What’s Oracle E-Business Suite | Oracle Apps R12

By Jag - September 10, 2012
Q1: What Is Oracle E-Business Suite?
Q2: Is Oracle E-Business Suite known by other names?
Q3: Give an example, to explain why someone need Oracle E-Business Suite?
Q4: Name the product Families of Oracle E-Business Suite?
Q5: Is there any individual application for each product family?
Q6: Where can I get the resources for further study?
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Q1: What Is Oracle E-Business Suite?
Oracle E-Business Suite is a software package that allows organizations to manage key business processes
Q2: Is Oracle E-Business Suite known by other names?
it is known on the market by various names such as Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle Apps, Oracle Applications, Oracle Financials, e-Biz and EBS (E-Business Suite).
Q3: Give an example, to explain why someone need  E-Business Suite?
For example, most organizations require a system to make purchases from suppliers and a system to make payments to the suppliers,events known as transactions that need to be accounted for in the financial reporting.
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software prepackages different types of these functionalities into out-of-the-box software package, so that customers who purchase such software packages do not have to develop the same software applications time and again.
In other words,In the past, Most of the software that was developed in-house largely matched the precise needs of the business. However, the fundamental business flows and processes such as accounting, procurement, human resource/employee management, and order management are based on common principles across all organizations. That’s what E-Business do for you.
Q4: Name the product Families of Oracle E-Business Suite?
Some of the key product families are as follows:
Financials
Procurement
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Project Management
Supply Chain Planning and Management
Discrete Manufacturing
Process Manufacturing
Order Management
Human Resources Management System (HRMS)
Applications Technology
Q5: Is there any individual application for each product family?
Yes,In E-Business Suite, each product family usually consists of individual applications. For example, some of the applications that make up the Oracle Financials product family are General Ledger, Payables, Receivables, Cash Management,iReceivables,iExpenses, and others.
Q6: Where can I get the resources for further study?
Oracle Technology Network (Documentation section) www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/applications.html
Oracle E-Business Suite www.oracle.com/applications/e-business-suite.html
Oracle Metalink (requires registration) metalink.oracle.com
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  1. Very useful post. You have provided a good amount of detail to explain oracle e business suite and its purpose. I was just familiar with the name but from this article got a chance to know so much about it. Thanks for sharing it.
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