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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
4. More4Apps Software a Revelation for Travel Company
by: Ben Pentelow, RCI Europe (UK) for More4Apps Ltd.
6. Accelerating Positive Business Outcomes with Data-Intensive Applications
by: Informatica
8. How to Capitalize on Subledger Accounting in Oracle R12 with
Excel-based Reporting
by: Gregg van der Westhuizen, Solutions Specialist, Excel4apps
10. Oracle EBS Data Loading Using appLOAD at LifeWay Christian Resources
by: Austin Davis, Vice President of Marketing, Chain-Sys
12. Post-merger Integration: Six Essential Steps that Add Value to
Mergers and Acquisitions of Companies Using Oracle
E-Business Suite
by: Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise
14. Enabling Process Transformation
by: Monica Mehta, Content Specialist, Sprocket Media
20. Why Belong to the OAUG? 96% of OAUG Members Would Recommend Membership
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More4Apps has been something of a revelation to
me and is now heavily relied on by our business
as we move forward with our migration from JD
Edwards to Oracle R12. We have a number of AP and
AR interfaces that I had written over the years, and
when initially faced with the move to Oracle, my first
thought was How are we going to get this data in?
For GL data we use Web ADI, but nothing like this
exists for AR, AP, Fixed Assets, Cash Management,
etc.
On hearing of the More4Apps tool from our parent
company in the US, we immediately purchased
perpetual licenses for nearly all of the wizards. To my
mind it has been the best investment ever!
It seems that every week I was asked to build a new
interface, which now can be replaced with AP Invoice
Wizard or AR Invoice Wizard. The ease in which they
can be implemented, coupled with the extraordinary
level of service and support from the More4Apps
team, is simply fantastic. This makes what once
seemed to be a daunting effort now a straightforward
exercise.
There have been a couple of instances where we
requested enhancements to the wizards, and these
have been delivered with astonishing speed. Working
in a world where product releases happen every
quarter at best, this is truly refreshing!
We recently also faced issues with custom load scripts
that had been written for us by our integration partner
to migrate our legacy AP Supplier data into Oracle.
With deadlines fast approaching, we had to cease
development and use the More4Apps Supplier Wizard.
While this method was not quite as speedy as our
bespoke process for loading, it worked and worked
flawlessly.
I have recently made use of the More4Apps Upload
Wizard to enable us to load bank statement data into
Cash Management tables in order to enable automatic
reconciliation of our bank accounts. This meant
that we did not have to rely on an expensive (and
inflexible) solution developed by external consultants.
We saved a substantial amount of money, and I retain
control of the process and can adapt it as and when
required by our ever-changing business needs.
Throughout the project to move our entire European,
Middle Eastern and African regions of the business
to Oracle R12, More4Apps software has been, hands
down, the most impressive and reliable piece of
software I have come across. It has helped to get the
project on track and firmly keep it there.
Process improvement is part of my role, and
increasingly More4Apps Wizards are the enabler of
these improvements. I look forward to continuing
what has, so far, been an extremely rewarding
relationship.
I can highly recommend More4Apps to anyone who
uses Oracle and wants to improve efficiency it is
simply unbeatable.
More4Apps Software a Revelation
for Travel Company
AP Invoice Wizard, AR Invoice Wizard, Upload Wizard,
Supplier Wizard
by: Ben Pentelow, RCI Europe (UK) for More4Apps Ltd.
Process improvement is part of my
role, and increasingly More4Apps
Wizards are the enabler of these
improvements. I look forward to
continuing what has, so far, been an
extremely rewarding relationship.
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ABOUT MORE4APPS
More4Apps is an award winning Software Company offering a broad range of Excel-based solutions enabling
Oracle E-Business Suite users to smoothly integrate information with superior speed and accuracy. They are
represented worldwide with clients in more than 20 countries. www.more4apps.com
Accelerating Positive Business
Outcomes with Data-Intensive
Applications
Leaders today are looking for ways to exploit
competitive advantages by using every aspect of
the data they collect. This means collecting and
keeping data for longer, using it broadly across the
organization to gain powerful insights. IT is challenged
with delivering to service level agreements while
simultaneously reducing costs across the supporting
infrastructure. Micah Deriso, senior director of
Informaticas Global Customer Experience group,
explains how Informatica Smart Partitioning can help
Oracle customers solve this challenge.
