[Note: This article was updated on December 10, 2024]
The Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager web application is the cornerstone of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) automation for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In the 4+ years of the tool's existence, its functionality has been progressively enhanced to meet the diverse requirements of enterprises such as yours.
This article provides an overview of the tool plus a summary of its key features as of December, 2024.
Cloud Manager is the primary tool for EBS customers adopting OCI and associated database services in Oracle Commercial (OC1), US Government Cloud (OC2), and US Defense Cloud (OC3) regions. You can use this tool for tasks such as migrating Linux-based environments from on-premises, provisioning brand-new environments, and performing lifecycle management activities.
You deploy Cloud Manager via an Oracle Cloud Marketplace image, after you have performed preparatory configuration of your OCI tenancy, compartments, networks, security, and groups. Resource stacks are provided to facilitate deployment of these resources.
The primary features of EBS Cloud Manager are summarized below.
Provisioning
Lift and Shift
Lifecycle Management
Discovery
Extensibility
For a comprehensive list of the features provided by EBS Cloud Manager, refer to Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager Guide.
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Santiago is Product Management Director in the Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Group. His current role involves helping Oracle E-Business Suite customers succeed with focus in Oracle Cloud, maintenance and operations (Online Patching, cloning), and integrations (EBS adapter for SOA).
Santiago has an Engineering degree in Computer Information Systems and Computing Science. He first joined Oracle in its Ecuadorian subsidiary in 1998, and over the years worked out of Ecuador, Orlando and Chile support centers supporting products as varied as the Oracle database, middleware, E-Business Suite CRM and enterprise applications integration products (AIA). In 2005, Santiago joined the Oracle E-Business Suite Development team in 2005 as a Senior Software Engineer for the Oracle E-Business Suite Integration Products. In 2011, Santiago relocated to Oracle Headquarters in California in a product management role for the Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 key feature: Online Patching. He managed the Release 12.2 Beta program and is a frequent speaker at Oracle conferences and user group meetings. He works hard to retrofit customer feedback into the development lifecycle to provide continued improvement to the products he manages.
Terri is a Senior Director in Oracle E-Business Suite Development. She currently serves in a PM leadership role working with other Oracle organizations, customers, software partners and system integrators to facilitate adoption of the latest E-Business Suite products and technologies, including Oracle Cloud deployments.
Robert writes and edits numerous My Oracle Support knowledge documents that are used to provide comprehensive and up-to-date product information to customers and Oracle staff. He also writes UI text and messages for products, and contributes to the EBS on Oracle Cloud Blog and EBS Technology Blog.