Oracle fusion applications preparation

Oracle Fusion ApplicationsThe Planning

04.04.2013

2 Editor: Manikantan Iyer

Things You Can Do to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications

Leverage Future-Proof Solutions and Technology TodayExtend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited

Rethink your “Customization” Strategy

Consolidate your Master Data

Embrace SOA-Based Integration

Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio

Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing

Secure your Global Enterprise

Increase Information Worker’s Productivity

Centralize your Document Management

Consider Grid Infrastructure

Centralize your Applications Lifecycle Management

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Applications Best Practices

Keep Current with the Oracle Applications Releases

Inventory your Enterprise Business Assets

Prepare your Roadmap for Fusion applications


Next Generation ADAPTABILITY• Optimize business flows with process configurability and applications

extensibility

• Easily integrate with other applications with native SOA

• Provide business users with flexible organizational modeling

Next Generation PRODUCTIVITY• Drive optimal operational decisions with embedded business intelligence

• Empower information workers with rich, pervasive, personalized user experience

• Connect people to people with Enterprise 2.0-enabled business processes

Next Generation MANAGEABILITY• Improve efficiency with centralized financial management components

• Protect information privacy and ensure statutory compliance with centralized security, audit and controls

• Achieve superior ownership experience with unmatched manageability

How to Evolve to the Next Generation… and prepare for Oracle Fusion


How to Evolve to the Next Generation… and prepare for Oracle Fusion

Follow Application Best Practices

Prepare your Roadmap to Fusion


Applications Best PracticesThings to do today….


Keep Current with the Oracle Applications Releases


Prepare your Roadmap for the Fusion Applications


Upgrade to the Latest Oracle Applications ReleasesA Glance at What’s New…

• Manufacturing 2.0• Price Protection• PIM for Retail• Warehouse Management Enhancements• Federal Government Procurement• AIA Integrations• Talent Management• Procurement & Sourcing• Supplier Data Hub & Site Hub

12.1

Industry Enhancements

9.1

Integrated Talent Management

• Global Trade Mgmt (new product)• Fleet management• AIA integrations

6.0

7.3 • Enhanced sales and operations planning

• Extended HCM Leadership with integrated Talent Management

• Accelerate Period Close• Enhanced Procure to Pay• Industry-specific Solutions for Retail, FSI, Public Sector, Higher Ed

• Enhanced CRM for Higher Ed• AIA Integrations• Web 2.0 User Experience

• Loyalty and Self-Service• Industry-specific enhancements • AIA integrations

• PRM 2.0• MSA for iPhone• Industry Solutions

9.0

A9.1.2

• Complex Project Accounting and Billing• Dynamic Configuration for Orders• Industries: E&C, Commercial Real Estate,

Homebuilder, Manufacturing, Food and Beverage, Professional Services

• Additional Services and Tech • Configurator & Plant Maintenance

Enhancements• Industry: E&C

8.1.1

Loyalty , SelfService

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PRM 2.0

Agile PLM • AIA integrations • Enhanced report format / framework Agile PLM for Process • AIA integrations• Formulation, nutrition mgmt & labelingAutoVue – Enterprise Visualization• Document format support • Enhanced VueLink integrations for SAP,

Documentum, Sharepoint, MatrixOne



• Question and categorize your Customizations• Types:

• Reports• Screens (User Interfaces – UI)• Integrations, Interfaces & processes

• What are they? For what functional gap?• For Integrations, what are their usage characteristics?

• Volume, business criticality and frequency• Sync or async, hub-&-spoke or point-to-point

• What technology: how were they built?



• Validate and arrange your Master Data• Who owns the critical data:

• Customers• Products• Suppliers• Chart of Accounts• Employees

• Where it is used? • How clean is your data?