Q: What business trends are driving IT managers
to look for alternative methods to manage their IT
investments?
A: We are literally seeing an explosion of data that
is being driven by the Internet of Things. Businesses
realize that every piece of data that can be captured,
stored and aggregated can become a valuable
business asset and a competitive advantage. However,
collecting this data and providing timely access while
controlling costs can be challenging, and can even
derail projects that could be valuable to the business.
Q: What is the impact of high data growth in business
applications?
A: Data growth in applications can negatively impact
the business in terms of reduced performance and
poor cost control. Degrading performance can result
in lost orders and customer dissatisfaction, creating
a downstream impact that affects revenues. As a
result, IT invests in continually upgrading hardware
and software while increasing the overall cost of
maintenance and support. Business users simply want
predictable and sustainable performance regardless of
the data growth challenge presented to IT.
Q: How does Informatica Smart Partitioning help
support these business trends?
A: Informatica Smart Partitioning helps Oracle
customers manage large volumes of data in complex
applications by organizing the data at a business level.
Leveraging Oracles native partitioning capability,
Informatica Smart Partitioning is designed to abstract
the technical layer of the database into understandable
business terms such as Oracle E-Business Suite
General Ledger, North America Sales or Order
Management. This allows our Oracle clients to then:
Partition data across these business concepts as
opposed to individual tables in the database.
Compress older data.
Optimize queries to only relevant data.
Safely tier storage across highly complex
applications.
Q: What are some examples of Oracle clients using
Informatica Smart Partitioning toward a successful
business outcome?
Smart partitioning helps organizations deliver predictable performance to the business
while supporting cost containment initiatives for high-growth applications.
Micah Deriso, Senior Director, Informaticas
Global Customer Experience group
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Accelerating Positive Business
Outcomes with Data-Intensive
Applications
A: A large manufacturer is using Informatica Smart
Partitioning to deploy across dozens of Oracle
Applications around the world. Their main business
driver was to accelerate the performance of the
applications to drive efficiencies in manufacturing
facilities, order processes and financial reporting.
Their secondary concern was the cost of the
overall infrastructure required to support over
150TB of application data spread out in over 30
countries while being able to aggregate that data for
financial reporting and analysis. Using Informatica
Smart Partitioning as the standard best practice
for Oracle data management, they are on track to
deliver over US$23 million in cost savings related to
hardware and storage. The average performance
gain in the system was between 40 to 50 percent,
allowing for faster end-of-period closes and better
operational visibility.
Another successful client in the telecommunications
industry was able to use Informatica Smart
Partitioning to take control of a high growth sales
application that increased their sales effectiveness
and delivered visibility to the activities of thousands of
sales people across the company. This mission-critical
application was experiencing performance problems
and impacting the ability of the front-line sales team
members to deliver service to their clients. They
had reached a point where field managers in certain
markets were reverting to other methods outside of
the application, which caused management to lose the
visibility into the operations that it had planned when
the application was first deployed.
After exploring hardware alternatives as well as
performing manual tuning exercises, the IT team was
out of options. With Informatica Smart Partitioning,
the IT team was able to deploy the software on their
Oracle E-Business Suite environment and bring system
resource utilization from 100 percent to a sustainable
and predictable 25 percent, creating performance
improvement of over 90 percent on critical processes.
The system has now been adopted by all markets,
which has restored the business visibility and increased
the sales effectiveness of critical front-line employees.
ABOUT INFORMATICA
To learn more about how Informatica Smart Partitioning can drive performance improvements in your
Oracle applications, visit Informatica at www.informatica.com/solutions/oracle.
Business users simply want
predictable and sustainable
performance regardless of the data
growth challenge presented to IT.
