Oracle Applications comprise the

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of the

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both in the cloud and on-premises. The term refers to the non-database and non-middleware parts. The suite of applications includes enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management, supply chain & manufacturing, human capital management, and advertising and customer experience. Oracle initially launched its application suite with financials software in the late 1980s. By 2009, the offering extended to

supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and sto ...

, human-resource management, warehouse-management,

customer-relationship management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amounts of information. CRM systems compile data from a ra ...

, 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. In February 2007, Oracle released Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/e-BS) Release 12 (R12)a bundling of several Oracle Applications. The release date coincided with new releases of other Oracle-owned products: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne,

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and

PeopleSoft PeopleSoft, Inc. is a company that provides human resource management systems (HRMS), Financial Management Solutions (FMS), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and enterprise performance management (EPM) softwar ...

. Oracle also has a portfolio of enterprise applications for the cloud (

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. SaaS is also known as "on-demand software" and Web-based/Web-hosted software. SaaS is co ...

) known as Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. These cloud applications include Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle Cloud EPM, Oracle Cloud HCM, Oracle Cloud SCM, and Oracle Advertising and CX.

Cloud applications

Oracle provides SaaS applications also known as Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. The following enterprise cloud applications are available on Oracle Cloud. * Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud * Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud * Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud * Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud * Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX) Cloud

Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Oracle Cloud ERP is a cloud-based

ERP software Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software—typically a sui ...

application suite that manages enterprise functions including accounting, financial management, project management, and procurement.

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)

Oracle Cloud EPM is a cloud-based EPM software application suite that manages enterprise operational processes including planning, budgeting, and reporting.

Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM)

Oracle Cloud HCM is a cloud-based HCM software application suite that manages global HR, talent, and workforce management. Oracle Cloud HCM was released in 2011 as a part of

Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle Fusion Applications (OFA) are a suite of applications built on Oracle Cloud that include cloud-based applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), supply chain management and manufacturing (S ...

Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Oracle Cloud SCM, also known as Oracle Supply Chain & Manufacturing, is a cloud-based SCM software application suite used by companies to build and manage intelligent

supply chains In commerce, a supply chain is a network of facilities that procure raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products to customers through a distribution system. It refers to the network of organizations, people, activ ...

. This includes support for

procurement Procurement is the method of discovering and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. When a government agency buys goods or ser ...

, order management,

manufacturing Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a ...

product lifecycle management In industry, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. P ...

, maintenance,

logistics Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...

, and supply chain planning and execution.

Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX)

Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX) Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience (CX) is a suite of cloud-based applications offered by Oracle Corporation that includes tools for advertising, marketing, sales, e-commerce, customer service. History Oracle's first customer relations ...

is a cloud-based application suite that includes tools for advertising, marketing, sales, e-commerce, and customer service. The suite also includes: *Oracle CX (with Oracle Sales, Oracle Service, Oracle Marketing, Oracle Commerce) *Oracle Advertising (with Oracle Activation and Oracle MOAT Measurement)

Industry vertical applications

* ATG / Endeca—also branded as on-premises "Oracle Commerce" * Oracle Retail * Micros (Retail and Hospitality, acquired post 2012) * Primavera *

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* AutoVue (for processing CAD and graphics data)

NetSuite

NetSuite was a cloud computing company acquired by Oracle in 2016. In 2019, NetSuite moved onto Oracle Cloud. NetSuite is a cloud business software platform.

On-premises applications

* Oracle E-Business Suite * Oracle PeopleSoft *

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* Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne * Oracle JD Edwards World * Endeca *Inquira *Silver Creek *Datanomic *Hyperion *Campus Solutions Oracle's E-Business Suite (also known as EB-Suite/EBS, eBus or "E-Biz") consists of a collection of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), human capital management (HCM), 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

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s often known by short acronyms. Significant technologies incorporated into the applications include the

Oracle database Oracle Database (commonly referred to as Oracle DBMS, Oracle Autonomous Database, or simply as Oracle) is a multi-model database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. It is a database commonly used for running online ...

technologies, (engines for RDBMS,

PL/SQL PL/SQL (Procedural Language for SQL) is Oracle Corporation's procedural extension for SQL and the Oracle relational database. PL/SQL is available in Oracle Database (since version 6 - stored PL/SQL procedures/functions/packages/triggers since ...

, Java, .NET, HTML and XML), the "technology stack" ( Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server,

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Jinitiator Jinitiator is a Java virtual machine (JVM) made and distributed by Oracle Corporation. It allows a web enabled Oracle Forms client application to be run inside a web browser. This JVM is called only when a web-based Oracle application is acce ...

and

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). It makes the following enterprise applications available as part of Oracle eBusiness Suite: * Asset Lifecycle Management *

Customer Relationship Management Customer relationship management (CRM) is a process in which a business or other organization administers its interactions with customers, typically using data analysis to study large amounts of information. CRM systems compile data from a r ...

(CRM) *

Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the integrated management of main business processes, often in real time and mediated by software and technology. ERP is usually referred to as a category of business management software—typically a sui ...

(ERP) *

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(HCM) * Procurement * Product Life-cycle Management * Supply Chain Management * Manufacturing

References

External links

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