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Prepare a Roadmap for the Fusion Applicationsby Evaluating Strategic Business and IT Drivers

Business RoadmapIT Roadmap

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Prepare your IT Roadmap for the Oracle Fusion Applications

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Typical Landscape

Issues• Little standardization

• Many hardwired integrations

• High costs of integrating applications and technologies

Results in• Inflexible business processes

• Lack of enterprise visibility

• Users as integrators

Issues• Little standardization

• Many hardwired integrations

• High costs of integrating applications and technologies

Results in• Inflexible business processes

• Lack of enterprise visibility

• Users as integrators

Disparate applications & integration technologies are rigid & expensive to maintain

Custom

Legacy Other…

Portal

EAIAnalytics

Mobile

Hosted

Existing Systems & Technology

CRM

Industry

ERP

Dev Tools

DataHubs

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Oracle’s Business Platform

From:

• Application-specific services

• Proprietary, expensive

• Driven by technology requirements

From:

• Application-specific services

• Proprietary, expensive

• Driven by technology requirements

To:

• Enterprise-wide services

• Standards-based, less costly

• Driven by business needs

To:

• Enterprise-wide services

• Standards-based, less costly

• Driven by business needs

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Oracle Platform Architecture

Oracle Applications

Oracle’s Business Platform

End-to-End Industry Processes

Unified User

Experience

Hosted

Custom

Legacy

ActionableAnalytics

Agile Process Orchestration

ConsistentData

ComprehensiveSecurity

CentralizedDevelopment

Ind

us

try

ER

P

CR

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Pervasive Business Intelligence

End-to-EndManagement

ExistingTools &

Infrastructure

Other…Partner

• Customization

• Integration

• Security

• Master data

• Reporting

• Analytics

• Management

• Infrastructure

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33Leverage Future-Proof Solutions and Technology TodayExtend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited


Consolidate your Master Data

Embrace SOA-Based Integration

Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio

Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing

Secure your Global Enterprise

Increase Information Worker’s Productivity

Incorporate Google-like Search

Consider Grid Infrastructure

Centralize your Applications Lifecycle Management

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Prepare your IT Roadmap for the Fusion Applicationsby Leverage Future-Proof Solutions and Technology Today

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• Profile Options• Security Setup• Parameterization

• Changes the order in which table columns are displayed

• Tailor a query result • Change the color

scheme of the UI• Add attributes on

the display• Etc….

• Add new functional flows • Extend or override existing business logic


ConfigureConfigure PersonalizePersonalize

ExtendExtend

CustomizeCustomize

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Rethink your “Extension” Strategyby Engineering for the Future

• Extending the functionality (composite applications)• To complement functionality

• Self-Service functionality• For larger user population

• Empowering information workers through advanced user interfaces• Ajax-style UI to enable “autosuggest” capability• Expose flows, cross apps, through a single UI• Business users dashboards, real-time gauges of transactional

systems and business processes

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Consolidate your Master Datausing Oracle Master Data Management (MDM)

ORACLE APPLICATIONS

Custom

Legacy

Partner

Centralize & Consolidate Master Data

Oracle master data management (MDM)

(customer, product, supplier, charter of accounts)

Agile Business Processes Oracle SOA Suite

• Delivers single view of central business objects across all applications

• Centralizes cleansing, reduplication, and synchronization

• Enables you to extend and enrich information with your own attributes & external data

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Common Common

Object Model Object Model

Oracle MDM

Oracle MDM - Fusion upgrade maps

Oracle MDM -

Fusion Edition

Consolidate your Master Datausing Oracle Master Data Management (MDM)

CustomPartner

Legacy

Other Apps…

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Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationCustomer’s SOA Roadmap with Oracle – Customer’s Options

Option #2: Build your SOA- Customers’ priorities:

• Modify business processes• Introduce new capabilities• Extend business service portfolio

Option #1: Consider pre-built SOA- Customers’ priorities:

• Performance• Scalability• Availability• Security

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Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationOption #1 - Pre-Built SOA - Oracle AIA

Best Practice Processes Reference Process Models

Composite Business Flows

Pre-built Composite Processes30+ PIPs To Date

AIA For Communications

Standardized Composition Framework

100+ Objects, 1000+ Services

Cross Industry and Industry Objects

FMW 10.1.3.4 Certified

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Application Independent Enterprise Business Objects and Services Promote Interoperability

Order•Create•Read•Update•Delete

Custom

Legacy

ISV

Oracle

SAP

• Out of the box, library of reusable business services for cross application process automation

• Common semantics foundation to easily build, change and optimize business processes

• Building blocks and methodology to build your Enterprise Business Services

CharacteristicsStandardized Representation of Business DataExtensible Common Object Model Horizontal and Vertical Content

• Communications

• Insurance

• Utilities

Standards Support:

• UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS), Open Application Group OAGIS, ISO 11179

