Database Size Matters: Understanding the Impact of Attachments on Your Oracle DB…and What You Can Do to Manage It
We’ve been asked many times over the years for help determining the “weight” of attachments on our Customers’ Oracle EBS databases. One recent example showed a customer with more than 400 GBs of attachments for maintenance alone. We share queries to help determine the size of these attachments and how AventX can help reduce the strain on your DB.
Shurtape Selects AventX to Replace Existing SAP Fax Provider
Shurtape (North Carolina), manufacturers of commodity, industrial grade and specialty adhesive tapes, was informed that its existing internet fax service would be discontinued with 45 days of notice. Given the option to purchase a hardware-based server and ... read more
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
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