Enhanced application suite

Features: Oracle has announced the launch of new versions of all the five Application solutions. E-Business Suite Release 12, PeopleSoft Enterprise Release 9.0, Siebel CRM 8.0, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.12 and JD Edwards World A9.1, were unveiled at its global “Applications Unlimited” event held in New York.

The new releases of Oracle Applications provide next-generation, role-based analytics, comprehensive application management, integration, search, master data management, and XML-based reporting capabilities. Additionally, it can be managed with Oracle Enterprise Manager, to help increase the performance and quality of the application service, while reducing the costs of systems management.

Oracle Applications provide extensive Web services and business events, enable modeling of business process, and offer published repositories of Web services.

Along with enhanced products, Oracle also delivers the components needed to enable successful implementations, such as automated upgrade scripts, extensive product documentation, an extensive, trained, partner ecosystem and a wide-variety of end-user education courses, Oracle said in a statement.

Charles Phillips, president, Oracle, said, “With the “Applications Unlimited” program, Oracle is providing best infrastructure technology that delivers next-generation capabilities today, and we are giving our customers the choice as to when they upgrade without having to re-license their applications. This is a first in the software industry.”

The company also outlined its Fusion Applications, next-generation application suite. Leveraging Web 2.0 design principles, Oracle Fusion Applications intend to deliver increases in both user and partner productivity, while delivering significant reductions in cost of ownership.