Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 - Technology Highlights

2. Oracle E-Business Suite Release
12: Technology Highlights
Dr. Nadia Bendjedou
Senior Director – Product Strategy, Applications Development
Oracle Corporation
17th August 2010
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4. Increase Value from Oracle E-Business Suite
What’s New in Applications Technology
Procurement
Results:
Applications Supply
Technology Chain  Drive greater end user
Oracle productivity
E-Business
Suite  Increase agility and lower
12 & 12.1
Financials Human integration costs
& Projects Capital
 Reduce cost of ownership
Customer &
Master Data
Management

5. Increase Value from Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Tools and Technology Highlights
Drive Greater End Increase Agility Reduce Cost of
User Productivity and Lower Ownership (TCO)
• New User Experience Integration Costs • Leveraging the Latest
End-to-End System
• E-Business Suite SOA- Oracle Technology Stack
Management
• SES Integration
Enablement •  Enhanced Grid
iSetup Enhancements
• Embedded and
Integrated BI Analytics • Leveraging Modern • Enhanced EBS Packs
Control Grid Control
Applications Oracle FMW EBS Packs
 Applications Change
• BI Publisher Integration • AIA for Oracle Management Pack
• Applications Change
E-Business Suite
• User Productivity Kit • Management Pack
Leveraging the Latest
Oracle Technology Stack

6. Drive Greater End
User Productivity
• New User Experience
Drive Greater End User • SES Integration
• Embedded and
Productivity Integrated BI Analytics
Applications
• BI Publisher Integration
• User Productivity Kit

7. Better User Experience
Richer and Highly Enhanced End User Productivity
• Reduced pop-ups and duplicate
screens
• Re-designed and streamlined
entire workflows
• Reduced the number of steps to
complete key tasks
• Improved overall look & feel and
visual style
• Increased personalization
capabilities
Improved Workflow in Targeted Areas
• Campaign Management • Financial Consolidation • Self-Service Purchasing
• Customer Support • Online Candidate Registration • Sourcing
• Collections & Payments • Absence Management • Supplier Collaboration
• Loan Management • Salary Administration • Business Intelligence

8. Better User Experience
Richer and Highly Enhanced End User Productivity
• Configurable Home Page
• Navigator and Favorites
as pull-down menus
• Redesigned component
interactions
– Look-ahead List of
Values (LOV)
– Inline Attachments
• New REST Interface
layer for UI Services
• Embedded Widgets
– OBIEE content
– ADF task flows
– Third-party rich apps

9. Better User Experience
Configurable Home Page
New Favorites Menu
New Navigator Tree

10. Better User Experience
Configurable Home Page – An Example
• Dashboard look
• Re-configured
content
• Re-configured
layout
• Embedded 3rd
party content

11. Better User Experience
Look-ahead List of Values (LOV)

12. Better User Experience
Inline Attachments

13. Better User Experience
Popup (New Component)

14. Better User Experience
Embedding Rich Content like JavaFX or Flash
Embedded Rich Content
• New Rich Container to
embed third-party rich
content
• Seamless and
transparent context
sharing between
embedded content and
base page content

15. Better User Experience
Embedded Analytics
Embedded Analytics
• Out-of-the-box support for
embedding OBIEE Analytics
content
• Seamless and transparent
context sharing between
embedded content and base
page content

16. Better User Experience
Standard Search in E-Business Suite

17. Better User Experience
Secure Enterprise Search Integration in Release 12.1.1
Embedded
Universal
Search Region
Drop down list of
searchable business
objects

18. Better User Experience
Secure Enterprise Search Integration in Release 12.1.1
Ability to view search
results in tabular
form
Search for all laptop
service requests
Click on Search
Results to
directly navigate to
the page

19. Better User Experience
Secure Enterprise Search Integration in Release 12.1.1
Direct Navigation to
service Request and
ability to complete
the transaction

