Oracle Cloud Applications Common Technologies and User Experience

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1 Oracle Cloud Applications Common Technologies and User Experience Release 11 Release Content Document December 2015 Revised: July 2016

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS REVISION HISTORY... 3 COMMON TECHNOLOGIES... 4 USER EXPERIENCE... 4 Enhanced Infolets Experience... 4 EXTENSIBILITY... 5 Filmstrip Configurations... 5 INTEGRATION AND EXTENSIBILITY UPDATES... 6 New Guides to Support Integration and Extensibility... 6 Reports... 6 Roles... 6 APPLICATION SECURITY CLOUD... 7 Segregation of Duties Menu... 7 Function and Data Security Customization Report... 7 Worklist Access... 7 FUNCTIONAL SETUP MANAGER (FSM)... 8 Improved Landing Experience... 8 Guided Navigation... 8 Offering Configuration... 8 Offering and Functional Area Based Setup... 8 Offering and Functional Area Based Export and Import... 8 Offering Configuration Migration... 9 ORACLE SOCIAL NETWORK (OSN) Updates to Social in Oracle Applications Cloud Desktop Client Improvements Add-In for Outlook Improvements Web Client Improvements Administration Improvements Developer Improvements

3 REVISION HISTORY This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top. Date What s Changed Notes 19 JUL 2016 Worklist Access Added new feature delivered in Update 8 (August). 06 MAY 2016 Integration and Extensibility Updates Added section for new Oracle Enterprise Repository replacement tools and collateral. 01 MAR 2016 Removal of two features: 1) a report that was consolidated to include two features (Reference Role Model Change Report) 2) User Data Assignment only relevant to ERP & SCM. 15 DEC 2015 Initial Document Creation 3

4 COMMON TECHNOLOGIES At Oracle, delivering products that reflect a superior and secure user experience is the result of an enormous investment. This derives from countless hours spent examining how people like you actually work and use our enterprise applications to understand your pain points. We then work closely with product management, security experts, strategy, and development to design innovative applications that help you to be more productive, secure, efficient, and effective. USER EXPERIENCE Oracle s focus on providing an exceptional user experience pervades the Oracle Applications Cloud. Creating a compelling, pleasing user interface (UI) that provides only what you need, when you need it is of the highest priority. ENHANCED INFOLETS EXPERIENCE You can now re-order infolets by a simple drag and drop. Additionally, you can also add new facets to existing infolets, if not already defined. User can still delete an existing facet. Also, we have enhanced the infolet navigation such that when you close the drill down from an infolet, you stay on the infolets dashboard. 4

5 EXTENSIBILITY While Oracle Applications provide robust out-of-the-box functionality, we want you to be able to run your business your way, and configuring the user experience is easier than ever, with Oracle's modern cloud extensibility tools. FILMSTRIP CONFIGURATIONS Enable or disable your Filmstrip by using two new settings provided by Oracle in the Functional Setup Manager. The ability to configure the Filmstrip options previously was found in the Structure setup page. You can use the profile option Springboard Strip Enabled to render the strip of icons above all simplified pages in the environment. Additionally, use the Springboard Strip Expanded profile option to display the strip of icons above all simplified pages as expanded or collapsed by default. Lastly, the capability to collapse or expand the strip on any page is still available. 5

6 INTEGRATION AND EXTENSIBILITY UPDATES The integration-related content that helps you customize, extend, and integrate with Oracle Applications Cloud is now available in the Oracle Help Center. This content previously hosted in the Oracle Enterprise Repository for Oracle Fusion Applications. NEW GUIDES TO SUPPORT INTEGRATION AND EXTENSIBILITY The following new guides are now available in the Oracle Help Center to support integration and extensibility: REPORTS File-based data import Review external data integration services to load data into Oracle Fusion Applications from external sources. Access templates to structure, format, and generate data files. SOAP web services Understand Simple Object Access Protocol web services to integrate with or extend Oracle Applications Cloud. Tables and views Find information about table columns, primary keys, and indexes. Review columns and queries for views. You can view a listing of all available reports for a product from the Analyze and Report page for your cloud service from the navigation pane. ROLES Use the security reference guides available from the Books page to review job roles, duties, privileges, and security information for scheduled processes. 6

7 APPLICATION SECURITY CLOUD Oracle Fusion Applications Security provides a single console in which security managers and security administrators can review, design, and modify roles in Oracle Fusion Applications. It enables users to visualize the relationships among roles, and to model applications-menu and task-pane entries for any role. Users can also manage certificates and review a set of security reports. SEGREGATION OF DUTIES MENU Please be aware that new Segregation of Duty menu has been added to the Security Console. This menu is non-functioning but is placed here for future use in identifying conflicts for a given role. FUNCTION AND DATA SECURITY CUSTOMIZATION REPORT Guarantee that you are maintaining the Oracle best practice to keep delivered security artifacts unchanged. Oracle recommends copying a delivered security model and making it your own. Oracle now provides a functional and data security report which generates a notification when a seeded item has been modified. This will prompt an action by your administrator to undo the changes and prevent unintentional impacts when Oracle performs future updates to these items. Leverage this tool to easily identify and list customizations to delivered function and data security artifacts from Oracle. WORKLIST ACCESS Control who can browse users in Worklist UIs. By default, external users can no longer browse users in Worklist UIs. 7