How to Capitalize on Subledger
Accounting in Oracle R12 with
Excel-based Reporting
by: Gregg van der Westhuizen, Solutions Specialist, Excel4apps
For corporate finance teams, Oracle E-Business Suite
(EBS) R12 provides a powerful tool in the form of
subledger accounting (SLA). The SLA architecture,
which sits between the EBS subledger applications
(such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable,
Inventory, etc.) and the general ledger (GL), offers a
user configurable, centralized accounting engine. It
supports a summarized GL while also maintaining
a detailed repository of accounting entries within
the SLA. Here, Excel4apps discusses some of SLAs
benefits and how to capitalize on them with Excel-
based reporting in GL Wand.
What were Oracles accounting changes
from version 11i to R12?
In 11i, the accounting rules were maintained in each
modules setup. It was often difficult to customize these
rules to meet complex accounting requirements, and
the limited customization that was possible required
intervention from IT. The accounting engine was highly
inconsistent from one module to the next. SLA entries
were posted directly to the GL, and it was impossible to
maintain a summarized GL without forfeiting the detail,
resulting in limited reconciliation ability.
With the release of R12, Oracle introduced the SLA
architecture. SLA provides an intermediate step
between the subledger applications and the GL.
This is achieved by a central model that allows
for the configuration of many aspects of journal
entries, providing consistency across the subledger
applications. The transactions are entered in the
subledger application, but the accounting treatment
is derived in the SLA, eliminating the direct interface
from the subledger application to the GL. A centralized
engine creates detailed journal entries in the SLA
repository, which are then interfaced to the GL.
What are the limitations of standard
Oracle reports with SLA?
Having a user configurable, rules-based accounting
engine removes all limitations on what information
the user can specify to be transferred to the SLA,
meaning that you need a powerful, but flexible,
reporting tool to capitalize on the detailed accounting
repository. The detailed accounting data generated in
the SLA repository is very useful for financial reporting
and reconciliations, yet the standard SLA reports are
very rigid and can only accommodate user needs after
complex customization. The reports output a static
text format, making it impossible to drill back to the
source of the transaction
How do users benefit from using an Excel-
based reporting tool with SLA?
GL Wand, an Excel-based financial reporting tool,
gives finance users easy access to the incredibly rich
detail provided by SLA without the help of IT. Its Excel
interface delivers flexibility for end users to create
sophisticated reports with the exact information
needed from SLA or GL data and the ability to refresh
these reports in real time. GL Wand allows you to
drill from the balance in a report down to the detailed
balances, journals and subledger information.
ABOUT EXCEL4APPS
Excel4apps is a best-in-class provider of Excel-based
reporting and budget-loading software for Oracle.
The company serves over 16,000 users in 62
countries. Learn more at www.excel4apps.com.
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Oracle EBS Mass Data Loading
Using appLOAD at LifeWay
Christian Resources
by: Austin Davis, Vice President of Marketing, Chain-Sys
LifeWay Christian Resources is a religious nonprofit
organization and is an entity of the Southern Baptist
Convention. LifeWay produces Bibles, church
literature, books, music, audio and video recordings,
church supplies and Internet services. The ministry
operates 154 LifeWay Christian Stores across the
country. LifeWays home office is in Nashville,
Tennessee, where about 1250 employees work.
LifeWay has successfully implemented Oracle
E-Business Suite (EBS) Financials, Projects, APC,
Inventory, Purchasing, Order Management and
Advanced Pricing modules for its global operations.
LifeWay is on version 11.5.10.2 and their production
database size is 1200 GB.
Data Loading Activities Performed by LifeWay:
Item creation and update.
Item categories, item catalogs and item cross
reference creation and update.
PLM: Advanced Products Catalog creation.
Bills of material creation and update.
New customer creation and update.
AR invoice, credit memos and debit memo
creation.
AR cash receipt application with or without the
invoice numbers.
Project budget creation.
Projects with tasks and key member creation and
update.
Price list creation and update.
Sales order processing.
The Struggle with DataLoader
Manual mass data loading/maintenance within Oracle
EBS can be tedious and very time consuming. LifeWay
utilized DataLoader for performing data loading as
an alternative to manual methods. The DataLoader
tool took a lot of time and still could not provide a
fool-proof and robust solution. Amy Goolsby recalls
that for about 1500 items loading, it required constant
monitoring and took two weeks with eight computers
in the conference room. This time does not include
the data loader spread sheet preparation time. A
database specialist tended over about 25 desktops in
a conference room each month for two or three days,
each loading parts of Excel data through the EBS front
end, simulating keystrokes.
