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Accelerate time to value with Inoapps & Oracle Cloud Apps: Part One

Inoapps — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:22:24 GMT

Locked in and don’t know where to start?

When we speak to customers, there's a theme that surfaces time and again—the aspiration for their business applications to be flexible and scalable while helping to simplify and automate their processes.

Yes, this aspiration centers on efficiency gains, but importantly it’s about securing business outcomes that translate into the ability to achieve real return on investment. And importantly, it’s about how they can accelerate the time to value.

Equally, we hear many customers talk about the complexity of their existing application portfolio. Many have invested significant time and capital into building out those portfolios but that has now resulted in heavily configured and customized applications. They’re now faced with significant complexity when it’s time to think about a modernization strategy and roadmap.

Since 2006 Oracle has been in Inoapps’ DNA. That in-depth focus means the expertise we bring to our projects is second to none and we have defined an accompanying set of best practices around the application modernization challenge.

In this blog series, we'll discuss the challenges, the opportunities, and how to successfully navigate the Oracle Cloud Applications modernization journey. These are the themes we’ll be unpacking:

Start with the end in mind…

…but don't be a slave to the end state. Any modernization journey takes time. While it's important to keep the end state in sight, accept that business priorities change, regulatory, legal and fiscal requirements evolve, and your modernization journey has to be flexible so it can adapt to ever changing conditions.

It’s critical to break down the modernization journey into incremental but meaningful steps aligned to your business architecture, which offers ROI at each stage. For this, you need an approach that allows incremental evolution with measurable outcomes at each milestone.

The importance of people

The importance of people and the role they play in the success of any modernization effort is too often under-estimated.

When moving to cloud solutions and away from configured and customized applications, the philosophy of adopt not adapt comes into play and offers the ability to align to Oracle Modern Best Practices. While this chance to standardize is very attractive at a business level, it's critically important to recognize the change management and training that’s needed to ensure high adoption rates so that everyone is getting the maximum benefit from the new solutions.

The evolution of a roadmap

The go-live of a Cloud Applications implementation is just the beginning. Once the foundational capability is in place, the second step of incremental evolution can begin. This iterative process, achieved through sprint-based continual enhancement, is where your business capability evolution really starts.

Where you take your application will depend on your business, your goals, and changing market circumstances, and your roadmap is your invaluable guide to your journey.

Driving continuous improvement

With Cloud Applications, we’re in a different world where 'fix on fail’ is no longer enough when it comes to support. In traditional IT, the approach was valid, but in today’s world, value is realized through continual improvement and adoption. 'Keeping current’ is now mandatory for business and systems integrity, and active management of your environment is essential for efficient utilization of your software assets.

Your optimal path now involves balancing three domains to maintain a close link between changing business demands, business system capability needs, and supporting those capabilities.

To help our customers with these challenges, we’ve defined an accelerated time to value implementation approach called Inoapps Evolve. Inoapps Evolve leverages 16 years of implementation experience to allow our customers to implement a scalable Tier 1 solution for a fraction of the time and cost.

Inoapps Evolve has been designed for customers looking for quick deployment due to the factors below. If any of these resonate, this may be the approach for you:

I don’t have an ERP solution and need one quickly
I need to move from my existing solution to an alternative platform
I don’t have a compliant solution and need to meet statutory or security requirements
I need a scalable solution that can grow and evolve with me over time
I don’t want to go through the lengthy solution design process and am keen to adopt standard Oracle functionality

Ultimately, Inoapps Evolve allows you to start using your new system quicker, which allows for swifter user adoption and benefits realization.

Join us to explore the key components of an Oracle Cloud Applications modernization journey and how Inoapps Evolve can help.

In our next blog, we look at how to keep your outcomes and ROI in focus from the very start of your project.

Modernizing B2B integration with Oracle Integration Cloud

David Baxter — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:21:07 GMT

Why Oracle OIC outpaces traditional E-Business Suite B2B

If you’re currently using Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) for B2B integrations and are looking for ways to boost your productivity, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) is worth considering. It’s a solid option—even if your EBS is hosted on-premises.

