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Western Australia Regional Tv Guide Western australia regional tv guide Continue Oracle Applications includes Oracle's application software or business software. The term refers to non-database and non-medium parts. Oracle sells many functional modules that use Oracle RDBMS as a back end, including Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle SCM, Oracle Projects, Oracle CRM and Oracle Procurement. Oracle launched its financial software application package in the late 1980s. The offer since 2009 covers supply chain management, human resources management, warehouse management, customer management, call center services, product lifecycle management, and many other areas. Both intra- ready expansion and acquisitions of other companies have significantly expanded Oracle's application software business. Oracle released Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/e-BS) Release 12 (R12), a combination of several Oracle applications, in February 2007. The release date coincided with new releases from other Oracle-owned products: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel Systems and PeopleSoft. Oracle's 2012 application portfolio consisted of the following software and product suites: You can help by expanding it from securely sourced records. This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. Basic Oracle Fusion Applications Oracle E-Business Suite PeopleSoft Enterprise Siebel JD Edwards EnterpriseOne JD Edwards World Hyperion Netsuite Master Data Management Industry Vertical ATG/Endeca Applications Under Oracle Commerce Oracle Retail Micros (Retail and Hospitality, Acquired after 2012) Primavera Agile AutoVue (for CAD and Graphics Processing) ( ) Oracle E-Business Suite Oracle E-Business Suite (also known as applications/apps, EB-Suite/EBS, eBus or E-Biz) consists of a collection of corporate resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and computer applications, either developed or acquired by Oracle. The software uses basic technology from Oracle's relational database management system. The E-Business Suite contains several product lines, often known as short acronyms. Significant technologies included in the applications include Oracle database technologies (engines for RDBMS, PL/S'L, Java, .NET, HTML and XML), technology stack (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Server Reports, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer, Jinitiator, and Sun's Java). Oracle Corporation brands online technical documentation E-Business Suite as eTRM - E-Business Suite Technical Reference Guides. This makes the following enterprise applications available as part of the Oracle eBusiness Suite: This section needs to be expanded. You can help by adding to it. (December 2009 Управление жизненным циклом Управление активами Управление имуществом Управления отношениями с клиентами Управления корпоративными ресурсами Планирование финансового управления человеческого капитала Управление проектом Управление закупками Oracle Расширенный закупки »8» Oracle Sourcing »9» Продукт жизненного цикла Управления цепочкой поставок управления (10) Управление цепочками поставок Логистика » Управление транспортными управления Управлением Управление ценами Производство дискретного производственного процесса Производство Oracle Финансовые приложения Oracle E-Business Suite предоставляет набор финансовых приложений, используемых на международном уровне. Oracle has grouped these applications into suites, which it defines as sets of shared integrated applications designed to run specific business processes. Oracle Financials is a closely related financial module, such as Oracle Assets Oracle General Ledger Oracle Payables Oracle Receivables Oracle Cash Management Oracle Tabs Key business processes enabled by financial applications include: Procure-to-Pay businessflow stream, including activities such as procurement, procurement, vendor payment, and subsequent accounting. The order-to-Cash businessflow includes activities such as customer orders, order fulfillment, customer payment, and subsequent accounting. Oracle Project Portfolio Management Applications Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis Oracle Project Billing Oracle Project Oracle Daily Business Analyst Oracle Project Collaboration Oracle Project Collaboration Oracle Project Project Cost Oracle Project Oracle Project Project Oracle Project Management Other Additional Oracle E-Business Suite Products include: Oracle Bills Material Oracle Corporate Asset Management (eAM) Oracle Capacity Oracle CRM Oracle Advanced Planning Oracle Payroll Oracle Purchase Oracle Landed Office of Oracle Receivables Office Oracle TMS (Transport/G-Log) Oracle Work during the Oracle Manufacturing Process Oracle Federal Office of Oracle Sales Oracle Oracle Workflow Financial Oracle SCM Oracle Customer Relations Oracle HRMS in 2008 Oracle Acceleration in 2008 Oracle launched a suite of applications for a medium business called Oracle. Accelerate provides access to Oracle ERP products through a local affiliate network and packages products in accordance with vertical industry requirements. Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) Oracle User Productivity Kit provides a platform for developing, deploying, and maintaining content. See also CEMLI's List of Oracle Acquisitions (includes acquisitions that have expanded the portfolio of applications) Links - Matt, Light; Daniel B. Stang (2005-06-22). Magic it's an IT project and portfolio, portfolio, (PDF). Gartner study. page 3. Received 2010-09-01. Oracle apps. Oracle Corporation. Received 2012-02-18. Edward, Mendelssohn (1998-03-24). AutoVue Professional. PC Magazine. page 159. Received 2013-07-08. Cimmetry Systems' AutoVue Professional offers a complex set of features for viewing and maintaining CAD and graphics files. Introduction to Oracle E-Biz. Oracle HRMS. Received 2018-06-25. Oracle® E-Business Suite (PDF). An integrated guide to implementing SOA gateways. Oracle. June 2010. Received 2013-10-07. Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1. Oracle. Received 2013-10-07. Oracle Apps 11i Documentation. Oracle. Received 2016-10-20. Oracle Advanced Purchases. Oracle Corp. received 2009-06-16. Oracle Advanced Procurement is an integrated suite of applications that dramatically reduces all supply management costs. Oracle Sourcing. Oracle Corporation. Received 2009-06-16. Oracle Sourcing is a corporate application that provides more and more and better sources through online collaboration and negotiation. This is a key component of Oracle Advanced Procurement . Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Supply Chain Management. IT Pro. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781849680653. Received 2013-09-29. Financial Management of The Applications. Oracle. Received 2016-10-20. - oracleppstechnical.com - Oracle Enterprise Class Software - Oracle User Productivity Kit. Oracle Corporation. Received 2011-04-19. Oracle UPK User Performance Kit is an easy-to-use and comprehensive content development, deployment, and maintenance platform. Further reading Cameron, Melanie. Oracle General Ledger Guide (2009) McGraw Hill. ISBN 0-07-162229-2. Cameron, Melanie. Oracle Procure-to-Pay (2009) McGraw-Hill Guide. ISBN 0-07-162227-6. Oracle Apps External Links HomePage Oracle Applications Users Group Oracle Fusion Applications extracted from the of the American Multinational Corporation of Computer Technology Oracle CorporationHeadquarters in Redwood City, CaliforniaTypePublicTraded asNYSE: ORCLS-P 100 Components-P 500 ComponentISINUS6838389X1054 IndustryEnterprise softwareCloud computing equipment16, 1977; 43 years ago (1977-06-16)Santa Clara, California, USA, USA, FoundersLarry AllisonBob Miner Oates, headquarters of Redwood City, California, United StatesArea servedWorldwideKey peopleLarry Ellison (Executive Chairman and CTO)Jeff Henley (Vice Chairman) Safra Catz (CEO) ProductsOracle ApplicationsOracle DatabaseOracle CloudEnterprise ManagerFusion MiddlewareWorkers US$39.07 billion (2020) The company sells database software and technologies, cloud systems and corporate software products, particularly its own database management systems brands. In 2019, Oracle became the second largest company by revenue and market capitalization. The company also develops and builds tools for mid-level database and software development, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management software (SCM). The story of Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates called Software Development Laboratories (SDL). Ellison drew inspiration from a 1970 article written by Edgar F. Code on Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) titled The Relational Data Model for Large Common Data Banks. He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Journal provided by Oates. Ellison wanted to make the Oracle product compatible with System R, but didn't because IBM kept the error codes for its DBMS a secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc. (RSI) in 1979 and then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1983 to more closely align itself with its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage, Bob Miner was a senior programmer for the company. On March 12, 1986, the company received an initial public offering. In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corporation, officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the holding company. Part of Oracle's early success stemmed from the use of the C programming language to implement its products. This has made it easier to port various operating systems, most of which support
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