ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE

Within the overall rubric of Oracle Applications, Oracle Corporation's E-Business Suite ("EB-Suite" or "EBS") consists of a collection of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and supply-chain management (SCM) computer applications developed by Oracle. The software utilizes Oracle's core Oracle relational database management system technology. The E-Business Suite ( current version: 12, released January 31, 2007), contains several product lines, including:

• Oracle Financials

• Oracle Logistics

• Oracle HRMS

• Oracle Sales

Each product comprises several modules, each separately licensed.

Key technologies incorporated into the applications include the Oracle database technologies, (engines for RDBMS, PL/SQL, Java, HTML and XML), the "technology stack" (Oracle Forms Server, Oracle Reports Server, Apache Web Server, Oracle Discoverer, Jinitiator and Sun's Java). 

Oracle Financials

Oracle Financials includes several dozen "modules", each of them separately licensed within the E-Business Suite. The modules include:

• Assets - asset-tracking and maintenance.

• Cash Management - electronic bank statement, loading, and reconciliation features.

• Daily Business Intelligence for Financials - up-to-date graphical views of company performance using some of Oracle's Pre-built KPIs. DBIs serve to show up-to-date snapshots of different areas of a business, such as: Accounts Payables - Supplier Ageing, Accounts Receivable - Customer Ageing.

• General Ledger - including a "Financial Statement Generator" to write custom reports which can span across multiple companies.

• Payments - payment facilities to pay in multiple currencies using multiple payment methods

• Payables - ability to match electronically to purchase orders generated in Oracle Purchasing.

• Receivables - raising sales-invoices, dunning letters and statements. In-built credit-control facilities to manage customer credit.

Oracle Ledger includes ERP features like inter-company transactions, consolidations , multiple currency transactions and drill-down facilities. 

Oracle Logistics

Oracle Projects

Oracle Projects contains the following pseudo-products:

• Project Foundation

• Project Management

• Project Costing

• Project Billing

• Project Intelligence

• Resource Management  

Oracle SCM

Oracle SCM (for supply-chain management) can include:

• Advanced Procurement

• Demantra Demand-driven planning

• Logistics

• Manufacturing

• Order management

• Supply Chain Execution

• Supply Chain Planning

Oracle HRMS

Oracle HRMS offers an integrated set of applications software products specific to the area of human resource management systems (HRMS). It belongs to the Oracle E-Business Suite of Oracle Corporation.

Oracle HRMS includes several modules, specifically:

• Core HR

• Payroll

• OTL (Oracle Time & Labour)

• Oracle Learning Management (OLM)

• Self-service HR

• Oracle Advanced Benefits

• iRecruitment

Others

Additional Oracle E-business Suite products include:

• Oracle Bills of Material

• Oracle Capacity

• Oracle CRM ( now in the process of integration with Siebel Systems)

• Oracle Advanced Planning & Scheduling

• Oracle Advanced Procurement (purchase to pay process)

• Oracle Business Intelligence

• Oracle Engineering

• Oracle Inventory

• Oracle Manufacturing (includes flow, process, and discrete)

• Oracle Master Scheduling

• Oracle MRP

• Oracle Order Entry

• Oracle Order Fulfillment (order to cash process)

• Oracle Payroll

• Oracle Project Costing

• Oracle Project Billing

• Oracle Purchasing

• Oracle TMS (Transportation/G-Log)

• Oracle Work in Process