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Fusion Applications
Overview
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Introduction

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What are Fusion Applications?

Fusion Applications
Oracle's integrated suite of next-generation applications,
currently in development, combining the best capabilities
from Oracle's extensive product portfolio with a rich client
user interface and embedded analytics.

Existing Applications
Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, etc. will
continue with their own upgrade paths. Now to be known as
APPLICATIONS UNLIMITED
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General

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Footprint (v1.0)
Financial Management
Human Capital Management
Sales and Marketing Management
Supply Chain Management
Project Portfolio Management
Procurement Management
Governance, Risk and Compliance
Not all EBS functionality available in v1.0 e.g. Manufacturing, Call Centre
Public Sector Localizations not available in v1.0
Focus on horizontal applications rather than industry solutions

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Headlines
In Fusion, Application Development Framework (ADF) pages replace the Oracle Forms
and OA Framework pages
User interface has undergone a tremendous change to deliver rich,
productive and superior user experience

intuitive,

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as the middleware enables seamless integration

within Fusion Suite
Best of the breed features from Oracle Suite of Applications like PeopleSoft, JD
Edwards, Seibel and Hyperion have been embedded in Fusion
Business Process centred design
Highly configurable by business users
Embedded Business Intelligence
Collaboration facility within the application

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User Interface Changes
Web 2.0 features integrated within applications (RSS Feeds, Presence Detection, On-Line
Collaboration, Social Networking, Tags)
Contextual Information to support transactions can be easily displayed within the transaction.
Embedded Analytics (BI), in task screens at the point at which the information is needed to
perform task / make decision. (Transactional based BI based on summary tables in the
application.)
Embedded Learning (Help / Tutorials / Video)
UI, and the way in which information is searched and presented is consistent across all
applications.
Grid presentation of information allows far greater flexibility of manipulation. E.g. Excel like
capability to sort / filter / search / display / hide columns / freeze panes etc.
User activity driven by Worklists / Watchlists
No longer called Forms, now called Pages.
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UI layout consistent throughout Fusion Apps
Global Region always
present and consistent

Global Region
Contextual

Task Region

Local Region

Local Region
Transactional entry
Task Region Typical
tasks that you would
perform
Contextual Region
Relates to data in Local
region if configured

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Personalisation achieved through multiple layers

Organisation
Site
Role
Specific user

Uses Webcenter so maintained through upgrades

JDeveloper based customisation

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Highlights of Common Architecture in Fusion
Application Setup Manager
COA Structure
Business Unit
Business Functions
SetID
Reference Accounts
Date Effectivity
Role Based Access Control
Time Zone
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Functional Setup Manager

Setup Manager

Setup task list automatically generated based on implementation choices

Tasks assigned to users and progress tracked
All setup tasks now accessible from one place
All master data can be maintained from Setup Manager

Setup Offerings

Pre-seeded setup task lists for high level business activities e.g. Financial, Sales,
Procurement (14 so far)

Setup Migration

Migrate configuration and setup data between environments

Setup Reporting
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ASM enables comparision of setup data across environments through its enhanced
reporting capabilities
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Setup Manager Setup Process
Choose Offering e.g. Financials/Sales / Procurement.
Choose Options e.g. Self Service Procurement.
Choose Features individual processes within Options.
Define Scope The Business Units to which the change implementation relates.
Sequenced Task List is automatically generated. (Implementation Manager does this)
Assign tasks to users and add supporting attachments. (Implementation Manager does
this)
Complete setup tasks
ASM enriches the setup process by facilitating import and export of setup data through
spreadsheet integration
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Setup Manager
One-stop planning to deployment tool

Plan, Provision getting started

Configure offerings, create packages
Implement projects
Migrate
Transact
Maintain

