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Value of Upgrading to Release 12.1 for Oracle Financials Terrance Wampler Vice President, Financials Product Strategy
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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information
purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any
material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s
products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.
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Agenda
• Business Challenges • Business Value of Upgrading • Customer Successes • Roadmap Beyond R12.1 • Recommended Actions • Key Takeaways
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Business Challenges
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Optimize Value with Efficiency
Protect Value with Control
Create Value with Insight
Finance Operations
Compliance, Audit, Risk Management
Financial Planning & Analysis
The Mission of the Finance Organization Create, Protect, and Optimize Enterprise Value
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Business Challenges Top Concerns of CFOs
Source: Duke University/CFO Global Business Outlook Survey, June 2010
Macro Concerns “CFOs have a lot to be concerned about right now,
both inside their companies and in the broader global economy. Financial officers tell us they are wary about credit market conditions, liquidity at their own firms, and financial instability in Europe.”
– “CFO Global Business Outlook Survey, June 2010”, CFO Magazine
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Com
plex
ity
Costs
• Fragmented, decentralized systems
• Disparate policies, processes, and controls
• Regional centralization • Begin standardization, but mostly manual processes
• Consolidated systems • Standardized policies, processes, and controls • Automated processes
Complexity Drives Up Costs
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EBS Product Update: Continued Releases And Innovation Ongoing Consumable Low Upgrade Cost Point Releases
EBS R12
EBS R12.1
EBS 12.1.2
EBS 12.1.3
Planned
2004 2007 2009 2010 2011
Released
Financials, Technology
Procurement, HCM, Service, SCM, Projects, Financials, Technology, MDM
Functional Innovation
Major Release
Minor Release
EBS 11i10
EBS 12.2
New EBS R12.1.3 released on Aug 20, 2010 – Functional enhancements across suite, plus statutory/regulatory updates and error
corrections
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Business Value of Upgrading to E-Business Suite Financials12.1
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Business Objectives Enabling 12.1 Capabilities
E-Business Suite 12.1 Aligns With Business Objectives New Capabilities for Customers across E-Business Suite for 11i Customers
• Drive consistent, integrated best practices • Reduce cost of back office operations • Improve DSO and cash flow
• Centralized Finance Architecture • Expense Reporting & Imaging • Credit & Collections
CFO
• Spend Analytics & Classification • Leverage Sourcing Auctions • Run Spend against Contracts
• Understand how & where money is utilized • Achieve the best possible price for spend • Ensure spend contracts are utilized
CPO
Role
• Fast and business oriented implementation • Accelerated user adoption • Lower systems management costs
• Business Accelerators • Pre-built UPK Content • Systems Management Packs
CIO
• Develop enterprise wide HCM strategy • Improve talent acquisition effectiveness • Improve workforce retention
• Performance & Compensation • 360 Degree View of Employee • Succession Planning
VP of HR
• Manage and sense demand • Optimize manufacturing operations • Improve order accuracy & logistics efficiency
• Complete Value Chain Planning • Manufacturing Operations Center • Enhanced Warehouse Management
COO
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Procure to Pay
Credit to Cash
Cash & Treasury
Management
Financial Control & Reporting
Financials Architecture
Financials 12.1
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials
Travel & Expense
Management
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3rd Party Systems
Legal Entity Banking Global Tax Intercompany Accounting
Centralized Accounting Dr Cr
3rd Party Systems
Inventory Purchasing
Receivables Payables
Projects WIP
General Ledger ü Multiple Ledger Support