LifeWay Chooses appLOAD
LifeWay evaluated and selected appLOAD
productivity tool from Chain-Sys Corporation for its
data loading activities in Oracle EBS. appLOAD is a
new-generation data conversion tool for Oracle EBS 11i/
R12. The tool significantly reduces project timelines and
cuts costs. It is extremely useful during implementation
or reimplementation and for routine production data
maintenance. It is very
easy to use, does not
need programming
and supports all
open interfaces and
APIs. appLOAD is a
reliable and scalable
back-end web-based
application that is
not front-end driven
and not Excel-macros
driven. Business users
can confidently use
this tool and convert
data without technical
assistance.
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Productivity Gains Using appLOAD
Within a week of installing appLOAD, the business
users started using the tool very effectively for their
data loads. Amy Goolsby remarks, What I like about
appLOAD is how fast it is. appLOAD executes the data
loading processes in the background with no baby
sitting needed. I can do the same task in four hours
that used to take two weeks.
David Jamieson of LifeWay says, The projected
return on investment provided through use of the
appLOAD application easily justified the cost of the
product. We have identified uses that impact all
business areas within E-Business Suite. Chain-Sys
has been extremely responsive in identifying the
most efficient uses of the tools and responding to our
questions as we have begun to use the tool.
appLOAD Benefits
Time and cost savings.
Highly stable, reliable and scalable.
Fast in processing the data loads.
All processes are executed on the application
server as a Java process (thread).
No need to watch Desktop/Laptop screens when
processing takes place.
Intuitive and highly user friendly.
The Right Tool
The appLOAD tools are a right choice for the IT
environments of today and the technology changes
that are coming up. Rooted in
Enterprise Java/J2EE standards, it
takes advantage of the enterprise
quality scalability and reliability
of the platform and is amenable
to traditional deployments within
the enterprise as well as to the
Software as a Service model.
appLOAD is currently available
in the cloud in Managed SaaS and
Subscription SaaS for EBS Data
Conversion needs.
ABOUT CHAINSYS
Chain-Sys is an Oracle Platinum Partner and has been highly
successful in EBS implementations. The appLOAD Productivity
tools accelerate technical implementation and data conversion,
ease production data maintenance, migrate data to R12, interface
EBS with external applications and provide huge cost savings.
appBI is an out of the box BI solution for EBS with pre-built
data warehouse and dashboards. appAUGMENTER allows
personalization of OAF pages without any programming.
Customers include Lifeway, Teknion, Comcast, Boart-Longyear,
BILT, Canon, Patel Logistics, Greatbatch, Expedia and
Ingersoll-Rand. Contact: www.chain-sys.com.
austin@chain-sys.com.
Post-merger Integration: Six Essential Steps
that Add Value to Mergers and Acquisitions for
Companies Using Oracle
E-Business Suite
by: Helene Abrams, CEO, eprentise, www.eprentise.com
Few things generate excitement like the announcement
of a merger and acquisition. Almost without exception,
the promise is to increase stakeholder value; however,
this is not always the result. With an estimated 70
percent of deals failing to deliver, how can you really
maximize M&A deals?
A focus on the consolidation of core processes and
data reduces the time, effort, and costs associated with
the merger; leverages both organizations synergies;
and increases the likelihood of success. Furthermore,
companies using Oracle
E-Business Suite
(EBS) community with transformation software
that improves business agility, supports changing
requirements and eliminates the need for a
reimplementation. With eprentise software,
companies are able to receive access to complete,
consistent and correct data. www.eprentise.com
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Enabling Process Transformation
Flexera Software shortens its monthly financial close process by
40 percent with the help of Oracle and CSS.
by: Monica Mehta, Content Specialist, Sprocket Media
Flexera Software is the leading provider of strategic
solutions for application usage management. The
company helps application producers and enterprises
strategically manage application usage to achieve
continuous compliance, optimized usage and
maximized value. In April of 2008, Flexera Software
was spun off as an independent company from its
previous owner.
