Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Incentive Compensation Implementation Guide.
This guide assumes you have a working knowledge of the following:
The principles and customary practices of your business area.
Oracle Incentive Compensation. If you have never used Oracle Incentive Compensation, Oracle suggests you attend one or more of the Oracle Applications training classes available through Oracle University.
Oracle Self-Service Web Applications. To learn more about Oracle Self-Service Web Applications, read the Oracle Self-Service Web Applications Implementation Manual.
The Oracle Applications graphical user interface. To learn more about the Oracle Applications graphical user interface, read the Oracle E-Business Suite User's Guide.
The Oracle Incentive Compensation Implementation Guide contains the information you need to understand and use Oracle Incentive Compensation. This guide contains eleven chapters, one appendix, and an index:
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the implementation process.
Chapter 2 describes mandatory dependencies and integrations with other Oracle products.
Chapter 3 gives guidance for general ledger setup tasks to be performed before the main work of implementation begins.
Chapter 4 covers Application Parameters.
Chapter 5 presents Collection setups.
Chapter 6 describes Calculation setups.
Chapter 7 talks about Payment setups.
Chapter 8 contains setup steps for Credit Allocation, an optional feature.
Chapter 9 details the profile options used in Oracle Incentive Compensation.
Chapter 10 presents the lookups used in Oracle Incentive Compensation.
Chapter 11 contains a detailed listing of flexfields used in Oracle Incentive Compensation.
Appendix A provides a SQL insert statement for Credit Allocation.
The Index makes it easy for users to find specific information.
See Related Information Sources for more Oracle Applications product information.
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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.
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.