Organizations in their drive to upgrade, often follow a piecemeal approach leading to organizational fatigue, expensive rework and lost return on investment (ROI). As the industry moves towards service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the beginning of next upgrade cycle, enterprises should take advantage of this unique oppurtunity to plan strategically and initiate a long-term applications strategy as they consider their upgrade- they should view upgrades as a means to consolidate disparate applications, upgrade to single global instance or even to define the infrastructure road map and a subsequent application/infrastructure optimization. Let us start the upgrade quest by taking a glance at the Oracle EBS Global Business Release of R12. (less)