Oracle EBS Time Wasters - Manual Code Migrations

Time is one of the most highly prized commodities in the business world today. For businesses seeking to be more efficient and more productive at the same, trying to get employees to cram more “productivity” into every day seems to be the new norm. While no one can add extra time to the day, there are numerous tools available to make businesses run smoother and to help save the time of busy and valuable employees.

For IT departments running Oracle Enterprise Applications, there are a number of time-wasting issues associated with maintaining these applications. The need exists to find more productive and cost-effective ways to manage Oracle Apps. Fortunately for these companies there are a few essential software solutions that can signicantly cut down on some of the most common time wasting tasks associated with Oracle Applications. Here are three of the most common “time wasters” in Oracle EBS and solutions eliminate this waste.

Oracle EBS Printer Configurations

Manually setting up printers can take hours or even days of your time. Even when you outsource this process, it can take upwards of a full workweek to get these actions completed. Managing end-user requirements for both printers and the output associated with Oracle EBS can also be a time sucking nightmare, but a product by Unitask Software called Output Director automates the entire process. Output Director is designed to streamline the printer setup and management process so that it is completed in a few short hours. You do not have to worry about time wasted during downtime or a backlog in business intelligence reporting to due to the inability to print, fax, email or store Oracle reports as you would with manual printer setups for Oracle Enterprise.

Oracle EBS Non-Production Data Security

With the ongoing threats of data breaches, hactivists and misuse of data by company employees, securing sensitive data is an absolutely essential element of managing Enterprise applications today. And while large amounts of money and time are dedicated to keeping out unwanted threats to live company data, very little time and attention is paid to the internal database “clones” that exist in every IT environments.

Unitask Security Director helps you keep your “backdoor” covered by scrambling non-production sensitive data fields in Oracle Applications. And with its automated data scrambling feature, Security Director significantly reduces the time associated with securing non-production data in Oracle Applications. Manually securing all of the data within your Oracle Apps using scripting or masking is both time-consuming and error-prone. Security Director, automatically scrambles the known sensitive data fields in all Oracle EBS modules or custom fields that you can define giving you the confidence that your data is secure. And since the process is automated your IT team will spend less time scripting or masking and more time on more productive tasks.

Oracle EBS Change Management

Code migrations and object promotions are a necessary evil in maintaining and updating Oracle Enterprise Applications. And most developers don’t even realize how much time is wasted in the manual, copy and paste, or drag and drop process of moving things between instances of Oracle EBS. Moving code manually or by using custom scripts often results in errors that can be quite costly and require even more time to fix. Unitask Migration Director saves a significant amount of time by automating the preview, packaging and promotion of code in Oracle Applications. By eliminating the use of custom scripts that vary from developer to developer, Migration Director allows your IT teams to stay in compliance with company or industry standards and makes object promotion a completely error free task. And it even creates documentation of each change saving developers time and keeping you compliant. And should the code not act as expected Migration Director allows you to automatically rollback your changes to a previous state without impacting your applications. Your developers already have more work than they can handle with the numerous change requests and necessary updates required for managing today’s Oracle Enterprise Applications. By automating the Oracle EBS code migration process developers gain valuable minutes or even hours back in their day.

As you can see, these three often overlooked manual tasks required for running Oracle EBS Applications can end up costing you and your IT department a huge amount of time, energy and money, which is why automation solutions are a requirement – not a luxury. If your organization runs Oracle EBS there is no doubt that Unitask software solutions are absolutely essential tools enabling you and your team to focus energies on core tasks saving valuable time and money.

Bloomfield Hills, MI – April 11th, 2012 – Unitask Software is proud to announce the launch of its OEM division providing private label automation software solutions to companies servicing Oracle EBS customers.

Due to increasing demand for automation solutions by system integrators and other companies providing services to Oracle EBS customers, Unitask has launched an OEM division providing private label versions of two of its most popular products – Output Director and Migration Director.

“We recognized that the market for automation solutions for Oracle EBS continues to expand rapidly across the globe and partnering with companies that have an existing Oracle EBS customer base gives Unitask the best opportunity to reach more customers faster”, Dale Royal, CEO of Unitask, explained. “That’s why we are providing our software as a private label offering through our OEM division beginning today and we are very confident that our OEM division will be well received by both Oracle EBS service providers as well as their customers”, he added.

Unitask OEM division facts:

• Offer private label versions of Output Director and Migration Director
• Be headed by industry veteran Joe McGee who brings 30+ years of leadership experience for such organizations as Oracle, Ingres and Compuware
• Seeking distribution partnerships with software companies, service providers and system integrators with Oracle EBS customers
• Offering exclusive territory rights for foreign distributors
• Begin delivery of private labeled products in May 2012

For solutions and services companies with existing Oracle EBS customer bases, Unitask products can provide best-of-breed solutions for automating Output Management and Change Management in Oracle EBS. In the past, many system integrators and services companies have have partnered with Unitask software to meet a specific customer demand or to provide a more robust solution for a customer project. Private labeled versions will allow these types of companies to build their existing solutions as well as new offerings around Unitask software with a seamless integration and single point of sale.

