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REVOLUTIONIZING ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE (EBS) CUSTOMIZATIONS: A NEW APPROACH

By Ash Owen posted 5 days ago
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Revolutionizing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Customizations: A New Approach Are you an IT Technology leader, Architect, or Release Manager currently managing Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customizations? Are you feeling burdened by the manual, error-prone processes? If so, this blog post is for you. Today, we’ll discuss ...
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Looking Toward Oracle CloudWorld

By Julie Anderson posted 08-17-2023
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Members of the OATUG staff team are excited for the opportunity to connect with OATUG members during Oracle CloudWorld in Las Vegas next month. If you haven’t registered yet, use the designated OATUG member discount code OCWSD_OATUG when you register. We are excited to hear about the latest developments ...
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Grow Your Career with Insight Magazine

By Deborah Grant posted 07-27-2023
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Insight Magazine is inviting OATUG members to contribute articles! Fall issue submissions close on September 20th, and Winter issue entries must be in by November 15th. What’s in it for you? A whole lot! Share your knowledge – it feels great to help others. Oracle technology is complex and ever-changing. ...
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Tax Managers’ Top Compliance Concerns

By Steve Johnston posted 05-30-2023
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Global tax compliance continues to be major area of concern among CFOs and other finance executives. With the volume and complexity of tax rates and rules across jurisdictions rapidly increasing, along with the velocity of changes, managing compliance has become very challenging. What makes it so difficult is ...
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Cross-Border Tax Compliance Enables Global Growth

By Marc Duclos posted 05-23-2023
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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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A Way to Better Manage Tax Complexity

By Gina Chen posted 05-16-2023
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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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Accelerate Oracle Projects Data Updates in Excel

By David Wright posted 05-09-2023
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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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Bring Together the 6C’s of Modern Development and Delivery Practices

By Ash Owen posted 04-18-2023
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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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Gearing Up for Accelerated Listening, Learning, and Communicating

By Deborah Grant posted 04-06-2023
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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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Consider Total Costs When Purchasing Software as a Service

By Mark Clark posted 02-07-2023
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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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Customer Support Council News: Oracle Adjusts Error Correction Baseline for EBS 12.2

By Jacklyn Karell posted 01-30-2023
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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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Transforming Tax Calculation for Digital Commerce in a Global Marketplace

By Marc Duclos posted 01-24-2023
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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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23 Tips For Ascend 2023 Presentation Proposals

By Mohan Dutt posted 01-23-2023
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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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Top 10 OATUG Online Educational Sessions

By Mike Jones posted 01-18-2023
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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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A Modern Approach to Tax Transformation in the Oracle Cloud

By Marc Duclos posted 01-17-2023
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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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Embedding Tax Management and Compliance into Financial Processes

By Marc Duclos posted 01-10-2023
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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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How to Keep your Oracle Solaris Apps Running when your Hardware is Retired Part Two

By Sandy Levitt posted 12-07-2022
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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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So I have EBS, what’s next?

By Roy Kidron posted 12-01-2022
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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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Are You Getting All That You Have Paid For From Your Oracle Applications?

By Mark Clark posted 11-29-2022
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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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The Importance of Financial Systems in the Age of Digital Transformation

By Marc Duclos posted 11-18-2022
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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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