Oracle Applications

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The term Oracle Applications is the applications software or business software of Oracle Corp.. It refers to the non-database (non-technology) parts of Oracle Corporation's software portfolio.

Oracle Corporation sells many functional modules built around the Oracle RDBMS system as back-end, notably the Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle Projects, Oracle CRM, Oracle PO etc. (Oracle Corporation also offers many additional application-oriented products, including Oracle Office, Oracle Media Server, and (grouped with databases) Oracle ConText.)

Oracle Corporation initially launched its apps suite with financials software in the late 1980s. The offering now extends to supply-chain management, Human Resource Management warehouse-management, customer relationship management, call-center services, product lifecycle management, and many other areas. Both in-house expansion and the acquisition of other companies have vastly expanded Oracle Corporation's application-software repertoire.

Oracle Corporation released Oracle Applications Release 12 (R12) in February 2007. The release date coincided with new releases of the J.D. Edwards Enterprise One, World, Siebel and Peoplesoft products.

1 Scope
- 1.1 Oracle E-Business Suite
  - 1.1.1 Oracle Financial Applications
  - 1.1.2 Other
2 See also
3 External links
4 References

[edit] Scope

For marketing and integration purposes, Oracle Corporation groups ^[1] its applications into:

Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft Enterprise
Siebel
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
JD Edwards World

[edit] Oracle E-Business Suite

Main article: Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Corporation markets its home-grown software applications, including Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle CRM etc. as parts of the "Oracle E-Business Suite".

[edit] Oracle Financial Applications

The Oracle E-Business Suite provides an extensive set of financial applications used extensively in businesses around the world. Oracle Corporation groups these applications into "suites", which it defines as sets of common, integrated applications designed to execute specific business processes.

The Oracle Financials application-set relies on the Oracle RDBMS infrastructure and includes applications such as:

Oracle Assets
Oracle General Ledger
Oracle Payables
Oracle Receivables
Oracle Cash Management

[edit] Other

Additional Oracle E-business Suite products include:

Oracle Bills of Material
Oracle Capacity
Oracle CRM (now in the process of integration with Siebel)^{[citation needed]}
Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle Engineering
Oracle HRMS
Oracle Inventory
Oracle MRP
Oracle Order Entry
Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
Oracle Payroll
Oracle Project Costing
Oracle Project Billing
Oracle Purchasing
Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
Oracle Work in Process.
Oracle Process manufacturing.

Some firms and public sector entities use these applications to run many of the world’s mission-critical processes. Oracle Corporation makes the software available on various hardware platforms.