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Chart of Accounts (COA) Structure
- Fusion has introduced Accounting (COA) Structure to support
multiple Chart of Accounts which is a significant enhancement over
the Chart of Accounts existing in prior releases of EBS R12 & R11i
that supports single Chart of Accounts
- Multiple COAs can be created from a single COA structure to
support different Accounting and Legal Reporting requirements
- Fusion reduces the requirement of several Chart of Accounts
Structures
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Business Unit (BU)
- BU is a PeopleSoft concept incorporated into Fusion that supports both
Enterprise model of BUs and EBS modle of Opeating Units
- BU is referred to by the business functions that it performs
- BU represents a unit of enterprise that can be consolidated in both a
managerial and legal hierarchy

Business Functions
- Functions performed by a business unit
- BUs are assigned with the required business functions so as to enable the
underlying processes within the relevant application modules

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SetID
- SetID is a PeopleSoft concept incorporated into Fusion Suite
- Applications need to be setup with reference data before making them available
for transactions
- In prior releases of EBS R12 & R11i, the extent of sharing reference data is
limited as a large extent of reference data needed to be setup for each
Operating Unit
- Fusion enables sharing a set of reference data across multiple Bus
- Customers can create global (common) and specific sets of reference data and
indicate the sets of reference data to be used for each BU
- Examples of reference data include Payment Terms, Transaction Types, etc.
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Reference Accounts
- Reference Account is a GL account associated with a reference object
- Reference Accounts feature is introduced in Fusion to enable reference data
sharing for SetID enabled reference objects that carry accounts as part of
their definition
- In prior releases of EBS R12 & R11i, specific accounting information was
defined for reference objects like Supplier site, Customer Site etc.
- In Fusion, with the introduction of SetID and Reference Accounts feature,
reference objects are assigned account category and are not associated
with GL accounts

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Date Effectivity
- Date Effectivity refers to date based versioning of the logical objects of
business
- Prior releases of EBS support date based versioning in few applications like
Human Resources, E-Business Tax, General Ledger, etc.
- In Fusion, date effectivity has been incorporated for a large extent of logical
business objects spanning various applications
- Its emphasis is to keep track of effective records (versions) rather than
maintaining the log of changes by users

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Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- In Fusion, the Oracle User Management (UMX) group in ATG delivers a
security infrastructure that will closely follow the standard Role Based
Access Control (RBAC) model among other features
- In the UMX model, a role will point to a set of functions and separately point
to a navigation menu that should be used to access those functions
- This navigation menu enables only those functions which have been
granted to the user through the assigned roles
- This model enables to find a function in the same place even if a specific
function has been granted through different roles. An example of this could
be the function to Open Period
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Time zone
- In prior releases of EBS R12 & R11i, effective date defaults to
system date based on the server time zone.
- In Fusion, effective date defaults to the system date based on the
preferred time zone of the user. This could be Legal Entity time zone
in most of the cases. However, this date could be based on a time
zone different from LE time zone as Legal Entity is not directly
applicable in GL

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Fusion Applications

General Ledger

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Highlights of General Ledger in Fusion
Data Flow to GL
Enhancements in Setups
Enhancements in Journal Transactions

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Highlights of General Ledger in Fusion
- Enhanced User Interface
- Interactive Dash-boards
- ADFDI powered spreadsheet integration
- Enhanced Ledger Architecture
- Enriched Account Analysis & Drilldown
- Advanced Search capabilities

