{
 "categories": [
  "erp",
  "enterprise",
  "finance"
 ],
 "deployment": "hybrid",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "Oracle presents Oracle E-Business Suite as the applications suite thousands of organizations still run for key business operations, with continued functional, mobility, and UI investment.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "vendor",
   "note": "The product page is published by Oracle and markets E-Business Suite as an Oracle applications offering.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "deployment",
   "note": "Oracle states E-Business Suite runs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and also documents on-premises estates moving to OCI, so delivery is hybrid.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "E-Business Suite is offered as commercially licensed Oracle applications, not as a free or open-source product.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "platforms",
   "note": "The opened product page presents browser-delivered application modules and mobility. A first-party EBS desktop client distinct from the web UI was not established on that page.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "status",
   "note": "Oracle states it continues to invest in E-Business Suite functionality, mobility, UI modernization, and operational efficiency. The suite is active, not retired.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway service-enables native packaged interfaces as SOAP and REST web services from Oracle Integration Repository.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "Supported interfaces can be deployed as REST services described by WADL. REST uses HTTP methods and XML or JSON payloads.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[1]",
   "note": "Interfaces can be generated as SOAP services described by WSDL and deployed to Oracle SOA Suite. SOAP supports synchronous and asynchronous patterns.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "REST services are secured by HTTP Basic Authentication. Username and password are sent in the HTTP header over HTTPS and validated by LoginModule.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513091.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[1]",
   "note": "REST token-based authentication uses a unique access token such as an Oracle E-Business Suite session ID from the security Login service, then sent as a Cookie on later requests.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513091.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[2]",
   "note": "SOAP inbound requests authenticate with UsernameToken in the wsse:Security header. The documented password type is PasswordText, validated against the encrypted EBS password.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513091.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "SOAP enablement covers PL/SQL, inbound XML Gateway maps, concurrent programs, and business service objects. REST additionally covers Java bean services, application module services, and open interface tables and views. Java APIs for Forms cannot be exposed. Each interface must be generated, deployed, and granted.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513044.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.api.docs",
   "note": "Opened as the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Integrated SOA Gateway Developer's Guide, the API docs URL for this record.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "The opened E-Business Suite product page does not declare a first-party MCP server for this suite. Registry silence is not used as proof of absence, so first_party stays unknown.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[0]",
   "note": "PL/SQL APIs are a native interface type that ISA can expose as SOAP and REST.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[1]",
   "note": "Concurrent programs are a native interface type that ISA can expose as SOAP and as REST POST.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting[2]",
   "note": "The Developer's Guide documents using business events through the subscription model as an integration path.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[0]",
   "note": "REST messages support XML payloads for outbound application data.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[1]",
   "note": "REST messages support JSON as an alternative to XML.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export[2]",
   "note": "SOAP services exchange XML-based messages described by WSDL.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[0]",
   "note": "PL/SQL REST services can create or update E-Business Suite resources using an XML payload with REST headers and HTTP Basic authentication.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/T511473T522190.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[1]",
   "note": "The same developer's guide documents invoking a REST service using token-based authentication and a JSON payload.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/T511473T522190.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import[2]",
   "note": "SOAP clients send inbound XML requests to invoke deployed E-Business Suite services through Oracle SOA Suite.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "modalities.rpa.ui_stack[0]",
   "note": "Oracle markets E-Business Suite application modules and a modernized UI as browser-delivered applications.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "ISA REST and SOAP are documented, versioned 12.2 paths with read/write methods after deploy. ISA configuration, per-interface generation, security grants, MOAC context, retired Forms Java APIs, and SOAP-via-SOA-Suite hosting are material operational limits, so the path scores 6.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513044.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current E-Business Suite 12.2 Integrated SOA Gateway Developer's Guide contents.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current ISA implementation-guide security chapter covering REST Basic and token auth and SOAP UsernameToken and SAML.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513091.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current ISA user's-guide service-enablement overview, including REST HTTP methods by interface type.",
   "source": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-09-11",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[3].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current Oracle E-Business Suite product page, including the continued-investment and OCI hosting statements.",
   "source": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
 "freshness": {
  "last_verified": "2026-09-11",
  "volatility": "medium",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20925/T511175T513091.htm"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20923/T291171T509748.htm"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://www.oracle.com/applications/ebusiness/",
 "id": "oracle-ebs",
 "license": "commercial",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": "unknown"
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "http-basic",
    "token-session",
    "username-token"
   ],
   "coverage": "partial",
   "docs": "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e20927/",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest",
    "soap"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": "unknown"
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "rest-xml",
    "rest-json",
    "soap-xml"
   ],
   "import": [
    "rest-xml",
    "rest-json",
    "soap-xml"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [
    "plsql",
    "concurrent-programs",
    "business-events"
   ],
   "webhooks": "unknown"
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": "unknown",
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "unknown"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. Oracle E-Business Suite Integrated SOA Gateway exposes Integration Repository interfaces as SOAP and REST services. This record is E-Business Suite on-premises or lifted to OCI. It is not Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP, Oracle Forms as a generic runtime, or Oracle NetSuite.\n",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": "unknown",
   "languages": [],
   "official": "unknown"
  }
 },
 "name": "Oracle E-Business Suite",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "oracle-fusion-cloud-erp",
   "oracle-forms",
   "oracle-netsuite"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Oracle",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 6,
   "cli": null,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": null,
   "overall": 6,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "Oracle E-Business Suite is automatable today through Integrated SOA Gateway, not through a first-party MCP server established for this suite. Native interfaces in Oracle Integration Repository can be generated and deployed as SOAP services described by WSDL and, for supported types, as REST services described by WADL at http(s)://{host}:{port}/webservices/rest/{service-alias}. PL/SQL APIs, concurrent programs, and business service objects can be both SOAP and REST. Java bean services, application module services, open interface tables, and open interface views can be REST. Java APIs for Forms are no longer serviceable. REST methods depend on interface type, including POST and GET for PL/SQL and GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE for inbound open interface tables. REST authentication is HTTP Basic or a session token from the security Login service. SOAP authentication is UsernameToken in the wsse:Security header; SAML sender-vouches is also documented. Calls still need function-security grants, RBAC, and often MOAC context such as Responsibility and Org_Id. ISA must be configured and each interface deployed before it is callable. Oracle continues to invest in EBS and to host it on OCI while steering some customers to Fusion Cloud ERP. iPaaS catalogs were not opened. Computer-use viability is unassessed. API scores 6 because the surface is documented and read/write but gated by per-interface deployment and responsibility security.\n"
 }
}