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What is Fusion Application
The Oracle Fusion applications offer next-generation enterprise technologies, applications, and
services, including Oracle Fusion Applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware which uses latest
technologies and best practices from oracle’s customers. Oracle Fusion Applications uses Oracle
Database to store and retrieve all transactional and reference data and to store design-time
data in repositories.
Oracle Fusion Applications offers industry standards and technologies to transform
organizations into next-generation enterprises. Oracle Fusion Applications is a complete suite of
modular, service-enabled enterprise applications and is highly adaptable.
Fusion Applications offers a low cost of ownership and results in a faster return on investment
by using standard architecture tools for setup and flexible deployment models.
Fusion applications incorporate best practices of business processes from oracle products as
well as from Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle on Demand, JD Edwards and Siebel.
These all together provides enhanced user experience and productivity.
Fusion application uses a unified data model of E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and
Siebel entities.
What is New, Not possible and Comparison to Oracle EBS R12
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No More forms only pages.
Fusion Application Development Framework pages replace Oracle Forms and OA
Framework.
UI has undergone major change to deliver good user experience, rich, innovative and more
productive.
Web 2 Features have ben embedded with the applications - RSS feeds, social network, tags
are possible. Embedded learning - Tutorial, Video and Help. User activity driven by watch
list (also known as work list)
UI layout is consistent across the applications in Fusion Apps. There are four regions.
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Global Region is always present and consistent.
Task Region is for task that we need to perform.
Location Region is for transaction entry.
Contextual Region is for data for local region, if configured.
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Analytics has been incorporated in UI to provide impact of the actions performed by the
user.
Interactive Dashboard - Dashboard provides enough information to user action. User can
drill down from dashboard to transactions and can perform action/pending action such as
resolving error, approval etc. Dash board provides information that is embedded by
navigation to quickly perform required action by users.
JDeveloper based customization.
Needless to say best of breed feature from PeopleSoft, JDE, EBS, Seibel, and Hyperion have
been incorporated in Fusion Applications.
Embedded business intelligence.
Time Zone - In EBS effective date is defaults to system date based on the server time zone.
In fusion effective date defaults to system date based on the preferred time zone of the
user.
User can enter journals in spreadsheet with multiple currencies’. This will eliminate the
restriction of entering journals in single currency.
Fusion GL is embedded with essbase cube, which is updated whenever journal is posted.
There are number of reports tools available in Fusion GL like BI publisher, BI answers and
financial reporting.
No need to create accounting calendar periods manually
What is not possible in Fusion application
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No localization and public sector functionalities.
Not all R12 functionalities available like manufacturing, call center etc.
Focus on horizontal applications not on industry solutions.
Data Access set for second and third balancing segments are not supported. Only full
ledger, primary and management segments are supported.
Journals that are imported and ends with error can't be corrected through journal import
correction pages. Need to re-import or to be corrected in interface table through sql.
Encumbrance is not possible.
Fusion Vs EBS R12.
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Date track in EBS is known as Data effectivity in Fusion
Operating Unit in EBS is known as Business Unit.
Major improvement is there is no need to create multiple COA. Single COA structure in
fusion can handle multiple COA. this is the major improvement compare to R12.
Reference Data to move configuration across business unit. This is SetID. Application needs
to be setup in Fusion with reference data before make it available transactions.
Functional setup manager to move configuration across the instances.
No more WebADI in Fusion. It is handled by ADFDI in Fusion. This fits with ADF architecture.
Fusion Accounting Hub
Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub (FAH) is a single source for managing all financial requirement as
well as Reporting requirements against transaction and provides complete set of accounting
tools and access to financial data. FAH receives data from multiple third party transactional
system and also from the various Fusion Applications Products [ Sub ledgers ] and applies
accounting rules to meet the regulatory reporting and business reporting requirements.
Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub is integrated with Oracle Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
as the latter is a powerful consolidation solution to collect other non-financial information.
Oracle acquired Hyperion and started using benefits of Hyperion for consolidation, allocation
and reporting in Fusion. Hyperion has been leader in financial domain for years together.
Fusion Accounting Hub (FAH) acts as integration platform for centralized accounting and its
ability to generate multiple accounting representations (e.g., IFRS, local GAAP, industry,
regulatory) for a single sub ledger transaction. FAH is a Next-Generation Financial Analysis for
Centralized Reporting. Configurable accounting rules helps to capture transaction information
used to create accounting. This feature of Fusion is highly configurable to satisfy capturing of
transactions and to create different representation requirement for a company.
Fusion Accounting Hub deals with transactional details and is intended for day-to-day
operational reporting and analytics. Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) deals with periodend balances, not transactional details, and is generally not used as an intra-period reporting
system.
Components of Fusion Accounting Hub includes· Oracle Fusion Sub ledger Accounting to perform accounting transformations on external
system data
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Oracle Fusion General Ledger
Oracle Fusion Financial Reporting Center
Integration with Oracle Hyperion Data Management, Fusion Edition for chart of accounts
and hierarchy maintenance
Applications coexistence integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle PeopleSoft
General Ledgers
Integration with Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition and Oracle Hyperion Financial
Management, Fusion Edition.
How It Works:
The Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub process uses financial data from any or all of the following:
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Non-Oracle external applications including transaction and reference information
Oracle Fusion sub ledgers including sub ledger journals
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Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle JD Edwards General Ledgers
including account balances
The Accounting Hub process ends with complete reporting and analysis solutions.
