End of Life for Oracle EBS?

The reports of EBS' demise have been greatly exaggerated!

As Oracle has been pushing all things cloud, it has left EBS customers to wonder whether the 'end of life' has arrived for Oracle EBS.  There's been a lot of confusion but the reality is that Oracle EBS is not in it's 'end of life'.  In fact, here are three recent updates from Oracle:

1) Oracle announces EBS 12.2.7 (9/8/2017)

www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/ebs-ga-2017-09-08-3876665.pdf

This is the latest/greatest release of EBS, announced just last week.

2) Oracle Roadmap shows support for R12 until at least 2030

(from Oracle.com)

3) EBS R13 is in the works

Cliff Godwin, Oracle Senior VP, Oracle EBS Development, announced at the OAUG Collaborate (April, 2017), that version R13 will be released in 2019/2020. 

Why the confusion?

Oracle has been pushing Cloud and their salespeople have been overly aggressive with their position of EBS' future, in hopes of signing new cloud contracts.  This appears to be how much of the confusion started - and then it spread, as rumors do!

Bottom Line:

Oracle has made it clear that neither their support for, nor their investment in, Oracle EBS is going away.  While everything 'Cloud' may be the marketing push for new revenue, the reality is that EBS support revenue makes up an important part of Oracle's overall annual revenue and they won't risk losing those customers by forcing them to switch to a cloud application or anything else.  

So for all you Oracle EBS customers out there, rest easy!  Oh, and if you want to get your EBS work done faster and easier, take a look at API Wizard (www.api-wizard.com).