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- 1. Fusion Applications: A Primer and Implementation Approaches 2nd October, 2012 Session ID: CON7626 Mani Kumar Manda Rhapsody Technologies, Inc. 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 1 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 2. Agenda As a result of this presentation, you will learn about Fusion Applications: • What it is? • How is it made of? • What it means to you? • When it is coming? • Recommendations • Resources 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 2 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 3. Introduction • Founder and Chair for OAUG CDM SIG • http://cdmsig.oaug.org • http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cdmsig • Founder/President of Rhapsody Technologies, an Oracle partner specialized in implementing Oracle’s MDM applications • Speaker on topics associated with Oracle’s MDM Mani Kumar Manda products Rhapsody Technologies, Inc. • Customer Data Hub, Product Hub, Site Hub and Supplier Hub Naperville, IL, USA • Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Fusion Applications • Working with Oracle Applications for 17+ years and implemented Technology Solutions for clients in many industries. 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 3 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 4. ABOUT RHAPSODY •Founded in 1998 •Preferred Partner of Oracle •Managed by a team of veterans with over a century of collective experience •A player in MDM space even before the term “MDM” was coined Services Products ERP / CRM / SCM / HCM Assessments / Audits E-Business Suite (R12) Fusion Applications Business Case Development Strategy and Architecture Implementation Roadmaps Oracle MDM Hubs & related Products Implementations / Upgrades Customer Hub (CDH & UCM) Site Hub Fusion Customer Hub Hyperion DRM Data Governance Initiatives Enterprise Data Data Quality Initiatives Product Hub (PIM / PDH) Quality – Party (EDQ) Fusion Product Hub Enterprise Data Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Quality – Product Training and Workshops (EDQP) Supplier Data Hub Turn-Key Service Offerings Supplier Life Cycle Mgmt. 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 4 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 5. Representative List of Customers Healthcare Industry Retail Services Industry Manufacturing Industry High-Tech Industry Media & Other 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 5 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 6. Fusion Applications !!! What is it anyway? 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 6 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 7. What is “Fusion Applications” • Fusion Applications is neither “Fusion Technology” nor “Fusion Middleware”, rather it is a new generation of business application (just like existing EBS, PeopleSoft, or Siebel) that is built using Fusion Middleware from ground up, only better • Fusion applications is • Not any of the current applications; and • It is all of the current applications in some form • mashed up along with usability and business process optimization giving birth to a new set of better applications 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 7 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 8. Fusion Applications !!! What is it made off? 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 8 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 9. End User Productivity • A process centric application • business user friendly • aligned with real life business processes • An intuitive UI and rich feature set (known as UI Shell) • Navigate to a Task or Activity quickly and easily • Embedded dash boards in task flows that are role based empowering users with analytical information • Security enforcement with role based access • Robust Help functionality available when and where user needs it • Integrated Collaboration features such as Activity Streams, Announcements, Discussions, Spaces, etc. 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 9 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 10. Fusion Architecture View Business Logic Data User Business Services WebCenter Interface ADF Business Components ADF Faces components Data Database Binding Schema SDO Services Events Human Workflow Mediator /BPEL Rules Business Service Process facts Engine Activity Assign Task Monitoring results Task Complete Monitoring Human interaction Orchestration Policy evaluation Image is courtesy of Oracle 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 10 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 11. Fusion Architecture 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 11 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 12. Fusion Middleware technology • SOA Suite (BPEL, BAM, • Oracle Business Intelligence Business Rules) Enterprise Edition Plus • Application Integration Architecture (OBIEE) (AIA) • Aka BI Foundation Suite • BPM Suite • Content Management • Web Center Suite • Collaboration Suite • JDeveloper • Oracle Database 11g • Applications Development • Essbase • Framework (ADF) • Enterprise Manager • ADFui, ADFbc, ADFdi Weblogic Applications Server • Identity Management • BI Publisher 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 12 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 13. In Comparison to R12 • ADF • ADFui Where as EBS R12 is built upon • Metadata driven control logic • Model abstraction through data bindings • ADFbc • OA Framework • Metadata driven validations • BC4J • EL expression support • ADFdi • Workflow • Works closely with ADFbc & ADFui • XML Gateway • Requires Microsoft Excel 2007 • SOA Suite • WebADI • BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) • Concurrent Program Manager • BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) • BPM (Business Process Management) • UDA • AMX • FND Attachments • ESS (Enterprise Scheduler Service) • EFF (Extensible Flexfields Framework) • Files Online • UCM (Universal Content Manager) • Contextual Actions • Web Center • Identity Manager • Security Manager 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 13 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 14. Fusion Applications !!! How is it built? 