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Oracle Applications helps small, medium and large-sized businesses with functions such as finance, human resources, sales, and marketing.[1] Oracle's suite of applications are organized into five categories, including Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Performance Management, Human Capital Management, Supply Chain Management, and Customer Experience.[2]

Products

Oracle Corporation's application portfolio consisted as of 2012 of the following software suites and products:[3]

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)[4]

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle's E-Business Suite (also known as Applications/Apps, EB-Suite/EBS, eBus or "E-Biz"[5]) 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.[6] The E-Business Suite contains several product lines often known by short acronyms.[7]

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".[8]

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[9]
  • Product Life-cycle Management
  • Supply Chain Management[11]
    • Supply Chain Planning
    • Logistics & Transportation Management
    • Order Management
    • Price Management
  • Manufacturing
    • Discrete Manufacturing
    • Process Manufacturing

Oracle Applications Techno Functional

Business Cycles

• Order to cash process

• Procure to Pay process

• Drop Ship Process

• Back to Back Order process

• Assemble to Order process


General Concepts

• Business Terminology

• Oracle Apps Architecture

• Multi Org Structure

• MOAC in R12

• SQL Loader


Sysadmin & Application Devel

• Users, Responsibilities, Menu

• Value Sets , Profile Options

• DFF & KFF

• Concurrent Programs


Interface, Conversion & API

• Architecture of Interface Programs

• Real Time example

• Item / Order Import interface hands on

• API’s Concept & hands on


Purchasing

• Requisition Types

• Purchase Order Types

• RFQ

• Matching Rules

• Payment Terms


Order Management

• Sales Order Header and Line level Status

• Sales Order Types

• Price Lists, Modifiers & Qualifiers

• Defaulting Rules

• Tables & OM Interfaces

• Available to Promise


Inventory

• Master Org vs Child Org

• Important Item Attributes

• Item On-hand Quantities

• Inventory Receipts

• Lot Numbers, Serial Number, Locators

• Inventory Miscellaneous Transactions

• Sub Inventory Transfers

• Inter Org Transfers

• Item Categories

• Item Templates


Receivables

• TCA Architecture

• Customer creation

• Invoices, Credit Memos, Debit Memos

• Chargeback, Write off

• Cash Receipts


Payables

Supplier Creation

Invoices, Credit Memo, Debit Memo

• Types of Invoices in AP

• Single Payment

• Payment Manager Concept

• Matching Rules


Workflow

• Create new Workflow

• Deploy workflow to server

• Workflow components

• Workflow administrator

• call workflow from PLSQL

• Customize workflow


Forms Personalization

• Personalization vs Customization

• Personalization Triggers

• Actions, Property types

• Zoom Functionality

• Hiding fields

• Make Fields mandatory

• Handling Messages

• Calling PLSQL procedures


Reports

• Report Creation

• Report registration and deployment

• Report Triggers

• Bind & Lexical Parameters

• Data Model and Layout Model


SLA & GL

• Importance of SLA

• Understanding Accounting KFF

• Transfer Accounting entries to GL

• Create Manual Journal Entries

• GL Period Status meanings

• Checking Account balance

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.[12]

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:

  • Oracle Bills of Material
  • Oracle Enterprise Asset Management (eAM)
  • Oracle Capacity
  • Oracle CRM
  • Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling
  • Oracle Business Intelligence
  • Oracle Order Entry
  • Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
  • Oracle Payroll
  • Oracle Purchasing
  • Oracle Landed Cost Management
  • Oracle Receivables
  • Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
  • Oracle Work in Process
  • Oracle Process manufacturing
  • Oracle Federal Administration
  • Oracle Sales
  • Oracle MRP
  • Oracle Workflow
  • Oracle Financials
  • Oracle SCM
  • Oracle Customer Relationship Management
  • Oracle HRMS[13]

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.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
  2. ^ Condon, Stephanie. "Oracle updates cloud applications as SaaS sales builds momentum". ZDNet. Retrieved 2019-09-18.
  3. ^ "Oracle Applications". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Intro to Oracle E-Biz". Oracle HRMS. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
  6. ^ "Oracle® E-Business Suite" (PDF). Integrated SOA Gateway Implementation Guide. Oracle. June 2010. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  7. ^ "Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1". Oracle. Retrieved 2013-10-07.
  8. ^ "Oracle Applications 11i Documentation". Oracle. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ "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 [...]
  11. ^ Siddiqui, Muneeb A. (2010). Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management. IT Pro. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781849680653. Retrieved 2013-09-29.
  12. ^ "Financial Management | Applications". Oracle. Retrieved 2016-10-20.
  13. ^ oracleppstechnical.com
  14. ^ "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 [...]

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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