Global Steel Producer Achieves Dramatic Oracle Database Reduction through AventX A2A Attachment Migration

AventX A2A Migrates Attachments to SharePoint, Saving Hundreds of GBs and Improving Performance.

STR Software Announces AventX Oracle Connector 6.5.00, Available Now!

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

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

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

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

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

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

OA Framework Personalization – Modifying the Submit Request Train

OA Framework Personalization – Modifying the Submit Request Train

Since I discussed Forms Personalization last week, thought I’d share another interesting solution we came up with for a customer a couple weeks ago…this time using OA Framework Personalization.To give some background, as part of the AventX Attachment ... read more

Forms Personalization to the Rescue

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

You want to do what?

You want to do what?

As mentioned, I was given the opportunity to speak at Virginia Oracle Users Group yesterday during 2 sessions. Both went really well with a lot of good questions from the audience. I tag-teamed the first session on printing attachments (Word/PDF/Images/etc..) ... read more

BI Publisher Enterprise – Creating Starter Templates The Easy Way

BI Publisher Enterprise – Creating Starter Templates The Easy Way

I’m currently working on a presentation that I will be giving at the annual VOUG show here in Richmond, VA. If you’re in town for this show and you’re reading this, please stop by and say hello. I’ll be in the ‘Roanoke’ room on Tuesday at 1:15 assisting with a ... read more

Oracle Open World 2009 – Day 4

Oracle Open World 2009 – Day 4

Well, Oracle Open World is officially over and after a red-eye flight I’m back home. No keynotes or any special events on Thursday, just a final blitz of sessions and then back to work to apply what I’ve learned.What I enjoy most about Open World is the ... read more

Oracle Open World – Day 3

Oracle Open World – Day 3

Good day today, just getting in from the Oracle Appreciation Night that included Aerosmith and Roger Daltrey (The Who). I can only hope I have as much hair as Steven Tyler when I'm 61, but I can guarantee that I will not be wearing zebra striped tights at any ... read more