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Purchase and Activation of Oracle Cloud Application Services

Purchase and activate Oracle Cloud Application Services from the Oracle Cloud website, https://cloud.oracle.com.

The process involves:

  • Purchasing and activating your services.

  • Verifying that the services are activated, monitoring the services, and performing other administrative tasks.

Purchasing and activating any Oracle Cloud service is described in the Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud guide. Many administrative tasks are covered in the Oracle Cloud: Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud guide. All of the following references in this section point to one of these guides.

Note: Not everything in these guides is relevant to Oracle Cloud Application Services, for example details about Oracle Java Cloud Service and Oracle Database Cloud Service.

Terminology and User Privileges

  • Before you proceed, you should understand terms that are used in documentation about Oracle Cloud. Refer to the Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud guide.

    See: Oracle Cloud Terminology

  • You should also be familiar with privileges for users of the Oracle Cloud website or of the actual service. Refer to the Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud guide.

    See: Oracle Cloud User Roles and Privileges

Service Purchase and Activation

  • Your buyer or an Oracle sales representative order a cloud service and specifies information about the account administrator during the ordering process. Refer to the Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud guide.

    See: Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud

  • The account administrator receives an email with a link to activate the service. As part of activation, the account administrator provides information about the administrator who performs the functions of both the service administrator and the identity domain administrator. Refer to the Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud guide.

    See: Oracle Cloud: Getting Started with Oracle Cloud

Service Availability in US Government Regions

If you are in noncommercial regions within the US, contact your Oracle account or sales representative for details about service and feature availability in your regions.

Alternative Versions of Specified Oracle Services

From time to time, at Oracle’s sole discretion, Oracle may make alternative versions of specified Oracle services available for customers to access on a limited basis. These alternative versions may not have the same feature sets as the versions of these services for which a fee is paid, and Oracle may terminate and no longer make available these alternative versions at any time.

Next Steps

  • The administrator who was identified during the activation process:

    • Manages and monitors the service. Refer to the Oracle Cloud: Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud guide.

      See: My Account Administration

      See: Performing Service-Specific Tasks

    • Optionally create initial administrator and implementation users before enterprise structures setup.

      • Alternatively, the administrator sets up enterprise structures and then creates service users, including functional implementors.

  • Functional implementors perform configuration and setup steps.

  • Developers can add features to extend the application.

  • Your cloud service will be updated on a regular basis. See Oracle Applications Cloud - Fusion Applications Update Policy (Doc ID 1966109.1) on My Oracle Support.