Oracle EBS
Oracle E-Business Suite is Oracle's legacy on-premises ERP, still running financials, procurement, manufacturing, and HR for thousands of large enterprises and government agencies worldwide. It predates cloud APIs and exposes integrations through the ISG (Integration Service Gateway) or Oracle's self-service web services framework.
What you can do
Read and write AR invoices
Pull open and closed AR invoices with line items, tax codes, and payment terms. Create new invoices or apply credit memos through the EBS ISG gateway.
Sync customers and trading partners
Read Oracle Trading Community Architecture (TCA) customer records including addresses, contacts, and credit profiles. Write back updated account information from your product's CRM or onboarding flow.
Access purchase orders and requisitions
Pull approved purchase orders and open requisitions from the EBS Purchasing module. Read receipt confirmations and three-way match status for accounts-payable automation products.
Read GL journal entries and balances
Pull General Ledger journal batches, account balances, and budget data by ledger and period. Askel handles EBS's multi-org and multi-ledger architecture so your product sees the correct set of entities.
Sync employees and HR records
Read employee records from EBS HR including position, grade, payroll assignment, and organization. Useful for workforce analytics products connecting to customers still on EBS HRMS.
Read inventory and item master data
Pull item definitions, unit-of-measure conversions, and inventory balances by organization and subinventory. Askel normalizes EBS's inventory organization hierarchy so your product sees quantities in the units it expects.
Pulling EBS AR invoices into an automated collections platform
Centurion Infrastructure Holdings runs their project billing and accounts receivable on Oracle EBS and has deployed your collections-automation product to reduce DSO across 200 open accounts. The collections platform needs to pull new and overdue invoices from EBS every day and update payment status when a customer pays.
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Create the EBS integration user
Centurion's Oracle DBA creates a dedicated EBS user with a Receivables responsibility that covers the AR Invoice and Customer views. The DBA notes the EBS host URL, the username and password for this user, the Application name, and the Responsibility key (e.g. AR_RECEIVABLES_MANAGER).
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Enter credentials in Askel
Centurion's admin enters the EBS host, username, password, Application, and Responsibility key into the Askel setup screen inside your collections product. Askel composes the Basic auth header and adds HDR_RESP_APPL and HDR_RESP_KEY on every ISG request, then confirms connectivity by fetching a single customer record.
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Schema discovery
Askel reads the available ISG service definitions and identifies the AR Invoice, Customer, and Payment objects along with any custom descriptive flexfield (DFF) segments Centurion has configured on invoice headers. Your CS team sees a field mapping draft within minutes.
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Map and validate
Centurion uses DFF attributes on invoice headers to track project codes. A CS rep maps these DFF segments to the collections platform's project-code field and runs a dry-run against 500 recent invoices to confirm the data imports correctly.
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Go live
The nightly AR sync is enabled. Askel pulls all invoices that are newly issued or overdue from Centurion's EBS and loads them into the collections platform. When a payment is applied in EBS, the status update reaches the platform on the next sync cycle.
Basic auth
The customer's Oracle DBA creates a dedicated EBS user with the required Application Responsibility and provides the EBS host URL, username, password, Application name, and Responsibility key. Askel composes Basic auth credentials and injects the HDR_RESP_APPL and HDR_RESP_KEY headers on every ISG gateway request. No additional token exchange is required.
How Askel sits between your product and the customer's system
FAQ for Oracle EBS
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