What is Fusion Application

The Oracle Fusion applications offer next-generation enterprise technologies,

applications, and services, including Oracle Fusion Applications with Oracle
Fusion Middleware which uses latest technologies and best practices from
oracles customers. Oracle Fusion Applications uses Oracle Database to store
and retrieve all transactional and reference data and to store design-time
data in repositories.
Oracle Fusion Applications offers industry standards and technologies to
transform organizations into next-generation enterprises. Oracle Fusion
Applications is a complete suite of modular, service-enabled enterprise
applications and is highly adaptable.

Fusion Applications offers a low cost of ownership and results in a faster

return on investment by using standard architecture tools for setup and
flexible deployment models.
Fusion applications incorporate best practices of business processes from
oracle products as well as from Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft, Oracle on
Demand, JD Edwards and Siebel. These all together provides enhanced user
experience and productivity.
Fusion application uses a unified data model of E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft,
JD Edwards, and Siebel entities.
What is New, Not possible and Comparison to Oracle EBS R12

No More forms only pages.

Fusion Application Development Framework pages replace Oracle Forms

and OA Framework.

UI has undergone major change to deliver good user experience, rich,

innovative and more productive.

Web 2 Features have ben embedded with the applications - RSS feeds,
social network, tags are possible. Embedded learning - Tutorial, Video and
Help. User activity driven by watch list (also known as work list)

UI layout is consistent across the applications in Fusion Apps. There are

four regions.

Global Region is always present and consistent.

Task Region is for task that we need to perform.

Location Region is for transaction entry.

Contextual Region is for data for local region, if configured.

Analytics has been incorporated in UI to provide impact of the actions

performed by the user.

Interactive Dashboard - Dashboard provides enough information to user

action. User can drill down from dashboard to transactions and can
perform action/pending action such as resolving error, approval etc. Dash
board provides information that is embedded by navigation to quickly
perform required action by users.

JDeveloper based customization.

Needless to say best of breed feature from PeopleSoft, JDE, EBS, Seibel,
and Hyperion have been incorporated in Fusion Applications.

Embedded business intelligence.

Time Zone - In EBS effective date is defaults to system date based on the
server time zone. In fusion effective date defaults to system date based
on the preferred time zone of the user.

User can enter journals in spreadsheet with multiple currencies. This will
eliminate the restriction of entering journals in single currency.

Fusion GL is embedded with essbase cube, which is updated whenever

journal is posted.

There are number of reports tools available in Fusion GL like BI publisher,

BI answers and financial reporting.

No need to create accounting calendar periods manually

What is not possible in Fusion application

No localization and public sector functionalities.

Not all R12 functionalities available like manufacturing, call center etc.

Focus on horizontal applications not on industry solutions.

Data Access set for second and third balancing segments are not
supported. Only full ledger, primary and management segments are
supported.

Journals that are imported and ends with error can't be corrected through
journal import correction pages. Need to re-import or to be corrected in
interface table through sql.

Encumbrance is not possible.

Fusion Vs EBS R12.

Date track in EBS is known as Data effectivity in Fusion

Operating Unit in EBS is known as Business Unit.

Major improvement is there is no need to create multiple COA. Single COA

structure in fusion can handle multiple COA. this is the major
improvement compare to R12.

Reference Data to move configuration across business unit. This is SetID.

Application needs to be setup in Fusion with reference data before make it
available transactions.

Functional setup manager to move configuration across the instances.

No more WebADI in Fusion. It is handled by ADFDI in Fusion. This fits with

ADF architecture.

Fusion Accounting Hub

Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub (FAH) is a single source for managing all
financial requirement as well as Reporting requirements against transaction
and provides complete set of accounting tools and access to financial data.
FAH receives data from multiple third party transactional system and also
from the various Fusion Applications Products [ Sub ledgers ] and applies
accounting rules to meet the regulatory reporting and business reporting
requirements.
Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub is integrated with Oracle Hyperion Financial
Management (HFM) as the latter is a powerful consolidation solution to
collect other non-financial information. Oracle acquired Hyperion and started
using benefits of Hyperion for consolidation, allocation and reporting in
Fusion. Hyperion has been leader in financial domain for years together.
Fusion Accounting Hub (FAH) acts as integration platform for centralized
accounting and its ability to generate multiple accounting representations
(e.g., IFRS, local GAAP, industry, regulatory) for a single sub ledger
transaction. FAH is a Next-Generation Financial Analysis for Centralized
Reporting. Configurable accounting rules helps to capture transaction
information used to create accounting. This feature of Fusion is highly
configurable to satisfy capturing of transactions and to create different
representation requirement for a company.
Fusion Accounting Hub deals with transactional details and is intended for
day-to-day operational reporting and analytics. Hyperion Financial
Management (HFM) deals with period-end balances, not transactional details,
and is generally not used as an intra-period reporting system.
Components of Fusion Accounting Hub includes Oracle Fusion Sub ledger Accounting to perform accounting
transformations on external system data

Oracle Fusion General Ledger

Oracle Fusion Financial Reporting Center

Integration with Oracle Hyperion Data Management, Fusion Edition for

chart of accounts and hierarchy maintenance

Applications coexistence integration with the Oracle E-Business Suite and

Oracle PeopleSoft General Ledgers

Integration with Oracle Hyperion Planning, Fusion Edition and Oracle

Hyperion Financial Management, Fusion Edition.

How It Works:
The Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub process uses financial data from any or all
of the following:

Non-Oracle external applications including transaction and reference

information

Oracle Fusion sub ledgers including sub ledger journals

Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft, and Oracle JD Edwards

General Ledgers including account balances

The Accounting Hub process ends with complete reporting and analysis
solutions.
Technology Stack of Fusion Application:
Following table showcase different component which varies from Oracle eBusiness Suite to Oracle Fusion applications.