Executives soon realized that they needed an ERP
environment that would support the organizations
business needs for financials and human resources.
With the help of Oracle Platinum Partner CSS, a leader
in providing consulting services for the deployment
of Oracle enterprise solutions for midsize and large
companies, Flexera Software implemented a number
of Oracle Applications that would meet its complex
business requirements and support the growing
new business.
Updating a Legacy Environment
When Flexera Software became an independent entity,
the company inherited a legacy Oracle environment
that included older releases of Oracle E-Business
Suite (EBS), including Oracle Human Resources
Management System. At the time, this approach was
expedient and cost-efficient. Over the years, however,
the company encountered data that was inaccurate
and in some cases irrelevant to its business. The old
system, which had been customized for the previous
owner, included a number of misconfigurations and
nonfunctional parts, resulting in a lot of manual work
in order to process certain transactions.
In 2011, Flexera Software made the decision to
implement Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12,
including Oracle Human Resources management
System. These implementations would help to handle
its complicated reporting processes related to product
and solution area performance and to comply with
complex, country-specific regulations in its offices
in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan,
Hong Kong and Australia. To enhance budgeting
and forecasting capabilities, executives also decided
to implement Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle
Business Intelligence Analytics Applications.
Aligning Business and IT
After evaluating a number of consulting services
companies, Flexera Software selected CSS because of
the consulting firms proactive strategy of aligning the
companys IT goals with its business goals.
CSS really understood our business better than the
other firms did, says Joe Frieda, chief information
officer at Flexera Software. They understood that
this was the first step of many in terms of building a
foundation for future initiatives and enhancements, as
well as additional capabilities down the road. They also
understood how we should re-implement the Oracle
solutions in relation to our business requirements.
Joe Frieda, CIO at Flexera.
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The newly implemented Oracle Applications
have enabled Flexera Software to dispense with
numerous manual processes and replace them with
automated tasks, which saves time and resources.
Old customizations were replaced with standardized
processes and predesigned workflows, which
benefitted Flexera Software from a business process
perspective. Finance users are now able to perform
processes independently of IT, freeing the IT staff for
more strategic projects.
Optimizing the Reporting Process
The process transformation and automation enabled
Flexera Software to shorten its monthly close cycle
by about 40 percent. Were a very dynamic business
with a lot of things going on, says Freda. Our ability
to get accurate financial information as quickly as
possible to report to management, to report to our
investors, etc., is critical. Shortening our monthly close
is vital to getting that information out expediently.
Freda says Flexera Software benefitted from CSS
strong knowledge of Oracle Applications and its
proactive approach to the implementation. CSS
spent time in the initial stages talking to us about our
needs. They were the only company that understood
we needed to build out a roadmap for the future that
viewed our IT investment in relation to our business
goals, says Freda. In terms of my experience
with these sorts of projects over the years, they did
a good job with the overall project management,
ensuring that we stayed on track. With a project of this
magnitude, there are many risks of it going askew.
They did a really nice job of mitigating the risks.
ABOUT CSS
Oracle Platinum Partner specializing in system integration, implementation and managed
services for the Oracle community. Serving mid and large-sized organizations and solely
focused on Oracle solutions since 1997 inception. Seven Oracle Specializations and
certified in the Oracle Business Accelerator program. http://www.cssus.com/
Our ability to get accurate
financial information as
quickly as possible to report
to management, to report to
our investors, etc., is critical.
Shortening our monthly close is
vital to getting that information
out expediently.
A LEARNING OPPORTUNITY
OAUG associate members have the
opportunity to host educational sessions,
which are held several times each month.
These interactive webcasts provide
information about a variety of products
and services that complement Oracle
Applications. Visit oaug.org and click
on the Partners tab for details.
If you are an Associate member of the OAUG and would
like to host a Vendor Awareness session, visit oaug.org
and click on the Partners tab, or send an e-mail to
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PRODUCT FAMILIES
E-Business Suite
API Wizard
AT&T
Centroid
Chain-Sys Corporation
ConfigSnapshot - Rookery Software Limited
CM Mitchell Consulting
Core Services Corporation
CSS International, Inc.
EiS Technologies
eprentise
Excel4apps
Global Software, Inc.
