Andy Penver - Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Integration and OA Framework Development and Extension Cookbook

Andy Penver currently lives and works in the U.K. as a solution architect for a large public sector client. He studied at Christ Church (University of Kent). He has over 18 years of experience in working with Oracle E-Business Suite. He has worked in both the private and public sectors, and has a strong technical background. He has led and managed teams of consultants through the full project lifecycles on some very large programs throughout the U.K. and Europe. Andy has been heavily involved in two large-scale, award-winning implementations of a shared service centre.

Andy is currently the Managing Director of his own consultancy, NU-TEKK Limited.

Andy has previously authored and published a book called Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Core Development and Extension Cookbook .

I would like to thank my parents, my wife and three children, SJ, James, and Jack for their understanding and support while I spent many hours and late nights on the book. I would also like to thank my colleagues for their help in reviewing and commenting on the material in the book. In particular, I would like to thank Brian Badenhorst, Steve Phillips, and Parvez who all have helped me in some way to produce this book.

Parvez Achhwa has more than 22 years of experience in information systems technologies, with the last 17 years in Oracle Apps 11 i /12 i (CRM and Financials) implementation, BI, Business Process Automation, and management of large-scale projects. He is a rare breed to possess both functional and technical skills at various landscapes. In recent years, he has also developed Siebel implementation skills.

Presently, he is working with DAMAC Holding as Oracle ERP Manager.

I would like to thank Andy for giving me the opportunity to review this book.

Brian Badenhorst works as an Oracle E-Business Consultant and has over 10 years of experience in designing and developing robust solutions for a range of clients in both the UK private and public sectors. Backed by an engineering background, he has the ability to put forward strategic solutions and he has significant experience in fulfilling bespoke requirements.

Brian works as a freelance consultant and is the Managing Director of his own business.

This is the first book that Brian has been involved in.

Stephen Phillips was born in London in 1959 and moved to Australia in 1969 when his family emigrated. He studied Computer Science at the University of Melbourne and has worked in IT in both Australia and the U.K. for over 30 years. He began his career at the Government Computing Service (GCS) in Melbourne, Australia in 1981, working on Burroughs mainframes. Since that time he has worked in all scales of equipment and on projects ranging from large-scale implementations of Oracle HRMS to small PC-based systems for a single client.

Stephen has worked extensively with Oracle software since 1989 and moved back to London in 1994 in order to broaden his experience.

Since his return to the U.K. he has worked for a number of prestigious clients, including Oracle UK, Reuters, Lloyds TSB, Walkers Snack Foods, The John Lewis Partnership, and the Ministry of Justice. Stephen has worked on Data Migration projects with a number of these clients, as part of their implementation of Oracle HRMS/Payroll.

In 2003, Stephen completed the MSc degree with the Open University. The major area of his dissertation was artificial intelligence, as applied to the compiling of public transport timetables.

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Preface

Extending Oracle E-Business Suite

This book is about the ways in which we can extend Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and focuses on more recent tools and technology. Its primary focus is to show how we can integrate with EBS, personalize and develop OA Framework pages with EBS, and to show how we can use BI Publisher to create and mail merge documents within EBS. The book has many detailed examples to work through with tips and explanations about how various components can be configured and how we can extend standard functionality and the various ways in which we can do it. It complements my first book,