Businesses these days are under increasing pressure to streamline operations, enhance agility, and improve partner collaboration. If your current EBS B2B integrations aren’t delivering what you need, a shift to OIC offers a compelling opportunity to modernize and future-proof your integration landscape.

Understanding the landscape

Oracle EBS B2B capabilities have long supported electronic data interchange (EDI) and XML-based messaging for supply chain and financial transactions. However, these capabilities are tightly coupled with on-premises infrastructure, which often requires significant customization, manual intervention and complex maintenance.

Alternatively, outsourcing EDI document exchange to a third party can offer a reliable solution. However, this comes at a significant cost.

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), on the other hand, is a modern, cloud-native platform that includes robust B2B capabilities designed to simplify and accelerate partner onboarding, message exchange and compliance.

There’s a misconception that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services like OIC are only available for Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or OCI-hosted EBS environments. This is happily not the case. If your EBS is hosted on-premises, you can securely make use of OIC and OCI services.

What are the benefits of OIC B2B over traditional EBS B2B?

1. Cloud-native architecture

OIC B2B is built on a scalable, secure cloud infrastructure, which eliminates the need for on-premises hardware and reduces total cost of ownership.

This enables:

Automatic updates and patches
High availability and disaster recovery
Elastic scalability to handle peak loads

2. Simplified partner onboarding

Traditional EBS B2B setups often require manual configuration and custom development for each trading partner.

OIC streamlines this with:

Prebuilt B2B profiles and document definitions
Intuitive UI for partner setup
Support for industry standards like X12, EDIFACT and custom XML

These elements drastically reduce onboarding time and effort.

3. Enhanced monitoring and visibility

OIC provides real-time dashboards and alerts for B2B message tracking.

This makes it easier to:

Monitor transaction status
Identify and resolve errors quickly
Ensure SLA compliance

EBS B2B, by contrast, often lacks centralized visibility, requiring users to dig through logs or custom reports.

4. Seamless integration with modern applications

OIC offers native connectivity to a wide range of SaaS and on-premises applications, including Oracle Cloud ERP, Salesforce, SAP, and more.

This enables:

End-to-end process automation
Real-time data synchronization
Reduced integration complexity

EBS B2B integrations are typically siloed and harder to extend across hybrid environments.

5. Faster time to value

With low-code development tools, prebuilt adapters and guided configuration, OIC accelerates implementation timelines.

Organizations can:

Deploy integrations in days, not months
Adapt quickly to changing business needs
Reduce reliance on specialized technical resources

OIC in action: supply chain modernization

One of our customers, a global manufacturer, was using EBS B2B for supplier EDI transactions but faced increasing challenges with partner onboarding delays and limited visibility.

Their migration to OIC very quickly produced tangible value, including:

A reduction of onboarding time by 60%
Real-time transaction insights
Seamless integration with Oracle on-premises EBS and logistics providers

The result? Improved supplier collaboration, reduced errors, and faster order fulfillment.

In conclusion

While Oracle EBS B2B has served many organizations well, the shift to Oracle Integration Cloud B2B unlocks a new level of agility, scalability, and operational efficiency. For businesses looking to modernize their integration strategy and stay competitive, OIC B2B is not just an upgrade—it’s a transformation.

Want to know more? Join me and my colleague, Debra Lilley for our OIC webinar on 16 September to look at how our customer, Bradford White modernized their B2B communications with their move to OIC.

Modernizing EBS with Oracle AI Data Platform

Drew Edgar — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:20:05 GMT

Inoapps adventures in AI

At Inoapps, we have many customers who rely on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) as the backbone of their operations. Over the years, they’ve fine-tuned it with customizations and integrations to make it a perfect fit for their businesses. Their EBS environments are stable, supported and doing their jobs. There’s no compelling reason to replace what’s working so well.

But the technology landscape is shifting fast. AI has moved beyond being a buzzword and is now a practical tool for unlocking insights and accelerating processes. For businesses staying on EBS, the question isn’t ‘should we move’ but rather ‘how do we bring AI into the picture?’ That’s where Oracle AI Data Platform comes in.

