Oracle’s Fusion Applications v1 is finally announced this year … this could have been my opening sentence for the last 5 years but this time it is real. It is becoming very concrete now. Oracle is working with early adaptor customers to implement Fusion Applications modules next to their current application landscape. This co-existence strategy will be the strategy to convince customers to migrate to Fusion Applications in the next couple of years.

As mentioned earlier in one of my blog posts, Oracle gave us the opportunity to get a presentation about Fusion Applications on our yearly Oracle event. It was a great way to get introduced to Fusion Applications.

Last week, during our practice meeting, Oracle provided us with a presentation about Fusion Applications. Very interesting to see what the scope of V1 is and what the approach to customers will be.

Everybody has heard that Fusion Applications is generally available in the first quarter of 2011. Co-existence is the approach to current and new customers. By implementing Fusion modules within the current application landscape, Oracle will introduce Fusion Applications at customers.

The focus area’s for co-existence are:

• HCM: Talent Management
• HCM: Workforce Lifecycle Management
• FMS: Accounting Hub
• CRM: Sales Territory Management

 I’m trying now to arrange demo’s focussing on Fusion HCM and CRM. That will make our consultants even more enthusiastic !!!

Last night Larry Ellison announced the general availability of Fusion Applications v1. In his key note at the start of Open World he told the audience  that it has been, and continues to be, an enormous engineering effort.

He also said laughing: “We’ve never done that before, and I hope we never do it again.”

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The end of this turbulent year is coming soon. The year where Oracle delivered new versions of their business applications. PeopleTools 8.50 and PeopleSoft 9.1 have been released. On this year’s Oracle Open World Larry Ellison announced the first version of Fusion Applications. What can we expect in 2010 from Oracle Applications?

Gartner published a report in July of this year about the strategy of PeopleSoft Upgrades. The report gives a couple of recommendations. The most important, in my opinion are:

• PeopleSoft customers with long-term commitments to Oracle Applications should upgrade to version 9.0 or 9.1 (9.1 available in H2Y09)
• PeopleSoft customers should minimize customizations and extentions to their existing PeopleSoft application

When customers are planning a new installation of PeopleSoft, Gartner suggest to implement version 9.0. “Gartner believes that v.9.1 will be released during 2H09, but most customers will not want to be the first to take on a new release. If you need the newest functionality right away (such as compensation management or succession management in HCM), then implement v.9.1 as soon as is practical for your organization. If you don’t need the new functionality, then implement v.9.0 until v.9.1 has more market traction and proof points, which Gartner expects within 12 to 18 months of release.”

Read the full article.

Source: Gartner (July 2009)