Oracle said it has added generative AI throughout its Fusion Cloud Applications Suite and expanded its Oracle Database at Microsoft Azure effort into Germany with more regions around the world on tap.
The announcements were made at Oracle CloudWorld in London. The Oracle Database@Azure plans were previewed on Oracle's third quarter earnings conference call. With the launch of Oracle Database@Azure in Frankfurt, Oracle is planning on adding 15 regions globally including France, Italy, UK, India, Japan, Australia and United Arab Emirates and others.
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As for the Fusion generative AI rollout, Oracle is layering in large language models into a business that had $800 million in revenue in the third quarter. The genAI features are added to finance, supply chain, human resources, sales, marketing and service applications.
Oracle said it embedded more than 50 generative AI features into Fusion Applications. Here's a brief roundup:
- Fusion ERP gets insight narratives to surface patterns that affect the business with context and explanations. Oracle also added narratives for financial reporting, explanations for predictive forecasts and status summaries for projects.
- Fusion Cloud Supply Chain and Manufacturing gets item description generation, supplier recommendations and negotiation summaries.
- Fusion HCM gets category landing pages and generative AI built career sites in Oracle Recruiting, job match recommendations, tools so candidates can get answers to questions and manager survey generation.
- Fusion Cloud CX gets service webchat summaries, tools to write sales content and recommendations for marketing collateral.
Oracle also added guided generative AI journeys in Oracle Cloud HCM and SCM with preferred large language model and frameworks to focus on industries.