Oracle Applications comprise the
applications software
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a c ...
or
business software
Business software (or a business application) is any software or set of computer programs used by business users to perform various business functions. These business applications are used to increase productivity, measure productivity, and perf ...
of the
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world by revenue and market capitalization. The company sells da ...
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
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...
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 stor ...
,
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 r ...
,
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,
Siebel Systems
Siebel Systems, Inc. () was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management (CRM) applications—notably Siebel CRM.
The company was founded by Thomas Siebel and Pat ...
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 cons ...
) known as
Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications. These cloud applications include
Oracle Cloud ERP, Oracle Cloud EPM,
Oracle Cloud HCM
Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (Oracle Cloud HCM) is a cloud-based HCM software application suite for global HR, talent, and workforce management released by Oracle Corporation in 2011.
History
Oracle Cloud HCM is a full-stack suite ...
, 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
Oracle Cloud Human Capital Management (Oracle Cloud HCM) is a cloud-based HCM software application suite for global HR, talent, and workforce management released by Oracle Corporation in 2011.
History
Oracle Cloud HCM is a full-stack suite ...
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 ( ...
.
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. This includes support for
procurement
Procurement is the method of discovering and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, Service (economics), services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. When a government agenc ...
,
order management An order management system, or OMS, is a computer software system used in a number of industries for order entry and processing.
Electronic commerce and catalogers
Orders can be received from businesses, consumers, or a mix of both, depending on th ...
,
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 r ...
,
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. PL ...
, 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
Endeca was a software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that sold eCommerce search, customer experience management, enterprise search and business intelligence applications. Endeca was founded in 1999 as Optigrab and was a privat ...
—also branded as on-premises "Oracle Commerce"
* Oracle Retail
* Micros (Retail and Hospitality, acquired post 2012)
*
Primavera
*
Agile
* 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
*
Oracle Siebel CRM
*
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
product line
Product may refer to:
Business
* Product (business), an item that serves as a solution to a specific consumer problem.
* Product (project management), a deliverable or set of deliverables that contribute to a business solution
Mathematics
* Produ ...
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 t ...
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,
Apache Web Server,
Oracle Discoverer
Oracle Discoverer is a tool-set for ''ad hoc'' querying, reporting, data analysis, and Web-publishing for the Oracle Database environment. Oracle Corporation markets it as a business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) comprises the stra ...
,
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 acces ...
and
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...
's
Java
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
).
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 ra ...
(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 tools, business management ...
(ERP)
*
Human Capital Management
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, an ...
(HCM)
* Procurement
* Product Life-cycle Management
* Supply Chain Management
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* Manufacturing
See also
*
CEMLI
CEMLI (Configuration, Plug-in (computing), Extension, Modification, Internationalization and localization, Localization, and System integration, Integration) is an Enterprise resource planning, ERP software extension Software framework, framework ...
*
List of acquisitions by Oracle (includes acquisitions which extended Applications portfolio)
*
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 ( ...
References
Further reading
* Cameron, Melanie. ''Oracle General Ledger Guide'' (2009) McGraw-Hill. .
* Cameron, Melanie. ''Oracle Procure-to-Pay Guide'' (2009) McGraw-Hill. .
External links
Oracle Applications home page
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