A Survey of Emerging Technologies in Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning: The Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP Ecosystem
Keywords:
Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Data science, Edge computing, Enterprise resource planningAbstract
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have evolved from monolithic, on-premises transaction engines into cloud-native, intelligent platforms that fuse artificial intelligence, distributed ledgers, the Internet of Things (IoT), and elastic edge-to-cloud infrastructure. Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP has emerged as a leading exemplar of this transformation, embedding machine learning, generative and agentic artificial intelligence, and pervasive analytics directly within core financial and operational workflows. This article presents a structured survey of the emerging technologies reshaping the Oracle ERP ecosystem and situates them within the broader research landscape of intelligent enterprise systems. The survey traces the architectural evolution from Oracle E-Business Suite to Fusion Cloud ERP; examines the cloud and edge computing foundations provided by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the Oracle Autonomous Database; analyzes embedded, generative, and agentic AI capabilities, including the AI Agent Studio and a suite of finance-oriented agents; and reviews the integration of IoT and sensor networks, blockchain-based track-and-trace, data science and soft-computing techniques, and cybersecurity mechanisms. Recurring design patterns and open research challenges are synthesized across trust, explainability, data governance, latency-sensitive edge processing, and the security of autonomous enterprise agents. The result is a technology map intended to serve both practitioners planning cloud ERP modernization and researchers seeking an application-grounded view of one of the most consequential domains for AI, IoT, blockchain, and secure distributed computing.
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