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Company updates also address logistics offerings such as Oracle Fusion Cloud Warehouse Management and Oracle Fusion Cloud Transportation Management, Oracle Health interoperability initiatives, data center infrastructure projects, partner integrations, product recognition, and operating and financial results.
Oracle has unveiled new user experience (UX) enhancements for Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to help organizations build smart and responsive supply chain operations. The updates leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, and accelerate processes. Key enhancements include:
1. Production Supervisor Workbench: Provides real-time insight into work orders and AI-powered shift reporting.
2. Maintenance Supervisor Workbench: Helps resolve maintenance issues faster and reduce asset downtime.
3. Order Management Enhancements: Enables mass actions on multiple order lines and AI-powered order acknowledgement emails.
4. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Enhancements: Accelerates product development with improved search capabilities and new user interfaces.
These updates aim to help customers create more efficient and resilient supply chains that can adapt to economic conditions, control costs, and protect margins.
Oracle has unveiled Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability, a new application within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, designed to help organizations manage and report on sustainability initiatives more efficiently. This offering comes at no additional cost to customers and aims to streamline reporting, expand insights, and improve decision-making for environmental goals.
Key features include:
- Automated transaction records using AI and classification rules
- Contextualized data for impactful decision-making
- Prebuilt dashboards with KPIs and custom analyses
- Rigorous audit and traceability capabilities
- Sophisticated emission factor mapping
- Comprehensive integrations with third-party applications
The application integrates data from Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, SCM, EPM, and Data Intelligence, providing a holistic view of sustainability performance. This new offering addresses the challenge of organizing and analyzing sustainability data, helping businesses accelerate progress towards their environmental objectives.
Oracle has unveiled a new RFID for Replenishment solution in Oracle Fusion Cloud Inventory Management, part of Oracle Cloud SCM, to optimize inventory management for healthcare organizations. This solution integrates RFID technologies from Avery Dennison, Terso Solutions, and Zebra Technologies to automate stock tracking, replenishment, and inventory visibility.
Key benefits include:
- Automated tracking of medical supplies
- Streamlined replenishment processes
- Real-time inventory visibility
- Reduced human error in inventory management
This innovation aims to increase productivity, expand inventory insights, and prevent delays in healthcare supply chains, ultimately enabling clinicians to focus more on patient care.
Oracle has unveiled a new open skills architecture within Oracle Dynamic Skills, part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM). This enhancement aims to help organizations develop and execute a skills-based talent strategy, offering improved insights and data-driven decisions for workforce optimization. Key features include:
1. AI-powered bespoke skills inventory
2. AI-powered data enrichment
3. Pre-populated skills library
4. Skills data analysis tools
5. Integrated skills intelligence
6. Skills curation and management
7. Multiple language support
These capabilities are designed to help HR leaders gain a comprehensive view of their organization's skills, align talent with business priorities, and enhance workforce performance in a rapidly evolving job market.
Oracle has unveiled new features in its Oracle Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) to enhance revenue growth initiatives for organizations. The updates provide actionable account views that combine customer intent data from various sources, enabling marketers and sellers to engage buying group members with precise upsell and cross-sell opportunities. Key additions include:
1. Account Profile Explorer: Offers a comprehensive view of accounts to drive targeted engagements.
2. Buying group and opportunity scoring: Uses AI to identify opportunities within buying groups.
3. Native Oracle Analytics Cloud integration: Expands insights and optimizes campaign performance.
4. Industry onboarding accelerators: Speeds up CDP implementations with industry-specific templates.
These enhancements aim to help organizations leverage AI to grow revenue and build long-term customer relationships.
Oracle has unveiled new capabilities within Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) to enhance B2B buying experiences. The updates provide self-service access to a unified view of commercial relationships, enabling better collaboration between buyers and sellers. Key features include:
1. A unified digital buying channel for quotes, orders, profiles, subscriptions, and renewals
2. Generative AI for contract summarization and seller assistance
3. Unified CPQ, contracts, and order management
These enhancements aim to streamline B2B transactions, support complex revenue models, and improve customer relationships. The solution connects processes from CX and financial applications, supporting various go-to-market strategies including recurring revenue and consumption-based models.
Oracle has announced new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) distributed cloud innovations to meet the growing global demand for AI and cloud services. Key offerings include:
1. Oracle Database@AWS, @Azure, and @Google Cloud: Enabling direct access to Oracle Database services across major cloud providers.
2. OCI Dedicated Region25: A smaller, scalable configuration starting at three racks, deployable within weeks.
3. OCI Supercluster: The largest AI supercomputer in the cloud, with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
4. Enhanced OCI Roving Edge Infrastructure: Supporting remote AI inferencing at the edge.
5. New HeatWave capabilities: For generative AI and multicloud applications.
6. OCI Generative AI innovations: Including AI Agents with RAG capabilities.
These innovations aim to provide customers with flexibility, scalability, and advanced AI capabilities across various cloud environments.
J.P. Morgan Payments has expanded its partnership with Oracle, introducing new and enhanced product integrations across Oracle platforms. These integrations aim to streamline payments for treasury, trade, and commerce operations. Key enhancements include:
1. Banking Services: Real-time cash balance visibility
2. Touchless Expense: Faster expense report creation using near real-time data
3. Supply Chain Finance: Working capital optimization
4. Commerce Suite: Streamlined in-store merchant payments
The expanded partnership allows clients to access J.P. Morgan Payments offerings directly from Oracle Cloud applications, enabling quicker implementation with minimal IT effort. In 2023, J.P. Morgan Payments reported $18.3 billion in revenue, a 31% increase from 2022.
Oracle has announced Oracle Industry Playbooks, a comprehensive set of technology planning, deployment, and optimization standards for 22 industries. These playbooks are designed to help organizations govern, accelerate, and maximize their success by focusing on important processes and systems. Based on Oracle's multi-decade experience, they provide industry-specific knowledge, advice, and solutions to address pressing challenges.
The playbooks cover industries ranging from Agriculture to Wholesale Distribution, offering strategies for onboarding teams, user adoption, and stakeholder engagement. They aim to help customers leverage AI and cloud technologies more effectively. Currently available in North America, Oracle plans to enhance the playbooks and make them globally available in early 2025.
Uber, the world's largest on-demand mobility and delivery platform, has chosen Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to support its rapid growth and handle over one million trips per hour. Since selecting Oracle in 2023, Uber has begun migrating thousands of microservices, multiple data storage platforms, and dozens of AI models to OCI. This collaboration has enabled Uber to innovate faster while managing infrastructure costs.
Uber has achieved significant scale and efficiency by migrating its application trip-serving requests to OCI Compute with AMD and converting stateless workloads to run on OCI Compute with Ampere Arm. The company also leverages OCI AI infrastructure to power the inferencing of numerous AI models, optimizing cost, throughput, and latency for its AI services. Additionally, Uber has migrated a portion of its big data Hadoop environment to OCI Object Storage, allowing for nearly unlimited storage capacity with high durability.