Oracle has recently unveiled a host of analytic applications under the flagship enterprise resource solution E-Business ERP suite that will provide customers with a richer and more effective way of combing their operational data. Oracle offers a wide range of products for businesses and professional needs, and is one of the largest manufacturers of ERP suites.
These new application, based on the Endeca analytics and search technology from Oracle, target the narrow areas of the system data in ERPs, such as revenue management, order management, asset management, and process manufacturing.
According to the senior vice president for application development in Oracle, Mr. Cliff Godwin, the company has prioritized areas in which it thinks that the customers need to get to their high-priority work.
While the E-Business ERP suite users had the option to search for particular information in the software, now the added applications will give a greater efficiency and intuitiveness to the user interface. Oracle had acquired Endeca in 2011, and the new applications are aimed at integrating the technologies from this company to further enhance the ERP suite’s usability.
According to the company the new applications acts like an extension that sorts and summarizes the system data in the ERP suite and direct it into a memory data mode. This allows the users to run featured searches and also navigate through the acquired information with tag clouds, charts and other dynamic visualizations.
According to Mr. Godwin, the new applications don’t just provide better searches, but also replace much operational coverage. The applications will come with a license embedded for the Endeca technology. The applications will cost $1,000 for every license, and include a comprehensive installer. These can also be used with mobile devices.
To install the new applications, customers should first upgrade their ERP suite version release to 12.1.3. The applications will be sold individually. Most of the customers are already on this version release, while others are migrating to it quickly, according to Mr. Godwin.
To some extent, these new ERP suite applications are a reflection of the pervasive business intelligence (BI) theme that Oracle is building in the next generation Fusion Applications. Users get relevant analytic information when interacting with the software in these next generation applications.
The E-Business ERP Suite will continue to be developed and supported by Oracle, along with other product lines in the long run, while it encourages customers to start migrating to the Fusion Applications in a modular fashion.
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