Component

Oracle e-Business
Suite

Oracle Fusion
Applications

Database

Oracle Database 10g

Oracle Database 11g

Application Server

Oracle application

Oracle WebLogic

server
10.1.2 (Forms)

Oracle Application
server
10.1.3 (OC4J)

User Interface

Forms, JSPs

Oracle ADF + ADF

Java Server Faces

Portal

Oracle Portal

Oracle Webcenter

Data Model

Oracle eBS

Oracle eBS Data Model +

Data Model

Siebel + PoepleSoft
(Trees, Data Effectivity,
person Model)

Attachments/Imaging

BLOBs

UCM/Stellant

Workflow/Approval

PL/SQL

BPEL

Reports

Reports (11i),

BI Publisher

Discoverer

Analytics

Discoverer

OBIEE

Financial Reporting

Financial Statement
Generator

Hyperion

Integration

AIA

AIA + BPEL +
More web services

XML Gateway

XML Gateway

BPEL, B2B Adapter

Diagram to show technology difference between Oracle e-Business

suite and Oracle Fusion Applications.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Components:

Its technology framework includes the following Oracle Fusion Middleware
components 1. Oracle WebLogic Server- Java application server that helps to deploy
multiple applications in a robust and scalable environment.
2. Oracle WebLogic Communication Services- provides click-to-dial
functionality through contextual Actions which further helps users with
information and actions.
3. Oracle Identity Management- automatically manages user access and
provides services and interfaces for third party application developments.
4. Oracle Web Center- combines user interface technologies for building
social applications.
5. Oracle Business Intelligence-offers a complete to generates and delivers
analyses for fusion application.
6. Oracle SOA Suite-comprehensive software for building and deploying
service-oriented architecture.

7. Oracle Application Development Framework- a java framework to simplify

application development by minimizing code writing
8. Oracle JDeveloper- for building service-oriented applications using
industry standards

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA):

Oracle Fusion Application is based on SOA-Services oriented Architecture.

This is a significant technology change adapted by Oracle. SOA Suite, a

middleware component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, provides infrastructure
component for designing, deploying and managing SOA composite
applications. Various services can be created, managed and helps to put
together multiple technology components into one SOA composite
application.
Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager:
Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager provides a single user interface for
performing all tasks related to Oracle Fusion Applications setup after
installation and helps to easily move the setup data between different
instances to reduce implementation time.
Below are the benefits of using Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager1. Minimizing time to deploy setups and using same and ability to import or
export to multiple instances.
2. Enhancing productivity and reporting functionality.
3. A single point to set up applications and enables to manage all aspects of
functional setup in one interface.
4. Pre-packaged facilities to export and import setup data consistently and
quickly.
5. Pre-seeded setup templates and reporting.

6. Options to create custom setup objects.

Users of Oracle Fusion Functional Setup Manager include the application
implementation manager, the functional user, and the application
implementation consultants. The functional users are responsible for
entering and verify the setup data for the functional area. The application
implementation consultants are super users who assume the roles of both
the application implementation manager and the functional user.
Technology Difference
Applications

between

E-business

Component

Oracle
Suite

Database
Application Server
User Interface

Oracle Database 10G

Oracle Application server
10.1.2
Forms, JSPs

Portal
Data Model

Oracle Portal
Oracle EBS Data Model

Attachments / Imaging
Workflow / Approval
Reports
Analytics
Financial Reporting
Integration

BLOBs
PL /SQL
Reports (11i), Discoverer
Discoverer
Financial Statement
Generator
AIA

XML Gateway

XML Gateway

suite

and

E-Business Oracle
Applications

Fusion Accounting Hub Co-Existence Overview

Fusion

Fusion

Oracle Database 11G

Oracle WebLogic
Oracle ADF+ADF Java Server
Pages
Oracle Web Center
Oracle EBS Data Model +
Siebel + PeopleSoft (Trees,
Date
Effectivity,
Person
Model)
Stellant
BPEL
BI Publisher
OBIEE
Hyperion
AIA +BPEL + more
services
BPEL w/B2B Adapter

web

Key Points

The Standard co-existence functionality transfers balances from R12 to

Fusion General Ledger.
The drill through functionality in the Fusion General Ledger journals inquiry
page launches the account enquiry page in R12, you must manually enter
the period, currency, ledger and accounting range you want to query.
Where access and identity management have not been implemented the
user most logon to R12 using their R12 credentials before the account
enquiry page is launched.
The Fusion General Ledger includes a live embedded essbase cube which is
updated real-time when posting journals in Fusion.
Reporting is done in the Fusion General Ledger where a number of reporting
tools are available as BI publisher, BI Answers and Financial Reporting.
Journals which complete in error during the journal import execution on
Fusion cannot be corrected using the journal import errors correction page
and must be transferred again or updated directly on the interface table
using SQL.

Conclusion:
Fusion Application is different from EBS. There is no plan from Oracle to come
up with R13 version. Next version of Oracle apps is Fusion Application which
is new generation ERP as Oracle purchased lots of different companies like
PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel etc in last few years and Fusion applications is
an effort to integrate all different technology into one single product. Initially
Fusion Application is going to be major technology changed ERP and for
organization there will be great learning to adopt and incorporate these new
technology changes for better management reporting and planning.
New technology changes are going to provide more flexibility and easy
reporting for an organization. Oracle Fusion Applications are service-enabled,
enterprise applications that can be easily integrated into a service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and now available as software.