Get Acquainted with Oracle E-Business Suite Financials Best Practices Using Packt’s Latest Oracle Book and eBook

Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide: Published!

Birmingham, United Kingdom (PRWEB) April 28, 2012

Packt Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of the Oracle E-Business Suite Financials R12: A Functionality Guide, a new book and ebook consisting of Oracle EBS product highlights and techniques for day to day practices.

About the Author:

Mohan Iyer, the coordinator of the GL SIG and an ex board member of the NorCal OAUG and Multi-National SIG has more than 20 years experience in system implementations. With the last 15 years implementing Oracle Financials, his skill-set include a full range of financial applications in Oracle Applications and related modules.

This comprehensive handbook provides guidance for mastering the concept of procurement and its related processes including the definition of suppliers and how to manage the activity of procuring goods for the enterprise. Readers would be able to understand why General Ledger is the core of the Oracle E-Business Suite and how Sub Ledger Accounting complements the General Ledger.

Some of the principal chapters emphasized in this book are:

Chapter 1: Overview of Oracle E-Business Suite

Chapter 2: General Ledger

Chapter 3: Subledger Accounting (SLA)

Chapter 4: Inventory

Chapter 5: Purchasing

Chapter 6: Payables

Chapter 7: Assets

Chapter 8: Cash Management

Chapter 9: Treasury

Chapter 10: Order Management

Chapter 11: Receivables

Chapter 12: Credit Management

Chapter 13: E-Business Tax (EBTax)

Chapter 14: Oracle Workflow

Chapter 15: Approval Management Engine (AME)

Oracle EBS Financials provide organizations with solutions to a wide range of long and short term accounting system issues. Oracle E-Business Suite is most comprehensive among the integrated, global business applications that provide the most complete, integrated business intelligence portfolio.

Packt Publishing has also released and is due to publish other titles:

Oracle Essbase 11 Development Cookbook (Published)

Oracle JDeveloper 11gR2 Cookbook (Published)

Oracle Database 11gR2 Performance Tuning Cookbook (Published)

Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11 Expert Guide (Published)

All Oracle Application books are published by Packt Enterprise. Packt Enterprise is a publishing division of Packt Publishing created to serve the information needs of IT Professionals in the Enterprise space. Packt Enterprise also publishes on Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Citrix, Java, Amazon, Google and SAP technologies.

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Easily Implement ITIL Best Practices, Increase ROI in IT Assets and Achieve Greater Customer Satisfaction with TechExcel

LAFAYETTE, CALIF. (PRWEB) February 13, 2012

TechExcel, Inc., a leading provider of IT Service Management and customer support software, will showcase Version 9.0 of ServiceWise and CustomerWise at Pink Elephant’s 16th Annual International IT Service Management Conference & Exposition, taking place February 19-22, 2012 at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The latest version of the TechExcel ServiceSuite is the industry’s most robust IT service and customer support management solution designed to streamline operations with ITIL workflow best practices, cut service desk costs, ease IT asset management, and reduce issue resolution time to achieve greater customer satisfaction.

Using an integrated approach to IT service and customer support management enables IT and business to work together, resulting in less time fighting fires and more time growing the business. TechExcel helps organizations realize this goal by providing a unified solution with innovative and easy-to-use functionality that improves the efficiency of support teams and assists in preventing issues before they happen.

ITIL provides guidance on what should be done in order to offer the clients of an IT organization adequate IT Services to support their business needs. However, many business executives express frustration as they attempt to roll-out these best practices. TechExcel makes it easy to implement ITIL workflow standards, with out-of-the-box templates and configurations for Incident, Problem, Change, and Configuration management. These can also be easily customized to fit an organization’s unique business requirements, resulting in limitless flexibility for managing ITIL and other IT business processes.

