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Just published a new beginner-friendly guide on Oracle BI Publisher (BIP) Reports in Oracle Fusion.

It covers the complete flow from scratch — Data Model, SQL Data Set, Parameters, LOVs, XML, RTF templates, report creation, and how BIP is used with OIC.

If you're starting with Oracle Fusion Technical, this should give you a solid foundation.

📖 Read the blog:
https://lanverse.in/blog/oracle-bi-publisher-bip-reports-in-oracle-fusion-complete-beginner-guide-from-scratch-1786118076062

What Oracle Fusion topic should we cover next?

Spent some time going through Oracle's AI Agent Studio docs, the public GitHub repo, and the certification blueprints. A few things genuinely surprised me:

1. The security model is the headline, not the AI. Agents inherit Fusion's existing role-based access control automatically. A manager's agent sees team compensation data because the manager can — an IC's agent can't, for the same reason. No separate security layer to build or audit.

2. There's a hard 60-second response limit on Workflow Team interactions. If you're chaining multiple LLM calls plus an External REST invocation, that ceiling is a real architectural constraint — same energy as OIC's thread timeout limits.

3. The five tools (Business Object, Document, Email, Deep Link, External REST) feel very familiar if you come from OIC — basically adapters and actions with different names. And OIC 26.07 added a native A2A action to invoke Agent Studio agents directly from integration flows, so the two are clearly converging.

4. Two certifications already exist — 1Z0-1145-1 (Foundations Associate) and 1Z0-1155-2 (Developer, 90 min / 50 questions / 68% pass, validated against 26A).

Has anyone else been burned by OIC's "Abort" button in production?

Learned this one the hard way and I'm curious if others have hit it too.

An engineer on a support team I worked with bulk-selected an entire Errors page in OIC and hit Abort — to "clean up the dashboard." Those messages were gone. Permanently. Aborted instances can't be recovered by any means, and the source system had already marked them as sent.

That's data loss created by a UI button, and OIC gives you no warning beyond a line in the docs saying don't discard a message you want to resubmit.

A few related OIC monitoring gotchas that seem to catch people repeatedly:

• Resubmit restarts the flow from the beginning, not the failure point. If your integration already inserted a row or called an API before it faulted, a blind resubmit does all of it again.
• Synchronous flows can't be resubmitted at all — the option doesn't even appear. Recovery has to come from the caller.
• Business identifiers can't be edited once the integration is active. Pick the wrong field and you need a deactivate/reactivate window to fix it.

Questions for the group:

1. Has anyone actually lost data to an accidental Abort? How did you recover (or did you)?
2. Do you design for idempotency up front, or only after the first duplicate-payment incident?
3. Anyone using a parking-lot table for payload correction and beyond-retention recovery — or do you just live within OIC's retention window?

Curious what patterns people have landed on.

⚡ Oracle Fusion SQL Challenge

Your BI Publisher report suddenly starts taking 12 minutes instead of 30 seconds.

What's the first thing you would check?

• Execution Plan

• Effective-Date Filters

• Join Conditions

• Unnecessary DISTINCT

• SELECT *

• Index Usage

Performance tuning is one of the most underrated skills for Oracle Fusion Technical Consultants, and it's a topic that frequently comes up in interviews and production support.

💬 What's the biggest SQL performance issue you've solved?

📖 Read the complete Oracle Fusion SQL Performance Tuning Guide on Lanverse.

🎯 Oracle Interview Question

An interviewer asks:

"How does an FBDI file reach Oracle Fusion and get processed?"

Would you be able to explain the complete flow involving UCM, ESS Jobs, and integrations?

💬 How would you answer this question?

📖 We've published a complete Oracle UCM guide with real implementation scenarios on Lanverse.

📊 Oracle Fusion Professionals

When should you use BI Publisher, OTBI, BICC, or Data Extraction?

Many consultants use these terms interchangeably, but each is designed for a different purpose. Choosing the wrong tool can affect performance, scalability, and even Oracle's recommended architecture.

💬 Which one do you use most in your projects, and why?

📖 We've published a detailed comparison covering BI Publisher, OTBI, BICC, and Oracle's new Data Extraction framework on Lanverse.

🚀 Oracle Interview Question

If an interviewer asked:

"Describe the most complex Oracle Fusion integration you've built."

What would be your answer?

• Fusion ↔ Banking
• Fusion ↔ Payroll
• Fusion ↔ Salesforce
• Supplier Automation
• HDL/FBDI Migration
• Large File Processing in OIC

Real project stories often matter more than technical definitions.

👇 Share your experience.

📖 Full Oracle Fusion Technical Scenarios Guide available on Lanverse.

💡 Oracle Fusion Professionals

What's the most challenging P2P issue you've faced in a live project?

• Invoice Holds
• Receipt Mismatches
• Supplier Setup Issues
• PO Approval Problems
• Tax Errors
• Integration Failures

Real-world troubleshooting often matters more in interviews than simply explaining the P2P flow.

👇 Share your experience with the community.

📖 Full Oracle Fusion P2P Interview Guide available on Lanverse.

🚀 Oracle Professionals

If you had just 30 days to prepare for an Oracle Fusion Technical Consultant interview, what would you focus on first?

✅ OIC
✅ REST APIs
✅ BI Publisher
✅ OTBI
✅ SQL/PLSQL
✅ Fusion Security
✅ SOAP Services

Everyone has a different strategy.

What's the one topic you believe candidates cannot afford to skip?

👇 Share your advice for the community.

📖 We've compiled real Oracle Fusion & OIC interview experiences on Lanverse.

🎯 Oracle Interview Reality Check

When preparing for Oracle Fusion or OIC interviews, most professionals focus only on technical questions.

But many interviewers spend more time discussing:

• Real project challenges
• Production issues
• Integration failures
• Performance bottlenecks
• Go-live experiences

Technical knowledge gets your foot in the door.

Real project experience often gets you the offer.

💬 What's the toughest Oracle Fusion, OIC, BI Publisher, or EBS interview question you've faced recently?

Let's help the community prepare better. 👇

📖 Read real Oracle interview experiences and questions on Lanverse.

⚠️ Oracle Integration Cloud Professionals

Many teams have migrated to OIC Gen3.

But have they actually changed the way they work?

We've seen projects where teams are still:
• Building integrations from scratch every time
• Relying heavily on manual monitoring
• Using batch jobs where real-time integrations make more sense
• Missing opportunities for reuse and automation

Technology upgrades only create value when working practices evolve too.

🤔 What's the biggest improvement your team adopted after moving to OIC Gen3?

Share your experience below. 👇

📖 Read the full article on Lanverse.