizes. We offer solutions to streamline and automate: Segregation of Duties and Accountability through Auditing.
ReadSoft
Sales Contact: Ashley Stotts 3838 N. Causeway Blvd, Lakeway III, 24th Floor Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 919-439-2139 Toll Free Phone: 888-ReadSof(t) Website: www.readsoft.com Over 12,000 companies worldwide trust ReadSoft to automate their financial document processes. ReadSoft’s Oracle– certified accounts payable solution optimizes procure-to-pay while maximizing companies’ investments in Oracle E-Business Suite and has made ReadSoft the technology leader in document process automation.
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COMPANY LISTINGS Rimini Street Inc.
Sales Contact: Client Services 3993 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 780 Las Vegas, NV 89169 Phone: 888-870-9692 Toll Free Phone: 702-839-9671 Website: www.riministreet.com Rimini Street is the leading independent provider of enterprise software support services for Oracle and SAP applications. We replace vendor annual support with more responsive, personalized, award-winning service at guaranteed savings of 50 percent, and savings of up to 90 percent in total support costs over a decade. We service clients around the world who require best-in-class, stable, highly functional enterprise software and demand superior value for their annual maintenance fees.
Rolta Americas
Sales Contact: Lynne Preston 5865 North Point Parkway Alpharetta, GA 30022 Phone: 978-468-0079 Toll Free Phone: 800-755-8872 Website: www.Rolta.com Rolta is a leading provider of Consulting, Managed Services and Technology for many vertical segments, including Manufacturing, Financial Services, Utilities and Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Retail. Our domain expertise and deep Oracle applications experience provides a rich understanding of industry drivers and supporting business processes to help organizations achieve their business goals. An Oracle Platinum Partner with more than 1,000 Oracle resources worldwide, Rolta has been recognized by Oracle 16 times in the last decade for outstanding achievement in serving the needs of our clients.
SmartDog Services
Sales Contact: Darren Gomez 70004 Bee Caves Rd., Bldg. 3, Suite 100 Austin, TX 78746 Phone: 512-721-0134 Toll Free Phone: 800-309-1213 Website: www.smartdogservices.com SmartDog Services is the leading provider of Oracle EBS and Core Technology services, and recognized as The Oracle Customer’s Best Friend. An Oracle Platinum Partner, four-time TOLA Partner of the Year, and Oracle Titan Award Winner; our consultants are US-based, full-time employees and average over ten years of Oracle experience. SmartDog believes Oracle software has tremendous capability and can transform business and lives of their employees. Our mission is to help our customers recognize the full potential of their investment.
COMPANY LISTINGS SoftArt Solutions Inc. Sales Contact: Sales
5 Independence Way, Suite 120 Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 609-303-3003 Toll Free Phone: 866-477-4435 Website: www.softart-inc.com SoftArt Solutions helps Oracle user communities to assess, implement, manage and/or upgrade their Oracle systems more affordably and efficiently. Whether you need health check of the Oracle environment, implementation of EBS, database 11g upgrade, migration to EBS R12, or Post Production support, we simply make it easier for you to use your Oracle systems. Let our team of experts manage them for you today. SoftArt = Trust + Excellence + Experience. Affordably!
Thomson Reuters
Sales Contact: Inside Sales 2395 Midway Road Carrollton, TX 75006 Phone: 888-885-0206 Toll Free Phone: 888-885-0206 Website: http://onesourceindirecttax.com Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE brand of solutions is the world’s most powerful corporate tax & accounting platform, enabling you to work smarter, faster. We offer solutions for managing sales and use tax, VAT, GST, tax provisioning, and transfer pricing. Our ONESOURCE Indirect Tax solution integrates with Oracle financial applications to provide automated tax reporting, inventory movement, and empowers tax and IT departments to better manage compliance and risk. ONESOURCE Indirect Tax is an Oracle Validated Integration to Oracle E-Business Suite.
Thirdware Solution Inc.
Sales Contact: Chuck Johnson 47548 Halyard Drive Plymouth, MI 48170 Phone: 517-304-5529 Toll Free Phone: 888-278-8775 Website: www.thirdware.com Thirdware is a global leading provider of implementations, upgrades and 24x7 managed services for Hyperion and OBIEE since 2001 with offices in USA, India and United Kingdom. Companies worldwide leverage Thirdware’s flexibility, efficiency, and personal service of a mid-sized firm.
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COMPANY LISTINGS Tier1, Inc.
Sales Contact: David Busch 2403 Sidney Street, Suite 225 Pittsburgh, PA 15203 Phone: 412-381-9201 Website: www.tier1.com Tier1 is dedicated to providing best-in-class 24x7 managed services, implementations, upgrades, and development for Oracle’s E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Hyperion, BI, Database, and Identity Management products. Additionally, the Private Oracle Cloud by Tier1 offers the most optimized, cloud-based private environment for running Oracle applications and databases. We deliver the entire infrastructure and the managed services that you need via the Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance (OVCA). Over 350 clients can attest to Tier1’s expertise and commitment to customer-focused success.
Wolters Kluwer
Sales Contact: John Thomas 2700 Lake Cook Road Riverwoods, IL 60015 Phone: 800-915-5674 Toll Free Phone: 866-513-2677 Website: www.salestax.com Wolters Kluwer, CCH is the leading provider of tax information and software solutions. Reduce time spent on sales tax compliance with CCH’s Oracle Validated sales and use tax solutions, which offer sophisticated calculation logic, tax rate and taxability content, and jurisdiction boundary information.
Vertex Inc.
Sales Contact: Dave Homiak 1061 Old Cassatt Rd. Berwyn, PA 19312 Phone: 610-651-5361 Toll Free Phone: 800-355-3500 Website: www.vertexinc.com Vertex provides a comprehensive suite of software and services backed by more than 30 years experience. Our innovative solutions help companies worldwide streamline tax management in every major line of business tax including income tax, transaction tax, and payroll tax.
COMPANY LISTINGS Zebra Technologies
Sales Contact: Dean Jackson 333 Corporate Woods Parkway Vernon Hills, IL 60061 Phone: 847-793-5795 Toll Free Phone: 866-830-9494 Website: www.zebra.com Zebra Technologies provides the broadest range of innovative technology solutions for identifying, tracking, managing, and optimizing the deployment of critical assets for improved business efficiency. Zebra offers innovative, reliable printing and location solutions.
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