Oracle and AI - Wherever You Need it

 

Oracle’s AI strategy is not one product, one platform, or one deployment model — it is an ecosystem approach.

As AI has developed I have spoken many times at events in the user community, about what has been added or changed, especially with the Oracle Applications.

What hasn't changed is my definition of Oracle's AI strategy. They empower you to use AI wherever you are.

This matters because none of us are starting our AI journey with a blank sheet of paper,  and we need to ensure the AI we adopt, is not jeopardising what we already have. 

Embedded AI

Within their modern Fusion Applications, the AI is embedded, secured and maintained within a process.

If you want to build your own Agents or Applications this is enabled through delivered tools.

If you like their agent but want to bring your own, or different AI model you can. Yes there are some costing considerations but it is enabled.

I concentrate on the Fusion Applications but AI is also embedded in other modern offerings such as EPM, Analytics and Integration Cloud.

AI services available through OCI

For their Apps Unlimited customers which do not have the architecture as is for AI, you can add AI services from the Oracle Infrastructure Cloud, OCI. Ask EBS is an example of this.  A common myth is that to do this you need to be running your apps unlimited on OCI, you don't. 

Those AI services are not just for Apps Unlimited, they can be used with any application. Inoapps have added AI select to our award winning archiving system and other internal systems.

You can also OCI for running other AI models which is what Inoapps have done for iASK.

OCI infrastructure for building and running AI model

Oracle's biggest success with AI is to enable the AI giants, providing the Infrastructure for those organisations to build and run their models. 

The conversations I have with organisations, is about the business challenges AI can help with, and they are not neatly sat in one area waiting for new technology. So the choice of what and how you use AI gives a much better chance of a solution. By adopting this strategy Oracle have been able to concentrate on the governance and security around the enablement.

AI is developing fast but my simple statement of Oracle enabling the use of AI wherever you are, still stands.

On Stage at Oracle - My Journey Through The Years

 

My First Oracle Annual Event, then called Oracle Open World was 2004, I have attended every event since, and spoken in some way at every one of them from 2005. 

In those early days there was a whole day of user group sessions, so it was a wee bit easier to get a session selected. As an ACE Director I have spoken with several Oracle Product Development Teams, some sessions where my employer was a sponsor and more importantly to me, where I have had the privilege to talk with end user organizations I have worked with.

This year I am speaking as a customer! Inoapps use Fusion for Finance and HR and I will be with Mastercard talking about their virtual payment offering and why Inoapps, their first Oracle customer, use this.

As I move towards retirement, I thought it would be quite fun to list my sessions like a rock band tour, I don't have details for the first few years as I didn't have a blog then.

2026 

B2B Payments: Embedded Approach to Operational Efficiency and Working Capital

2025 

'Modernizing EBS'

2024 

'Applications Unlimited Customers—Put an End to Cloud Confusion'

2023 

'Extending Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps—What We Learned'

'An Introduction to Extending Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps'

'Applications Unlimited Customers—Put an End to Cloud Confusion'

2022  

'My Contractor, a showcase of Oracle ME (My Experience)'

2021 / 2020

No Annual Event (Covid)

2019 

'Should I Move to Oracle Cloud Applications' 

2018

'A chatbot working with HCM'  

'SOA Cloud session based on a Skanska HCM implementation'

2017

'Delivering People Excellence for DHL'

2016 

#PaaS4SaaS

'Digital Transformation in Sport The England Rugby Fusion Story'

2015 

'Forming Your Future: Upgrade/Migration to Oracle Fusion Applications'

'What Does It Take to Make Oracle HCM Cloud Work? The JT Story'

2014   

'Technology assisted deployments and upgrades'

'First Time UX experience'

2013 

'The Fusion Decision Journey'

2012

'Usability and Features of Oracle Fusion Applications, Built upon Oracle Fusion Middleware'

'How Fujitsu Built Its Oracle Cloud for Its Customers'

'Consolidation: Optimize Your Entire Oracle Investment as a Platform for Growth'

'Oracle’s Roadmap to a Simple, Modern User Experience' 

'Consolidation for the Cloud'

2011 

'Your Path to Understanding Fusion Applications'

'Do I Upgrade or go straight to Oracle Fusion Applications?'

'Consolidation to the Cloud'

2010 

‘Fusion MiddleWare for Business – Stay Away if you are Technical’

'42 Real Life Examples of Fusion Middleware’

‘What to Look For in A Systems Integrator’

2009  

  'Shared-Service Oracle E-Business Suite 12' 

'Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, and SOA' 

 'Applications Upgrade Planning Tool'

2008  

  'Extended the E Business Suite with Hyperion' 

      '10 Things you can do to prepare for Fusion Now'