[Nov. 22, 2010 Update: Office 2010 (32-Bit) is now certified with the E-Business Suite; see this article for details] Congratulations to my colleagues at Microsoft on their launch of Microsoft Office 2010 yesterday. Questions about our certification plans for Office 2010 are filling my inbox, so here’s an interim update on our plans. If you’ve reached this article via a search engine, it’s possible that a later update on our status is available. For our latest status, please check the Desktop Client Certifications section of our
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Our current plans for Office 2010 We plan to certify Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i and 12 with Microsoft Office 2010.
When will Office 2010 be certified with EBS? Oracle’s Revenue Recognition rules prohibit us from discussing certification and release dates, but you’re welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which I’ll post as soon as soon as they’re available.
How does the E-Business Suite work with Microsoft Office? The Oracle E-Business Suite is comprised of several product families such as Financials, Supply Chain Management, Human Resources, and so on. These product families group together collections of individual products. Some of these products may be optionally integrated with one or more Microsoft Office components such as Excel, Word, and Projects. Individual E-Business Suite product teams have the option of building integrations between their products and one or more Microsoft Office components. This is not mandatory. Over forty E-Business Suite teams offer these kinds of Office integrations today. Examples of these integrations include:
- HRMS Payroll integrations with Microsoft Excel
- Supply Chain Management Contracts Core integration with Microsoft Word
- Financials General Ledger (GL) integration with Microsoft Excel
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Proposals integration with Microsoft Word
Which Office versions will be certified? Our actual certification plans are under review, but as of today, I expect that we will explicitly test the Office 2010 Professional edition with Oracle E-Business Suite. We expect that the results of these certification tests will apply equally to the following editions:
- Home and Student Edition
- Home and Business Edition
- Standard Edition
- Professional Academic Edition
- Professional Plus Edition
We do not currently plan to certify the following editions with Oracle E-Business Suite:
- Office Web Apps
- Starter Edition
- Mac Edition
- Office Mobile
I would not expect the results of our certification with Office 2010 Professional Edition to apply to the above four editions.
What about 64-bit Office? Office 2010 offers a 64-bit version for the first time. The 64-bit version is available for a subset of Microsoft’s supported operating systems. We’re currently evaluating our plans for certifying both the 32-bit and 64-bit Office versions with EBS. Stay tuned for more details on this front.
Any Early Adopter Programs planned? No, we don’t currently have any plans to offer an Early Adopter Program for Office 2010 with Oracle E-Business Suite. If that changes, I’ll post an article on this blog with a call for participants.
What about OpenOffice and StarOffice? Things are a bit different on this front now that Sun is part of our Oracle family. I can’t share specifics at this point, but I can confirm that we have teams looking into getting E-Business Suite working with OpenOffice. Stay tuned; more details will be coming about this, too.
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