Oracle’s 2026 Cloud release brings targeted enhancements across Financials, EBS, and reporting—focusing on usability, intelligence, and automation at scale. For finance and IT leaders, the updates offer practical improvements in how teams close books, manage suppliers, process transactions, and surface insights.
Here’s what stands out in this year’s Oracle Cloud release and why it matters.
1. Automated Reconciliation Enhancements in GL
The new release deepens automation in General Ledger reconciliation workflows, especially for high-volume environments with multiple ledgers and subsidiaries. Matching rules can now be layered dynamically based on threshold and currency, and subledger reconciliations can run in the background while users process additional data.
For organizations with complex intercompany setups, this update reduces the time between close and consolidation while improving audit posture.
2. AP Workflow Routing by Spend Category
One of the most requested updates: invoice approval routing can now use spend category as a key condition. Previously limited to amount, department, or vendor, this change enables smarter routing logic tied to purchasing classifications.
Finance teams can now ensure that marketing expenses, travel, or indirect spend follow distinct, tailored approval paths—without increasing complexity for IT.
3. Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) Widgets in AR Intelligence
The 2026 release adds prebuilt dashboards and KPIs for Days Sales Outstanding, complete with aging buckets, dispute trends, and predictive payment scoring. These widgets pull from collections and billing data in real time.
Accounts receivable teams can act faster on at-risk balances and improve forecast accuracy by reducing dependence on manual Excel modeling.
4. Audit-Ready Change Logs for Key Configuration Areas
Responding to growing compliance pressure, Oracle Cloud now includes more detailed configuration audit logs for system settings, user roles, and workflow updates. Change history is now accessible directly from the user interface and includes time-stamped user actions and before/after comparisons.
This strengthens controls around segregation of duties and makes quarterly and year-end audit prep less manual.
5. Embedded Analytics for Expense Trends and Policy Violations
New Oracle-native analytics packs help surface travel and expense insights, such as:
- Policy breach rates by employee or department
- Reimbursement turnaround time
- Top vendors and outlier spend by category
Data from Oracle Expenses is now visualized with drill-down filters and customizable alerts, enabling better spend oversight with less time in raw data.
6. Supplier Onboarding Forms with Self-Service Logic
Procurement teams can now publish configurable supplier onboarding forms with dynamic fields based on vendor type. Bank account validation, tax ID capture, and policy acknowledgment can all be managed in-platform—reducing back-and-forth during vendor setup.
This release helps procurement and AP teams align more closely while improving vendor experience and data hygiene.
7. Expanded Tricentis Integration for Test Automation
Oracle has strengthened its partnership with Tricentis, making it easier for IT teams to automate regression testing during quarterly updates. With the 2026 release, the integration supports more functional test packs across AP, AR, GL, and Expenses.
This reduces reliance on manual UAT, accelerates deployment cycles, and gives finance stakeholders more confidence in what’s being pushed live.
8. Role-Based Access Improvements and User Provisioning
User provisioning rules can now be templated by job function, geography, or business unit, which streamlines onboarding and reduces security gaps. Role changes are also logged and can be monitored with conditional alerts tied to audit reporting.
The update helps both finance and IT teams keep user permissions aligned with responsibilities—especially in larger, decentralized org structures.
What This Means for oAppsNET Clients
Oracle Cloud 2026 focuses less on sweeping UI changes and more on targeted process improvements. For oAppsNET clients, that means:
- Smarter automation within AP, AR, and GL
- Better data integrity for audit and compliance
- Tighter integration between finance and IT
Whether you’re running full Oracle Cloud Financials or a hybrid EBS-Cloud model, these updates can be leveraged incrementally for greater impact. If your business requires help assessing how these features fit into your Oracle roadmap, connect with oAppsNET today to explore which enhancements offer the most value based on your current footprint.