The Triora Group

As noted in a previous post, the current release of EBS R12 is 12.0.5 and a future 12.0.6 is expected that will include a Financials Family Pack.  Soon after that we should expect Release 12.1.

What will R12.1 include?  In one of the sessions today at OOW 2008, a glimpse was provided.

From Oracle’s perspective R12 is stabilizing, with fewer reported bugs and issues, so the focus for 12.1 is to add more functionality.  Some of the areas mentioned in the session were the addition of new capabilities in:

• Talent Management
• Warehouse Management/Logistics
• Asset Utilization (Asset LifeCycle Management)
• Manufacturing Executing Systems (Discrete and Process Mfg)
• Supply Chain

One noted item was a new Supplier Self-Service capability that allows Suppliers to update their important information (contacts, etc.)

Another topic was the introduction of the Oracle Site Hub which has some of the characteristics of Master Data Management.  Like MDM, it consolidates information from multiple applications, provides the ability to cleanse the data and then simplifies the ability to manage and share that data, providing a consistent view across the organization.

New changes will be coming to Enterprise Manager with enhancements to the Applications Management Pack.  These include automated “hot” cloning, improved patch automation, better pro-active management, and improvements to help with customization management, and functional setup management.

In summary, Release 12.1 will include bug fixes but focus more on filling out functionality in some specialty areas.

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