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E-Business Suite Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Today to

Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications
Jason Oglesby
Applied Technology Consultant
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Applications Strategy Overview
Our Commitment to You
PROTECT EXTEND EVOLVE
10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare
for Oracle Fusion Applications
Best Practices & Proactive Planning
1 Move to the Latest Applications Releases
2 Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve to Oracle Fusion Applications
3 Inventory your Enterprise Assets

Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today

Extend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited
4 Rethink your Customization Strategy
5 Consolidate your Master Data
6 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
7 Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio
8 Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing
9 Secure your Global Enterprise
10 Centralize your Applications Lifecycle Management
Path to Oracle Fusion Applications
Our Commitment to You

11.5.10, 12

8.8, 8.9, 9.0

8.11, 8.12

A7.3, A8.1, A9.1

8.0
Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve
Evaluate your Strategic Business and IT Drivers
 Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve
Best Practices

Upgrade when business/IT objectives are fulfilled

Think about what may be your first pilot area for
Fusion
Geography
Business Unit
Functional silo
Business flow, etc
 Inventory your Enterprise Assets
Source: Gartner ITxpo, May 2007, Barcelona,
Enterprise Platform Migration: The Great IT Planning Challenge by Andy Kyte, VP, Gartner
Information
Processes
Applications
Projects
Inventory your Enterprise Assets

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?

Your Critical Data

Who owns the critical data:
customers, products, suppliers etc
Where it is used?
How clean is your data?
 Rethink your Customization Strategy
Oracle Principles
Changes the order in
which table columns are
Profile Options displayed
User-defined Tailor a query result
fields (Flexfield)
Change the color
Function Security scheme of the UI
Setup
Add attributes on the
Data Security display
Setup
Folder Forms
Forms Personalization
Oracle Application
Framework (OAF)
Personalization

Add new functional flows

Extend or override existing business logic
 Rethink your Extension Strategy
Engineer For The Future
Extending the functionality (composite applications)
Self-Service functionality
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

Learn how to leverage Oracle Fusion Architecture today at

http://www.oracle.com/fusion
Consolidate your Master Data
Benefits for Today and Beyond

Delivering value TODAY

Cleaner" data for transaction processing and reporting/BI
Within and outside Oracle's Applications
Enhance ability to comply with regulation and compliance
requirements

Helping on the roadmap to Fusion

Enterprise-wide data repository
Clean data now before Fusion upgrade
Instance consolidation tool
 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
Customers SOA Roadmap with Oracle
Consider pre-built SOA
- Customers priorities:
Performance Siebel E-Business PeopleSoft JD Edwards 3rd
MDM ISV

CRM Suite Enterprise EnterpriseOne Party
Scalability
Availability
Security

Build your SOA

- Customers priorities:
Modify business processes
Introduce new capabilities
Extend business service portfolio
Embrace SOA-Based Integration
1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA
 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA - Oracle AIA
Turns rigid IT systems into flexible, integrated
environments that can adapt and scale to business needs

Key Benefits
Front Office Applications
Leverages your existing
CRM Custom Hosted applications to deliver greater
eStore Portals Self Service Other
business impact

Improve ITs ability to adapt to

ERP
Supply Partners &
Custom and respond to changing
Chain Suppliers
business requirements
Service
Legacy Analytics
Providers

Back Office Applications Protect your investments from

upgrades and changes
 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA - Oracle AIA
Yes, It is Fusion-Ready

Pre-built SOA + AIA Front Office Applications

Infrastructure delivers IT
enabled agility Siebel CRM

Ensures interoperability with

Create Check Price Capture
Billing Step N
Opportunity & Availability Order

existing Oracle applications

Application Independent Web Services

Get Account Balance Update Account Balance

Provides a phased migration

strategy to Fusion FUSION Suite
Oracle E-Business
Order Management

Replace with FUSION Order Back Office Applications

Management when ready
Embrace SOA-Based Integration
2 Build your SOA
Oracle Integration Repository
Compilation of information about the numerous service endpoints
exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications.
Provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business
service interfaces
Hosted for 11.5.10 --> http://irep.oracle.com/
Shipped with R12

E-Business Suite Adapter

Part of Oracle FMW 10.1.3
Provides, bidirectional, multimodal, synchronous, and asynchronous
connectivity
Exposes E-Business Suite Integration Interfaces as Web Services
Interfaces with iRep to expose only recommended public integration
interfaces
 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
2 Build your SOA Bottom-Up SOA Design
Supporting SOA with Applications Unlimited
JD
Oracle PeopleSoft Siebel
Edwards
Enterprise Business 150
200 172 100
Services (out of box) (OAG)
Enterprise Service
225 2000 1565 330
Operations
Enterprise Business
1500 106 1152 250
Events
Modeled Business
450 769 500 700
Process Support
Services Repository YES YES YES YES
Available (IREP) (ISR) (SR) (ISR)
Embrace SOA-Based Integration
2 Build your SOA Top-Down SOA Design
 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
2 Build your Own SOA - Oracle SOA Platform
Connect & Route
Oracle ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
http://www.oracle.com/appserver/esb.html

