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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 Managementwarehouse-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.

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

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".

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

Oracle Projects Applications

The Oracle E-Business Suite family of Oracle Projects applications supports the full lifecycle of project and portfolio management with a single, accurate view of all project-related activities. Industry leading functionality allows users to select the best portfolio of initiatives, execute projects in adherence with methodologies, assign the right global resources, proactively streamline project delivery, and track profitability via accurate budgeting, forecasting, and billings/chargebacks.

The Oracle Projects Suite includes applications such as:

• Oracle Project Billing
• Oracle Project Collaboration
• Oracle Project Contracts
• Oracle Project Costing
• Oracle Project Management
• Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis
• Oracle Project Resource Management

Other

Additional Oracle E-business Suite products include:

• Oracle Bills of Material
• Oracle Capacity
• Oracle CRM (now in the process of integration with Siebel)
• Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling
• Oracle Business Intelligence
• Oracle Engineering
• Oracle HRMS
• Oracle Inventory
• Oracle Integrated Receiving (Brazil localization)
• Oracle MRP
• Oracle Order Entry
• Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
• Oracle Payroll
• Oracle Purchasing
• Oracle Receivables
• 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.

See also

• Oracle Corporation
• Oracle eBusiness Suite

External links

• Oracle Applications home page
• Oracle Applications Users Group
• Oracle Applications FAQ
• Oracle Fusion Applications
• Oracle Applications Unlimited

References

1. ↑ Oracle Applications