1. Extending
EBS
with
Apex
and
other
tools
Tony
Scholefield
Santos
Ltd
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2. Agenda
• Audience
survey
• About
Santos
• History
of
E-­‐Business
Suite
• My
Santos
Financials
• GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
• Catalogue
Search
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3. Audience
survey
• Where
are
you
from?
– Sydney
– Elsewhere
in
Australia
– Overseas
• What
is
your
role?
– Technical
– Business
– User
– DBA
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4. Acknowledgements
• Santos
colleagues
/
team
members
– Mahree
Waldeck
– Andrew
ConstanAne
– Tony
Winn
– Stephen
Denison
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5. About
Santos
• Oil
&
Gas
ExploraAon
&
ProducAon
• An
Australian
company
providing
energy
for
Australia
and
Asia
– Offices
(using
Oracle)
in
Adelaide,
Brisbane,
Perth,
Jakarta,
Gladstone
and
Roma
– Field
sites
in
Cooper
Basin,
Southern
Queensland,
offshore
WA,
offshore
Victoria,
Indonesia
and
Bangladesh
• Approximately
2,500
employees,
numerous
contractors
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6. Footprint
• Oracle
E-­‐Business
Suite
Release
11i.10.2
(+)
• Financials
–
GL,
PA,
FA,
AR,
AP,
iExpenses,
Treasury
• Supply
–
PO,
INV,
OM,
iProcurement,
Sourcing,
Intelligence
• Human
Resources
–
HR,
Payroll,
OTL,
OLM,
Self
Service,
iRecruitment
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7. History
of
E-­‐Business
Suite
• 1997
Oracle
ApplicaAons
10.7
• 2002
E-­‐Business
Suite
11i
(11.5.5)
• 2004
11.5.9
• 2006
11.5.10
• Now
11.5.10.2
• October
2011
R12.1.3
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8. My
Santos
Financials
• What
is
it?
– Projects
Data
Mart
• Who
uses
it?
– Project
managers,
Responsible
Officers,
all
staff
have
access
• Developed
in
2004
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9. My
Santos
Financials
Oracle Applications MySantosFinancials
Database User Interface
Base Table 1 Base Table 2 HTML DB
Project Datamart
Summarization ETL
Process MSF Table 1
Project
Summary Table MSF Table 2
Database
View
Discoverer Discoverer Discoverer EUL
Reports Application
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10. My
Santos
Financials
• Architecture
– ApplicaAon
Express
• User
Interface
– IdenAty
Management
• Synchronised
with
EBS
every
night
– Portal
• 4
pages:
myProjects,
Search,
Preferences,
Admin
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11. My
Santos
Financials
• Four
custom
schemas:
OWNER OBJECT_TYPE NUM_ROWS
SPA_DM_HTML FUNCTION 2
INDEX 3
PACKAGE 20
TABLE 5
VIEW 2
SPA_DM_OA_IFACE VIEW 32
SPA_DM_WARE INDEX 78
PACKAGE 2
TABLE 47
VIEW 30
SPA_DM_WARE_APP PACKAGE 35
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12. My
Santos
Financials
• DemonstraAon
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13. GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
• What
is
it?
– Tool
to
assist
with
Month
End,
Half
Year
and
Year
End
reconciliaAon
of
accounts
• Who
uses
it?
– Accountants
• Developed
in
2010
/
2011,
scheduled
to
go
live
this
week
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14. GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
• Architecture
– ApplicaAon
Express
– IdenAty
Management
• Synchronised
with
EBS
every
night
– Portal
• 3
pages:
Home,
Reports,
Admin
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15. GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
Login
Homepage
Reconciliation Reports Notifications Administration
Workspace
Reconciler Notify Maintain
Performance approvers of accounts
Individual completion
Reconciliation
Audit trail for Upload data
reconciliations
Group Notify
Reconciliation reconcilers
Cost to after approval Unlock and
Corporate
Business Unit delete
Reconciliation reconciliations
Reconciliation
Status Report Create
reconciliations and
pre-populate tables
with closing ledger
balances.
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16. GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
• 4
sets
of
books:
AUD,
USD,
IND,
VNM
• 6
“reporAng
ledgers”:
JVAUD,
JVUSD,
JVIND,
JVVNM,
CORPUSD,
CORPAUD
• Accounts
are
reconciled
by
“natural
account”,
across
all
ledgers
in
all
sets
of
books.
• There
are
three
different
types
of
account
reconciliaAons:
– Individual:
the
reconciliaAon
of
one
account
across
all
ledgers
– Group:
the
reconciliaAon
of
a
group
of
accounts
across
all
ledgers
– Business
Unit:
the
reconciliaAon
of
one
account
that
is
contributed
to
by
Financial
Analysts
from
the
Business
Units.
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17. GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
Reports
• ReconciliaAon
RaAng
and
Unreconciled
Balance
Report
– Shows
reconciliaAons
that
have
an
unreconciled
balance.
It
can
be
used
to
monitor
progress
of
any
balance
that
is
not
totally
reconciled.
• ReconciliaAon
Audit
Trail
report
– Displays
an
audit
trail
of
all
changes
that
have
been
made
to
all
reconciliaAons
• Cost
to
Corporate
Report
– Outlines
for
any
given
account
or
group
of
account
the
joint
venture,
parAcipaAon
factor
and
Santos
share
of
balances
a
selected
range.
• ReconciliaAon
Status
Report
– Shows
an
overview
of
the
status
of
individual
reconciliaAons.
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18. GL
ReconciliaAon
Helper
• DemonstraAon
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19. Catalogue
Search
• What
is
it?
– Query
page
• Who
uses
it?
– Staff
who
purchase
items
• Developed
in
2002
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20. Catalogue
Search
• Architecture
– Mod
pl/sql
• One
package
with
4
procedures
– HTML
• Who
uses
it?
– Staff
who
need
to
buy
things
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21. Catalogue
Search
• DemonstraAon
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