The waiting is over, and that sound you hear is cheering from Oracle Apps Development teams around the world. 

R12 Launch Event:


I am very pleased to announce that Oracle Applications E-Business Suite Release 12 — the Global Business Release — is now available for new and upgrading customers on all supported languages.  It’s available from the Oracle Store and for download from  Oracle Electronic Product Delivery.

Enhanced Documentation in Release 12

Significant strides have been made to improve the amount of Release 12
information via MetaLink. The About Documents that accompanied releases
in the past have been replaced with a single comprehensive roadmap document:
The Documentation
Roadmap provides a landing pad to help you navigate through the wealth of material available, and highlights individual documentation
roadmaps at the product and product family level too.

What’s New in Release 12?

There are over 1,500 new features in Release 12, with significant new functionality in the Financials area.  Release 12 includes the latest in Oracle technology, including the 10gR2 Database and Oracle Application Server 10g.

For links to the published Release Content Documents for Oracle Applications, E-Business Suite Release 12, see the following document:
Release Content Documents (RCD) highlight new or changed functionality only.  Existing functionality from prior point releases is not described.  You can use the Release Content Note as a central launchpad for individual Release Content Documents for all of the E-Business Suite product families, including:
  • E-Business Suite (General)
  • Applications Technology Stack
  • Intelligence Family
  • Customer Relationship Management Family
  • Marketing & Sales Family
  • Logistics    
  • Supply Chain Management Family
  • Advanced Planning
  • Procurement Family
  • Process Manufacturing
  • Discrete Manufacturing
  • Maintenance Management
  • Customer Service Family
  • Service Execution
  • Projects Family
  • HRMS Family
  • Financials Family
  • Customer Data Management    
  • Property Manager
  • Product Lifecycle Management    
  • Order Management    
  • Student Systems
Regular readers of this website will likely be most interested in the Applications Technology Stack RCD, which covers new features for the following areas:
  • Technology Components
  • New Look and Feel – “Swan” User Interface
  • Identity Management Integration
  • Security
  • Oracle User Management
  • Functional Administration
  • Concurrent Processing
  • Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM)
  • Oracle Application Framework (OAF)
  • Workflow, Messaging, and Integration
  • Oracle Applications Manager and Grid Control Plug-in for the E-Business Suite
  • Applications Installation and Configuration Management 
  • Oracle XML Publisher
  • Oracle Web Applications Desktop Integrator
  • Oracle Report Manager
  • Oracle iSetup
  • Oracle Tutor
Platform Availability

You can check the Oracle Electronic Product Delivery site for media packs for available operating system platforms.  If your specific platform isn’t available yet, keep checking the site for updates.  If you plan to download this yourself, be prepared to put aside some time for the task — there are over 70 disk images in the media pack!

Tune Into Our Launch Event

Don’t forget that our launch event is still lined up for January” 31st.  If you can’t join us in New York, you can still reserve a virtual seat for the online event now.

Now, you’ll have to excuse me.  I need to brush the confetti out of my hair…