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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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How Oracle Customers View the Global Tech Talent Shortage

By Brian Slepko posted 11-15-2022
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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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Migrating On-Premises or Legacy Application Workloads In The Cloud

By Pramod Alluri posted 11-08-2022
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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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Creating an Enterprise Cloud Strategy to Brighten your Day!

By Bill Dunham posted 11-01-2022
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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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Sponsor Spotlight: OATUG Interview with Simon Cunningham, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS

By Deborah Grant posted 10-27-2022
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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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How to Keep your Oracle Solaris Apps Running when your Hardware is Retired

By Sandy Levitt posted 10-18-2022
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Legacy is a class of computing that retains its value. These systems and applications were usually developed 10 years ago and more, but they remain vital. Some of that vitality is a result of relying on Oracle. The database is solid, proven. The hardware that drives Oracle can get long in the tooth, though. Eventually that ...
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Tackling Tax in the US: Oracle Cloud vs. Third-Party Tax Engines

By Andrew Bohnet posted 10-12-2022
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Many finance professionals mistakenly believe that using a third-party tax engine is the only way of managing tax in complex regimes such as the US, but we think many Oracle users will find a viable alternative within their ERP’s native functionality. ‘How can my ERP correctly determine and calculate taxes when three ...
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DevOps: Transformative Global Movement Enters Maturity

By Ash Owen posted 09-20-2022
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DevOps is no longer just a set of operating practices focused on changing a software development team’s ability to collaborate, automate and provide feedback. Quickly it evolved into the most important operating model for any software focused organization. As DevOps teams move towards the future, automated and ...
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A New Season Begins: A Team OATUG Update

By Ragan Cohn posted 09-06-2022
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Helllloooo, fall! Cooler weather, football season, and the excitement of the “fresh start” that’s persisted since my school years… Fall has long been my favorite. And this year, there’s an extra measure of excitement; as we welcome autumn, we are also welcoming a new leader to the OATUG community. @Julie Anderson , MBA, ...
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Cloud Maturity Model – Go from ‘Cipher’ to ‘Optimized’ Cloud Transformation

By Pramod Alluri posted 08-30-2022
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While most organizations want to take some or all of their applications to the cloud, many are finding it a challenge to navigate that journey. Fortunately, there is a stepwise formula that is prototyped for successful cloud transformation that can help organizations navigate to the cloud seamlessly and adopt changes ...
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