Oracle Analytics : OAC and Fusion Data Intelligence
Oracle provides two complementary analytics products that together cover the full spectrum of enterprise analytics requirements. Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) is Oracle’s cloud-native business intelligence platform, delivering self-service analytics, augmented analytics, enterprise reporting, and governed data access across any function and any data source. OAC connects to Oracle Fusion Cloud, Oracle EBS, and a broad range of third-party sources including Salesforce, Workday, and ServiceNow. It operates on a continuous update cycle, with new capabilities released every two months at no additional cost to subscribers. Oracle Analytics AI Assistant is embedded within OAC and supports natural language querying, AI-generated narrative, anomaly detection, and domain-specialised AI agents built using Retrieval Augmented Generation. From early 2025, the AI Assistant became available on all deployment sizes, and organisations can also integrate third-party large language models including OpenAI’s where their requirements demand it. Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence (FDI) is Oracle’s purpose-built analytics application for Oracle Fusion Cloud, constructed on top of OAC and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse. It delivers over 3,000 pre-built metrics and hundreds of dashboards across ERP, HCM, SCM, and CX, with Oracle-managed data pipelines that extract, transform, and load Fusion data automatically. FDI removes the need to build data models, subject areas, and content from scratch, and it remains current as Oracle Fusion evolves because Oracle manages both the pipeline and the content. Where FDI’s pre-built coverage does not meet specific requirements, it is extensible through no-code data augmentation for simpler enrichment and Oracle Data Transforms for complex integration with non-Fusion and third-party sources.
The two products are complementary. FDI runs on OAC. Many organisations deploy both: FDI for Fusion-native KPIs and operational analytics, and OAC for custom analytics, non-Oracle data, and organisation-specific models that sit outside FDI’s pre-built scope.
Most analytics implementations produce dashboards. Very few produce decisions. The difference is in how deeply the solution is designed around the questions your business actually needs to answer.
Overview
Simalaya implements both OAC and Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence for enterprise organisations. Where FDI accelerates time-to-insight for Fusion Cloud customers through pre-built content and Oracle-managed pipelines, OAC extends that capability to custom analytics, non-Oracle data sources, and organisation-specific models. In many engagements, both are deployed together as a unified analytics environment.
Oracle Analytics AI Assistant is configured and governed as part of every analytics engagement, with domain-specific agents and audit controls appropriate for regulated environments where AI output traceability is a compliance requirement.
Key Benefits
- Self-service analytics - business users build their own reports without IT dependency
- Pre-built Oracle Fusion content - accelerated deployment with Fusion-native dashboards
- Augmented analytics - AI-powered insight generation, anomaly detection, and trend analysis
- Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence - purpose-built analytics for Fusion Cloud with pre-built KPIs across Finance, HCM, SCM, and CX
- Oracle Analytics AI Assistant - natural language querying and AI-generated narrative within the OAC interface
- Data connectivity - Oracle and non-Oracle sources unified in a single analytics layer
- Mobile delivery - analytics accessible on any device, anywhere, without compromise
How Simalaya Can Help
- OAC implementations designed around the specific decisions your Finance, HR, and Operations teams need to make
- Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence deployment - pre-built KPIs and dashboards for Fusion Cloud, deployed and configured for your environment
- Oracle Analytics AI Assistant configuration and governance for regulated environments - controls appropriate for industries where AI output auditability matters
- Self-service analytics training for Finance, HR, and Operations users
- Data connectivity architecture connecting Oracle Fusion, EBS, and third-party data sources into a single governed analytics layer
- Ongoing OAC support - content management, model refresh, and performance optimisation