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What is Oracle Fusion?

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Here’s my attempt to simplistically explain what Oracle Fusion is all about. I’ve noticed that most people seem to have misperceptions regarding what Oracle Fusion is all about. This is actually for good reason: When Oracle purchased PeopleSoft and thus the JD Edwards application as well, and then announced project Fusion, it didn’t take much thinking to assume that Fusion would fuse the best functionality for all the application suites and create a single super ERP.

So what’s Fusion? Fusion is not only an attempt at releasing an integrated suite of applications from the Oracle, PS, JDE, and Sieble lines. In fact, that’s the least of what Fusion represents. The real goal of Fusion is to present a process integration layer that spans across all your organization’s applications, regardless if they are Oracle apps or not. Fusion middleware has already been released, and some Oracle applications have already been certified on the Fusion platform.

What did that mean? Well, let’s pretend it’s 2010. Let’s also pretend you own SuccessFactors Talent, Taleo Talent Aquisition, Saba for learning, and Oracle HRMS. You have purchased the best in class solutions and laid them on top of Oracle Fusion Middleware. If we think back to 2006, we’d remember the gool ‘ol days when you could use XML to create a great portal environment that looked integrated and that technology also allowed the applications to talk in real time. Well in 2010, Oracle Fusion Middleware allows your workflows in each distinct application to be completely integrated, even though they were coded and the basic architecture is different. Because each application would be (remember – we’re pretending we’re in 2010 here) certified on Fusion, they would all use the middleware to play nicely with each other.

The core of Fusion is not more functionality in an integrated suite of products. The core of Fusion is actually an integration of processes throughout applications that are integrated only in the fact that they use the Fusion middleware. This has been a fairly simplistic view of Fusion, but hopefully it helps. Obviously it’s much more than just bringing together functionality from PS, Oracle and JDE.

To learn more about Fusion and Oracle in general, check this site out.  Also, Martin hit it on the head with this comment about integration.

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    Also check out the Fusion stories at the Feature: http://itsafeature.com/index.php?tag=fusion