We recently helped a client, with thousands of workbooks in Oracle Discoverer 4i, migrate to BI Discoverer 10g. It was be prohibitively expensive to blindly convert all of these workbooks, so naturally the staff had some questions. This how-to guide explores finding the workbook usages in Discoverer.

...the IT staff's first question was, "how do we tell which reports the users are running and which ones we can discard prior to upgrading?"

Almost everyone implementing Oracle Order Management must design a custom extension to handle the Cost of Goods Sold accounting. In other modules, Oracle provides Auto Accounting rules to generate account strings for the various accounts. Oracle Order Management provides no such ease, instead, one must enlist a programmer to modify the Oracle Account Generator workflow each and every time they require a change.

Indeed, every Order Management client we've been to complains, "why doesn't COGS work like my Revenue account in Receivables?".

To be honest, we don't know. Even in the latest release 12, Order Management provides no application rules to this, so you still must write software, compile it, move it through testing and change control, etc.

We have prepared this Oracle Real Application Clusters template to assist your Oracle RAC proposal to your organization.