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What Is Fusion Application: What Is New, Not Possible and Comparison To Oracle EBS R12
What Is Fusion Application: What Is New, Not Possible and Comparison To Oracle EBS R12
The Oracle Fusion applications offer next-generation enterprise technologies, applications, and
services, including Oracle Fusion Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware which uses latest
technologies and best practices from oracle’s customers. Oracle Fusion Applications uses Oracle
Database to store and retrieve all transactional and reference data and to store design-time
data in repositories.
Fusion Applications offers a low cost of ownership and results in a faster return on investment
by using standard architecture tools for setup and flexible deployment models.
Fusion applications incorporate best practices of business processes from oracle products as
well as from Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle on Demand, JD Edwards and Siebel.
These all together provides enhanced user experience and productivity.
Fusion application uses a unified data model of E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and
Siebel entities.
Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub is integrated with Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
as the latter is a powerful consolidation solution to collect other non-financial information.
Oracle acquired Hyperion and started using benefits of Hyperion for consolidation, allocation
and reporting in Fusion. Hyperion has been leader in financial domain for years together.
Fusion Accounting Hub (FAH) acts as integration platform for centralized accounting and its
ability to generate multiple accounting representations (e.g., IFRS, local GAAP, industry,
regulatory) for a single sub ledger transaction. FAH is a Next-Generation Financial Analysis for
Centralized Reporting. Configurable accounting rules helps to capture transaction information
used to create accounting. This feature of Fusion is highly configurable to satisfy capturing of
transactions and to create different representation requirement for a company.
Fusion Accounting Hub deals with transactional details and is intended for day-to-day
operational reporting and analytics. Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) deals with period-
end balances, not transactional details, and is generally not used as an intra-period reporting
system.
How It Works:
The Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub process uses financial data from any or all of the following:
The Accounting Hub process ends with complete reporting and analysis solutions.
Following table showcase different component which varies from Oracle e-Business Suite to
Oracle Fusion applications.
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Analytics Discoverer OBIEE
Diagram to show technology difference between Oracle e-Business suite and Oracle Fusion
Applications.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Components:
Its technology framework includes the following Oracle Fusion Middleware components -
1. Oracle WebLogic Server- Java application server that helps to deploy multiple applications
in a robust and scalable environment.
2. Oracle WebLogic Communication Services- provides click-to-dial functionality through
contextual Actions which further helps users with information and actions.
3. Oracle Identity Management- automatically manages user access and provides services and
interfaces for third party application developments.
4. Oracle Web Center- combines user interface technologies for building social applications.
5. Oracle Business Intelligence-offers a complete to generates and delivers analyses for fusion
application.
6. Oracle SOA Suite-comprehensive software for building and deploying service-oriented
architecture.
7. Oracle Application Development Framework- a java framework to simplify application
development by minimizing code writing
8. Oracle JDeveloper- for building service-oriented applications using industry standards
Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager provides a single user interface for performing all tasks
related to Oracle Fusion Applications setup after installation and helps to easily move the setup
data between different instances to reduce implementation time.
Below are the benefits of using Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager-
1. Minimizing time to deploy setups and using same and ability to import or export to multiple
instances.
2. Enhancing productivity and reporting functionality.
3. A single point to set up applications and enables to manage all aspects of functional setup in
one interface.
4. Pre-packaged facilities to export and import setup data consistently and quickly.
5. Pre-seeded setup templates and reporting.
6. Options to create custom setup objects.
Users of Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager include the application implementation
manager, the functional user, and the application implementation consultants. The functional
users are responsible for entering and verify the setup data for the functional area. The
application implementation consultants are super users who assume the roles of both the
application implementation manager and the functional user.
Key Points
The Standard co-existence functionality transfers balances from R12 to Fusion General Ledger.
The drill through functionality in the Fusion General Ledger journals inquiry page launches the
account enquiry page in R12, you must manually enter the period, currency, ledger and
accounting range you want to query.
Where access and identity management have not been implemented the user most logon to
R12 using their R12 credentials before the account enquiry page is launched.
The Fusion General Ledger includes a live embedded essbase cube which is updated real-time
when posting journals in Fusion.
Reporting is done in the Fusion General Ledger where a number of reporting tools are available
as BI publisher, BI Answers and Financial Reporting.
Journals which complete in error during the journal import execution on Fusion cannot be
corrected using the journal import errors correction page and must be transferred again or
updated directly on the interface table using SQL.
Conclusion:
Fusion Application is different from EBS. There is no plan from Oracle to come up with R13
version. Next version of Oracle apps is Fusion Application which is new generation ERP as
Oracle purchased lots of different companies like PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel etc in last few
years and Fusion applications is an effort to integrate all different technology into one single
product. Initially Fusion Application is going to be major technology changed ERP and for
organization there will be great learning to adopt and incorporate these new technology
changes for better management reporting and planning.
New technology changes are going to provide more flexibility and easy reporting for an
organization. Oracle Fusion Applications are service-enabled, enterprise applications that can
be easily integrated into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and now available as software.