Oracle adds AI agents to Fusion Cloud for smarter finance ops

Oracle has announced the introduction of new artificial intelligence agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications aimed at supporting finance professionals to streamline processes, increase productivity, reduce costs and improve internal controls.

The AI agents have been developed with Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications and are integrated directly within core finance workflows. These embedded agents are designed to automate end-to-end processes while providing predictive insights to support business performance improvements.

Rondy Ng, Executive Vice President of Applications Development at Oracle, highlighted the impact of the new agents on finance operations.

"Oracle is ushering in a new era of agent-driven finance, where AI assistants turn fragmented, complex, staff-heavy processes into proactive, continuous operations that free teams to focus on judgment and strategic outcomes," said Rondy Ng. "With the newest generation of agents embedded in Oracle Fusion Applications, finance leaders gain a step change in operational efficiency and real-time business insights to help drive faster decisions and close cycles, stronger compliance and auditability, and healthier working capital."

These AI agents are run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and are available as a prebuilt feature at no additional cost to existing users of Oracle Fusion Applications. They are integrated natively, allowing finance teams to improve efficiency and decision-making without the need for separate installations or customisations.

New financial agents

The new AI-driven capabilities target Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) users. They include several specialised agents:

The Payables Agent assists accounts payable teams in automating the processing of invoices from multiple sources, including emails, portals, electronic data interchange (EDI), and PDFs. It automatically extracts and normalises data, matches invoices to purchase orders and receipts, creates distribution and accounting records, and applies tax, policy, and fraud checks before routing for approval and payment. This approach aims to boost direct processing rates, reduce manual effort and errors, and reinforce compliance standards.

The Ledger Agent is designed to help accountants move away from traditional report chasing and instead focus on gaining continuous insights and actions. It enables users to establish natural-language monitoring prompts, provides context-aware queries with supporting details, and can automatically create journal adjustments. These capabilities are intended to accelerate issue resolution, minimise manual handoffs, improve data accuracy, and provide ongoing financial visibility to finance departments.

With the Planning Agent, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams can adopt continuous, connected planning methods. The agent offers real-time trend and variance analysis using natural-language interactions, conducts event-driven predictions using data from Fusion financial and operational sources, and guides users through various scenario simulations. By doing so, organisations can expect shortened planning cycles, more accurate forecasting, and improved cross-functional decision-making.

The Payments Agent helps finance teams manage and optimise cash outflows, supporting operations such as early payment programmes, use of virtual cards, and financing options. It also facilitates interactions with banking systems for faster supplier onboarding and payment execution, as well as monitoring acknowledgments and exceptions. The payments process is intended to become faster and more efficient, with broader adoption of payment programs and improved management of working capital.

The applications and availability

Oracle reports that approximately 11,000 organisations across multiple industries and regions are already using Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP to manage their businesses. These companies, along with new customers, will have access to the enhanced set of AI-powered finance and operational features now being integrated.

Beyond the new embedded agents, Oracle has made available the AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications. This studio is positioned as a platform allowing customers and partners to build, test, and deploy their own AI agents tailored for specific enterprise needs across broader organisational requirements.

The Fusion Cloud Applications suite spans a range of operational areas, including financials, supply chain management, human resource management, procurement, project management, risk management, subscription management, and more. Each area is designed to leverage AI technology to automate processes and provide actionable insights.

In the finance domain specifically, the inclusion of AI-powered agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications aligns with the wider trend across enterprise technology to improve automation, accuracy, and auditability while supporting strategic and data-driven decisions at all levels of an organisation's operations.