User acceptance and limited staff are among the top five risks in ERP upgrades, according to a recent survey. With that in mind, finance users and IT professionals involved in upgrading Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to Release 12 (R12) should prepare for significant differences in General Ledger (GL) reporting, in the absence of Oracle's Client Application Desktop Integrator (ADI).
The same holds true with desktop upgrades to Microsoft Excel 2007 or 2010, where this has been known to cause Client ADI compatibility issues.
Used for years to produce ad hoc Financial Statement Generator (FSG) reports, Client ADI was replaced in R12 by two browser-based applications: Web ADI and Report Manager for publishing FSGs into Excel. As financial professionals explore these new applications, they discover gaps with the familiar Client ADI functionality - gaps that could eventually place additional demands on IT resources already stressed by an ERP upgrade and testing.
Many financial professionals who have used the new applications are considering an Excel-based alternative for filling those gaps, so that comparable or improved functionality exists after an R12 upgrade, with minimal impacts on the IT staff.
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