Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications ebook

Business growth and pivoting forward

Recent global events ushered in an era of unprecedented business disruption. So, ask yourself this: How can we be the “best” in the business and ready for whatever comes next?

Can you rely on your current technology to help you solve problems and change course quickly?

Crisis response begins with recovery and ends with resiliency. But it's just the start of a process that involves rethinking how your business, your partnerships, and your processes run. You need to identify and solve business problems fast. That’s how you begin to build business growth based on continuous innovations so that you can get ahead and stay ahead—no matter what the future brings.

At Oracle we built resilience into our own company by modernizing and innovating business processes in the cloud. What we learned from that experience helps us provide guidance on how to take of advantage of the benefits of the cloud and successfully creating a sustainable, responsible, and digitally transformative business.

Becoming a resilient company involves adopting change and preparing for all eventualities, which might at first seem challenging—yet the rewards are great.

Doug Kehring Executive Vice President, Oracle Corporate Operations

Build on our experience

At Oracle, we built resilience into our own company by modernizing our business processes in the cloud. What we learned from that experience helps us provide guidance on how to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud and successfully phase in an enterprisewide digital transformation.

Every aspect of Oracle’s business worldwide now runs in the cloud, and we’ve helped more than 26,000 of our customers with their own business application needs.

Get details on Oracle’s transformation

Only Oracle has the deepest, most complete set of SaaS applications for every aspect of business, with the most advanced global cloud infrastructure available in the market today.

Larry Ellison Executive Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Oracle

Built for you

In times of upheaval, businesses tend to focus on solving the urgent issues directly in front of them. Yet many companies are taking a different approach, turning disruption into opportunity by adopting composable thinking and composable business technologies. Composable organizations recognize that business conditions for everything from customer demands to financial models often change. So they empower their employees to respond and adapt to those new conditions. By implementing innovative software that is composable by design, built by a company with a customer-first mindset, you can be prepared to weather difficult conditions and establish a strong foundation for thriving in an uncertain future.

Apply these strategies

Use your data to solve today’s issues and create resilience

Work with your cloud provider to select the software that will help you surface new insights. Find new ways to use your business data to respond faster to change. You’ll build resilience for your organization.

Think beyond the quick fix: Plan your approach to the cloud

With so many cloud providers available, you may be tempted to subscribe to multiple providers to solve the various issues you’re facing. But an accidental architecture approach can create data silos that prevent you from capturing the full value of your data. It also makes it more difficult to secure and manage multiple integrations.

Consolidate your applications portfolio with a trusted provider

Look for a partner with a customer-first approach, one who is listening and responding to their customers’ issues. For example, when we designed our Cloud Applications, we listened to our customers and built a complete suite of business applications from the ground up. Applications help our customers eliminate data silos, simplify data management, and better protects their data, even as businesses grow and change.

Top 10 signs that it’s time for modern cloud applications

Your organization may be ready for modern cloud applications if one or more of these conditions is present.

Why a complete cloud suite matters

Our complete cloud suite of SaaS applications brings consistent processes and a single source of truth across the most important business functions—from enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, and human capital management to advertising and customer experience. The applications help you improve your customer engagements, increase your business’s agility, and react to change faster than ever before. And all of these applications sit on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a foundation built from scratch to support mission-critical applications.

You get the latest advances in the best technology-ready when you need it. You’ll spend less time analyzing requirements and integrating, managing and upgrading hardware and software.

You don’t have to compromise by choosing between breadth and depth or short-term needs and long-term priorities. A fully integrated cloud suite enables you to bring teams together, create a single source of truth, and experiment with process and business model innovation.

Deep integrations between applications, as well as a common data model, common workflow engine, and a consistent user interface ensure that data is not trapped in silos. Your teams can quickly and easily work together. Business users across your organization have equal and consistent access to the latest capabilities to put your business on a path to reinvention. Collaboration across departments improves and enables roles and responsibilities to evolve as you continue to define what’s next for your business.

With the most comprehensive and robust technology portfolio, unmatched security, and future-proof innovations built in. Oracle’s complete SaaS suite helps you outpace change and be ready for the future. Why deal with the headache of multiple software providers? Eliminate headaches, lower costs, and gain the increased functionality, innovations, and security that your business needs.

We deliver the most complete cloud available today, from Financials, Supply Chain and Manufacturing, Human Resources, Sales, Service, and Marketing—all on a unified technology stack, all on best-in-class technology—which allows you to adopt the most complete solution, not just disparate products that you have to weave together into a solution. This gives you a better experience, better cost, better performance.