ü Centralized and Flexible Rules-based Accounting Engine
ü Centralized Global Tax Processing ü Centralized Intercompany System
ü Centralized Banking and Payments
ü Multi-Org Access Control
Major Initiatives
ü Centralized Legal Entity Management
Fin Arch Increase Operational Control and Efficiency
Going Beyond the Traditional Financials Architecture
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MULTI-ORG ACCESS CONTROL
FR Legal Entity
GB Legal Entity
GR Legal Entity
Operating Unit
Operating Unit
Operating Unit
Single Sign-On
Accounting/Collections/Orders/Payments/Procurement
CENTRALIZED GLOBAL TAX PROCESSING
CENTRALIZED PAYMENTS ENGINE
Payments Engine
Legal Entity
Operating Units
Funds Capture and Disbursement
• Centrally managed rules • Consistent tax services
CENTRALIZED BANK ACCOUNT MODEL
Tax Determination Process
Regime Applicable Taxes
Tax Status, Rate
Taxable Basis
Tax Calculation
More Productive Global Shared Service Operations Lower Transaction Costs and Improve Efficiency
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Close Accounting Period
• Record Journals • Approve Journals
• Post and Update Ledger Balances
• Revalue Balances • Translate Multiple
Currency Balances • Perform Allocations • Reconcile Accounts • Consolidate
Report and Analyze
• Prepare Financial/Mgmt Reports
• Prepare Statutory Reports
• Analyze Financial Performance
Plan and Budget
• Analyze historical results, new trends
• Develop plan & process
• Gather & set budget
Establish Financial Controls
• Define accounting policies and controls
• Establish tax rules
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials What’s New in Financial Control & Reporting
FC&R
Capture Transactions
Oracle Financial Applications
• General Ledger • Subledger Accounting
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Accelerate Close Process
Improve Reporting and Visibility
Improve Internal Controls
• Enhance internal controls with auditable and transparent accounting entries
• Efficiently create accounting for multiple, heterogeneous source systems
• Prevent unauthorized posting to control accounts
• Create reports without IT reliance using BI Publisher
• Comply with multiple reporting requirements (i.e., IFRS, US GAAP, etc.)
• Gain visibility of enterprise-wide accounting setup
• Easier reconciliation of intercompany balances and subledgers to GL
• Use alternate accounts to prevent import errors
• Quickly run processes across multiple ledgers simultaneously
Improved Period End Processing Financial Control & Reporting
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Purchase Goods/Services
P2P
Invoice Receive Goods/Services
Issue Payments
Requisition
• Identify requirement
• Authorize request
• Identify supplier
• Request/receive/ evaluate quote
• Select vendor
• Create PO
• Receive shipment notice
• Receive goods/services
• Match goods to PO and quality
• Record invoice
• Match invoice to purchase order
• Approve invoice
• Schedule payment
• Pay supplier
Oracle Financial Applications
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials What’s New in Procure-to-Pay
• Payments • Payables • Cash Management
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• Use payment dashboards to improve visibility and take corrective actions
• Control expenditures with line level invoice approval
• Protect sensitive data with number encryption (e.g., credit cards, bank accounts)
• Process invoices faster with line level matching and tax calculation
• Streamline payments with centralized banks and payments
• Eliminate routine supplier queries with online collaboration and dispute resolution*
* New with 12.1
Streamline Processing Reduce Transaction Processing Costs
Mitigate Risks
• Eliminate paper and data entry with imaging integration
• Cut processing costs with automatic AP/AR netting and 3rd party payments*
• Reduce cost and increase visibility with straight-through processing
Lower Overall Procure-to-Pay Costs Procure to Pay
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• Credit approval
• Credit check
• Credit limits
• Order
• Project
• Contract
• Configuration
• Paper invoice / bill
• Electronic delivery
• Cash, ACH
• Credit card
• Revenue recognition
• Cash application
• Disputes/ deductions
• Collections
• Write-offs
C2C
Transact Manage Revenue & Payments
Invoice / Bill Manage Receivables