Informatica
InsightSoftware.com
More4Apps Ltd.
Noetix Corp.
Magnitude Software
O2Works, LLC
OneNeck IT Services
Q Software Global Limited
ReadSoft
Rimini Street, Inc
Rolta Americas
SmartDog Services, LLC
SoftArt Solutions Inc.
Thomson Reuters
Tier1, Inc.
Vertex Inc.
Wolters Kluwer
Zebra Technologies
Fusion Applications
CM Mitchell Consulting
Core Services Corporation
Inspirage
Vertex Inc.
Fusion Middleware
Rolta Americas
SoftArt Solutions Inc.
Hyperion
Thirdware Solution Inc.
Tier1, Inc.
Zebra Technologies
JD Edwards
Global Software, Inc.
Rimini Street, Inc.
Q Software Global Limited
OBIEE
Core Services Corporation
Magnitude Software
Noetix Corp.
O2Works, LLC
Thirdware Solution Inc.
Oracle Retail
Zebra Technologies
Primavera
Collabro Legare
PeopleSoft Enterprise
AT&T
EiS Technologies
Informatica
Rimini Street, Inc.
Siebel CRM
Informatica
The Buyers Guide Product Category
listings provide a snapshot of the Oracle
products each company supports.
For a complete list of products and dditional
information about each company, please visit the
Company Listings section beginning on page 22.
Consulting
Centroid
CM Mitchell Consulting
EiS Technologies
Hosting Services
Core Services
SoftArt Solutions Inc.
Implementation
CSS International, Inc.
EiS Technologies
O2Works, LLC
SmartDog Services LLC
Thirdware Solution Inc.
Managed Services
AT&T
Centroid
OneNeck IT Services
SoftArt Solutions Inc.
Thirdware Solution Inc.
Tier1, Inc.
Other
Rimini Street, Inc.
Software
ConfigSnapshot - Rookery Software Limited
Eprentise
Global Software, Inc.
InsightSoftware.com
Magnitude Software
More4Apps
Noetix Corp.
Q Software Global Limited
ReadSoft
Thomson Reuters
Wolters Kluwer
Systems Integration
Chain-Sys Corporation
CM Mitchell Consulting
CSS International, Inc.
Collabro Legare
SmartDog Services LLC
SERVICES
The Buyers Guide Services
listings provide a snapshot of each
companys service offerings.
For a complete list of services and additional
information about each company, please visit the
Company Listings section beginning on page 22.
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Application Information Lifecycle
Management
BizTech
ConfigSnapshot - Rookery Software Limited
Informatica
Business Intelligence/Analytics
BizTech
Excel4apps
Global Software, Inc.
Magnitude Software
Noetix Corp.
Rolta Americas
Cloud Computing
BizTech
Tier1, Inc.
Customer Experience
InsightSoftware.com
OneNeck IT Services
Enterprise Performance Management
eprentise
Excel4apps
Rolta Americas
SmartDog Services LLC
Financials Management
eprentise
Excel4apps
InsightSoftware.com
ReadSoft
Thomson Reuters
Wolters Kluwer
Governance, Risk & Compliance
ConfigSnapshot - Rookery Software Limited
Q Software Global Limited
Thomson Reuters
Vertex Inc.
Master Data Management
Chain-Sys Corporation
More4Apps
Product Lifecycle Management
Inspirage
Project Portfolio Management
Collabro Legare
Supply Chain Management
CSS International, Inc.
Inspirage
O2Works, LLC
Value Chain Planning
Inspirage
The Buyers Guide Solution Area
listings provide a snapshot of each
companys areas of expertise.
For a complete list of solutions and additional
information about each company, please visit the
Company Listings section beginning on page 22.
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AT&T
Sales Contact: Sales
2500 Riva Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
Phone: 800-809-3003
Website: www.att.com/oracleservices
AT&Ts Hosting & Application Services combines the power of AT&Ts global network, hosting capabilities, and
proven application services expertise. As a Platinum Level Partner in the Oracle Partner Network, AT&T delivers
implementation and support services for the complete Oracle application lifecycle.
