1. Jason Oglesby Applied Technology Consultant Oracle Corporation
E-Business Suite Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications
Jason Oglesby
Applied Technology Consultant
Oracle Corporation

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3. Oracle Applications Strategy – Overview Our Commitment to You…
PROTECT EXTEND EVOLVE
PROTECT
EXTEND
EVOLVE

4. 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications
Best Practices & Proactive Planning 1
Move to the Latest Applications Releases
Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve to Oracle Fusion Applications
Inventory your Enterprise Assets
Rethink your “Customization” Strategy
Consolidate your Master Data
Embrace SOA-Based Integration
Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio
Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing
Secure your Global Enterprise
Centralize your Applications Lifecycle Management 2 3
Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today
Extend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

5. Path to Oracle Fusion Applications Our Commitment to You…
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8.8, 8.9, 9.0
Evolve
8.11, 8.12
Oracle Fusion Applications
A7.3, A8.1, A9.1
8.0

6. Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve
Evaluate your Strategic Business and IT Drivers

7. Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve Best Practices
Upgrade when business/IT objectives are fulfilled
Think about what may be your first pilot area for Fusion
Geography
Business Unit
Functional silo
Business flow, etc…

8. Inventory your Enterprise Assets
Source: Gartner ITxpo, May 2007, Barcelona,
“Enterprise Platform Migration: The Great IT Planning Challenge” by Andy Kyte, VP, Gartner
Information
Processes
Applications
Projects

9. Inventory your Enterprise Assets
Your Customizations
Types:
Reports
Screens (User Interfaces – UI)
Integrations, Interfaces & processes
What are they? For what functional gap?
For Integrations, what are their usage characteristics?
Volume, business criticality and frequency
Sync or async, hub-&-spoke or point-to-point
What technology: how were they built?
Your Critical Data
Who owns the critical data:
customers, products, suppliers etc…
Where it is used?
How clean is your data?

10. Rethink your “Customization” Strategy Oracle Principles
Changes the order in which table columns are displayed
Tailor a query result
Change the color scheme of the UI
Add attributes on the display
Folder Forms
Forms Personalization
Oracle Application Framework (OAF) Personalization
Profile Options
User-defined fields (Flexfield)
Function Security Setup
Data Security Setup
Personalization
Configuration
Customization
Extension
Extension
Distinction between configuration, personalization, and extensibility.
Configuration provides setup and administrative choices using the native features of the product. Some configuration examples include:
Profile Options, User-defined fields (Flexfield)
Function Security Setup, Data Security Setup
Personalization enables you to declaratively tailor the UI look-and-feel, layout or visibility of page content to suit a business need or a user preference. Some personalization examples include:
Tailor the order in which table columns are displayed
Tailor a query result.
Tailor the color scheme of the UI
Folder Forms
Forms Personalization
Oracle Application Framework (OAF)
Extensibility is about extending the functionality of an application beyond what can be done through personalization. Some extensibility examples include:
Add new functional flows
Extend or override existing business logic
Using Oracle Forms Developer, Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Workflow
Add new functional flows
Extend or override existing business logic

11. Rethink your “Extension” Strategy Engineer For The Future
Extending the functionality (composite applications)
Self-Service functionality
Larger user population
Empowering information workers through advanced user interfaces
Ajax-style UI to enable “autosuggest” capability
Expose flows, cross apps, through a single UI
Business users dashboards, real-time gauges of transactional systems and business processes
Learn how to leverage Oracle Fusion Architecture today at

12. Consolidate your Master Data Benefits for Today and Beyond
Delivering value TODAY
“Cleaner" data for transaction processing and reporting/BI
Within and outside Oracle's Applications
Enhance ability to comply with regulation and compliance requirements
Helping on the roadmap to Fusion
Enterprise-wide data repository
Clean data now before Fusion upgrade
Instance consolidation tool

13. Embrace SOA-Based Integration Customer’s SOA Roadmap with Oracle
Consider pre-built SOA
Customers’ priorities:
Performance
Scalability
Availability
Security
Siebel
CRM
E-Business
Suite
PeopleSoft
Enterprise
JD Edwards
EnterpriseOne
MDM
ISV
3rd Party
Build your SOA
Customers’ priorities:
Modify business processes
Introduce new capabilities
Extend business service portfolio

