1 Oracle General Ledger Product Enhancements & Future Directions Fall 1998 OAUG Conference Presented At: Atlanta User’s Group Meeting November 20, 1998 Presented by: Brad Eldredge

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 2 Introduction:  Brad Eldredge Manager, Oracle|solutions AnswerThink Consulting Group GL Enhancements Chairman Since Spring 1995  Oracle GL Product Managers General Ledger  Rondy Ng, Product Director  Holly Roland, Sr Product Mgr Application Desktop Integration (ADI)  Brett Hooker, Group Mgr  Colleen McKenna, Product Manager

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 3 Product Enhancement Process:  Product enhancement requests submitted Performed by users, consultants, & Oracle 2 methods of submission  Via  Via OWWS; CSI # required  Product Ballots Prepared Performed by enhancement chairs Ballots prepared annually  Enhancement Vote Performed by company key contacts (via web) Voting occurs annually  Oracle Review & Response Performed by Oracle product manager Required to respond to “Top 10” fall OAUG conferences

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 4 GL Voting Results - “Top 10”:  #10 - Automatically Display Accounting Flexfield (GUI) Response: Future Release Candidate  #9 - Prevent Disabled Account Balance Rollforward Response: Release 12 Candidate  #8 - Generate Year-end Closing Entries Response: Planned Release 11.5 w/ Release 11.0 backport  #7 - Entity Autonomy / FSG Component Security Response: Release 12 Candidate  #6 - Intercompany Balancing - Due To / Due From Response: Planned Release 11.5

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 5 GL Voting Results - “Top 10”:  #5 - Segment Value Inheritance Response: Planned Release 11.5  #4 - Automatic Intercompany Eliminations Response: Partial Compliance Release 11.0; Complete Compliance Planned Release 11.5  #3 - Drill to Any Oracle Sub-ledger Response: Partial Planned Release 11.5; Complete Planned Release 12.0  #2 - Auto Allocations / Auto Step-down Allocations Response: Planned Release 11.5  #1 - Drill to Complete Journal Entry Response: Current Functionality Release 11.0

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 6 Future Product Direction (Rel 11.5):  Enhanced Journal Automation Auto Allocation Workbench (Workflow Enabled) Automatic Journal Reversal  Generate reversals upon opening next period  Optionally post reversals automatically Schedule Journal Generation  Allocations  Recurring  Intercompany Enhancements Due To / Due From Intercompany Balancing  Global Intercompany System (GIS) Renaming & enhancing ‘CENTRA’ - Release 11.0  Intercompany Transaction Notification via  Intercompany Transaction Interface (sub-ledgers)  Automatic Transaction Generation

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 7 Future Product Direction (Rel 11.5):  Global Consolidation System (GCS) Automatic Intercompany Eliminations Consolidation Workbench  Drilldown Enhancements Drill between sets of books Journals & Sub-ledgers  Assets  Inventory  Purchasing  Projects  Work In Process Drill to common inquiry form & view full sub-ledger transaction  Advanced Analysis Business Intelligence System Integration w/ Oracle Data Warehouse Enhanced Financial Analyzer Integration (Drilldown)

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 8 Future Product Direction (Rel 11.5):  Maintenance Enhancements Segment Value Inheritance - Automatically Propagate Segment Value Changes to Account Code Combinations  Enabled  Posting  Budgeting Allowed  Account Types Calendar Auditing  Ensure Accounting Calendar Integrity  Calendar Setup Validation Program  Enhanced Close Process Option to Create Year-end Closing Journals  Reporting Segment Value Security Added to Standard Reports FSG: Unlimited Page Sizing (unlimited columns > ADI) FSG: Absolute Values Function

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 9 Oracle General Ledger Availability:  When will Rel 11.5 be available????? Oracle wouldn’t fall 1998 OAUG conference When pressed for an answer, Oracle loosely responded “sometime during 1999”

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 10 Applications Desktop Integration (ADI):  Business Areas General Ledger Fixed Assets Report Management - Variable Format Reports  What’s New? Fixed Assets Desktop Integration (FADI) Cell Level Formatting Faster Performance Certified on Win98 & Terminal Server Tip Wizard Enhanced Toolbar  ADI 4.0 released on 10/23/98  ADI Product Development Enhancements >> 3-4 month cycle, future releases announced via Ora- Apps List Server

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 11 Getting Involved:  Enhancements Process Submit Requests Vote  GL Special Interest Group (SIG) To Be Kicked Spring 1999  For More Information Regarding Enhancement Process Product Voting Results Product Enhancement Scorecards Enhancement Chairs See the ‘Enhancement’ links within OAUG’s ‘Members Only’ section of their website...

GL Enhancements - Top 10 & Future Directions 12 Questions: Contact Info: Brad Eldredge Phone: , ext 3092