Preface

Intended Audience

Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Property Manager User Guide.

This guide contains the information you need to understand and use Oracle Property Manager.

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Structure

1  Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the tools offered by Oracle Property Manager to manage major real estate tasks, including lease administration and office space allocation.


2  Oracle Lease Contracts Command Center
3  Managing Property and Equipment

This chapter details the tasks you must perform to create and administer property and equipment efficiently using Oracle Property Manager.


4  Managing Space Assignments

This chapter details the tasks you must perform to assign, administer, view, and modify space assignments efficiently using Oracle Property Manager.


5  Managing Leases

This chapter details the tasks you must perform to abstract leases and administer them effectively using Oracle Property Manager.


6  Calculating Rent Increases

This chapter details the functionality provided by Oracle Property Manager to calculate rent increases based on fixed percentages or an index that you specify.


7  Managing Variable Rent

This chapter provides a complete description of the functionality for creating variable rent agreements and calculating rent.


8  Recovery Expense

This chapter details the functionality that Oracle Property Manager provides landlords for calculating and recovering expenses such as those for common area maintenance from tenants.


9  Managing Operating Expenses

This chapter describes the Operating Expenses feature in Oracle Property Manager. Refer to this chapter for information on creating operating expense agreements if a lease requires you to pay your landlord a pro rata share of operating expenses for a property.


10  Support for Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 54

This chapter describes Support for Statement of Federal Financial Accounting Standards 54 (SFFAS 54) in Oracle Property Manager.


11  Reports

This chapter describes the reports you can create using Oracle Property Manager.


A  Oracle Property Manager Menu Paths

This appendix describes the default navigation paths for each window on the Oracle Property Manager menu.


B  Concurrent Programs

This appendix describes the concurrent programs used in Oracle Property Manager.


C  Attachments

This appendix describes the kinds of documents you can associate with data created in Oracle Property Manager.


Glossary

Related Information Sources

Integration Repository

The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.

The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.

Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle E-Business Suite Data

Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.

Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.

Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.

When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.