Oracle Applications

It has been suggested that Oracle E-Business Suite be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) Proposed since November 2010.

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

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

Oracle initially launched its application suite with financials software in the late 1980s. The offering as of 2009^[update] 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. As of 2012^[update] Oracle supports Release 11.5.10.2, Release 12.0.X, and Release 12.1.X of the Oracle E-Business Suite. The latest release of the software is called Oracle EBS R12.

Scope

Oracle's application portfolio consists currently^[update] of the following software suites and products:^[2]

• Oracle Fusion Applications
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• PeopleSoft Enterprise
• Siebel
• ATG
• Endeca
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• JD Edwards World
• Hyperion
• Primavera
• Agile
• AutoVue
• Master Data Management

Oracle E-Business Suite

Main article: Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle markets its home-grown software applications, including Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle CRM, etc. as parts of the "Oracle E-Business Suite". It makes the following enterprise applications available as part of Oracle eBusiness Suite:

This section requires expansion.

• 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^[3]
    • Oracle Sourcing^[4]

• Product Life-cycle Management
• Supply Chain Management
  • Supply Chain Planning
  • Logistics & Transportation Management
  • Order Management
  • Price Management
• Manufacturing
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Process Manufacturing

Oracle Financial Applications

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

RDBMS infrastructure and includes applications such as:

• Oracle Assets
• Oracle General Ledger
• Oracle Payables
• Oracle Receivables
• Oracle Cash Management

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Applications

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

Other

Additional Oracle E-Business Suite products include:

• Oracle Bills of Material
• Oracle Capacity
• Oracle CRM
• Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling
• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Oracle Engineering
• Oracle HRMS
• Oracle Inventory
• Oracle Integrated Receiving (Brazil localization)
• Oracle MRP
• Oracle Order Entry
• Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
• Oracle Payroll
• Oracle Purchasing
• Oracle Receivables
• Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
• Oracle Work in Process
• Oracle Process manufacturing
• Oracle Federal Administration
• Oracle Sales

Oracle Accelerate

In 2007, 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.

Oracle User Productivity kit (UPK)

The Oracle User Productivity Kit application provides a content-development, deployment, and maintenance platform.^[5]

See also

• Oracle Corporation
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle General Ledger
• CEMLI

References

External links

• Oracle Applications home page
• Oracle Applications Users Group
• Oracle Applications FAQ
• Oracle Fusion Applications

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