Check Credit
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials What’s New in Credit-to-Cash
• Receivables • Advanced Collections
Oracle Financial Applications
• Payments • iReceivables • Loans • Credit Management
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• Improve credit approval decisions using credit scoring and financial comparisons
• Make appropriate loan and credit decisions with automated credit reviews
• Improve collection results with better visibility of partially disputed aging amounts
• Reduce risk with payment-based revenue recognition
• Comply with credit policies with enhanced credit scoring
• Uniformly enforce legally compliant collection policies with tailored collection strategies
• Improve receipt processing with work queue* and line level cash application
• Process revenue faster with centralized funds capture
• Increase collections of outstanding receivables with flexible payment plans (loans)
* New with 12.1
Optimize Cash and Increase Efficiency
Mitigate Risks and Enforce Compliance
Make Better Decisions
Optimize Collections Credit-to-Cash
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C&T
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials What’s New in Cash & Treasury Management
Review Positions
Generate Reporting
• Positions • Current Fair Values • Average Rates
Make Decisions
Manage Deal Lifecycle
• Deal Capture • Settlements • Accounting
• Investing • Borrowing • Hedging
• Cash • Interest Rate • Currency
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Oracle Financial Applications
• Cash Management • General Ledger • Treasury and Risk Management
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• Reduce risk and enforce controls through controlled bank account signatories
• Comply with SEPA requirements and reduce international bank costs with IBAN support
• Optimize funds by consolidating bank accounts and utilizing flexible cash pooling techniques
• Reduce bank costs with bank balance analysis
• Simplify bank accounts setup and maintenance with centralized bank model
• Reduce bank reconciliation efforts with automated matching rules and reconciliation at payment group level *
* New with 12.1
Streamline and Automate Processes
Optimize Funds and Reduce Bank Costs Enforce Compliance
Meet Enterprise Cash Requirements Oracle Cash Management and Oracle Treasury
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• Record Expenses • Attach Receipts • Accept Credit Card
Expenses
• Review Receipts • Approve Expenses
• Pay • Reimburse
• Review Reports
T&E
Analyze Expenses
Create Expense Reports
Approve Expenses
Process Reimbursements
Audit Expenses
• Review Expenses • AP Dept. Approves
Expenses
Oracle E-Business Suite Financials What’s New in Travel & Expense Management
• Internet Expenses • Payments
Oracle Financial Applications
• General Ledger • Payables
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• Enforce policy compliance limits for the US with GSA per diem uploads
• Enforce policy compliance for mileage expenses with enhanced per diem and mileage calculations
• Comply with regional expense policies with flexible system configurations
• Reduce auditing costs with enhanced audits of allocations and new Audit Expense Report
• Streamline processing with enhanced receipts tracking and missing receipts capability
• Control travel costs with enhanced cost center and projects approvals
• Process expenses quickly using bar codes
• Quickly recoup advances with flexible advance application and enhanced matching to expense reports
• Accelerate expense and audit processes when receipts are missing
* New with 12.1
Streamline Processing
Reduce Costs
Enforce Travel Policy Compliance
Lower the Total Cost of Travel & Expense Oracle Internet Expenses
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Customer Successes on Release 12.1
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Source: Global Accounting, LG Electronics and Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12, David Mitchell, Ovum, June 2009
The increasing globalization of business continues to drive the need to be more efficient and the need for better integrated financial management. Driving the improved integration through a single global enterprise resource planning platform has become the strategy of choice for most global enterprises.
The implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 at LG Electronics provides an example of the efficiencies that can be obtained from the latest ERP applications, with increased productivity and reduced maintenance costs resulting.” 1. Reduced accounting close from 6 to 3 days” 2. Improved productivity in the accounting teams, by an estimated 25%
3. Reduced ERP maintenance costs substantially, by an estimated 36%
What Analysts Are Saying
Gartner gives Oracle “Strong Positive,” the highest possible rating, in its report “Market Scope for Core Financial Management Applications.” The MarketScope is copyrighted June 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Sample of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Live Customers
G.James Completes Financial Reports 50% Faster, Determines Profitability Accurately with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “Oracle E-Business Suite enables us to streamline our production workflow and improve our overall cash position.” Bruce Moy, Director of IT
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Australian manufacturer of glass and aluminum products • Industry: Industrial Manufacturing • Employees: 2,764 CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Deploy an integrated enterprise resource planning business that
would streamline financial reporting, speed up production times, and improve the company’s cash position
SOLUTIONS • Oracle Financials • Oracle Payroll • Oracle Discrete Manufacturing • Oracle Enterprise Asset Management • Oracle Configuration • Oracle SOA Suite
RESULTS • Streamlined production workflows
which enabled products to be manufactured faster
• Produced monthly company-wide financial reports 50% faster
• Reduced the time it takes to analyze manufacturing data from one month to one week
• Enabled staff to calculate equipment depreciation immediately
• Removed 15% of the costs from its aluminum excursion business
April 2010
Abu Dhabi Media Company Upgrades to E-Business Suite R12.1 in just 6 Weeks
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Abu Dhabi Media Company, one of the fastest growing,
multiplatform media organizations in its region, owns and operates a range of television channels, radio stations, as well as a number of publications, and other media-related businesses, including Imagenation Abu Dhabi, which will develop, finance and produce full length feature films and digital content for Arabic and international markets; LIVE which owns a fleet of outdoor HD broadcast vans; and United Printing Press, a state of the art printing press
• Industry: Media and Entertainment CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Wanted to upgrade its E-Business Suite implementation to
Release 12.1 • Planned to be the first implementations of E-Business Suite
Release 12.1 in the region SOLUTIONS • Oracle Financials • Oracle Inventory • Oracle Purchasing • Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher
RESULTS • Upgraded a number of modules in
preparation for a wider implementation project around human resource modules
• Achieved rapid implementation, and the company upgraded Oracle General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Inventory and Purchasing in just six weeks
• Realized significant performance improvements
• Experienced more flexible reporting
Agilysys Upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 to Improve Financial Processes
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “We are confident that our Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 financial management solution will benefit us and support our continued growth. We are eager to leverage the new capabilities of Oracle Financials to process transactions across operating units.” Dan Havelka, Senior Director of I.T.
COMPANY OVERVIEW • A leading provider of corporate and public-sector IT solutions,
specializes in select markets, including retail and hospitality • It implements its partners’ hardware and software, providing
services such as disaster planning and storage management • Industry: Professional Services CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Change the structure of its product offerings and business
divisions • Support growth SOLUTIONS • Oracle Projects • Oracle Assets • Oracle Payables • Oracle iProcurement
RESULTS • Supported its growth by upgrading
its financial management system to Oracle E-Business Suite R-12.1.
• Leveraged the new capabilities of Oracle Financials to process transactions across operating units
C3 Business Solutions Extends Visibility and Flexibility Across Financial Processes with Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “With Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1, we achieved greater visibility and efficiency across our financial processes. For instance, we reduced our time to invoice by 60%. We also gained new flexibility in our billing function, enabling us to offer our clients expanded options that include fixed price, milestone, and time-and- material contracts.” Matt Matthews, Principal
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Organization that specializes in the implementation of Oracle E-
Business Suite for small to midsize businesses in Southern California
• Industry: Professional Services • Employees: 40 • Revenue: US$8 million CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Implement a fully integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP)
environment with increased flexibility to enable configuing applications as needed and building a scalable foundation to support future growth
• Expand visibility into project costing and billing data―a critical requirement for an IT services organization
• Ensure a rapid implementation of to reduce the burden on the IT team, and minimize the impact on the bottom line
SOLUTIONS • Oracle Project Costing • Oracle Billing • Oracle Time and Labor • Oracle Financials • Oracle Purchasing • Oracle Field Sales • Oracle Projects • Oracle Business Accelerators
RESULTS • Gained the ability to manage a 20%
increase in workload without increasing administrative staff to support growth
• Reduced the time to invoice from five days to less than two days—a 60% improvement
Lake County Completes System Upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 On Time and Under Budget
