Oracle expands AI capabilities with powerful new Agent Studio tool

I’m starting to think we might be able to declare 2025 the year of enterprise AI. We introduced generative AI in 2023 and adopted it at warp speed through 2024. But now, in 2025, we’re starting to see the major technology players introduce deep AI-based offerings that are tightly integrated with their enterprise solutions.

In February, I showed you how SAP offers a new managed software-as-a-service cloud that controls SAP data and data lakes, all with the help of AI. Now, Oracle is introducing a full agent builder suite for its enterprise cloud solutions.

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Oracle was founded in the 1970s by billionaire Larry Ellison. The enterprise computing company is known for its eponymous database, which has been well-respected in enterprise computing circles for almost 50 years. Oracle has an extensive cloud computing offering, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, competing directly with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Oracle is also known for its enterprise applications built on the Oracle database and cloud infrastructure. Oracle has tools for enterprise resource planning, human capital management, supply chain management, customer experience, and enterprise performance management, which is the financial planning and budgeting component of Oracle’s solutions.

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Oracle also owns Java and MySQL. The company gained these A-list properties when it bought out workstation vendor Sun Microsystems back in 2009.

AI agents for everyone!

In September, Oracle announced more than 50 specialty agents that run within its Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite (the umbrella name for all those enterprise apps we discussed earlier).

According to Evelyn McMullen, research manager at Nucleus Research: “Oracle continues to break new ground with its deployment of predictive, generative, and now agentic AI across the Oracle Fusion Applications Suite.”

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For the record, Oracle’s Fusion is an application suite. Autodesk’s Fusion is a 3D modeling CAD/CAM application. You’d think companies this big would be able to come up with original names. But, hey, both companies liked the word fusion.

The agents Oracle introduced in September included a variety of tools that use AI capabilities to help out employees. Here’s a quick list of some of them:

• For human capital management: Agents include a shift-scheduling assistant, an employee-scheduling advisor, and a benefits analyst.
• For supply chain and manufacturing: Agents include a sales representative assistant to factor in delivery delays and a maintenance troubleshooting advisor.
• For enterprise resource planning: Agents include a document management agent, a ledger agent, and an advanced prediction agent to create revenue forecasts.
• For customer experience: Agents include a customer account researcher to build a dossier about prospects, a contracts researcher, and an incentive compensation plan guide to help reps understand how their income aligns with corporate goals.

According to Steve Miranda, executive vice president of applications at Oracle: “AI agents are the next phase of evolution in enterprise applications, and just like with existing applications, business leaders need the flexibility to create specific functionality to address their unique and evolving business needs.”

All told, the company produced over 50 of these pre-built tools across the full range of Fusion applications.

But wait, there’s more

Today, Oracle is announcing Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, an agent-building kit for Oracle’s Fusion applications.

Oracle’s Miranda said: “Our AI Agent Studio builds on the 50+ AI agents we have already introduced and gives our customers and partners the flexibility to easily create and manage their own AI agents. With the agents already embedded in Fusion Applications and our new AI Agent Studio, customers will be able to further extend automation and, ultimately, achieve more while spending less.”

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Miranda’s comments are more than just marketing speak. The Agent Studio tool is the same technology that Oracle used to build its original nifty 50. In addition, Agent Studio isn’t an upsell. The kit is included at no additional cost for those already using Oracle Fusion Applications.

IDC’s Mickey North Rizza commented on this offering: “To have this kind of functionality at no extra cost is a huge win for Oracle customers,” she said. “The future of work is upon us, and Oracle is helping its customers and partners quickly and easily take advantage of agents in a way that will drive meaningful business value.”

The Studio product contains considerable do-it-yourself functionality.

• Agent template libraries: Users can create AI agents with templates.
• Agent team orchestration: Enables users to coordinate multiple AI agents.
• Agent extensibility: Users can customize and expand AI agents.
• Choice of LLMs: Businesses can select from various large language models.
• Native Fusion integration: Users can integrate seamlessly with Fusion applications.
• Third-party system integration: Enables businesses to connect external systems securely.
• Trust and security framework: Users can ensure compliance and data protection.
• Validation and testing tools: Enables users to verify AI accuracy and performance.

Interestingly, users can build new agents and modify and extend the pre-built agents Oracle announced last September. Essentially, those agents become models that users can work on to add capabilities and customize to their requirements.

“The new Oracle AI Agent Studio is an impressive next step for Oracle’s AI strategy. To truly optimize the impact of AI agents, organizations need to be able to customize the way they work to fit their unique business needs,” said Holger Mueller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. 

“The evolution of AI across the enterprise is moving at a rapid pace and by enabling agents to be created, extended, deployed, and managed across the entire enterprise, Oracle will help its customers accelerate adoption and automation.”

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Of course, as Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben once said, “With great power comes great responsibility,” Still, it’s nice to see such a powerful offering with the flexibility that will aid adoption and deployment.

What do you think about Oracle’s AI Agent Studio? Have you or your company explored using AI agents in enterprise applications? Do you see agent-based automation as the future of business software, or do you think traditional workflows still have a place? How important is the ability to customize AI agents for your business needs? Let us know in the comments below.

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