14. Embrace SOA-Based Integration 1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA

15. Front Office Applications Back Office Applications
Embrace SOA-Based Integration 1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA - Oracle AIA
Turns rigid IT systems into flexible, integrated environments that can adapt and scale to business needs
Key Benefits
Leverages your existing applications to deliver greater business impact
Improve IT’s ability to adapt to and respond to changing business requirements
Protect your investments from upgrades and changes
Custom
Hosted
Portals
eStore
CRM
Self Service
Other
Front Office Applications
Back Office Applications
Custom
Analytics
Service
Providers
Partners &
Suppliers
ERP
Legacy
Supply
Chain
Oracle Application Integration Architecture helps customers move beyond point to point, web services integrations and establish a more strategic architecture; one that starts with the business process, is built on a robust architecture, and includes the methodology and technology to manage and maintain SOA-enabled applications over time, with less cost, complexity and risk.
With Oracle Application Integration Architecture, the benefits are:
You/IT can get more value out of the applications you have by combining business functions across multiple apps to create flexible composite business processes that meet the specific needs of the business. This means lower costs for your IT department.
You/IT can adapt and change these business processes without impacting the underlying applications, allowing you to respond more quickly to changing business drivers. This is key, businesses need IT to be able to offer rapid change to processes, this is not possible with hard coded integration
And you/IT can protect the value of your integrations through AIA’s extension framework that preserves the integrity of your business processes as you upgrade or change applications.

16. Embrace SOA-Based Integration 1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA - Oracle AIA
Yes, It is Fusion-Ready…
Pre-built SOA + AIA Infrastructure delivers IT enabled agility
Ensures interoperability with existing Oracle applications
Provides a phased migration strategy to Fusion
Front Office Applications
Siebel CRM
Create Opportunity
Check Price & Availability
Capture Order
Billing
Step N
Application Independent Web Services
“Get Account Balance”
“Update Account Balance…”
AIA processes, objects, services and methodology will be leveraged in Oracle Fusion Applications. That means customers can address their integration needs today through AIA and incrementally prepare for the next generation of applications when the time is right. Our open standards based technology means your investment in AIA today will continue to hold and retain value after your move to Fusion.
FUSION
Order Management
Oracle E-Business Suite
Order Management
Replace with FUSION Order Management when ready
Back Office Applications

17. Embrace SOA-Based Integration 2 – Build your SOA
Oracle Integration Repository
Compilation of information about the numerous service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications.
Provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces
Hosted for >
Shipped with R12
E-Business Suite Adapter
Part of Oracle FMW
Provides, bidirectional, multimodal, synchronous, and asynchronous connectivity
Exposes E-Business Suite Integration Interfaces as Web Services
Interfaces with iRep to expose only recommended public integration interfaces
Oracle E-Business Suite provides a robust business events system (BES) as well as a comprehensive list of Web services for both inbound and outbound communication, providing a solid basis for extending and integrating applications.
Web Service Provider
Expose Integration Points as Web Services to Enable SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)
Browse integration repository
Deploy Service Beans as web services

18. Supporting SOA with Applications Unlimited
Embrace SOA-Based Integration 2 – Build your SOA – Bottom-Up SOA Design
Supporting SOA with Applications Unlimited
Oracle
PeopleSoft
Siebel
JD Edwards
Enterprise Business Services (out of box)
150
(OAG)
200
172
100
Enterprise Service Operations
225
2000
1565
330
Enterprise Business Events
1500
106
1152
250
Modeled Business Process Support
450
769
500
700
Services Repository Available
YES
(IREP)
(ISR)
(SR)

19. Embrace SOA-Based Integration 2 – Build your SOA – Top-Down SOA Design

20. Embrace SOA-Based Integration 2 – Build your Own SOA - Oracle SOA Platform
Connect & Route
Oracle ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
Orchestrate & Transform
Oracle BPEL PM
Monitor & Optimize
Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring)
SOA Governance
WebService Manager and Enterprise Manager
Oracle Data Integrator (for bulk data transfer/copy)

21. Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (DBI) Dashboards Within E-Business Suite
Role Based Dashboards
Leverages EBS Infrastructure and Materialized Views
No Data Movement Required
Drill Directly to Transactions from Summaries
Implements in Days
Fastest Path to Information from EBS
Part of EBS “Rapid Install”
No Training Required
This is just to say, that you may already have DBI and you can continue using it.
But if your want extra value (extending etc…) then think about BI Apps which is the next slides.