20. Business Intelligence Applications
Deployment Options
Standalone Interactive Dashboards BI in a Portal (via JSR-168/WSRP)
Embedded links in EBS

21. Business Intelligence Applications
Insight to Action via Action Links
• Seamless navigation from analytical information to
transactional detail while maintaining context
Action Links

22. Business Intelligence Applications
Security Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite
User Object Data
Security Security Security
•Single sign-on • Responsibility • Data filtered
•Action links associated to BI based on
Web Catalog Responsibility/
Group and Inventory Org
Security Group

23. Oracle BI Apps v7.9.6.1 for Oracle E-Business Suite
Certified for 11i10, R12, R12.1
Oracle BI Applications Oracle EBS modules
Financial Analytics (Commercial) Oracle Financials
(GL, Payables, Receivables)
Human Resources Analytics Oracle Human Resources
Oracle Payroll
Oracle Learning Management
Oracle iRecruitment
Supply Chain and Order Management Oracle Order Management
Analytics Oracle Discrete Manufacturing (for
Inventory)
Oracle Financials (for Receivables and
Revenue)
Procurement and Spend Analytics Oracle Purchasing/Procurement
Oracle iProcurement
Oracle iExpenses
Oracle Financials (for Payables)

24. Oracle BI Apps v7.9.6.1 for Oracle E-Business Suite
Certified for 11i10, R12, R12.1
Oracle BI Applications Oracle EBS modules
Project Analytics Oracle Project Costing
Oracle Project Billing
Certified for 11i10, R12.1
Oracle BI Applications Oracle EBS modules
Financial Analytics (US Federal Oracle Financials
Financials) (GL, Payables, Receivables)
Certified for 11i10
Oracle BI Applications Oracle EBS modules
Service Analytics Oracle Teleservice
Oracle iSupport

25. Drive Greater End User Productivity
Better Document Publishing
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for Oracle E-Business Suite

26. Drive Greater End User Productivity
Release 12 BI Publisher Uptake
• Used across Oracle E-Business Suite
• Initial R12.0:
– 852 seeded templates across 55 products
• In 12.1.1:
– Every Reports-based concurrent program has an associated
layout template
– Over 2600 layout templates registered against more than
2000 data sources across 92 products
– Many templates translated to 30 languages for customers

27. Drive Greater End User Productivity
Pre-Built End-User Documentation
User SEE IT TRY IT KNOW IT DO IT
Modes
Self-Running Demo Interactive Simulation Testing for Competence Context-Sensitive Help
2,300+ Pre-delivered Topics for Release 12.1
Financials HRMS Manufacturing Procurement
• Payables • Human Resources • Shop Floor Management • Purchasing
• Receivables • Payroll • Work In Process • iSupplier Portal
• General Ledger • Self-Service HR • Discrete MES • iProcurement
• Assets • Performance Mgmt • OPM Product Development
• Internet Expenses • Time and Labor • OPM Process Execution Projects
• Advanced Global Intercompany • iRecruitment • Project Costing
• OPM MES
System • Learning Mgmt • Project Mgmt
• E-Business Tax • Project Resource
• Subledger Accounting Applications Technology Distribution Mgmt
• Bank Account Setup/Maintenance • Applications Mgmt • Inventory
• Forms Personalization • Order Mgmt
• Shipping Execution
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28. Increase Agility
and Lower
Integration Costs
Increase Agility and • E-Business Suite SOA-
Enablement
Lower Integration Costs • Leveraging Modern
Oracle FMW
• AIA for Oracle
with SOA-Enablement E-Business Suite
* SOA: Service Oriented Architecture

29. SOA Integration – What does it take?
• SOA-Enablement of Each Participating Application
– Integration points defined by the application
– Ability to send and receive messages
– Catalog of information about what services are available
• Middleware
– Message routing
– Business process orchestration
– Business activity monitoring
• Pre-Built Business Process Definition and Automation
– Business process flows
– Common object definitions and semantics
– Transformations

