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Oracle General Ledger
Product Enhancements & Future Directions
Fall 1998 OAUG Conference
Presented At:
Atlanta User’s Group Meeting
November 20, 1998
Presented by:
Brad Eldredge
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Introduction:
 Brad Eldredge
 Manager, Oracle|solutions
 AnswerThink Consulting Group
 GL Enhancements Chairman Since Spring 1995
 Oracle GL Product Managers
 General Ledger
Rondy Ng, Product Director
Holly Roland, Sr Product Mgr
 Application Desktop Integration (ADI)
Brett Hooker, Group Mgr
Colleen McKenna, Product Manager
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Product Enhancement Process:
 Product enhancement requests submitted
 Performed by users, consultants, & Oracle
 2 methods of submission
Via e-mail [email protected]
Via OWWS; CSI # required
 Product Ballots Prepared
 Performed by enhancement chairs
 Ballots prepared annually
 Enhancement Vote
 Performed by company key contacts (via web)
 Voting occurs annually
 Oracle Review & Response
 Performed by Oracle product manager
 Required to respond to “Top 10” votes @ fall OAUG conferences
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GL Voting Results - “Top 10”:
 #10 - Automatically Display Accounting Flexfield
(GUI)
 Response: Future Release Candidate
 #9 - Prevent Disabled Account Balance Rollforward
 Response: Release 12 Candidate
 #8 - Generate Year-end Closing Entries
 Response: Planned Release 11.5 w/ Release 11.0
backport
 #7 - Entity Autonomy / FSG Component Security
 Response: Release 12 Candidate
 #6 - Intercompany Balancing - Due To / Due From
 Response: Planned Release 11.5
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GL Voting Results - “Top 10”:
 #5 - Segment Value Inheritance
 Response: Planned Release 11.5
 #4 - Automatic Intercompany Eliminations
 Response: Partial Compliance Release 11.0; Complete
Compliance Planned Release 11.5
 #3 - Drill to Any Oracle Sub-ledger
 Response: Partial Planned Release 11.5; Complete
Planned Release 12.0
 #2 - Auto Allocations / Auto Step-down Allocations
 Response: Planned Release 11.5
 #1 - Drill to Complete Journal Entry
 Response: Current Functionality Release 11.0
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Future Product Direction (Rel 11.5):
 Enhanced Journal Automation
 Auto Allocation Workbench (Workflow Enabled)
 Automatic Journal Reversal
Generate reversals upon opening next period
Optionally post reversals automatically
 Schedule Journal Generation
Allocations
Recurring
 Intercompany Enhancements
 Due To / Due From Intercompany Balancing
 Global Intercompany System (GIS)
 Renaming & enhancing ‘CENTRA’ - Release 11.0
Intercompany Transaction Notification via e-mail
Intercompany Transaction Interface (sub-ledgers)
Automatic Transaction Generation
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Future Product Direction (Rel 11.5):
 Global Consolidation System (GCS)
 Automatic Intercompany Eliminations
 Consolidation Workbench
 Drilldown Enhancements
 Drill between sets of books
 Journals & Sub-ledgers
Assets
Inventory
Purchasing
Projects
Work In Process
 Drill to common inquiry form & view full sub-ledger
transaction
 Advanced Analysis
 Business Intelligence System
 Integration w/ Oracle Data Warehouse
 Enhanced Financial Analyzer Integration (Drilldown)
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Future Product Direction (Rel 11.5):
 Maintenance Enhancements
 Segment Value Inheritance - Automatically Propagate
Segment Value Changes to Account Code Combinations
Enabled
Posting
Budgeting Allowed
Account Types
 Calendar Auditing
Ensure Accounting Calendar Integrity
Calendar Setup Validation Program
 Enhanced Close Process
 Option to Create Year-end Closing Journals
 Reporting
 Segment Value Security Added to Standard Reports
 FSG: Unlimited Page Sizing (unlimited columns > ADI)
 FSG: Absolute Values Function
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Oracle General Ledger Availability:
 When will Rel 11.5 be available?????
 Oracle wouldn’t commit @ fall 1998 OAUG
conference
 When pressed for an answer, Oracle loosely
responded “sometime during 1999”
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Applications Desktop Integration (ADI):
 Business Areas
 General Ledger
 Fixed Assets
 Report Management - Variable Format Reports
 What’s New?
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Fixed Assets Desktop Integration (FADI)
Cell Level Formatting
Faster Performance
Certified on Win98 & Terminal Server
Tip Wizard
Enhanced Toolbar
 ADI 4.0 released on 10/23/98
 ADI Product Development
 Enhancements >> [email protected]
 3-4 month cycle, future releases announced via OraApps List Server
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Getting Involved:
 Enhancements Process
 Submit Requests
 Vote
 GL Special Interest Group (SIG)
 To Be Kicked Off @ Spring 1999
 For More Information Regarding
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Enhancement Process
Product Voting Results
Product Enhancement Scorecards
Enhancement Chairs
 See the ‘Enhancement’ links within OAUG’s ‘Members Only’
section of their website . . . http://www.oaug.org/members/
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Questions:
Contact Info: Brad Eldredge
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 770.690.9700, ext 3092
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