Inputs from

• Standards: OAGIS, SID…

• Oracle Applications (SEBL, JDE, E-Biz, ..) and Fusion Applications

Connect systems and technologies through pre-built, standardized

Enterprise Business Objects and Services

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AIA Foundation Pack ContentPrebuilt, Standards Compliant Process Models, Objects and Services

Travel& Trans

Comms& Media

ComplexMfg

ConsumerSector Energy

FinancialServices

HighTech

RetailLifeSciences

Public Sector

and GBU ApplicationsReference Applications:

SalesProject

ManagementProcurement

Supply Chain & Order

ManagementFinancials

HumanResources

Customer

Item

Opportunity

Quote

SalesOrder

Payment

Business Unit

Department

Grade

Job

Position

Worker

AccountingEntry

AccountingPeriod

BankAccount

BusinessCalendar Chart Of Accounts

CurrencyExchange

Bill Of Materials

BatchProduction Order

DemandForecast

InventoryTransaction

Invoice

Order

PayableInvoice

PaymentTerm

PurchaseOrder

Requisition

Supplier

BlanketPurchase Agreement

ResourceList

ResourceSchedule

ProjectCalendar

ProjectBudget

Project

TimeSheet

Service &Marketing

InstalledProduct

ServiceRequest

ReceivedPayment

PriceList

Promotion

CustomerInteraction

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http://www.peoplesoft.com/corp/en/public_index.jsp

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Development tool

Canonical Objects

Content Business Process Definition

SOA Programming Model

SOA Repository

Business Process Design

End To End Process

Virtualization

Orchestration EnginePlatform

Application Server

AIA Jump-Starts your SOA AdoptionValuable Pre-Built Content and Methodology

Execution Processes

Other

Business Service Repository

AIA Programming Model

Reference Process Models

Oracle JDeveloper

EBOs, EBSs

Oracle BPA Suite

OESB or OSB

Oracle BPEL PM

Oracle AS / WebLogic Server

Content & PlatformSupport

New UI

New/Improved Web Services

Apps Connect./Transform. To Canonical Object

Custom SOAIntegration

Define, Build or Acquire

Define

Define and Build

Define and Build

Multiple Dev Tool

Acquire

Acquire

Acquire

Acquire

To Define

Platform Only

Custom

Custom

Custom

Business Service Repository

AIA Programming Model

Reference Process Models

Oracle JDeveloper

EBOs, EBSs

Oracle BPA Suite

OESB

Oracle BPEL PM

Oracle AS

Predefined

All

Embedded

Included

AIA PIP Based Integration

Predefined

To Define

AIA FP Based Integration

Custom but CAF

Custom

Custom but ABCS Generator

Pre-B

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Pre-B

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COTS Appro

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COTS Appro

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Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationOption #1 - Pre-Built SOA - Oracle AIA - Fusion Ready!

Back Office Applications

Siebel CRM

Front Office Applications

Create Opportunity

Check Price & Availability

Capture Order

Billing Step N

“Get Account Balance”

Application Independent Web Services

“Update Account Balance…”

Replace with Fusion CRM when ready

Pre-built SOA + AIA Infrastructure delivers IT enabled agility

Ensures interoperability with existing Oracle applications

Provides a phased migration strategy to Fusion Applications

CRM - Fusion Edition

Oracle E-Business Suite Order Management

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AIA is Built on Oracle SOA Technologies

Enterprise Business Services

Enterprise Business

Objects

Best Practice Processes

Process Integration

Packs

Application Logic,

Data Services

AccountOrder

Customer

Product

CRM HCM SCM FIN

OMBillingHUBTransport

Fusion MiddlewareAIA Content

Oracle BPA Suite

Oracle BPA Suite and JDeveloper IDE

Service Registry and OWSM

Oracle SOA Suite

Oracle Data Integrator

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Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationOption #2 – Build your own SOA

Oracle PeopleSoft Siebel JD Edwards

Enterprise Business Services (out of box) 150

(OAG)

200 172 100

Enterprise Service Operations 225 2000 1565 330

Enterprise Business Events 1500 106 1152 250

Modeled Business Process Support 450 769 500 700

Services Repository Available YES(IREP)

YES(ISR)

YES(SR)

YES(ISR)

“Bottom Up” Approach - Supporting SOA with Applications Unlimited

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Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationOption #2 – Build your own SOA