For companies running Oracle EBS, Unitask Software will continue to be available for direct purchase. For more information on partnering with Unitask visit www.unitask.com/partners.

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Bloomfield Hills, MI April 11, 2012 — Expanding the ranks of its leadership team, Unitask Software today announced the appointment of Joe McGee as Vice President of OEM Operations with emphasis on the Channel partner Development marketplace effective immediately.

Joe McGee - VP of OEM Operations

McGee will be responsible for creating the business development sales and service model offerings within the Company’s newly created OEM Division as well as continuity through the Channel Operation. As a seasoned professional, Joe brings 25+ years of experience in software application development and management. Prior to joining Unitask, Joe McGee enjoyed leadership success at such industry leaders as Covisint,  a Compuware Company, Oracle Corporation and Ingres.

“With a track record of success, Joe will extend his leadership vision and strategy for the building of strong solution sets specifically targeted to the needs of the OEM and Partner Community. Having the ability to attract individuals such as Joe, truly signifies a validation of our vision and strategy,” said Dale D. Royal, Unitask CEO.  “We are very fortunate to be able have Joe take a leadership role in the formation of our Go-To-Market efforts in this very important business sector.”

“Unitask clearly understands the power of the Partner community today. To have the opportunity to enter the Company at this growth stage and provide direction for this new initiative, is not only creatively exciting, but energizing as well,” says McGee. “The commitment that this management team has made to the customer is uniquely refreshing and one I am eager to embrace.”

About Unitask Software

Unitask Software develops and deploys solutions that accelerate the realized value of Oracle E-Business Suite Implementations. Based upon over a decade of experience in the Oracle E-Business Suite enterprise, Unitask products eliminate implementation and operational risk of the installation, while improving the application quality and usability. For more information, please visit http://www.unitask.com.

Unitask and Unitask Software, are trademarks of Unitask Software Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation in the U.S. and in other countries.  Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

Here are just a few highlights from 2011:

• Triple digit growth in software sales – our best sales year ever
• 50% increase in new customers acquired – the most new customers ever
• Doubled our staff by hiring the brightest and best technical, sales and support talent in the industry
• Software installs on every continent around the globe
• Complete revamp of our company branding and messaging, winning awards for
• “Best Creative Award” at Oracles OAUG Collaborate 11
• The unveiling of new self service solutions in the form of new portal technologies for customer support portal, investor portal, partner portal and employee portal (all in the span of 3 months!)
• Successfully introduction of a new product line, Unitask Security Director, offering secure scrambling of Oracle EBS non-production data

As you can see it was tough to say goodbye to the banner year that was 2011. And as we enter into 2012 we look forward to a new year and another chance to continue improving, working tirelessly to “BE MORE” for our customers, our employees, our investors and our community.

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“Across all segments, we see companies reinventing themselves via automation.” Said Dale D. Royal, Unitask Chairman and CEO. “The continual rolling need for a competitive advantage demands that companies compress the time from concept to customer. Unitask Migration Director supports this exact initiative.”

New features in Migration Director 6.1 expands change management, automates package management, adds support for additional legacy Version Control Systems and includes additional security measures. With its newest feature set Migration Director 6.1 extends Unitask’s leadership for Enterprise Change and Migration solutions in the Oracle E-Business Suite marketplace. Delivering an ROI most often achieved in less than six months, Migration Director 6.1 is an Oracle E-Business Suite module add-in that allows burdened technical resources to respond quickly to demands for change by business users, as well as changes between systems.

The Migration Director 6.1 module is designed for optimizing required operational processes that must be performed and synchronized before a system can be put online. This automated approach provides for increased system uptime and shortened maintenance windows, while alleviating operational strain on staff. Oracle E-Business Suite resources are empowered to effectively apply routine changes in a completely controlled and managed way with automated procedures that would otherwise have to be employed manually. The elimination of migration related errors and the ability to reapply environment configuration once tasks are completed helps organizations ensure accuracy and efficiency with a lean staff, while still supporting native Oracle E-Business Suite operations.

“What our leading customers have shown us is that change is inevitable. Those that have embraced it, used it to their advantage are now seeing the ROI for that acceptance. The most notable return is showing in more efficient operations as well as in the achievement of better bottom line financial results presented to shareholders alike,” continued Royal.

About Unitask

Unitask Software is a recognized global leader in automation software solutions that seamlessly extend the enterprise architecture of the Oracle E-Business Suite. Unitask creates, sells and supports software products based on experience gained from over a decade of Oracle E-Business Suite implementation projects. Customers of the Oracle E-Business Suite around the world rely on Unitask products to automate printer configurations, code migrations and non-production data scrambling saving both time and money with an ROI in months – not years. For more information, please visit www.unitask.com.

Unitask’s solution for Oracle E-Business Suite users who clone data is to scramble clones automatically each time a new clone is created. Unitask Security Director was built around the premise that data is most vulnerable when in non-production environments – often accessed by numerous developers and testers both internally and externally. And more often than not this data is the same data as production environments meaning actual personally identifiable information and other sensitive data is accessible and at risk.

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