30. Oracle E-Business Suite SOA Enablement
Business Integration Technologies
Web Services
Integrated SOA Gateway
Integration Repository
PL/SQL Interface Concurrent
APIs Tables Programs XML Gateway
Interface
BSO Java APIs
Views eCommerce Gateway
Business Event System
Oracle Workflow

31. Oracle E-Business Suite SOA-Enablement
Integration Repository -Your Snapshot with Customization
Catalog of all annotated Part of EBS
public integration interfaces Integrated SOA
Oracle / Custom Gateway – R12.1.1

32. Oracle E-Business Suite SOA Enablement
Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway
Std WS Client
Apache Axis
Logistics External Web
Service service BPEL PM / OSB
HRMS SCM
Service Service
Consume Provide
Services Services
Integrated SOA Gateway

33. Oracle Fusion Middleware – Oracle SOA Suite

34. Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack Blog
External Fusion Middleware Certifications
blogs.oracle.com/StevenChan
• Direct from EBS Development
• Latest EBS techstack news
• Certification announcements
• Primers, FAQs, tips
• Desupport reminders
• Advanced architectures
• Statements of Direction
• Early Adopter Programs
• Subscribe via email & RSS

35. Embrace SOA-Based Integration with Oracle Apps
by Leveraging the Best Practice Centers
• Oracle E-Business Suite Best Practice Center
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/ebs/index.html
• PeopleSoft Best Practice Center
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/peoplesoft/index.html
• Siebel Best Practice Center
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/siebel/index.html
• JD Edwards Best Practice Center
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/jde/index.html
• Agile Best Practice Center
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/fmw4apps/agile/index.html

36. Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA)
Pre-Built SOA for Oracle E-Business Suite
Pre-built Composite Processes
30+ PIPs
Standardized Composition
Framework
130+ Objects, 1200+ Services
Cross Industry and Industry Objects
Standardized Integration Approach and
Framework for Composite Business
Processes

37. AIA Pre-built Integrations for Oracle E-Business Suite
Sample of Integrations Available TODAY
AIA Packs Business Process Applications Involved
Oracle CRM On Demand Integration Pack for • Oracle CRM On Demand
Oracle E-Business Suite • Opportunity to Quote
• Oracle E-Business Suite
Siebel CRM Integration Pack for Oracle EBS • Siebel CRM
Order Management • Order to Cash
• Oracle E-Business Suite
Siebel CRM Integration Pack for Trade Promotion • Siebel CRM
Management • Trade Promotion
• Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Transportation Management (G-log) • Transportation • Oracle Transportation Management
Integration to E-Business Suite Management • Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Comms Billing and Revenue Management • Oracle Communications Billing and
Integration Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite: • Communication Revenue Revenue Management
Revenue Accounting Accounting
• Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Retail Integration to Oracle E-Business • Financial Controls for • Oracle Retail
Suite Financials Retail • Oracle E-Business Suite
Agile Product Lifecycle Management integration • Agile PLM
Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite • Design to Release
• Oracle E-Business Suite
Demantra Demand Management integration with • End-to-end Advanced • Demantra
Oracle E-Business Suite Planning • Oracle E-Business Suite

38. Reduce Cost of
Ownership (TCO)
• End-to-End System
Management
Reduce Total Cost of 1. Enhanced Grid
Control EBS Packs
Ownership (TCO) 2. Applications Change
Management Pack
• Leveraging the Latest
Oracle Technology Stack

39. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
System Change Problem
Management Management Management
• Centralized • Promoting • Pro-active
Management Customization, Issue
• Pro-active EBS Patches Diagnosis
Monitoring & Functional
Setups
• Automated
Cloning • Change
Approvals
ITIL Policies to manage IT infrastructure and service delivery
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and practices for
managing Information Technology services, IT development and IT operations.

40. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
System Management - Centralized Monitoring
Oracle E-Business Suite RAC, Shared APPL
Releases Top, Virtual
11.5.10/R12/R12.1 Hostnames, SSL

41. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
System Management - Pro-active Monitoring
Concurrent Processing Form & Web User Workflow
Performance Activity Performance

42. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
System Management - Pro-active Monitoring
Intuitive Dashboard to review
concurrent processing performance
Co-relate user Form/Web
session to the DB Session

43. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
System Management - Automated Cloning
Shared APPLTOP
Smart Clone HOT Clone RAC Clone
Support

44. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
System Management - Smart Clone
Clone Details (such as clone
job name, source apps
system…etc)
Details about the cloned
database in the Target system
Completely built on EM Grid Suitable for EBS 11i
Quick Cloning
Control Systems

45. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Change Management - Promoting Customization
Oracle
Product
Dev. Code Repository Code Packaging Code Promotion
Process
Development
Customizations
• OAF Customization Package
• Custom Form
Standard Quality
• Custom Workflow
• Custom PL/SQL AD Compliant Assurance
Production
Source
Control System
Standards Validation Extensive Reporting Custom Application Registration

46. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Change Management - Promoting Oracle E-Business Suite Patches
My Oracle Support Development
Download
Patch Wizard Oracle Quality
Patch E-Business Assurance
Recommendation Suite
& Impact Analysis Patches
Production
Multi-Node Patching Audit Reports Pre-req. Patch Analysis

47. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Change Management - Migrating & Reporting Functional Setups
Extract Load
General Foundation
Chart of Accounts
Employee
Financial Setup
Reports Reports
Standard & Comparison Report
Offline Transformation Advance Filtering Custom Mapping

48. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Change Management - Change Approvals
Manager / Approver
Developer / DBA / Super Administrator
Create Change 1 Review Change
Request Request
2a
2b
Option to Re-submit Reject Change
Request
Submits the Change Approve Change
Job 3 Request
Audit History Reporting Notifications

49. Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Problem Management - Pro-active Issue Diagnoses
Root Cause Analysis
Comparing 300 plus
configuration elements

50. Application Management Pack (AMP) for Oracle EBS
Lower TCO through Central Monitoring and Automation
Centralized Management
Manage single / multiple Oracle E-Business Suite
systems from a single console
Proactive Monitoring
Proactively monitor Oracle E-Business Suite system for
Errored Concurrent Request, or Errored Workflow Item.
Automated Cloning
Application Automatically Clone Oracle E-Business Suite
systems through Clone Dashboard
Management
Pack for Oracle Service Level Management
Analyze and measure End User experience of Business
E-Business Suite Services utilizing Service Level Management
Configuration Reporting
Search, compare and view change history of Oracle
E-Business Suite configuration such as patches, Autoconfig
Data Scrambling
Scramble / Purge sensitive production data while you
clone Oracle E-Business Suite system

51. Application Change Management Pack
Lower TCO Through easier change management
Customization Management
Automate packaging, deployment, migration
of customizations across Oracle E-Business
Suite instances
Application Patch Management
Change UI based impact analysis and deployment of
Oracle Patches across EBS instance from a
Management single console
Pack
Functional Setup Management
Manage, transport and document changes in
functional setups across Oracle E-Business
Suite instances

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Leverage Latest Oracle and
Industry Technologies

53. Release 12/12.1.1 Technology Stack
Architecture and Technology Components
Client Application Database
10g 10gR2
or
11g
JDBC/SQL Net
OC4J
HTTP / S
JSP
Web Listener
BC4J Global Single
Data Model
UIX
BI Publisher RAC & ASM
Forms
Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g

54. Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1
Certified Desktop Tier Components
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8
• Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5
• Apple Safari 3
• Microsoft Office 2007
• Sun Java Runtime Engine:
• JRE 1.5.0_13 and higher
• JRE 1.6.0_03 and higher

55. Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1
Embedded Technology Components
Database-tier
– 11.1.0.7 Database in Rapid Install
– 10.2.0.4 Database supported for Maintenance Pack
Middle-tier
– Forms & Reports 10g 10.1.2.3
– Oracle Containers for Java (OC4J) 10.1.3.4
– JDK 6.0
– XML / BI Publisher 5.6.3
– Oracle Configuration Manager 10.3.0
Management Packs
– Applications Management Pack 3.0
– Applications Change Management Pack 3.0

56. Database Server 11g
Upgrade to take advantage of:
– ASM Fast Disk Resync, Preferred Mirror
Read, Fast VLDB Start, Rolling Migration
– Transparent Data Encryption Improvements
– More Partitioning options (interval, composite,
virtual column), Partition Advisor
– Database Replay
– SQL Performance Analyzer
– New compiler optimized for PL/SQL native
compilation
– Incident Fault Resolution
– Transportable Databases
– Advanced Compression

57. Significantly Reduce Storage Usage
Advanced OLTP Compression
• Compress large application tables
– Transaction processing, data warehousing
• Compress all data types
– Structured and unstructured data types
• Improve query performance
– Cascade storage savings throughout data center
Up To
4X
Compression

58. Test Case: Oracle’s Internal E-Business Suite
Tested compression with Oracle’s Internal E-Business Suite (GSIAP)
– 4-node Sun E25K RAC; Compressed 100 largest objects with 11g
– Average database storage savings 3x
– Table compression 4x
– Index compression 2x
– LOB compression 1.8x
– Saved 7.6 TB of data for the single database instance
– 95TB of total storage savings expected across primary, standby, test,
dev and backup instances

59. Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server
Hybrid Columnar Compression
• Data stored by column
and then compressed
• Useful for data that is bulk
loaded or moved
• Query mode for data warehousing
– Typical 10X compression ratios
– Scans improve accordingly
• Archival mode for old data
– Typical 15- 50X compression ratios Up To
50X

60. Applications Landscape
Leveraging Fusion Middleware
Business Identity
Intelligence Management
WebCache
Enterprise
Portal
Collaboration
E-Business Suite
SOA Suite + AIA
Custom Dev JD Edwards
PeopleSoft Siebel

61. Learn More
E-Business Suite Technology Stack Blog
blogs.oracle.com/StevenChan
• Direct from EBS Development
• Latest EBS techstack news
• Certification announcements
• Primers, FAQs, tips
• Desupport reminders
• Advanced architectures
• Statements of Direction
• Early Adopter Programs
• Subscribe via email & RSS

62. <Insert Picture Here>
Technology Uptake and
Deployment Guidance

63. Consider New Technology Uptake
Consistency Reduces Cost
AIA Web Services Business Intelligence Apps Identity Management
WebCenter Mashups BI Publisher Enterprise Manager

64. Benefit by Upgrading to Release 12.1
• Current Technology
– Database 10gR2 baseline enables multi-org access control
and faster performance in Release 12
– Use OC4J for load balancing
– Use JDeveloper 10.1.3 for extensions
– Leverage skills across technology projects
– Move to new hardware platforms easily
• End User Productivity
– Improved user interface in Release 12
– Secure Enterprise Search embedded in EBS user interface
– Future “Web 2.0” enhancements in 12.1+
– Lots of new UPK content

65. Benefit by Upgrading to Release 12.1
• Integration
– Integration Repository shipped with the Applications
– Use EBS content in Web Center and 3rd party portals
– Integrated SOA Gateway (12.1)
• Business Intelligence
– Broad BI Publisher uptake
– New Analytics content available

66. Benefit by Upgrading to Release 12.1
• Reduced cost of ownership
– Configurable Discovery Process
– JVM Monitoring
– Graphical Topology View
– Out-of-the box flows for Service Level Monitoring