Front End Application

Biz Processes/Workflows

Business Services

("Composite")

Service Orchestration

Implementation Services

Applications Legacy/Custom

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“Top Down” Approach – Using Oracle BPM Suite and applying business strategy throughout the entire process lifecycle

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Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationOracle SOA Platform

• Oracle JDeveloper Suite• http://www.oracle.com/tools/jdev_home.html

• Model and Simulate• Oracle BPA Suite• http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/bpa-suite.htm

• Orchestrate & Transform• Oracle BPEL PM• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/bpel_home.html

• Monitor & Optimize• Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)• http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-activity-monitoring.html

• SOA Governance• WebService Manager and Enterprise Manager• http://www.oracle.com/tools/jdev_home.html

• Oracle Data Integrator (for bulk data transfer/copy)• http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-data-integrator-technical-overview-white-paper.pdf

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http://www.oracle.com/appserver/bpel_home.html

http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-activity-monitoring.html



http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-data-integrator-technical-overview-white-paper.pdf

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Embrace SOA-Based Integrationby Leveraging the Best Practice Centers

• Oracle E-Business Suite Best Practice Center

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/ebs/index.html

• PeopleSoft Best Practice Center

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/peoplesoft/index.html

• Siebel Best Practice Center

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/siebel/index.html

• JD Edwards Best Practice Center

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/jde/index.html

• Agile Best Practice Center

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/agile/index.html

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Extend Business Intelligence Applications Portfoliousing Oracle Analytic Applications Built on OBI EE

Daily Business

Intelligence

Enterprise Performance

Management

Siebel Analytics

Enterprise Performance

Management

Oracle Analytic Applications

Certified Today1. Oracle E-Business Suite2. PeopleSoft Enterprise3. Siebel4. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

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Extend Business Intelligence Applications Portfoliousing Oracle Analytic Applications Built on OBI EE

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications

SalesService &Contact Center

Marketing

Order Management& Fulfillment

Supply Chain Financials Human

Resources

Oracle Business Intelligence Server

Common Enterprise Information Model

PackagedETL Maps

UniversalAdapters

Oracle Business Analytics

Warehouse Schema

Travel& TransAuto

Comms.& Media

Complex

Mfg.CPG Energy

FinancialServices

HighTech

Insurance

& HealthLife

SciencesPublic Sector

Other DatasourcesIVR, ACD, CTI

HyperionMS Excel

Syndicated

ORACLE APPLICATIONS

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Adopt Enterprise Reporting and Publishingwith Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher

Oracle BI Publisher

Crystal Reports

Actuate

Universal Batch Engine Crystal Reports

Oracle Reports


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Enterprise Reporting Moving from these…

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Enterprise Reporting to these…

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Secure your Global Enterprise by using Oracle Identity Management

Identity Provisioning

Single Sign-On


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AccessControl

DirectoryServices

IdentityAdministration

Authentication &

Authorization

Single Sign-On

Federation

Web Services Security

Identity LifecycleAdministration

Role & MembershipAdministration

Provisioning &Reconciliation

Compliance Automation

Virtualization

Synchronization

Storage

Service Levels Configuration Performance Automation

Management

Audit & Compliance

Audit Data Attestation Segregation of Duties Controls


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Access

Control

Directory

Services

Identity

AdministrationOracle Access Manager

Oracle Enterprise

Single Sign-On

Oracle Identity Federation

Oracle Web Services

Manager

Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Virtual Directory

Oracle Internet Directory

(with Directory Integration

Platform)

Oracle Enterprise Manager for Identity Management

Management

Audit & Compliance

Oracle Identity & Access Management Suite


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Increase Information Workers’ ProductivityA) with Oracle Web Center Suite, by Unifying the User Interface and Interaction

Notifications

Email

Discussions

& Presence

Documents

Search

CustomPartner

Legacy

Other Apps…

Business Intelligence Apps

Wiki / Blog

Social

Networks

Integrated, standards based, user interaction suite

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Increase Information Workers’ ProductivityB) with Incorporating Google-like Search Using Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) for Single, Unified Find

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1

Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1

Siebel 8.0Siebel 8.0

Improve User Productivity• Standard Search are tedious• Relationships and contexts are not

preserved• Expect you to know what you are

searching for

Security during Search• Very Important to know the user role

and data security paradigm that is built into the Applications Logic

The Google Effect• Search is the starting point• Need to bake it into the product set

