Going to Oracle EBS Release 12? Upgrading Is Faster, Better and Cheaper than Reimplementing

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• #3: Thank you for joining today’s presentation entitledGoing to Release 12? Upgrading Is Faster, Better and Cheaper than Reimplementing. I’m Julissa Gonzalez with eprentise marketing and communications.Before we get started, I want to review a few housekeeping items and let you know how you can participate in today’s web event. We’re looking at an example of the GoToWebinar Attendee Interface, which is made up of two parts. There is a Control Panel at the right. Within that Control Panel is how you can participate in today’s event, so let’s look at that.By clicking the orange arrow, you can open and close your Control Panel.From the View Menu you can also set the Control Panel not to auto-hide when inactive if you prefer to keep it always open. The Audio pane provides audio information. By default you have joined the Webinar via Mic & Speakers. Click Audio Setup to select your computer speaker or headset devices.If you prefer, you can join the audio via telephone by selecting Use Telephone, and the dial-in information will be displayed, including an Audio PIN.During the presentation, you have the ability to send questions to our Webinar staff through the Questions pane. Simply type in your question and click send. At the end of the presentation we will do a Q&A session to answer as many questions as we have time for. We will also post all of the questions and answers on our new LinekdIn group, EBS Answers, within 2 weeks. We invite you to join this interactive group to see the Q&A, ask follow up questions or even provide your own answers, comments or discussions. The link to that group page was in your webinar invitation email and will also be included in your follow up email. We will be presenting polling questions during the session. If you would like to receive CPE credit for today’s webinar, you must respond to all the polling questions. The CPE certificate will be emailed to you within 2 weeks.As a final reminder, today’s Webinar is being recorded, and everyone will receive an email with a link to view a recording of today’s event.
• #7: There are some common trends that we are seeing with EBS customers. Many of our customers want to reduce the complexity in their EBS environment and streamline their processes so that they can have the agility to change as their business changes. Statutory and regulatory considerations along with the roll-out of IFRS accounting standards mean that there has to be traceability and transparency across the entire organization. For many, this means creating a single global chart of accounts, consolidating multiple E-Business Suite Instances, put standard operating procedures in place and eliminating the silos of information that were controlled regionally. Moving to R12 provides an incentive to make the changes.
• #8: The bottom line that is driving many of the changes is a need to reduce operating costs, whether by centralizing data centers or operating a shared service center, or changing terms among common suppliers and customers. R12 with Multiple Organization Access Control and other R12 features enable many cost-saving initiatives. Having a single source of truth that is complete, consistent, and correct was the original goal when Oracle Applications were first implemented. Companies have already made a huge investment in their Oracle Applications. Now, many view R12 as a way to capitalize on their original investment.
• #9: So, the big question now is how to get from here to there. There are two choices – an upgrade, or a reimplementation. An upgrade means that you apply patches to your current, existing environment to move from R11 to R12. A reimplementation means that you install a clean R12 version of Oracle E-Business Suite, configure all set-up parameters, and then move your existing data into the new instance. But wait, it’s not as easy as that.An R12 Upgrade is when a current 11.5.x Oracle EBS Customer wants to ‘upgrade’ theircurrent Production instance(s) (Both configurations & data) to an R12 Release• The Upgrade always includes an Application upgrade (R11i to R12)• The Upgrade sometimes includes a Database upgrade – this depends upon theCustomer’s current database version• Oracle Development has released ‘Upgrade Scripts’ which are run against the R11iInstance. These scripts perform the following:• Move R11i configurations & data to R12 tables / fields, where applicable• Populate new R12 tables / fields, where applicable (Example: SLA tables)6 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rightsreserved.• After the Upgrade, the instance contains the following:• All R11i data within the old R11i tables• New R12 tables / fields populated with configurations & data, where applicable• Latest R11i CEMLI code, prior to the upgrade• Latest R11i Patch sets, prior to the upgrade (includes Localizations & installed Languages)• There are both Pre & Post Upgrade Tasks that are required to be performed in order tohave a functioning instance. These will be discussed in detail within this presentation.