E-Business Suite Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications

1. E-Business Suite Customers: 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications Jason Oglesby Applied Technology Consultant Oracle Corporation

2. Oracle Applications Strategy – OverviewOur Commitment to You… PROTECT EXTEND EVOLVE PROTECT EVOLVE EXTEND

3. 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications Best Practices & Proactive Planning Move to the Latest Applications Releases Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve to Oracle Fusion Applications Inventory your Enterprise Assets Rethinkyour “Customization” Strategy Consolidate your Master Data Embrace SOA-Based Integration Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing Secure your Global Enterprise Centralizeyour Applications Lifecycle Management 1 2 3 Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today Extend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4. Path to Oracle Fusion ApplicationsOur Commitment to You… 11.5.10, 12 8.8, 8.9, 9.0 Evolve 8.11, 8.12 Oracle Fusion Applications A7.3, A8.1, A9.1 8.0

5. Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve Evaluate your Strategic Business and IT Drivers

6. Prepare a Roadmap to EvolveBest Practices • Upgrade when business/IT objectives are fulfilled • Think about what may be your first pilot area for Fusion • Geography • Business Unit • Functional silo • Business flow, etc…

7. Inventory your Enterprise Assets Source: Gartner ITxpo, May 2007, Barcelona, “Enterprise Platform Migration: The Great IT Planning Challenge” by Andy Kyte, VP, Gartner • Information • Processes • Applications • Projects

8. Inventory your Enterprise Assets • Your Customizations • Types: • Reports • Screens (User Interfaces – UI) • Integrations, Interfaces & processes • What are they? For what functional gap? • For Integrations, what are their usage characteristics? • Volume, business criticality and frequency • Sync or async, hub-&-spoke or point-to-point • What technology: how were they built? • Your Critical Data • Who owns the critical data: • customers, products, suppliers etc… • Where it is used? • How clean is your data?

9. Extension Rethink your “Customization” StrategyOracle Principles • Changes the order in which table columns are displayed • Tailor a query result • Change the color scheme of the UI • Add attributes on the display • Folder Forms • Forms Personalization • Oracle Application Framework (OAF) Personalization • Profile Options • User-defined fields (Flexfield) • Function Security Setup • Data Security Setup Personalization Configuration Customization Extension • Add new functional flows • Extend or override existing business logic

10. Rethink your “Extension” StrategyEngineer For The Future • Extending the functionality (composite applications) • Self-Service functionality • Larger user population • Empowering information workers through advanced user interfaces • Ajax-style UI to enable“autosuggest” capability • Expose flows, cross apps, through a single UI • Business users dashboards, real-time gauges of transactional systems and business processes Learn how to leverage Oracle Fusion Architecture today at http://www.oracle.com/fusion

11. Consolidate your Master DataBenefits for Today and Beyond • Delivering value TODAY • “Cleaner" data for transaction processing and reporting/BI • Within and outside Oracle's Applications • Enhance ability to comply with regulation and compliance requirements • Helping on the roadmap to Fusion • Enterprise-wide data repository • Clean data now before Fusion upgrade • Instance consolidation tool

12. Siebel CRM E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Enterprise JD Edwards EnterpriseOne MDM ISV 3rd Party Embrace SOA-Based IntegrationCustomer’s SOA Roadmap with Oracle • Consider pre-built SOA • Customers’ priorities: • Performance • Scalability • Availability • Security • Build your SOA • Customers’ priorities: • Modify business processes • Introduce new capabilities • Extend business service portfolio

13. Embrace SOA-Based Integration1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA

14. Front Office Applications CRM Custom Hosted eStore Portals Self Service Other ERP Supply Chain Partners & Suppliers Custom Legacy Analytics Service Providers Back Office Applications Embrace SOA-Based Integration1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA- Oracle AIA Turns rigid IT systems into flexible, integrated environments that can adapt and scale to business needs Key Benefits • Leverages your existing applications to deliver greater business impact • Improve IT’s ability to adapt to and respond to changing business requirements • Protect your investments from upgrades and changes

15. Billing StepN Embrace SOA-Based Integration1 - Consider the Pre-Built SOA- Oracle AIA Yes, It is Fusion-Ready… • Pre-built SOA + AIA Infrastructure delivers IT enabled agility • Ensures interoperability with existing Oracle applications • Provides a phased migration strategy to Fusion Front Office Applications Siebel CRM Check Price & Availability Capture Order Create Opportunity Application Independent Web Services “Get Account Balance” “Update Account Balance…” FUSION Order Management Oracle E-Business Suite Order Management Back Office Applications Replace with FUSION Order Management when ready

16. Embrace SOA-Based Integration2 – Build your SOA • Oracle Integration Repository • Compilation of information about the numerous service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. • Provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces • Hosted for 11.5.10 --> http://irep.oracle.com/ • Shipped with R12 • E-Business Suite Adapter • Part of Oracle FMW 10.1.3 • Provides, bidirectional, multimodal, synchronous, and asynchronous connectivity • Exposes E-Business Suite Integration Interfaces as Web Services • Interfaces with iRep to expose only recommended public integration interfaces