Technology Stack of Fusion Application:
Following table showcase different component which varies from Oracle e-Business Suite to
Oracle Fusion applications.
Component
Oracle e-Business Suite
Oracle Fusion Applications
Database
Oracle Database 10g
Oracle Database 11g
Application Server
Oracle application
Oracle WebLogic
server
10.1.2 (Forms)
Oracle Application
server
10.1.3 (OC4J)
User Interface
Forms, JSPs
Oracle ADF + ADF
Java Server Faces
Portal
Oracle Portal
Oracle Webcenter
Data Model
Oracle eBS
Oracle eBS Data Model +
Data Model
Siebel + PoepleSoft
(Trees, Data Effectivity,
person Model)
Attachments/Imaging
BLOBs
UCM/Stellant
Workflow/Approval
PL/SQL
BPEL
Reports
Reports (11i),
BI Publisher
Discoverer
Analytics
Discoverer
OBIEE
Financial Reporting
Financial Statement Generator
Hyperion
Integration
AIA
AIA + BPEL +
More web services
XML Gateway
XML Gateway
BPEL, B2B Adapter
Diagram to show technology difference between Oracle e-Business suite and Oracle Fusion
Applications.
Oracle Fusion Middleware Components:
Its technology framework includes the following Oracle Fusion Middleware components 1. Oracle WebLogic Server- Java application server that helps to deploy multiple applications
in a robust and scalable environment.
2. Oracle WebLogic Communication Services- provides click-to-dial functionality through
contextual Actions which further helps users with information and actions.
3. Oracle Identity Management- automatically manages user access and provides services and
interfaces for third party application developments.
4. Oracle Web Center- combines user interface technologies for building social applications.
5. Oracle Business Intelligence-offers a complete to generates and delivers analyses for fusion
application.
6. Oracle SOA Suite-comprehensive software for building and deploying service-oriented
architecture.
7. Oracle Application Development Framework- a java framework to simplify application
development by minimizing code writing
8. Oracle JDeveloper- for building service-oriented applications using industry standards
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA):
Oracle Fusion Application is based on SOA-Services oriented Architecture.
This is a significant technology change adapted by Oracle. SOA Suite, a middleware component
of Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides infrastructure component for designing, deploying and
managing SOA composite applications. Various services can be created, managed and helps to
put together multiple technology components into one SOA composite application .
Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager:
Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager provides a single user interface for performing all tasks
related to Oracle Fusion Applications setup after installation and helps to easily move the setup
data between different instances to reduce implementation time.
Below are the benefits of using Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager1. Minimizing time to deploy setups and using same and ability to import or export to multiple
instances.
2. Enhancing productivity and reporting functionality.
3. A single point to set up applications and enables to manage all aspects of functional setup in
one interface.
4. Pre-packaged facilities to export and import setup data consistently and quickly.
5. Pre-seeded setup templates and reporting.
6. Options to create custom setup objects.
Users of Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager include the application implementation
manager, the functional user, and the application implementation consultants. The functional
users are responsible for entering and verify the setup data for the functional area. The
application implementation consultants are super users who assume the roles of both the
application implementation manager and the functional user.
Technology Difference between E-business suite and Fusion Applications
Component
Oracle E-Business Suite
Oracle Fusion Applications
Database
Application Server
User Interface
Portal
Data Model
Oracle Database 10G
Oracle Application server 10.1.2
Forms, JSPs
Oracle Portal
Oracle EBS Data Model
Attachments / Imaging
Workflow / Approval
Reports
Analytics
Financial Reporting
Integration
XML Gateway
BLOBs
PL /SQL
Reports (11i), Discoverer
Discoverer
Financial Statement Generator
AIA
XML Gateway
Oracle Database 11G
Oracle WebLogic
Oracle ADF+ADF Java Server Pages
Oracle Web Center
Oracle EBS Data Model + Siebel +
PeopleSoft (Trees, Date Effectivity,
Person Model)
Stellant
BPEL
BI Publisher
OBIEE
Hyperion
AIA +BPEL + more web services
BPEL w/B2B Adapter
Fusion Accounting Hub Co-Existence Overview
Key Points
The Standard co-existence functionality transfers balances from R12 to Fusion General Ledger.
The drill through functionality in the Fusion General Ledger journals inquiry page launches the
account enquiry page in R12, you must manually enter the period, currency, ledger and
accounting range you want to query.
Where access and identity management have not been implemented the user most logon to
R12 using their R12 credentials before the account enquiry page is launched.
The Fusion General Ledger includes a live embedded essbase cube which is updated real-time
when posting journals in Fusion.
Reporting is done in the Fusion General Ledger where a number of reporting tools are available
as BI publisher, BI Answers and Financial Reporting.
Journals which complete in error during the journal import execution on Fusion cannot be
corrected using the journal import errors correction page and must be transferred again or
updated directly on the interface table using SQL.
Conclusion:
Fusion Application is different from EBS. There is no plan from Oracle to come up with R13
version. Next version of Oracle apps is Fusion Application which is new generation ERP as
Oracle purchased lots of different companies like PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel etc in last few
years and Fusion applications is an effort to integrate all different technology into one single
product. Initially Fusion Application is going to be major technology changed ERP and for
organization there will be great learning to adopt and incorporate these new technology
changes for better management reporting and planning.
New technology changes are going to provide more flexibility and easy reporting for an
organization. Oracle Fusion Applications are service-enabled, enterprise applications that can
be easily integrated into a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and now available as software.