Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
February 18, 2026
Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.
News Flashes
Oracle is introducing new AI agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to help supply chain leaders accelerate decision-making and drive greater efficiency across planning, procurement, manufacturing, maintenance, and logistics.
Oracle announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to consolidate and migrate select on-premises workloads to the cloud. OCI will support CMS' modernization efforts by providing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for the agency's mission-critical systems.
Oracle is offering new capabilities in Oracle Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) to help organizations manage the unique requirements of process manufacturing. According to Oracle, the latest innovations help organizations that produce goods by mixing or blending ingredients improve real-time production visibility and meet regulatory requirements by connecting formulas, recipes, materials, and batch execution in a unified cloud solution.
Think About It
As agentic AI continues to expand across the IT landscape, many processes are being automated. However, some processes are still better managed by humans than by machines. Rather than thinking of applying AI wherever possible and over-automating, leaders should think about the most beneficial uses of the technology and begin implementation of the technology in those areas first before expanding further.