Comments on: Oracle Fusion Apps Have Finally Arrived…Kinda

By: Debbie Brown

Debbie Brown — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:14:03 +0000

Excellent summary Jason-
To Oracle’s credit, it is very difficult to discuss futures with clients and the market and then fail to deliver. We should respect that they have tightly controlled communication on this so they meet and potentially exceed expectations. Did you get a sense of the migration path for clients that do go through the pain and cost of upgrade to PPS 9? Will Fusion be provided as a migration release versus what the industry has come to know as a new application acquisition or purchase? Did you know what languages and currencies and countries are planned for the first release? Thanks again, great summary .
Debbie

By: Meg Bear

Meg Bear — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:45:06 +0000

“First, let me congratulate the Oracle HCM product team. They’ve had a tough job over the past 5 years walking the line on Fusion while remaining committed to Oracle’s existing applications. ”

Thanks for the congrats!

-Meg

By: Teo

Teo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:59:03 +0000

In comparing Apples to Oracles how do you weight the innovation from Workday to the innovation from Fusion Apps plus all the rest of integrated suites, technology, database, middleware and hardware from Oracle

By: Alfred

Alfred — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:08:14 +0000

While its a good development, as you mentioned, it makes difficult to decide on long term strategy. Particularly for those who are on PS version 8.3 and lower. They have been sititng on the fence as they are faced with options like: upgrade to 9?, move to SAP, wait for Fusion, any other ERP(not many large organizations are thinking of WORKDAY). And as you know, meanwhile all that will happen is more customizations, forcing organizations to re-implement than upgrade.

Fusion path is like 4-6 yrs time frame considering many organizations do not like to be guinea pigs, skills availability etc. BTW,,that’s enough time for SAP to gain grounds and emerge as a true competitor in HR applications.

By: gregg dourgarian

gregg dourgarian — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:15:23 +0000

Agreed it’s a tough walk for a vendor under going major platform shifts. Agile competitors lurk, ready to pounce on game like PS.

By: Ahmed Limam

Ahmed Limam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:31 +0000

Maybe a little less blind Oracle cheerleading would be in order. How can you say that Fusion will be providing a multi-tenant hosted solution when Larry cancelled that feature from Fusion’s early code? If EBS’s first releases (inlcuding 12) is anything to go by, no client in their right mind is going to buy the first release of fusion, unless they’re willing to become another long-suffering guinea pig. This is basically just some marketing fairytale put out by Oracle because, well, Fusion is already late by two years.
An answer to Debbie: no migration path is to be expected. At most oracle will offer guides as to how to switch from PSFT or EBS to Fusion (whatever is in there) but no more. As Ancient Romans used to say, Caveat Emptor.

By: Roy Altman

Roy Altman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:12:12 +0000

After working with PeopleSoft for many years, both before and after the Oracle acquisition, they have a lot of convincing to do before I’ll jump on their bandwagon. Oracle has always been a top-notch technology company, I was never sold on their vision when it comes to applications. With PeopleSoft, they a lot of legacy code, dating from the client-server era, to untangle before it looks like a 21st Century architecture. The pure SAAS products, like Workday, are just too slick.