Businesses are finding innovative ways to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) every year to foster innovation and development. This year is no exception, with Oracle releasing a plethora of new features, tools, and capabilities that our customers tell us have significantly improved their businesses and the people they serve.
Oracle offers cloud business apps and cloud infrastructure on a safe, interconnected platform to help you manage every aspect of your company’s operations. You can easily integrate security, governance, and data management across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and your other business-critical workloads.
This also includes extensions of Fusion Cloud Applications, new applications you develop on OCI, and third-party applications that connect through OCI since Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps work on OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).
You may use more than a hundred cloud infrastructure and platform services provided by the OCI platform, which is nimble and expandable and delivers inside your ecosystem. On Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, all of your applications and technologies—Oracle and non-Oracle—work better together.
OCI and Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is an incredibly powerful platform that enables businesses to take advantage of the latest cloud technologies for their applications. Oracle Fusion Applications, in particular, are powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, allowing organizations to access a comprehensive suite of enterprise applications that are designed to meet their needs.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers a wide range of features that make it an ideal platform for Fusion Applications. It provides a secure and reliable environment for hosting applications, with advanced security measures and high availability. Additionally, the platform offers a wide range of computing, storage, and networking resources that can be used to quickly and easily deploy Fusion Applications.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure also provides a range of services that make managing and maintaining Fusion Applications easy. These services include automated patching, monitoring and logging, and a range of other features that make it easy to keep Fusion Applications running smoothly.
How OCI fuels Oracle Fusion Cloud Apps?
The OCI platform is used by the Oracle applications development team to create, improve, and manage Fusion Cloud Applications.
Supply chain management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), customer experience, human capital management & advertising are all included in this comprehensive SaaS suite. Fusion Cloud Applications is trusted to manage the most crucial processes by more than 14,000 enterprises globally. But how does OCI power the fusion applications? Let’s take a look!
1. Supporting pre-built & additional app functionality:
Oracle Cloud offers a single medium that turns it simpler for enterprises to access & monitor apps across their business verticals to connect & extend their reach by creating new applications as the only cloud provider concentrating on infrastructure and apps. Oracle Cloud enables you to:
- Reduce the complexity and expense of IT to cut costs
- Leverage low-code and no-code technologies to create cutting-edge applications.
- Automate end-to-end procedures in all of your departments, including hiring to paying and requisitioning to receiving.
- Obtain a single source of truth for supply chain, HR, CX, and financial processes.
- Support push-button releases, easier application updates, and less testing to help with business agility.
2. Providing hybrid & multi-cloud interoperability:
You can quickly integrate other corporate applications running on-premises, on OCI, or other cloud services like Microsoft Azure using OCI Integration Services. Your whole application ecosystem may be connected easily with a complete set of hybrid and multi-cloud solutions, spread across a growing network of worldwide locations, with uniform security, governance, and administration.
- Without sacrificing functionality or development experience, run workloads in on-premises and cloud environments.
- By executing tasks in a certain place or nation, you can comply with rules.
- Choose the best cloud for your demands.
3. Bringing built-in security:
Oracle Cloud has security built into every tier, from infrastructure to apps, to provide concurrent & seamless security. Oracle security services are uncomplicated, direct, and integrated, which reduces complexity and frees up your attention for their core competencies.
With autonomous services, you have automation powered by machine learning (ML), which reduces the risk and expense of vulnerabilities brought on by human mistakes.
- You can manage access control to infrastructure, critical services, and applications consistently.
- You can verify and approve each stage of a business process.
- You can automatically identify and fix configuration errors, rules violations, and suspicious activities
- Web Application Firewalls and other additional security measures can shield apps from dangerous and unauthorized internet traffic.
Also, you can use Oracle Cloud Guard to monitor for potential security violations using pre-configured and customized solutions.
4. Extending to new apps and clouds:
To address particular or newly developing company demands, you can sometimes need to create brand-new apps from scratch. You are given all the resources necessary by Oracle Cloud to create new apps and effectively integrate them into your application ecosystem.
You can effectively extend OCI indefinitely, even to any other clouds you are using in your larger IT environment. Because Oracle has deliberately developed a multi-cloud approach, it’s acceptable if you have environments where you use other clouds; OCI will cooperate with other clouds as well.
For instance, Oracle recently unveiled a database solution that allows OCI and Microsoft Azure to communicate corporate data as though they were a single cloud.
5. Unlocking new capabilities:
By leveraging built-in OCI services like artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and a host of other cutting-edge technologies, you can get even more value out of your Oracle Fusion applications. These services can all be integrated into your applications’ user interfaces and workflows to increase user productivity.
For instance, you can use Oracle Digital Assistant to implement text, chatbot, and voice interfaces to build conversational experiences for business applications. It is simple to “teach” the natural language processing function to “understand” your particular line of work. This feature has gained enormous popularity at numerous firms. Oracle employs a digital assistant to facilitate procurement and expenditure reporting procedures.
You can also use OCI to access the most recent AI innovations to provide every aspect of your business “intelligence.” Along with OCI, you also receive an analytics platform that can help you display data from any source and provide dashboards that allow users to access business insights on their own. Even your customers and suppliers have access to the data.
The Bottom Line:
Amidst many security concerns from customers, Oracle continues to evolve to address those. Oracle Cloud Guard Fusion Applications Detector, which automatically analyses the environment to discover possible risks and then serves up smart suggestions to repair any vulnerabilities, is one of the advancements Oracle revealed at Oracle CloudWorld.
If an employee’s information is handled improperly, for instance, if an HR manager outside of the employee’s area alters security permissions for another employee in a different region, Cloud Guard Fusion Applications Detector, for Oracle HCM Cloud, can generate an alert.
The Oracle Cloud ultimately aims to meet you where you are. You can immediately get benefits in terms of performance, agility, and scalability by moving your programs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure if they already function well on-premises. You can take the time you need to redesign your business processes and work with Oracle to get the most out of OCI if you’ve already begun using Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Applications.
Overall, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is an incredibly powerful platform that enables businesses to take advantage of the latest cloud technologies for their applications, and Fusion Applications are no exception. With its secure, reliable, and feature-rich environment, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is the perfect platform to power Fusion Applications.
With OCI, you can gradually stop using your outdated programs and transition into a coexistence mode for the future. Ready to advance with OCI? Your Oracle solutions provider – Doyensys can help!
