The Applications In The E-Business Suite - Oracle Territory Management Implementation Manual

The Oracle E-Business Suite
(OLTP), query-intensive data warehouses, and high capacity web sites. Because the
Oracle database is available on many different platforms, applications can scale
from handheld to laptop to desktop to enterprise providing consistent information
over multiple channels.
Oracle 9i Application Server
The Oracle 9i Application Server (Oracle 9iAS) is a middle-tier server which
independently delivers the technology needed to build web sites and applications,
create personalized portals, extract business intelligence, and manage a secure web
site infrastructure.
Common Services and Components
All the applications can leverage the common infrastructure and services
components. Functionality includes Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle
Application Object Library (AOL), the Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle Discoverer
development tools, the coding and UI standards, and other functionality used by
the applications.
For example, you can extend the applications according to your business needs
using flexfields. You can create and assign responsibilities using the system
administrator responsibility. Also, you can use Oracle Workflow to configure
background processes and set up notifications so that all the appropriate managers
and groups are notified.
Oracle Internet Business Intelligence
Above the E-Business Suite sits the Internet Business Intelligence application. This
application integrate data from all of the E-Business Suite applications to provide
key performance measurements, operating alerts, and management reports to every
decision maker across the enterprise.

1.1.1 The Applications in the E-Business Suite

Customers can seamlessly share data from front-end applications (CRM) to backend
applications (ERP). The CRM applications include:
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the Marketing suite
the Sales suite
the Contracts suite
the Service suite