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We protect our customers’ current investments in Oracle Applications by delivering new product releases that
incorporate customer-specific and industry-specific innovations across product lines. Since announcing our
Applications Unlimited program in 2005, we have delivered major releases on all applications product lines by
combining business functionality with innovative technologies such as role-based analytics, secure search,
identity management, self-service and workflow to deliver adaptive industry processes, business intelligence and
insights, and optimal end-user productivity.
Oracle Fusion Applications are part of a comprehensive suite of modular, next-generation software applications
that enable efficient management of core business functions across the enterprise. Oracle Fusion Applications are
designed using commercially-available technology standards such as Java and BPEL; the principles of SOA; and
a common approach and architecture for the user experience, business intelligence, social networking and
mobility. With their tailored user experience and embedded analytical capabilities, Oracle Fusion Applications
are designed to increase user productivity and allow customers to manage functions across different
environments more effectively. Using a SOA approach, Oracle Fusion Applications are engineered to provide
customers with more flexibility to innovate and adopt next-generation technologies at their own pace, whether
via one module, a product family, or an entire suite. Oracle Fusion Applications are engineered to be cloud-ready
and thus offer flexible deployment options, including on-premise, public cloud, private cloud, or a combination
of these options.
We also continue to offer and enhance Oracle Applications, including our Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel,
PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards product families. All Oracle Applications are enterprise-grade and based upon
industry standards, and designed to automate core business processes and address industry-specific needs.
The primary applications software offerings include:
• Human Capital Management;
• Customer Relationship Management;
• Financials;
• Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC);
• Procurement;
• Supply Chain Management (SCM);
• Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) ;
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM);
• Business Intelligence / Analytic Applications;
• Web Commerce; and
• Industry-Specific Applications.
Human Capital Management
We offer a broad portfolio of Human Resource and Talent Management applications, and flexible deployment
options for on-premise or cloud computing IT environments. Our complete and integrated offerings provide core
human resource transactions, workforce service automation and delivery, and complete enterprise talent
management. Our global, web-based, single system architecture is designed for organizations of every size,
industry and region. In fiscal 2012, we acquired Taleo Corporation, a leading provider of cloud-based talent
management software that helps organizations attract, develop, motivate, and retain human capital. We believe
our portfolio of HCM solutions creates a broad offering for organizations to manage their human resource
operations and employee careers, either via cloud offerings such as Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Service and
Oracle Taleo Talent Management service; or on-premise solutions, including Oracle Fusion HCM (which is also
cloud ready), Oracle E-Business Suite HCM, and PeopleSoft HCM.
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