Oracle Corp Stock Price, News & Analysis

Oracle (ORCL) has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for CRM Customer Engagement Center for the twelfth consecutive time. The recognition highlights Oracle Fusion Cloud Service's 'Ability to Execute' and 'Completeness of Vision' in delivering customer service solutions.

The company's Oracle Service platform offers AI-powered capabilities that help organizations:

• Automate the complete customer service lifecycle
• Accelerate resolution speed through predictive analytics
• Enable cross-department collaboration
• Reduce agent workloads with self-service tools
• Streamline service engagements with AI-generated summaries

As part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, the service integrates with finance, HR, field service, and supply chain applications to improve operational efficiency and enhance customer experience.

Oracle has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape Report for Worldwide Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service. The assessment evaluated 13 providers based on service delivery scale, functionality, and innovation.

Key highlights include Oracle's strong multicloud partnerships with Microsoft Azure (12 regions), Google Cloud (11 regions), and AWS, enabling customers to run Oracle databases directly in major hyperscalers' datacenters with low latency and no data transfer fees. The report emphasizes OCI's significant investments in AI infrastructure, including OCI Supercluster with up to 131,072 NVIDIA GPUs.

The assessment highlights Oracle's varied compute portfolio featuring Intel, AMD, and Arm-based options, with recent updates supporting expanded GPU and AI/ML-focused instances. OCI Dedicated Region delivers full Oracle Cloud services on-premises, particularly appealing to regulated sectors like financial services, healthcare, and government.

Oracle has announced new role-based AI agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) designed to transform employee experience and optimize workforce productivity. These AI agents, available immediately, automate complex HR workflows across various areas:

The system includes support for: Career and performance development (career planning, performance goals, learning advisor); Compensation and benefits management (timecard assistance, tax guidance, compensation analysis, leave management); and Employee lifecycle management (onboarding, job seeking, perks administration, personal details management, and contract analysis).

These AI agents are embedded within Oracle Cloud HCM, which is part of Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, providing a comprehensive solution for HR processes from hiring to retirement with native employee experience platform and AI capabilities.

Oracle Life Sciences has been named a 'Leader' in the Everest Group Life Sciences Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2024. This recognition highlights Oracle's commitment to transforming clinical trial management through innovative solutions.

Oracle's Siebel CTMS platform enables seamless integration with Electronic Health Records (EHR), Electronic Data Capture (EDC), and other critical systems while ensuring regulatory compliance. The platform offers comprehensive trial data management capabilities with flexibility for customization to meet specific organizational needs.

The assessment emphasizes Oracle's strengths in providing cost-effective solutions, global adaptability, and extensive integration capabilities with various clinical systems including CDMS, eTMF, payment, analytics, and regulatory systems. The evaluation was based on the Everest Group PEAK Matrix® framework, which assesses providers on market success and delivery capabilities, including revenue, client base, growth, operations scale, technology innovation, and buyer satisfaction.

Peek & Cloppenburg Düsseldorf, a historic German fashion retailer operating 160 stores across 16 European countries, has chosen Oracle retail and finance cloud applications to modernize its operations. The implementation aims to streamline inventory management, reduce costs, and support business growth.

The company will implement various applications from the Oracle Retail Suite along with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications for finance and warehouse management. This centralized approach is designed to provide better operational efficiency and faster cross-functional insights for business decisions.

The modernization effort will replace legacy systems with a platform offering improved flexibility and scalability, enabling better management of both private label and name-brand merchandise while focusing on margin growth and operational efficiencies.

Oracle has unveiled new role-based AI agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to transform supply chain workflows and boost productivity. The AI agents, available immediately, automate routine administrative tasks across procurement, manufacturing, maintenance, inventory management, sustainability, planning, and product lifecycle management.

The new features include specialized advisors focusing on four key areas: margin and risk resilience (procurement policy and manufacturer onboarding), smart operations (operational procedures, quality inspection, and material handling), perfect fulfillment (claims policy, shipping placard handling, and goods delivery), and data-driven decision making (supply chain collaboration and sustainability policy).

These AI agents aim to streamline workflows, enhance accuracy, enable smarter decision-making, and create a more agile supply chain by providing personalized insights, content, and recommendations for specific tasks and specialized roles.

Oceaneering International, a global provider of engineered services and robotic solutions, has selected Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to modernize its operations. The implementation aims to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve employee experience through AI-powered applications managing finance, HR, and supply chain processes.

The company will implement Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to automate finance and project management, Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) to optimize HR operations, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to create a more resilient supply chain. The implementation will be managed by Deloitte, an Oracle PartnerNetwork partner.

According to Rod Larson, Oceaneering's President and CEO, the company's existing enterprise systems weren't keeping pace with their operational needs. The new platform is expected to enable faster decision-making and collaboration while allowing teams to focus on innovation and customer service.

Oracle has unveiled new AI-powered capabilities within Oracle Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to enhance global supply chain efficiency. The updates, released on January 30, 2025, focus on Oracle Transportation Management, Global Trade Management, and Order Management systems.

Key features include AI-powered route and transit time predictions, transportation emissions calculator, trade incentive program processing, and enhanced order management tools. The new capabilities aim to help organizations improve shipment visibility, reduce costs, optimize transportation decisions, and decrease emissions.

The platform includes AI-powered features for predicting optimal arrival times, avoiding congested ports, identifying at-risk shipments, and calculating transportation emissions. Additional improvements include trade incentive program processing, AI-generated returns summaries, and enhanced order fulfillment visibility.

Oracle and Google Cloud announced plans to expand their partnership by adding eight new regions and enhancing Oracle Database@Google Cloud capabilities over the next 12 months. The expansion includes new regions in Iowa, Montreal, Toronto, Tokyo, Osaka, Mumbai, Delhi, and Sao Paulo, along with doubled datacenter capacity in London, Frankfurt, and Ashburn.

Key enhancements include cross-region disaster recovery support for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless and new single-node VM clusters for Oracle Exadata Database Service. These features aim to improve system continuity, data protection, and cost optimization. Customers can purchase Oracle Database services using existing Google Cloud commitments and leverage benefits like Bring Your Own License (BYOL) and Oracle Support Rewards.

The partnership offers simplified workload deployment, native integration with Google Cloud's console, unified customer experience, and integrations with Google Cloud services like Gemini foundation models, Vertex AI, BigQuery, and Looker.