Allan, Thanks for the recommendations for books. I really enjoy the APress books I have read and think they are every bit as good as O'Reilly has traditionally been. I will look into those books. Thanks for the suggestions. Stephen On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Allan Nelson <anelson77388@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Reading the documentation is certainly good. There is a fair amount of > documentation for the E-Business suite and if you take that route you will > be at it for a while. > > The one week Admin class for Financials is okay. It doesn't really cover > tech stack issues though. > > There are two books that are fairly good. One is by Barbara Mathews and > has a title of Installing, Upgrading, and Maintaining Oracle E-Business > Suite Release 11.5.10+. She also has one for earlier releases. > > The other is an APress book, Oracle Applications DBA Field Guide which is > much more succinct. It is authored by Elke Phelps and Paul Jackson. > > Allan > > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Cholakov, Atanas Stoianov < > cholakov@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Stephen, >> >> The option you are missing is reading documentation! >> >> As you said you are not new to Oracle Financials in this case if you >> follow the docs will get used it easily. >> >> About trainings if you consider to attend in EU I recommend this guy ( >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/norrbohm) >> >> Regards, >> Atanas >> >> Stephen Andert wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I've been put in a position of being backup for our Financials stuff and >>> will need to provide coverage during a team member's planned time off. As a >>> result, I need to refresh my Financials knowledge (~8 years old) and get up >>> to speed. My employer is not against spending some money on training but >>> has concerns with making sure we get quality (been burned in the past with a >>> waste of time/money). >>> >>> As I see it the options are listed below with the main drawbacks listed >>> in () after each: >>> >>> 1. Oracle Classroom (quality of instructor is variable) >>> 2. CBT (no opportunity to dig deeper on "why", interruptions) >>> 3. Third party training (quality of training material/instructor is >>> unknown) >>> >>> My questions for you folks are: >>> >>> 1. Am I missing any options? >>> 2. Any recommendations for #3? >>> 3. If we go with Oracle Classroom, is there any way to get >>> recommendations for the actual instructor PRIOR to the class)? >>> >>> TIA >>> >>> >>> >>> *Stephen* >>> Blog <http://cactustri.blogspot.com/> | Photos >>> <http://picasaweb.google.com/andert> | Race Reports >>> <http://andertfamily.net/racing_reports.aspx> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> >> Atanas Cholakov | Senior eBS Consultant >> Phone: +44 20 328 69776 | >> Oracle Consulting >> >> Green Oracle <http://www.oracle.com/commitment> "Please consider >> your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail" >> >> >