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Located in northeastern Illinois, with Lake Michigan to the east,
Wisconsin to the north, and Chicago to the south, having approximately 713,000 residents
• Industry: Public Sector
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Ensure continued Premier Support • Take advantage of enhanced application functionality • Implement a new interface that is easier to navigate
SOLUTIONS • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 • Oracle Financials • Oracle Projects • Oracle Grants Management • Oracle iProcurement • Oracle Human Resources Management Suite
RESULTS • Completed the upgrade on time and
under budget by $6,000 • Gained greater visibility into
timecards―which saved time and improved insight
• Enabled individuals to create their own requisitions and to view approval routing
• Gained drill-down capabilities with transparent subledger accounting that provided greater visibility and cleaner ledgers overall
McLane Company Upgrades to Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 to Better Support their High-Volume Business
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “Oracle General Ledger and Oracle Financial Accounting Hub have increased our agility and enabled us to provide our business users with the timely financial data they need to serve our high-volume customers in the grocery and food service industry.” Penny Echelberger, Chief Information Officer
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Provides grocery and food service supply chain solutions for
stores and restaurants throughout the United States, serving 55,000 customers per week
• Industry: Professional Services • Employees: 14,000 • Revenue: US$34 billion
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Replace an out-dated financial management system with a
modern, automated system to increase efficiency and accuracy • Support the high transaction volume inherent in the grocery and
foodservice industry with large orders delivered several times per week to stores and restaurants
• Increase posting frequency in the general ledger from period to daily where possible
• Provide the ability to drill down and report on transaction details
SOLUTIONS • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 • Oracle Financials Accounting Hub • Oracle General Ledger • Oracle Internet Expenses • Oracle Payables
RESULTS • Enabled handling of millions of
billing records with updated system • Standardized inconsistent
accounting data across divisions • Implemented a centralized system,
allowing quick reactions to changes • Eliminated one-to-two days of
manual intercompany settlements
National Instruments Corporation Upgrades Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 to Support Growth
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “This was the most positive Oracle upgrade that we have ever done. Our environment is challenging because we use more than 30 modules, and the fact that we were able to upgrade with little to no impact to users was remarkable.” Michael Beamer, IT Applications Director
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Provides open graphical programming software and modular
hardware to more than 30,000 companies to transform the way engineers design, prototype, and deploy systems
• Industry: High Technology • Employees: 5,100 • Revenue: US$676 million
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Support the company’s ability to serve the dynamic technology
needs of a wide range of customers globally, in diverse industries, by ensuring its business applications are up to date
• Improve key business processes such as the ability to quickly process approximately 225,000 complex software and hardware configured orders per year
SOLUTIONS • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.2
Oracle Financials Oracle Human Resources Oracle Procurement Oracle Order Management Oracle Marketing Oracle Projects
• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
RESULTS • Segmented financials and increased
flexibility to support future growth • Improved ability to collect the right
taxes from local to global levels • Provided more accounting details
for faster cost-benefit analysis • Integrated with existing Web site to
execute orders quickly and precisely • Cut 15% of timecard approval time
Guangdong Alpha Animation and Culture Co., Ltd Reduces Account Settlement Time by 50%
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “The successful implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite by Oracle Platinum Partner SIE Consulting has allowed us to significantly improve our key operational and managerial indicators.” Li Kai, Executive Vice President
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Engaged in animation production, book distribution, toy
development and manufacturing, and image licensing • Industry: Media and Entertainment • Employees: 6,000 • Revenue: US$454.3 million
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Build an integrated information system to improve productivity
and financial, manufacturing, and order delivery management • Standardize finance, manufacturing, supply, and other
processes related to its animation and toy production business • Accelerate customer order response times • Meet the demands of coordinating a multiproduct operation in
Guangzhou and Shantou • Increase efficiency and control of accounting and finance SOLUTIONS • Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1 • Oracle Financials • Oracle Assets • Oracle Order Management • Oracle Procurement • Oracle Inventory Management • Oracle Discrete Manufacturing
RESULTS • Shortened financial settlement time by
50% • Reduced the number of financial staff
by 10% • Improved report and statistics
consolidation time by more than 100% • Cut corporate expenditure by 13% • Increased on-time customer delivery
rates by 25% • Reduced inventory by 15% • Improved inventory turnover by 30%
February 2011
Guidance Software, Leverages Integration Functionality to Improve Liability Visibility
CUSTOMER PERSPECTIVE “One of the biggest benefits we have realized with our upgrade to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 is the ability to make more effective decisions.” David Goldstein, Senior Director, Business Systems.
