Oracle Applications: Introduction

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, Oracle CRM, Oracle Procurement, etc.

Oracle initially launched its application suite with financials software in the late 1980s. The offering as of 2009 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 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.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Applications

Oracle Applications an Enterprise Resource Planning software:

 Oracle E-Business Suite is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that enable organizations to make better decisions, reduce costs, and increase performance.

Why Oracle?

With hundreds of cross-industry capabilities spanning enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain planning, Oracle E-Business Suite applications help customers manage the complexities of global business environments no matter if the organization is small, medium, or large in size. As part of Oracle’s Applications Unlimited strategy, Oracle E-Business Suite applications will continue to be enhanced, thus protecting and extending the value of your software investment.

Source: http://www.oracle.com/in/products/applications/ebusiness/overview/index.html

Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications - Apps, Oracle Corporation's E-Business Suite (also known as Applications/Apps or EB-Suite/EBS) 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. The E-Business Suite (current version: 12.1) contains several product lines, including:

• Oracle CRM
• Oracle Financials
• Oracle HRMS
• Oracle Mobile Supply Chain Applications
• Oracle Order Management
• Oracle Procurement
• Oracle Project Portfolio Management
•  Oracle Quotes
• Oracle Transportation Management
• Oracle Warehouse Management Systems
• Oracle Inventory
• Oracle Enterprise Asset Management

Each product comprises several modules, each separately licensed.

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's next-generation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications for midsize organizations offer enterprise-class technology at an affordable price. With Oracle, you can leverage proven best practices to optimize business processes, reduce costs, and respond more quickly to changing market conditions.

Flexible, open, and scalable, Oracle ERP solutions provide a rapid return on investment and a low total cost of ownership. 

The Oracle E-Business Suite is a packaged ERP made up of more than 150 software modules which includes solution for various departments of an enterprise viz. financial management, supply chain management, manufacturing, project systems, human resources, and customer relationship management. Oracle E-Biz is a web based ERP which can be accesses over internet.

Oracle Corporation was always known for its robust database, over the last decade it has grown into an applications company.

Oracle is being used by a PC-Based company to Fortune500 companies having its geographical spread all over the world.

Strategic Acquisitions by Oracle:

Through our acquisition activities, Oracle seeks to strengthen its product offerings, accelerate innovation, meet customer demand more rapidly, and expand partner opportunities. An integral part of Oracle's Mergers and Acquisitions philosophy is our consistent commitment to customer service and product support while achieving our financial return objectives and creating value for our shareholders.Read More...