Steve Miranda Executive Vice President, Oracle Applications Development

Benefits of a complete cloud suite

A complete business application suite can offer you the following important advantages:

Best technology: Next-generation cloud infrastructure designed for Fusion Applications

As a business user, why should you care about the technology your cloud applications are running on?

As organizations rebuild and recover from disruptions by reconfiguring their supply chains, moving customer and employee engagements to virtual work, and closing their financial books remotely, it is critical to partner with a technology provider that owns the entire technology stack.

Built on our own next-generation cloud infrastructure, we can support customers of all sizes and industries and enable them to benefit from the latest advances in technology. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) gives you everything you need to build new applications and extend your existing ones. You can run your applications more economically and with the performance, resiliency, and security that enterprises need. And, you can bring your enterprise applications to the cloud without refactoring or rewrites.

At Oracle, we own all of the technology stack that powers our suite of cloud applications. And because we own the stack, we pass our cost savings on to you. Your business no longer needs to worry about maintaining a data center, hardware, operating systems, database, network, or all the security.

Applications platform—Go beyond standard features

What if you want to extend your Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications or build your own? Now, you can do that without considerable technical resources or staff.

The Oracle Applications platform is a user experience (UX) design system and a collection of tools that enable enterprise developers to create consumer-grade user experiences engineered to scale with Oracle Cloud Applications. These are the same tools used by our developers, now made available to customers and partners.

With the new applications platform, you can:

• Build and extend your applications with Redwood UX components embedded with the best technology across all devices, including powerful search, intelligent recommendations, and conversational experience
• Preserve your Fusion Cloud Applications extensions through quarterly software updates because the application platform is the same set of tools used by Oracle for its own business applications
• Better support business requirements without the need to staff up technical resources
• Give business users an enhanced experience and improved productivity as AI learns from your unique way of working

The Oracle Applications platform provides the tools that address your unique needs, including Redwood UX building blocks, telemetry, intelligent search, business logic engine, digital assistant, low-code development, and data visualization.

Data that can help shape your future

Most companies have invested years of effort into implementing the enterprise software applications that run their business. They want to leverage the data in these applications to generate insights and create reports, but most analytics ventures require complex data models, custom-developed interfaces, and highly skilled IT professionals to guide the effort.

An added value of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite is that companies that use embedded reporting within Oracle's Cloud ERP, HCM, CX, and SCM applications can jump-start these analytics endeavors with Oracle Fusion Analytics. Designed for line-of-business managers, executives, and analysts who want to go beyond the standard reporting in Oracle Cloud Applications, Oracle Fusion Analytics includes tools, such as out-of-the-box dashboards, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs). You can quickly start analyzing your application data to enhance business operations in finance, HR, sales, marketing, supply chain, and other domains.

Oracle’s prebuilt analytics environment complements and extends the reporting capabilities embedded in Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications—and takes these reporting capabilities to the next level.

Oracle Fusion Analytics is prebuilt and integrates seamlessly with Oracle Cloud applications to help you get real-time access to unified company data so you can make more informed business decisions.

Plan for what’s next

In addition to fast, accurate insights, Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) application capabilities, such as scenario planning are essential for organizations looking to increase growth and define their own future. Scenario planning tools and other performance management features can add tremendous value to the financial planning process.

With these tools, you can analyze the impact of outlier economic events, supply chain disruptions, and other unpredictable business changes. They also help you to align plans across not only finance, but all lines of business.

When executed properly, scenario planning is more than a financial tool. It’s an integrated approach to dealing with uncertainty and visualizing the future, enabling finance organizations to build agility and move the business forward. With a modern EPM solution, CFOs can model multiple scenarios, which is a capability that has become a requirement in a time when historical trends and assumptions are no longer reliable.

Scenario planning and related EPM software solutions offer key ways to enhance the role of finance teams—so they can take actions that will drive smarter, more accurate decision-making.

Designed for you

What is the Redwood design system?

Redwood is Oracle’s next-generation user experience. An essential part of the Oracle Applications platform, the Redwood design system is a collection of prefabricated components, templates, and patterns that enable Oracle customers to extend their Fusion Cloud Applications or build their own Redwood apps.

