Based on interviews, Oracle users are most concerned about Fusion. Can you give them some words of comfort? We have a pretty good set of design-pattern flows for the applications, and we've started to take the customer groups through them. It gives them a sense of how the user interface will work and how we're mapping the job functions. In going through the assessments, we've been dealing with advisory boards, and we saw gaps between various products. A lot came down to the approach; the same business problems were attacked differently [by the vendors acquired by Oracle]. We'd work with the J.D. Edwards users on a process, and we'd talk to the E-Business Suite users and see how they looked at it. If something was better managed on the Oracle side, we'd go back to talk to the J.D. Edwards users about it. The nice thing is, now there are a lot of specific plans, and you can see exactly what is going on, and we can get feedback on it.

Do you find that customers are starting to understand Fusion? Over the last few months, we've seen, working with the CIO advisory board and the customer committees, that customers have been getting comfortable and conversant with what the [Fusion] plan is, and they're translating what it means into their own deployments in PeopleSoft or the E-Business Suite.

When will Fusion be completed? The year 2008 is when the Fusion suite hits the streets. But there are a lot of things happening later this year. We're releasing libraries of Fusion reports. Using XML, customers can see how they can extract and manipulate information for reporting. We're building libraries for reports on top of PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards and the E-Business Suite that customers can use today. This will be the basis of Fusion reporting.

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Comment from The Feature : The Feature : http://itsafeature.com/what-do-you-want-in-oracle-fusion/ What Do You Want in Oracle Fusion? I enjoyed every Oracle Fusion media story, blog blarticle, or conspiration theory out there. What’s not to like? The Fusion has all aspects of a real-life drama with big money, celebrities, layoffs, and destroyed competitors. But when the dust se... April 10, 2006 Comment from Amr Malik : Amr Malik You can subscribe to oracle's podcast from the iTunes music store. There are four or five podcasts specifically about Fusion. The content is dismally low on technology aspect and real heavy on fluffy buzz words. I was quite dissappointed that most of the stuff that Oracle is putting out re: this is actually not very clear on how exactly this will look like and how we can incorporate it into existing or future installations of Peoplesoft. May 21, 2006

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