Through two different customer deployments—at e& and Avis Budget Group—Oracle illustrates how its Fusion AI Data Platform and Fusion Cloud ERP/EPM are being applied across regulated and global enterprise environments. These two use cases show how Oracle is positioning embedded AI, analytics, and cloud infrastructure as core engines for both sovereign HR insight and large-scale finance automation.
At e&, the focus is on consolidating fragmented HR data under strict data sovereignty rules. At Avis, the emphasis is on standardizing global finance operations and using embedded AI to automate high-volume processes and accelerate close and forecasting cycles. The common thread is Oracle’s push to embed AI directly into application workflows rather than treating it simply as an analytics layer.
e&: Sovereign HR Analytics
e& operates in 38 countries and serves more than 250 million customers. Rapid expansion, both organic and through acquisitions, left HR data spread across three systems: Oracle E-Business Suite for UAE employees, a third-party application for contractors, and SAP for outsourced staff. That fragmentation made even basic workforce reporting slow and unreliable.
In 2024, e& consolidated HR onto Oracle Cloud Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion HCM Analytics, part of Oracle Fusion AI Data Platform (FAIDP), working with Accenture and Oracle. The move brought all workforce data onto a single, group-wide platform.
Executive management—20 senior leaders and six HR VPs—now has real-time, organization-wide visibility through FAIDP’s prebuilt dashboards, with the ability to slice data by country, department, management hierarchy, or contract type, including on mobile devices during meetings. Using curated HR data in FAIDP alongside Oracle Analytics Cloud, e& also built custom dashboards to track Diversity, Equity & Inclusion metrics and Emiratization targets. In the UAE, where close to 90% of the workforce is foreign, accurate nationality data is critical for managing workforce continuity and geopolitical risk.
Strict UAE data sovereignty regulations shaped the architecture. Employee data could not leave the country or be processed in a public cloud. As a result, e& deployed Fusion Applications and FAIDP on an Oracle Dedicated Region hosted in its own data center, migrating from public-cloud development and testing environments to a fully sovereign production footprint. Security and access controls were designed so group HR leaders could see organization-wide data, while other managers were restricted to their own hierarchies.
Looking ahead, e& is extending the platform by pulling legacy payroll data from on-premises Oracle E-Business Suite into FAIDP using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s remote gateway technology, noted the January 16 media statement. The company is also adding processing capacity to its Dedicated Region to enable Oracle’s generative AI features, such as natural language querying, with the goal of helping HR and business leaders surface trends and risks more proactively.
Avis Budget Group: AI-Driven Finance Automation
Avis manages a global fleet of more than 600,000 vehicles and historically ran finance on multiple on-premises systems with region-specific charts of accounts. That setup made consolidation, reporting, and project tracking slow and labor-intensive, particularly as the company expanded.
To address those challenges, Avis moved to Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM, and Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management. The goal was to standardize financial processes globally, centralize capital project management, and support broader adoption of AI-driven automation across finance.
The measurable results: Avis has reduced general ledger accounts by 70%, cut manual journal entries, and shortened the time required to close the books and update forecasts by 60%. Embedded AI capabilities such as account combination defaulting and Intelligent Document Recognition now reportedly automate roughly 90% of invoice processing. Generative AI tools are also being used to summarize supplier registration attachments and highlight key information in purchase order documents, helping teams make faster, better-informed decisions.
Oracle Cloud ERP provides a single, global view of fleet vehicle purchases and associated costs—the company’s largest expense—improving spend visibility and financial control. A standardized chart of accounts and a 60% reduction in global entities have also simplified the onboarding of acquisitions. Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence aggregates data from ERP and EPM into up-to-date dashboards that track metrics such as accounts payable processing and invoice approvals, with plans to use Oracle’s AI agents to further reduce manual administrative work.
KPMG led the implementation of Oracle Cloud ERP and EPM, per the January 15 media statement, guiding a broader transformation of Avis’ finance and accounting operations, while Oracle Customer Success Services continues to support post–go-live enhancements and innovation.
What This Means for ERP Insiders
Sovereign AI architectures are practical for HR and regulated data. The e& deployment shows that modern, AI-ready analytics can be delivered without compromising strict data residency requirements. Running application and analytics stacks on a sovereign cloud footprint such as an Oracle Dedicated Region while selectively extending capabilities through secure gateways offers a concrete pattern for ERP leaders operating in highly regulated regions.
AI value is shifting from dashboards to workflow-embedded automation. Avis’ gains—90% invoice automation, faster close and forecasting cycles, and improved cost visibility—come from AI embedded directly into Fusion ERP and EPM workflows. For ERP end users, the lesson is to evaluate where native AI inside core applications can compress cycle times and reduce manual effort in areas such as payables, project accounting, and management reporting.
Partners are becoming operators of AI-led ERP outcomes, not just implementers. Accenture’s role in building FAIDP skills and security at e& and KPMG’s work on finance transformation at Avis highlight how system integrators and vendor success teams are central to turning AI platforms into measurable business results. The opportunity lies in developing repeatable blueprints such as sovereign HR analytics or AI-assisted financial close that combine platform capabilities with regulatory and industry expertise.
