Fusion Applications are a complete, modular suite of applications including financials, HCM, supply chain, project portfolio management, procurement, CRM, and GRC. For support, training, consulting, software demo and software sales of this product, contact us

Customers have a choice of functionality—whether it’s an individual module, product family, or the complete suite. Fusion has a broad scope, with a few exceptions. Oracle did not focus on Public Sector in the back office (for example, encumbrance accounting and budgetary control). In terms of global coverage, Fusion Applications focus on support for the world’s Tier 1 economies: Fusion has strong support for North America, Western Europe, the large and emerging economies of the Asia-Pacific region, and the larger economies of Latin America.
In the supply chain area, because customers indicated that they were not looking to transform core manufacturing, Oracle developed a new product called Distributed Order Orchestration that optimizes heterogeneous order capture and fulfillment environments.

Fusion Applications are 100 percent open-standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way you innovate, work, and adopt technology. They are built on a set of unique design principles starting with a unified, single data model that provides one representation of the customer, product, item, supplier, and so on. On top of this unified information, Oracle built business services. Examples of business services include: hire an employee, create a transfer, enter a journal entry, create an invoice, make a payment, issue a purchase order, and enter an order. Fusion has about 11,000 services, and all of them are 100% Java web services. Oracle believes this is where a lot of the innovation will occur, because standard Java web services and a service-oriented architecture enable our customers and partners to create mash-ups or composite applications by adding onto Fusion Applications.
Another key design principle is intelligent business processes, which are role-based business process flows. Oracle built these business processes with Java web services and connected them through a standard workflow engine called Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), turning what used to be a customization into a configuration. This is because BPEL is a metadata-driven approach, which enables you to keep business process changes in a separate layer from the application code. Finally, a best-in-class user interface was developed for Fusion Applications.

Here are some of the most popular modules that customers are adopting in a coexistence fashion:

• Fusion Talent Management alongside an existing core HR system
• Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration working with existing manufacturing, order capture, and fulfillment systems

• Fusion Accounting Hub loosely integrated with customers’ subledgers
• Fusion Sales Performance, whether it’s territory management, quota management, or incentive compensation, working with Siebel CRM or CRM On Demand

Fusion Platform used to build and extend Fusion Applications.
Oracle Fusion Applications is standards-based, making it highly adaptable. This standards-based technology enables you to respond effectively to change with flexible, modular, user-driven business software that is powered by best-in-class business capabilities built on open standards. Its technology framework includes the following products:
Oracle WebCenter provides design time and runtime tools for building enterprise portals, transactional websites, and social networking sites.Oracle Business Intelligence provides a full range of business intelligence capabilities that enable you to analyze, present, report, and deliver organizational data.Oracle Universal Content Management enables you to leverage document management, web content management, digital asset management, and records retention functionality to build and complement your business applications.

Fusion Reporting and Analysis Tools
Oracle has provided a state-of-the-art reporting platform. The example here is a solution set called Financial Report Center. One of the key items is that it provides secure self-service reporting access to business managers and decision makers. To the left, you see Oracle Transactional BI (OTBI), Oracle BI Applications (OBIA), and BI Publisher (BIP).
BI Publisher (BIP), formally known as XML Publisher, is the “make it look pretty” tool, used to provide highly formatted reports for all your business documents—purchase orders, labels, reports, forms, invoices, and so on. Oracle BI Applications are available today: a prebuilt solution in terms of a data warehousing solution with prebuilt ETL (Extract Transform Load) content, dashboards, reports, metrics, and so on. OTBI is brand new and introduced in Fusion Applications.
OTBI and OBIA are complementary solutions and when you put them together, you have a comprehensive solution for all use cases—whether they are transactional or analytical in nature—thereby meeting needs across various business solutions, various target users, and data sources. When you look at the differences—OTBI gives a current state, OBIA gives a historical/data warehouse trending state from a business process perspective—you might be looking at tactical understanding of what to do now versus what to do strategically.