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Oracle’s R12 solution has now been here for more than 3+ years since it was released in the year 2007. The adoption of the R12 solution over the past few years has grown as expected, with companies seeing value in their investment in the new solution. The new R12 solution not only has a  good number of technical changes, but in many process areas there are major functional changes for example, financials, and manufacturing. In addition to this, Oracle has also introduced many new products bundled with the R12 solution which can also work standalone with 11i. Customer can leverage these solutions while retaining their current investments in R11i or migrate to R12. They can either look at moving to R12 solution through an implementation route or through technical upgrade route. Each of this approaches have their own pros and cons and  every industry vertical has something to look up to for leveraging this solution.

Through this blog I want to share my views  on the R12 solution, upgrade approach, best practices, challenges for process industry vertical. As a part of its strategy for R12, Oracle has introduced many solution enhancements for the Process industry customers. I believe the R12 upgrade initiative by any process industry enterprise  is a major decision which should be evaluated and planned with proper due diligence.

In the next part of this series, I would write about the process manufacturing industry in general, the typical challenges that they face and so on. The subsequent blogs would be about IT approaches suited for this industry, challenges, solutions and best practices available as of now.

Stay tuned.