In addition to helping IT groups understand what should be done in order to offer superb IT Services to support their business needs, TechExcel also enables organizations to significantly reduce information technology costs and limit business and legal risk related to hardware and software assets. TechExcel customers are able to dynamically monitor and manage all internal company IT assets, asset inventories, customer-owned assets, service level agreements associated with IT assets, and costs. This100% visibility of all IT assets, regardless of their location, and linking the information with customers and incidents provides TechExcel users with the asset intelligence they require to make informed decisions about new purchases, monitor usage and compliance, and improve customer service.

The TechExcel Service Suite also includes KnowledgeWise, a centralized knowledge base for all company documents including: contracts, processes, planning information and other important records as well as customer facing articles, FAQ’s, technical manuals and installation guides. By centrally managing knowledge and having the ability to easily associate knowledge items with incidents, work projects, or corporate information, organizations can increase team efficiency, mitigate data risk, facilitate collaboration between teams, improve self-service and speed up diagnosis and resolution by IT teams.

TechExcel is dedicated to developing software solutions with built-in business intelligence that can be configured by the users to optimize their business processes. On-demand Web seminars and personal demonstrations of TechExcel ServiceWise and CustomerWise 9.0 are available now. Call 800-439-7782 extension 5 or visit http://www.techexcel.com for more information about TechExcel offerings.

About TechExcel

TechExcel is a privately held software company dedicated to developing intelligent software solutions to optimize today’s business processes. A leading provider of integrated IT service management, customer support and application lifecycle management solutions, TechExcel seamlessly integrates Web, wireless, and client/server technologies to provide companies with the power and flexibility needed to better manage their business. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Lafayette, California, TechExcel maintains over 1,500 customers in 43 countries and regions in the world, including 20% of global top 500 enterprises. For more information, visit http://www.techexcel.com.

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SAP Plant Maintenance Best Practices Benchmarking Study Launched

Fort Myers FL (PRWEB) January 22, 2007

Reliabilityweb.com announced the launch of the new SAP Plant Maintenance (SAP PM) Best Practices Benchmarking Study designed to provide a self assessment method for SAP PM users on a global basis.

“In 2004 we studied the broader Computerized Maintenance Management (CMMS) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) markets. Since then a great deal of consolidation has taken place and SAP has clearly got the largest percentage of the maintenance software market.” states Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP, Publisher of Uptime Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com. “We have recently seen some extraordinary SAP Plant Maintenance “best practice” companies – and we think that is beginning to reflect in the Earnings Per Share (EPS). We have also seen some “worst practice” companies. We decided to get a better snap shot of real word SAP Plant Maintenance practices post EAM market consolidation.”

In addition to evaluating maintenance work processes, the survey try to size the SAP PM “add on” market for SAP PM GUI Interfaces, Maintenance Planning tools, Reliability Centered Maintenance tools, PM Optimization tools and Enterprise Analytics for Asset Management. “SAP has developed several value added partners that offer tools that enhance the plant maintenance user experience.” continues O’Hanlon “and our members want to know what tools are working best to achieve world class operational excellence through reliable asset maintenance.”

Survey participants are entitled to a FREE copy of Reliabilityweb.com’s SAP Plant Maintenance Best Practices Report once published. The report will also be distributed to attendees of EAM-2007, The Enterprise Asset Management Summit held April 3-6, 2007 at the Sheraton Waikiki in Honolulu Hawaii. (http://www.maintenanceconference.com)

To participate in Reliabilityweb.com’s SAP Plant Maintenance Best Practices study please log on to: http://www.reliabilityweb.com/sap.htm

Trademarks: EAM, the EAM logo and The Enterprise Asset Management Summit are trademarks of reliabilityweb.com. SAP, SAP PM and SAP Plant Maintenance are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. This study and this news release is in no way associated or affiliated with SAP AG.

About Reliabilityweb.com:

Reliabilityweb.com http://www.reliabilityweb.com includes a network of maintenance and reliability web sites serving over 55,000 maintenance and reliability professionals from around the world. The site serves as a resource for Maintenance Managers, Reliability Engineers. Online tutorials, articles, case histories and news items are updated daily.

