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Applications 12.0.0

Friday, January 26, 2007

Oracle e-Business Suite Online Documentation Library Release 12

Following the recent release of the Oracle EBS 12i media packs, Oracle has now released the full documentation pack for download. You can download the entire documentation CD (only 408.08MB this time) or the individual documents as illustrated below. A lot more posts will be coming up on R12 in the next few days, keep an eye on my del.icio.us R12 links to see what’s on my radar screen.

Download Oracle E-Business Suite R12

I noticed that E-Business Suite Release 12 is Generally Available, I’m busy downloading it from Oracle’s e-delivery web site. It’s a pretty hefty download, the Linux media pack consists of 72 items totalling 35GB in size.

Here’s a snippet of the download section for the Linux Release 12.0 media pack:

Release Content Documents (RCD) for E-Business Suite R12

RCD’s for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 are now available on Metalink. According to Metalink note 404152.1 (username and password required) - this document contains links to the published Release Content Documents for Oracle Applications, E-Business Suite Release 12. The RCD or Release Content Documentation communicates information about new or changed functionality in the specified release of the Oracle E-Business Suite. Existing functionality from prior point releases is not described. Use this document as a launchpad for R12 RCDs.

There are 22 RCD’s available as listed below:

 

1. E-Business Suite RCD
2. Apps Technology Family RCD
3. Intelligence Family RCD
4. Customer Relationship Management Family RCD
5. Marketing & Sales Family RCD
6. Logistics RCD
7. Supply Chain Management Family RCD
8. Advanced Planning RCD
9. Procurement Family RCD
10. Process Manufacturing RCD
11. Discrete Manufacturing RCD
12. Maintenance Management RCD
13. Customer Service Family RCD
14. Service Execution RCD
15. Projects Family RCD
16. HRMS Family RCD
17. Financials Family RCD
18. Customer Data Management RCD
19. Property Manager RCD
20. Product Lifecycle Management RCD
21. Order Management RCD
22. Student Systems RCD

Friday, March 18, 2005

Project Fusion - merging the Oracle, J.D. Edwards and Peoplesoft Software

In a press release in January 2005, John Wookey unveiled the combined Oracle and PeopleSoft product roadmap and support plans. This post contains the details of Project Fusion, the new effort to merge the JDE, Peoplesoft and Oracle Software.

According to the press release, Project Fusion is "revolutionary technology that will follow an evolutionary path."

Wookey stated: -

The new “Project Fusion” is a new information age architecture based on industry standards that will be modularized for flexible deployment, optimal performance and easy maintenance. New information-driven applications will incorporate key strengths of all product lines and focus on business process automation, industry-specific capabilities, superior usability, real-time information access and reporting, and a shared data model to provide customers with a single source of truth. The “Project Fusion” architecture will leverage the latest Oracle technology for scalability, availability, security and performance. The new architecture and the results companies will achieve will be truly revolutionary, but the path to the new successor product line will be evolutionary.

What was most interesting to see that there is already a timeline for the rollout of the upcoming releases of the software under discussion as well as an estimated release date for Project Fusion which is as follows: -

• PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.9 (2005)
• Oracle E-Business Suite 12 (2006)
• PeopleSoft Enterprise 9 (2006)
• JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 (2006)
• Ongoing JD Edwards World enhancements planned to be delivered continuously
• First Project Fusion components, specifically data hubs and transaction bases, (beginning in 2006)
• Initial "Project Fusion" applications (2007)
• "Project Fusion" applications (2008)

The press release also contains support milestones and other useful links. There’s also an interesting page on the Oracle site entitled Strategic Direction and Vision that has more information on Project Fusion. It states that Oracle will continue to support Peoplesoft until 2013 and has the following to say about Project Fusion:

Project Fusion: The Successor Product
In addition to continuing development of the three existing lines, we plan to develop a successor suite of products—which is called ‘Project Fusion’—where we hope to merge the features and functions of the J.D. Edwards products and the PeopleSoft products and the Oracle products together. We’ll build, if you will, a super-set application suite using modern technology.