Oracle AI Data Platform: a practical path to AI for EBS

Oracle AI Data Platform is a next-generation solution designed to transform how businesses use their data. It was launched in October 2025 and brings together data integration, governance, and advanced AI/ML capabilities in a single, cloud-native environment.

Many organizations already have a data warehouse or data lake, but Oracle AI Data Platform goes beyond storage and reporting. It unlocks predictive insights, automates decisions and creates real-time intelligence from existing data.

When the team here thought about who it could benefit most, our EBS customers stood out. It feels like the missing piece. It allows them to keep their personalized, customized EBS environments intact while tapping into cutting-edge AI capabilities.

Modernizing EBS with AI, one step at a time

For organizations with mature data strategies, the quickest win comes from layering Oracle AI Data Platform with EBS data. Instead of a full-scale migration, start small—move data from a single module or process. This lets you modernize incrementally, reduces risk, delivers early results and builds momentum for future transformation.

Here’s an example. One of our EBS customers wants to improve project performance and forecasting without disrupting their core environment. By moving project-related data like budgets, actuals, resource assignments, and billing details into Oracle AI Data Platform, we can unlock advanced capabilities that go far beyond traditional reporting. Here’s what it looks like:

Predictive project performance

Using historical project data and machine learning models, the platform forecasts cost overruns, schedule delays, and resource bottlenecks early. This means proactive corrective actions can be taken before issues escalate.
Intelligent resource allocation

AI algorithms analyze past performance, skill profiles, and availability to recommend optimal resource assignments. This reduces idle time, improves utilization, and lowers overall project costs.
Automated anomaly detection

The system continuously monitors project transactions for unusual patterns like duplicate billing or inflated expenses, helping to maintain compliance and prevent fraud.
Scenario modeling for strategic planning

Executives can run ‘what-if’ simulations on budgets, timelines, and resource changes to understand the impact before making decisions for more agile and informed planning.

This approach delivers real value now, without the disruption of a full move to Oracle Cloud Applications.

If you’re looking for a practical, low-risk way to modernize EBS, improve project outcomes, and build a foundation for future transformation, this is one to consider. It’s early days yet, but the team here is excited at the potential and ready to help you take the first step.

Next up: Accelerating EBS innovation with Oracle AI Services

Join me on January 21st for the next webinar in our Advance your EBS series: Oracle AI Services: Accelerating Innovation in EBS

If you want to explore the potential of AI for your business, get in touch with the Oracle AI experts at Inoapps—we’d love to hear your use case.

Smarter, faster, future-proof: Modernizing EBS with APEX and AI

Drew Edgar — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:19:26 GMT

Inoapps adventures in AI

At Inoapps, we’ve long believed that Oracle APEX is the smartest way to modernize Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS). It’s fast, flexible, and deeply integrated—no middleware, no extra BI tools. Just clean, interactive dashboards and apps that sit natively inside your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.

Over the last two decades, we’ve developed a lot of APEX apps to extend EBS functionality. When a customer comes to us with a challenge that EBS doesn’t address, a custom APEX app or extension is often the answer.

The customization conundrum

Something we often hear from customers is that they can’t move off EBS because of all their customizations. They just can’t justify the move to modernize. Plus, changing technology is daunting, time consuming and costly.

Which got us thinking… Why not modernize their existing systems with technology they already have?

Meet our new co-pilot: Oracle APEX AI Assistant

Oracle APEX AI Assistant is a powerful new feature introduced in Oracle APEX 24.1 that brings generative AI directly into APEX’s low-code development environment. It helps developers build applications faster and more intuitively using natural language prompts to generate code, debug logic, and even design user interfaces.

APEX AI Assistant in action

Inoapps works with several customers who want to modernize and evolve rather than replace their EBS apps. And APEX AI Assistant is helping us do that—fast.

Take one of our customers in construction who has a customization to manage rentals. They were concerned about their reliance on EBS skills and came to us for a solution.

Our own Inoapps Rentals Cloud product was overkill for what they needed, so we proposed modernizing their code base with APEX.

We used APEX AI Assistant to create a proof-of-concept app, using the backbone of their code to recreate their custom screens. Previously, this would have taken weeks. Now in less than a day we generated the prompt for APEX AI Assistant to build the application, which one of our developers then enriched.

