Glimpse of Fusion Applications at Open World

One of the OpenWorld 2006 highlights for me was the first glimpse of Fusion Applications, profiled in John Wookey's keynote address.

Jeremy Ashley from the Applications User Experience group walked through a scenario where a sales rep uses Fusion Apps to prepare a quote, ultimately leading to a closed sale.

Here are some screenshots that show key aspects of what may end up as the Fusion user interface (click on the thumbnails to see the full-sized images). Of particular interest is the part of John's keynote video that describes this scenario, which begins at the 57:00 minute mark. This is the start of the scenario, showing the Oracle Fusion sidebar floating on the desktop:

This screenshot shows the prospect integrated into Outlook. Note the Fusion sidebar floating to the right of the desktop:

This next screenshot shows the sales rep checking on some high-level business background details prior to preparing a quote:

The following screenshot shows the sales rep preparing to use Google Docs to produce a quote using a prebuilt template:

This screenshot shows the prepared quote in Google Docs; note that the Oracle Fusion sidebar continues to provide new views of information that can be used in the quotation. Jeremy Ashley described the process of dragging and dropping objects from the sidebar into the quote, in true Web 2.0 fashion:

While preparing the quote, the sales rep drills into some detailed analytics for the customer's previous sales:

The next screenshot shows the customer remotely logged into Fusion Apps, while viewing the submitted quote. The customer is checking out the discount scale for the quote. Note the collaboration options in the Fusion sidebar:

The customer uses the instant messaging chat feature in the Fusion sidebar to negotiate on the quote's terms, and then closes the sale:

Getting the Full Picture

This summary doesn't do full justice to Jeremy's narrative flow, so it's worthwhile downloading the video of John's keynote if you want the full context. Warning: the Real Media version is a 150 MB download!

Related

• John Wookey's Keynote Address Video (Links to multiple media types)
  
• John Wookey's Keynote Presentation (PDF, 6 MB, includes screenshots)