5 Oracle Fusion Features Most Users Never Touch

Oracle Fusion is a big system. Most teams go live, learn the workflows they need to survive, and stop there. That's understandable — but it means they're leaving real value on the table.

Here are five features worth a second look.

1. Smart View for Finance

If your finance team is still exporting data to Excel and building reports manually, Smart View changes that. It connects Oracle directly to Excel so you can pull live data into your own templates. No more downloading, reformatting, re-uploading.

2. Workflow notifications in email

Most users don't know that Oracle approval workflows can be actioned directly from email. No login required. Approve a purchase order, respond to a requisition, or escalate a task — all from your inbox. Turn this on in the notification settings.

3. OTBI for custom reporting

Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence lets any functional consultant build custom reports without IT involvement. If you're waiting on the technical team for basic operational reports, OTBI is your way out. It takes a day to learn and saves weeks per quarter.

4. Scheduled ESS jobs

The Enterprise Scheduler Service runs automated background jobs on a schedule. Period close processes, interface runs, data imports — all of these can be automated. Most teams set them up once and forget them. Many teams never set them up at all.

5. Personalization in the UI

Users can personalize their own dashboards, infolets, and landing pages without any IT work. If people are complaining that Oracle is hard to use, start here. A well-configured home page reduces training time and daily friction significantly.

Pick one of these this week and spend 30 minutes exploring it. You'll find at least one thing worth implementing immediately.