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Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software of the Oracle Corporation. The term refers to the non-database and non-middleware parts.

Oracle sells many functional modules which use the Oracle RDBMS as a back-end, notably Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle SCM, Oracle Projects,[1] Oracle CRM and Oracle Procurement.

Oracle initially launched its application suite with financials software in the late 1980s. The offering as of 2009 extends to supply-chain management, human-resource management, warehouse-management, customer-relationship management, call-center services, product-lifecycle management, and many other areas. Both in-house expansion and the acquisition of other companies have vastly expanded Oracle's application software business.

Oracle released Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/ e-BS) Release 12 (R12) – a bundling of several Oracle Applications applications – in February 2007. The release date coincided with new releases of other Oracle-owned products: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft.

Products

Oracle Corporation's application portfolio consisted as of 2012 of the following software suites and products:[2]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Major applications

Industry vertical applications

  • ATG / Endeca branded "Oracle Commerce"
  • Oracle Retail
  • Micros (Retail and Hospitality, acquired post 2012)
  • Primavera
  • Agile
  • AutoVue (for processing CAD and graphics data)[3]

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle's E-Business Suite (also known as Applications/Apps or EB-Suite/EBS) consists of a collection of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM) computer applications either developed or acquired by Oracle. The software utilizes Oracle's core Oracle relational database management system technology.[4] The E-Business Suite contains several product lines often known by short acronyms.[5]

Significant technologies incorporated into the applications include the Oracle database technologies, (engines for RDBMS, PL/SQL, Java, .NET, HTML and XML), the "technology stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer, Jinitiator and Sun's Java). Oracle Corporation brands the on-line technical documentation of E-Business Suite as eTRM – "E-Business Suite Technical Reference Manuals".[6]

It makes the following enterprise applications available as part of Oracle eBusiness Suite:

  • Asset Lifecycle Management
    • Asset Tracking
    • Property Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Enterprise Resource Planning
    • Financial Management
    • Human Capital Management
    • Project Portfolio Management
  • Procurement
    • Oracle Advanced Procurement[7]
      • Oracle Sourcing[8]
  • Product Life-cycle Management
  • Supply Chain Management[9]
    • Supply Chain Planning
    • Logistics & Transportation Management
    • Order Management
    • Price Management
  • Manufacturing
    • Discrete Manufacturing
    • Process Manufacturing

Oracle has recently announced that it will continue to support EBS with a major release after the current version of 12.2 Oracle EBS. The roadmap is very encouraging for the companies and partners using Oracle EBS. However, the news is a disappointment for oracle SaaS lovers, as most of them are expecting the Oracle EBS 12.2 to be the last release. Check out more from this blog.

Oracle Financial Applications

The Oracle E-Business Suite provides a set of financial applications used internationally in businesses. Oracle Corporation groups these applications into "suites", which it defines as sets of common, integrated applications designed to execute specific business processes.

Oracle Financials refers to the closely related financial modules such as:

The key business processes enabled by the Financial Applications include:

  • Procure-to-Pay business process flow involving activities such as procurement, purchasing, making payment to Suppliers and subsequent accounting.
  • Order-to-Cash business process flow involves activities such as Customer Orders, Order fulfillment, receiving payment from Customers & subsequent accounting.[10]

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Applications

  • Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis
  • Oracle Project Billing
  • Oracle Project Analysis
  • Oracle Daily Business Intelligence
  • Oracle Project Collaboration
  • Oracle Project Contracts
  • Oracle Project Costing
  • Oracle Project CRM
  • Oracle Project Management
  • Oracle Project Resource

Other

Additional Oracle E-Business Suite products include:

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While there are many products mentioned in the above list they are vast in functionality too, it is highly challenging for anyone to test the entire system covering all the functionalities. The similar challenge even the internal Oracle EBS Product QA team have, they adopted the test automation as the only way to cover testing of huge amount of functionality. They use the Oracle's internal tool called "Oracle Functional Testing" of Oracle Application testing suite to automate all their business functionalities and make sure there are no regressions for every release or patch bundles they release.

Oracle Accelerate

In 2008, Oracle launched a set of applications for mid-size businesses called Oracle Accelerate. Accelerate provides access to Oracle's ERP products through a local partner-network and packages the products to meet vertical industry requirements.[citation needed]

Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK)

The Oracle User Productivity Kit application provides a content-development, deployment, and maintenance platform.[12]

App Premium Support

The Premier support provides comprehensive maintenance and software upgrades for your Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle applications for five years from the general availability (GA) date.[13]

Mobile Applications

Oracle develops mobile applications that connect to the ERPs developed by them. These Mobile apps save time of employees and improve their productivity. Third Party vendors do build and sell mobile applications for Oracle ERP's by creating an USP for them.[14][15]

See also

References

  1. ^ Matt, Light; Daniel B. Stang (2005-06-22). "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Managet, 2005" (PDF). Gartner Research. p. 3. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
  2. ^ "Oracle Applications". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  3. ^ Edward, Mendelson (1998-03-24). "AutoVue Professional". PC Magazine. p. 159. Retrieved 2013-07-08. Cimmetry Systems' AutoVue Professional [...] offers a sophisticated feature set for viewing and maintaining CAD and graphics files.
  4. ^ "Oracle® E-Business Suite" (PDF). Integrated SOA Gateway Implementation Guide. Oracle. June 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  5. ^ "Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1". Oracle. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  6. ^ "Oracle Applications 11i Documentation". Oracle. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  7. ^ "Oracle Advanced Procurement". Oracle Corp. Retrieved 2009-06-16. Oracle Advanced Procurement is the integrated suite of applications that dramatically cut all supply management costs.
  8. ^ "Oracle Sourcing". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2009-06-16. Oracle Sourcing is the enterprise application that drives more and better sourcing through online collaboration and negotiation. It is a key component of Oracle Advanced Procurement [...]
  9. ^ Siddiqui, Muneeb A. (2010). Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management. IT Pro. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781849680653. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  10. ^ "Financial Management | Applications". Oracle. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  11. ^ oracleppstechnical.com
  12. ^ "Oracle User Productivity Kit". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2011-04-19. Oracle User Productivity Kit [...] Oracle UPK is an easy-to-use and comprehensive content development, deployment, and maintenance platform [...]
  13. ^ Digital, Algarytm. "ORACLE EBS ROADMAP AND TAKEAWAYS FOR ALL STAKEHOLDERS". Algarytm. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  14. ^ "Oracle Mobile Platform | Mobile Applications | Oracle". www.oracle.com. Retrieved 2017-12-14.
  15. ^ "Oracle Mobile Apps | Enterprise Mobility | EBS Mobile App | Algarytm". Algarytm. Retrieved 2017-12-14.

Further reading

  • Cameron, Melanie. Oracle General Ledger Guide (2009) McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-162229-2.
  • Cameron, Melanie. Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide (2009) McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-162227-6.
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