As artificial intelligence continues to transform how businesses operate, innovate, and compete, one thing’s for certain: AI is no longer just a new bit of tech; it’s becoming the operating system of modern business. However, to truly unleash AI’s worth takes more than just ambition. It requires production-grade infrastructure, enterprise-ready tools, and seamless integration into daily workflows.
Oracle distinguishes itself in this regard. Oracle isn’t just flogging AI as a term; it’s providing AI as an integrated, secure, and scalable business solution. Oracle has emerged as a pioneer in delivering enterprise-grade generative and agentic AI that works in the real world today, thanks to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and a strategic relationship with NVIDIA.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence creates a transformative opportunity for organisations in many industries. However, realising AI’s full potential requires more than just theoretical concepts; it necessitates strong, production-ready solutions that are easily integrated into daily operations. Oracle is at the vanguard of this change, providing significant AI capabilities through its full array of services, particularly with advances in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI Agents and portfolio-wide AI service developments.
Oracle’s success lies in its superior cloud infrastructure. OCI is well-known for its performance, security, and dependability, and it serves as a robust basis for launching and scaling AI applications. Oracle’s considerable rise in cloud revenue demonstrates its established leadership and expertise in this vital industry. Recognising AI’s critical role in influencing the future of technology, Oracle has strategically teamed up with NVIDIA, utilising NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud for AI to place itself at the forefront of innovation. As AI-as-a-Service gains traction, Oracle is well positioned to capitalise on the growing demand for intelligent, AI-driven solutions.
Accenture estimates that AI agents will soon outnumber human application users, indicating a big paradigm shift on the horizon. This transformation needs a fundamental rethinking of user experience as software companies adjust to the growing digital workforce. According to a recent McKinsey study, the most beneficial contribution of AI for finance directors over the next five years would be “creating insights that reduce manual analysis,” followed by “improving employees’ productivity” (83%).
Keith Causey, Senior Vice President of Cloud ERP Transformation and Development at Oracle, emphasises that CFOs must shift their perspective to realise the true potential of predictive, generative, and agentic AI. “AI-driven finance is more than just process improvement; it’s a new attitude. AI agents may deliver achievements that exceed your existing capabilities, allowing you to concentrate on operational efficiency and business success,” Causey says.
While definitions vary, AI agents are typically recognised as intelligent systems capable of proactively accomplishing tasks within one or more applications based on defined goals and objectives. Causey goes on: “AI agents offer multidimensional capabilities that can execute end-to-end processes with little human intervention.”
Causey focuses on the finance function and describes various practical applications that Oracle Cloud ERP’s development team is actively pursuing to reduce manual burdens. “We’re developing embedded agents that can be used to automate data ingestion and document creation for billing, accounting, and recordkeeping. This includes many workflows such as procure-to-pay processes, expense receipt itemisation, supplier invoice processing, bank reconciliations, and journal entry creation,” he says. He also discusses application examples in which agents can help with reconciliations, generate journal entries, match invoice data, offer best payment plans for working capital management, provide real-time financial projections, and deliver relevant business analytics.
The use of AI agents is converting the finance function into a dynamic, real-time, and continuous activity. “AI-driven finance helps enable touchless operations, predictive insights, and collaborative actions, driving unparalleled efficiency and business understanding,” Causey points out.
Bob Evans, co-founder and analyst at Acceleration Economy, notes that integration complexities, user experience considerations, security imperatives, and the inherent need for speed in AI deployment are driving a market shift away from disparate point solutions and towards unified application suites. “Unified suites serve as fuel for AI. Businesses today operate at an aggressive, quick, and unforgiving pace. The old model of taking applications from multiple vendors and spending time and money to integrate them internally is no longer viable,” Evans claims.
Guardian Life Insurance firm of America (Guardian), a Fortune 500 mutual insurance firm, shows the effectiveness of this strategy by utilising Oracle Cloud ERP to provide its finance team with the most recent AI advances. Marcel Esqueu, Guardian’s Vice President of Financial Systems Transformation, explains, “We needed to standardise our financial data and procedures to broaden insights, boost productivity, and give greater value to our business teams. With our key financials in the cloud and a clear view of our data, we can take advantage of Oracle’s embedded AI capabilities to boost efficiency.”
According to industry projections, the usage of agentic AI within corporate software applications will grow significantly, from less than 1% in 2024 to 33% by 2028, allowing autonomous decision-making for 15% of daily work tasks. Recent analyst reports support the value proposition of a full suite such as Oracle Cloud ERP, as customers from many industries use AI agents to transform their finance operations. Notably, Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) was named a leader in three finance-related reports in late 2024.
Albert Pang, President of technology industry research firm Apps Run the World, emphasises Oracle Cloud ERP’s continued leadership in the ERP market. “Oracle Cloud ERP’s recognition is a testament to the strength of its solutions, its commitment to helping its customers revolutionise processes and workflows, and its ability to execute on its vision for AI-driven finance,” Pang said.
Oracle’s distinguishing advantage in the AI field stems from the quality of company data and the effectiveness of its infrastructure services. Oracle’s Executive Vice President of Applications Development, Steve Miranda, emphasises this key differentiator: “We are the only enterprise vendor to offer a fully integrated technology stack, from hardware to database to infrastructure to applications, which fuels the fastest innovation cycle in the industry.”
Oracle Fusion apps on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has already offered over 100 generative AI capabilities and more than 50 role-based AI agents that are effortlessly integrated into its apps at no additional cost. According to Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research, “Oracle already has a lead in traditional AI and is now taking the lead on generative AI with its AI agents, as the only ERP vendor to use its own cloud infrastructure for its applications.”
The disruptive corporate impact that AI can have is still in its early stages, but many organisations are already demonstrating its real benefit in finance. Guardian’s Esqueu encourages finance organisations to evaluate whether their current systems and data infrastructure are sufficiently prepared for the future of AI-powered finance. “To avoid being left behind, organisations should prioritise cleaning up their data and partner with organisations that help deliver on the potential of AI,” according to his conclusion. The time to prepare is now.
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