Leaning into AI: The Case for Upgrading from Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to Oracle Fusion Cloud
The pace of technological transformation has significantly reshaped how businesses operate. Organizations today are looking for faster, more efficient ways to manage operations, scale processes, and harness actionable insights. For many businesses in 2025, this means leaning into Artificial Intelligence (AI) – embracing features that rapidly evolve and accelerate advancement.
Oracle has invested heavily in AI, including generative, predictive, and agentic AI capabilities. Oracle’s agents allow users to accomplish various high-value tasks, from answering queries about their data to executing basic coding. While Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has long served as a trusted solution for many enterprises, the emergence of AI in Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP presents a compelling event for businesses who want to scale and remain future ready.
To be competitive in this new landscape, we highly recommend considering an upgrade to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP. Below, we’ll take a detailed look at the benefits, comparisons, and reasons to make the switch, along with key insights into how to approach the transition effectively.
AI Advantages in Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP provides a single, integrated platform for managing financials, procurement, project management, risk management, and more, which eliminates the need for multiple disparate systems and ensures seamless data flow across departments.
Now, with built-in AI and machine learning to automate routine tasks, such as invoice processing and expense management, Cloud ERP can provide predictive insights for better decision-making and intelligent recommendations that help optimize workflows and identify cost-saving opportunities.
Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits users realize on Fusion Cloud ERP as compared to E-Business Suite:
1. Agentic AI
Agentic AI operates in three modes—action, author, and answer—and empowers users with advanced capabilities to streamline decision-making, automate processes, and enhance collaboration.
- Action Mode: Provides actionable insights and recommendations to drive better business decisions in real-time.
- Author Mode: Assists in producing content, reports, and communications more efficiently, saving time and reducing errors.
- Answer Mode: Delivers precise, context-aware responses to queries, improving clarity and speed in resolving issues.
Agentic AI alone may be a reason to move to the Cloud. These features are not available in the legacy EBS platform, leaving on-prem organizations without inherent access to AI-driven tools that could significantly enhance enterprise performance.
To achieve the same benefits in EBS, you’ll need to deploy third-party applications and contend with multiple integrations – each requiring their own updates and maintenance.
2. Generative AI
Generative AI also delivers substantial enhancements to decision-making, operational efficiency, and reporting accuracy. Oracle has developed more than 50 use cases for GenAI in the last 2 years, creating solutions for Supply Chain, Financials, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing, and more.
For example, by providing detailed narratives that explain variances or predictive model behaviors, organizations not only gain a deeper understanding of their financial health but also make confident, data-driven decisions more quickly. This level of advanced analysis is seamlessly integrated into daily workflows, reducing manual processes and freeing up time for more strategic tasks.
Unlike EBS, Fusion ERP features embedded generative AI that transforms core operations into more intelligent and proactive processes. Tasks that previously demanded significant manual effort—such as creating project proposals or developing management reports—are now streamlined with AI-driven automation, enhancing both speed and accuracy.
3. Predictive AI
Predictive AI is an essential counterpart to Generative and Agentic AI, capping off the trio powerful solutions in Oracle Fusion ERP. Predictive AI analyzes your historical data and makes predictions (of course!) based on patterns it uncovers. This helps businesses anticipate trends, optimize resources, and make informed decisions.
To maximize your investment in AI technology, it’s important to understand how these all work together:
- Predictive AI identifies what might happen.
- Generative AI explains or creates content based on those predictions.
- Agentic AI takes action or provides recommendations based on both predictive and generative insights.
Together, these technologies create a powerful ecosystem in Oracle Fusion ERP, enabling businesses to not only anticipate challenges but also respond to them efficiently and effectively.
4. Ongoing Updates and Enhancements
E-Business Suite updates are manual, time-consuming, and often require significant downtime and IT resources. Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP provides automatic quarterly releases which include the latest features, enhancements, and compliance updates.
Most appealing among these releases are advancements in AI and machine learning, keeping up to date with the generative, agentic, and predictive capabilities mentioned above. AI technology changes rapidly – staying on top of updates is critical to the success of your technology stack and business processes. Consider how much GenAI and Machine Learning have progressed in the last 12 months – if you’re not taking advantage of this now, you’ll fall behind.
5. Enhanced Scalability and Flexibility
Designed to scale effortlessly with business growth, Fusion Cloud ERP can easily support global operations with multi-currency, multi-language, and multi-entity capabilities. Plus, with the regular updates and integrated platform nature mentioned above, it is flexible enough to accommodate fluctuating business needs. Its ability to integrate advanced AI ensures that the system grows smarter as your company grows larger.
With EBS, scaling with AI capabilities requires third-party tools and integrations, which can be limiting for organizations not ready to adopt the Cloud infrastructure.
6. Cost Efficiency and Simplified Maintenance
Running EBS requires significant investment in hardware, IT personnel, and system maintenance, whereas Fusion ERP operates on a subscription-based pricing model, reducing upfront costs. The regular updates eliminate the need for IT personnel to manually upgrade the on-prem systems, freeing them up for more high-value tasks.
These cost savings are amplified even further by the inclusion of AI capabilities. Consider the benefit of using AI to assist with time consuming, error-prone processes, like financial closing and reconciliation; AI can predict potential delays in the financial close process and recommend actions to expedite it, saving valuable time and effort.
Why Now? The Case for EBS to Fusion Upgrades
There will never be a better time to start your Fusion journey. Oracle has shifted its focus to cloud-based solutions, and while EBS is still supported, it is not receiving the same level of innovation as Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP. Businesses risk falling behind in terms of technology, security, and compliance if they continue using an aging system.
Additionally, with the focus shift to remote work, the need for cloud-based systems that can be accessed from anywhere should be top-of-mind for any business.
Fusion Cloud ERP offers a modern, intuitive user interface designed for ease of use, while EBS has a more dated and complex interface. Fusion Cloud ERP enables seamless remote access, ensuring business continuity and collaboration across distributed teams. Finally, the user interface and AI updates available on Fusion help increase user adoption and productivity while reducing training costs.
Why Apps Associates is Your Trusted Partner for the Migration
Upgrading from Oracle EBS to Fusion Cloud ERP is a critical decision, and selecting the right partner ensures the process is seamless.
Here’s how Apps Associates supports your migration process to achieve success with minimal disruption:
- Comprehensive Assessment & Strategy: Tailored migration strategies based on your unique business needs and goals.
- Focus on AI: We are forward-thinking and dedicated to developing AI solutions for and with our customers.
- Post-Migration Support: Ongoing assistance to help you maximize the ROI of your cloud investment.
- Employee Enablement: We deliver customized Change Management and Training to ensure your team is fully equipped to leverage Oracle Fusion Cloud from day one.
Moving Forward
Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP isn’t just a software upgrade; it’s a strategic investment in your company’s future. By upgrading from EBS, you unlock greater scalability, agility, and advanced AI capabilities to meet the demands of today’s dynamic business environment.
Take the next step confidently by working with a trusted partner like Apps Associates. Our expertise ensures a smooth transition that prepares your organization for future success.
Contact Apps Associates Today to learn how we can guide you in harnessing the full potential of Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP for your business!