Oracle E-Business Suite
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Oracle Applications is a collection of business ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) applications developed by Oracle Corporation, which utilize their core RDBM database technology. Sometimes referred to as Oracles "E-Business Suite", Oracle Applications (currently Release 12, released 31st January 2007), contains several product lines such as Oracle Financials, Oracle Logistics, Oracle HR, Oracle Sales, and others. Within each product, there are several modules, each to be separately licensed.
Key technologies incorporated into the applications are the Oracle database technologies, (RDBMS, PL/SQL, java, html, xml, engines), the "technology stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Discoverer, Jinitiator and (Sun Java).
[edit] Oracle Financials
Oracle Financials includes several dozens of "modules", each which is separately licensed within the E-Business Suite. The modules include:
- Advanced Collections
- Assets
- Balanced Scorecard
- Cash Management
- Daily Business Intelligence for Financials
- Enterprise Planning and Budgeting
- Financial Consolidation Hub
- Financials Centralized Solution Set ( FINS)
- General Ledger
- Internal Controls Manager Internet Expenses
- Payments
- iReceivables
- Lease Management
- Loans
- Payables
- Property Manager
- Receivables
- Treasury
Oracle Ledger includes ERP features like Intercompany transactions, Consolidation etc.
Main competitor: SAP with mySAP ERP consisting of mySAP ERP Financials.