Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Activating Your Oracle Cloud Applications Order

To begin using your Oracle Applications service, you need to activate your order. For some applications, you'll also need to provision the environment.

Order activation associates the subscription with an Oracle account. This step is the same for all applications orders. If you don't have an account, you will be guided to create one. If you already have an Oracle account, you can choose to add this order to an existing account.

Activating Your Order from Your Welcome Email

After your order is processed, you receive an email with the subject line:

Action required: add your service(s) to an Oracle Cloud Account

Anyone who is forwarded the email can do the activation of your services, however, the process can differ whether you:

  • Already have an existing cloud account and will activate the associated subscription into it.
  • You need to create a new cloud account and activate the associated subscription.
Add Subscription to an Existing Cloud Account

If you are already an Oracle cloud customer with a cloud account and would like to activate the service in an existing tenancy, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the email you received from Oracle Cloud.
  2. Review the information about adding your subscription in the email.
  3. Click Add to existing cloud account at the bottom of the email.
  4. Your web browser opens, where you can sign in: Enter your cloud Tenant name and click Continue.
  5. Enter your username and password and click Sign In.
  6. The Add Subscription page is displayed, where you can add the new subscription to your tenancy. The page indicates the subscription name, subscription ID, and subscription description (with product SKU).
    Important

    Adding a subscription to a tenancy cannot be undone.
  7. Click Add subscription.

The subscriptions are added to the tenancy, and the Applications Console home page is displayed.

To verify that the subscriptions are added, you can click the application name under My Applications. The overview page for the application opens and the subscriptions are listed under Service details.

Now you are ready to provision your environments.

Create New Cloud Account

If you are a new cloud customer, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the email you received from Oracle Cloud.
  2. Review the subscription details in the email.
  3. Click Create new cloud account at the bottom of the email.
  4. Your web browser opens, displaying the New Cloud Account Information sign up form.
  5. Enter your First name, Last name, and Email address. The email address is also the username for signing in to the account. The person you specify here will be the first administrator to access the account and can create other users. This person also has full administrator permissions in your account.
  6. Enter a Password and confirmation.
  7. Enter a Tenancy Name. This is also called your cloud account name. When choosing a tenancy name, be aware of the following:
    • The tenancy name or cloud account name is used to identify your account. The name is also used to create the URLs to access your cloud services. For example, if you call your tenancy "abccorp", an application URL might look like:

      https://abccorp-oracleservice.service.us.phoenix-1.ocs

    • The tenancy name must be unique, start with a lowercase letter and have no more than 25 lowercase letters or numbers. You can't use spaces or special characters.
  8. Select a Home region where your services will be hosted.
    Note

    Your home region is the geographic location where your account and identity resources will be created. You can't change this after signing up. If you are not sure which region to select as your home region, contact your sales representative before you create your account.
  9. Read the Terms of Use.
  10. Click Create Tenancy.

The tenancy provisioning step can take from several minutes to an hour, depending on your service subscriptions.

When your new tenancy is created, you will receive an email notifying you that your cloud account and services are ready. Click the Sign In button in the email to sign in for the first time with the credentials you set up.

After you sign in, the Oracle Cloud Console home page for applications is displayed. To verify that the subscriptions are added, click the application name under My Applications. The overview page for the application opens and the subscriptions are displayed under Service details.

Next Steps

The steps you take after activating your order depend on whether the application supports self-service provisioning or the application is provisioned for you by Oracle:

Next steps for applications provisioned by Oracle

When the application is fully provisioned, Oracle sends an email to the Administrator address entered during activation. The email contains the URL for the service console to sign in and begin using the application.

You can also:

  • Add users to the Oracle Cloud Console
  • View details about your environment and subscription in the Oracle Cloud Console
Next steps for Fusion Applications

To provision environments for Fusion Applications belonging to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Human Capital Management (HCM), or Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM), see Overview of Fusion Applications Environment Management for the steps to plan and provision your environments.

Next steps for other applications that support self-service provisioning

To understand concepts and general information for planning and managing applications environments, see Overview of Managing Applications Environments.

Your application may have specific provisioning guidelines. See your application-specific documentation. For provisioning steps specific to your application, see your application documentation below: