Oracle
Oracle Corporation has made significant investment in procurement applications. They combine best practices from Oracle's E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, boast of stronger...
sourcing and contract modules and highly improvised usability features. Analytics is now a core aspect of the application than an add-on. In this paper, our experts analyze the new functionalities in Oracle Fusion Applications and explore situations where customers derive benefits and justify its adoption.
Siebel (7.5 onwards and up to 8.1) natively supports two types of Inbound Web Service Security. The first is the WS Security User Name Token Profile Support that requires the user name and...
password to be passed in clear text format in the SOAP Header Message. The second is the HTTPS Security which requires a combination of Server and Client Certificate to perform the authentication. In this paper, our expert proposes another creative approach, beyond the two standard solutions mentioned above. In this alternative approach, an additional level of security is built above the Siebel provided User Name Token Profile Support approach by passing a certain security tag in an encrypted format from an external system to Siebel and then decrypting the tag in Siebel using any standard Encryption algorithm. The paper elucidates the above approach by using Siebel integrated with Java to provide custom encryption using external encryption algorithm AES-128.
Cloud computing is making waves in the Enterprise package space as the latest trend in Information Technology. Companies are forecasting unprecedented growth...
in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) segment. On the... one hand it opens a completely new market section for Oracle, on the other, SME's benefit from using Secure, Complaint and State of the Art applications leveraging Industry standard business processes which can scale as their business grows. This paper analyzes the economics of having Oracle Applications on the Cloud and its suitability to its customers.
Companies are looking for better control over defining accounting rules and a way out of making manual adjustment entries for events requiring different accounting treatments in different geographies or agencies. Oracle addressed both these issues with Oracle Financial...
Services Accounting Hub, a central accounting rules definition engine. Organizations with investments in Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft can get significant benefits by implementing the new Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub without having to rip apart their existing Financials investments. This paper provides an overview of Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub and the various approaches for it to co-exist with existing Financials applications.
Organizations need to have an evaluation framework and a standard set of processes to monitor skills and competencies and to assign measurable goals to the workforce. Oracle Fusion Talent...
Management On Demand Co-Existence model is the most viable option for companies wanting to leverage on Oracle Fusion Talent Management functionality without incurring additional cost on middleware infrastructure. With features like Organization Chart, Person Portrait, Talent Review and integrated Compensation Management, our expert explains how companies get all that they need in one single product.
SAP
Many vaccine manufacturers are exploring avenues for optimal IT investments in their supply chains, to balance high spends and transform their business. This paper analyzes the vaccines supply chain and factors...
that affect it, as well as its development lifecycle and operational requirements. The paper also outlines an IT transformation strategy for supply chains, with avenues and campaigns that can minimize waste and standardize best practices.
Disruption of core business functions may adversely impact the performance of a company. A formal disaster recovery manual can minimize the impact of disruptions and help...
to restore regular operations in a timely... manner. This white paper provides guidelines about general procedure for SAP APO solution in case of business disruption or disasters. Starting with the escalation of an incident to a disaster, this paper outlines the main phases of a recovery procedure along with the various options available for each recovery phases.
Smart organizations are focusing on increasing workforce flexibility and productivity by enabling information access for critical decision-making anytime, anywhere. While mobile solutions are imperative across domains and verticals, several parameters...
need to be considered while choosing a platform or middleware to implement the mobile solution. This perspective attempts at addressing the benefits of enterprise mobility. It explains how the combined approach of SAP and Sybase Unwired Platform addresses both the present and future needs of an organization.
Customer - IT supplier relationships are subject to several pulls and pressures ranging from sourcing strategies to business imperatives. Organizations look at maximizing sourcing...
gains while suppliers attempt at getting a bigger share of the IT budget. As outsourcing relationships get more value focused, supplier switches are becoming commonplace. In such a scenario, organizations should aim at dealing with the reality of supplier switches by evaluating risks and pre-empting them with a comprehensive mitigation approach.
During SAP ERP implementation, various methods and techniques are deployed by customers to execute critical project phases to suit requirements. AcceleratedSAP (ASAP) implementation approach for...
SAP ERP implementation has five major phases. Fit and Gap Analysis (FGA) is a sub-phase, which is very critical and demands greater care to realize the full potential of ERP. Our experts bring together popular methods of system Fit Gap Analysis. They describe methods that explain techniques applied while executing Fit Gap Analysis.