After the ‘ultimate collection’ of PeopleSoft and Siebel, this last post in the series is an ‘ultimate collection’ of E-Business Suite (re)sources.

• E-Business Suite Wiki: E-Business Suite Wiki by Oracle
• Product tagged E-Business Suite : Siebel related products from the Oracle Mix Social Network
• Ideas tagged E-Business Suite: Ideas about E-Business Suite via the Oracle Mix Social Network
• Oracle Mix E-Business Suite Groups: E-Business Suite groups via the Oracle Mix Social Network
• Questions tagged ’E-Business Suite’: Questions and Answers about E-Business Suitevia the Oracle Mix Social Network
• Oracle Applications Documentation: Oracle E-Business Suite Online Documentation
• Oracle Applications Discussions Groups: Oracle Applications
  Discussions Groups on IT Toolbox
• About Oracle Apps: A Complete Guide to Oracle Applications Professionals.
• My Oracle EBS Dba Blog: Read what’s life like as an EBS Dba….
• Oracle E-Business Suite blog of a company called AMIS
• E-Business Suite and Fusion Middleware Best Practice Center Blog Entries: Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment?
• Oracle E-Business Suite Knowledge Zone
• Oracle E-Business Suite blog by Ahmad Bilal
• In Depth Apps – Oracle eBusiness Suite: Oracle eBusiness Suite/Applications technical news, views and developments – and other abstract ramblings!
• Oracle E-Business Suite Technology: The latest news directly from E-Business Suite Development
• Oracle E-Business Suite AppCasts: Podcasts about Oracle Applications
• Online Apps DBA: One Stop Shop for Apps DBA’s
• OraClever: Oracle E-Business Suite – Oracle RDBMS – Real Applications Clusters – Architecture – Infrastructure
• OTN Discussions Forum: Offical Oracle E-Business Suite Forum
• Messages in an Oracle E-Business Suite: Tuning Messages in an Oracle E-Business Suite – ESB Integration Environment
• Oracle E-Business Suite Technology: Apps-Related Websites and Blogs
• Oracle E-Business Suite Tools and Technology: Oracle E-Business Suite Tools and Technology
• Oracle Apps Technology: Blog dedicated to Oracle Applications (E-Business Suite) Technology; covers Apps Architecture, Administration and third party bolt-ons to Apps
• Oracle Apps Blog: Experiences as a new Oracle Apps ‘DBA’
• Oracle Stuff for the Average Guy! (or Gal!): Covering the best of Oracle…I search so you don’t have to!
• ORCLville: Watching the current trends and future direction of Oracle’s E-Business Suite
• OracleApps Epicenter: Odyssey of an OracleApps Consultant
• The Arup Nanda Blog: Confessions of an Oracle DBA Junkie
• Oracle Applications Users Group: A global organization that enhances the capabilities of real Oracle users in their day-to-day use and management of the growing family of Oracle Applications

Obsolete
The following sites are not updated (anymore) but still may have value information for your specific E-Business Suite needs.

• AppsFusion: Oracle Fusion Blog For Fresh and Experienced Oracle Apps/Core DBA
• Oracle Applications DBA Blog: Oracle Applications DBA Blog
• OracleAppsBlog: About the daily experiences and learnings of Oracle Applications Consultants and Implementor’s
• The Oracle EBS Developer: Blogging my daily experiences as an Oracle e-Business Suite developer. Plus news, views, tips & tricks on Oracle e-Business Suite customization and extension.
• Oracle magic: Oracle is not Magic, it just takes years of experience
• Oracle PitStop: Lets share some knowledge
• Oracle Apps: Training and Articles about Oracle Apps
• Know Oracle Applications – Business & Technology: Personal blog containing a lot of documentation (for download)
• The Feature: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Using Oracle applications without losing your mind…

Staying up-to-date with RSS feeds

• OTN Discussion Forums: Message List – E-Business Suite: OTN Discussion Forums : E-Business Suite

Not ultimate enough? Your sources not linked here? Or got an suggestion of a source you know? Let us know in the comments below.

Other posts in this series:

• Ultimate Oracle source collection: part I, PeopleSoft
• Ultimate Oracle source collection: part II, Siebel

Did you ever had to revise custom reports? DId you ever try to move the address a few millimetres to the right because off the introduction of new corporate stationery? Did you ever get headaches because the reporting tool Oracle Reports Developer was crashing once more destroying your recent modifications?

There is a new kid in (reporting) town…

With the introduction of the reporting tool BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) these problems are history. Using the tool introduced by Oracle in 2004 as XML Publisher the main disadvantages of the classic reporting environment become outdated:

1. No open standard
2. Not a user-friendly interface
3. No automatic report translations
4. No support for all formats
5. Extraction of data from a non-Oracle DB is problematic
6. Extensive tool training
7. High development costs
8. ‘Eternal’ maintenance
9. High upgrade costs