Implementing Oracle(r) Financial Analyzer: Delivering Value-added Business Processes with Oracle(r) Analytic Solutions

By Guy Stevens, John Cunningham, Fred Dean

This volume introduces project scoping for Oracle Financial Analyzer and demonstrates where it should be applied. It also considers the related issues of Enterprise Resource Planningsystems and the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201675277
• ISBN13: 9780201675276
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 7.8"

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This book uniquely draws on the authors' wide experience as OFA professionals to harness common knowledge from many projects and offer insights gained from implementing a number of OFA projects. It effectively bridges the existing gap between functionality-focused courses, and unstructured experience to offer you a comprehensive guide to successfully implementing OFA projects. Aimed at business analysts, technical architects, project managers and OFA implementers and administrators, this book will give you invaluable support, whether you are working on a first project of are extending an existing one. The book starts with an overview, followed by in-depth discussion of project scoping for OFA, assisting the business analyst in identifying the business processes to which it should be applied. It then focuses in detail on the key features of OFA and goes on to consider related issues of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and the Data Warehouse. All principles and practices discussed are explained through references to a number of case studies and each chapter is roadmapped, assisting you in structuring your reading of the book to meet your own project requirements. OFA project implementation principles covered: sponsorship; business process modelling; change management; planning; design of the application architecture; database design; infrastructure specification documentation; roll-out and continuing change management; backup and recovery