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Fusion Applications - Laying It Out

Fusion Applications - Laying It Out: A friend recently made a request for some info on Fusion Applications.  After I finished providing some info and answering some basic questions, the idea came up that I should just lay this stuff out for everybody…so, in the words of Hannibal Lechter: "Okey dokey, here we go."

Installation Options

A few thoughts on installation options

• Unless you have a really, really, really compelling business reason, you won't want to take the "Bring Your Own Hardware" installation approach.  Fusion Applications requires loads of hardware investment.  It's a big footprint.
• Personally, I would not recommend running a Private Cloud on your own.  In addition to the hardware required, you'll also need a devops team with a wide and varied set of skills.  Oracle, HP, AT&T, and many others will happily set up and maintain a private cloud for you.  Explore the vendor option before you set off down this path.
• For those requiring integration with 3rd-party or home-grown applications, I like the Hosted option best.  No maintenance headaches with the hosted applications and integration is very easy.  However, I do worry about maintenance response times from Oracle OnDemand and other hosting providers - significant improvement needed here.
• I like the SaaS option due to lower entry and maintenance costs, especially if your customization and integration demands are very light.  However, SaaS does struggle if you need significant levels of data integration or complex customizations.

Deployment Options

This is a very simple perspective on deployment options.  There are nuances and options within options and all sorts of things to consider, but this simple table has served me well.  Helps me keep things in perspective.  Hope it helps you too.

So, in very simple and brief terms, I've laid it out.  Hope you get something out of this.  Questions? Criticism? Additional thoughts or experiences?  Comments encouraged.

Oracle Fusion CRM – Self Service Application

Oracle Fusion CRM – Self Service Application:
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Over at my other “home“, the team have been working very hard to release the new version of their Self Service Portal application now integrated with Oracle Fusion CRM (cloud or no cloud). It previously was released with Oracle CRM On Demand as the back-end, but now the Oracle Fusion CRM platform takes up the role.
The application is completely customizable, so the interface, objects, authentication, process and reporting can all be changed to meet customer requirements. Service Request management and Self Service go hand-in-hand with customer satisfaction and loyalty, and help drive sales and lower costs of retention. This has been a very successful member of our CRM++ application range and I think this new version is very exciting.
It’s nice to work with such a talented bunch of people on such an exciting new platform. It may be new and fresh but Oracle Fusion CRM offers unparalleled opportunities for business process enhancement, and is a pretty cool technical stack as well.
The homepage of the application can be found here and there is a short video module which you can watch by clicking on the picture below.

Oracle Fusion CRM – SSP Application from CRMIT

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Valentine's Day and George Ferris' 154th Birthday

Valentine's Day and George Ferris' 154th Birthday:


Date: Feb. 14, 2013

Romance and amusement parks often go hand in hand. In many places a carnival, fair or circus is a popular destination for a thrilling and action-packed date. Coincidentally, George W.G. Ferris Jr., the creator of the Ferris Wheel was born on Valentine’s Day in 1859. This year seemed like a golden opportunity to combine our celebration of love with the birthday of the engineer whose mechanical invention has filled so many hearts with wonder.

Rough concept sketches. At one time a dragon and a piece of bread (toast?) were going to have a great time together.

Early in the process we decided on depicting a scene with two, side-by-side Ferris Wheels among a landscape of other amusement park rides. Then when two Ferris Wheel carts happened to stop across from each other we thought that was the perfect moment for two characters to have a love at first sight moment. We thought this would be the best way to highlight the Ferris Wheel in its natural habitat and provide a clever way to introduce some valentines to each other. Plus, we thought it would be fun to push a big button to generate a whole series of combinations.

An outtake from the early interactive mock-ups. The characters are featureless blobs but the basic ideas are there.

The greater challenge turned out to be determining who would be riding these Ferris Wheels. What pairs would we create? How silly should we be? Chocolate and peanut butter? An astronaut and an alien? A blog post and a troll? After they see each other, would they jump out of their carts and ride the roller coaster? Or would we show their life story from youth to old age?

We ultimately decided that our cast of characters should all be animals and the result of their initial encounter should be a date. At first we assigned circus jobs to all the animal characters. For example, the monkey was a clown, the bear was a trapeze artist, the frog was a sword swallower, and so on. But why would they be riding the Ferris Wheel? Shouldn’t they all be performing? And would people understand that the turtle was wearing a helmet and goggles because he was in the cannonball act? In the end, we simplified the characters and focused on making the animals as engaging, colorful and personable as possible without worrying about their day jobs.

Sketches for the animal characters.

Final animal character illustrations.

For the resulting dates, we used newspaper comic strips and their 3-panel composition as inspiration for style and narrative structure. The comic strip format gave us room to tell a wide variety of stories and the horizontal format worked nicely in our layout. Once we decided on comics, the date scenarios really just starting writing themselves. As always, we had more ideas than time to illustrate and animate.

The napkin sketch for the octopus and bear date.

The draft sketch.

The final comic.

We hope you enjoyed the final interactive doodle and perhaps learned a little bit about love, life and Ferris Wheels.


- Brian Kaas, Doodler

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Canada,

Turkey,

Qatar,

Italy,

Czech Republic,

Kenya,

Indonesia,

Kuwait,

Hungary,

Lithuania,

France,

Congo [DRC],

Rwanda,

Slovakia,

Ireland,

Argentina,

Norway,

Nigeria,

Ecuador,

Macedonia [FYROM],

Ghana,

Brunei,

Australia,

Algeria,

Singapore,

Austria,

Slovenia,

Guatemala,

Germany,

Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Chile,

Puerto Rico,

Jordan,

Iraq,

Kazakhstan,

Poland,

Spain,

Ukraine,

India,

Netherlands,

Colombia,

Libya,

Greece,

Oman,

Tanzania,

Finland,

United States,

Philippines,

Serbia,

Vietnam,

Croatia,

South Korea,

China,

Thailand,

Switzerland,

New Zealand,

Russia,

Denmark,

Bulgaria,

Greenland,

Palestinian Territories,

Estonia,

Portugal,

Morocco,

Tunisia,

Hong Kong,

Mexico,

Lebanon,

Sweden,

South Africa,

United Kingdom,

Malaysia,

Senegal,

Latvia,

Mozambique,

Uganda,

United Arab Emirates,

Burundi,

Japan,

Taiwan,

Cyprus



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