Oracle Applications - Behind the scenes

-> User will launch a web browser and enter the URL
-> The Web Server then services the access request.
-> Login screen comes up.
-> Once logged in, the user selects a menu option to begin his or her work.
-> The menu option will direct the user to an HTML or a Forms Application.
-> The Web Server will service HTML Application Request.
-> The Forms Server will service Forms Application Request.
-> Throughout this process, data is being retrieved from the Oracle Database.

Oracle E-Biz Suite - Standard Product Abbreviations

These are the standard product abbreviations and are commonly used to refer Oracle Applications. 

Short Name	Full Name
FND	Application Object Library
GL	General Ledger
AR	Receivables
INV	Inventory
PO	Purchasing
ONT	Order Management
OE	Order Entry
EAM	Enterprise Asset Management
OKC	Core Contracts
QP	Advance Pricing
PAY	Pay Roll
PA	Projects
OKS	Service Contracts
MFG	Manufacturing
IBE	iStore
HXT	Time and Labor
GMD	Process Manufacturing Product Development
CZ	Configurator
CST	Cost Management
ASN	Sales
BEN	Benefits
DDR	Demand Signal Repository
MSC	Advanced Supply Chain Planning
PJM	Project Manufacturing
ZX	E-Business Tax
PN	Property Manager
MWA	Mobile Applications

For entire list at each release level, please logon to the following URL:

http://etrm.oracle.com/

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Oracle Applications

For a beginner many questions may come to his/her mind. To help understand few of the general concepts I have pen down the following:

1. What is/are Oracle Application(s)?

A) Oracle applications are software modules designed, developed to track large scale enterprise/organizations day-to-day activities. (Large scale industry examples: Manufacturing companies, Oil industries, Rail/Road/Airways, Service industries etc).

 2. Which software modules are available in Oracle Applications?

A) Oracle Apps are primarily categorized as

1) E-Business Suite

                2) Fusion Applications

Note: Apps is short for Applications

3. What is E-Business Suite?

A) E-Business Suite is integration of various software product families mentioned below:

                1) Oracle Financials

                2) Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM)

                3) Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM)

                4) Oracle Projects

                5) Oracle Procurements

                6) Oracle Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Initially Oracle E-Business Suite was started with only Financials product family in the year 1987. In the later years it has evolved into above mentioned 6 product families and some e-lite/edge products. E-Biz Suite has got various releases till date and current release in market is R12.1.1.

Note: E-Biz Suite is short for E-Business Suite

4. What are Fusion Applications?

A. Oracle acquired many companies (PeopleSoft, Siebel CRM, Demantra, Agile, G-Log, Logical Apps, etc) from beginning of 2000 and integrated with Oracle E-Business Suite.  With this strategy Oracle was gaining acquisitioned products customers and same time selling acquired products to existing E-Biz customers.  To capture new customers and to retain the leadership in the ERP world, Oracle started developing Next-Gen Applications called Oracle Fusion Suite/Applications with best of breed of all existing applications and new framework ADF.  At present it is being developed in Oracle development centers across the globe. Its initial release would be Fusion V1 and comes in 46-50 modules approximately. Some of the module names in V1 are Distributed Order Orchestration, Financials etc.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/fusion/index.html