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One of our recruiters was asked by a customer why it was difficult to find the right skills for an Oracle E-Business Suite project. It felt like a strange question to hear in the current economic climate - especially while so many IT professionals are affected by unemployment - but he had a point, there will always be Oracle skills that are hard to find. Continue reading →

I was asked this question by a customer during a recent demonstration of Premiertec’s Integrated Workplace Management System.

IWMS – The Background

The term “Integrated Workplace Management System”, or “IWMS” (to satisfy our lust for acronyms), originated from a university academic, and was subsequently co-opted by Gartner. Up until recently, Gartner produced an IWMS market assessment, including a Gartner Magic Quadrant, and without a common term like IWMS there would have been no other way to group a load of vendors together in a comparison document. Continue reading →

Introduction

Everybody who has worked with Oracle Receivables has had to deal with customer statements. Customer statements show customer related transactions such as invoices, credit memos, payments, etc. Customer statements are printed with a predefined cycle. There is a special form which allows you to submit generation of a customer statement.

The form submits a standard process ARXSGP written in Pro-C.  This process gathers information about customer receivables activities for the reporting period throughout the Oracle eBusiness Suite, inserts the information into temporary tables and submits the report ARXSGPO to actually produce the output. The result of this operation is an ASCII file. Continue reading →