Infosys-Oracle Blog : Path to the Fusion

Cliff Godwin's recent annoucement on strategy of Upgrading to Fusion Applications in Collab-08 has certainly provided a good direction statement on how things are shaping up on the Fusion Applications being built. Few of the sailent points that can be inferred from this strategy are:

The Applications are slowly incorporating the new generation technology tools and hence please don't expect a one major release of Fusion Applications
As the above diagram depicts there are various packs/flavours of the applications surrounding the existing core erp functionality will be released. we are already seeing the early version of AIA -Foundation packs thats been released that are incorporating the pre-packaged canonicals. another good example is BI applications surrounding the ERP functionality
Also the functionality of erp would be released in phases and in terms of pillars like CRM pillar, SCM pillar, etc. so with these kind of functionality being rolled out we should assume that the stabilized version of complete fusion applications in 4-5 years from now

So with these timelines and strategy from Oracle I would recommend the customers to adopt the latest version of ERP application so that they can benefit from the latest functionalities incorporated into these versions and also support for the next generation technologies and tools.

I would like to hear your comments on this topic

Comments

Nice article Rizwan. I think it would help in a subsequent article if you focussed on the joruney from stage to stage (e.g: AIA to Fusion Reporting) with some case studies.

Posted by: Aniruddha Ray | July 4, 2008 11:06 AM

Hello Rizwan,

Can you please explain, what does the point Automated Data Upgrade mean? Does that mean, say one who has Siebel application, plans to move to Fusion, how will his Siebel database get converted to Fusion application database schema?
Will it make sense to have data migration as part of Fusion migration stack or not?

Posted by: girish | May 18, 2009 7:19 AM