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What Is Oracle Fusion Applications? Built with security as a priority1.1.1 Standards-Based ArchitectureOracle Fusion Applications is standards-based, making it highly adaptable. Thisstandards-based technology enables you to respond effectively to change with flexible,modular, user-driven business software that is powered by best-in-class businesscapabilities built on open standards. Its technology framework includes the followingproducts: Oracle WebCenter Portal provides design-time and runtime tools for buildingenterprise portals, transactional websites, and social networking sites.Oracle Business Intelligence 11g provides a full range of business intelligencecapabilities that enable you to analyze, present, report, and deliver organizationaldata.Oracle WebCenter Content enables you to leverage document management, Webcontent management, digital asset management; and records retentionfunctionality to build and complement your business applications.Oracle SOA Suite provides a complete set of service infrastructure components fordesigning, deploying, and managing SOA composite applications. Oracle SOASuite enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into SOAcomposite applications.Oracle WebLogic Server is a scalable, enterprise-ready application server based onJava Enterprise Edition (Java EE).Oracle JDeveloper is an integrated development environment with end-to-endsupport for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Javaapplications and web services.Oracle Enterprise Manager offers business-driven applications management,integrated application to disk management, integrated systems management, andsupport experience.Oracle Identity Management enables organizations to manage the end-to-endlifecycle of user identities and to secure access to enterprise resources and assets.Using a standards-based architecture reduces the cost for integration and enables youto reuse systems and technologies. Standards-based architecture also increases theflexibility of the applications. You can fit the applications to your business byconfiguring not only the user interface, but also the business objects, the businessprocesses, the business logic, and business intelligence.The ease of managing Oracle Fusion Applications offers a low total cost of ownershipthat results in a faster return on investment by using tools for rapid setup and flexibledeployment models, as well as providing protection for upgrades.1.1.2 Best Practices Business ProcessesOracle Fusion Applications incorporates best practices business processes, includingthose from Oracle product lines, such as Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, OracleOn Demand, JD Edwards, and Siebel to optimize the user experience and productivity.The Oracle Fusion Applications user interface facilitates the customer-driven, intuitivedesign of the applications that result in large productivity gains. The user interfacedesign of Oracle Fusion Applications is:1-2 Oracle Fusion Applications Concepts Guide

What Is Oracle Fusion Applications? Role-based, which enables pervasive delivery in multiple modes, devices, andchannelsConfigurable and extensible, through JDeveloper during design time or thecomposer during runtime, which enhances productivity for individual users andgroups of usersComposite and contextual, providing integrated information in the context ofprocessSocial and collaborative, offering built-in user communities and workspace, Web2.0 information distribution, and embedded social computing to improvecollaborative workSpecific features of the user interface include: Role-based dashboards that you can configure to your business needs Unified worklists that provide lists of tasks from across the applications Guided Business Processes, which are organized sets of tasks that help you getyour work done more efficientlyEmbedded analysis methods that provides the necessary information forcompleting a taskContextual help that provides conceptual and procedural reference informationOracle Fusion Applications Search, which provides a seamless search experiencefor easily locating and taking action on relevant dataTagging, which enables you to associate keywords with objects so they can beeasily locatedInstant collaboration that provides the contact information for persons related toyour tasks1.1.3 Choice of Deployment OptionsOracle Fusion Applications is delivered as a suite, but can be adopted modularly. Itcan be adopted as a single suite, as product offerings (the highest level collection offunctionality that you can license and implement), or as solutions sets that work withother Oracle Applications Unlimited product lines.Oracle Fusion Applications is offered with the following deployment options: On premise, hosted by the enterprisePublic cloud (available to the general public), hosted over the Internet by Oracle,software as a service (SaaS), or Oracle business partners offering business processoutsourcing (BPO) solutionsPrivate cloud (available internally behind a firewall), hosted as a SaaS or BPOofferingHybrid, an implementation of both on premise and cloud1.1.4 SecurityOracle Fusion Applications security offers: Role-based access Segregation of dutiesIntroduction to Oracle Fusion Applications1-3

Oracle Fusion Applications Architecture Design Consistent and transparent function and data security Robust privacy protections Native identity management and access provisioning Enforcement across tools (all the tools use the same policies) and across theinformation lifecycle Integration with Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance An extensive reference implementation Standard tools to extend the footprintFor more information about security for Oracle Fusion Applications, see the OracleFusion Applications Security Guide.1.2 Oracle Fusion Applications Architecture DesignOracle Fusion Applications follows a modular, standards-based architecture. It isnatively built on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g components and uses OracleDatabase. Figure 1–1 illustrates the architecture of Oracle Fusion Applications.Figure 1–1 Oracle Fusion Applications Architecture1-4 Oracle Fusion Applications Concepts Guide

