New Release Includes Updated User Interface, Advanced Reporting Functionality and Improved IT Administrator Functionality Read more…
Faced with a shortage of workers, India’s outsourcing industry is struggling to maintain its profit margins—and its global market share. Margins for Indian outsourcers have dropped as wages rise and attrition has reached 55 percent. Clients resist paying more.
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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_23/b4231013802754.htm
How-to video on creating a BI Report template in JD Edwards
Your FA accountant has just performed a disposal and posted the batch. Unfortunately it was for the wrong group of assets. Is there an easy way to undo this disposal? Yes! Read on to find out how. Read more…
According to Oracle Document 1359409.1, iPad support for JDE 8.12 and 9.0 is now enabled as of Tools Release Maintenance Pack 8.98.4.5. Read more…
According to an article in ITjungle,
SAP paid $20 million in fines and plead guilty in federal court last week in the criminal case over TomorrowNow’s illegal downloading of support information from Oracle. In exchange for its plea and the fines, the Department of Justice dropped its criminal case against SAP and its now defunct TomorrowNow subsidiary. Oracle’s civil case against SAP is still under appeal.
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Oracle has recently posted the Fusion prices on their websites. If you’re interested in reviewing them, click the link below:
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/fusion-applications-price-list-418746.pdf
Here are several articles that analyze this event. Chris Kanaracus posted his analysis here:
Oracle Fusion Applications pricing revealed
And Dennis Howlett’s analysis can be found here:
Upgrade Value Proposition Tool is Now Available [ID 1310896.1]
Every release of Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is accompanied by Upgrade Value Proposition documents. These are useful, but quite lengthy documents that describe all the enhancements of the software for the new release. The last document that came out for release 9.0 is 87 pages long. It makes it hard to find useful information. Read more…
In a prior article on Cash Basis I covered how it should be setup. Now for a real example. When Standard Vouchers are paid and Cash Basis kicks in, it uses the voucher’s Expense GL coding for the debit, and cash account for the Credit. Similarly in AR: when cash is received, Cash Basis uses the invoice’s Income GL coding for the credit, and cash account for the Debit.
But what will Cash Basis do for non-standard vouchers? For example, if the voucher is created via a 3-way match? Where will the offset to the cash account come from? To find out, I setup a test. Read more…
The Quest International Users Group has posted a great article this month on the 20th anniversary of of the Oracle Real Estate group. It started in Houston, TX in 1991, and has been going strong ever since. Read the full story here:
http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5affca6c?page=8#/5affca6c/8
