Enabling Business Events in Oracle Fusion Sales Order Management and Inventory

In the world "nervous system" of your ERP. Instead of an external system constantly asking, "Is the order ready yet?" (polling), Fusion simply shouts, "The order is shipped!" (pushing).

As an Oracle Fusion expert, I’ll walk you through how to harness this power for Sales and Inventory.

1. What are Business Events?

Business Events are signals sent by Oracle Fusion when a specific transaction occurs or a status changes.

• Why we need them: They enable real-time integration. Without them, you’d rely on scheduled batch jobs, leading to data lag.

• Where to use them: Use them to trigger downstream actions in third-party systems like a Warehouse Management System (WMS), a legacy shipping platform, or a customer notification service (SMS/Email).

  
  
  

  
  

2. Enabling Events for Order Management (OM)

The Oracle Select AI & MCP Master Guide: From Natural Language to Enterprise RAG

Over the past few months, I have been deep-diving into the revolutionary AI capabilities of the Oracle Database—specifically Select AI and the new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in Oracle 26ai.

Because these technologies move fast, my posts have covered everything from basic setup to complex 3-layer architectures. To help you navigate this transition from "Standard Database" to "AI-Native Database," I have organized my research into four logical pillars.

Pillar 1: The Foundations of Select AI

Before running queries, you need to understand the "Why" and the "How." These posts cover the essential mindset and configuration needed to get started.

• [The Vision] Oracle Select AI: Bringing AI Where Enterprise Data Already Lives

• [The Setup] Setting the Stage: A 5-Step Guide to Configuring Oracle Select AI

• [The Secret Sauce] Oracle Select AI: Why Metadata is Important

• [The New Era] The AI-Native Revolution: Inside Oracle Database 26ai

Pillar 2: Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL)

The AI-Native Revolution: Inside Oracle Database 26ai

The AI-Native Revolution: Inside Oracle Database 26ai

In the world of enterprise data, 2026 marks a turning point. We have moved past the era of "bolting on" AI. With Oracle Database 26ai, AI is no longer a sidecar service; it is baked into the kernel. As the successor to 23ai, this release solidifies the Converged Database strategy, ensuring that vector, relational, and document data live under one roof with a single security model.

1. Unified Hybrid Vector Search

While 23ai introduced the VECTOR data type, 26ai perfects Unified Hybrid Vector Search. This allows us to combine semantic similarity with traditional relational filters, JSON attributes, and even spatial data in a single SQL statement.

• The Technical Edge: You can now use In-Memory Neighbor Graph (VSS) indexes for sub-millisecond similarity searches on billions of vectors without leaving the SGA.

• Use Case: The "Contextual 360" View. Imagine a retail app where a customer uploads a photo of a broken part. The database performs a vector search on the image, filters by "In-Stock" (relational), checks "Warranty Status" (JSON), and finds the nearest repair center (spatial)—all in one query.

2. Select AI: Bringing LLMs to the Data

Why Data Quality Keeps Failing — And It Has Nothing to Do With Technology

 We have spent three posts

• Part 1-  In the Age of Enterprise AI,  Data Quality Is No Longer Just an IT Problem
• Part 2 — What Data Quality Really Means for Enterprise AI And Why It's Harder Than You Think
• Part3-Data Quality as Competitive Moat: The Business Case Every Enterprise Leader Needs to Hear

in this series building the case for why data quality is the defining challenge of enterprise AI — technically, strategically, and financially. If you have followed the series this far, the importance of data quality is probably not in question.

 So here is the harder question: if so many enterprises understand the importance of data quality, why do so many of them still fail to sustain it?

 The answer, consistently and almost universally, is not technical. It is human. It is about incentives, ownership, accountability, and culture. And it is the dimension of data quality that is hardest to fix — because no tool or platform can solve it for you.

Integrating Oracle HCM with Field Service via OIC

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) bridges the gap between Oracle HCM and Oracle Field Service (OFS) by enabling real-time, automated data flows that ensure workforce synchronization. It acts as a middleware that simplifies the integration through prebuilt adapters (such as the HCM Adapter) and a low-code interface.

The integration typically follows an event-driven or scheduled architecture to manage the following processes:

• Data Extraction via Atom Feeds: OIC subscribes to Oracle HCM Atom Feeds—such as "Employee New Hire," "Employee Update," and "Employee Terminate"—to detect changes in near-real time.

• Filtering and Transformation: Once data is extracted, OIC filters the information based on specific criteria like Job Code, Business Unit Name, and "active" assignment status. It then maps these HCM data elements to OFS properties, such as mapping HCM Departments to OFS Resource Tree "Buckets".

• Resource and User Synchronization: OIC uses the OFS REST API to push transformed data into Field Service. This includes creating or updating resources, assigning working locations based on home addresses, and managing user profiles.

How do OIC and ISG bridge on-premises EBS with Fusion?

 Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and the Integrated SOA Gateway (ISG) bridge the gap between on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and Oracle Fusion SaaS by creating a secure, service-oriented communication channel that bypasses the limitations of traditional firewalls and direct database integrations.

The architecture functions through three main layers:

1. The Secure Network Tunnel (OIC Connectivity Agent)

Setting UP OIC Connectivity Agent & Integrated SOA Gateway (Connecting Oracle EBS with Oracle Fusion SaaS )

 Setting Up the OIC Connectivity Agent

Here are the key steps to get the OIC Connectivity Agent running on your EBS server:

 Prerequisites

•       The server must have outbound internet access on port 443

•       An OIC instance must be provisioned in Oracle Cloud

Step 1: Create an Agent Group in OIC Console

Log into OIC, go to Settings → Agents, and create a new Agent Group. Give it a meaningful name like EBS_AGENT_GROUP. Note the Agent Group Identifier.

Step 2: Get IDCS OAuth Credentials