Oracle Applications

Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software of Oracle Corporation. The term refers to the non-database 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 also offers many additional application-oriented products, including Oracle Office, Oracle Media Server, and (grouped with databases) Oracle ConText.)

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 11i/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 2009^[update] Oracle supports Release 11.5.10.X and Release 12.0.X of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Scope

For marketing and integration purposes, Oracle groups^[2] its applications into:

• Oracle E-Business Suite
• PeopleSoft Enterprise
• Siebel
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
• JD Edwards World

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:

• 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 (in the process^[when?] of integration with Siebel)^{[citation needed]}
• 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
• [Purchasing process|Oracle Purchasing]
• Oracle Receivables
• Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
• Oracle Work in Process
• Oracle Process manufacturing
• Oracle Federal Administration
• Oracle Sales

Various commercial, non-profit and public-sector entities use these applications to run critical parts of their businesses.

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

1. ^ Matt, Light; Daniel B. Stang (2005-06-22). "Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management, 2005" (PDF). Gartner Research. p. 3. http://www.itq.ch/pdf/gartner05_PM%26PPMGT_Tools.pdf. Retrieved 2010-09-01. 
2. ^ "Oracle Applications". Oracle Corporation. Archived from the original on 2006-04-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20060423150706/http://www.oracle.com/applications/home.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06. "Applications Focus ... Oracle E-Business Suite ... JD Edwards EnterpriseOne ... PeopleSoft Enterprise ... JD Edwards World ... Siebel" 
3. ^ "Oracle Advanced Procurement". Oracle Corp. http://www.oracle.com/applications/procurement/intro.html. Retrieved 2009-06-16. "Oracle Advanced Procurement is the integrated suite of applications that dramatically cut all supply management costs." 
4. ^ "Oracle Sourcing". Oracle Corpor. http://www.oracle.com/applications/procurement/Sourcing.html. 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 [...]" 
5. ^ "Oracle User Productivity Kit". Oracle Corporation. http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/upk/index.html. Retrieved 2011-04-19. "Oracle User Productivity Kit [...] Oracle UPK is an easy-to-use and comprehensive content development, deployment, and maintenance platform [...]" 

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 0071622292
• Cameron, Melanie. Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide (2009) McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0071622276