Special Report: E-Business Suite Release 12.1

Today's organizations face a host of challenges, but forward-looking organizations realize that having a strategic IT roadmap can help positively impact their immediate and long-term competitive positions. With the latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle helps customers address both short term initiatives as well as longer term strategies to thrive in dynamic times.

The latest version of Oracle’s E-Business Suite is all about customer choice. In addition to offering new functionality—like Value Chain Planning solutions in Oracle Supply Chain Management and a truly integrated Talent Management solution—Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1 helps companies achieve rapid value by offering stand-alone solutions that complement existing 11i10 or Release 12 environments. Customers take advantage of these rapid value solutions without having to upgrade wholesale to the latest version. And, customers can also take advantage of a global business platform that will help drive standardization and simplification throughout their enterprises for long-term benefits.

Podcast: Delivering Value in Uncertain Times
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 provides organizations of all sizes, across all industries and regions with a global business foundation that reduces costs and increases productivity through a portfolio of rapid value solutions, integrated business processes and industry-focused solutions.

Press Release: Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Now Available to Help Organizations Achieve Better Business Value
“In today’s economy, customers may not be inclined to implement large-scale upgrades of their core operational systems,” said Bruce Richardson, AMR Research Chief Research Officer. “The ability to recognize rapid value in the near term without requiring an upgrade could be viewed as an effective way to build a strategic IT roadmap and lay the ground work for long-term success.”

Enhanced Lean Supply Features Now Available in New Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1
The newly available Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 offers a range of lean-supply capabilities on a single technology platform designed to eliminate the sometimes steep integration costs that plague point-product solutions.

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Offers Expanded Support for Shared Services
Release 12.1 offers additional capabilities for supporting shared service centers (an increasingly important option for reducing administrative costs), improving transaction-processing efficiency, and addressing higher levels of regulatory scrutiny.

Oracle E-Business Suite HRMS 12.1 Flexes Talent Management Muscle
Expanded talent- and performance-management capabilities now shipping in the new 12.1 version of Oracle E-Business Suite HRMS address a critical HR challenge during tough economic times: how to retain and nurture top performers.