Oracle Apps Technical Consultant

Oracle Apps is an ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning),nothing but effective planning of the resources in an Enterprise.An Enterprise is  'A business organization' like Ford,Reliance...etc.
An insight into the organization for the higher level authorities(in that organization) always make them to take decisions for the development of the organization.ERP makes the details of the organization available to the managers at the click of a mouse.Thereby,Managers and the employees in the organization can collaborate for the success of the company by taking effective decisions.
Without ERP It would be possible to run the business effectively but its a tedious process coz there are many departments involved in an organization.Gathering all that data and summing up it for the result is a nightmare.
ERP comes with the facility that it puts all the data of an organization at one place,and also we can get the result of its functioning at the click of a mouse.
So,many organizations are using ERP for their business.Some of the ERPs in the market are SAP, JDedwards, Siebel, Peoplesoft.
As we are now learning the basics of Oracle apps for a technical consultant,We will only discuss about the ERP,Oracle apps.
In oracle apps we have three roles
1)Apps technical consultant.
2)Apps functional consultant.
3)Apps DBA(Database Adminstrator).
In order to start your career as oracle apps technical consultant,you must have a good command on sql,pl/sql. and a little bit of knowledge on UNIX commands.
For an organization to use this ERP,it has to first install the Oracle apps later on according to the company's requirement it asks the tech guys(We the oracle apps technical consultants) to customize the application.This is how we(Oracle apps technical consultants) get the work to do.


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