Migrating from Oracle EBS to Fusion Cloud

With on-premise, hardware refreshes & software updates are a necessity. But moving to the latest release is often daunting, costly & requires downtime for the system, a reason why it is largely deferred by businesses. But it is essential to perform these updates to avoid the risk of vulnerability. Fixing issues & bugs takes a longer duration with delayed updates. The same is the case with security patches where regular costly updates are to be performed to ensure security.

The TCO with on-Premise is higher owing to the initial hardware and software investment and the subsequent costs involved with the refreshes and updates.

A typical concern is the building up of out-of-date and disorganized information in an EBS environment. This may lead to lags, inaccuracies & inefficiencies. Transient data and obsolete transactional data must be repeatedly purged from the EBS platform so that only relevant data is worked upon for business insights.

For EBS 12.1 users, the support ends by December 2021. During this period, the support is limited to Severity 1 Service Requests (SRs), functional issues, and security updates (critical patch update program). Such situations demand organizations to approach upgrades or migration at the earliest.

Why migrate to Fusion Cloud?

Lower Costs: The TCO is lowered by almost 38% vis-a-vis on-premises deployments. It manages and reduces capital expenditures and transforms them into predictable operating expenditures by way of efficient data center maintenance, eliminating server hardware, and taking advantage of cloud flexibility wherever possible.

The “pay-as-you-go” usage model just adds to the benefits. Also, the provision to bring existing Oracle licenses to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and leverage existing investments, including monitoring, operational runbooks, skills, and workflow, add significantly to the value.

Better Performance: Fusion Cloud results in 30% increased performance and 2-10 times faster reporting. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers higher-performance computing, storage, networking, and managed database instances, giving users a high-performance experience. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the only platform where Oracle Database can be run with Oracle RAC or Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service. Other cloud systems have lesser robust configurations.

Easier to manage: With Oracle’s specific tooling and automation to streamline deployment, migration, upgrading, and maintaining implementation, it saves time and reduces risk. The implementation timeline is in weeks, rather than months. A typical deployment can be done within 12-14 weeks.

Easier to use: The cloud-based access provides seamless navigable dashboards for efficient troubleshooting. When compared to EBS, in fusion there is no need to run multiple queries for the creation of ad-hoc reports for real-time data. Enabled with Guided Business Processes, which are organized sets of tasks, there is help in getting work done more efficiently.

BI Publisher: Recommended for creating customer-facing documents and complex reporting.

Oracle Financial Reporting Studio (FR Studio): A powerful tool for accessing, designing, and presenting financial reports and analytical data. This tool is recommended for Financial Analysts who must create financial reports for regulatory compliance.

Smart View: An Excel-based analysis tool and is recommended for usage by Financial Analysts for slicing/dicing analysis

• The data model of Fusion is a combination of Oracle EBS, Siebel, and PeopleSoft.
• Oracle Fusion Applications uses trees, a hierarchy model that offers flexible hierarchies for crossing lines of business processes.
• The tree structure is in the data model and is used directly in the Java business logic and exposed through Oracle Business Intelligence.
• A unified metadata dictionary, and a metadata store, accessible to all the tools, provide consistency for all the components in the technology stack and enable you to preserve changes across upgrades. 
  
  

• Presentation of a summary picture by product and feature as to what cannot be migrated
• Customer review of the potential areas and decision-making before the start of the migration
• Checking all the detailed exception reports for all products. The EBS to Fusion Migration offering in the Fusion setup manager will be used for the same

Finally, the domain values are mapped to perform the data migration and are completed using ODI interfaces.

• Set-up data
• Transactional data
• Descriptive Flex Fields like schemas related to controlled customizations

• Extension using API hooks
• OA Personalization Framework customizations in e-Business Suite will not be migrated
• Oracle Forms personalization and customizations
• Oracle Workflows customizations
• Report customization
• Non-controlled Schema Customization

• On-premise, hosted by the enterprise
• Public cloud-hosted over the Internet by Oracle, software as a service (SaaS)
• Private Cloud, internally behind a firewall hosted as a SaaS
• Hybrid, an implementation of both on-premise and cloud