Monday, March 19, 2012

Oracle Fusion Apps – Whats with the Bell?


Oracle Fusion Application offers an enhanced usability experience. Fusion attempts to present all inputs required to analyse a business transaction and helps user make a well informed ‘Next action’ without the need to perform additional navigational steps to retrieve attributes of the transaction.


A typical screen for Fusion Apps is as depicted.




Listed here are elements of UI that are typically available for most Fusion forms.


1) Top Menu: Provides role based access to tasks. Has enhanced navigational features like – Recent Items, Favourites, Tags etc.








2) The main screen is divided into 3 sections:
  • Task bar – Provides access to transaction tasks based on roles allocated to a user.



  • Main transactional area.
  • Contextual area – Provides additional contextual information required to progress the business transaction.



3) Saved Search: Fusion offers productivity improvement flexibility by allowing a user to set up and save a custom search page.








4) Mapping Integration: Fusion offers seamless integration with geographic mapping tools to display maps/locations views inline.




5) Train Stops: Fusion offers details ‘train stop’  steps for relatively long drawn processes to notify user of the current stop and planned ‘route’



Here is the Invoice Entry screen with most of the above elements depicted.







But then, whats with the bell!!!?  












The bell at top left provides immediate task notification alerts to the user. A user does not need to refresh the page. If there is any FYI, actionable, task oriented info, the Bell throws a pop-up.




































Did it ding for you yet?



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