CoExistence is the new Existence
Its coexistence or no existence - Bertrand Russell
Earlier this year Oracle’s C Class, Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd shared their Vision, Strategy and released 10-Point Plan to be #1 In the Cloud.
Oracle’s Strategic focus-shift in product building from EBS to Fusion Applications on cloud with plans to stall SOME of the acquired and EBS products, who knew Bertrand Russell quote’s relevance would rock in Fusion world too.
A Great number of Oracle’s customer is still on core Applications like EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel or JD Edwards.
Customers who made huge IT investments and I-AM-HAPPY with my current system are less likely to replace existing systems, yet want to adopt new Fusion features and enhancements.
Oracle offers the approach of CoExistence to such business scenarios, wherein Existing ERP & Fusion solution co-exists to deliver Business Value and customers can continue to leverage the returns from existing investments.
3 ways to Fusion Adoption –
1, Module Co-Existence – Existing customer implements Single Fusion Application module to extend the functionality in the current applications.
2, Pillar Co-Existence: Customers choose to replace a suite of applications in a functional area with Oracle Fusion Application.
3. Applications Unlimited: Customers who will continue on Oracle’s current applications.
2 ways to CoExistence and Integration -
1. Packaged /Out of the Box CoExistence Scenarios
Best suited for existing customers of HCM solutions, Oracle has turned the most commonly needed integration requirements into Out of the Box product feature.Pre-Built and packaged Integration offerings for HCM are –
2. Enabled Coexistence and Integrations
All of the remaining integration challenges to other versions of Oracle HCM and other 3rd party HR systems are treated as custom integrations.They are all handled by a catalogue of Integration Assets such as Web services, Business events, Interface Tables, flat files etc all available in one central place called Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER).
The HCM CoExistence Interface manages data loads and data extracts between the source application and Oracle Fusion.
Inbound Integrations to Oracle Fusion HCM
- HCM Data Loader
- HCM File-Based Loader(High Volume CSV,XML,DAT Data Load)
- HCM Spreadsheet Data Loader(Low Volume Spreadsheet data Load)
- Payroll Batch Loader