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Oct’11 Federal Financials Update
I was able to get a copy of the E-Business Suite Federal Financials Update slides presented at this year’s Oracle Federal Forum on October 18th. Most of the content revolves around the upcoming Federal interface changes and transition to the Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) to replace FACTS I & II. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Finally Cool: @OracleFedApps is on Twitter
If you haven’t visited the actual blog lately and are just keeping up via a blog reader or some other type of subscription, you might have missed that I incorporated a Twitter feed a couple months back. I admit, my tweets aren’t going to be as entertaining as @CharlieSheen and I don’t expect to have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Oracle Contract Lifecycle Management Webcast – November 4th
If you’re like me and September was blur due to the Federal Year-End, you might have missed that the long-awaited Contract Lifecycle Management for Public Sector (CLM) was officially released by Oracle in early September, as part of E-Business Suite 12.1.3. Oracle and CACI have teamed up over the past few years to develop this [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Quick Collaborate ’10 Update
The trip was quick, but I enjoyed getting a quick taste of Collaborate ’10. Thanks to all those who attended my presentation bright and early on Monday morning. I have uploaded the slides from my presentation here for reference: Finally Federal! Exploring Projects Release 12.1. I was able to catch the FedSig meeting where I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dept. of Labor closing in on planned R12 go-live
First of all, sorry for the void of posts for the last few months, unfortunately I’ve just been severely swamped with project-work as we try to close in our USAF DEAMS go-live later this year. But I happened to notice an article where it looks like Dept. of Labor is targeting an Oct. 1st go-live [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Collaborate ’09 Recap – A Federal Spin
Now that I’m back in Denver, here’s a recap from the Collaborate ’09 conference in Orlando that I thought would be helpful to share. I definitely enjoyed seeing friends, meeting new ones and taking in as much information as I could during the conference. Being responsible for three different presentations was a bit more than [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Comments on Proposed CGAC Fed Admin Changes due back to Oracle May 15th
As was previously mentioned, Mike Barker and Oracle Federal Development provided a web-conference that gave insight into some changes to Federal Administrator being considered to comply with CGAC on the 1st of April (Sorry for the delay in getting this out, I’m definitely way behind on my blogging due to a new-born, Collaborate 09, a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6 Released: Includes Oracle Federal Financials Analytics
We’ve been hearing about the canned Federal Financials OBIEE analytics capability for some time, and now it has been released. From an initial look, it looks like this initial Federal-specific batch of canned offerings includes 2 Dashboards, one focused on various Federal Balance Sheet metrics and the other focused on Federal Budget & Spending. Of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NoetixViews for Federal Financials Web-Seminar 4/28
I had previously posted about the release of NoetixViews for Federal Financials here. The previously scheduled web-seminar seems to have been rescheduled to 28 April. Details on the web-seminar are here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )FedSIG CGAC call with Oracle Development – 1 Apr
FYI: “The CGAC call for the FedSIG with Mike Barker, Director of Public Sector Development, will be a concall / web conference. Here are the logistics: Participants should use Internet Explorer for the web conference. Participants should, at their earliest convenience, go to https://conference.oracle.com and click on “New User” to ensure that their system is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New NoetixViews for Federal Financials, Web Seminar 3/24
Noetix just announced a package of 35 views for Federal Financials and will be hosting a web seminar on 3/24 to introduce them. Click here for the link to the Noetix page discussing the offering and here to view details on the Web Seminar and sign up. For those not familiar with Noetix views, they [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Federal Sessions at OAUG Collaborate ’09
Looking for a good excuse to get to Orlando in May? Well it looks like we’re going to have a pretty good selection of Federal-related Sessions at this year’s conference with at least 12 sessions touching federal content or agencies. This is more than I can ever remember at one conference and with all the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )FSIO Certification of R12 Rumor Mill is Definitely Hot
Judging by the uptick in blog hits and searches like ‘R12 FSIO’ that are referring searchers here, many are hearing the same rumors I’m hearing. No official announcement yet (nothing on FSIO, metalink or any press releases yet), but the word is out that Oracle has received a FSIO letter for R12 certification. When I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Oracle/CACI Contract Lifecycle Event – Feb3
Well, its been almost a month since my last post, but I’ve now got the Christmas tree and all the rest of holiday decorations packed back away. So hopefully I can do a bit better job of putting content out here. Wanted to mention that Oracle and CACI are hosting an event on Feb 3 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )December Federal CAB Info
The most recent Oracle Federal Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting was held on 3-December. A few interesting points of info include: -Both Oracle and FSIO are pointing to January 2009 as finalizing the R12 FSIO certification -In the Oracle Development update, Oracle pointed identified R12.1 as targeted for release in calendar year 2009 (12.1 is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )FSIO requests a 2nd R12 presentation/demo from Oracle prior to Certification
On the monthly Oracle Federal Financials Special Interest Group (FEDSIG) call this week (held on November 18), Oracle identified that FSIO has requested a 2nd followup presentation/demo from Oracle prior to certifying R12. Oracle provided an initial R12 demo/presentation in September to FSIO in hopes of attaining a thumbs-up on gaining the R12 certification, so [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )SBA Awards Work to Support OFF Environment and Pilot Oracle Loans
This news is a little old (its been a rough past 2 months with year-ends, ongoing implementation work & some part-time work on another new effort), but I thought I’d post it anyway. Small Business Administration looks to be moving their Oracle Fed Financials environment under a new contract to SRA International for support and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Federal Desktop Core Configuration, huh??
I wasn’t aware of this until I saw it today on Steven Chan’s blog, but he mentions that “11i is certified with the US Federal Desktop Core Configuration for Windows XP and Vista desktop clients”. Here’s the link to his post, which gives background on the requirement from OMB and also includes a link to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Oracle/CACI team for next generation Federal Procurement
Oracle announced during the 2008 Federal Forum a teaming agreement with CACI. Future releases of Oracle’s Advanced Procurement Suite will benefit from this collaboration including meeting common federal procurement complaints such as numbering contract lines, standard contract format, and automated contractual numbering that follows federal guidelines. Additional information about this agreement can be found here. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )3 New Agencies Go-Live Oct. ’08 on Oracle Fed Financials
I know of at least 3 new agencies going live on Oracle Federal Financials 11i10, effective this October. Welcome to the expanding community and good luck with your transition. The agencies going live that I know of are: DoD Business Transformation Agency (BTA) (as the first agency being rolled out under the Defense Agencies Initiative [...]
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