Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA)

Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA) are a portfolio of software products including Financials, Human capital management, Customer relationship management, Supply chain management, Procurement, Governance, and Project portfolio management. The software suite was developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle Fusion Applications were first announced shortly after Oracle’s acquisition of Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel Systems in 2005 and finally launched (but not released) in September, 2010.[1]

Oracle Fusion Applications were envisioned and pitched as an Enterprise resource planning suite: a combination of features and functionalities taken from Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel product lines[2] . The suite also leveragea the Service-oriented architecture capabilities of the underlying Oracle Fusion Middleware product.

References

–“Oracle officially launches its Fusion apps“. 20 September, 2010. Retrieved 22 September, 2010.
— Kanaracus, Chris (5 October 2011). “Oracle Fusion Applications Are Finally Generally Available“. pcworld.com. Retrieved 7 October 2011.

Oracle Fusion Applications

Oracle Fusion Applications Contains…

After installation, a typical Oracle Fusion Applications runtime environment contains the following:

• Oracle Fusion Applications product families.
  
• Oracle Fusion Middleware, comprising the following:
  
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure components.
    
  • Oracle Fusion Middleware components.
    
  • Oracle WebLogic Server.
    
• Oracle Database.
  
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Applications Control (Fusion Applications Control).
  
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Grid Control (Grid Control).
  
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control (Database Control).

Oracle Fusion Apps is Standards-Based Architecture

Oracle Fusion Applications is standards-based, making it highly adaptable. This standards-based technology enables you to respond effectively to change with flexible, modular, user-driven business software that is powered by best-in-class business capabilities built on open standards. Its technology framework includes the following products:

• Oracle WebCenter provides design time and runtime tools for building enterprise portals, transactional websites, and social networking sites.
  
• Oracle Business Intelligence 11g provides a full range of business intelligence capabilities that enable you to analyze, present, report, and deliver organizational data.
  
• Oracle Universal Content Management enables you to leverage document management, Web content management, digital asset management; and records retention functionality to build and complement your business applications.
  
• Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite provides a complete set of service infrastructure components for designing, deploying, and managing SOA composite applications. Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into SOA composite applications.
  
• Oracle WebLogic Server is a scalable, enterprise-ready application server based on Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE).
  
• Oracle JDeveloper is an integrated development environment with end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java applications and web services.
  
• Oracle Enterprise Manager offers business-driven applications management, integrated application to disk management, integrated systems management, and support experience.
  
• Oracle Identity Management enables organizations to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities and to secure access to enterprise resources and assets.
  

Using a standards-based architecture drives down cost for integration and enables you to reuse systems and technologies. Standards-based architecture also enables the flexibility of the applications. You can fit the applications to your business by configuring not only the user interface, but also the business objects, the business processes, the business logic, and business intelligence.

The manageability of Oracle Fusion Applications enables you to deliver faster return on investment with tools for rapid setup and flexible deployment models, protect upgrades, and lower the total cost of ownership.

Oracle Fusion Applications Architecture Design

Oracle Fusion Applications follows a modular, standards-based architecture. They are natively built on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g components and use the Oracle Database. Following figure illustrates the architecture of Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle Fusion Applications includes the following product families, or collections of products that are associated with a functional area:

• Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management manages customers, contacts, and resources, including data quality configuration.
  
• Oracle Fusion Financials manages financial flows, including assets, ledgers, cash cycle, invoices and payments, accounts receivable, collections, and setup of subledger accounting and tax configuration.
  
• Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance integrate business intelligence, process management, and automated controls enforcement to enable sustainable risk and compliance management.
  
• Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management provides employee management for an organization.
  
• Oracle Fusion Procurement manages the procurement process including requisitions, purchase orders, and supplier negotiations.
  
• Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management manages projects, including how to plan, budget, forecast, collect costs, bill customers, and report performance.
  
• Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management integrates and automates all key supply chain processes, from design, planning and procurement to manufacturing and fulfillment, providing a complete solution set to enable companies to power information-driven value chains.
  
• Oracle Fusion Setup is a special product family for supporting the other product families.
  

  In addition to Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager for setting up functional data, this product family includes applications to assist application users:
  

  • The Oracle Fusion Home page provides a Welcome dashboard with a collection of port lets and task flows for answering common questions.
    
  • Oracle Fusion Applications Help delivers the content that users require in order to complete their tasks. You can optionally install a local version of Oracle Fusion Applications Help, enabling you to extend and customize the help.
    

Oracle Fusion Apps – Documentation

 

Here is the link to access Oracle Fusion Apps documentation.
http://www.orastudy.com/oradoc/selfstu/fusion/index.htm

New Rapid Install StartCD (12.1.1.13) for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Now Available

 

This patch fixes following Bugs.

