The Benefits Oracle Fusion

Oracle Fusion is the integration of Oracle applications such as EBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Retek, Stellent, etc. into a set of next generation applications based on open industry standards. This is Oracle’s strategy to create a tight set of applications and architecture that are all using common platform and standards to work with each other.

Lets see what benefits you can expect if you begin using Fusion products.

Oracle Fusion Upgrade Path

If you are considering Oracle Fusion applications and architecture for your future strategy, you should look at what Oracle has in store for your version of EnterpriseOne. Oracle is executing a strategy that may leave you behind if you are not in one of the specific releases they provide a direct path to Fusion applications.

Please note that you do NOT have to migrate to Fusion applications. You have the option to migrate if you want to.

Release                      Upgrade path to Fusion Apps

OneWorld Xe                          Yes

8.0, 8.9, 8.10                           No 

8.11, 8.12                                Yes 

9.0                                           Yes                               

For World software customers

A6.3 and earlier                       No

A7.3, 8.1, 9.1                           Yes

 

Oracle Fusion: What is it?

Oracle Fusion is the integration of Oracle applications such as EBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Retek, Stellent, etc. into a set of next generation applications based on open industry standards. This is Oracle’s strategy to create a tight set of applications and architecture that are all using common platform and standards to work with each other.

After Oracle’s acquisition of several leading software products, the company embarked on a strategy to incorporate the best of each product into a broad product suite that is integrated.

For example, Peoplesoft is well known for its dominant position in Human Resources Management segment, Oracle E-Business (Oracle Applications) is strong in Financials (Oracle Financials), and Siebel is one of the best CRM solutions.

The middleware and architecture are ready to use. The Fusion Applications (Oracle’s Project Fusion) experienced some delay from Oracle’s original plans but some of them have been delivered already.

Disaster Recovery: Are You Covered for your JDE EnterpriseOne System?

Every Disaster Recover (DR) solution has weaknesses that can expose a company during a disaster event.  Understanding your DR solution and its inherent weaknesses are key to developing controls to mitigate the chance of data or functionality loss.

Each vendor and platform provides a different name for their DR technology.  Most fit into one of the following three types of solutions:

1. Cold Cloning: Tape backups and restoring tapes at a DR site
2. Warm Cloning: Replicating servers and database to a DR site
3. Hot Cloning: Parallel hot infrastructure at DR site

5 Steps to Streamline JDE Package Builds and Deployments

Anyone who is supporting a JDE environment knows about the headaches that can be associated with package builds and deployments. Having a formalized and coordinated process can take you a long way in alleviating the headaches and mitigating the risks. Here are 5 steps that can help you get there.

Top Five Mistakes Made by CNC Administrators

Even though a CNC Administrator’s function is only a small part of your integration, it can be one of the most critical to your organization. Mistakes made by CNC Administrators cause unnecessary downtime and loss of productivity or revenue for your company. Here are  five common mistakes that CNC Administrators make and how you can avoid them.

Is the AS/400 a dead platform for hosting JDE?

AS/400 or Series i, as it is called, just turned 21 years old last June. So, what is its state now?

As Tim Morgan of The Four Hundred newsletter put it – “Size helps, and it is certainly true that the vast installed base of AS/400 shops and their ga-zillions of lines of RPG and COBOL code have helped keep the AS/400–or what remains of its identity as the Power Systems i–alive for the past decade. If the 1990s were tough on the proprietary midrange thanks in large part to the open systems (but not open source) Unix revolution, the 2000s have been brutal on these platforms thanks to the ubiquitous nature of Windows and the open source revolution characterized best by the Linux platform.”

Purging: Should You and When Should You?

In today’s world of ever increasing computerization of transactions, storage and analysis, the amount of data that a single company accumulates in a short period of time is huge. Glasshouse Technology, a storage solutions provider, estimates that this growth in data volume is between 20% to 50% compound annual growth for some companies. What to do with all this data is a question that needs to be answered by every company.

Red Stack Vs. Blue Stack, Purple Stack, Green Stack?

Are you using the right Java platform for the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne environment in your company?  Should you use Red stack or Blue Stack? What are your risks if you don’t use Oracle’s Red stack?For Enterprise One customers, it may not be as difficult a decision as you may imagined.