Porex Delivers a Variety of Business Documents via Email, Directly from Oracle EBS
Porex Technologies (Fairburn, GA), a leading OEM manufacturer of porous, surgical, and filtration products, automates email delivery of six common business documents from Oracle EBS using AventX.Porex planned to migrate from Oracle Reports to BI Publisher ... read more
Moving to BI Publisher, Now What? Webcast Q&A
Earlier in the week I alerted you to a live webcast that my co-workers were putting on entitled "Moving to BI Publisher, Now What? Best Practices in Template Creation and Delivery." Hopefully you were able to attend as Mike and Ted did a great job. There were a ... read more
My Oracle OpenWorld 2010 Session Topics: BI Publisher and Data Exchange for EBS
Good news! A couple weeks back I mentioned that I had put some ideas for presentations on Oracle Mix and to vote for them if you're interested. Turns out a few people were interested and I received an invitation to present 2 of the topics! So if you're headed to ... read more
Fun with Java Stored Procedures
We support customers on just about every version of EBS from 11.0 (yes, that's eleven dot oh not 11i10) to the latest R12 RUP. This also means that they also run various versions of the Oracle database as well. The challenge that we run into is that we only want ... read more
Oracle Open World 2010 Papers – Vote for them on Oracle Mix!
So I've found that the majority of my posts have involved something to do with BI Publisher. Hopefully I'm not boring you to death!If you're interested in learning more, I've submitted a number of papers for the Oracle Mix "Suggest A Session" contest. Even if ... read more
BI Publisher Enterprise – Bursting From Multiple Data Sources Using Cursor Expressions
From my previous post regarding Bursting from Multiple Data Sources I had assumed that Kris' comment meant that he had data in separate databases. After some discussion with him, I learned that the data was in the same database and he was using multiple SQL ... read more
DaVita Chooses AventX to Print AP Check Stubs
DaVita Inc. (Denver, CO), a FORTUNE 500® company and leading provider of kidney care in the United States, will use AventX to automatically print accounts payable check stubs.DaVita needed a solution to automatically route AP check stubs to the appropriate ... read more
BIP-Enterprise – Bursting with Data From Multiple Sources
I received a comment from Kris regarding a post on How to Burst and Deliver Documents From BIP Enterprise that said: Thanks for your example. I managed to get this to work but as my data is based on 2 datasets I miss part of my data on the report. Only data that ... read more
Hormel Foods Moves to BI Publisher, Chooses AventX to Deliver Purchase Orders
Hormel Foods Corporation (Austin, MN), manufacturer of high-quality, brand-name food products worldwide, will use AventX to automate fax and email delivery of 700 purchase orders daily.Hormel evaluated their existing fax solution and decided it was time to move ... read more
Pitt Plastics Chooses AventX to Automate Delivery of Seven Document Types from EBS
Pitt Plastics, Inc. (Pittsburg, KS) has manufactured high-quality trash can liners since 1972. With over 500 employees and half-a-million square feet of manufacturing and warehousing space, Pitt Plastics strives to keep facilities and offices lean and efficient. ... read more
Using BI Publisher APIs to create PDF from XML and RTF Templates
I was working on a customer issue last week where we were getting some odd results when using the BI Publisher API's to burst data to create PDFs. Specifically, data was not showing up in the output PDF. Turns out the issue was with the bursting control file which ... read more
UTOUG Recap – 2 Full Days of Education
Back in the office from Utah and catching up with various emails etc... We didn't have a lot of time in Salt Lake City, but we tried to make the best of it. In addition to checking out the Bingham Canyon Mine, our hotel was right across from Temple Square. We ... read more