Implementing Oracle Financial Analyzer
Delivering value-added business processes
John Cunningham, Guy Stevens, Fred Dean
Résumé
This book uniquely draws on the authors' wide experience as OFA professionals to harness common knowledge from many projects and offer insights gained from running a number of OFA projects. It effectively bridges the existing gap between product functionality-focused courses, and unstructured experiential learning to offer you a comprehensive guide to successfully implementing OFA projects.
Aimed at business analysts, technical architects, project managers and OFA implementors and administrators this book will give you invaluable support , whether you are working on a first project or are extending an existing one.
The book starts with an overview, followed by in-depth discussion of project scoping for OFA, assisting the business analyst in identifying the business processes to which it should be applied. It then focuses in detail on the key features of OFA and goes on to consider related issues of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and the Data Warehouse.
All principles and practices discussed are explained through references to a number of case studies and each chapter is roadmapped, assisting you in structuring your reading of the book to meet your own project requirements.
OFA project implementation principles covered:
- sponsorship,
- business process modelling,
- change management planning,
- design of the application architecture,
- database design,
- infrastructure specification,
- documentation,
- roll-out and continuing change management,
- backup and recovery
Features:
- CD modelling an organization with Sales, Finance, Board, regional organization and all client types including Web, plus script to explain structure of organization and prompting user to perform some of the tasks required to operate a tiered OFA system. This will enable you to validate your progress in understanding how a complete OFA architecture is deployed.
- Web-site portal for discussion of issues raised in book.
Appendices: covering Tuning for OFA, Data loading, hints & tips on the GL link and the potential impact of future developments.
Preface | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | Project Scoping for Oracle Financial Analyzer | 6 |
2.1 | Identifying the business processes to which OFA can be applied | 7 |
2.2 | Packaged solutions as part of the solution architecture | 28 |
2.3 | Common data sources and business processes | 33 |
3 | Oracle Financial Analyzer Key Features | 39 |
3.1 | OFA key features and functions | 39 |
3.2 | Controlling the flow of structures and data | 84 |
3.3 | More workstations and their functionality | 90 |
4 | Enterprise Oracle Financial Analyzer, ERP And the Data Warehouse | 99 |
4.1 | The Oracle General Ledged and Oracle Financial Analyzer | 100 |
4.2 | Other ERP systems and Oracle Financial Analyzer | 106 |
4.3 | Operational data stores, the data warehouse and OFA | 109 |
4.4 | OFA, tactical solutions and the data warehouse | 116 |
5 | Project Principles | 120 |
5.1 | Sponsorship | 121 |
5.2 | Business process modelling | 124 |
5.3 | Change management planning | 131 |
5.4 | Design of the application architecture | 132 |
5.5 | Database design | 158 |
5.6 | Infrastructure specification | 200 |
5.7 | Documentation | 235 |
5.8 | Roll-out and continuing change management | 244 |
5.9 | Backups, database reorganizations and data archiving | 252 |
6 | Case Study in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Industry | 264 |
6.1 | Company overview | 264 |
6.2 | The requirements of the OFA system | 264 |
6.3 | Sponsorship and change management | 268 |
6.4 | Business process modelling | 269 |
6.5 | Design of the application architecture | 270 |
6.6 | Database design | 271 |
6.7 | Roll-out | 286 |
6.8 | Continuing change management | 287 |
7 | Case Study in the Financial Services Industry | 288 |
7.1 | Company overview | 288 |
7.2 | The requirements of the OFA system | 288 |
7.3 | Roll-out | 289 |
7.4 | Sponsorship | 290 |
7.5 | Change management | 291 |
7.6 | Requirements | 291 |
7.7 | Design of the application architecture | 293 |
7.8 | Database design: management reporting | 295 |
7.9 | Interface design: management reporting | 299 |
7.10 | Database design: budgeting | 303 |
7.11 | Database design: profitability | 305 |
7.12 | Infrastructure specification | 308 |
8 | Case Studies in Activity-Based Management | 309 |
8.1 | Activity-based costing: the principles | 310 |
8.2 | Oracle Financial Analyzer and activity-based planning and budgeting | 328 |
8.3 | A more detailed look at the generic ABC business process model and OFA | 346 |
References | 366 | |
App. A | Tuning OFA | 367 |
App. B | Data loading | 374 |
App. C | The GL Link: hints and tips | 386 |
App. D | History, future developments and their potential impact | 391 |
Index | 400 |
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Addison Wesley |
Auteur(s) | John Cunningham, Guy Stevens, Fred Dean |
Parution | 01/06/2001 |
Nb. de pages | 272 |
Couverture | Broché |
Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
EAN13 | 9780201675276 |
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