First published in May 2006 and updated in November 2026. ConfigSnapshot has come a long way in twenty years, so I’ve brought this post up to date.
When I first wrote about ConfigSnapshot, we’d found it most useful on the Oracle E-Business Suite at Thales. Keeping track of setup across instances, operating units and sets of books was one of the more tedious parts of looking after Oracle Applications, and ConfigSnapshot took a lot of that work away. Twenty years on the product is still going strong, now under the Flexagon name, and it now covers Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications as well as the E-Business Suite.
Who’s behind ConfigSnapshot now
Rookery Software, a UK company based in Wiltshire, developed ConfigSnapshot. In April 2025 Flexagon, the US company behind FlexDeploy, acquired Rookery, so ConfigSnapshot now sits alongside Flexagon’s build and deployment automation for Oracle applications.
Flexagon has since renamed the product Flexagon Configuration Management, and the old configsnapshot.com address now takes you to its Configuration Management page. If you’re an existing ConfigSnapshot customer, your login and access are unchanged.
What you can do with ConfigSnapshot
Everything I liked about it in 2006 is still there, with a good deal added since:
- Automatically generate setup documentation, including BR100-style documents, in HTML, Word, Excel or XML
- Compare setup between operating units, ledgers (sets of books in old money), inventory organisations and business groups within one environment
- Compare setup between two environments, whether E-Business Suite instances or Fusion pods
- Compare setup across different versions of the E-Business Suite when upgrading or reimplementing
- Take date-stamped baselines of your setup, then see what has changed since a given date and who changed it
- Migrate setup from one instance or entity to another: extract, transform, load and compare
- Plan migrations in a dedicated workspace, then run them with dependency sequencing, rollback and a full audit trail (new since Flexagon took over)
- Identify customisations and analyse how an upgrade or patch is likely to affect them
- Report on user access and segregation of duties
It covers every E-Business Suite release from 11.0.3 to the current 12.2 updates, and it can be used on E-Business Suite to Fusion projects to carry configuration across to the Cloud.
Why it still matters
E-Business Suite isn’t going away. In March 2026 Oracle extended Premier Support for E-Business Suite 12.2 through at least 2037. Many organisations will be running it for another decade, taking regular 12.2 updates and patches along the way. Every one of those is a change to the setup that someone needs to understand and test.
Fusion has its own tools, but they only go so far. In Fusion’s Setup and Maintenance work area you can export setup data to configuration packages, import them into another environment and compare setup data before you import. That works well for promoting setup from test to production. It’s organised around offerings, functional areas and implementation projects, though, and an import doesn’t remove records in the target that aren’t in the package. ConfigSnapshot adds readable documentation, baselines and a history of change on top. On the E-Business Suite, Oracle’s iSetup does a similar migration and comparison job.
The benefits
ConfigSnapshot helps at every stage of the application lifecycle, from implementation and roll-out to upgrades and day-to-day support, by putting you back in control of your setup:
- Shorter timescales on implementations, roll-outs and upgrades
- Quicker problem resolution, by comparing a setup that works with one that doesn’t
- More accurate setup documentation that stays up to date
- Lower risk, with a clear audit trail of setup changes
- A better understanding of how the system is actually configured
- Simpler housekeeping
- More time spent making sure the setup suits the business, rather than writing it down
- Evidence that both Oracle and internal standards have been followed
Where I’d use it
When I review an ERP implementation, one of the first things I want to know is whether the setup in the system matches the design. A tool that can produce current setup documentation and comparisons quickly makes that check far easier, and it’s just as useful before an upgrade or a move from the E-Business Suite to Fusion.
If you’d like to see ConfigSnapshot in action, you can request a demonstration from Flexagon’s Configuration Management page. And if you’d like an independent review of your Oracle E-Business Suite or Fusion implementation, get in touch.