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Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or business software

Business software

This article is about software made for business, if you were looking for the business of selling software, see Software business.Business software is generally any software program that helps a business increase productivity or measure their productivity...

of Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation

Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...

. The term refers to the non-database parts of Oracle's software portfolio.

Oracle sells many functional modules which use the Oracle RDBMS

Relational database management system

A relational database management system is a database management system that is based on the relational model as introduced by E. F. Codd. Most popular databases currently in use are based on the relational database model....

as a back-end

Back-end database

A back-end database is a database that is accessed by users indirectly through an external application rather than by application programming stored within the database itself or by low level manipulation of the data A back-end database is a database that is accessed by users indirectly through an...

, notably Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle Projects,
Oracle CRM

Oracle CRM

Oracle CRM is a customer relationship management application developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle CRM includes Oracle and Peoplesoft products but leads with Siebel CRM and CRM on Demand.-History:...

, Oracle Procurement, etc. (Oracle also offers many additional application-oriented products, including Oracle Office

Oracle Office

Oracle Office/ InterOffice was an enterprise E-mail and messaging suite that was later replaced with Oracle Collaboration Suite.The Oracle Office environment included Oracle*Mail and Calendar/Scheduler functionality:* enterprise-wide messaging;...

, Oracle Media Server, and (grouped with databases) Oracle ConText

Oracle ConText

Oracle Corporation introduced Oracle ConText first as a software option, then as an Oracle data cartridge for text retrieval when it released version 8 of the Oracle database in 1997...

.)

Oracle initially launched its application suite with financials software in the late 1980s. The offering extends to supply-chain management

Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

, human-resource management

Human resource management systems

A Human Resource Management System or Human Resource Information System , refers to the systems and processes at the intersection between human resource management and information technology...

, warehouse-management

Warehouse management system

A warehouse management system, or WMS, is a key part of the supply chain and primarily aims to control the movement and storage of materials within a warehouse and process the associated transactions, including shipping, receiving, putaway and picking...

, customer-relationship management

Customer relationship management

Customer relationship management is a widely implemented strategy for managing a company’s interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. It involves using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes—principally sales activities, but also those for marketing,...

, call-center services, product-lifecycle management

Product lifecycle management

In industry, product lifecycle management is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal...

, and many other areas. Both in-house expansion and the acquisition of other companies have vastly expanded Oracle's application software business.

Oracle released Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/ e-BS) Release 11i/12 (R12) — a bundling of several Oracle Applications applications — in February 2007. The release date coincided with new releases of other Oracle-owned products: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel Systems

Siebel Systems

Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management applications. The company was founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993. At first known mainly for its sales force automation products, the company...

and PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft

PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human Resource Management Systems , Financial Management Solutions , Supply Chain and customer relationship management software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large...

. Oracle supports Release 11.5.10.X and Release 12.0.X of the Oracle E-Business Suite. The latest release of the software is called Oracle EBS R12.

Scope

For marketing and integration purposes, Oracle groups
its applications into:

Oracle E-Business Suite
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft, Inc. was a company that provided Human Resource Management Systems , Financial Management Solutions , Supply Chain and customer relationship management software, as well as software solutions for manufacturing, enterprise performance management, and student administration to large...

Enterprise
Siebel
Siebel Systems
Siebel CRM Systems, Inc. was a software company principally engaged in the design, development, marketing, and support of customer relationship management applications. The company was founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993. At first known mainly for its sales force automation products, the company...
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
JD Edwards World

Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle markets its home-grown software applications, including Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle CRM

Oracle CRM

, etc. as parts of the "Oracle E-Business Suite". It makes the following enterprise applications available as part of Oracle eBusiness Suite:

Asset Lifecycle Management
- Asset Tracking
- Property Management
Customer Relationship Management
Oracle CRM
Oracle CRM is a customer relationship management application developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle CRM includes Oracle and Peoplesoft products but leads with Siebel CRM and CRM on Demand.-History:...
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...
- Financial Management
- Human Capital Management
- Project Portfolio Management
Procurement
- Oracle Advanced Procurement
  - Oracle Sourcing

Product Life-cycle Management
Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Planning
- Logistics & Transportation Management
- Order Management
- Price Management
Manufacturing
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Process Manufacturing

Oracle Financial Applications

The Oracle E-Business Suite provides a set of financial applications used extensively in business

Business

A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

es around the world. Oracle groups these applications into "suites", which it defines as sets of common, integrated applications designed to execute specific business process

Business process

A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for a particular customer or customers...

es.

RDBMS infrastructure and includes applications such as:

Oracle Assets
Oracle General Ledger
Oracle General Ledger
The Oracle General Ledger module within Oracle Financials is an integrated part of the ERP package of Oracle applications. It is a financial management solution within E-business suite for entering and reporting on the financial data of large companies...
Oracle Payables
Oracle Receivables
Oracle Cash Management

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Applications

Oracle Project Billing
Oracle Project Collaboration
Oracle Project Contracts
Oracle Project Costing
Oracle Daily Business Intelligence
Oracle Project Management
Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis
Oracle Project Resource

Other

Additional Oracle E-business Suite products include:

Oracle Bills of Material
Oracle Capacity
Oracle CRM
Oracle CRM
Oracle CRM is a customer relationship management application developed by Oracle Corporation. Oracle CRM includes Oracle and Peoplesoft products but leads with Siebel CRM and CRM on Demand.-History:...

(in the process of integration with Siebel)
Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling
Oracle Business Intelligence
Oracle Engineering
Oracle HRMS
Oracle Inventory
Oracle Integrated Receiving (Brazil localization)
Oracle MRP
Oracle Order Entry
Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)
Oracle Payroll
[Purchasing process|Oracle Purchasing]
Oracle Receivables
Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)
Oracle Work in Process
Oracle Process manufacturing
Oracle Federal Administration
Oracle Sales

Various commercial, non-profit and public-sector entities use these applications to run critical parts of their businesses.

Oracle Accelerate

In 2007, Oracle launched a set of applications for mid-size business

Business

es called Oracle Accelerate. Accelerate provides access to Oracle's ERP

Enterprise resource planning

Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

products through a local partner-network and packages the products to meet vertical

Vertical market

A vertical market is a group of similar businesses and customers that engage in trade based on specific and specialized needs. Often, participants in a vertical market are very limited to a subset of a larger industry...

industry requirements.

Oracle User Productivity kit (UPK)

The Oracle User Productivity Kit application provides a content-development, deployment, and maintenance platform.