文档介绍：Section 9: Oracle Applications
Overview
merce for the 21st Century
Set against the backdrop of accelerating rates of change in petitive global markets, businesses today struggle to align information management strategies with the renewable business processes. Operational effectiveness pelling economic performance will increasingly require balanced information access and constant cycle time reduction beyond the enterprise.
ing the Impedance Mismatch
Corporate downsizing and rightsizing efforts of the last ten years have yielded results to enterprises which realized that reengineering was not a project or destination, but, indeed, a journey of constant renewal of the business, its people and its relationship with customer, partners and suppliers. This recognition of constant transformation as a permanent part of 21st century business culture requires business systems, which will not only modate change over-time, but will indeed e the foundation to propel change rapidly within the enterprise and beyond the legal enterprise to the supply chain.
With the tremendous progress in information management tools and technologies over the past decade businesses are still anchored to applications which have evolved over the last quarter century puter architectures and operational theories of the sixties and seventies. This phenomenon has triggered the explosive growth of open systems and client/server puting. A significant global appetite for core business application systems developed specifically for global, distributed operational environments where “one-size fits all” approaches are too cumbersome, too impractical and totally unresponsive to change.
THE MISSION OF ORACLE APPLICATIONS
Oracle, a recognized market leader in information management worldwide, is a solutions leader in business systems which enable continuous processes improvement across the extended enterprise--the supply chain. Information flow throughout the supply chain is as critical to the ess of