22. Oracle Analytic Applications
Extend your Business Intelligence Portfolio Oracle Analytic Applications Built on OBI EE
Oracle Analytic Applications
Daily Business
Intelligence
Enterprise Performance
Management
Enterprise Performance
Management
Certified Today:
E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft Enterprise
Siebel
Siebel Analytics
Fusion Applications 22

23. Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Adopt Enterprise Analytics Strategy with Oracle BI
Define
Analyze
Report
Consistent
Multi-Source
Intelligence
Enterprise Semantic Model
Multi-Source Data Warehouse Model
Pre-Packaged Dashboards
Pre-Packaged ETL Maps
BI EE Analytic Server
CRM
SCM
Financials

24. Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing With Oracle BI Publisher
Traditional Reporting
Oracle BI Publisher
High development cost
High customization cost
Difficult upgrade
Flexibility
Reduced maintenance

25. Secure your Global Enterprise E-Business Suite Security Data Model
Users
User
Responsibilities
Report
Security
Groups
Responsibilities
Menus
Menu Entries
Functions
Forms 12 34

26. Secure your Global Enterprise Typical Scenario
Pwd 1
Pwd 3
Pwd 2
Reset Pwd HR
Admin
Facilities
Manager IT IS
manual
entry
helpdesk ticket
System
Business
Applications
HR System
(Oracle HCM)
Approving
Duplicate customer mgmt.
High error rates (order quality, fullfillment exceptions)
Revenue recognition anomalies (SOX)

27. Secure your Global Enterprise Recommendation for Compliance & Risk Mgmt.
System HR
Admin
Facilities
Manager
Business
Applications
HR System
(Oracle HCM)

28. Secure your Global Enterprise Oracle Identity Management
Access
Control
Identity
Administration
Directory
Services
Authentication &
Authorization
Single Sign-On
Federation
Web Services Security
Identity Lifecycle
Administration
Role & Membership
Provisioning &
Reconciliation
Compliance Automation
Virtualization
Synchronization
Storage
Audit & Compliance
Audit Data Attestation Segregation of Duties Controls
Management
Service Levels Configuration Performance Automation

29. Secure your Global Enterprise Oracle Identity Management
Access
Control
Identity
Administration
Directory
Services
Oracle Access Manager
Oracle Enterprise
Single Sign-On
Oracle Identity Federation
Oracle Web Services
Manager
Oracle Identity Manager
Oracle Virtual Directory
Oracle Internet Directory
(with Directory Integration
Platform)
Audit & Compliance
Oracle Identity & Access Management Suite
Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager for Identity Management

30. Centralize your Applications Management Oracle Enterprise Manager
Certified Today:
Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft Enterprise
Siebel
Planned:
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
Fusion Applications 30

31. Centralize your Applications Management Application Management Packs
Packaged
Applications
Custom
Applications
Application
Services
Common Capabilities
Discovery and topology views
Service-level management
Out-of-the-box service models
Out-of-the-box transactions
System component monitoring
Application monitoring
Dashboards and reports
Configuration management
Transaction tracing
Root cause analysis and impact *
Planned

32. 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications
Best Practices & Proactive Planning 1
Move to the Latest Applications Releases
Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve to Oracle Fusion Applications
Inventory your Enterprise Assets
Rethink your “Customization” Strategy
Consolidate your Master Data
Embrace SOA-Based Integration
Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio
Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing
Secure your Global Enterprise
Centralize your Applications Lifecycle Management 2 3
Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today
Extend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

33. Consider Grid Computing
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Consider Grid Computing
Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today

34. Adopt Grid Infrastructure Real Application Clusters
Maximize Quality of Service and Better Asset Utilisation
Resource pooling & sharing
Applications
Information
Servers
Storage
Low-cost modular hardware
Incremental scaling
Self monitoring & self managing
Secure
Highly Available
Database
Storage
Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC), is an option on the award winning Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. Oracle RAC supports the deployment of a single database across a cluster of servers—providing unbeatable fault tolerance and scalability with no application changes needed. Analysts are taking note of RAC's growing importance in a wide range of customer deployments.
BENEFITS
24/7 availability—Provide continuous uptime for database applications
On-demand scalability—Expand capacity by simply adding servers to your cluster
Lower computing costs—Use low-cost commodity hardware and reduce cost of downtime
World record performance—Runs faster than the fastest mainframe

35. Key Message to Take Away Leverage Next Generation Technology Today
Short-Term (within the next year)
Low risk, “Get your feet wet” projects
Focus on tactical projects and quick wins
Examples: 1) BI Publisher
2) Enterprise Manager with Applications Packs
Build your skill set
SOA Platform, OBI EE, Oracle Identity Management, JDeveloper and ADF
Medium-Term (one to 4 years)
Higher impact projects
Examples: 1) Standardize your BI solutions with OBI EE
2) Embrace SOA-based Integration, AIA
3) Externalize your Applications Security
Long-Term (four or more years out)
What is also important is to setup clear objectives