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 14 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 15. Fusion Applications is made of… FUSION Middleware OU FND EBS DM Set ID Fusion Apps. 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 15 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 16. Fusion Applications is • A new application that is built ground up • With • Enhanced versions of EBS data model, Siebel CRM data model and PeopleSoft HCM data model • Customer Data is based on Enhanced version of TCA framework • PeopleSoft Set IDs • Extensible Attributes • Date Effectivity • PeopleSoft Trees • Without • FND User • EBS Responsibilities • Operating Units • Business Groups • OICM • Date Track 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 16 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 17. Paradigm Shift • Identity Manager replaces FND User • Business Units replace Operating Units • Access Control Governor replaces OICM • Date Effectivity replaces DateTrack • Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS) replaces Concurrent Manager 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 17 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 18. Consists of • User Experience (UX) focus, not just UI centric • How fast a user can complete a task? • Productivity focused and Process based • Seamless Integration • Social Collaboration Tools native to the application • Spaces, Discussions, Activity Streams, Ratings, Tags … • Enhanced Business Processes • ADF Desktop integration • A robust UI Shell • Faster Navigation 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 18 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 19. Consists of • User Experience (UX) focus, not just UI centric • How easily a task can be learned? • Intuitive layout • Embedded User Assistance • Types • Bubble Help • In-field Help Notes • Terminology Definition • Instruction Text • In-depth context sensitive assistance • Structured around business processes • Documentation includes FAQs, Examples, UPK Demos and PDF Guides • Process based training that are packaged based on Roles and taught using case studies consisting of real world scenarios 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 19 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 20. Consists of … • Complete with Industry focus, Built with Open Standards Architecture and Integrated using AIA framework Business Process Model • Process Centric • Adopts Business Process Model approach (BPA Suite) L0 - Industry • 1100 Services • Service = Object, e.g.: Invoice L1 – Process Area • Service Method = Business Process Task, e.g.: Create L2 - Process Invoice • Enhanced Functionality L3 - Activity • Facilitates Service Provider model with MOAC combined with BU Mapping L0 - Task • Reusable Chart of Accounts Structure • Native BI • Over 20 Role based Dash Boards 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 20 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 21. UI Shell Global Area Global Area Regional Local Contextual Regional Local Contextual Area Area Area Area Area Area 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 21 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 22. UI Shell Navigation Global Area Tasks Analytics Regional Local Contextual Transactions Area Search Area Area Tools Reports 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 22 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 23. Customer UIs 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 23 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 24. Customer UIs 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 24 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 25. Customer UIs 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 25 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 26. Customer UIs 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 26 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 27. Project Management Dashboard 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 27 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 28. HR Organization Chart 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 28 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 29. Sales Dashboard 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 29 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 30. Fusion Applications !!! Some Highlights 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 30 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 31. Fusion Applications – High lights • Information Access – When, Where and how it is needed • Work Identification • Personal Dash boards • What to do? • Where to go? • Watch Lists • Work Lists • Improved Business Process Management • Embedded BI and Decision Support (OLTA) • Guided Implementation Support (Functional Setup Manager) • Workspaces organized through Project Groups • Collaborate within applications 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 31 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 