Bug Fixes
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11818745 : FIX FOR BUG 8625887 NOT IN STARTCD 12.1.1.11
12418103 : REQUEST TO INCLUDE FIXES IN 10312267, 10624278, 12725526
10312267 : RAPID WIZARD DOES NOT REGISTER THE 11G ORACLE HOME IN ORAINVENTORY
10624278 : OPMN MANAGED COMPONENTS CAN NOT BE BROUGHT UP AFTER RI
12725526 : REQUEST STARTCD CHANGE TO SUPPORT RAPID INSTALL ON AIX 7.1
9297435 : RAPID INSTALL FAILS WHEN INVOKING JAVA AFTER BOOTSTRAPING
9297338 : S_BITS DOES’T GET INITIALIZED TO 64 IN LINUX 64
8463909 : ADAIXCHK.SH IN 12.1.1STARCD IS CHECKING FOR WRONG OS VERSION
9159283 : INCORRECT CHARACTERSETS WHEN INSTALLING WITH CONFIG FILE
8993325 : RAPIDWIZ UNABLE TO ENTER DATAFILES IN RI 12.1.1
8983889 : 12.1.1 INSTALL – ORA-20001: CANNOT FIND ROW FOR JELTLOC
8939648 : INCLUDE NEW FILES ON STARTCD
8939318 : RI 12.1.1 NOT CALL ADCHKUTL.SH AND ADAIXCHK.SH ON AIX
8848119 : VERIFY REQUIREMENT OF ‘S_ENV_LANGS’ VARIABLE IN RAPID INSTALL CODE
8766388 : RAPIDWIZ UPGRADE FILE SYSTEM DEFAULTS TO INCORRECT CHARACTERSET
8704654 : NEED TO CLARIFY SERVICE DEPENDENCY FOR BATCH PROCESSING ON A DB NODE
8688534 : REMOVE THE ORAINVENTORY ADDITIONAL CHECK FOR TOOLS ORACLE HOME
8669630 : UNZIP UTILITIES FOR RAPID INSTALL
8609600 : CAN NOT LICENSE AHL
8607885 : RAPIDWIZ TRYING TO VALIDATE USER OF MIDDLE TIER. BUG 5732255
8607070 : RI: VERIFY ALL FILES IN THE BIN DIRECTORY FOR THE STARTCD
8605062 : ENHANCEMENTS REQUIRED TO THE NEW 12.1.1 RAPIDWIZ PRE-INSTALL CHECKS
8602722 : WINDOWS ORAINVENTORY IS CHECKED FOR C:\TEMP
8527016 : RAPIDWIZ 12.1.1 DATABASE VERSION SHOWING 9.2.0.5/11.1.0.6.0
8521319 : STARTCD 12.1.1.9 PRE-INSTALL CHECK NO LONGER CHECKS FOR ORAINST.LOC
8421646 : RI: THE PATHS IN RI UPGRADE SCREEN KEEP OLD VALUES WHEN CONTEXT FILE
8356380 : RAPID INSTALL SHOULD LIMIT THE DB/APPL CHARACTER SETS SELECTION
8289952 : LD_LIBRARY_PATH IS BEING SET TO A NON-EXISTENT DIRECTORY.
7569155 : UNABLE TO DEINSTALL 10.1.2 $OH USING OUI
7268277 : MASTER BUG FOR UKRAINIAN SUPPORT IN 12.1 RELEASE
7213820 : INSTALL SHOULD PROVIDE OPTION FOR INVENTORY LOCATION
7213092 : INSTALL : ADDING UKRAINIAN ENTRY IN RAPIDWIZ.INI
7208551 : RAPIDWIZ INSTALL FOR NONSTANDARD DIRECTORY STRUCTURE
8619492 : RW-50004/RW-50010 ON ADRUNIAS.SH DURING R12.1.1 UPGRADE RAPID INSTALL
8625887 : WORKAROUND FOR BUG 8583454/8587140 FOR LINUX 64 BIT
8637104 : HARD-CODED OS REQUIREMENTS IN 10.1.2.3 ORAPARAM ON HP PA-RISC

R12 Install Documentation
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E12841-02 : Oracle Applications Concepts
E12842-02 : Oracle Applications Installation Guide
E14010-01 : Oracle Applications 12.1.1 Upgrade Guide

All current documentation can be located at:http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/applications.html

12.1.1 Installation and Upgrade Notes
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798258.1 : Oracle Applications Release Notes (12.1.1)
761564.1 : Linux x86 (32-bit)
761566.1 : Linux x86-64 (64-bit)
761567.1 : Microsoft Windows Server (32-bit)
761568.1 : Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit)
761569.1 : IBM AIX Based Systems (64-bit)
762891.1 : HP-UX Itanium
762894.1 : HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit)

National Language Support
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788053.1 : R12 Oracle Applications NLS Release Notes (12.1.1)

R12 Related Documents
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790942.1 : Oracle E-Business Suite Documentation Resources, Release 12.1
380482.1 : Oracle E-Business Suite Rel.12 Technology Stack Doc Roadmap
405565.1 : Oracle Applications Rel.12 Installation Guidelines
406558.1 : Configuring Apps Node Services in Oracle Applications Rel.12
406138.1 : Downloading Rapid Install Software with Oracle eDelivery
389422.1 : Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
752619.1 : Oracle E-Business Suite Rel.12.1.1 Maintenance Pack
169706.1 : Oracle RDBMS Requirements Quick Reference

Oracle Applications Diagnostics
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421245.1 : E-Business Suite Diagnostics References for R12
235307.1 : E-Business Suite Diagnostic Tools FAQ & Troubleshooting Guide
398665.1 : E-Business Diagnostics: Tips and Tricks
232116.1 : E-Business Suite Diagnostics Training