TABLE OF CONTENTS DOCUMENT HISTORY 3 UPDATE 17D 3 Revision History 3 Overview 3 User Experience 4 Archive and Purge Workflow Tasks 4 Show Help Icons by Default 4 UPDATE 17B 4 Revision History 4 Overview 4 Operations Availability, Cadence, and Consumption 5 Availability 5 Cadence 6 Easy to Consume 6 Terminology 6 User Experience 6 Branding and Appearance 7 Branding and Appearance 7 Home Page Experience 7 Home Page Layout 7 Home Page Icons 7 Structure 7 Other User Experience 7 Simplified Access to Workflow Tasks 7 Functional Setup Manager 7 My Enterprise 7 Offerings 7 Offering Opt In 8 Migrating Opt In Configuration of Offerings 8 Edit Features 8 Review Subscriptions 8 New Features 8 Setup and Maintenance 9 Application Security 9 Database Resource Perspective of Data Security Policies 9 Enhanced Role Comparison 9 2
DOCUMENT HISTORY This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table: Date Update Version Notes 06 OCT 2017 Update 17D Delivered new features in update 17D. 15 DEC 2017 Update 17B Revised update 17B. UPDATE 17D REVISION HISTORY This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table: Date Feature Notes 06 OCT 2017 Created initial document. OVERVIEW This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in this update. DISCLAIMER The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information. 3
USER EXPERIENCE ARCHIVE AND PURGE WORKFLOW TASKS Workflow tasks with a final status, such as Completed and Expired, are archived and purged based on a set schedule, without any action from you. Archived task data can be used for various purposes, and purging tasks declutters the worklist for users. SHOW HELP ICONS BY DEFAULT Determine if icons for help windows are displayed by default wherever available on the pages that your users work with. Displaying help icons by default ensures that users have quick and easy access to information specific to what they are doing on a page. Users can still click Hide Help in the global header to hide the help icons. UPDATE 17B REVISION HISTORY This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All updates appear in the following table: Date Feature Notes 15 DEC 2017 Operations Availability, Cadence, and Consumption Updated document. Added new section. 13 DEC 2017 Branding and Appearance 13 DEC 2017 Home Page Icons 13 DEC 2017 Home Page Layout 13 DEC 2017 Simplified Access to Workflow Tasks 13 DEC 2017 Structure Updated document. Revised feature description. Updated document. Added feature to the May quarterly update. Updated document. Revised feature name and description. Updated document. Added feature to the May quarterly update. Updated document. Revised feature description. 21 APR 2017 Created initial document. OVERVIEW RELEASE 13 FOCUS Release 13 of Oracle Cloud Applications is a significant release achieving two key milestones: new cloud products & user experience and a streamlined software development process. 4
R13 includes many new cloud products focused on Supply Chain Management and Customer Experience plus a new User Interface: Supply Chain Management Introduced 436 new features and six new products covering sales and operation planning, demand management, supply planning, collaboration, quality management, and maintenance. These new products are designed to help customers create intelligent, connected, and customer-centric supply chains by aligning internal activity and improving collaboration between suppliers and manufacturers. Customer Experience Extended the Oracle CX Cloud Suite with the introduction of Oracle Engagement Cloud, which combines sales and service capabilities to help organizations increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, and up-sell opportunities. It enriches the customer experience by bridging the gap between sales and customer service. User Interface Not only did we overhaul the UI design and add more visualizations to produce a more modern look and feel, but we also simplified workflows by removing unnecessary steps. While creating Release 13 we re-engineered and dramatically streamlined the software development process to converge on a single, managed code line in the cloud. Oracle's designers and developers are able to accelerate the delivery of innovation to our customers, resulting in more functionality, available sooner, on a predictable schedule. DISCLAIMER The information contained in this document may include statements about Oracle s product development plans. Many factors can materially affect Oracle s product development plans and the nature and timing of future product releases. Accordingly, this Information is provided to you solely for information only, is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. This information may not be incorporated into any contractual agreement with Oracle or its subsidiaries or affiliates. Oracle specifically disclaims any liability with respect to this information. Refer to the Legal Notices and Terms of Use for further information. OPERATIONS AVAILABILITY, CADENCE, AND CONSUMPTION Since we launched Oracle SaaS (Fusion), we have worked tirelessly to ensure our cloud strategy meets and exceeds your expectations. Oracle Cloud adoption is increasing at a record pace; therefore, we would like to provide you with an update on recent progress. AVAILABILITY Due to the unprecedented level of R13 innovation many new products, 1,224 new features, a new software development/release process coupled with our goal to deliver the highest quality cloud applications to our customers, we are moving at a measured pace. The target date to complete the upgrade scale out and begin the bulk upgrade to R13 is February 2018. You should receive an invitation to schedule your upgrade in December. 5
CADENCE The previous release plan for Oracle Cloud Applications was two scheduled releases per year. The plan for Release 13 and future releases incorporates four quarterly updates. In addition, a set of release readiness or preview material is published on the cloud.oracle.com site even sooner. This material provides a preview of new and updated functionality coming in the next release to help you understand and plan. EASY TO CONSUME As new functionality is steadily introduced into your environment; it is done in a non-disruptive way. That is, new functionality is delivered disabled or turned off. You choose when to enable and begin leveraging as it fits into your schedule. Plus, new feature enablement is as simple as using a wizardbased tool to activate and configure. Overall, this approach is sensitive to your business needs and minimizes any operational disruption. TERMINOLOGY To be more consistent with established cloud terminology, we are adjusting our versioning. Because Release 13 will have quarterly functional revisions, we will begin versioning Oracle Cloud Applications as follows: Example: Oracle Sales Cloud R13 (update 