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Extending Oracle Fusion Applications
Oracle Fusion Applications have been built with the intention of co-existing with the
Oracle ERP suite of products as well as integration with other ERP and custom ap-
plications. To provide this kind of co-existence, the application has been built with a
layered approach. The following figure outlines the extensibility approach that is im-
plicit in Oracle Fusion Applications:
Extension types
There are two aspects of extension and both are provided by Oracle Fusion Applica-
tions. The aspects are process extension and application integration.
Process extension
Process extension provides the ability to extend the application to include processes
that span multiple applications. The objective here is to provide a seamless end-to-
end experience for the end user. The end user may be performing a process that
requires functionality provided by different underlying applications (including Oracle
Fusion Applications). Oracle Fusion Applications would be able to provide this end-to-
end process orchestration without the user realizing that they are spanning multiple
applications.
This capability is provided both by the UI elements and the underlying process or-
chestration components. The Oracle-WebCenter-based frontend allows the exten-
sion of Oracle Fusion Applications to include additional UI components that would
be required by external applications. The end-to-end process flow is orchestrated by
Oracle SOA Suite components.
Data integration
There is comprehensive integration at the data level provided by Oracle SOA Suite.
This provides compelling integration functionality to integrate Oracle Fusion Applic-
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