Having Confusion around Fusion!!!!!!!!!!!
Question: What will be my role as Oracle Fusion Developer?
Answer: As a Fusion Developer role you would be playing a very important role in the next generation Applications that customers will be embarking on. It's a paradigm shift from current approach to a process centric approach. Typically in a Fusion project there will be necessity to extend or integrate the functionality with a process centric approach with existing applications (Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft , or otherwise) via J2EE/ADF and Oracle SOA—or building new components on the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack. As a Fusion Developer you would building those components on Fusion Stack and Deploy them in Fusion Middleware.
Question: Please let me know the difference between Fusion Architecture, Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications.
Answer: Fusion Architecture is a reference architecture or blueprint for building applications. It can be referred to as the Enterprise Architecture Platform of Oracle
Fusion Middleware - Middleware infrastructure services that can be used to build and deploy applications.
Fusion Applications - Oracle's next generation applications suite, built on top of Fusion Middleware using Fusion Architecture as blueprint
Question: I had a query about the impact of Fusion on Oracle E-Business Suite. We are currently implementing Release 12 of Oracle E-Business Suite. Would like to understand if the Fusion architecture is already part of Release12? Going forward how is Fusion going to affect Oracle E-Business Suite?
Answer: Oracle eBS R12 is a step closer to the Fusion Apps – the tech stack has been upgraded to include the ability to invoke web services and business components along with XML publisher. Although R12 is not based entirely on Fusion Architecture--- it is slowly getting into the Oracle E-Business Suite. R12 is having more Web services and SOA support out of box which customers can leverage via Oracle Application Adapter or Fusion Middleware. The service interface, service tester, “Swan” user interface changes, and uptake of Oracle JDeveloper 10 g Release 3 (10.1.3) are new for Release 12.
Some of the Fusion Technology which is part of R12 is:
OracleAS 10 g Portal, OracleAS 10 g Single Sign-On/Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Collaboration Suite5 10 g and Oracle Enterprise Manager6 10 g.
Going forward Oracle will include more and more of Fusion Middleware in E-Business suite.
• Oracle Forms is being eliminated in favor of WebCenter technology/ADF Faces.
• Internal Workflow will use the BPEL Manager technology that will completely change workflow. All the existing Workflow functionality will be migrated to BPEL based workflows in Fusion Apps.
• While PL/SQL will always be part of the mix, your technical team's skills will require a substantial upgrade. Java, WebCenter, and BPEL will become more important. Since these tools are already appearing in Fusion Middleware and are at the center of AIA and E-Business Suite R12, existing E-Business Suite customers can and should gain familiarity with them.
• With such a change in underlying technology, performance characteristics are likely to be much different. Oracle and other enterprise applications vendors are already seeing the use of Java increasing hardware requirements. Anyone converting to Fusion Applications will need to perform extensive performance and scalability testing before going live, as the bottlenecks and tuning requirements are likely to be completely different than they used to be.
Question: Are Forms, Reports and OAF will not be there at all?
Answer: Oracle's development tools like Forms/Reports/Workflow will continue to exist as a part of support their existing applications and other customers who would like to use them as a part of expanding their current investments in these tools.
Oracle themselves are building their next generation Fusion Applications on a new infrastructure which is more driven by the objective of breaking the large monolithic applications into small business services and then configuring the business processes of the customer specific requirements using these business services
Question: Will Workflows will be there or not?
Answer: Oracle's Workflow as a product will exist for some more time to support their existing applications and customers. But in Fusion applications they are building all the process flows in Oracle BPEL. Also workflow is one product where Oracle seems to clearly heading towards retiring as no further investments are being planned on this product. Whereas Oracle Forms and Reports still attract investments for further enhancements and product roadmap exists for another couple of years.
Comments
Excellent post, Malay. This is extremely useful info, explained in simple terms.
Posted by: Jayaram | June 11, 2008 11:53 AM
Good Post..
Posted by: Venu | June 19, 2008 6:08 AM
Malay,
Nice blog to start with. I think it would help if you wrote something comparing SAP Strategy with Oracle Strategy (at low level)
Posted by: Aniruddha Ray | July 4, 2008 11:08 AM
Malay, that's a good overview of Oracle Fusion.
I would like to add couple of interesting things at Oracle regarding fusion, i.e AIA (Application Integration Architecture), standards based framework to create cross-business applications. There is a good blog on this too http://blogs.oracle.com/aia/
Also, regarding Forms/Reports, Oracle has been subtle in its message to its customers to move towards J2EE (via ADF, JHeadstart etc)
Keep the Fusion postings coming.. all the best
Posted by: prashanth rao | August 5, 2008 10:24 AM
I am currently working on oracle fusion middleware ..I will be using that application to process and transfer the data. Interfaces between different applications is outsourced.So what will be my role in that and what should I know prior to using this application ?
Posted by: kashmira | October 15, 2008 6:58 AM
Hi,
I am a Siebel developer. I use Siebel tools to configure Siebel applications. Oracle is releasing new releases of Siebel. Will they really stop Siebel developement at some time. Around what time will that happen? Will Siebel tools skills become obsolete? I get confused thinking whether I should spend time on enhancing the current Siebel framework skills or should I build Fusion skills.
I guess it would take more than 5 years before Fusion CMR applications deployment gets started. I would like to know your thoughts on this.
Posted by: girish | May 18, 2009 7:37 AM
Siebel development will not stop and Siebel tools skills will not be obsolete. Fusion Application will be released as vertical application based on processes. Although all the integration architecture will be standardized on Fusion middleware and AIA/PIPs will be more active.
Posted by: Malay Kumar | May 18, 2009 9:40 AM
Useful info. Keep on posting.
Posted by: viswanath | June 23, 2009 6:22 AM