Fusion Applications Product and Product offerings

Each product in Fusion Applications is deployed as a Domain. Each domain has J2EE applications which provides certain functionality. These functionality or features provided by the J2EE applications can be considered as product offerings.

A product family is collection of one or more product offerings.

During installation of Fusion Applications you will get the below screen, where you can select a product or product offerings as per your requirement.

Please note, once selected it cannot be changed later during/after installation, so be very sure before you click on Next button.

A brief description of various Product Family as below:

Product Family	Product Offering
Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management	Marketing Sales Customer Data Hub Enterprise Contracts
Oracle Fusion Financials	Financials Accounting Hub
Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management	Workforce Deployment Workforce Development Compensation Management
Oracle Fusion Procurement	Procurement
Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management	•Product Management •Order Orchestration •Material Management and Logistics
Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management	Projects

Oracle Fusion Applications- Basic Architecture

Oracle Fusion Applications are built on Fusion Middleware stack.

A very basic deployment architecture can be depicted by the below figure. It will consist of two nodes:

Basic 2 Node Architecture

1. IDM Node
It is used for User and Role Management. All the user and privileges of FA are stored in IDM node. It performs below functions:

IDM Node

- Authentication, Authorization and auditing mechanisms
- Roles and entitlements
- Directory Services
- User Provisioning
- Policy Stores
- Session Management
- Single Sign on / Federation


2) FA Node
It will include best in class Product Families like:
- Oracle Fusion Financials
- Oracle Fusion HCM
- Oracle Fusion Procurement
- Oracle Fusion SCM
- Oracler Fusion CRM

FA Node

Read more on Product and Product offerings in next Post

Fusion Applications Vs Fusion Middleware

There is a lot of confusion in people regarding Fusion Applications and Fusion Middleware.
Suddenly ORACLE FUSION has become the buzz word. Everyone is talking about it and many wants to get trained or aquire this niche skill.

Oracle has invested billions of dollar in the research and development of Fusion Applications.
Fusion Applications is next generation ERP. It is going to replace EBS R12. As far as I am aware, there won't be any new development or new release of Oracle EBS. There is a phase shift happening towards Fusion Applications. Most of the customers are already using it on SAAS (Software As A Service) environment. Oracle has recently launced the latest version of FA (Fusion Applicattions) for on-premise customers as well.

Following products are offered in Fusion Applications:
1) Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management
2) Oracle Fusion Financials
3) Oracle Fusion Governance
4) Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management
5) Oracle Fusion Procurement
6) Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management
7) Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management
8) Oracle Fusion Setup

Fusion Applications is build on top of Fusion Middleware Stack.
It is based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and includes Application Development Framework (ADF), WebCenter, Business Intelligence (BI), Content Management (UCM/ECM) and Identity Management (IdM).

Fusion Middleware consist of an Application Server (Weblogic) and other technology stack like SOA, BI, Identity Managagement, Content Management. It is a Middleware like Tibco, which is used to integrate applications. With OFM (Oracle Fusion Middleware), we can develop, model business processes, integrate them with various business partners using out of the box plugins or adapters.

Fusion Applications are organized as Pillars where Pillar is standalone subset of Oracle Fusion Applications. In terms of OFMW, these pillars can be related to Domain.

Each Product of FA, is deployed as a Domain. A domain contains multiple J2EE applications related to that product. For example if we consider, Human Capital Managment, it will have all the applications like HCM Absence Administration, HCM Workforce management etc deployed in the HCM domain and targeted on different managed servers of the domain which will be serving the request.

Each product family is based on a common Oracle Fusion Applications data model and services. Product families contain one or more Java EE applications that are specific to Oracle Fusion Applications and deployed to Oracle WebLogic Server.