This afternoon, Larry Ellison lifted the curtain providing more information about the Fusion Applications.
For several years Oracle has mentioned its plans to introduce this completely new applications suite. Today, Ellison said that Version 1 of Fusion Application will include the following functionality:
- Financial Management
- Human Capital Mgmt
- Sales and Marketing
- Supply Chain Management
- Project Portfolio Management
- Procurement Management
- Governance, Risk and Compliance
Version 1 of Fusion is now in the test phase with Oracle customers. It is described as being SAAS ready, based on Service Oriented Architecture, using embedded Business Intelligence and based on industry-standard Java and Middleware. One slide he showed indicated that the first version has over 6000 tables, 6500 objects, 18,000 views, 1215 services, and 2500 application modules.
Fusion is designed to support management by exception by providing:
- What do you need to know using Business Status
- What do you need to do with Action and Task Lists
- How to do it with Task Flows
- Who do you need to Contact will Collaboration
Final comments by Ellison indicated that Version 1 of Fusion Applications will be released in 2010.
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