Will Oracle’s Fusion Suite be released soon?

Without providing a specific timetable, Oracle has been busy pulling its many software acquisitions into its in-development Fusion applications.

Now, Oracle executives are indicate that an early version of this suite is nearing completion. Legions of Oracle coders are expecting it and many of them can actually get their hands on the thing…

• 450 customers are participating in the Fusion Suite development and providing feedback to Oracle; and
• 130 customers are taking part in an early-adopter program.

Oracle plans to begin beta-testing this year although nobody seems to know for sure when the suite will be released.

Customers with existing maintenance contracts can transition to Fusion at no extra charge so customers are likely to adopt this new suite rather than pass the opportunity to get a suite comprising business intelligence (BI) from Oracle’s Hyperion integration. Expect Retek and ProfitLogic acquisitions to add even more muscle to the suite.

In a nutshell, Fusion provides modern apps natively built in Java for modern business IT and as such, customers will be able to customize applications in exciting new way because, as Charles Philipps said, the design of each app, from the ground up, is to allow changeability after it ships.

As a final note, customers should know that the transitions to Fusion should be painless since its data models will be a superset of those in Ocale’s current applications.

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