CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Oracle E-Business Suite

In this introductory chapter, we’ll give a high level functional overview of Oracle E-Business Suite from an application developer’s point of view. This chapter is primarily aimed at the readers who are familiar with Oracle tools but new to E-Business Suite; those who have already gained experience in working with E-Business Suite can safely skip this chapter.

We also look at what options are available to implementation teams and developers to change the standard product features, and later in the chapter we briefly discuss the concept of E-Business Suite environments.

At the end of this chapter we look at how information is shared and reused within different modules in Oracle Applications in order to highlight the importance of data sharing between different modules within E-Business Suite.