How to gear up into the Oracle Cloud ERP
Cloud Computing : There are three main service models of cloud computing – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP – Comes under the SaaS Model – in which the Software and Hardware are taken care by the Vendor (Oracle) – and access is provided on Subscription based.
Oracle Cloud ERP has two types of Job Roles – Functional Consultant and Technical Consultant
Functional Consultant : Responsible for Configuring the ERP according to the client business model, providing the business process flow as per client requirement, designing the functional/requirement document, perform the functional testing/integration testing.Technical Consultant : Responsible for designing technical components like : BI Reports, OTBI Reports, FRS Reports, VBCS Pages Design, ICS Integrations, APEX Pages/Reports, SQL/PLSQL Program Design, Migration of technical components from instance to other.
Within Oracle SaaS – the only new technical components which can be designed are : BI , OTBI, FRS or Smartview Reports , Application Composer Pages and Custom ESS Job creation.
If there is any need to design custom table/ pages – with in Oracle SaaS there is no scope, the solution for this is to have Oracle PaaS Solutions respectively
Some of the Oracle Provided PaaS Solutions are:
Oracle Database Cloud Service
Oracle Integration Cloud Service
Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service
Oracle Process Cloud Service
Oracle Visual Studio Cloud Service
Oracle Analytic Cloud Service
Out of the above which is required to get into the Oracle Cloud ERP Technical Role
SQL and PLSQL are very much needed to work on the BI , OTBI reports , Oracle Analytics Cloud Service, APEX
Javascript, HTML, CSS is required to learn VBCS
Having knowledge on SOAP/REST API is beneficial to learn Oracle Integration Cloud Service
Lets understand what are the components of an ERP are