Oracle E-Business Suite Tools
Muhammad Nouman Shaikh
Solution Architect & Project Manager | Oracle Fusion, EBS & WMS Cloud (Logfire) | Business Applications Manager
These are some of the Oracle EBS related tools\products that I have used to improve operational efficiency & productivity during project executions. Let me know if you are aware of other good tools.
1. PATCH WIZARD : Patch wizard is available under the option "Patching and Utilities" in System Administrator responsibility. It can automatically download the patches you want to analyze.
- Recommended patch analysis helps you to proactively identify critical patches.
- Another interesting feature is "Register Flagged files", I use it to protect my customizations with this feature you can register the standard objects that have been customized, once registered the patch impact analysis report will show if the flagged files are affected or not.
2. CONFIGSNAPSHOT: It's a 3rd party product and very useful to compare setups between 2 or more instances, compared DB objects, compares Patches between environments, automatically migrate setups etc. Overall helps with synchronizing the environment
3. APPWORX: This is a 3rd party product used for scheduling and managing EBS Jobs. This is very helpful when you have large scale ERP instances with 100s of responsibilities from where different Jobs need to be scheduled.
4. PANAYA: A 3rd party product useful forR12.2.x upgrade impact analysis, Testing automation & acceleration etc.
5. AVENTX : A 3rd party product for managing the mailing and faxing of documents like purchase orders or invoices from its EBS
6. HP PPM (Project portfolio management) : I have used it to automate all the code\setup migration activities and saves plenty of time.
7. OEM 12c\13c: For proactive monitoring, It has 100s of pre-configured metrics, we can also create a custom template for metrics and can apply them across multiple environments. Application Management Pack (AMP) and Application Change Management Pack (ACMP) Oracle application management pack with its interesting dashboards helps to monitor the overall health of Oracle ERP system.
8. Oracle iSetup: It helps in migrating functional setups from one E-Business Suite instance to another. During migration, setups can be extracted selectively using filters on setup attributes. Extracted setup data can be optionally transformed before loading into target instance.
9. Oracle Webcenter: It’s a content management product and can be greatly useful as a central repository for EBS documents like AR Invoices, PO Documents, Shipping documents etc. There are APIs available to integrate with EBS and automatically transfer the documents to the Webcenter. Users requiring such documents can get them from Webcenter instead of trying to get access to a specific responsibility, login to EBS, running\re-running the programs to generate the documents.
Courtesy a LinkedIn post from: Neeraj Shrivastava