Re: Oracle Financials Training Options

Reading the documentation is certainly good. There is a fair amount of documentation for the E-Business suite and if you take that route you will be at it for a while.

The one week Admin class for Financials is okay. It doesn't really cover tech stack issues though.

There are two books that are fairly good. One is by Barbara Mathews and has a title of Installing, Upgrading, and Maintaining Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10+. She also has one for earlier releases.

The other is an APress book, Oracle Applications DBA Field Guide which is much more succinct. It is authored by Elke Phelps and Paul Jackson.

Allan

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Cholakov, Atanas Stoianov <cholakov_at_gmx.net
> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
>
> The option you are missing is reading documentation!
>
> As you said you are not new to Oracle Financials in this case if you follow
> the docs will get used it easily.
>
> About trainings if you consider to attend in EU I recommend this guy (
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/norrbohm)
>
> Regards,
> Atanas
>
> Stephen Andert wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've been put in a position of being backup for our Financials stuff and
>> will need to provide coverage during a team member's planned time off. As a
>> result, I need to refresh my Financials knowledge (~8 years old) and get up
>> to speed. My employer is not against spending some money on training but
>> has concerns with making sure we get quality (been burned in the past with a
>> waste of time/money).
>>
>> As I see it the options are listed below with the main drawbacks listed in
>> () after each:
>>
>> 1. Oracle Classroom (quality of instructor is variable)
>> 2. CBT (no opportunity to dig deeper on "why", interruptions)
>> 3. Third party training (quality of training material/instructor is
>> unknown)
>>
>> My questions for you folks are:
>>
>> 1. Am I missing any options?
>> 2. Any recommendations for #3?
>> 3. If we go with Oracle Classroom, is there any way to get recommendations
>> for the actual instructor PRIOR to the class)?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> *Stephen*
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