
Headed out to Denver for RMOUG Training Days
I'm headed out to Denver for RMOUG Training Days this coming week to deliver a paper on BI Publisher Enterprise. If you're at the show, drop by and say hello! Here is a link to the ... read more

Tracing Workflow Processes
From time to time we'll get involved in helping a customer update their workflow processes. As every customer's workflow is slightly different to meet their own business requirements, we’ve done our fair share of troubleshooting to ensure it follows the correct ... read more

Avista Replaces Manual Fax with Automated Delivery from Oracle EBS
Avista Corp. (Spokane, WA) a leading utility serving the northwestern US, has chosen AventX Oracle Connector to automate purchase order delivery from Oracle EBS. Migrating from Evergreen to BI Publisher, Avista sought a solution with superior EBS integration and ... read more

Submitting a Concurrent Request Outside of Oracle EBS as User Other Than APPS
Fairly short blurb today but I found it helpful so I thought I would pass it along. I posted a couple of weeks ago on the ability to Submit a Concurrent Request Outside of Oracle EBS. Following in the same vein, I had a requirement to submit a concurrent request ... read more

STR Software Announces AventX Oracle Connector 6.5.00, Available Now!
Richmond, VA, January 12, 2010 – STR Software, leader in automated document delivery of Oracle EBS documents via fax, email, print and archive announces the release of AventX Oracle Connector version 6.5.00. As one of the company’s most robust software releases to ... read more

Printing BI Publisher PDF Output to PostScript Printers
I’ve been doing some internal training on the ins and outs of BI Publisher to the folks here at STR Software and we’ve covered BIP Enterprise in some depth and have moved on to how BIP works in E-Business Suite with Bursting Control Files.So in this process, ... read more

How to Submit Concurrent Requests Outside of Oracle EBS
AventX product is a PL/SQL API that allows you to programmatically fax, email, archive, and print documents from Oracle EBS via business logic that makes sense for your company. read more

Running Oracle EBS on a Virtual Machine
I’d love to hear any comments on your experiences with running Oracle EBS on a VM, read below for our plans!We maintain quite a few Oracle EBS systems in house in order to support the development our software. At last count we have 5 R12 instances, 3 11i10 ... read more

How to Burst and Deliver Documents from BI Publisher Enterprise
To continue with one of my previous posts on creating templates the easy way in BI Publisher Enterprise, let’s talk about bursting in BIP. If you are familiar with the bursting control file concept in EBS, Oracle has set up BI Publisher Enterprise a bit ... read more

Caching in BI Publisher Enterprise
Here’s a quick tip for BI Publisher Enterprise based on some first hand experience.I was demonstrating bursting and delivery functionality in BIP Enterprise a couple weeks ago at VOUG and I had created a simple/quick report to assist in the ... read more

Forms Personalization to the Rescue
Ted, Systems Engineer Extraordinaire at STR Software, always goes the extra mile for his customers. Knowing I cannot pass up a good challenge, Ted came by my desk today to discuss a question a customer asked him that was not necessarily related to our product but ... read more