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Top Tips for Best Enterprise Asset Management and an Agile Enterprise

Enterprise Asset Management solutions offer detailed predictive analysis of the future performance of enterprise assets. These solutions help you in your endeavor to keep your plant, equipment and facilities accessible, consistent and secure. Additionally they help maintain all your compliance, environmental and other objectives including keeping tabs on your purchasing and other inventory levels. Despite the availability of different kinds of asset management software and solutions, agile enterprises haven’t yet figured out ways and means of adopting these solutions to the best of their abilities. Here are some tips in the form of queries that could help you evaluate exactly what to look out for in Enterprise Asset Management software:

Does your enterprise have a solid foundation to support all processes efficiently? If not then every enterprise must necessarily carry out an exercise to comprehend correctly the strengths and weaknesses of all their supporting processes. This will ensure that before newer systems are upgraded or installed, you have a thorough knowledge of what is required and what may be redundant. Only when such a procedure is followed will every enterprise be able to optimize their assets properly.
Are your maintenance management systems cost effective? Your Enterprise Asset Management software needs to follow a proactive approach, and it therefore needs to meet the needs of your physical assets and effectively tie them to your enterprise’s objectives. Your software needs to be able to inform and alert you when your processes need new installations or repairs, which will ensure that costs are kept to a bare minimum.
Does your Asset Maintenance Management solution offer your capital intensive enterprise the right kind of competitive advantage? Your EAM solution needs to respond to your enterprise’s needs to ensure enhanced productivity, quality and physical asset management. Therefore the software you opt for has the power to make or break your enterprise. A complete Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution is what enterprises seek and should be able to offer substantial benefits to drive away inefficiencies in various processes. Such a solution can easily give your enterprise a definite competitive advantage.
Does your enterprise have an efficient maintenance policy? Every enterprise that opts for an EAM solution needs to have a maintenance policy that is essentially designed to minimize management and operational costs of assets. A definitive policy can be a solid base for defining business processes including the managing of inventory and other labor and scheduling requirements.
Does your EAM solution offer you the ways and means to build an asset data portfolio? Building a detailed asset data portfolio can make decision making processes much simpler and swifter for enterprises. It allows asset managers to monitor and manage all assets, be it physical or otherwise, competently.

An agile enterprise can easily leverage effective EAM solutions to its advantage, here’s hoping the above-mentioned tips can help you gauge the actual effectiveness of your EAM solution.

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The Best CMMS for Your Business

Failing to take advantage of the latest technology to improve your business is like having a car and taking the subway to work- it simply doesn’t qualify as practical. Computer Maintenance Management Software is not exactly next generation, but when it comes to improving your maintenance management, it is your best companion. It’s agreeable that the importance of a CMMS is beyond question, but what’s a good CMMS? On a company scale, you have to think about everyone, and how easy a time they will have operating it.

Usability is the first major characteristic that you need to look for in a CMMS program. Not everyone majored or studied IT. For a database that may have high levels of sophistication, a CMMS may take some time to register with your employees, especially those that are directly going to make use of it, and probably on a daily basis. Try to get software that will be easy to understand and operate. True, some intrinsic parts like settings adjustment and may require someone with IT knowledge, but all in all it should be easy to operate and run. The shorter time it takes to understand it, the better. Some CMMS systems offer a wide variety of features, but this usually comes at the expense of increased sophistication. If it’s too hard to learn, your employees won’t be too happy using it- and that is the undesired outcome. The simpler, the better- questions of whether it offers many features not withstanding.

Choose a CMMS program that you can easily customize to your liking. If you purchase pre-manufactured EAM Software, it may not exactly be tailor-made for your kind of company. Some features you get might not apply while other important ones might be missing. It is well to study the CMMS tools a system has to offer before taking it in. If at all possible, get one made with your predefined specifications. If you need it to emphasize on the inventory part and the scheduling, make the request. The other option is to get one that is made to be customized. It will be easier to marble it to its most workable form as far as your company is concerned.

