A guest post by Joe Gum, Senior Director, Oracle Financials Product Strategist
Imagine trying to purchase a new phone, pay your bills, or book a cruise
online if the software isn’t in a language you speak. As sophisticated
users of the internet, we see a distinct increase in the number of
multilingual users, as well as in the amount of Web content. E-commerce
is growing in importance for the international market that lies at our
fingertips.
Business owners can decide to ignore these issues and keep their
businesses small and regional. Global companies don’t have that luxury,
nor would they want to. These companies need enterprise-grade software
that can be used around the world. The software needs to accommodate
different languages, various local business practices, and local
regulations compliance.
We designed Oracle Fusion Applications from the ground up with the
global customer in mind. The suite includes essential
internationalization functionality, translation and multi-lingual
support, and localization features. For example, Oracle Fusion
Applications support multiple date formats, number formats, names,
addresses, phone numbers, and currency symbols. It also supports
unlimited accounting representations and statutory reporting needs—all
on a single global instance using standard preferences and setup. This
allows global customers to adapt their software for a specific region or
language without requiring multiple installations of the product and
without engineering changes or customizations.
At this point, no customer should have to settle for less. Why select a
cloud service vendor who is halfway there when you can select one who
can meet all your global and multi-national needs? And, with the ongoing
addition of new language support with every release, Oracle Fusion
Applications soon will support the world’s 22 most popular languages.
The new language additions include and are not limited to: Arabic,
Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch,
Finnish, French (European), French (Canadian), German, Hebrew,
Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese
(Brazilian), Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. With multiple
language capabilities, customers can run Oracle Fusion Applications in
any combination of these languages to support their global enterprises.
We also provide localizations in Oracle Fusion Applications. These are
country-specific extensions to meet local business requirements. China,
for example, is a country with many different local and legal
requirements. The Oracle Fusion Applications payroll solution has
extensions for China, as well as for Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates,
United Kingdom, and United States. For Financials, localizations also
exist for China, plus United States, Singapore, France, and the European
Union.
Even without country-specific features, Oracle Fusion Applications can
be configured to support many local requirements, such as payroll and
transaction taxes.
In the ERP space alone, customers in 20 countries enjoy the robustness
of Oracle Fusion Applications. These customers include companies located
in United Arab Emirates, France, United States, Netherlands, Argentina,
Singapore, South Africa, China, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Japan,
United Kingdom, Kuwait, Korea, India, Germany, Russia, Sweden, and
Cyprus. Many of these implementations are multi-national customers
implementing in multiple countries.
You can depend on Oracle Fusion Applications to be easy and
straightforward to operate in multiple countries. We designed it to help
global companies like yours be successful in expanding to new markets
and locales. These localization efforts support general business
functionality across all areas of the business process, such as
financial management, supply chain management, human resources, and the
like with country-specific tax and statutory updates.