Tomorrow, I have a job interview. The company is looking for someone
who has experience with "Oracle ERP". I've never used Oracle ERP, but
I have used SAP, and that was good enough to get me the interview. To
prepare, I'd like to learn as much as I can about Oracle ERP.
Unfortunately, I'm unable to find good information about it. Can
anyone help me with some basic information?

From my research so far, I believe that "Oracle ERP" is not a product
or even a suite of products, but simply a term used generally to refer
to various Oracle enterprise applications, like Oracle Financials and
Oracle Human Resources. Is that true?

I'm guessing that this company uses Oracle ERP software for some
combination of finance, HR, procurement, manufacturing, and sales. Are
there Oracle applications corresponding to all of those categories?
What are they named, and where can I go to experience the look and
feel of those applications?

As a database guy, what I really want to know is what the data model
looks like for the various parts of Oracle ERP. Also, what are the
reporting tools? How good are they, and how rigid?

As an aside, let me mention that I went to the Oracle website for this
research and I found it practically useless. My impression is that
they are focused on providing services, not products; there is very
little information about products and applications, and a lot of
emphasis on "solutions". That may be fine for corporate sales, but it
gives me no sense of what I'm going to actually see when they fire up
"Oracle ERP", and what I need to know in advance to talk about it
intelligently.

If anyone can offer advice, I'd be grateful.


-TC

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:26:57 -0700 (PDT), TC <golemdanube (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:


Oracle ERP is known as Oracle E-Business Suite.
That said, I'm not sure whether you actually used the Oracle website
for more than 2 seconds, looking at your offensive labeling it as
'practically useless'. Anyway, it is quite amazing you got the
interview and hopefully will you be able to digest as much as possible
from this link before tomorrow (you are not posting this especially
timely)
http://www.oracle.com/applications/home.html

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:26:57 -0700 (PDT), TC <golemdanube (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:


Oracle ERP is known as Oracle E-Business Suite.
That said, I'm not sure whether you actually used the Oracle website
for more than 2 seconds, looking at your offensive labeling it as
'practically useless'. Anyway, it is quite amazing you got the
interview and hopefully will you be able to digest as much as possible
from this link before tomorrow (you are not posting this especially
timely)
http://www.oracle.com/applications/home.html

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:26:57 -0700 (PDT), TC <golemdanube (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:


Oracle ERP is known as Oracle E-Business Suite.
That said, I'm not sure whether you actually used the Oracle website
for more than 2 seconds, looking at your offensive labeling it as
'practically useless'. Anyway, it is quite amazing you got the
interview and hopefully will you be able to digest as much as possible
from this link before tomorrow (you are not posting this especially
timely)
http://www.oracle.com/applications/home.html

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:26:57 -0700 (PDT), TC <golemdanube (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:


Oracle ERP is known as Oracle E-Business Suite.
That said, I'm not sure whether you actually used the Oracle website
for more than 2 seconds, looking at your offensive labeling it as
'practically useless'. Anyway, it is quite amazing you got the
interview and hopefully will you be able to digest as much as possible
from this link before tomorrow (you are not posting this especially
timely)
http://www.oracle.com/applications/home.html

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Apr 8, 11:14 am, sybra... (AT) hccnet (DOT) nl wrote:
Mr. Bakker,

Thank you very much. Knowing that "Oracle ERP" is called "Oracle E-
Business Suite" was the one critical piece of information I was
missing.

I'll stand by my assessment of the Oracle site, but I apologize if I
offended you personally; and I regret that you felt the need to cast
aspersions. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the tip; thank you.

-TC

On Apr 8, 11:14 am, sybra... (AT) hccnet (DOT) nl wrote:
Mr. Bakker,

Thank you very much. Knowing that "Oracle ERP" is called "Oracle E-
Business Suite" was the one critical piece of information I was
missing.

I'll stand by my assessment of the Oracle site, but I apologize if I
offended you personally; and I regret that you felt the need to cast
aspersions. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the tip; thank you.

-TC

On Apr 8, 11:14 am, sybra... (AT) hccnet (DOT) nl wrote:
Mr. Bakker,

Thank you very much. Knowing that "Oracle ERP" is called "Oracle E-
Business Suite" was the one critical piece of information I was
missing.

I'll stand by my assessment of the Oracle site, but I apologize if I
offended you personally; and I regret that you felt the need to cast
aspersions. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the tip; thank you.

-TC

On Apr 8, 11:14 am, sybra... (AT) hccnet (DOT) nl wrote:
Mr. Bakker,

Thank you very much. Knowing that "Oracle ERP" is called "Oracle E-
Business Suite" was the one critical piece of information I was
missing.

I'll stand by my assessment of the Oracle site, but I apologize if I
offended you personally; and I regret that you felt the need to cast
aspersions. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the tip; thank you.

-TC

On Apr 8, 12:14 pm, Jens Müller <usenet-11-2... (AT) tessarakt (DOT) de> wrote:
Mr. Müller,

Yes; I would say that SAP is doing the same.

-TC