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How to use EBS audit functionality to speed up operations

By Glen Whelan|July 23rd, 2020|

Audience: Master data maintenance, support consultants and operational teams. Related blogs: Can data governance be free? How to track changes using standard audit setup Auditing data in Oracle EBS 1 Auditing has many benefits 1.1 What is the one-touch flow? 1.2 Accounting Mismatches 1.3 Fast [...]

Accessing external data sources with Blitz Report™

By Geoff Skerrett|July 21st, 2020|

Can I access external databases with Blitz Report? The short answer: Yes you can! 1 Creating a Remote Database Connection - Database Links 2 Accessing Data Through a Database Link 3 Performance Considerations 4 SQL Query from Remote Tables or Functions Only 5 SQL [...]

Does Oracle Discoverer 11g work with Oracle Database 19c?

By Alexander Pavlik|July 17th, 2020|

Lately we see questions about Oracle Discoverer 11g certification with Oracle Database 19c. Oracle officially confirms that Discoverer is not tested or certified on the Oracle Database 19c. We use Discoverer for development purposes only, but were curious if it will work with the [...]

Blitz Report™ Champion – quarterly awards announcement

By Geoff Skerrett|July 13th, 2020|

Quarterly Award Winners 1 The Program 2 The Winners 2.1 Outstanding Award - John Keymer - $500 2.2 Extraordinary Award - Clive-Ion Yilmaz - $250 2.3 Impressive Award - Shriganesh (Shri) Joglekar - $100 3 What's Next 1 The Program We launched the Blitz [...]

Can data governance be free?

By Glen Whelan|July 3rd, 2020|

Data Governance and compliance 1 An easier way 2 Oracle standard report - unreadable and without related data such as supplier name! 3 Audit Table Changes by Column Report 4 Parameters 5 Summary Audience: Master Data Maintenance and data governance teams and support consultants [...]

EBS 12.1.3 BI Publisher Excel templates generate XLS instead of XLSX and limit row number to 65,536

By Alexander Pavlik|July 1st, 2020|

We have seen many questions how to generate BI Publisher XLSX output in EBS 12.1.3 using Excel templates. Here are the examples: Link1, Link2, Link3, Link4, Link5, Link6, Link7 The following MOS Documents confirms that it's not possible generate an XLSX output in Oracle [...]

Introducing the project implementation and upgrade toolkit

By Glen Whelan|June 30th, 2020|

Introduction 1 Blitz Report Toolkit 2 How it works 3 Toolkit highlights 4 Example reports supplied with Blitz Report 5 Summary Introduction Managing EBS projects and upgrades can be a challenge at the best of times. Consulting teams with a mixture of functional and [...]

Generate PDF of Blitz Report™ output

By Glen Whelan|June 26th, 2020|

How to generate PDF of Blitz Report output? 1 Install Libre Office 1.1 Uninstall the previous version of Libre Office 1.2 Download and install Libre Office for Linux 2 Post Processing template setup 3 Test your Report 4 Optional - Enable Excel cell borders 5 [...]

Oracle Enterprise Command Center administration and enriched dashboard data export to Excel

By Glen Whelan|June 16th, 2020|

Introduction1 Blitz Report Toolkit2 Enterprise Command Center Overview2.1 Roles and responsibilities2.2 ECC Implementation3 Refreshes from EBS to ECC Dashboards4 Command Center Data Export to Excel with Blitz Report4.1 Exporting a Data Set from ECC with Blitz Report5 Command Center Administration with Blitz Report5.1 ECC [...]

Ungarbling Oracle EBS Financial Accounting

By Glen Whelan|April 23rd, 2020|

Garbled Accounts 1 Are your reports up to the challenge? 2 Familiarity and community reports save you time 3 Complete control 4 GL Balance by Account Hierarchy 4.1 User Column Templates 5 GL Balance Detail (pivot) 6 GL Balance Detail (YTD) 7 GL Account [...]

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