Oracle R12 Upgrade

Oracle E-Business Suite has evolved over time, and Oracle’s commitment to customers, this suite of applications, and creating best-in-class products remains steadfast. The Oracle E-Business Suite product has expanded significantly in functionality, scalability, usability, and reduced cost of ownership over the past few releases, including dramatic leaps with the recent Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.

This white paper guides you through the major areas to consider in determining when an upgrade is appropriate for your organization. Based on your current release of Oracle E-Business Suite software, it reviews the most common upgrade paths for specific releases and aims to provide you with a framework for determining the best possible upgrade agenda for your organization. It also includes information about future upgrade options to the next generation of application software currently branded as Oracle Fusion Applications. Applications Unlimited and Oracle Fusion Applications together give you the flexibility that you need to create an upgrade plan that maximizes the value of your Oracle E-Business Suite investment.

There are many reasons to consider upgrading your current Oracle E-Business Suite version. For example:

• Upgrading may provide access to new functionality and software applications that can help keep your organization well positioned to meet your business objectives through leveraging the latest technology

• In an increasingly rigorous regulatory compliance environment, upgrading may facilitate compliance at a lower cost through retiring customizations and deploying standard processes across your organization

• Upgrading allows you to leverage the latest performance and usability enhancements, enabling you to increase the efficiency of your applications utilization and your business

• You may need to upgrade to remain eligible for the highest levels of product Support and regulatory updates for your applications

• In evaluating any upgrade, there are many factors to consider, such as support timeframes, functional capabilities, technical infrastructure, and underlying business needs.

These factors are often complex and interrelated—all of which adds to the importance of determining the most appropriate upgrade strategy To help you make an informed decision, this paper outlines our plans for supporting and advancing Oracle E-Business Suite as well as its successor, Oracle Fusion Applications.

Rapid technology changes, architectural advancements, and feature enrichments are all being incorporated into newer versions of today’s enterprise applications. These upgraded software applications are providing many benefits to enterprises, paving the way for virtual anywhere access and facilitating better collaboration with all stakeholders to extend the enterprise’s reach. But more importantly, they are enabling enterprises to design, configure, and administer robust business processes with proactive intelligence for responding to business challenges even faster and more securely than ever before. To meet all of these challenges, IT organizations realize that their key enterprise applications must be upgraded regularly in order to benefit from the latest application and technical stack enhancements and to maintain basic supportability. For example, in the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) domain, the significant enhancements from the early release 10.7 to the current release 12 promise many significant productivity benefits to enterprises that upgrade to the newer version.

Objective:

• Data Improvement – Consolidate customer and contact data, uniform schemes for categorizing and classifying, enrichment of information

• Process Scalability – Implement globally consistent processes, designed for scale and effective service & support

• Performance Management – Implement customer-centric performance indicators across functions, improve and simplify decision support capability ntrol, transparency, and audit-ability

• centralized banking model using a trading community architecture

• Support for a global e-business tax model

• Multi-organization access control.

BENEFITS:

• Mitigate risk - Our intimate knowledge of R12's configuration requirements combined with strong working relationships with Oracle ensures issues are either averted or resolved quickly if they arise.

• Increase upgrade efficiency - Our experience and proven methodology help you upgrade your applications more quickly and cost effectively.

• Reduce business disruption - With careful up-front planning and multiple test upgrade iterations, we minimize downtime for your production systems.

• Leverage new functionality - Take advantage of new R12 features such as Subledger Accounting, E-Business Tax and Oracle Payments. You'll also lower support costs by moving to the latest release.