About the Authors
Faisal Ghadially has 18 years experience in the technology-consulting domain. He has held leadership positions in several organizations, and is a recognized thought leader in the technology domain.
He has worked extensively with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Fusion Applications, and has been responsible for charting the roadmap to emerging technologies such as SOA and Cloud for several organizations.
He is a regular speaker at industry events and his speeches have been published in several industry magazines.
An undertaking of this nature requires support from both friends and family. I am grateful to my family for their understanding in terms of missed baseball games and other family events.
Kalpit Parikh is an Oracle WebLogic 12c and Oracle E-Business Suite Certified Implementation specialist, and has more than 11 years' experience working on Oracle Application, Database, and Oracle Fusion Middleware, including WebLogic Server and Oracle Identity Management Suite.
He is currently working as a technical architect at Capgemini, and has worked closely with a number of customers across North America on architecting and capacity planning, installation, configuration, performance tuning, and production support.
Many people have contributed to the successful completion of this book. I would like to thank Faisal Ghadially for providing me with a great opportunity to write a book. I thank the Packt Publishing team for their support and guidance throughout this book. I appreciate Aboli and Neil's persistence and kindness during the entire project. We had a great fortune of having two great experts (Tim Warner and Saumitra Chattopadhyay) reviewing our book and providing numerous suggestions to improve the book.
I would like to thank my manager Suzanne Larabie and my colleagues at Capgemini for being very supportive and appreciative about me completing this book.
I would like to acknowledge my heartfelt appreciation to my wife Megha and son Shlok for all their sacrifice and support during the course of writing this book. I would like to thank my father, my mother, my brother, my sister as well as the rest of my family for their love and affection over the years.
About the Reviewers
Saumitra Chattopadhyay , with his IT experience spanning over 20 years, has been working with Oracle Application development technologies, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA Suite). He has led the technical team on many large-scale Oracle Application implementations including Fusion Apps. He has played the Sr. Architect role in several award-winning implementations, showcasing the use of Oracle Fusion Middleware. His achievements are as follows:
- Expert in Oracle Application Technologies
- Oracle Certified ExpertOracle Service Oriented Architecture
- Received the Oracle Titan award for two projects in E-Business Suite and SOA Category
- Presented SOA and MDM solution at Collaborate-11 (OAUG) and other conferences
Tim Warner is an IT professional with over 25 years' experience. He is the co-owner of Certus Solutions (UK) LLP, a leading consultancy in the field of Oracle HR/Payroll and Fusion HCM implementations.
He is the Chairman of UKOUG's Oracle HCM Special Interest Group, and has been an Oracle ACE since 2008.
He is a frequent speaker at Oracle conferences around the world, having spoken at Oracle OpenWorld, OHUG, and Collaborate in the USA as well as UKOUG and DOAG conferences in Europe.
He has a blog and a LinkedIn group (Oracle Fusion HCM Interest Group) to encourage debate and knowledge sharing on Fusion HCM.
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Preface
Oracle Fusion Applications are an exciting new entrant in the ERP domain. Oracle has invested heavily in building this best-of-breed application, which not only uses an industry-leading technology platform (Oracle Fusion Middleware), but also embeds leading business processes.