Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software of the Oracle Corporation. The term refers to the non-database and non-middleware parts.
Contents
- Products
- Major applications
- Industry vertical applications
- Oracle E Business Suite
- Oracle Financial Applications
- Oracle Project Portfolio Management Applications
- Other
- Oracle Accelerate
- Oracle User Productivity Kit UPK
- References
Oracle sells many functional modules which use the Oracle RDBMS as a back-end, notably Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle SCM, Oracle Projects, Oracle CRM and Oracle Procurement.
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.
Products
Oracle Corporation's application portfolio consisted as of 2012 of the following software suites and products:
Major applications
Industry vertical applications
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle'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 contains several product lines often known by short acronyms.
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 Corporation brands the on-line technical documentation of E-Business Suite as eTRM – "E-Business Suite Technical Reference Manuals".
It makes the following enterprise applications available as part of Oracle eBusiness Suite:
Oracle Financial Applications
The Oracle E-Business Suite provides a set of financial applications used internationally in businesses. Oracle Corporation groups these applications into "suites", which it defines as sets of common, integrated applications designed to execute specific business processes.
Oracle Financials refers to the closely related financial modules such as:
The key business processes enabled by the Financial Applications include:
Oracle Project Portfolio Management Applications
Other
Additional Oracle E-Business Suite products include:
While there are many products mentioned in the above list they are vast in functionality too, it is highly challenging for anyone to test the entire system covering all the functionalities. The similar challenge even the internal Oracle EBS Product QA team have, they adopted the test automation as the only way to cover testing of huge amount of functionality. They use the Oracle's internal tool called "Oracle Functional Testing" of Oracle Application testing suite to automate all their business functionalities and make sure there are no regressions for every release or patch bundles they release.
Oracle Accelerate
In 2007, Oracle launched a set of applications for mid-size businesses called Oracle Accelerate. Accelerate provides access to Oracle's ERP products through a local partner-network and packages the products to meet vertical industry requirements.
Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK)
The Oracle User Productivity Kit application provides a content-development, deployment, and maintenance platform.