R12 – Installation

This article applies to version 12.0.4. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. Download Oracle E-Business Suite – EBS from http://edelivery.oracle.com/ Rapid Install patch 6919017 from http://metalink.oracle.com Transfer Files Boot into Ubuntu and transfer files to the /oracle partition for example /oracle/install Unzip Boot into OEL and login […]

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OEL – Installation

This article applies to OEL 5.3. I recommend you to start with this article to get R12 up and running. This flavour of Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) so if you can’t find the answer here google for RHEL issues instead. Having played around with this operating system for a […]

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R12 on a LAPTOP

As a functional and technical consultant it is always useful to have a demo environment. What about installing R12 VIS on your LAPTOP? Well easier said than done. Just the download is a daunting task – unbelievable 35Gb for 12.0.4 So check your broadband contract for any cap and excess charges before downloading this much. […]

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Documenting the Interfaces

Strategy – High level scope of what interfaces are needed and their intended purpose. In order to establish this – an as-is and to-be system landscape is needed. Also intermediate system landscapes may be needed in case there is a transition period. The transition period may drive the need for additional intermediate interfaces as well. […]

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Documenting the Data Migration

Lets have a look at the elements of the data migration by document: Strategy – High level scope of the data migration agreeing to what business objects must be migrated and how they depend on each other and on the business. Also business risks, constraints and limitations must be identified. Other topics may be data […]

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Functional Approach to Data Migration

Is the process of managing data migration a functional or a technical task? Many times I have seen the requirements for a data migration manager being mainly technical – however looking at the aspects of a data migration this may prove strong functional skills must be present. The data migration focus should be on: What […]

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Face the crunch or be crushed

Your company is in the crunch and we need to make it through to the other side. From a systems implementation and process point of view this is an opportunity to fix issues that nobody cared about in good times. In my daily work I see numerous cases where both systems and processes can be […]

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Documentation leads the way

During an implementation it is quite often that the user documentation gets down-prioritised compared to delivering the environment and the associated setup documentation (BR100 or similar). When done in the right way the documentation decreases the overall risk to the project and improves the quality of the delivered system and increases user ownership. This process […]

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MIS-train

I’m standing on the train station waiting for the 22:16 train but now it is 20:20??? The screen still says the train is due 22:16 – weird. Just arrived on a late flight and now the train is late as well. Oh – now the speaker lady now tells me the train is 10 minutes […]

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