Oracle R12

Upgrade your Business, Enhance your Performance

Introduction to Release 12

Oracle’s Release 12 is a truly global enterprise system. Oracle says in this release we should “Think Globally to make the right decisions, Work Globally to be more productive and to Manage Systems Globally to lower costs and increase performance.”

The Oracle E-Business Suite product has expanded significantly in functionality, scalability, usability, and reduced cost of ownership over the past few releases, including dramatic leaps with the recent Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.

New Features in R12

• Increased capabilities of Profitability Manager to analyze and report on any segment of your business operations regardless of location
• More web page access with less pop ups and duplicate screens
• Key tasks completed in fewer steps
• Increased personalization capabilities
• Re-designed and streamlined workflows for industry-specific processes
• Optimization of supply chain operations with Oracle Strategic Network Optimisation (SNO)
• Project Portfolio Analysis helps align projects at any location to your global business objectives
• Centralized functions for accounting, sales/use tax, and banking
• Streamlined processing and reporting across multiple ledgers
• Updated Web Services Repository adapts business processes and integrates R12 with third-party applications to create cross-business and cross-product flows
• Certified on Oracle Fusion Middleware to manage processes spanning different applications.
• Publishing and editing reports in a customer-ready format

Why Upgrade to R12?

• Improved Reporting & Analysis
• Increase Efficiency via Multi-Org Access
• Lower IT Costs
• Improves Global Decision Making by Supporting All Types of Reporting/Analysis
• Global Financial Consolidation
• Global Customer Service
• Enhanced Business Intelligence
• Streamlined Performance
• Next Generation Business Process Management
• Oracle is withdrawing all premier, extended and sustained support for Oracle R11i in future

HIPL's R12 Rapid Upgrade Tool

HIPL has developed the R12 Upgrade Assist tool for upgrade assessments.

• It helps estimate the complexity of an upgrade and allows for efficient planning and upgrade execution.
• Provides an inventory of all custom objects (forms, reports, Alerts, Custom processes, Interfaces, Views, Discoverer View)
• Identifies changed table structures and identifies impacted custom code as high, medium or low complexity & priority between source and target releases of the install.
• Provides information on data volumes on transaction tables (to help in Archive / Purge decisions before Upgrade).