More Power to the IT User: Release 9 Applications Cloud Customization andExtensibilityBy Edith Mireles­Oracle on Jan 13, 2015

By Sarah Smart, Oracle Applications User Experience

Oracle’s customers need to be able to extend and customize its Applications Cloud easily, and Oracle remainscommitted to delivering that in Release 9. This release expands Release 7 and 8’s capabilities to allow administratorsto take Oracle applications beyond the box without commissioning a major IT project. It places the most relevanttools in the hands of the people who use them most often. Here’s a look at how Release 9 improves OracleApplications’ customization and extensibility while preserving the user experience throughout.

Simple Modifications in the Sandbox

Starting in Release 9, all edits made using the Settings Structure tab require an active Sandbox, which provides theability and security to test and validate changes before publishing them for users and protects customers’ investmentin their UI. Re­ordering, renaming, and otherwise editing headers and icons on the home page are intuitive andsimple, and an employee in IT has a place to try out the changes before deploying them.

Making edits using the Settings Structure tab: After activating your Sandbox, use drag and drop to set up thehome page and the names of sub­tabs so it best suits your users.

Expanded Capabilities

The UI Text Editor has been expanded with regard to what text users can edit and how they can use search for it.Now IT users can search and replace keywords to customize UI text across user interface screens, OTBI (Oracle

Transactional Business Intelligence) report definitions, Enterprise Scheduler, and Global Menu Labels.

Navigation for UI text customization

Application Composer has also been updated for Sales Cloud Release 9 to continue promoting consistency and ease ofadoption. Have you been wanting to add your own custom pages easily? Now users can effortlessly create newpages that fit right in with the simplified UI. The Sales Cloud Application Composer even offers a set of ad­hoc iconsthat match the existing visual design to help customers maintain a quality experience.

Creating a new page in CRM Application Composer: This job is easy using the Simplified Pages tab. You canalso add your own sub­tabs and manipulate the fields independently among shared objects.

Icons in Application Composer: When you change an icon here, you only need to do it once; it updatesautomatically for all UIs and devices.

Smoother Access to Additional Information

In Release 9, system administrators and content managers are able to edit both Getting Started and Help topics tohelp with employee onboarding or custom training. In Getting Started, admins can add or edit text, insert links, andeven include videos.

Editing Getting Started: Choose up to five key features, embedded videos, images, and/or paragraphs of textabout your own content or a feature to show up here.

The Customizing Help feature lets the most knowledgeable content managers maintain the topics most relevant totheir teams with just one click. Everything entered into a Help topic becomes searchable, so users have more optionsfor finding what they need.

Creating Help: Make a topic active or inactive, edit its text, rearrange existing topics, and drill down as needed

for more levels of customization.

To Learn More

• Read about the Release 9 Sandboxes• Read the Release 9 Sales Cloud CRM Application Composer documentation• Learn how to customize the look of the simplified UIo How to customize Simplified UI Settings: Release 7o How to customize Simplified UI Getting Started Pages: Release 9o Changing the look and feel of simplified pages • Read about the UI Text Editor• Read the Release 9 Oracle Composer documentation• Download the new UX strategy e­book• Come tour the new Cloud UX lab at Oracle HQ• Or meet up with us on the road!

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