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Oracle Application DesktopIntegrator (ADI)

By William Loumeau &

Ramu Kallepalli

AST Corporation

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Approach to This Presentation Oracle Consultants’ Roles

• Subject Matter Experts – Oracle SME’s

• Facilitators – Gathering Requirements – To Be

• Trainers - Documenters• Business Consultants*

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Setup Issues

Platform specific issues Web ADI - WIP

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ADI Overview

GLDI• Budget Wizard• Journal Wizard• Report Wizard

Assets – Mass Additions Account Hierarchy Editor Reports – View/Manage Requests for

Standard Reports for all apps R7.1 Web ADI R8.2.1.4

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Some Useful Functional Approaches GLDI

• Conversion of monthly histories• Month-end processing• Budgeting• Income tax*

Assets

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Conversion of Monthly Histories Export history to MS Excel Consolidate if needed Import to Journal Wizard in ADI Create Parents Upload Journals to General Ledger History can now be compared to

on a monthly basis

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Month-end Processing

Create Templates in Journal Wizard for • Accruals• Reversals• Recurring journals

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Budgeting

Users use MS Excel to prepare budgets

These can be consolidated Import to Budget Wizard Upload to General Ledger

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Income Tax Concepts

Book/Tax differences – GAAP vs. Federal Tax Law (State, et al)• Permanent• Timing

Income Tax Provision - GAAP Income Tax Liability - Congress Deferred Income Tax Tax Return - M-1’s

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ADI for Tax Work Papers

Report Wizard• Download GL balances• Excel – calculations/work papers

Journal Wizard• Tax Provision• Tax Liability• Deferred Tax

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Why Use ADI for Tax Work Papers User affinity

• Familiarity with Excel• Utility of Excel if carve out or

reclassification is required Transferability to/from Excel and ADI Benefits

• Audit trail – Work papers• Data Integrity• Closed loop template• Resources Time and Money

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Assets

Mass Additions

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11i GLDI

ADI interacts with GL_INTERFACE (using Journal Import) and GL_BUDGET_INTERFACE (using Budget Upload).

Interface tables remained constant since initial character mode version of Release 10.

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ADI 7.1

Client/Server application. Supported against 11i. Un-install previous versions before

installing. if you have other oracle client

applications, do NOT chose default ORACLE_HOME.

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ADI 7.1 Contd.

PATH environment variable should have ORACLE_HOME/bin,

Windows XP/2000• Start ->Run -> Control -> System

-> Advanced -> Environment Variables

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Web ADI With Apps 11i

Oracle Apps 11i9iAS

9iAS Forms Server

Intranet/

Internet

Oracle Apps 11iOracle apps db

8i/9iReports Server

Concurrent Managers

IE 5.0 or later Excel 97/2000/XP

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Web ADI Contd.

Installed as a patch to Application and Database tier. (R8.2.1.4).

Oracle Web ADI Diagnostic tool.• http://{ServerName}{:ListenerPort}/servlets/BNETEST.

IE 5.0 or later: Security settings:• Enable Active X controls and plugins:

Download unsigned Active X controls. Initialize and script Active X controls not

marked as safe.

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Web ADI Contd.

Web ADI: Rows are uploaded at about 60 rows per second.

ADI: Significant improvement over client-server version (12 rows per second).

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Questions & Answers

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Contact Information

William Loumeau

Ramu Kallepalli

Email: wloumeau@astcorporation.com

rkallepa@astcorporation.com