Product Description
<b><u>Multi-Org Advantages</u></b><br><b><u>Product Integration</u></b><br>Single installation improves integration between products that required multiple<br>installations and those that did not. Two integration examples are Oracle General<br>Ledger’s drill down to Oracle Receivables and Oracle Payables mass addition to<br>Oracle Assets. In a multiple installation environment (MSOBA), these features<br>often worked only for one installation.<br><br><b><u>Global Enterprise Management and Visibility</u></b><br>A core benefit of a single-instance is the ability to improve global enterprise<br>management and visibility to global enterprise conditions. Implementing global<br>business processes through Oracle Applications and integrating information in a<br>consolidated manner enables organizations to provide a single, consistent face to<br>customers. Moving to this architecture also positions organizations to take<br>advantage of eBusiness initiatives like iProcurement, iStore and other eCommerce<br>features of Release 11i.<br>Oracle Applications Release 11i provides new features and functionality that<br>specifically support global enterprise operations from a single instance of Oracle<br>Applications. Using multi-org features, plus functionality to meet legal<br>requirements in most countries around the world, a single installation and database<br>instance can support a company’s global needs. This advantage is specifically not<br>available using MSOBA architecture and represents a major reason to migrate to<br>Release 11i.<br><br><b><u>Cross-Organization Features</u></b><br>Single installation enables a global view of enterprise information. Single<br>installation also allows for more sharing of setup data. When a product was<br>installed multiple times, some setup data were duplicated in each installation.<br>Oracle Applications supports many cross-organization features that leverage the<br>single installation architecture, including:<br>· Automatically generate intercompany invoices with transfer pricing when you<br>sell from one organization and ship from another.<br>· Run selected reports at the operating unit, legal entity, or set of books level.<br>· Define customers and suppliers in a global registry and secure customer and<br>supplier addresses by operating unit.<br>· Purchase products through one legal entity and receive them in another legal<br>entity<br>· Support any number of legal entities within a single installation of Oracle<br>Applications<br>Strategic Planning for an Oracle Applications Instance Consolidation Project Page 2<br>· Secure access to data so that users can access only the information that is<br>relevant to them.<br><br><br><br><b><u>Multiple Sets of Accounting Books</u></b><br>Multi-Org is designed to support many sets of books for accounting. A Set of<br>Books is the highest level at which the financial reporting entities are segregated.<br>Any entity that requires a unique chart of accounts, functional currency, or fiscal<br>calendar should utilize a different Set of Books. (This is a functional distinction,<br>not a technical one) Prior to Multi-Org, the Set of Books was set at the site level<br>and this restriction drove companies to have multiple installations of the<br>Applications looking at the same database instance to cover different reporting and<br>transaction needs.
