Re: Help - looking for career advice RE Oracle Financials...!

I've been working as a programmer supporting Oracle Apps for about a year now, and there are two things that have made my life a lot easier than it would have been otherwise:

1. TOAD (Tool for Oracle Application Developers), and
2. The Technical Reference Manuals for the Apps we support (Order Entry, Receivables, Inventory, Sales and Marketing, Self-serve Web Apps, Manufacturing...)

TOAD is pretty cheap, for everything it gives you (something like $300 or $400 per license). I remember thinking the TRMs were expensive when we ordered them, but the information they contain is well worth every penny, IMHO. (ERDs of the tables in each module, descriptions of the tables and columns therein, etc.)

Hope this helps,
bob :)

Chris wrote:
> I am a programmer/analyst with five years experience, approximately
> three of which are with Oracle Developer 2000, SQLPlus and PL/SQL. I
> have recently been reassigned to a group which supports Oracle
> Financials GL and FA modules.
>
> I was hoping to get some advice from more experienced Financials
> developers regarding where I should focus my efforts to learn about
> this tool. Thus far most of my work has been on the back end of the
> system, learning about the interfaces into the modules, how to load
> data, etc...
>
> I am interested to know what I should learn to make myself a
> marketable Financials person.
>
> I realize this is a broad question, but I am just starting out and
> don't have much of a clue as to where I should be focusing my learning
> effort.
>
> Any input you can provide would be much appreciated.
Received on Fri Mar 17 2000 - 20:28:44 CST