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More than 50% Oracle ERP projects worldwide, do not complete on time as scheduled originally and this is something a CEO or a CFO will not like at all. This means more cost, more resources, loss in expected benefits, delayed integration of businesses etc. and making users more suspicious about the s...

Mergers and Acquisitions are becoming prevalent in industry and it is high time we should come up with a pre-built DB solution for M&As specially for data integration. I came across some pointers herewhich should help in creating a solution around it and sell to clients. Thoughts??

We are a furniture manufacturing company and we are evaluating Oracle Applications as our ERP solution but during evaluation, we found that Oracle does not fulfil our niche requirements at all and there are much better ERP products available that suit our industry . We had huge faith in Oracle so wa...

The recent economic downturn forced all organizations to have a relook at their expansion plans and with these the most impacted part was the IT organization. Multiple upgrade plans were put off and lot of ERP projects got impacted. Now is the time when they will exercise options as provided in the ...

How can we create an Oracle ERP Balanced Scorecard for measuring the performance of an already implemented ERP and making sure that we are going in the right direction of having implemented right modules etc.?

After reading the article on "How to evaluate Oracle Apps Service Providers" I am still wondering if the parameters mentioned in the link can be measured correctly. Can this group share names on some Oracle Apps implementation service providers who operate in Europe so that we can a decisi...

I thought, this might help all of us in implementation of Oracle Financial Modules so sharing with you all.

We want to keep our DQI as high while migrating/converting the Financials data from our client's legacy systems (Home Grown) to Oracle and want to keep the DQI at its highest level taking cues from http://bit.ly/DataConversion and would like to know if there are any best practices or learnings from ...

Issue No. 1 - While creating a return material authorization in order management, the original invoiced amount from account receivables is not getting picked up even if we give the reference of original order number and invoice. Please advise.

We are getting numerous post go live issues after going live with Oracle, 2 weeks ago and though we took enough care given in "Oracle Financials strategy after Go-Live" , the issues are still persisting. Need help from this forum to resolve them. If somebody is interested to help then I ca...

The top focus areas or investment areas as coming out of the survey results at http://bit.ly/CIOsurveyResults show investing in business intelligence and ERP solutions and systems for collaboration between customers and suppliers as top investment areas among others. Do you agree with these survey r...

I found best practices of data conversion at http://bit.ly/DataConversion using Google and some points on DBAs role in data migration but still not able to know if there is anything that a DBA need to do (and not technical expert) in data migration as mentioned in the above url. Thoughts??

The thumb rule says - Go for a version upgrade but there are some scenarios that make the choice of re-implementation worth considering as mentioned here ( http://bit.ly/UpgradeORre-implementation ). Generally, if we can keep cost out of scope of this discussion, then what factors are required to be...

Though ERP is getting popular as used on clouds these days but there are some issues like data security and patch application as mentioned in this article at http://bit.ly/ERPonClouds.

Need thoughts from experienced DBAs on probable solution of the issues mentioned.

An article at one of my favorite web references (http://bit.ly/PO2INVitemNames) on ERP gives an example of how can changing a naming convention of items in <b>Purchasse orders and Item master</b> saved the client huge money as they could reduce the inventory. Need to check with the group, if this na...