Does your organisation use Business Suite (EBS) environment to manage its risk, finance, procurement and project management?
If so, though your IT Department may not know it yet…chances are you will be upgrading your Oracle Database to 23ai database upgrades in 2025. .
Read our guide where we explain…why?
▶ Here, we explain how earlier database versions (11.2, 12.1, 12.2) will have restricted upgrade support through Customer Success Services for 2025.
▶ At present, E-Business Suite 12.2 is certified only up to database 19c, and long-term support for 19c is only till April 2026, with Extended Support until April 2027.
▶ So, customers running Oracle E-Business R12.2 (or earlier versions) now face a gap in their Oracle support services, even where they continue to pay Oracle’s support fees.
▶ Oracle Database 23ai is expected to be released to general on-premises in the second half of 2024, allowing them to upgrade to take advantage of new AI features.
Oracle E-Business R12.1 support has ended in December 2021. In addition, from January 2022, Oracle no longer provides new fixes and security updates. As a result, customers running Oracle E-Business R12.1 now face a gap in their Oracle support services, even where they continue to pay Oracle’s support fees. Oracle E-Business R12.1 Support ended. In addition, from January 2022, Oracle will no longer provide new fixes and security updates.
This will help organisations to consolidate infrastructure, leverage the automation available in the cloud to reduce risk and error, and help improve agility through provisioning.
For customers using Oracle E-Business R12.1 post-2021, they now have gaps left from Oracle’s Sustaining Support. To fill them, we suggest migrating their Oracle E-Business Suite to 12.2 functionality, and at the same time migrate to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). They can also Add/Delete Nodes, review integration requirements (e.g., Oracle Hyperion, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)).
Read our guide on how you can update your Oracle E-Business ERP solution.