Last articles we discussed about Co-Existence strategy being bit of Technology common sense to do one of three things

(a)  Do Nothing aka Remain Application Unlimited

(b)  Do Something of Mix to get best of both worlds aka Co-Existence strategy

(Tight or Loosely couple systems ie extent of integration between Fusion & Applications Unlimited)

(c)  Change aka Oracle Fusion

Oracle Fusion is new paradigm of application which consists on enhanced functionality ……(we discussed in Fusion Overview article) comprising of following modules

Fusion Apps Co-Existence CRM Scenario  

Fusion CRM is the Module which has most architectural changes amongst all other Fusion Modules/Pillars. Traditionally CRM footprint has been most diverse ranging from SAP,Siebel, Peoplesoft, JDE & so on making it very difficult to allow integrations. Its always been very customer specific & difficult to upgrade to new version. Given fusion involves many changes makes co-existence a difficult reality & hence following variations exist

Pre-Packaged Co-Existence scenarios

To Enable following functionality Fusion are provided in pre-packaged , plug & play format thus avoiding customer needing to do major changes to enable Fusion adoption

For Sales Planning customer can keep their current system if it’s meeting the business requirement & additionally

•       Enable Sales Management with Intelligent, Collaborative Planning tools:  choose one Sales Planning module, or all of them

•       Invest once in integrating Sales History into Fusion Sales Planning (repeatable), rather than each planning period into Spreadsheets

Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration Works With EBS, PSFT, JDE, Siebel and Other Order Capture and Fulfillment Systems

Fusion customer data hub provides 360 degree view of the customer across the entire enterprise to keep customer information in synch and clean between various enterprise applications,  whether they are Fusion applications or other systems by

Consolidate/Federate shared information into one place

Cleanse data centrally

Share data as a single point of truth as a service

e.g. Fusion CRM, Existing SFA, Existing ERP, Legacy systems, Web Channel, Partners, Call Center

Fusion Apps Co-Existence Procurement Scenario  

Fusion procurement consists of following modules which can co-exist with AU

Fusion applications Analytical application integration adds to existing AU functionality & Contract Management co-existence provides benefits for sourcing, contracts & spend analysis

Capabilities

§  Spend by products, category, and suppliers for dynamic spend optimization

§  Supplier performance and risk management improves supplier management and visibility

§  Sourcing improves the supplier negotiation processes

§  Procurement Contracts provides improved contract compliance and visibility

Benefits

§  Gain visibility to spend from existing procurement solution

§  Reduce costs and ensure the best sources of supply

§  Reduce risks and ensure contract management best practices

Fusion Sourcing provides following capabilities & benefits

•       Accelerated adoption of negotiation best-practices

•       Improved negotiation pipeline planning and visibility

•       Improved standardization, collaboration, and compliance

•       The new standard for supplier negotiation

•       RFP, RFQ, RFI, and auction based negotiations

•       Supports online and offline negotiation processes

•       Negotiation Styles simplify the data requirements and functionality

•       Guided negotiation process streamlines negotiation creation

•       Negotiation templates allow for reuse of best practices using Live negotiation monitor

Fusion Procurement contracts provides following benefits in a co-existent scenario

•          Centralize corporate contract standards and enforce globally

•          Implement controls with policy rules and flexible approval workflows

•          Ensure effective use of standard clauses and contract templates

•          Analyze usage of non-standard language to assess risk and improve standards

•          Reduce contract cycle times as sales reps quickly draft standard contracts with Contract Expert

•          Improve negotiations with MS Word collaboration and redlining

•          Improve contract effectiveness with automated renewal management and amendment tracking

•          Enhance regulatory compliance with deviations reporting and audit trail

•          Provide global visibility to key stakeholders with a consolidated repository for all contracts

•          Reduce contract leakage by automatically enforcing contract pricing across the enterprise

•          Multiple contract types

•          Store all contracts in a single, secure searchable repository

•          Search based on attributes and free form text

•          Manage renewals

•          Library of standard clauses, policy rules and templates

•          Wizard based authoring

•          Redlining with MS Word

•          Change management

Using Co-Existence customers can Analyze, negotiate and realize cost savings,Gain experience with Fusion applications ,Minimize impacts to procure to pay and financial processes,Lower risk deployment.

Hope you enjoyed this breif discussion on Oracle fusion application co-existence with applications unlimited & related scenarios,we will discuss another fusion functionality in following articles till then stay tuned.....

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