Applications Tools and Technology
Available across all Oracle product lines—Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools and Technology, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools and Technology, JD Edwards World. Oracle Applications Tools and Technology provides customers with many information-driven advantages.

To learn more about these advantages, please visit the recently launched Oracle Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft and Siebel, which provide technical hands-on content geared to application Developers and Technologists to help start creating SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) with enterprise applications today. "Best Practices" are offered for how to service-enable each application and then build integrations and composite applications using Fusion Middleware technology such as BPEL, ESB, BAM, ADF, and WebCenter.

Also, starting in May 2008, we hope you will join us, for our Technical Webcast series, where we will share Best Practices, Tips and Techniques in interactive Webcasts with live demonstrations and Q&A sessions, from experts in Development, Consulting, Product Management as well as leading System Integrators and customers. Visit the Best Practice Centers (E-Business Suite|PeopleSoft|Siebel) for the Webcast schedules.

PodCasts with Cliff Godwin (SVP, Applications Group), please click here.

Product Line Cross Products Oracle E-Busienss Suite Tools and Technology Oracle Application Integration Architecture PeopleSoft Enterprise Tools and Technology Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools and Technology Oracle Fusion Middleware for Applications JD Edwards World     Siebel Tools and Technology

Highlights Upgrading to Oracle Fusion Applications: Planning Ahead (by Cliff Godwin - SVP Applications Development): Oracle OpenWorld 2007 10 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Oracle Fusion Applications (by Nadia Bendjedou - Director Applications Development): Oracle OpenWorld 2007) AppCast: How Oracle Applications Customers Can Benefit from Oracle Fusion Middleware Today (14 min.) Cliff Godwin speaks with Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President of Development for Oracle Fusion Middleware about Oracle's Fusion Middleware technology and its benefits to E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne customers. AppCast: Top 10 Things to do to Prepare for Fusion Applications (12 min.) Cliff speaks with Nadia Bendjedou, Product Strategy Director for Oracle's Fusion Upgrade Office, about ways customers can prepare their current Oracle investment for Fusion by leveraging best practices, taking advantage of Oracle's Fusion Architecture and Fusion Middleware, and moving to SOA-based Integration. AppCast: The Value of Oracle's Application Integration Architecture (AIA) to IT Managers (12 min.) Cliff speaks with Jose Lazares, Vice President of Oracle's Application Development organization about what AIA is, how AIA leverages SOA, and how AIA helps provide a pathway to Fusion Applications. AppCast: Why Customers Are Happy with Oracle BI Publisher (8 min.) Osama Elkady, Senior Director for Oracle's Applications Internationalization, reviews with Cliff why customers enjoy using Oracle's XMLP and are excited about its tighter integration with Oracle's Business Intelligence products. AppCast: Enterprise Manager: Application Management Packs for E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and Siebel (13 min.) Jay Rossiter, Oracle's Vice President for System Management Products speaks with Cliff about the functionality of Application Management Packs, the differences between Oracle's and 3rd party offerings and why are we offering these packs now ahead of our Fusion release and what is the plan for Fusion? AppCast: The Importance of Customer Data Management and the Benefits of Data Hubs to an Enterprise (19 min.) Cliff talks with Peter Heller, Senior Director, Oracle's Applications Product Marketing, about the value customers have received from implementing an Oracle Data Hub. AppCast: Oracle's Fusion User Experience is a Key Ingredient to their Customers' Success (10 min.) Jeremy Ashley, Vice President of Oracle's Applications User Experience and Luke Kowalski, Corporate UI Architect for Oracle discuss with Cliff how User Experience and User Centered Design are key in Oracle's strategy to deliver quality experiences for its end users, ease of use, flexibility, and finally ... the right business flows in the Fusion applications. Executive Insight: Oracle Executive Blogs: Insight from the Visionaries Driving Oracle Fusion Oracle Fusion Summit Strategies white paper: Oracle Fusion Architecture (PDF, 400 KB)