32. Fusion Financials – GL – High lights • Use of Business Units – Manage Transactions • One or more Biz Units are tied to Ledgers • Flexible COA Structure • Use of Trees in building, managing and doing roll-ups for Segment values • Built in Cubes for financial analysis and reporting • One Cube for the combination of one BU and Calendar • Sophisticated allocation engine • Sub-ledger Accounting (SLA) • Spreadsheet Integration 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 32 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 33. Fusion Financials – Payables – High lights • Supplier Profile • Robust Supplier UI • Supplier Administrator Work Center • Supplier sites shared across Business Units • Convergence of Supplier Contact and User • Product and Service Hierarchies • Ability to map one Procurement Business Unit to multiple Requisition Business Units • Invoices • Scanned Invoices Images • View scanned images from Payables • Robust Payment processing • Payment Work Area 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 33 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 34. Fusion Financials – Assets – High lights • Assets Dashboard • Merge multiple source lines into a single asset • Split a single source line into multiple assets • Workload distribution • Assign Preparers 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 34 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 35. Fusion CRM – High lights • Optimize sales planning by using • Integrated Territory Management • Quota Management • Incentive Compensation • Advanced sales forecasting • Sales prospecting tools • Process flows keeping sales processes in mind • Fusion TAP 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 35 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 36. Fusion MDM for Customer – High lights • Built using enhanced version of Trading Community Architecture known as “Trading Community Model” • 70% of the model inherited from Trading Community Architecture in R12 • 10% of the model came from PeopleSoft • Rest are enhancements • Enhanced search capabilities – Customer, Consumer and Contact • Integrated dashboard with analytics for efficient management of customer data by data steward • Integration with OneSource business information • Real time de-duplication and cleansing of Customer data • Real time address validation • Can store multiple Party Names for a single Party in multiple languages 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 36 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 37. Fusion MDM for Product – High lights • Enterprise Common Product Model (CPM) • Configurable and Auditable Governance Processes and Policies Fusion Product Hub • Pervasive Product Data Quality Product & Catalog Management with native integration Oracle PDQ Server Management • Streamlined Release Management Common • Releases for Major changes Product Model • Versions for Minor changes • Integrated Catalog Management • Comprehensive Embedded Product Data Analytics 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 37 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 38. Fusion Applications !!! What is in released version? 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 38 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 39. Fusion Applications v 1.0 Fusion Applications Financials CRM SCM GL Includes MDM for AR Includes Procure- MDM for HCM Product PPM GRC AP ment Cust. Assets Includes Other DOO 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 39 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 40. Fusion Applications v 1.0 • Excluded are • Manufacturing • Public Sector • Industry Verticals • Planning • Etc. • Limitations • Limited Localization support (Primary focus is North America and UK) • Budgetary Control 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 40 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 41. Fusion Applications !!! Upgrade Scenarios 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 41 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 42. Upgrade Scenarios • One to One • EBS to Fusion Apps • PeopleSoft Financials to Fusion Apps • PeopleSoft HRMS to Fusion Apps • Siebel CRM to Fusion Apps • Many to One • Can not be done through automated upgrade path • Upgrade one environment first • and then reimplement rest • Or Upgrade into another FA environment and consolidate FA environments • One to Many • If you use any functionality that is not part of V1 but still see business value in going to Fusion Apps, this may result in multiple Fusion Apps instances. • Can be mitigated through FA environment consolidation 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 42 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 43. Upgrade Styles • Continue with Apps Unlimited Path • Upgrade only when you are ready • Big Bang upgrade to Fusion Applications • Suitable for only some companies, especially service based ones • Fusion V1 doesn’t include all the functionality (for example lack of localization support, budgetary control, manufacturing modules, etc.) 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 43 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 44. Upgrade Styles • Co-Existence Approach • Co-existence of parts of Fusion Applications with current applications environment • Pre-packaged co-existence integrations (about 10 of them with V1) using SOA and ODI. For example: • Fusion distributed order orchestration to non-Fusion order entry fulfillment • Fusion Accounting Hub to non-Fusion financials • Fusion MDM Hubs 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 44 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 45. Fusion Applications !!! What does this means to you? 