ORACLE FINANCIALS ACCOUNTING HUB INTEGRATION PACK FOR PEOPLESOFT GENERAL LEDGER KEY FEATURES THE ORACLE FINANCIALS ACCOUNTING HUB INTEGRATION PACK FOR PEOPLESOFT GENERAL LEDGER IS A PRE-BUILT INTEGRATION PROCESS THAT SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATES ACCOUNTING DATA BETWEEN ORACLE FINANCIALS ACCOUNTING HUB AND PEOPLESOFT GENERAL LEDGER. AIA Reference Process Models and Domain Value Maps Synchronization of Reference Data Flexible and Centralized Accounting Engine Automated Accounting Entry Generation Accounting Entry Integration Process Monitoring and Userfriendly Error Handling Support for User-extensible Business Logic, Validations and Transformation Leveraging Oracle Application Integration Architecturee (AIA), the Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Integration Pack for PeopleSoft General Ledger delivers a seamless synchronization of reference data and accounting entries between Oracle Financials Accounting Hub and PeopleSoft General Ledger, enabling you to streamline your accounting and lower your ownership cost. End-to-End Integration Business Process The Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Integration Pack for PeopleSoft General Ledger process integration pack is a pre-built best practice integration process that is also configurable and extensible to meet your unique process needs. Based upon open, standards-based Service Oriented Architecture, it is designed out-of-the-box to enable seamless synchronization of your enterprise reference data and integration of accounting entries between Oracle Financials Accounting Hub and PeopleSoft General Ledger. Figure 1: Oracle Financials Accounting Hub to PeopleSoft General Ledger Integration Process Flow The process integration pack delivers an out-of-the-box best practice process, supported by standard application configurations and Oracle Applications Integration Architecture (AIA) pre-built data mapping user interfaces for business June 2010
and chart of accounts structures and currency reference data for PeopleSoft General Ledger and Oracle Financials Accounting Hub to support applications synchronization of reference data. PeopleSoft General Ledger is the master repository for all the reference data. Oracle Financials Accounting Hub relies on the business and chart of account structures and synchronized reference data. Oracle Financials Accounting Hub delivers a centralized accounting engine for creation of detailed, auditable and reconcilable accounting entries for a variety of source systems, enabling you to streamline accounting for your business. The process integration pack provides automatic transfer of accounting entries (of non PeopleSoft source systems) from Oracle Financials Accounting Hub to PeopleSoft General Ledger, minimizing the need for manual intervention. Drill-down from balances in PeopleSoft General Ledger to informative accounting journals in the Oracle Financials Accounting Hub increases efficiencies during analysis of fiscal balances. Standardize Dimension Mapping Between Systems The Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Integration Pack for PeopleSoft General Ledger delivers user friendly configuration capability for defining domain value mappings that allows business and IT users to define and manage value maps for key elements (attributes, organizations, etc.) supporting the business objects being synchronized. Domain Value Maps leverage Fusion Middleware Service Oriented Architecture Suite, and is highly configurable and extensible to customer-specific mappings. Figure 2: Example of Domain Value Map User Interface in Oracle Applications Integration Architecture The process integration pack provides pre-built Domain Value Map user interfaces for you to map required business dimensions for PeopleSoft General Ledger and Oracle Financials Accounting Hub, removing the need for any custom user interfaces to be built. The Domain Value Map for this process integration pack enables you to map Business Structures, Chart of Accounts, Currency Codes and Currency Rate Types. Once the dimension mappings have been configured they support the June, 2010 2
synchronization and integration of data and accounting journals, improving straight through processing for your business. Synchronize Reference Data and Streamline Accounting The integration process and architecture supports configuration, process monitoring and error handling framework, to actively manage the process. This utility leverages the Oracle Fusion Middleware Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Process Manager. Figure 3: Example from Oracle Fusion Middleware BPEL Process Manager Fusion middleware enables the automatic synchronization of reference data to support the integration between PeopleSoft General Ledger and Oracle Financials Accounting Hub. Most organizations typically deploy multiple source systems to manage operations. For many of these systems, accounting is not the focus resulting in several problems: Difficulty enforcing corporate wide standards Duplicate accounting treatments for each source system Difficulty reconciling accounting with source systems Oracle Financials Accounting Hub solves these problems with a centralized accounting rules engine and repository. Accounting journals are created with a transparent rules transformation engine, validated, and stored in an auditable format in a single location. Your organization can efficiently account for products and services, simultaneously meet diverse and mutually exclusive accounting requirements, and increase internal control. Oracle Financials Accounting Hub delivers centralized setup and provides an intuitive, business oriented end user interface. June, 2010 3