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SEE ITSEE ITSEE ITSEE IT TRY ITTRY ITTRY ITTRY IT KNOW ITKNOW ITKNOW ITKNOW IT DO ITDO ITDO ITDO ITUser User ModeMode

ss

Self-Running Demo Interactive Simulation Testing for Competence Context-Sensitive Help

Increase Information Workers’ ProductivityC) with Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) for User Training

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Manage your Documents CentrallyD) with Oracle Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Marketing

Sales

Legal

Finance

IT

HR

Production

Accounts Payable

Regulatory Compliance

IT Project Management

Secure Deal Collaboration

Contract Management

Marketing and Brand

ManagementSecure Research & Collaboration

Project Management

Information Privacy and Protection

Policies & Procedures

Board of DirectorsClaims

Processing

Business processes are driven by content…

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Integration of Enterprise Content ManagementUse Cases

• Attachments:• Replace native application attachment document stores• View and attach documents associated with application entities• Provide enterprise class scalability and functionality• Leverage application content throughout the enterprise• Examples: call centers, employee records (reviews, benefits)

• Imaging:• Automate paper-based processes• Provide imaging, capture, workflow and document task

processing• High document routing and mark-up requirements• Examples: Accounts payable, time & expense management,

order management, employee onboarding, etc...

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Application Adapter Releases

•E-Business Suite Adapter for ECM (Imaging and Attachments for Forms apps)

•PeopleSoft Adapter for ECM (Imaging)

•Siebel Adapter for ECM (Attachments)

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Out Now

•PeopleSoft Adapter for ECM (Attachments)

CY 2009

•JD Edwards Adapter for ECM (Imaging and Attachments)

•E-Business Suite Adapter for ECM (Imaging and Attachments for OAF/HTML apps)

•Siebel Adapter for ECM (update)

CY 2010

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Tightly Integrated User ExperienceOne-click access to imaged documents

• Retrieve associated images• Access work lists• Resolve exceptions• etc.

• Oracle I/PM is launched from Application UI to:

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Secure Annotations & RedactionsOracle I/PM Viewer

• Browser plug-in and zero foot print viewers• Annotate any content• Markups individually secured. Enforce redactions• No changes to original document• Supports 400+ formats

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Consider Grid Infrastructureand Real Application Clusters

Maximize quality of service and better asset utilization

Resource pooling and sharing Applications Information Servers Storage

Low-cost modular hardware Incremental scaling Self monitoring, self

managing Secure Highly Available

Database

Storage

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Consider Grid Infrastructureusing Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA)

Server Failure

Supply ChainOrder Entry Spare Integral part of Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture

Enables applications to mask component failures in infrastructure

Service fails over to surviving node with the Automatic Workload Management

Remove server as single point of failure

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Centralize Applications Lifecycle Managementwith Oracle Enterprise Manager and Management Packs


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Centralize your Applications Managementwith Oracle Application Management Packs

Common Capabilities

• Application monitoring• Dashboards and reports• Configuration management• Transaction tracing• Root cause analysis and impact

• Discovery and topology views• Service-level management• Out-of-the-box service models • Out-of-the-box transactions• System component monitoring

Packaged

Applications

Custom

Applications

Application

Services

* Planned

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Key Takeaways

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• Low risk, “Get your feet wet” projects

• Focus on tactical projects and quick wins:• BI Publisher• Enterprise Manager

with Applications Packs

• Build your skill set in:• SOA Platform• OBI EE• Oracle Identity

Management• JDeveloper & ADF

Short-Term(within the year)

Short-Term(within the year)

• Higher impact projects:• Standardize your BI solutions with OBI EE

• Embrace SOA-based Integration, AIA

• Externalize your Applications Security

• Inventory and Rethink your customization to be Fusion-ready

• Centralize the master data

Medium-Term(1 to 5 years)

Medium-Term(1 to 5 years)

• Incremental uptake of Fusion Apps IF and WHEN ready

• The ultimate transformation to the next generation organization

Long-Term(beyond 5 years)

Long-Term(beyond 5 years)

Key TakeawaysLeverage Next Generation Technology Today

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References

Metalink

Oracle Fusion Documentation Library

Oracle fusion applications preparation

Documents

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