CHAPTER 4Planning Oracle Applications—Approaches, Risks, and Standards

For an Oracle application to be built and used rapidly and effectively, users and developers must share a common language and a deep and common understanding of both the business application and the Oracle tools. In the preceding chapters you have seen the overall Oracle product descriptions and the installation/upgrade steps involved. Now that the software is installed, you have the opportunity to build applications that build on the shared business and data understanding among your technical and business area staff members.

Historically, the systems analyst studied the business requirements and built an application to meet those needs. The user was involved only in describing ...

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