I have moved from the Product Marketing organization at Oracle to Development or to what I used to think was the dark side. But what I am now finding is that there is a very bright light at the end of the tunnel and beyond. I have joined the Fusion Upgrade Program Office (FUPO), which is a new organization within Development and a group that employs people who are doing great things. Their focus is on all aspects of the Oracle applications customer experience when upgrading from any of the Oracle Applications Unlimited product lines to Fusion Applications. Key upgrade questions such as building a roadmap, choosing a time for migrating data and customizing extensions are addressed by this team.
Delivering Innovation
Oracle has been a leader in the software business for more than 30 years. During this time, technology has evolved from mainframe to client-server, to internet architecture, and through it all, Oracle has continually delivered innovation to ensure customer success.
Oracle's strategy is to expand its applications offerings with acquisitions of best in class vendors. But rather than conforming to traditional industry practices, Oracle has changed the rules of what it means for one vendor to acquire another. The Applications Unlimited Program is a good example of how Oracle is thinking about their customer's piece of mind. This program is committed to advancing current application product lines beyond the delivery of its enterprise application suite for the next generation product, Fusion Applications. Applications Unlimited provides customers the choice of continuing to receive value from their existing application product lines or the opportunity to move to Fusion Applications.
For existing application customers who want to adopt Fusion Applications, Oracle is dedicating people to focus on delivering technology and best practices for a better customer upgrade experience.
Dedicated to Customer Success
The Fusion Upgrade Program Office is dedicated to helping customers upgrade to Fusion Applications successfully. The Office has three main areas of focus:
- Delivering tools, services and best practices for customers to create a roadmap to Fusion that meets their business needs
- Offering automated upgrade paths from previous releases of Oracle Applications to Fusion Applications
- Providing migration aids to support the upgrade of custom extensions
Evolving to Fusion
If upgrading to Fusion Applications makes sense for your organization, then the Fusion Upgrade Program Office will provide the information and services needed to create a roadmap to Fusion. Oracle has created Fusion technologies that are available today to help organizations evolve to Fusion applications. By adopting these technologies, customers will be able to increase the benefits of their current applications, build skills on the technical foundation of Fusion applications and gain experience to plan an upgrade to Fusion with greater accuracy and less risk.
Customers can ask about the following Fusion technologies and solutions today:
- Oracle Application Integration Architecture, reduces integration costs
- Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, makes better business decisions
- BI Publisher, improves flexibility and reduces the cost of custom reporting
- Oracle Identity Management, improves security
- Enterprise Manager, unifies system management across applications, middleware, and database
- Secure Enterprise Search, lets users search application data while enforcing security policies
- Oracle WebCenter, accesses data from multiple sources in an integrated UI
As organizations evaluate the decision to upgrade to Fusion Applications, the Fusion Upgrade Program Office will be there to assist customers, so that they have the information, tools and services needed for a successful path to Fusion.
Learn More
For more information about Fusion Applications go to: www.oracle.com/fusion
