Chapter 1. The Future of EnterpriseOne and Fusion

We peer deeply into the EnterpriseOne magic crystal ball. We are looking into the future. Now if we really had a true, working magic crystal ball, we would be playing the lottery. Seriously though, there is an outstanding question in many people’s minds about where the industry is going. This is a fair question. Oracle has told the world that they will be releasing the Fusion Applications set in mid-2009. The tech stack on which Fusion Applications is being built is already available; you will hear this referred to as Fusion Middleware. This new product, Fusion Applications, is going to have some of the best functionality from the different products that Oracle has acquired.

However, many customers have invested a lot of time, sweat, and money into their existing EnterpriseOne systems. These customers do not want to see their investment wasted. When Oracle first bought PeopleSoft, there was a lot of fear in the industry that EnterpriseOne was going to disappear. This caused the number of upgrades and new implementations to come almost entirely to a stop, at least temporarily. Oracle quickly realized not only how much customer loyalty there is in the EnterpriseOne space, but the amount of money that could be made by marketing this solution.