16 Managing Email Alerting

You can use email alerting for intercompany transactions and during the process management review process. Email alerts help highlight a key event or data change in the system. For example, you can send an email alert that an intercompany transaction is mismatched and needs to be matched, or that a process unit is ready for the next promotion level.

Email alerts are sent using standard Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), so you can use alerts with any email system that works with Internet email. To use alerts, you must configure email settings and specify the SMTP server name when you run the Financial Management configuration utility. See the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide .

The alert process uses the email addresses that are stored in your authentication files, such as LDAP, MSAD, or Native Directory.

Before you can send or receive email alerts, you must have set up user and data security rights in the application. The security class assigned to the scenario and entity for the alert must support email alerts, and users must be assigned a security role to receive email alerts. For information on setting security roles, see the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System User Security Administration Guide .