The customer was impressed and we’re now discussing how we enhance this further to replace their EBS Oracle Application Framework (OAF) customized screens permanently. And how we can use APEX to future-proof their EBS.

Building on what works

With APEX AI Assistant, we’re designing and deploying apps based on existing EBS customizations without starting from scratch. We can now rapidly build intuitive modern user interfaces based on proven business processes, using existing database coding and logic

From spreadsheets to smart apps

We’re also using AI Assistant to replace offline, spreadsheet-driven processes with clean, web-based apps. It’s not just about speed, though. It’s about quality. The apps we’re building are smarter, more user-friendly, and easier to maintain than the existing processes. And because they’re built inside APEX, they’re future-proof—ready to scale, extend, and integrate with other systems via built-in web services.

Intrigued? Watch our webinar

Check out our webinar, Modernize EBS with Oracle APEX to see what’s possible with APEX inside EBS. If you want to evolve your EBS without starting from scratch, this is your chance to see how APEX—and AI—can help.

Next up: Accelerating EBS innovation with Oracle AI Services

Join me in January for the next webinar in our Advance your EBS series: Oracle AI Services: Accelerating Innovation in EBS

If you want to explore the potential of AI for your business, get in touch with the Oracle AI experts at Inoapps—we’d love to hear your use case.

Oracle AI World London 2026: Fusion Agentic Applications Explained

Debra Lilley — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:18:02 GMT

What Oracle’s AI Agent Applications mean for Fusion users

It used to be just at Oracle OpenWorld, their annual show, that big advances in technology and applications were made. But now, with application updates pushed out every three months, announcements come much quicker. So it was not unexpected that there would be new announcements at the AI World roadshow in London last month.

Key considerations before integrating Procore with Oracle

David Baxter — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:17:40 GMT

Practical guidance to de-risk your Oracle-Procore integration from day one

Integrating Procore with Oracle isn’t inherently difficult, but in our experience the ease of delivery depends heavily on the decisions made at the very start of the project.

Global Success for Inoapps Managed Services at Oracle Partner Awards

Inoapps — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:16:53 GMT

Inoapps wins Global Certified Managed Service Provider of the Year

With an Oracle-only focus, Inoapps Managed Services offers a structured yet flexible approach to managing Oracle estates—maximizing value across infrastructure, platform, and applications. Operating across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions, Inoapps delivers a full spectrum of services for Oracle applications and core technology, on-premises and in the cloud. A key differentiator is the ability to scale services up or down in line with evolving business needs, whilst also being able to deliver services using resources from within a specific geographic region if our customers require it.

A SPARC and Solaris roadmap for Oracle users

Inoapps — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:15:02 GMT

How to deal with end-of-life issues as server infrastructure is discontinued

The decision to phase out these mission-critical IT infrastructures by 2034 has left SPARC and Solaris users maintaining end of life (EOL) legacy systems without processor upgrades, and with increasing maintenance and support costs.

How Oracle PaaS and APEX are powering faster innovation in Higher Education

Jennifer Tavano — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:07:57 GMT

Practical, low-risk modernization strategies for universities heading into 2026

Rising service expectations, ageing systems, fragmented data, and constant regulatory shifts mean Higher Education institutions can’t rely on ‘big bang’ transformations to move forward. They need practical, incremental improvements that work with the systems they already have—whether that’s Oracle Cloud Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), PeopleSoft, or custom on-prem applications.

Innovation offshore: how technology is reshaping offshore operations

Inoapps — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:07:30 GMT

Bringing AI, analytics and cross-sector innovation to the heart of offshore operations

The North Sea’s ongoing role in the UK energy mix

One of the sectors that continues to play an important role in this landscape is the UK’s offshore energy industry. For more than five decades, activity in the North Sea has supported the national economy, contributed to energy security, and fostered the development of a highly skilled workforce with world class engineering and operational capabilities. These skills remain invaluable not only to traditional operations but also to emerging areas such as offshore wind, carbon capture and storage, and hydrogen.