aventx product overview
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AventX Overview
What is AventX?
AventX provides you with the ability to email and fax any business document you can print. Deliver any document, in any format, in any volume – all within Oracle E-Business Suite and without any customizations to your environment. Whether you need to email a quotation, deliver a batch of invoices or fax a purchase order with attached documentation, AventX Oracle Connector provides your organization with streamlined tools to ensure successful receipt of your mission-critical business documents.
Below is a sampling of reports currently emailed, faxed, printed and archived through the use of AventX:
Blanket Purchase Order
Bill of Lading
Collections Statement
Commercial Invoice
Confirmation Letter
Credit Invoice
Customer Balance Sheet
Invoice
Material Ticket
Open Item List
Open Shipment Report
Packing List Report
Payment Advice
Purchase Order
Request for Quotation
RMA Acknowledgment
Service Debrief
Shipment Load List
Supplier Balance Sheet
Shipping Mark Report
Statement Confirmation
Statement
AventX Oracle Connector (AOC) Overview
What does AventX do?
AventX is designed to automate the email, fax, archive and print delivery of any report, in any volume, from any application.
Oracle-certified IntegrationFor Oracle, this includes any report submitted as a concurrent request and supports delivering both BI Publisher-formatted reports and any native database attachments.
AventX User ExperienceAventX is a transparent solution, seamless to your users. Users submit, transmit, acknowledge and manage all reports within Oracle EBS without leaving the application
AventX WebManagerWeb-based interface for users and administrators to view status, manage and re-queue documents as well as run reports
Additional Oracle functionality
Archive GatewayIntegrate with 3rd party archiving solutions to archive all outbound reports
Secure, Confirmed EmailSecure method of emailing reports (i.e. invoices) that ensures intended recipients actually access your delivered reports. This eliminates the ambiguity of “successful” emails being lost behind spam filters, junk folders, etc.
Attachment PrinterEnables users to print and collate database attachments (file & webpage) with the primary report via a single concurrent request
AventX Oracle APIFully supported and documented API toolset to submit documents from any location within Oracle EBS
Phases of Document DeliveryGeneral Overview
Fundamentals of Document Delivery
Document Submission Submit single or batch of reports from Oracle to be
delivered
Document Transmission The actual transmission of each report via email, fax,
secure email, archive or print
Document Acknowledgement Providing real-time delivery status back into Oracle EBS,
email and other interfaces
Document Management Being able to manage, find and re-queue documents
delivered within the Oracle EBS environment
Fundamental Stages of Delivery
AventX Oracle ConnectorOverview and Screenshots
AOC supports any version from 10.7 through R12.1.3
Any output from Oracle Reports and XML Publisher
Transparent interface Looks like it was written by Oracle themselves
Document Submission Methods to AventX Interactive Delivery Automatic Delivery Application Program Interface (API)
AventX Oracle Connector (AOC): Document Submission with AventX
Deliver ANY document to ANY destination using Submit Request
AOC Submission: Interactive Delivery
Common submission interface for ANY Oracle report
AOC Submission: Interactive Delivery (cont.)
AOC Submission: Interactive Delivery (Cont.)
Dynamically set subject, recipients and acknowledgment destinations
Supports general and user cover pages, dynamic remarks, T&Cs
AOC Submission: Interactive Delivery (cont.)
AOC Submission: Automatic Delivery
Automatic Delivery delivers BATCHES of documents to recipients using delivery information already in your database
AOC Submission: Delivering Attachments
Supports the delivery of virtually any native Oracle DB attachment
AventX Oracle API Application Program Interface provides ability to
submit documents from any location in Oracle EBS (such as workflow, forms, packages, etc.)
Only requires knowledge of PL/SQL
Fully documented reference guide with code examples
This interface was initially written at the request of GE
AOC Submission: AventX Oracle API
Once the document is submitted from Oracle, AventX determines the relevant delivery information for email, fax, print, and/or archiving.
Documents are then transmitted via: Traditional email (email with attachments) Secure, confirmed email (secure portal) Network-based fax server Hosted fax services
Support for both Easylink and FAXCOM Anywhere Archive Gateway
Passed off to custom or 3rd party archiving systems Print
Passed off to defined printers, including any attachments
AOC: Document Transmission
AOC Acknowledgment
Real-time status is provided directly into Oracle via AventX forms
AOC Acknowledgment (Cont.)
Status can also be dynamically sent back to the sending user’s inbox
AOC Document Management
Users can resend documents that fail or need to be resent from inside Oracle EBS
AOC Document Management
Users can optionally view status, manage and re-queue reports from the AventX WebManager without re-submitting the request
Secure Email and Printing Attachments
Introduction to Secure Email
Secure Email - AventX MailSCAventX MailSC eliminates the ambiguity that arises from traditional email messaging by ensuring recipient actually *access* your intended deliveries.
