Since the beginning of this year, Oracle has hosted a flurry of events around the world as part of the Oracle AI World Tour 2026. Ahead of the London event, Cloud Wars founder Bob Evans sat down with Steve Miranda, Oracle’s executive vice president of application development, to discuss some of the key announcements planned for the event and dig deeper into the company’s AI strategy for the second quarter.
Evans began the discussion by asking Miranda to explain how Oracle is meeting evolving customer expectations in the agent AI and apps space. “About a year and a half ago, we introduced AI across our applications, and it was kind of embedded AI,” Miranda says. “At that time, I think we announced 50, maybe 100 agents. Since then, we’ve visited well over 1,000 agents.”
agent application
During the 2025 AI World Tour event in London, Oracle announced enhancements to AI Agent Studio, which allows customers to adjust, modify, and configure their agent workforce, and the launch of the first set of agent applications. “We didn’t really look at it. This is an application. Let’s sprinkle some AI on it. It’s about fundamentally rewriting the application, and that’s what we started with,” Miranda explains.
Oracle is announcing 22 agent applications that integrate the company’s pre-built agents and workflows into new agent applications. This allows the end user to instruct the agent to achieve a specific outcome. “Give them your business outcomes and goals, and the agent will recommend optimizations and ways to get there,” says Miranda. “Then as a user or human in the middle of this process, you actually tell the agent what plan to execute.”
Regarding the term “agent app,” Evans said: “The term here means working together and doing things that weren’t possible before.”
“Until now, we didn’t have an estimating capability where we could ask the system, ‘We need to optimize our supply chain.’ Four choices appear and Miranda says, “Oh, I like option B. Let’s do it.”
He will discuss how Oracle uses Fusion Agentic Applications to take backend data, business rules, customer business logic, legislative processes, and add an agent layer as an application on top of it.
Community Summit North America is the largest independent eventMicrosoft business application innovation, education, and training events brought to you by expert users, Microsoft leaders, MVPs, and partners. Register now for the Community Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, October 11-15.
first wave applications
The first 22 agent applications are primarily focused on enhancing business process flows. After gathering feedback from the initial deployment, Miranda’s team analyzed how customers were using AI and the specific tasks to which it was being applied. Based on these insights, Oracle tailored the first wave of agent applications to ensure they meet these demands.
Regarding pricing, Fusion Agentic applications are included in your existing license. “You know, just like our thousands of customers receive quarterly updates, they get new features all the time,” Miranda says. “We now have a very powerful new feature set.”
So how difficult is it to start using this new category of applications, asks Evans? “Do I have to send a team out to train for six months? Do I need a bunch of thick manuals to use these things?” he asks.
No, says Miranda. “Basically, you just turn it on and you’re ready to go, because again, this is a function within supply chain, this is a function within sales force automation, this is a function within marketing.
“Even when you’re doing ‘development,’ there’s nothing fancy about it.”
“Of course, we still have traditional data entry applications and, you know, the traditional heavy-handed batch processes and other functions that run most businesses around the world today, but over time, agent apps will start to fill that role.”
Ask a Cloud Wars AI agent about this analysis
