Oracle Fusion Applications is now available in other languages then English. The supported languages include translated UI strings as well as translated embedded help strings for all products in Oracle Fusion Applications.

As promised Oracle is now supplying Oracle Fusion Applications on Windows. Most system administrators and installers will probably say, why is this important?

Bringing Oracle Fusion Applications to Windows makes the application more accessible to the ‘common man’. Let’s be honest, the majority of IT does have knowledge and access to Windows, a smaller part has knowledge of Linux and an ever smaller part has any experience with IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris, not even to mention the availability of these two operation systems for the common IT. Since Oracle Fusion Applications is made up of so many Oracle components, Oracle Fusion Applications has attracted the interest of not only the ERP community, but also the attention of other communities like DBA’s, Middleware/Integration specialists, etc and they all want to get a taste of the future.

At Oracle Open World, Oracle Public Cloud was announced. Oracle is providing the ability the run Oracle Fusion Applications (and other services)  straight from the Cloud without the need to acquire tons of hardware and without the need of having resources (people) with extended knowledge of all different components of the Oracle stack to run and maintain your application or platform.

As Fusion Applications is now been available for some months the requirements to install Oracle proposes to Fusion Applications are becoming more clear. They are much heavier than the hardware requirements for PeopleSoft or E-Business Suite. Also, the knowledge of other modules such as Identity Management and Enterprise Manager is required. Actually, for a proper installation of Fusion Applications a multidisciplinary team is needed. This is fundamentally different from PeopleSoft, where a senior system administrator was able to install a PeopleSoft environment on his own. We have experienced this our self and our experiences correspond with fellow systems integrators.

By now, most of us know it takes more resources to run a Fusion Applications environment, than any other ERP system. Creating a local sandbox, to acquire knowledge and experience of  Fusion Applications, is not done on local servers anymore.

Do not despair …