17B) Oracle Sales Cloud R13 (update 17C) Oracle Sales Cloud R13 (update 17D) The number 17 represents the calendar year. A,B,C,D represents the first, second, third, or fourth quarterly revision in that calendar year. One time note: there is no R13 update 17A as the initial R13 introduction fell into the 2nd calendar or B quarter. In addition, the monthly update, previously known as Patch Bundle, will be renamed to Maintenance Pack. USER EXPERIENCE You can make the application look the way you want it to look easily with Release 13 of Oracle Applications Cloud. Oracle understands that every user s need is unique and so we have leveraged the flexibility of the Cloud to give you more control of the user interface (UI). At the same time, we have built R13 to keep Oracle s Cloud user experience (UX) themes of simplicity, mobility, and extensibility intact throughout the product suite, no matter how the UI is updated or the business processes change. This ability to adapt, called the visual evolution of Oracle Applications Cloud, is a vital ongoing investment from Oracle into your corporate culture and brand, as well as in employee engagement. We are dedicated to provide the best solutions to you and to your users. 6
BRANDING AND APPEARANCE BRANDING AND APPEARANCE R13 represents a big investment in allowing customers to very simply reflect a company s brand and culture and keep it up to date. We ve built on branding and theming controls introduced in previous releases that allow customers to easily mold the cloud to best fit their unique corporate cultures. This release expands the default themes to a total of 13 -- but customers can quickly make UI changes, using the Appearance Editor, to introduce their branding preferences. Those updates quickly roll out throughout the cloud and the experience is consistent no matter how or where work is being done. HOME PAGE EXPERIENCE We gave a new look to the home page in R13. You can now enjoy the new lobby experience of the home page, which sets the impression for the rest of the product experience, just like a hotel lobby creates that first impression for guests. HOME PAGE LAYOUT One of most significant enhancements is that customers have two contemporary home page layouts to choose from: panel view and banner view. Panel view sets social panel vertically on the left. The new banner view strips the same elements horizontally across the top of the home page. The new homepage banner layout is in step with current web trends that anchor a dominant image at the top of a page. HOME PAGE ICONS The home icons also have a new look that boosts efficiency in this release. To encourage navigation and task completion, R13 s icon options include a variety of sizes and new cluster images for icon groups. STRUCTURE The structure card under tools has been enhanced to allow users to rename and reorder pages within the home page experience. OTHER USER EXPERIENCE SIMPLIFIED ACCESS TO WORKFLOW TASKS Enjoy simplified workflow UI and easier access to workflow tasks. See all your workflow tasks in one table when you're in the Worklist: Notifications and Approvals work area or BPM Worklist application. 7
FUNCTIONAL SETUP MANAGER MY ENTERPRISE OFFERINGS This new work area allows you to review and opt in to your subscribed Fusion offerings. Oracle Cloud Applications are available for use only after the relevant Fusion offerings and their related features are opted in by enabling them. This helps you to configure Oracle Cloud Applications according to what your enterprise needs to use and exclude any irrelevant features. OFFERING OPT IN A new Opt In page to enable Fusion offerings and their related functional areas and features replaces the Configure page. The functional hierarchy of an offering is presented to give full visibility to the dependencies, making it easier for you to decide what to opt-in. Oracle Cloud Applications act according to your opt-in selection to provide an optimal user experience. MIGRATING OPT IN CONFIGURATION OF OFFERINGS Migration of opt-in/out configuration of Fusion offerings from one environment to another is available through export and import processes of offering setup data. Opt-in configuration can be migrated only when offering and functional area based setup data export and import processes are used. Such migration option is not available when setup data is exported and imported using Implementation Projects. EDIT FEATURES Edit Features page has been enhanced to make it easier to opt in or out of Fusion offering features. When applicable, Features are now presented in a hierarchy to show their dependencies more clearly. The look and feel of this page closely resembles that of the Opt In page to provide a continuous experience. REVIEW SUBSCRIPTIONS You can review your subscribed Oracle Fusion Cloud Services from this work area. You can also view the full list of available Oracle Fusion Cloud Services to evaluate whether to subscribe to additional Cloud Services. NEW FEATURES This new work area highlights the new features that have been introduced in the latest release version to give more visibility to what is new in Oracle Cloud Applications. After your environment is upgraded to a new release version, review this page to get a quick view of the newly introduced features and to decide whether to opt into any of them. 8
SETUP AND MAINTENANCE This work area is now dedicated for managing setup data required by Oracle Cloud Applications. After one or more Fusion offerings are enabled, users with access to manage setup data will be able to navigate directly to the Setup page in this work area by selecting Setup and Maintenance from the navigator. APPLICATION SECURITY This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle Applications Security Release 13 and describes any tasks you might need to perform for the update. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you. SECURITY & NEW FEATURES We would like to remind you if your system has modified security structures you may need to advise your security administrator of new features you would like to take advantage of. To assist you this document will provide a listing of the new features and if available will provide the security attributes needed to employ the new features in each new feature section. DATABASE RESOURCE PERSPECTIVE OF DATA SECURITY POLICIES Analyze data security policies by database resource. You can view the roles that are authorized to the database resource and the users that are authorized to the database resource. You can export the information displayed in the tables to a spreadsheet. ENHANCED ROLE COMPARISON You can move function and data security policies from the first role to the second role during role comparison. You can export the data displayed in the role comparison results table. --- 9
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