One of the most widely recommended and talked about strategy when global companies embark the Oracle applications implementation journey is to go for the Single Global Instance Strategy. While it makes complete sense from IT perspective without any doubts, Does it work well for all the business areas, mainly for Finance and Accounting teams?
Recently when we were in a meeting with a senior finance executive from Retail industry, he was sounding it very clear that he does not want to run his China business in Pacific Time zone. Does it sound like a very reasonable business expectation that any IT application has to fulfill? Does it sound like a very familiar requirement across our implementations? Let us dig in to the details of what business actually wants and why is it a challenge to address these requirements.