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Oracle launches Claw-powered Fusion apps for CX teams

Oracle launches Claw-powered Fusion apps for CX teams

Thu, 29th Oct 2026 (Today)
Sofiah Nichole Salivio
SOFIAH NICHOLE SALIVIO News Editor

Oracle has introduced Claw-powered Fusion agentic applications for customer experience, aimed at sales and service teams using Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications.

The new applications are designed to handle more complex work with greater autonomy while staying within governance controls set by organisations. Oracle is positioning them within its broader Fusion Cloud Applications portfolio and its push into AI-based business software.

The launch centres on Oracle Fusion Claw, which Oracle describes as a governed execution runtime for agentic applications. It is intended to let software agents carry out tasks involving reasoning, computation, modelling, simulation and continuous replanning, rather than being limited to narrower assistant functions.

Oracle said the applications can be used to align sales territories with demand, identify service issues before they become prolonged problems, plan field service resources, and manage configuration changes in configure, price and quote processes.

The company also introduced an executive briefing tool within the same set of applications. Oracle said it can compile account engagement information, company news, product footprint, revenue potential and organisational hierarchy into a briefing document that updates as account data changes.

New functions

Among the named applications is Account Territory Growth Plan, which Oracle said models different territory scenarios, compares trade-offs and recommends coverage and opportunity allocation within business constraints before taking authorised action. Another, Service Health Check, is designed to spot emerging service-performance issues, identify likely root causes and prepare actions for review and execution.

Strategic Field Demand Planning focuses on balancing field capacity with customer demand while managing overtime costs. Oracle said it predicts resource needs, flags coverage gaps and prepares resource changes for review before executing approved decisions.

The fourth application highlighted at launch is CPQ Test-to-Production Setup & Configuration Migration. Oracle said this tool assembles proposed configuration changes and dependencies into a report for review, identifies potential deployment issues and then executes approved migration steps within defined authority.

The announcement reflects a broader shift among enterprise software providers towards so-called agentic systems, designed to move beyond answering prompts or generating content and instead carry out multi-step business processes under rules and oversight set by customers. Oracle described these applications as outcome-based software in which staff define objectives, authority and accountability, while the application coordinates the process to reach the result.

Oracle said the products run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and use large language models. It also linked the launch to Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, which it uses as the development and management environment for agentic applications.

According to Oracle, the studio includes both no-code and pro-code tools, allowing organisations to create and manage applications using Oracle-built, partner and external agents. The broader framework also includes observability, return on investment measurement and safety controls intended to govern how these applications operate.

Competitive push

The launch comes as major business software groups seek to define how generative AI and agent-based systems can be embedded into core enterprise workflows. Customer experience functions, including sales, service and field operations, have become a key testing ground because they involve large volumes of structured and semi-structured data, operational hand-offs and measurable outcomes.

For Oracle, the move also extends its effort to make Fusion Cloud Applications the centre of record and execution across business functions including finance, human resources, supply chain, manufacturing, sales, service and marketing. By adding more autonomous process execution to those systems, Oracle is seeking to tie AI functions more closely to transaction data and approval structures already used by customers.

"Business leaders need to turn growth strategies into opportunities and deliver on customer commitments, but connecting customer demand with enterprise capacity in time to act remains a challenge," said Kartik Raghavan, Senior Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle.

"With Claw-powered Fusion Agentic Applications for CX, organizations can connect customer needs with the enterprise resources and governed actions required to address them. The applications can reason across trusted Oracle Fusion Applications data, coordinate the work required to meet business objectives, and carry approved actions into execution. This enables organizations to translate business objectives into growth opportunities, reliable service, and stronger customer trust," said Raghavan.