2025-03-28 Cloudworld 2025

The Apps Key Note

We were in the front row to give Chris moral support. In Chris's pitch he was explaining where AI has been woven in to processes managed under Fusion Applications. He reviewed some ERP processes (Commentary on Financial Results) , Supply Chain Processes , HCM Processes (Compiling 360 degree feedback) , CRM Processes.

Chris went on to explain, that while Oracle's product managers have chosen a set of processes to extend using Generative AI and AI Agents, the applications also come with an AI Studio for customers and partners to create AI Agents and connect them to the applications.

Chris used an example of a maintenance order on a factory shop floor, where the standard workflow had been extended to include and evaluate photographs taken by a maintenance engineer.

I was also very interested to see Chris discuss what Oracle is doing in the Healthcare apps space. The theme of connecting the supply chain world with the Clinical world has special resonance for me after having spent a couple of years helping NHS Supply Chain.

The Lecture Theatre's

Develop Applications of the Future with Data & AI

We took in the lecture theaters that were positioned in the corners of the exhibition floor. The first one we went to was packed to the gills. The acoustics could have benefitted from the blue tooth headphones that we saw at DTX.

Sandwell's Oracle Fusion Applications Journey

We attended the Sandwell Council presentation with Infosys. They are coming off an on premise EBS implementation. They seemed very keen to not be responsible for the hardware. They seemed to be having a very positive experience with Fusion. They emphasised the change management issues, and highlighted that the current way of doing something is probably at the limit of what the previous system could do. So implementing the status quo in Fusion is accepting the same limitation. The session was again really well attended, and when it got to the Q&A it became clear that most of the people in the audience were council employees.

The Exhibition Floor

One thing that jumped out at me on the exhibition floor was AI Running at the Edge. It was almost the same title as the session that we saw from Rowden at the Security Expo at Earls Court. The reason that we attended the Rowden session was because we were helping Kent Air Ambulance service who needed to both transcribe and summarise a call without relying on network connectivity. The gentleman on the stand explained the architecture in the Oracle solution and then showed me the physical kit that it was implemented in, about the size of a buscuit tin.

Robot dogs also jumped out at me on the exhibition floor.

The Break Out Rooms

A Hands-On Guide to Enabling AI Features in Fusion Applications

We attended this session. We thought we might be able to give customers advice on how to get to test these features. It looks as if the new features are being shipped in a state where a systems administrator has to enable them through profile options.

An old friend and colleague June Farmer, recognized me at the back of the room. Interestingly, myself and June were co-inventors on a patent for Feature Enablement.

Transforming Business: Cohere’s models optimized for Oracle Fusion Applications

We also sat in on Cohere's presentation that took us right in to the internals of how their large language model is optimized, and how it is specialized for different domains.

Interview from the Exhibition Floor

Nigel

Here we are at Cloud world, your first Cloud World. Your first Oracle conference. Kind of interesting as the generations turn. So what are your impressions?

Ansel

I mean it's been great. I obviously don't have the reference point of last year as you do but as you've said it's been humming. Its been huming in relation to anything else that we've seen at this venue. Oracle seems to remain pretty solidly bullish on AI. I know there's been some concern how much we overbet on this AI bubble but I think Oracle's not worried by that. They have scripted AI into everything they're pretty bullish on on how much potential it has.

Nigel

For me it's both pervasive; it's everywhere,but it's also incremental. They have not like thrown everything out and said " we're going to start with AI". It's like this is how you build it onto processes that we were already automating.

Ansel

There is also a huge breath of oracles Partners. They are they're pretty keen to sort of get that in the open. I certainly get the feeling of the ecosystem. Oracle is the dominant presence here obviously but the ecosystem of the partners certainly is woven into the fabric everywhere.

Nigel

Oracle seems pretty Keen to lean into that, being a technology company but it really seems to want to emphasize the app's focus. The partner community is woven in to offerings in a manner that is different from previous conferences that I've be at. Oracle has two different communities but it seems that the communities have mingled.

So have you enjoyed it.

Ansel

Absolutely

Nigel

Thank you. I am glad it was fun for you.

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