Oracle Fusion Applications Architecture DesignOracle Fusion Applications includes the following product families, or collections ofproducts that are associated with a functional area: Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management manages customers, contacts,and resources, including data quality configuration.Oracle Fusion Financials manages financial flows, including assets, ledgers, cashcycle, invoices and payments, accounts receivable, collections, and setup ofsubledger accounting and tax configuration.Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance integrates business intelligence,process management, and automated controls enforcement to enable sustainablerisk and compliance management.Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management provides employee management foran organization.Oracle Fusion Procurement manages the procurement process includingrequisitions, purchase orders, and supplier negotiations.Oracle Fusion Project manages projects, including how to plan, budget, forecast,collect costs, bill customers, and report performance.Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management integrates and automates all key supplychain processes, from design, planning, and procurement to manufacturing andorder fulfillment.Oracle Fusion Setup is a special product family for supporting the other productfamilies.In addition to Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager for setting up functionaldata, this product family includes applications to assist application users:–The Oracle Fusion Home page provides a Welcome dashboard with acollection of portlets and task flows for answering common questions.–Oracle Fusion Applications Help delivers the content that users require inorder to complete their tasks. You can optionally install a local version ofOracle Fusion Applications Help, enabling you to extend and customize thehelp.Each product family is based on a common Oracle Fusion Applications data model andservices. Product families contain one or more Java EE applications that are specific toOracle Fusion Applications and deployed to Oracle WebLogic Server. An applicationcan contain multiple products, and a product can also span multiple applications. Aproduct typically has a one-to-one correspondence with an Enterprise Archive (EAR)file. For example, EarSales.ear is an application and Sales is a product.1.2.1 Data Model and Business Logic DesignOracle Fusion Applications uses a unified data model, which is a superset ofE-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and Siebel entities and attributes. You canextend this data model while maintaining consistent semantics.Logical data striping offers flexible enterprise structures for global organizations.Reference data sets enable business units to share reference data. Reference data ismanaged by sets. Transactional data is managed or striped by business units. You canassign sets of codes to each business unit. There is no need to duplicate reference datafor each business unit.Oracle Fusion Applications uses trees, a hierarchy model that offers flexible hierarchiesfor crossing line of business processes. It also defines line of business processes moreIntroduction to Oracle Fusion Applications1-5

Oracle Fusion Applications Architecture Designefficiently. The tree structure is in the data model and is used directly in the Javabusiness logic and exposed through Oracle Business Intelligence.Flexfields enable you to add custom attributes and define custom key structures inOracle Fusion Applications.A unified metadata dictionary, and a metadata store, accessible to all the tools, provideconsistency for all the components in the technology stack and enable you to preservechanges across upgrades.Unified concepts from existing and new applications support upgrades from otherApplications Unlimited product lines to Oracle Fusion Applications.1.2.2 Business Process DesignOracle Fusion Applications uses a declarative business process design that leveragesOracle SOA Suite. The SOA features used include approval management flows,human workflows, Oracle Business Process Management Worklist (Oracle BPMWorklist), business rules, activity guides, and process configuration customizationtools (Oracle SOA Composer). Integration, creating business processes, and humanworkflow is the same as it is done in SOA.The business process design of Oracle Fusion Applications features: Declarative business process definition, which enables processes to be definedcollaboratively between businesses and ITUnified business process execution through system, human, and documentworkflow in a single business process management foundation to optimizeprocesses while ensuring upgradeabilityUnified process visibility and analytics with cross-organization monitoring,tracing, and variance analysisFlexible business process customization, which enables you to make in-flightchanges to data models, rules, events, and processesShared business metadata dictionary, which contains all the BPEL rules andprocesses,During design time, two languages are used: Business Process Execution Language(BPEL) and Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN), which share the sameengine and metadata dictionary.One SOA infrastructure is used per product family, but all worklists are available inone single location. For example, a worklist can include content from Oracle FusionCustomer Relationship Management and Oracle Fusion Financials.All business processes are configurable using a rich set of tools (BPM Composer, RulesEditor, Routing Editor, and Profile Editor) that enable you to optimize the processes asyou are using them.1.2.3 Business IntelligenceOracle Fusion Applications offers the following Oracle Business Intelligencecapabilities: Operational analysis, what-if analysis, analytic dashboards that enable you toadapt analytics to changes in transactional and process systems Unified analytic definitions and calculations Role-based dashboards with consistent security and navigation1-6 Oracle Fusion Applications Concepts Guide

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Data mining-driven sales prediction, trending, and forecasting Reporting (pixel perfect reports designed for printing)A common repository product design is used across all Oracle Business Intelligenceproducts.For more information, see Chapter 4, "Oracle Fusion Middleware Components".1.2.4 Operational Management DesignThe operational management design for Oracle Fusion Applications offers: Unified business services level management to achieve a comprehensive lifecyclemanagementSingle point of administration for applications and technology to achievecomprehensive lifecycle managementCentralized management of users, privileges, and controls to simplify identitymanagement and controls enforcementFlexible deployment optionsOracle Enterprise Manager manages the middleware and the database. It provides anapplication-centric view, which shows information according to the product you havedeployed. It also enables you to drill down from the business process to thetechnology stack through a single dashboard.Rather than managing users and roles in themselves, Oracle Fusion Applicationsexternalizes both the users and the roles to reside in a Lightweight Directory AccessProtocol (LDAP) system. This identity management model centralizes access andentitlements, and is embedded in Oracle Fusion Applications.Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance manages separation of duty toensure that the roles do not overlap.1.3 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides an enterprise architecture that supportsbuilding connected enterprise applications to provide solutions to business problems.SOA facilitates the development of enterprise applications as modular business webservices that can be easily integrated and reused, creating a truly flexible, adaptable ITinfrastructure.SOA uses orchestration technology to assemble various services to providecomprehensive functionality. In Oracle Fusion Applications, many productapplications provide their functionality in the form of web services. Oracle BusinessProcess Management is used to assemble these web services to provide end-to-endfunctionality.Oracle SOA Suite, a middleware component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides acomplete set of service infrastructure components for designing, deploying, andmanaging SOA composite applications. It enables services to be created, managed, andorchestrated into SOA composite applications. Composites enable you to easilyassemble multiple technology components into one SOA composite application.For more information, see Section 4.6, "Oracle SOA Suite".Introduction to Oracle Fusion Applications1-7

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2Key Concepts2This chapter contains the following topics: Key Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts for Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle Fusion Applications Runtime Environment Oracle Database2.1 Key Oracle Fusion Middlewar

The Oracle Fusion service-oriented platform and applications suite joins next-generation enterprise technologies, applications, and services, including Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, to change the dynamics in the applications marketplace and revolutionize business. This chapter provides an