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Enhanced User Interface
- Forms and OA Framework pages from earlier releases including R12 and
R11i have been transformed into ADF pages (User Interfaces) in Fusion
- The new UI delivers task based information, analytics and consistency
across all products in the Fusion Suite
- The productivity and web interaction elements in the UI enriches the
customer experience significantly
- Analytics have been embedded in the UI to provide the impact of actions
performed by the user
- Intuitive UI helps users experience ease of use and reduce their
dependency on online Help or documentation
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Interactive Dash-boards
- The interactive dashboard enables the user to manage execution of tasks
across processes, roles and organizations as required
- Dashboards provide information requiring user attention. User can drilldown
from this region to the relevant transactions for resolution of the components
highlighted
- The dashboard enhances the effectiveness and productivity of the roles that
the user performs by producing the most suitable and pre-populated
information specific to the role
- Dashboards provide key information in a timely manner that are
complimented by navigation links to quickly perform required actions
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ADFDI powered spreadsheet integration
- ADFdi is the new direction for spreadsheet integration in Fusion as
Web ADI in R12 is obsolete in fusion
- Spreadsheet integration through ADFdi fits into the Oracle ADF
architecture
- A new user interface Journal Worksheet has been provided to
enable the user to enter journals in spreadsheet format
- Users will be able to enter journal across currencies from a
spreadsheet in Fusion. This eliminates the existing restriction to
enter journals for a single currency.
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Enhanced Ledger Architecture
- A new user interface for Data Access Set is provided in Fusion.
Ledger architecture introduced in R12 is carried forward to fusion with
new enhancements
- Data access set types of Full Ledger, Primary Balancing segment
value and Management segment value will only be supported. Data
access set for Balancing segment 2 and 3 is not supported in Fusion
- A new user interface for Ledger Set is provided in Fusion
- Support for detail and parent segment value assignment in the data
access set will be available.
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Account Analysis & Drilldown
- Account balance analysis in R12 is performed through Form based UIs and
web pages
- In Fusion, the Account analysis & drilldown feature has been re-designed to
overcome limitations existing in the prior releases and complimented with a
rich, intuitive and productive user interface
- New features introduced in Fusion include reviewing journal lines directly
instead of drilling down from balances and drilldown from journal to journal
- Fusion enables to view subledger transactions and GL journals in the form
of T-accounts which was earlier possible only through Forms

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Advanced Search capabilities
- In Fusion, the search process has been enhanced so as to make it
easy to use, customizable as per user preferences and consistent
across all the products
- Basic and advanced search capabilities have been introduced for all
user interfaces to perform queries as required/desired
- Advanced search enables users to execute multiple and complex
queries resulting in superior user experience

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Data flow to GL
Fusion
Fusion
PO
PO

Fusion
Fusion
Ap
Ap

Accounting

GL Interface

Fusion
Fusion
AR
AR

Other Fusion
Other Fusion
Sub-ledgers
Sub-ledgers

Fusion
Fusion
SLA
SLA

Fusion
Fusion
GL
GL

Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet

Other Fusion
Other Fusion
Sub-ledgers
Sub-ledgers

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Enhancements in Setups
- Calendar creation is now semi-automated with system generated defaults
defaults resulting in faster and easier accomplishment of this process.
Calendar UI provides robust online validation and alerts users regarding
errors to be fixed
- A new web based user interface has been provided for Journal Sources,
Journal Categories, Suspense Accounts, Statistical Units of Measure,
Storage Parameters and Processing Schedules
- General Ledger setup tasks have been integrated with Central Setup to
derive the benefits of easily performing setups across applications from a
central location and maintaining consistency of setup options
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Enhancements in Setups
- A new web based user interface has been provided for Accounting and
Reporting Sequencing. This setup is also integrated with Central Setup
- New Fusion user interface for Revaluations with advanced search
capabilites and enhanced summarization has been provided to enable users
to easily perform defining, maintaining and generating revaluations
- A unified user interface has been introduced for Accounting Period status
management resulting in greater visibility to users and enabling them to
navigate to the same page from different work areas of General Ledger,
Payables, Purchasing, Receivables and Project Accounting

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Enhancements in Journal Transactions
- In Fusion, users can choose to enter journal entries either manually or using
spreadsheet from the same menu function
- Pop-up error messages have been provided to quickly identify the errors in
journal entries and avoid the tedious effort of opening the error log file
- The manual journal entry user interface has been provided with a Projected
Balances section that enables users to know the impact of the line amounts
on the account balances
- A new task of marking the journal entries as Complete has been introduced
in Fusion. When users submit Automatic Posting, journals marked as
complete will only be considered for Posting
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Enhancements in Journal Transactions
- Fusion supports entry of journal entries across multiple currencies
- A copy function has been provided to copy Journal Batches
- A new tab as Action Log has been introduced at journal batch level to
maintain the actions taken on the journal entry like creation, posting and
reversal
- In Fusion, Recurring journals entered through spreadsheet source can be
saved, versioned and re-used as a template for subsequent generation of
recurring journals
- Fusion GL dashboard enables the approver to directly navigate to the
journal requiring approval instead of navigating from a user notification
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Account Receivables

