1 Oracle Application Desktop Integrator (ADI) By William Loumeau & Ramu Kallepalli AST Corporation

Oracle ADI 2 Approach to This Presentation Oracle Consultants’ Roles Subject Matter Experts – Oracle SME’s Facilitators – Gathering Requirements – To Be Trainers - Documenters Business Consultants*

Oracle ADI 3 Setup Issues Platform specific issues Web ADI - WIP

Oracle ADI 4 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 R

Oracle ADI 5 Some Useful Functional Approaches GLDI Conversion of monthly histories Month-end processing Budgeting Income tax* Assets

Oracle ADI 6 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

Oracle ADI 7 Month-end Processing Create Templates in Journal Wizard for Accruals Reversals Recurring journals

Oracle ADI 8 Budgeting Users use MS Excel to prepare budgets These can be consolidated Import to Budget Wizard Upload to General Ledger

Oracle ADI 9 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

Oracle ADI 10 ADI for Tax Work Papers Report Wizard Download GL balances Excel – calculations/work papers Journal Wizard Tax Provision Tax Liability Deferred Tax

Oracle ADI 11 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

Oracle ADI 12 Assets Mass Additions

Oracle ADI 13 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.

Oracle ADI 14 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.

Oracle ADI 15 ADI 7.1 Contd. PATH environment variable should have ORACLE_HOME/bin, Windows XP/2000 Start ->Run -> Control -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables

Oracle ADI 16 Web ADI With Apps 11i Oracle Apps 11i 9iAS 9iAS Forms Server Intranet /Interne t Oracle Apps 11i Oracle apps db 8i/9i Reports Server Concurrent Managers IE 5.0 or later Excel 97/2000/XP

Oracle ADI 17 Web ADI Contd. Installed as a patch to Application and Database tier. (R ). Oracle Web ADI Diagnostic tool. s/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.

Oracle ADI 18 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).

Oracle ADI 19 Questions & Answers

Oracle ADI 20 Contact Information William Loumeau Ramu Kallepalli