Oracle Applications Cloud

Fusion Applications Update Policy - Quick Reference Guide

The Oracle Applications Cloud Service periodically provides standard Planned Outages
software and hardware updates. These updates are applied automatically to • Planned outage times
your environments on a predefined schedule. Updates are applied after are defined to minimize
typical office hours of the region during which your environments are updated. disruption to your
business
For full Update Policy details, see My Oracle Support document #1966109.1.
• My Services will send
Update Types you advance
notification with outage
The following updates are mandatory and most will require downtime. Oracle details, including
will send notifications with details of the update being applied. impacted environment
and outage start and
Quarterly Updates end times
• Address reported issues and functional enhancements
Environment Upgrades
• May include Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) & • Your environments are
Oracle Fusion Middleware updates, referred to as P4FA updates upgraded to the next
release once or twice
• National Language Support (NLS) updates for environments that each year. Upgrades
include languages other than English provide significant
enhancements and new
• Applied to non-production environments on the first Friday of each Cloud Services.
quarter (February, May, August, November), and to production
environments on the third Friday of each quarter (February, May, Connect With Us
August, November). The exception is the Middle East, where the
update is applied on Thursday blogs.oracle.com

Vertex Updates (Tax and Address Files)

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• US and Canada tax rates, calculations, and address validations
• Applied to non-production environments on the 18th of each month, twitter.com/oracle
and to production environments on the 25th of each month

Infrastructure Updates Oracle.com

• Applied quarterly to optimize your environments

For More Information
Contact: 1.800.ORACLE1
Prior to Initial Go Live
Consider requesting the Concurrent Maintenance option to keep your
production and non-production environments at the same level. For more
detail review the My Oracle Support document #1646394.1.

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