Decide the kind of CMMS system that works best for your business- as far as network preference is concerned. If your business is centered, within a specific geographical location, then a LAN-based CMMS might be best. If one the other hand you work on a regional scale, where the same CMMS is in employment, then web-based is best.

Budget well for your EAM software- it does not come cheap. Saying that your company will hardly be affected financially is a misstatement, especially if it is a small enterprise. A good CMMS Program with an abundance of features might set you back a couple of thousand dollars. True, it is worth every dollar when it is in full operation, but make sure that you can afford it, without running into financial hurdles down that fiscal year.

If the aforementioned describes the kind of CMMS system that you want, Ashcom Tech has you covered.

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IAITAM Announces Best Practice BluePrint for IT Asset Management

Suffield, OH (PRWEB) January 31, 2007

International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, Inc. (“IAITAM”) announced today the release of its Best Practice BluePrint (BP2) for the IT Asset Management industry. The BP2 guide is a series of 13 process areas designed to break down the daunting task of implementing an enterprise-wide IT Asset Management program into concise, usable real world principals.

“The release of the Best Practice Blueprint marks a new era in guidelines for the IT Asset Management industry. The 13 process areas defined in the BP2 provides assessments and goals for the IT Asset Manager,” states Barbara Rembiesa, President of IAITAM. “No longer do organizations have to wade through the endless number of empty guidelines and meaningless framework models for their internal processes. IAITAM not only defines ITAM process, but gives the organization useful metrics to actually implement a working model!”

About IAITAM

IAITAM is dedicated to meeting the needs of the IT Asset Management professional, including but not limited to Software Asset Managers, Hardware Asset Managers and Information Technology Asset Managers, in their search for a centralized resource devoted to expanding and codifying information and knowledge within the IT Asset Management profession. IAITAM fulfills the organizational requirements of the IT Asset Manager through superior education, advanced training and multi-faceted certification programs delivered by IAITAM knowledge transfer experts. IAITAM is the leader in establishing standards for Industry Best Practices and it empowers professional Software, Hardware and Information Technology Asset Managers with the knowledge they need to enhance the IT discipline and its contribution to the overall success of an organization of every size and in every industry around the globe. Servicing members and clients throughout the world, IAITAM is uniquely qualified to fulfill the educational, business, career and IT needs of all of its members and clients. http://www.iaitam.org

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Users can view and create custom reports easily through our performance report module of CMMS Maintenance Management Software. Being able to track performance allows users to meet service level targets. Asset Management Software dashboard includes some features and they are as follows review the user’s “to do list”, manage user or team schedules, complete and approve time sheets, links to weather and news, perform searches, monitor the snapshot custom performance metrics and these features helps in the organization maintenance.Computer Maintenance Management System software package that maintains a computer database of information about an organization’s maintenance operations. This information is intended to increase the efficiency of a maintenance management program and to help management make informed decisions.

Computerized Asset Management Software has two assets, non linear or linear assets. Our company maintenance both the assets effectively. Non linear assets which is a class moves to the highest level or down to the lowest level  whereas Linear assets can be sorted by connectivity and it is represented graphically.Web CMMS of our company has a asset module which customizes for the following asset classes area, equipment, linear, structure, vehicle these five ares are covered in our module and we are further processing to cover in other fileds. Area in the sence parks, drainage, reservoir so the module helps to give the information you needed on these five classes.

CMMS Software Resource Module in our company deals with seven major components, which includes Labor, Vendor/Contractor, Time sheet, Training, Equipment, Parts Inventory and Purchase Order. With these module you can update all the workers details their work timings, training periods and about your customers and also your purshase order in a single maitenance module.Web Based CMMS Software standard performance measurements which are broken into three main categories Customer Performance, Asset Performance, Operations Performance based on this we easily generate performance reports for good asset management decision making.Performance reports are easily generated from the Maintenance Management Software  through hundreds of standard performance reports or customized through a simple report generation tools. Real time performance metrics are presented to users on the dashboard. These performance reports on the dashboard are customizable to the users.

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