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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
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4. 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
6. Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve
Evaluate your Strategic Business and IT Drivers
7. 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…
8. 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
9. 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?
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. Embrace SOA-Based Integration
Customer’s SOA Roadmap with Oracle
• Consider pre-built SOA
- Customers’ priorities:
• Performance
Siebel E-Business PeopleSoft JD Edwards
MDM ISV 3rd
CRM Suite Enterprise EnterpriseOne Party
• Scalability
• Availability
• Security
• Build your SOA
- Customers’ priorities:
• Modify business processes
• Introduce new capabilities
• Extend business service portfolio
15. 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 IT’s ability to adapt to
ERP
Supply
Chain
Partners &
Suppliers
Custom and respond to changing
business requirements
Service
Legacy Analytics
Providers
Back Office Applications • Protect your investments from
upgrades and changes
16. 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
Create Check Price Capture
Ensures interoperability with Opportunit
y
& Availability Order
Billing Step N
existing Oracle applications
Application Independent Web Services
“Get Account Balance” “Update Account Balance…”
Provides a phased
migration strategy to Fusion FUSION
Oracle E-Business Suite
Order Management
Replace with FUSION Order Back Office Applications
Management when ready
17. 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
18. 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)
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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:
2. E-Business Suite
3. PeopleSoft Enterprise
Siebel Analytics 4. Siebel
Fusion Applications
23. 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
24. Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing
With Oracle BI Publisher
Traditional Reporting Oracle BI Publisher
High development cost Flexibility
High customization cost Reduced maintenance
Difficult upgrade
25. Secure your Global Enterprise
E-Business Suite Security Data Model
User
Users
Responsibilities
Report
Security Responsibilities
Groups
Menus
Menu Entries Functions Forms
26. 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
27. Secure your Global Enterprise
Recommendation for Compliance & Risk Mgmt.
Business
HR System Email System
Applications
(Oracle HCM)
HR
Admin
Facilities
Manager
28. 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
29. 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
31. 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
32. 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
34. 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
35. 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)
Notas do Editor
Distinction between configuration , personalization , and extensibility . Configuration provides setup and administrative choices using the native features of the product. Some configuration examples include: Profile Options, User-defined fields (Flexfield) Function Security Setup, Data Security Setup Personalization enables you to declaratively tailor the UI look-and-feel, layout or visibility of page content to suit a business need or a user preference. Some personalization examples include: Tailor the order in which table columns are displayed Tailor a query result. Tailor the color scheme of the UI Folder Forms Forms Personalization Oracle Application Framework (OAF) Extensibility is about extending the functionality of an application beyond what can be done through personalization. Some extensibility examples include: Add new functional flows Extend or override existing business logic Using Oracle Forms Developer, Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Workflow
Oracle Application Integration Architecture helps customers move beyond point to point, web services integrations and establish a more strategic architecture; one that starts with the business process, is built on a robust architecture, and includes the methodology and technology to manage and maintain SOA-enabled applications over time, with less cost, complexity and risk. With Oracle Application Integration Architecture, the benefits are: You/IT can get more value out of the applications you have by combining business functions across multiple apps to create flexible composite business processes that meet the specific needs of the business. This means lower costs for your IT department. You/IT can adapt and change these business processes without impacting the underlying applications, allowing you to respond more quickly to changing business drivers. This is key, businesses need IT to be able to offer rapid change to processes, this is not possible with hard coded integration And you/IT can protect the value of your integrations through AIA’s extension framework that preserves the integrity of your business processes as you upgrade or change applications.
AIA processes, objects, services and methodology will be leveraged in Oracle Fusion Applications. That means customers can address their integration needs today through AIA and incrementally prepare for the next generation of applications when the time is right. Our open standards based technology means your investment in AIA today will continue to hold and retain value after your move to Fusion.
Oracle E-Business Suite provides a robust business events system (BES) as well as a comprehensive list of Web services for both inbound and outbound communication, providing a solid basis for extending and integrating applications. Web Service Provider Expose Integration Points as Web Services to Enable SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Browse integration repository Deploy Service Beans as web services
This is just to say, that you may already have DBI and you can continue using it. But if your want extra value (extending etc…) then think about BI Apps which is the next slides.
Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), is an option on the award winning Oracle Database 10 g Enterprise Edition. Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers—providing unbeatable fault tolerance and scalability with no application changes needed. Analysts are taking note of RAC's growing importance in a wide range of customer deployments. BENEFITS 24/7 availability—Provide continuous uptime for database applications On-demand scalability—Expand capacity by simply adding servers to your cluster Lower computing costs—Use low-cost commodity hardware and reduce cost of downtime World record performance—Runs faster than the fastest mainframe
What is also important is to setup clear objectives