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- Enhanced User Interface
- Interactive Dash-boards
- Transaction Creation Process
- Receipts Creation Process
- Enhancements in Receivables
- Customer Overview
- Collections Overview
- De scoped Features

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Enhanced User Interface
- Forms and OA Framework pages from earlier releases have been
transformed into ADF pages (User Interfaces) in Fusion.
- The new UI delivers task based information, analytics and consistency in
the Fusion Application Receivables
- The productivity and web interaction elements in the UI enriches the
customer experience significantly
- Analytics have been embedded in the UI to provide the impact of actions
performed by the user
- Intuitive UI helps users experience ease of use and reduce their
dependency on online Help or documentation
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Fusion Applications
Interactive Dash-boards
- The interactive dashboard enables the user to manage execution of tasks
across processes, roles and organizations as required
- Dashboards provide information requiring user attention. User can drilldown
from this region to the relevant transactions for resolution of the components
highlighted
- The dashboard enhances the effectiveness and productivity of the roles that
the user performs by producing the most suitable and pre-populated
information specific to the role
- Dashboards provide key information with graphical in a timely manner that
are complimented by navigation links to quickly perform required actions
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Interactive Dash-boards
The Receivables Manager to discover, monitor, and resolve their
receivables issues in timely manner.
Manager would be able to drill down to the transactional pages from the
dashboard, if detailed information is needed for any summarized item.

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Transaction Creation Process

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Receipts Creation Process

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Enhancements in Receivables
Enhanced Reference Matching Application
Payment Predictor is PeopleSofts automatic cash application process which
incorporated flexible defaulting and assignments with a multi-step approach that
combines over/underpayment instructions with algorithms for matching
payments to transactions and or customers.

Excel Upload
Upload payments or remittance advice or payments and remittance advice from
Excel worksheets into the Deposit and Payment tables.

Intercompany Receipt Processing

Intercompany processing for 'decentralized customer invoicing to centralized
cash' transaction flow

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Enhancements in Receivables
Fusion Security
Quicker to deploy seeded roles that are closer to what people actually do (Job
duties) that are aware of Segregation of Duties constraints.
Easier to Learn Menus provide access to functions that people actually do.
Also, for a security administrator, a standards based model is far easier to learn

Multicurrency Receipt Batch

Multicurrency receipt processing was determine to be minimal and limited to a
control currency field at the batch level. a Currency Control field will be added to
the Receipt Batch.
The value will default from the bank if the bank only allows one currency.
Otherwise it will be blank and can optionally be entered by the user. .

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Collections Overview
User interface that is intuitive, productive, compelling, and consistent for
Collections
Collection Dashboard minimizes manual work and provides Activity List for
Collectors, Delinquent Customers etc.

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Customer Overview
Most similar to Oracle TCA
Use party hierarchy view (Trees) from PeopleSoft, graphical.
Multiple party uses possible, user configurable
Only one sell to relationship allowed per party account.
Multiple relationships between customers
Multiple hierarchies possible
Geographic data load possible but not spatial in V1.0
Data is Date Effective driven

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Customer Address Validation
Uses OEM tool from Address Doctor, used by QAS etc
Locale information matching possible
Synonyms can be configured and tuned
Potential performance issues if matching criteria are too
stringent
Real-time matching in UI

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3 Pillar replication in Single Global Instance
ESS Scheduling

Fins Customer Data

CM

Customer Data

HCM

ODI

Master pillar would win any duplication disputes

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De scoped Features
Commitment including deposit and guarantee
Bill Receivables
Chinese Golden Tax integration
Public Sector (Transaction Code Which is used by public section will not be
visible in UI in Fusion V1.)

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Sample Fusion Application Pages

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Page Designs are not fully complete
and are subject to change prior to
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