Oracle Fusion Cloud means what?

Over the past decade, few of you must have been involve in talk and discussions regarding Oracle Fusion application or Oracle fusion cloud and many companies, client, techies struggle to understand what exactly this means. Essentially “Fusion” refers to Oracle’s Cloud infrastructure (“Fusion” Middleware). The architecture which supports cloud design of application. More recently, Oracle has focused communications, client and partner awareness on the business process value and business use of these applications and now refers to these as applications and underlying technology simply as “Cloud” since fusion support SaaS architecture.

Over the decade Oracle has invested heavily in Fusion middleware and applications and this is one of the biggest areas of growth for the company at the movement.

Fusion Architectural design:  Oracle Fusion applications (all applications pillars), were developed from the ground up using standards-based Fusion middleware components. These components and industry standard programming languages include Java, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), BPM (Business Process Management), BI (Business Intelligence) and more.  Fusion applications including HCM, sits on top of these powerful middleware components and leverages all of the reporting, analytical, security and database functionality they offer. In Fusion the extensibility is a another important future or phase in implementation fusion which gives you a design is the ability to ‘extend’ the user experience with your organization’s specific functional requirements.  Clients have the ability to create enhanced user interfaces, reports, dashboards, etc.…without modifying the delivered application objects.  The ability to ‘extend’ your Fusion application is achieved within the application and middleware components.

Functionality:  Still a long way to go but a few of the core objectives in developing Fusion applications and HCM were a focus on best-in-class business processes and enhanced user experience.  The roles-based approach to Fusion functionality truly engages employees, managers and HR professionals.  Embedded intelligence and analytics within the delivered Fusion HCM application provide need-to-know information for defined roles within an organization. A centralized ‘Person Management’ user interface gives HR professionals the ability to maintain employees’ personal, employment, compensation, payroll, absence information and more.  The overall user experience was designed around the way people truly work, which increases overall productivity.

Current Fusion offerings within the HCM for client to choose:

1. Co-existence - Fusion Talent Management Base Cloud Service: Fusion HCM is designed to ‘co-exist’ with existing Oracle Applications Unlimited products including PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite and JD Edwards. For example, customers can take advantage of an existing PeopleSoft HCM install and leverage the Fusion Talent Management as a SaaS offering in the cloud.  Delivered integrations with Fusion HCM make these co-existence scenarios possible without lengthy development and implementation projects.

2. Full Cloud - Fusion Human Capital Management Base Cloud Service

3. Recruiting and On Boarding - Taleo Platform Cloud Service

Implementation/Deployment Flexibility:  Fusion Application can be installed in three ways

1    1. On premise

2    2. Hosted by Oracle Cloud as a service (SaaS)
      3. In a private cloud or a hybrid approach