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Products and how it’s being used in industry applications. Please visit
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features.
Oracle E- Business Suite
Oracle E-Business Suite is the industry's only complete and integrated
set of enterprise applications, working together seamlessly to
streamline every area of your business—from sales, service, and
marketing, through financials and human resources, to supply chain and
manufacturing. Oracle E-Business Suite is your fastest path to
high-quality enterprise intelligence, bringing your company a true
360-degree view of your finances, your customers, and your supply
chains, so you can make faster, better decisions and grow profitability
in a competitive marketplace.
Application software typically automates only departmental business
processes. Oracle E-Business Suite is different; it automates all parts
of your business. From developing, marketing, selling, ordering,
planning, procuring, manufacturing, fulfilling, servicing, and
maintaining, to handling finance, human resources, and project
management—Oracle E-Business Suite provides a comprehensive and
integrated offering. In the past, you had to choose between an
integrated suite and “best of breed” for rich functionality. With
Oracle, you can now have an integrated suite built on unified
information architecture—with the functionality you need in each
individual application. These applications connect business processes
within and across departmental, geographical, and line-of-business
domains. With Oracle E-Business Suite’s depth of product functionality
and breadth of product offering, you can take your business further by
automating processes across the enterprise.
Oracle E- Business Suite - Industry Applications
Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10 offers over 2,100 new capabilities, half of which meet specific industry needs, including:
Financial Services: SOP documentation and auditing for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations.
Healthcare: Medication administration, patient encounter-specific
financial information, integrated patient care and operational
intelligence.
Manufacturing/High Technology: Option-dependent sourcing, automated
spare parts return and repair processing, international drop shipments,
distribution planning.
SAP
What is SAP?
SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is the
leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package. SAP was
the first to integrate a corporation's worldwide functions tightly into
one application. SAP R/2 was released as the first version of their
software in 1979. Its domination of the market occurred during the
1980s, expanding first throughout Europe (early 1980s) and then North
America (1988). SAP R/3, an advanced, client-server based version of
the popular R/2 product, was released in 1992 and sparked a stunning
takeover of America's largest businesses — 44% of US companies were
using it within five years of its expansion. In 1999, SAP introduced
its newest major product upgrade. Named mySAP.com to emphasize its
shift to an e- business focus, mySAP.com builds on the strengths of the
SAP R/3 product in a fully Internet enabled architecture. MySAP.com
also incorporates SAP's newest business applications for CRM, Supply
Chain Management (SAP APO), and Data Warehousing (Business Information
Warehouse or BW).
Prior to the introduction of mySAP.com, these applications had been
incorporated as add-ons to SAP R/3 and were known as New Dimension
products. Given below is a brief overview of both the products from SAP
– SAP R/3 and mySAP.
SAP R/3 Overview
SAP R/3 is SAP's integrated software solution for client/server and
distributed open systems. SAP's R/3 is the world's most-used standard
business software for client/server computing. R/3 meets the needs of a
customer from the small grocer with 3 users to the multi-billion dollar
companies The software is highly customizable using SAP's proprietary
programming language, ABAP/4. R/3 is scalable and highly suited for
many types and sizes of organizations.
The R/3 architecture is comprised of application and database servers.
The application servers house the software and the database servers
handle document updates and master file databases. The system can
support an unlimited number of servers and a variety of hardware
configurations. For more information see SAP R/3 Architecture at SAP
home page.
SAP R/3 is based on various hardware and software architectures,
running on most types of UNIX, on Windows NT and OS/400. SAP R/3 runs
on several databases Oracle, Adabas D, Informix, DB2 for UNIX, DB2/400,
and Microsoft’s SQL Server 6.0. Since R/3 foundation, SAP has made
significant development and installed thousands of R/3 systems.
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