8 FUNCTIONAL SETUP MANAGER (FSM) Oracle Functional Setup Manager provides a new simplified UI in Release 11 that improves user experience by streamlining the Offering setup process. IMPROVED LANDING EXPERIENCE The new Setup and Maintenance landing page presents your subscribed Offerings by default. However, you still have the choice to browse all other available Offerings. In addition, all relevant documents that will help you to plan for an Offering implementation are directly available from this page. Task Pane has been removed from the new UI to give it a streamlined look and feel. However, the entries previously found in the Task Pane are still easily accessible from the navigation drawer located at the top right corner of the page. GUIDED NAVIGATION Navigation through setup process has been enhanced to make it more intuitive to the user. At the same time, the new flow increased user efficiency by requiring fewer clicks to navigate through the end-toend setup process. OFFERING CONFIGURATION Configure page has a new look and feel as well. Offerings are presented one at a time based on user s selection to give the page a cleaner look. Furthermore, as you enable Offerings and Functional Areas, your selections are saved automatically. OFFERING AND FUNCTIONAL AREA BASED SETUP To setup an Offering by Functional Areas is an alternative approach to using Implementation Projects. It allows managing setup of an Offering during initial implementation as well as for maintaining setup over time in a modular fashion so that you can complete setup and begin transaction in the functional areas that are most relevant to you immediate business needs without performing setup of the entire Offering. In the new Setup page, the Functional Areas and the tasks necessary to set up each of them are presented next to each other giving higher visibility to setup requirements of each Functional Area as well as reducing the number of clicks necessary to navigate to the tasks. OFFERING AND FUNCTIONAL AREA BASED EXPORT AND IMPORT From the new Setup page, a simplified export and import flow now supports migration of setup data without creating Configuration Packages. You may choose to export and import setup data of the entire Offering or select specific Functional Areas for incremental migration. 8

9 In addition, the new flow presents a list of relevant business objects that can be used during export to filter setup data by default and thereby, gives you better visibility to what s available. OFFERING CONFIGURATION MIGRATION When exporting and importing setup data, you have a new option to migrate the Offering configuration as well. Use this functionality to synchronize the Functional Area and Feature selections between two instances. 9

10 ORACLE SOCIAL NETWORK (OSN) Oracle Social Network is a secure enterprise collaboration and social networking solution for business. With Oracle Social Network, individuals can stay informed of business activities and drive productivity with purposeful social networking. Oracle Social Network provides a unique experience that includes integration with enterprise applications and business process that drives adoption and participation for increased productivity. UPDATES TO SOCIAL IN ORACLE APPLICATIONS CLOUD The Social user interface in Oracle Applications Cloud includes the following new features: Global search Expanded navigation menu Upload documents from cloud document stores View and create document annotations Documents view in Conversations and walls Side panels showing recent activity, trending items, and contacts Mark items as favorites Real-time user presence in Conversations and walls Start web conferences Start Conversations with groups Restore deleted messages Add referring items to Social Objects, Conversations, and walls Change display language of Conversations and walls View items a group is a member of Discard Conversations Rename folders DESKTOP CLIENT IMPROVEMENTS Oracle Social Network Desktop provides easy access to Oracle Social Network from your computer desktop. The Desktop Client improvements include: Support for federated SSO Option to save open tabs on exit Find text, unread messages, or flagged messages in a Conversation Improved filter and sorting options for search results Cloud document adapter for Oracle Documents Context menu for search results Add related Conversations to offline briefcase Restore deleted messages 10

11 ADD-IN FOR OUTLOOK IMPROVEMENTS Oracle Social Network Add-In for Outlook provides access to Oracle Social Network from within Microsoft outlook. The add-in improvements include: Support for federated SSO Invite contacts from your Outlook address book to Oracle Social Network Find text, unread messages, or flagged messages in a Conversation Improved filter and sorting options for search results Cloud document adapter for Oracle Documents View details for underlying Social Objects Offline panel Option to auto-publish offline changes Restore deleted messages WEB CLIENT IMPROVEMENTS The Web client improvements include: Find text, unread messages, or flagged messages in a Conversation Improved filter and sorting options for search results Cloud document adapter for Oracle Documents Restore deleted messages ADMINISTRATION IMPROVEMENTS Oracle Social Network includes the following administration improvements: Social Object visibility settings - Allow Public and Default Visibility setting Global notification option DEVELOPER IMPROVEMENTS Oracle Social Network includes the following developer improvements: Cloud Storage Services API Conferencing Services API Social Plug-in Explorer API Reference CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES API New in R11, users with the developer privilege or the service administrator privilege can add and manage Oracle Social Network cloud storage services using the REST API. Oracle Social Network integrations with cloud document stores let users collaborate on cloud files as easily as on files that originate from the desktop. Oracle Social Network integrates with Google Drive, 11

12 Dropbox, WebDAV, Oracle Documents, and Microsoft OneDrive out-of-the-box. In addition we provide an SDK that you can use to create additional conferencing services. CONFERENCING SERVICES API New in R11, users with the developer privilege or the service administrator privilege can add and manage Oracle Social Network conferencing services using the REST API. A conferencing service lets users run on-demand meetings across many locations. Oracle Social Network integrations with conferencing services let users start conferences from within the client user interface. The Cisco Web Meetings (WebEx) product is integrated into Oracle Social Network out-of-the-box. In addition we provide an SDK that you can use to create additional conferencing services. SOCIAL PLUG-IN EXPLORER API REFERENCE New for R11, the Social Plug-in API URL reference documentation shows the URLs that correspond to OSN views, giving developers access to a wide range of Social Plug-in functionality

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