Premier support for Oracle E-Business (EBS) Suite 12.1 will end by December 2021. Businesses globally can either upgrade to the latest EBS 12.2 or bid goodbye to EBS innovation and Oracle Premier support. In this blog, we look at 6 reasons why it’s time to get started on Oracle EBS 12.2. Upgrade.

Oracle E-Business Suite has a history of over 30 years of continuous innovation, upgrades, and functionalities. With initial origins in the financial software in the late 1980s, Oracle launched its E-Business Suite in 2001 as a stack of ERP and CRM applications. EBS’s suite of business applications now supports and operates a variety of business processes including Financials, manufacturing, Sales, Customer Service, Human Capital Management Procurement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, and the list goes on.

Business operating on Oracle EBS 12.1 can receive Premier support through December 2021. However, after that, there won’t be any extended support and they would have to stay satisfied with sustaining support.

The upgrade to EBS 12.2 provides various new functionalities with a streamlined installation process to boost your enterprises’ overall efficiency and performance. For organizations using EBS 12.2, the Premier Support will be valid through 2031; for more than a decade from now.

According to Oracle, the latest upgrade empowers businesses, “leverage an integrated suite of business applications to make better decisions, reduce costs, increase performance, and continue to take advantage of your Oracle EBS Investment.”

Here are six reasons why you should upgrade to Oracle EBS 12.2:

E-Business Suite is one of Oracle’s major product lines. Primarily launched in 2001, E-Business Suite contains and supports a variety of application modules such as Oracle ERP, CRM, SCM operations, and more. It has continually evolved over the years, intending to expand the applications’ functionality, usability, and scalability, with the commitment of reducing the total cost of ownership.

With each succeeding upgrade, Oracle adds new functionalities, and benefits according to changes in the business environment. Here are some reasons to upgrade to the latest version of Oracle EBS:

• Access to newly added functionalities.
• Leverage the latest technology to achieve and strengthen your organizations’ business goals.
• Facilitate regulatory compliance at lower costs by incorporating standard processes throughout the enterprise.
• Powers enhancements for performance and usability purposes
• Boosts application efficiency
• It readies your business to consider adding cloud functionality to EBS or migrating to Oracle ERP Cloud or Oracle HCM cloud smoothly.

In the past, business operations needed to be performed as quickly as possible to reduce downtime. With Oracle’s latest Online patching functionality, businesses can finally reduce their downtime without affecting important operations. Oracle’s new online patching functionality in the Oracle EBS R12.2 allows you to apply patches to your system while it’s still running and fully operating. The online patching highly reduces the maintenance downtimes.

This patch can also be used outside business hours that eliminates the need for Maintenance Mode.

According to Oracle, the online patching forms a “revolutionary breakthrough for organizations with high-availability requirements, such as manufacturers and organizations with pro-active users around the globe.”

Oracle EBS 12.2 Suite offers plenty of upgrades and capabilities with numerous areas enhanced from previous versions. The various enhancements in this upgrade include:

• EBS Enterprise Command Center
• Mobile Apps
• Financial Enhancements
• Order Management
• Procurement
• Manufacturing
• Asset Lifecycle Management
• Service
• Human Capital Management
• Applications Technology

Oracle EBS 12.2 brings several technical & performance improvements than its former versions 12.0 and 12.1. The current upgrade brings with it technical improvements including:

• Oracle Containers for Java 10g from the 12.0 and 12.1 versions replaced with WebLogic Server 11g. The new upgrade takes E-Business Suite Data through the metadata dictionary and makes the constructed HTML page available to end-users through Apache technology. The WebLogic server optimizes clustering performances and creates hybrid applications with the use of OAF-DAF.
• The latest upgrade optimizes HTML user interfaces for tablets and mobiles providing an on-the-go mode for business users who move often.
• Enhancements to the Oracle Applications Framework (OAF) have been made to improve the user experience of HTML UIs. The new “list search” simplifies tablet searches and assists users to view saved table searches as infotiles.
• Several HTML enhancements including simplified toolbar, popups for list of values, date picker, key flexfields, descriptive flex fields.
• Oracle Workflow provides enhanced options for configuring email notification attachments, and support date and time display in the user’s preferred time zone.
• Oracle E-Business Suite Cloud Manager provides increased customization to help customers run oracle E-Business Suite on oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure.

Oracle EBS 12.2 brings fresh changes in the interface in terms of the new look, feel, and enhanced user experience. Some of the major changes in the UI in the latest upgrade are:

• New Icon-based page navigation that allows users to receive a summary of recent notifications with the simple click of an icon. Users can scroll through new user interactions, detach tables, choose wider work widths, and use new widgets designed to boost productivity.
• The Oracle Application Framework provides a more modern UI to enable quick action such as
• Export Table Data to PDF
• ‘My work list’ Popup in Global Header with a take action option
• Enhanced filtering in List Searches
• Enterprise Command Center (ECC) has been enhanced to allow IT professionals to monitor and fine-tune ECC dashboard usage along with:
• Capturing an audit trail of user activities on dashboards
• Tune deployment and ETL processes
• Monitor search activity
• Identify and analyze user intents
• Resolve issues as soon as they arise

Hundreds and Thousands of organizations rely and trust on Oracle E-Business Suite to manage complex business operations and succeed in today’s competitive environment. With Oracle’s continued investment in new features and innovations, the availability of premier support of EBS will continue till at least 2031.

Oracle EBS 12.2 has been named as the long-term support release for the Oracle E-business Suite. Businesses can trust the functioning of EBS and use it safely for innovations and growth for the next decade and so on.

A decision to upgrade the current software involves making complex decisions including technical infrastructure decisions, timeframe considerations, business needs and timelines, and more. The experienced consultants at Tangenz can help you take benefit of the latest functionalities of Oracle EBS with professional implementation, integration, and managed services.

Tangenz Corporation, an Oracle Gold partner can help you navigate your Oracle EBS upgrade journey efficiently and quickly.

Tangenz is a 100% Oracle focused Technology Consulting company. We implement, integrate, and upgrade Oracle EBS and other Oracle products efficiently for the smooth functioning of your business processes by providing services such as:

• Configuration and customization of all EBS modules such as financials, projects, inventory, manufacturing, warehouse management, HRMS, etc.
• Upgrade from Oracle EBS 12.1 to 12.2.x
• Lift-and-shift EBS from On-prem to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Implement Oracle ERP Cloud
• Build Cloud migration roadmap
• Training
• Project Management
• Managed Services

The presence of Oracle E-Business (EBS) Suite in your business reduces complexities, increases productivity, and enhances business growth. To continue to leverage ongoing innovation from Oracle EBS and to get Oracle premier support through 2031, Organizations need to get started NOW. Contact us to schedule a FREE consultation to discuss your Oracle EBS Upgrade journey.