Business Technology Services (BizTech)
Sales Contact: Margot McDonnell
1150 First Ave.
King of Prussia, PA 19406
Phone: 610-592-0600
Toll Free Phone: 1-877-BizTech
Website: www.biztech.com
BizTech is an award-winning Oracle consulting and technology services firm helping organizations maximize the value
of their Oracle investments through the entire applications and technology lifecycle. BizTech delivers the flexibility and
performance customers need from Oracles traditional and cloud-based solutions.
API Wizard
Sales Contact: Richard Volpitta
1127 High Ridge Road, #238
Stamford, CT 06905
Phone: 800-691-8714
Toll Free Phone: 800-691-8714
Website: www.api-wizard.com
API Wizard combines the best of Oracle and Excel to streamline data entry, data updating and reporting in every
Oracle EBS module. Saves time, benefits the IT team and Oracle business users. Speeds day-to-day work
and periodic projects.
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Centroid
Sales Contact: Jim Brull
1050 Wilshire Drive, Suite 170
Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 877-868-1753
Toll Free Phone: 877-868-1753
Website: www.centroid.com
Centroid is a national provider of Oracle consulting and hosted managed services providing expertise from Applications to
Technology to Hardware. Centroids Apps to Iron expertise delivers fully-integrated Oracle solutions from EBS, BI, Database,
Middleware, to Servers and Storage. We are committed to helping clients realize measureable business value and achieve
sustainable ROI.
Collabro Legare
Sales Contact: Allan Sutherland
Enterprise Centre, Exploration Drive
Aberdeen, UK AB23 8GX
Phone: +44 (0)1224 853420
Toll Free Phone: +44 (0)1224 853420
Website: www.collabro-legare.com
Many companies struggle to automate the process of getting data into Primavera P6. Legare is a simple, inexpensive
tool that automatically moves data from Oracle, SAP, Maximo, and contractor systems into Primavera using technology
connectors for XER, Oracle, Access, Excel, and Microsoft Project.
Chain-Sys Corporation
Sales Contact: Austin Davis
325 S. Clinton Street, Ste. 205
Grand Ledge, MI 48837
Phone: 517-627-1173 Option 1
Toll Free Phone: 855-app-LOAD Option 1
Website: www.chain-sys.com
appLOAD Suite Oracle EBS mass data loading, data maintenance, interfacing and
migrating. Scalable server based hub-n-spokes model and not driven by frontend
excel-macros. EBS Implementations, Upgrades and Support. Reduced timeline for
data migration/conversion. appBI Business Intelligence and appAUGMENTER
Personalizations.
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ConfigSnapshot - Rookery Software Limited
Sales Contact: Martin Jenkinson
Rookery House, Hankerton
Wiltshire SN16 9JZ
Phone: 646-652-6855
Website: www.configsnapshot.net
ConfigSnapshot is the most comprehensive and flexible configuration management software for the E-Business Suite;
reducing time, cost and risk at all stages of the application lifecycle.
Document Analyse Compare Plan Migrate Track Comply
Highlights include: Automatic setup documentation and comparison, setup planning and migration, change tracking and
audit, customisation and patch impact analysis, security, access control and segregation of duties reporting.
Contact us for a demonstration and free trial to understand how ConfigSnapshot can transform your approach to
application management.
CM Mitchell Consulting Corporation
Sales Contact: Carol Mitchell
1510 W. Canal Court, Ste. 2500
Littleton, CO 80120
Phone: 303-526-2796 x101
Website: www.cm-mitchell.com
CM Mitchell Consulting (CMMC) is an Information Management solutions company
helping clients electronically manage their unstructured paper and content. CMMC
is a provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions, and specializes in
document management, imaging, file repository and custom Accounts Payable (AP)
automation. CMMC is a certified reseller and business partner with Kofax, IBM and
Oracle. As an infrastructure alternative, our solutions can be implemented on an
enterprise-class hybrid platform in a secure cloud environment or on-premise with
optional administrative services.