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 45 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 46. Adoption and Implementation • Get trained in Fusion Middleware Technologies • Or become a Dinosaur… Eventually… • Prepare to re-implement if your current installation is heavily customized • Take stock of all customizations • Document existing business processes • Identify and document process issues and deficiencies • Upgrade (probably technical) to EBS R12 if you are on R11i and your installation is either vanilla or lightly customized • Can upgrade easily from R12 to Fusion Applications, though you can technically upgrade from R11i to Fusion Applications • Older versions of EBS (prior to R11.5.10) will not be able to directly upgrade to Fusion Applications 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 46 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 47. Adoption and Implementation … • Explore implementing Fusion Accounting Hub • This will give you following benefits • Sophisticated financial reporting base • With sophisticated Allocation Engine • With built-in Reporting capabilities through use of Cubes • Minimal disruption 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 47 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 48. Adoption and Implementation … • Explore implementing Fusion MDM applications either for Customer or for Product or both initially • This will give you following benefits • You are implementing a must have application that you most likely have not implemented yet • Learn the inner workings of Fusion Applications in the process • By the time you are ready to migrate from Apps Unlimited Applications to Fusion Applications • You will have trained resources • The product would have stabilized • Oracle might have released one or two point versions • Possibly increased functionality like releasing of Manufacturing modules and/or MDM solution for other domains like Sites, Suppliers, Accounting, etc. 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 48 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 49. Adoption and Implementation … • Explore implementing New Apps • Identify business needs that are not being fulfilled by AU Apps at your organization regardless of AU App exists or not • See if an App is provided by Fusion Applications • Consider implementing these modules 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 49 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 50. Fusion Applications !!! Resources 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 50 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 51. Resources – Oracle Site At http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/fusion/index.html 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 51 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 52. Resources – LinkedIn Group Don’t forget to join a Linked In group “Oracle Fusion Applications” http://tinyurl.com/3232emw 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 52 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 53. Resources – Enterprise repository Go to https://fusionappsoer.oracle.com/oer/ and login as Guest 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 53 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 54. Resources – Recommended Reading • Oracle Fusion Applications Enterprise Structures Guide • Oracle Fusion Applications Enterprise Information Management Guide • Oracle Fusion Applications Common User Guide • Oracle Fusion Applications Financials Concepts Guide • Oracle Fusion Applications Access Control Governor User Guide NOTE: You can download documentation from technet.oracle.com 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 54 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 55. Resources - Fusion Applications UPKs Login to edelivery.oracle.com site Search for UPKs Locate Fusion Applications UPK Media Pack Download the UPK files 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 55 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 56. Resources - Other • Follow news about Fusion Applications at Twitter ID: ORCLFusionApps • Fusion Applications Explorer A Tablet based app to provide more insight into Fusion Applications (Will be released soon) • Fusion Demo PODS in Moscone West First row of the Demo pods in Moscone West Exhibit Hall at the Ground Level 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 56 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 57. Conclusion 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 57 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 58. In Short, Fusion Applications is … “has more of what you need, less of what you don’t, and some of what you didn’t even think possible.” Paul Brook VP, Application Support, Oracle 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 58 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 59. Q& A QUESTIONS ANSWERS 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 59 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together
- 60. Q Session# CON7626 &A QUESTIONS ANSWERS Can be reached at: Mani Kumar Manda Rhapsody Technologies, Inc. 1700 Park Street, Suite 205 Send me a note via email, Naperville IL 60563 if you like to get latest versions of the Phone: 630-487-5801 x101 Presentation and White Email: MManda@RhapTech.com Paper. Oracle Fusion Applications Group at LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2316926 (http://tinyurl.com/3232emw) 2012 Rhapsody Technologies, Inc., All rights reserved. 60 Bringing People, Processes and Technology Together