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
 Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (DBI)
Dashboards Within E-Business Suite

Role Based Dashboards

Leverages EBS
Infrastructure and
Materialized Views
No Data Movement
Required
Drill Directly to
Transactions from
Summaries
Implements in Days
Fastest Path to
Information from EBS
Part of EBS Rapid
Install
No Training Required
Extend your Business Intelligence Portfolio
Oracle Analytic Applications Built on OBI EE

Daily Business
Intelligence

Enterprise Performance
Management
Oracle Analytic
Enterprise Performance Applications
Management Certified Today:
1. E-Business Suite
2. PeopleSoft Enterprise
Siebel Analytics 3. Siebel

Fusion Applications
Extend your Business Intelligence Applications
Adopt Enterprise Analytics Strategy with Oracle BI
Define Analyze Report
Consistent
Multi-Source
Intelligence

Enterprise Semantic Model

BI EE Analytic Server Multi-Source Data Warehouse Model
Pre-Packaged Dashboards
Pre-Packaged ETL Maps

CRM SCM Financials

 Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing
With Oracle BI Publisher

Traditional Reporting Oracle BI Publisher

High development cost Flexibility

High customization cost Reduced maintenance
Difficult upgrade
Secure your Global Enterprise
E-Business Suite Security Data Model

User
Users
Responsibilities

Report
Security Responsibilities
Groups

Menus

Menu Entries Functions Forms

Secure your Global Enterprise
Typical Scenario

Reset Pwd Pwd 3

Pwd 1 Pwd 2

Business
HR System Email System
Applications
(Oracle HCM) manual manual
manual entry
entry
entry
IT IS
Admin Admin

Approving Approving
helpdesk ticket Manager Manager
HR
Admin helpdesk ticket
Facilities
Manager
email
Secure your Global Enterprise
Recommendation for Compliance & Risk Mgmt.

Business
HR System Email System
Applications
(Oracle HCM)

HR
Admin

Facilities
Manager
Secure your Global Enterprise
Oracle Identity Management
Access Identity Directory
Control Administration Services
Identity Lifecycle
Authentication & Administration
Authorization Virtualization
Role & Membership
Single Sign-On Administration Synchronization
Federation Provisioning &
Reconciliation Storage
Web Services Security Compliance Automation

Audit & Compliance

Audit Data Attestation Segregation of Duties Controls

Management
Service Levels Configuration Performance Automation
Secure your Global Enterprise
Oracle Identity Management
Access Identity Directory
Control Administration Services
Oracle Access Manager
Oracle Enterprise Oracle Virtual Directory
Single Sign-On
Oracle Identity Manager Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Identity Federation (with Directory Integration
Platform)
Oracle Web Services
Manager

Audit & Compliance

Oracle Identity & Access Management Suite

Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager for Identity Management
Centralize your Applications Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager

Certified Today:
1. Oracle E-Business Suite
2. PeopleSoft Enterprise
3. Siebel
Planned:
1. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Fusion Applications
Centralize your Applications Management
Application Management Packs

Packaged Custom Application

Applications Applications Services

Common Capabilities

Discovery and topology views Application monitoring

Service-level management Dashboards and reports
Out-of-the-box service models Configuration management
Out-of-the-box transactions Transaction tracing
System component monitoring Root cause analysis and impact

* Planned
10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare
for Oracle Fusion Applications
Best Practices & Proactive Planning
1 Move to the Latest Applications Releases
2 Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve to Oracle Fusion Applications
3 Inventory your Enterprise Assets

Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today

Extend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited
4 Rethink your Customization Strategy
5 Consolidate your Master Data
6 Embrace SOA-Based Integration
7 Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio
8 Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing
9 Secure your Global Enterprise
10 Centralize your Applications Lifecycle Management
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Consider Grid Computing

Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today

 Adopt Grid Infrastructure
Real Application Clusters
Maximize Quality of Service and
Better Asset Utilisation
Resource pooling & sharing
Applications
Information
Servers
Storage Database
Low-cost modular hardware
Incremental scaling
Self monitoring & self managing
Secure
Highly Available Storage
 Key Message to Take Away
Leverage Next Generation Technology Today
Short-Term (within the next year)
Low risk, Get your feet wet projects
Focus on tactical projects and quick wins
Examples: 1) BI Publisher
2) Enterprise Manager with Applications Packs
Build your skill set
SOA Platform, OBI EE, Oracle Identity Management, JDeveloper and ADF

Medium-Term (one to 4 years)

Higher impact projects
Examples: 1) Standardize your BI solutions with OBI EE
2) Embrace SOA-based Integration, AIA
3) Externalize your Applications Security

Long-Term (four or more years out)