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For information on installing Oracle Training Administration, consult the Oracle Applications Installation Manual for Windows Clients, release 11 or later.

Making Decisions

There are two key implementation decisions to make:

• Do you plan to integrate Oracle Training Administration with Oracle Human Resources now or in the future? This has implications for the way in which you hold information about internal students and trainers. It also has implications if you are developing the competence approach, and you want to hold the qualifications, attributes and knowledge gained from training activities as competencies.

• Do you plan to hold financial information (about resource costs and enrollment charges) in Oracle Training Administration? What kind of arrangement do you need? Will you need an interface between Oracle Training Administration and your own financial system to trigger customer invoices if you run external courses, or cross-charge other departments if you run internal courses?

• Is your enterprise planning to run

• External training courses?

• Both internal and external training courses?

• Internal training courses?

• What information you need to record about students, trainers, customers and suppliers? For internal students you may already have a large amount of information, (especially if you run Oracle Training Administration within Oracle Human Resources). What further information do you need to record?

• What is your enrollment procedure? What are the stages each student goes through from enrollment to completion of the course? Do you want to link these stages (statuses) to standard letters?

• How do you want to organize your budgetting?

• Where do you teach? What is the maximum number of students you can have in each room (and therefore on each course in each room)? How do you describe the location of each one? Are some of these external to your organization and supplied by an external supplier? How are you going to organize locations, training centers, and resource revenues?

• What are the qualifications, skills and expertise your courses offer? In which way do you want to record these for each student, once they have completed a course?

• Do you have any special agreements with customers, if you run external courses? Do you want to give special discounts to customers who book many places on courses or groups of courses (packages)?

• Which of your users should access which parts of Oracle Training Administration? What are the roles within your training department? Which roles need full or restricted access?

• What kind of facilities and resources do events need? What skills do trainers require to teach this course? Where do your trainers come from--internal sources or an external supplier. At what point do you want to hold different versions of activities, either changing them over time, or offering alternative versions?

• How do you want to organize your resource categories? What information do you want to store for each resource type? Where and how do you want to hold trainer data?

• What type of development events do you want to record?

Working in partnership with Oracle you can call on skilled consultants to provide you with all of the training, and technical and professional expertise you need. Together you can successfully implement a training system that matches your specific business needs in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.

See Also

Implementation Steps