Q7: How many copies of Oracle E-Business Suite installations do we need?
Q8: So many of them, could we just have some of them?
Q9: Is it possible to share the existing data with other applications? Is it hard to maintain?
Q10: Are Oracle Applications built around a single data model?
Q11: What does it(A single data model) mean to developer?
Q12: Can you give some example of data sharing between the different products in Oracle Applications?
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Q7: How many copies of Oracle E-Business Suite installations do we need?
Development environment is where developers design and build extensions and customizations. Testing environment (also known as UAT) is where users sign off on customizations and configuration changes. Patches/scripts can then be promoted there before applying code changes to a Production instance.
Finally, Production environment, you runs business day-to-day operations.
Q8: So many of them, could we just have some of them?
Yes, you could, simply to put it, the developer performs the development and unit testing in the development environment, and the code gets promoted to the testing environment.Following successful testing, the changes are applied to the production environment.
Q9: Is it possible to share the existing data with other applications? Is it hard to maintain?
First, it is possible, but second, it is hard. Now, organizations tend to build or implement new applications to meet their business needs as they grow, ending up with “point-to-point” solutions between the systems because new applications need to share the existing data with other applications in the organization. It might be having a domino effect on some components of the system and make it more expensive to maintain when major changes occur in one application while it shares data with others.
Q10: Are Oracle Applications built around a single data model?
Yes, Oracle E-Business Suite is trying to address this issue by integrating around a single common data model.
It means that within a single database you can find a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees, inventory items, products, and all the other important aspects of a business or an organization.
Q11: What does it(A single data model) mean to developer?
It is important for developers to keep this in mind, as almost all of the custom development efforts in Oracle Applications will reference the common or shared entities.For example, suppliers defined in Oracle Payables are shared between Payables, Assets, and Purchasing applications. Similarly, items defined in Oracle Inventory are shared by Purchasing,
Order Management, and Receivables. Further examples of the shared entities are Organizations, Locations, Employees, Units of Measure, and Items.
Q12: Can you give some example of data sharing between the different products in Oracle Applications?
There are three common entities that are shared across the modules: Items, Customers, and Suppliers.
Items,they are usually the things that an organization or a company makes,purchases, or sells. Order Management and Purchasing and many other Oracle applications use the definitions of items configured in Oracle Inventory.
Different applications use items for different purposes.In Oracle Inventory, items are used for stocking process, planning, and cost;in Payables, items are used in supplier invoices; in Receivables, they are used as units to bill the customers.
Customers, they purchase orders are created in Order Management (OM). Sales orders define what products are shipped to the customers. After shipping the products to your customers, you invoice the customers through Receivables, and Oracle Inventory adjusts the quantity of the products currently held. The customers created in Order Management are shared with Receivables and vice versa.
Suppliers, they are defined through the Oracle Purchasing module. The suppliers are business or trading partners that deliver goods or services of some kind. The supplier invoices are entered into the Oracle Payables and matched to the purchase orders in the Oracle Purchasing module. You can create suppliers in different modules such as Payables or Purchasing.
Q8: So many of them, could we just have some of them?
Q9: Is it possible to share the existing data with other applications? Is it hard to maintain?
Q10: Are Oracle Applications built around a single data model?
Q11: What does it(A single data model) mean to developer?
Q12: Can you give some example of data sharing between the different products in Oracle Applications?
——————————————————————————–
Q7: How many copies of Oracle E-Business Suite installations do we need?
Development environment is where developers design and build extensions and customizations. Testing environment (also known as UAT) is where users sign off on customizations and configuration changes. Patches/scripts can then be promoted there before applying code changes to a Production instance.
Finally, Production environment, you runs business day-to-day operations.
Q8: So many of them, could we just have some of them?
Yes, you could, simply to put it, the developer performs the development and unit testing in the development environment, and the code gets promoted to the testing environment.Following successful testing, the changes are applied to the production environment.
Q9: Is it possible to share the existing data with other applications? Is it hard to maintain?
First, it is possible, but second, it is hard. Now, organizations tend to build or implement new applications to meet their business needs as they grow, ending up with “point-to-point” solutions between the systems because new applications need to share the existing data with other applications in the organization. It might be having a domino effect on some components of the system and make it more expensive to maintain when major changes occur in one application while it shares data with others.
Q10: Are Oracle Applications built around a single data model?
Yes, Oracle E-Business Suite is trying to address this issue by integrating around a single common data model.
It means that within a single database you can find a single definition of your customers, suppliers, employees, inventory items, products, and all the other important aspects of a business or an organization.
Q11: What does it(A single data model) mean to developer?
It is important for developers to keep this in mind, as almost all of the custom development efforts in Oracle Applications will reference the common or shared entities.For example, suppliers defined in Oracle Payables are shared between Payables, Assets, and Purchasing applications. Similarly, items defined in Oracle Inventory are shared by Purchasing,
Order Management, and Receivables. Further examples of the shared entities are Organizations, Locations, Employees, Units of Measure, and Items.
Q12: Can you give some example of data sharing between the different products in Oracle Applications?
There are three common entities that are shared across the modules: Items, Customers, and Suppliers.
Items,they are usually the things that an organization or a company makes,purchases, or sells. Order Management and Purchasing and many other Oracle applications use the definitions of items configured in Oracle Inventory.
Different applications use items for different purposes.In Oracle Inventory, items are used for stocking process, planning, and cost;in Payables, items are used in supplier invoices; in Receivables, they are used as units to bill the customers.
Customers, they purchase orders are created in Order Management (OM). Sales orders define what products are shipped to the customers. After shipping the products to your customers, you invoice the customers through Receivables, and Oracle Inventory adjusts the quantity of the products currently held. The customers created in Order Management are shared with Receivables and vice versa.
Suppliers, they are defined through the Oracle Purchasing module. The suppliers are business or trading partners that deliver goods or services of some kind. The supplier invoices are entered into the Oracle Payables and matched to the purchase orders in the Oracle Purchasing module. You can create suppliers in different modules such as Payables or Purchasing.
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