Oracle Applications comprise the applications software or
business software of Oracle Corporation. The term refers to the
non-database and non-middleware partsof Oracle's software
portfolio.Oracle sells many functional modules which use the Oracle
RDBMS as a back-end, notably Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS, Oracle
Projects,[1] Oracle CRM, Oracle Procurement, etc.Oracle initially
launched its application suite with financials software in thelate
1980s. The offering as of 2009 extends to supply-chain management,
human-resource management, warehouse-management,
customer-relationship management, call-center services,
product-lifecycle management, and many other areas. Both in-house
expansion and the acquisition of other companies have vastly
expanded Oracle's application software business.Oracle released
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS/ e-BS) Release 12 (R12) a bundlingof
several Oracle Applications applications in February 2007. The
release date coincided with new releases of other Oracle-owned
products: JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel Systems and
PeopleSoft.