Creating state-of-the-art user experience at scale requires careful collaboration and coordination, a shared vision around high-end quality, and lots of patience and discipline. That’s why we invest in Redwood as the foundation for the development of Fusion Cloud Applications. With Redwood, Fusion Cloud Applications developers can create very sophisticated and polished interactions quickly—and now you can too.

A shared resource you can use to extend and build applications

Here are a few reasons why applications built using the Redwood design system deliver extraordinary results:

• Consumer-grade and user-centric UX—positive and productive interactions while conducting business
• Embedded conversational and search capabilities—find the information you need and complete tasks easily
• Out-of-box AI/machine learning technology—continually improve your business operations based on user behavior, without extensive coding
• Extensive data visualization components let you access data when and where you need it without worrying where the data resides
• The same modern UX components and tools that Oracle uses internally
• Easy-to-assemble application building blocks address new business needs quickly ,without expensive IT investment

Innovation that matters

As the business environment keeps changing—quickly and unpredictably—businesses are using software to be more competitive and meet evolving stakeholder demands. Cloud application software provides built-in innovation and gives you the ability to respond faster to a dynamic marketplace.

Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications delivers the right technology at the right time via a consistent and modern user experience. This makes it easier for people to complete their tasks, whether they’re at their desks or on the go. They also do tasks for your people: using powerful AI and machine learning that’s already embedded in the applications to automate manual work and enable new business capabilities that weren’t possible before.

Customers also automatically receive new innovations and functionality 4 times a year, with no effort on their part. They know that Oracle has a long track record of anticipating their needs. But at the same time, they don’t want to be constantly updating their business processes. That’s why we ship all of our new functionality as opt-in features and allow our customers to adopt at their own pace.

Making the choice to plan for continuous innovation now will help you turn changes in business and technology into an opportunity. Compared to on-premises systems, cloud software makes it possible for you to spend less time maintaining and upgrading systems and more time focused on driving innovation and serving your customers.

Build your business for the future

A roadmap for your business

A complete SaaS suite built on an advanced cloud infrastructure is a good choice to gain business agility and be ready for growth. But the reality is that your business may not be ready to use all of the technology or all of the business processes available across finance (ERP), SCM, HCM, and CX. That’s why it’s important that your solution makes it easy to modernize key business processes and activate application capabilities as you need them.

An end-to-end suite of applications gives a way to move your business forward. With modern, fully connected business processes that are continuously updated in your applications software you don't have to reinvent the process wheel. Yet if you want to extend or create new applications, you can do that, too.

We truly have a system that touches every aspect of our business.

Jyoti Sidhu Vice President of Operations, Ballard Power Systems

Committed to your success

Partner with Oracle: Start your journey today

Every organization can leverage Oracle Cloud Applications. With more than 1,100 cloud applications, you have unparalleled choice through the world’s most complete suite of applications. Built on the best technology, Oracle Cloud Applications delivers continuous innovation with applications across every business function—and you gain the business resilience, security, and flexibility your business needs.

Get started with cloud applications that enable you to respond to market demands faster, present more targeted offers to customers, manage your finances better, and empower your workforce with modern software solutions.

Our sales teams and partners will get you started on your journey to the cloud to build a foundation for your growth and success.

The time is now—your journey to Oracle Cloud starts today.

Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite

Whether you want to improve an existing or new business process, innovate in one key area, or reduce data silos with a unified suite of applications, we are here to support your journey every step of the way. Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite is a complete, connected suite of cloud applications and the best technology, with comprehensive security, scalable deployment, and high performance for:

ERP

Gain the resilience and agility you need and position your organization for continuous innovation and growth. Move to the cloud faster, more easily, and with less risk than with other ERP providers.

EPM

Seamlessly connect finance with every part of your business for enterprisewide agility, alignment, and insights. Analyze, plan, budget, forecast, and generate reports by using embedded intelligence to drive better decisions with scenario modeling and built-in, advanced analytics.

HCM

Deliver a consistent experience across devices with a single source of truth for better-informed decision-making. Easy access, simple and intuitive AI, and personalized experiences increase business agility and help your workforce do their best work.

SCM

Proactively adapt to changing conditions with the latest innovations at your fingertips. Make faster decisions with agile manufacturing and supply chain execution and planning that meets the demands of connected sales, service, and supply chain.

CX

Develop strong and lasting customer relationships with personalized experiences built on intelligent interpretations of customer signals. Unify your systems and applications across the organization to deliver real-time personalized customer experiences.