Figure 4: Example of User Defined Journal Line in Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Accountants or business analysts can create and update the rules without IT intervention. For example, the user interface allows analysts to determine whether a line should be a debit or credit, its description, and how it should be summarized. Rules can be shared across multiple system sources, where similarities warrant this, helping to streamline the accounting entries generated and increase efficiencies. Oracle Data Integrator provides prebuilt extract, transport and load capabilities, which automatically transfer the accounting entries from Oracle Financials Accounting Hub to PeopleSoft General Ledger, lowering your cost through straight through processing. Improve Visibility and Efficiency The process integration pack delivers automated synchronization of data and integration of accounting entries, which allows for early visibility of General Ledger balances in PeopleSoft with drill-down to Oracle Financials Accounting Hub for analysis of your fiscal results. Figure 5: PeopleSoft General Ledger Drill-down Process The Journal Generator process summarizes journal entries in PeopleSoft General Ledger that were transferred from the Oracle Financials Accounting Hub but you can easily drill back to the source entry from PeopleSoft General Ledger Balances in the event of errors or questions that require further investigation of the detailed source accounting journal in Oracle Financials Accounting Hub. The Oracle Advantage June, 2010 4
Built on the Oracle Application Integration Architecture framework, the integration includes everything you need to rapidly enable service-oriented applications, from BUSINESS BENEFITS Meet Compliance Requirements with Single Source of Accounting Truth for all Source Systems Maximize Efficiency with an Enterprise Accounting Rules Engine Lower Cost with Straight Through Processing Audit GL balances with Journal Details Lower Total Cost of Ownership RELATED PRODUCTS PeopleSoft General Ledger People Tools Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Oracle Applications Integration Architecture Foundation Pack Oracle Data Integrator Oracle Service Registry Fusion Middleware Service Oriented Architecture business processes to common objects and services, to Service Oriented Architecture Governance, at greatly reduced cost. Oracle Application Integration Architecture Process Integration Packs are designed to be easily extended to evolve as your business changes, allowing you to respond to customer and market needs with greater agility and flexibility. The result is a complete end-to-end solution designed to give you faster time to benefit and lower cost of ownership. For more details on Oracle Applications Integration Architecture or the Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Integration Pack for PeopleSoft General Ledger visit http://www.oracle.com/aia, http://www.oracle.com/applications/peoplesoftenterprise.html and http://www.oracle.com/applications/e-business-suite.html. Bottom Line: Lower Total Cost of Ownership Unlike traditional point-to-point integrations, typically based on proprietary thirdparty technologies, the Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Integration Pack for PeopleSoft General Ledger represents a Service Oriented Architecture based integration built on open standards. Since the process integration pack is designed, developed, owned, sold, and maintained by Oracle, customers will not have to incur the risk or additional costs working with 3 rd parties to integrate PeopleSoft to Oracle Financials Accounting Hub. Contact Us For more information about Oracle Financials Accounting Hub Integration Pack for PeopleSoft General Ledger, please visit oracle.com or call +1.800.ORACLE1 to speak to an Oracle representative. Copyright 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is provided for information purposes only and the contents hereof are subject to change without notice. This document is not warranted to be error-free, nor subject to any other warranties or conditions, whether expressed orally or implied in law, including implied warranties and conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We specifically disclaim any liability with respect to this document and no contractual obligations are formed either directly or indirectly by this document. This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without our prior written permission. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. 0109 June, 2010 5