Instead of providing an email with an attachment, an email is provided with a link to a secure website where the intended recipient can download his/her report (i.e. invoice). As soon as this link is accessed, the sender knows with 100% certainty that delivery was read.
In the event delivery is not read within a configurable amount of time (4 hours, 4 day, etc), then a notification message is sent to the sender informing him/her to either re-send or call.
Printing Attachments - AventX Attachment PrinterAventX Attachment Printer enables Oracle users to print and collate attachments, alongside the primary report, as a single concurrent request.
This saves tremendous time and money (especially under manufacturing) where paper-intensive processes are evident.
This functionality does not require any change in how users print their reports; it is also extended to virtually any report type (i.e. POs, invoices, RMA authorizations, work orders).
Secure, Confirmed Email Delivery
Secure Portal
Oracle EBS
Recipient
Sender
New Feature: Secure, Confirmed Email
AventX Example – Work Orders in eAM AventX bursts the Oracle report AventX collates with the native database attachments
New Feature: Print and Collate Attachments (Cont.)
AventX Oracle Connector Architecture Diagrams
Concurrent Manager Tier
/cm_server/oa
AventX Oracle Connector
Production Oracle EBS Instance
The AventX Oracle Connector AND AventX UNIX, the “queue”, are installed on each Concurrent Manager (CM) tiers for both production environments. The software can NOT reside on an NFS mounted drive, i.e. NAS, OS cluster, etc. The software must resided on a local disk on the actual server or local disk of a SAN. The software uses a separate schema and comes packaged with views, queries, stored procedures, forms, and packages.
VoIP Gateway
Virtualized Fax Server(s)
Email Servers
MFPsPCs
Archive
Traditional Hardware Based
Fax Server(s)
Internal Telecom Systems
T1, PRI, E1, Analog
T.38, H.323
Encrypted SMTP, SSL
Linux or Windows fax servers can be virtualized when using Fax Over IP (FoIP).
TCIP/IP, SSL
AventX MailSC- Sends email notification to download document from secure document portal
SecureEmail
Firewall Web Serverhttp or https
Application / DB Server
SecureEmail
Internet Fax
Non- Production Oracle EBS Instance(s)
Concurrent Manager Tier
/cm_server/oa
Concurrent Manager Tier
/cm_server/oa
Fax
Architecture #1: AventX Installed on Oracle ServersThis diagram shows how the AventX software can be deployed on the Oracle EBS servers. The pro of this method is the architecture does not require a physical server to run AventX. This reduces costs. The con of this method is the AventX software must be installed on each concurrent manager tier. This requires more time from DBAs and System Administrators to manage the system, i.e. upgrades, patches, etc.
AventXProduction
Server
Database # 1
AventX Oracle Connector
AventXNon-Production
Server
Similar configuration to production.
Non- Production Oracle EBS Instance(s)
sFTP
Database # 1
Database # 2
Production Oracle EBS Instance
The AventX Oracle Connector, AventX UNIX, the “queue”, and AventX WebManager, web-based document management software, will reside on a Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, or IBM AIX server and communicate to the appropriate fax delivery channels, i.e virtualized Linux or Windows based fax servers using FoIP, traditional hardware using fax boards, internet fax via FAXCOM Anywhere and/or Easylink. Email can be sent using sendmail or posted to a secure document portal server. Archiving and printing will also be performed from the AventX server.
sFTP
VoIP Gateway
Virtualized Fax Server(s)
Email Servers
MFPsPCs
Archive
FAX
Traditional Hardware Based
Fax Server(s)
Archives report output, i.e. PDF, database attachments and create dynamic metadata file (XML, text, etc.) for archiving by 3rd party forms package
Internal Telecom Systems
T1, PRI, E1, Analog
T.38, H.323
Encrypted SMTP, SSL
Linux or Windows fax servers can be virtualized when using Fax Over IP (FoIP).
TCIP/IP, SSL
AventX MailSC- Sends email notification to download document from secure document portal
SecureEmail
Firewall Windows Web Serverhttp or https
Windows Application / DB Server
SecureEmail
Internet Fax
Architecture #2: AventX Installed on Standalone ServerThis diagram shows how all AventX software (AventX Oracle Connector, AventX UNIX, and AventX WebManager) can be installed on a separate application servers for production and non-production use. The con of this method is the architecture requires a physical server to run AventX. This increases costs if a server does not already exist. The pro of this method is all AventX Oracle Connector environments can be managed from a central location. This significantly reduces the time spent by DBAs and/or UNIX System Administrators to manage the software. Also, document processing is performed on the AventX server versus the Oracle EBS server.
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