Core Services Corporation
Sales Contact: Joseph Ung
130 Belmont Drive
Somerset, NJ 08873
jung@coreservices.com
Phone: 877-267-3797
Website: www.coreservices.com
Profitable every year since its founding in 1990, Core Services Corporation, an Oracle Platinum Partner and OAUG Three Star
Partner, delivers expert Oracle Applications implementation, development, and support to clients worldwide via its Hosting,
Cloud, and Consulting services. Additionally, Core Services is authorized to sell and service the Oracle Applications.
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CSS International
Sales Contact: James Landry
115 River Landing Drive
Charleston, SC 29492
Phone: 904-571-8552
Toll Free: 800-814-7705
Website: www.cssus.com
CSS is an Oracle Platinum Partner specializing in system integration, business process improvement, implementation and
managed services for the Oracle community. Serving mid and large-sized organizations and solely focused on Oracle since
inception in 1997. CSS is Oracle Specialized across 7 areas and certified in the Oracle Business Accelerator program. A
3-time Oracle Partner of the Year and 2-time runner up in the last 6 years. Read about our work on the pages of PROFIT,
Insight and Q&A magazines.
eprentise
Sales Contact: Ingrid Houghton
6052 Turkey Lake Road, Suite 202
Orlando, FL 32819
Phone: 407-591-4950
Toll Free Phone: 4075914950
Website: www.eprentise.com
eprentise accelerates ERP simplification efforts with transformation software that makes Oracle E-Business Suite more
agile. While providing access to complete, consistent and correct data, eprentise supports changing requirements, helps
lower the total cost of ownership of EBS, and enables companies to avoid a reimplementation. With eprentise software,
businesses can make necessary modifications to any underlying EBS configuration, including changing charts of accounts,
calendars and currencies, merging or splitting operating units or sets of books, consolidating multiple instances, and more.
www.eprentise.com.
EiS Technologies
Sales Contact: Tom Ericson
3067 Peachtree Industrial Blvd.
Duluth, GA 30097
Phone: 214-801-6500
Toll Free Phone: 678-534-3968
Website: www.eistech.com
EiS Technologies, an Oracle Platinum, Education and a Validated Partner, is
dedicated to empowering customers with enterprise-wide solutions for insightful
decision-making. Founded in 2001, EiS leverages cutting-edge technology to provide
products and services focused on providing clarity: data access and integration,
discovery, formal reporting, analysis and visualization with ready to use out-of-the
box solutions (including pre-built-content) for Oracle E-Business Suite, TALEO,
PeopleSoft, and OBI. Learn more about EiS Technologies at http://www.eistech.com.
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Excel4apps
Sales Contact: Scott Stollwerk
8514 Six Forks Road, Suite 102
Raleigh, NC 27615
Phone: 919-238-4040
Toll Free Phone: 1-800-991-4607
Website: www.excel4apps.com
Excel4apps is a best-in-class provider of Excel-based reporting and budget-loading
software for SAP and Oracle. Designed for financial professionals, its award-winning
GL Wand, Reports Wand and Budget Wand products easily and securely deliver real-
time ERP data using Microsoft Excel to save reporting time and effort. Excel4apps
serves over 15,000 SAP and Oracle users worldwide, with offices in the United States,
United Kingdom, Australia, United Arab Emirates and South Africa. To schedule a
demonstration or a free trial, visit www.excel4apps.com.
Informatica
Sales Contact: Julie Lockner
2100 Seaport Blvd.
Redwood City, CA 94063
Phone: 650-385-5000
Toll Free Phone: 650-385-5000
Website: www.informatica.com
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the worlds number one independent
provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world rely on
Informatica to drive top business imperatives in the data-centric world. Over 5,000
enterprises depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets in Oracle
Applications from devices to mobile to social to big data residing on-premises, in the
Cloud and across social networks. Informatica delivers solutions to keep your Oracle
data clean, safe and connected.
Global Software, Inc.
Sales Contact: Tonya Cannady
3201 Beechleaf Court, Suite 170
Raleigh, NC 27604
Phone: 919-872-7800
Website: www.globalsoftwareinc.com
Global Software, Inc. is the No.1 provider of Microsoft
Excel-based reporting
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Check out our article in this Buyers Guide, How to Capitalize on Subledger Accounting in
Oracle R12 with Excel-based Reporting by Gregg van der Westhuizen, Solutions Specialist, Excel4apps