Oracle Fusion Applications review by Inspector Jones

Oracle Fusion Applications were designed from the ground up, using the latest advances in technology and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle’s thousands of customers. Their 100 percent open-standards-based business applications that set a new standard for the way we innovate, work, and adopt technology.

Oracle’s Fusion Financial Management is a complete and integrated financial management solution that sets the foundation for good governance and consistent growth while helping today’s fast-growing and dynamic organizations make better decisions, increase efficiency, reduce costs and continuously innovate.

Some of Oracle Fusion Application’s key features include:

A Complete, standards-based foundation - Offering lower costs and decreased risk for implementation, integration, and innovation. You can rapidly create customized processes that differentiate your business.

You have the ability to accelerate the time-to-market for new initiatives, paving the way for future-friendly business adaptability.

You only need to make changes once, after you do, all business processes, business logic, business intelligence, and user interfaces are updated simultaneously.

Role-based experience, tested by the world’s leading organizations offers increased productivity throughout the enterprise, with built-in flexibility, from top-level executives to front-line users. The experience incorporates best practices from thousands of Oracle customers.

Built-in social and collaboration capabilities designed for the enterprise, allowing secure connection between teams and the processes in which they participate, improving collaboration between teams and providing faster resolution of issues and exceptions.

Embedded business intelligence. Provided at the point of decision this supports faster, more informed decision-making. This improved accuracy of decisions, allowing you to identify new profitability and productivity opportunities throughout the enterprise.

Choice of deployment options. The application runs on-premise, in a hosted environment, in the cloud or through a mix of each option. It also provides a complete set of end-to-end cloud processes, technology.

You also receive the confidence in proven cloud provider offering extreme performance and scalability, leading security and compliance, and state-of -the-art data center.

Modular, flexible uptake options. Modularity allows you to select the product, solution or product family that makes sense for your business. The options are designed to work with, and add business value to existing application investments.

Ease of use

Oracle is raising the bar with regard to cloud ERP in terms of delivery options. Fusion can be obtained as a traditional software license and installed on-premise, subscribed to, ana delivered from the cloud of customer choice (Oracle, Oracle partner or a public cloud) or deployed in a hybrid combination of both cloud and on-premise.

Cloud portability takes this customer choice a step further by permitting customers to change their cloud networks based on changing business conditions, and gives customers the option to not just choose the best application software but also the best cloud delivery for their business requirements based on factors such as uptime history/assurance, information security, data center proximity, Service Level Agreement (SLA) or cloud provider credentials.

Customer Service

I have never had a problem with receiving help from Oracle’s Customer Service. Now, this isn’t to say that you may get the occasional “bad apple” but we can’t let that spoil the whole bunch.

Whenever I’ve had a question or a problem, I have always been able to reach someone who was very helpful and quickly guided me back on the straight and narrow.

Add-Ons and Integration

Oracle Fusion integrates with a variety of applications to compliment and enhance the functionality of the application. Here are just a few of the popular applications that integrate with Oracle Fusion:

ShipConsole by Apps Associates ShipConsole enables high-volume shipping by automating various aspects of the shipping process, including data transmission to freight carriers, printing of shipping labels and documents, shipment tracking and notifications, freight calculations, and Oracle ship confirmation.

ARCTOOLS ARCTOOLS is a leading purging and archiving tool. By safely and efficiently purging ERP data, ARCTOOLS empowers customers to lower data management costs, reduce business and compliance risks, while delivering safer and quicker upgrades.

Authasas Advanced Authentication Authasas Advanced Authentication provides a strong authentication to Oracle Enterprise Single Sign-On Logon Manager. Authasas enforces compliance and security and increases user convenience simultaneously.

D&B360 from Dun & Bradstreet This on-demand data management solution, seamlessly integrates essential business information, like social media and news, directly into your Oracle CRM On Demand and Siebel CRM solutions from Oracle, helping you to market and sell more effectively.

HighPoint Technology Solutions, Inc HighPoint Mobile’s real-time, out-of-the-box integration complements the services that customers can provide their employees, students, parents, faculty and administrators by providing them with the ability to immediately access and take action on important information through their smart phones and mobile devices.

Problems and Complaints

Oracle Fusion Applications offers very comprehensive solutions to your business management needs. However, just like any other application it isn’t perfect, and with the need to keep this review balanced here is one of the main complaints I’ve had with the system, although I didn’t really have any major problems with Fusion.

Oracle Fusion’s partner marketplace for software is pretty limited. This limits your ability to augment the system with additional tools provided by third parties such as Google Docs or more advanced marketing automation features.

In Conclusion

Oracle Fusion Applications is an easy-to-use system offered by one of the most established computer technology companies in the world. With powerful sales, detailed reporting tools and a wealth of resources, this system suits both small, medium and large business.