Earlier this week, at Oracle Cloud World 2024, the company announced its latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.2.14. This updated version brings key improvements across Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Human Capital Management (HCM). For IT managers and business leaders, perhaps the most exciting developments include advanced customization options, enhanced user experiences, and deeper integration with Oracle APEX. These upgrades provide businesses with even greater flexibility to tailor EBS to their specific needs, while maintaining Oracle’s trusted functionality. Here’s what you can expect from EBS 12.2.14 and how these innovations can help drive your organization forward.
Enhanced Oracle APEX Integration for Customizations
- Benefit: IT managers can now leverage Oracle APEX to build and embed custom pages directly within EBS, ensuring a consistent user interface across both standard and custom-built applications. This integration empowers teams to extend EBS functionality using APEX without disrupting the user experience, making it easier to manage customizations and reduce complexity.
- How: Oracle APEX pages can be embedded within EBS HTML Framework pages, providing a unified look and feel. Additionally, EBS now supports seamless navigation between EBS and APEX, with single sign-on (SSO) options, offering better security and ease of access.
Improved User Experience through Oracle JET and APEX
- Benefit: Oracle JET (JavaScript Extension Toolkit) modernizes highly interactive interfaces, and tighter integration with APEX ensures that IT teams can build custom applications with modern UI components while still working within the EBS environment.
- How: Oracle JET is used to revamp several user interfaces within EBS, and custom APEX applications now inherit the latest user interface standards, ensuring a smoother, more intuitive experience for users.
Streamlined Customization and Patching
- Benefit: Oracle APEX schemas are now fully integrated with EBS, meaning custom applications can take advantage of EBS’s Online Patching capability, making it easier for IT managers to apply updates without downtime. This reduces the operational burden of maintaining custom solutions alongside regular system updates.
- How: APEX schemas are registered as custom EBS schemas and are editions-enabled, allowing them to participate in the online patching process.
Oracle Guided Learning Integration
- Benefit: IT managers can deploy custom Oracle Guided Learning (OGL) content, such as guides or tips, to help users navigate EBS according to organizational policies. This reduces training time and increases efficiency by delivering context-sensitive help directly within EBS workflows.
- How: OGL content is integrated into EBS’s HTML-based pages without requiring code changes. It can be hosted on-premises or in the cloud, offering flexibility for various IT environments.
Extended Support and Long-Term Stability for EBS 12.2.14
- Benefit: With Oracle EBS 12.2.14, customers benefit from extended Premier Support through 2035. This commitment ensures long-term stability and continued access to updates, reducing concerns about system obsolescence.
- How: Oracle provides a “rolling 10+ years” commitment to Premier Support, meaning IT teams can plan their roadmaps knowing they’ll have support for over a decade.
Improved ERP and Command Center Functionality
- Benefit: Enhancements to the Oracle Enterprise Command Center (ECC) enable faster reconciliation and visibility into financial transactions, such as through the Cash Management Command Center. This supports better decision-making and faster financial operations.
- How: The ECC includes new dashboards and audit tools that help monitor user activity, data growth, and the performance of incremental data loads, providing IT managers with better tools for system monitoring and optimization.
Overall, from an IT Manager’s perspective, these updates focus on increasing customization flexibility, improving the user experience, and ensuring long-term stability, especially through seamless APEX integrations. This allows organizations to tailor the system to their specific needs while minimizing the overhead involved in maintaining these customizations.
Are you ready to upgrade to Oracle EBS 12.2.14 and maximize the potential of your ERP system with seamless APEX integration? Contact Traust, your trusted partner for Oracle ERP consulting, to learn how these new features can streamline your business processes, improve user experience, and deliver custom solutions tailored to your needs. Let our expert consultants guide you through the upgrade and take your operations to the next level.
