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Today, more and more companies of all sizes are poised to expand into new markets. These global growth opportunities can be mighty lucrative, but successfully leveraging them requires understanding and addressing some major challenges. New, complex, and continually changing tax and compliance requirements feature most prominently ...
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Companies doing business globally must account for over 19,000 taxing jurisdictions with different rates, regulations, and requirements. Even more overwhelming is the fact that the rules and rates can change at any time. Does your tax team have what it needs to manage that level of complexity? Ask yourself: • Am I ...
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If you use Oracle Projects in Oracle Cloud ERP or E-Business Suite, you know how complicated and time-consuming changes to multiple projects, tasks, and attributes can be. The same goes for setting up new projects. Executing Oracle Projects data entry with built-in Oracle forms or tools like FBDI is slow and frustrating ...
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While recent reports indicate 86% of organizations have adopted Agile, only 23% of Agile organizations have adopted automated testing reaffirming that transformation requires the adoption of modern practices and processes across the software development and delivery lifecycle to attain full benefits. It’s time to bring ...
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As technological innovation evolves at lightning speed all around us, the adaptations and integration of new technologies offered to Oracle users are increasingly varied and complex. Even for long-time users of Oracle, keeping up with all the recent developments is a challenge. The Oracle ecosystem spans over 175 countries ...
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Software as a Service or (SaaS) offerings can provide organizations with point solutions to address needs in their enterprise, or a specific portion of the organization needing something above and beyond the functionality provided by Oracle solutions. Salespeople for these SaaS providers often deal directly with the ...
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Over the past several months, Oracle sought input from the OATUG Customer Support Council on their plans to update the Error Correction Baseline for Oracle EBS 12.2. The Customer Support Council gathered input from about twenty Oracle customer organizations. With their feedback, the Customer Support Council recommended ...
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The complexities of transacting business in a global marketplace means that tax calculation must continuously evolve to meet these new requirements. One of the trends that have emerged out of this complexity is the growth and expansion of digital channels—and the corresponding customer expectations. Whether shopping in ...
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With less than a week left for Ascend 2023 Call for Presentations to close, I want to share 23 tips for submitting your session proposal. While there is no guarantee that following these tips will ensure a session acceptance, I hope it will make your proposal a compelling one. These tips are my own perspective and are not ...
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2022 was another banner year for OATUG's education program! We helped the Oracle user community connect, learn and save through 80+ stand-alone online education sessions; four multi-session virtual education weeks; and hundreds of live, face to face sessions at Ascend 2022. The stand-alone online sessions were presented ...
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According to a recent study by Gartner, Inc., 83% of organizations say they’re facing different digital transformation challenges than they were two years ago, yet less than one-third of surveyed chief financial officers are confident their current technologies are aligned to ensure the future success of their organizations. ...
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Compliance has grown increasingly complex over the years, and there is no indication that this trend will slow in the coming years. Therefore, it is crucial that retailers consider all regulations to remain compliant with laws, standards and ethical practices. Retail leaders must consider the intricacies that come with ...
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Oracle owners sometimes deal with legacy systems during the lifetime of applications. The legacy servers hosting these apps get older and become hard to keep in service without hardware downtime. Oracle managers who have faced this legacy problem understand their challenge lies in hardware, not the software. This is why ...
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Hey there! I’m Roy, and I’ve been working in and around Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS) for over 19 years. A little more than half my life, to be exact. And if you’re reading this, I’m guessing that you work in one of the 10,000 organizations that have implemented Oracle EBS globally. I’m also guessing that you are either ...
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The Problem: As system integrators, we often get involved with customers that are not completely happy with the functionality delivered by the applications. We hear things like, “I wish Oracle could do….”, “At my old job I was much more efficient because our ERP did…..”, even “I can’t get any accurate reporting ...
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For years, businesses have made do with clunky, outdated legacy finance systems. As a result, enterprises have gotten by employing temporary fixes and adjustments. The sheer number of complex financial transactions can also be daunting, with a typical customer having about 100,000 transactions a day globally which require ...
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Could it be that Oracle customers feel the pinch of the global tech talent shortage more than SAP customers do? A Rimini Street-sponsored report from CIO suggests that may be the case. Findings from the report conclude that: Nearly nine out of ten (86%) respondents reported concern about the challenge of recruiting ...
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Workload migration refers to moving organizational workload (typically a specific program or service) from one specific infrastructure environment to another such as a cloud-centric environment. Cloud migration typically involves database migration, backups, and extensive restoration procedures. While not all businesses ...
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What do you do on a rainy day? Learn how to create a cloud strategy to ensure the sun is always shining! This post is not intended to be a complete cloud strategic reference. There are many things to think about, from leveraging cloud applications to modernize your business processes, to what you can lift and ...
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Simon, it’s great to have you here talking with us today for our Oracle Applications & Technology Users Group’s blog. Let’s start with your introduction. You are with Amazon Web Services, mostly well-known as AWS. Tell us about yourself, your role at AWS, and what you’d like for our OATUG members to know about you and ...
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