I had the opportunity to attend a strategic briefing with Oracle and customers and Fusion HCM is finally here. Just so you have a little background, Fusion started in 2004 as a middleware engineering effort to help Oracle integrate its wide variety of application products (PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Siebel, Oracle, ..) into a next generation applications platform. The middleware architecture includes a variety of services (data services, authentication, identity management, security, content management, data intelligence, etc.) which enable the Fusion HCM applications to interoperate with any PeopleSoft or Oracle system. What this means is that you do not have to replace your existing PeopleSoft or Oracle applications to use Fusion HCM. I talked with Principal Financial Group who is an early customer (existing PeopleSoft customer) and they are using Fusion HCM's compensation module alongside their existing PeopleSoft system.