17. Embrace SOA-Based Integration2 – Build your SOA – Bottom-Up SOA Design Supporting SOA with Applications Unlimited

18. Embrace SOA-Based Integration2 – Build your SOA – Top-Down SOA Design

19. Embrace SOA-Based Integration2 – Build your Own SOA - Oracle SOA Platform • Connect & Route • Oracle ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) • http://www.oracle.com/appserver/esb.html • Orchestrate & Transform • Oracle BPEL PM • http://www.oracle.com/appserver/bpel_home.html • Monitor & Optimize • Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) • http://www.oracle.com/appserver/business-activity-monitoring.html • SOA Governance • WebService Manager and Enterprise Manager • http://www.oracle.com/tools/jdev_home.html • Oracle Data Integrator (for bulk data transfer/copy) • http://www.oracle.com/applications/oracle-data-integrator-technical-overview-white-paper.pdf

20. Oracle Daily Business Intelligence (DBI)Dashboards Within E-Business Suite • Role Based Dashboards • Leverages EBS Infrastructure and Materialized Views • No Data Movement Required • Drill Directly to Transactions from Summaries • Implements in Days • Fastest Path to Information from EBS • Part of EBS “Rapid Install” • No Training Required

21. Extend your Business Intelligence PortfolioOracle Analytic Applications Built on OBI EE Oracle Analytic Applications Fusion Applications Daily Business Intelligence Enterprise Performance Management Enterprise Performance Management • Certified Today: • E-Business Suite • PeopleSoft Enterprise • Siebel Siebel Analytics

22. Consistent Multi-Source Intelligence Extend your Business Intelligence ApplicationsAdopt Enterprise Analytics Strategy with Oracle BI Define Analyze Report • Enterprise Semantic Model • Multi-Source Data Warehouse Model • Pre-Packaged Dashboards • Pre-Packaged ETL Maps BI EE Analytic Server SCM Financials CRM

23. Adopt Enterprise Reporting & PublishingWith Oracle BI Publisher Traditional Reporting Oracle BI Publisher • High development cost • High customization cost • Difficult upgrade • Flexibility • Reduced maintenance

24. Secure your Global EnterpriseE-Business Suite Security Data Model Users User Responsibilities Report Security Groups Responsibilities Menus Menu Entries Functions Forms

25. Reset Pwd Pwd 3 Pwd 1 Pwd 2 Business Applications Email System HR System (Oracle HCM) manual entry manual entry manual entry IT Admin IS Admin Approving Manager Approving Manager helpdesk ticket HR Admin helpdesk ticket Facilities Manager email Secure your Global EnterpriseTypical Scenario

26. Business Applications Email System HR System (Oracle HCM) HR Admin Facilities Manager Secure your Global EnterpriseRecommendation for Compliance & Risk Mgmt.

27. Service Levels Configuration Performance Automation Audit Data Attestation Segregation of Duties Controls Secure your Global EnterpriseOracle Identity Management Access Control Identity Administration Directory Services Authentication & Authorization Single Sign-On Federation Web Services Security Identity Lifecycle Administration Role & Membership Administration Provisioning & Reconciliation Compliance Automation Virtualization Synchronization Storage Audit & Compliance Management

28. Oracle Enterprise Manager for Identity Management Oracle Identity & Access Management Suite Secure your Global EnterpriseOracle Identity Management Access Control Identity Administration Directory Services Oracle Access Manager Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Oracle Identity Federation Oracle Web Services Manager Oracle Identity Manager Oracle Virtual Directory Oracle Internet Directory (with Directory Integration Platform) Audit & Compliance Management

29. Fusion Applications Centralize your Applications ManagementOracle Enterprise Manager • Certified Today: • Oracle E-Business Suite • PeopleSoft Enterprise • Siebel • Planned: • JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

30. Centralize your Applications ManagementApplication Management Packs Packaged Applications Custom Applications Application Services Common Capabilities • Application monitoring • Dashboards and reports • Configuration management • Transaction tracing • Root cause analysis and impact • Discovery and topology views • Service-level management • Out-of-the-box service models • Out-of-the-box transactions • System component monitoring * Planned

31. 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications Best Practices & Proactive Planning Move to the Latest Applications Releases Prepare a Roadmap to Evolve to Oracle Fusion Applications Inventory your Enterprise Assets Rethinkyour “Customization” Strategy Consolidate your Master Data Embrace SOA-Based Integration Extend your Business Intelligence Applications Portfolio Adopt Enterprise Reporting & Publishing Secure your Global Enterprise Centralizeyour Applications Lifecycle Management 1 2 3 Leverage the Next Generation Technology Today Extend the Value of Oracle Applications Unlimited 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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33. Database Storage Adopt Grid InfrastructureReal Application Clusters Maximize Quality of Service and Better Asset Utilisation • Resource pooling & sharing • Applications • Information • Servers • Storage • Low-cost modular hardware • Incremental scaling • Self monitoring & self managing • Secure • Highly Available

34. Key Message to Take AwayLeverage Next Generation Technology Today • Short-Term (within the next year) • Low risk, “Get your feet wet” projects • Focus on tactical projects and quick wins • Examples: 1) BI Publisher 2) Enterprise Manager with Applications Packs • Build your skill set • SOA Platform, OBI EE, Oracle Identity Management, JDeveloper and ADF • Medium-Term (one to 4 years) • Higher impact projects • Examples: 1) Standardize your BI solutions with OBI EE 2) Embrace SOA-based Integration, AIA 3) Externalize your Applications Security • Long-Term (four or more years out)