COMPANY OVERVIEW • Provides digital investigative solutions for government, law
enforcement, and corporate organizations to conduct thorough, network-enabled, and court-validated computer investigations
• Industry: High Technology • Employees: 400 • Revenue: US$74 million
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES • Replace existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to
enhance customer relationship management (CRM) functionality • Increase overall sales by enabling sales team to more effectively
track new leads and opportunities
SOLUTIONS • Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 • Oracle Financials • Oracle General Ledger • Oracle Payables • Oracle Cash Management • Oracle Purchasing • Oracle Service Contracts • Oracle Order Management • Oracle TeleService • Oracle Internet Expenses
RESULTS • Reduced time needed to close the
monthly financial books from two to three weeks to just a few days
• Streamlined Sarbanes-Oxley audits by ensuring proper segregation of duties and reducing the number of controls from more than 150 to 71 through automated processes
• Enabled to ship within hours or even minutes
March 2011
Overall Business Benefits
• Faster, simpler period end processing
• Increased operational efficiency
• Timely and simplified reporting
Roadmap Beyond 12.1
Improved Operational Efficiency
WHAT’S COMING
• EBS Financials Integration with Fusion Accounting Hub • DRM integration with EBS Financials • Support for new authentication SFT (Secure file Transfer) for Credit Cards transactions
• Partial Authorization Reversal • Support for multiple valuation methods with multiple accounting ledgers with multiple currencies
• Support for loading AMEX Hotel Folio Data file • Ability to schedule the AP/AR Netting Batching Program
Oracle Environmental Accounting & Reporting Automated, Auditable Collection of GHG and Environmental Data
New Oracle Solution for Greenhouse Gas and Environmental Data Collection and Reporting
• Based on acquisition of IP from ANZ-based Ndevr • Data collection using EBS Financials • Emissions calculation following Greenhouse Gas Protocol • Pre-built OBIEE reporting and analytics tools, including
responses to the Carbon Disclosure Project • Rapid implementation as embedded ERP component • Proven solution built on market leading technology
ü Comply with Global Greenhouse Gas Regulations
ü Increase Data Collection Efficiency and Reliability
ü Improve Environmental and Financial Performance
Data collection in Financials
OBIEE Dashboards
New! June 2011
Oracle’s Recommendations for Customers
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Building the Business Case for Upgrading
• Evaluate the new 12.1 features in the products you are currently running – Opportunities to eliminate customizations – Greater flexibility to match the needs of your business – Opportunities for additional automation and process improvement
• Look for adjacent products that might add value – Many products are much stronger at the 12.1 level than they were in 11i 0 – Adding modules is low cost since you are leveraging the implementation
work you have already done – Some customers have justified the upgrade primarily by the need to get to
the 12.1 level so they could implement additional products
E-Business Suite Support Timelines 5 Yrs of Premier and 3 Yrs of Extended Support
2007 2008 2011
11.5.10
2012 2013
Premier
2014 2009
Extended Sustaining
2015 2016 2017
R12 Premier Extended Sustaining
R12.1 Premier Extended Sustaining
Nov ‘13
Jan ‘12 Jan ‘15
May ‘14 May ‘17
November 2010
2010
11i Premier Support Ended in November 2010…. Extended Support follows for 3 addt’l yrs to bridge upgrade gap.
GA
GA
Fee Waived Till Nov ’11*
* More info: http://www.oracle.com/support/library/extended-support-faq.pdf
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