Headstart for Oracle Apps 11iOracle Consulting

Oracle Applications have consistently proven to successfully support many businessesaround the globe. But while your organization may actually share many business

processes with other companies, it definitely has unique requirements! To gainadvantage over your competitors, you want to be able to extend the functionality of yourOracle Applications or add new application modules. Oracle Designer and Headstart

for Oracle Apps enable you to perform these tasks in a flexible and highly productiveway.

Introduction

When you selected Oracle Applications, it was because of their support formost of your business needs . However, it is likely that over time, youllneed extensions or additional application modules to provide for a 100%fit. Oracle has the tools and services to deliver this additional level offlexibility to your standard application software, which in return will offersubstantial added value to your organization. These tools have consistentlyproven their high value and quality in our Custom Development practice .Oracle itself uses these tools to extend Oracle Applications and developnew functionality that works in seamless conjunction with OracleApplications.

The tool set consists of:

Oracle Designer and Oracle Developer Oracle Application Object Library (AOL) Headstart for Oracle Apps

Oracle Consulting uses these tools to custom develop the extensions or newapplication modules. This approach gives you the following benefits:

Fast delivery because of the highly productive tool set Fully integrated analysis and design information in a single

repository Graphical user interface that is fully compliant with Oracle

Applications Easy to maintain systems that are fully documented, fully

generated, and completely managed from a central repository.

What is Oracle Designer?

Oracle Designer is Oracles scaleable application development productsuite, that supports the modeling of complex systems using businessprocess, analysis, and design diagrammers. It also enables you to generateyour application system from these models, through powerful applicationgenerators.

Oracle Designer empowers your organization to work in concert withcorporate business imperatives. All application constituencies, businessanalysts, systems designers, and application developers, derive teamsynergy from the shared Oracle Repository complemented by an integratedsuite of business modeling tools, design wizards and application generators.It enables you to design and deliver accurate and timely enterpriseclient/server and web-enabled systems adaptable to your changing businessneeds.

What is the Application Object Library?The Application Object Library (AOL) is a powerful library withcomponents of code (objects) used in one or more Oracle Applications. Itdetermines among others the graphical user interface, navigation, andmessaging of the Oracle Applications. It is shipped with the OracleApplications.

What is Headstart for Oracle Apps?

Headstart for Oracle Apps unites the power of both Oracle Designer andthe Application Object Library. Headstart for Oracle Apps lets the powerfulapplication generators of Oracle Designer use the objects from AOL.Headstart for Oracle Apps, in conjunction with the Application ObjectLibrary, allows the generators to generate application modules that havethe same look and feel as the forms used in Oracle Application. Menus,messaging, navigation, user interface components and special OracleApplication features are fully generated by Oracle Designer.

It is also possible to build applications that interface with the OracleApplication server model. You can load these models in Oracle Designer.You can then reference these server model objects, such as views, into yournew modules, which allows you to fully generate that module.Headstart for Oracle Apps also provides you with a number of utilities thatboost productivity by automating time consuming and error prone tasks.For more information look at the technical description.

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Modeler

Entity

Relationship

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Headstart for Oracle Apps Architecture

How can Oracle Consulting help you?

When you have decided to extend your Oracle Applications or build newrelated application modules, Oracle Consulting is your partner to make ithappen. Our world wide experience running projects with Oracle Designeris written down in the Custom Development Method (CDM Advantage).This method is the basis for Oracle consultants to deliver projects withOracle Designer.

If you decide to develop these extensions yourself, and your people aretrained in Oracle Designer and AOL, Oracle delivers the five day Headstartfor Oracle Apps Service. The Headstart consultant introduces this packageto your organization, installs the software, transfers knowledge based onOracle best practices when using Oracle Designer and performs proofgeneration together with your development staff. This approach offers youa true Headstart when generating extensions on or new application modulesin conjunction with Oracle Applications.

Key Features Headstart for OracleApps - Template Package

The Headstart for Oracle AppsTemplate Package allows 95-100% generation with Oracle Designerof the following OracleApplications features:

Integration with AOLNavigator

Query Find Windows Query Find Row-LOV

Integration with AOLMessage Dictionary

Combination Blocks Non base table blocks Tabbed Regions About this record (Who) Master-Detail coordination

checkbox Descriptive flexfields Dep/Mut/Cond items Forms being called Multi Row selection

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Modeler

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Relationship

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Function

Hierarchy

Diagram

Oracle Designer

Database Design

Transformer

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(AOL)

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Forms:

100% generated

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Oracle Applications

Dynamic setting of windowtitle

Calendar Window thatallows users to select datesquickly

CDM RuleFrame support

Key Features Utilities

Headstart supplies two types ofUtilities: productivity boosters andquality assurance reports.

Productivity Boosters

Productivity boosters automatetasks previously done manually.They create and maintain OracleDesigner objects in the followingareas:

Full support for CDMRuleFrame with utilities fortransformation andimplementation of Business

Rules, generation of CustomAPIs, View APIs andenforcement of sub-typeconsistency rules, key constraintupdate rules and (soft) domainrules. Logical Database Design:

sequences, fast creation ofviews, inheriting all propertiesof underlying columns.

Data Auditing: change historycolumns and journal tables

Physical Database Design:assignment of tablespaces,deletion of redundant indexes,re-sequencing of columns.

Module Design andGeneration: Creation of findwindows, messagesgeneration

Quality Assurance Reports

The Quality Assurance Reportsverify compliance with theStandards and Guidelines Libraryof CDM Advantage.

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Example of a generated screen using Headstart for Oracle Apps 11i.