New REST APIs to Support Agentic AI Interaction – Oracle EPM Cloud April 2026!

Introduction

The Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM April 2026 (26.04) release introduces a groundbreaking set of new REST APIs specifically designed to enable Agentic AI interaction with EPM Cloud applications. These APIs represent a strategic shift in how organizations can interact with their EPM environments — moving from traditional UI-driven processes to intelligent, programmatic, and AI-powered workflows.

This is not a future roadmap item — it is live in 26.04, and it signals Oracle's clear commitment to making EPM Cloud a platform that supports modern AI-driven enterprise architectures. 

Why This Matters

Traditionally, interacting with Oracle EPM Cloud required users to navigate forms, dashboards, and manual processes. With the introduction of Agentic AI REST APIs, organizations can now build custom AI agents that:

• Query and retrieve application context automatically
• Export large, complex datasets programmatically
• Extract form-based data slices without needing to know the full dimensional intersection 

 

This opens the door to a new class of AI-powered automation — where intelligent agents can retrieve, analyze, and act on EPM data in real time, reducing manual effort and accelerating insight-driven decision-making. 

 

The Three New REST APIs

1. Get Application Summary

This API returns a comprehensive, AI-focused markdown summary of the specified EPM business process application. 

What it does:

• Generates a structured, machine-readable summary of the EPM application
• Includes application metadata, dimensions, plan types, and configuration context
• Designed to provide application context to AI agents so they can understand the structure and purpose of the EPM application before executing further actions 

Use Cases:

• AI agent onboarding — quickly understand an EPM application's structure
• Automated documentation generation
• Application health monitoring and comparison across environments
• Feeding contextual data into LLM-based AI assistants

 

2. Export Data

This API returns a JSON data grid containing query results, designed for programmatic export of large or complex datasets such as analytics, budgets, and forecasts. 

What it does:

• Accepts query parameters to define the data slice
• Returns structured JSON output for direct consumption by downstream systems
• Optimized for high-volume, complex data extraction scenarios 

Use Cases:

• Exporting budget vs. actual data for AI-driven variance analysis
• Feeding planning and forecasting data into external ML models
• Automating data pipelines between EPM and data lakes or analytics platforms
• Supporting real-time dashboards powered by EPM data

 

3. Export Form Data

This API returns a JSON grid with data for a slice defined by the specified form, ideal for extracting data using a form (by name or ID), especially when the full member intersection or mapping is not known or when the form is asymmetric. 

What it does:

• Leverages existing form definitions as the data extraction template
• No need to know the exact dimensional intersection — the form handles the mapping
• Supports asymmetric forms where rows and columns have different dimensional structures 

Use Cases:

• Extracting data from complex, user-defined forms for AI analysis
• Building integrations where the source data structure is defined by business forms
• Automating report generation based on specific form layouts
• Enabling AI agents to retrieve exactly the data a user would see on a form

 

Applicable EPM Modules

These new APIs are available across the following Oracle Cloud EPM business processes: 

 

Module	Supported
Planning	Yes
FreeForm	Yes
Financial Consolidation and Close (FCCS)	Yes
Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management (EPCM)	Yes
Profitability and Cost Management (PCM)	Yes

 

How It Connects to the Broader AI Strategy

These Agentic AI REST APIs are part of Oracle's broader Fusion AI Agents strategy introduced in the same 26.04 release. Together, these capabilities form a complete AI interaction framework: 

Capability	Description
EPM Assistants (AI Agent Studio)	Preconfigured JSON definitions to quickly create AI agents in AI Agent Studio
Get Application Summary API	Provides application context to AI agents
Export Data API	Enables large-scale, query-based data extraction
Export Form Data API	Enables form-based data extraction for AI consumption
Get Plan Types / Dimensions APIs	Provides metadata discovery for AI-driven integrations

 

This layered approach allows organizations to: 

1. Discover — Understand the application structure (Get Application Summary, Get Plan Types)
2. Extract — Pull data programmatically (Export Data, Export Form Data)
3. Automate — Build AI agents that interact with EPM processes (AI Agent Studio)
4. Decide — Leverage AI-driven insights for faster, smarter decision-making

 

Technical Considerations

Authentication & Security

• These APIs follow Oracle's standard OAuth 2.0 authentication model for EPM Cloud
• Access is governed by the same role-based security applied to the EPM application
• Service Administrator role is required for configuration 

Integration Patterns

• REST-based architecture enables integration with any modern platform (Python, Node.js, Power Automate, etc.)
• JSON output format ensures compatibility with data engineering pipelines, analytics tools, and AI/ML frameworks 
• Aligns with DevOps and CI/CD patterns for automated EPM lifecycle management 

 

Conclusion

The New REST APIs to Support Agentic AI Interaction in Oracle EPM Cloud April 2026 (26.04) mark a pivotal moment in the evolution of enterprise performance management. By providing application context, large-scale data export, and form-based data extraction through purpose-built REST APIs, Oracle is enabling organizations to build truly intelligent, AI-powered EPM workflows.

For EPM administrators, developers, and consultants, this is the time to start exploring how these APIs can transform your automation strategy — from simple data extraction to fully autonomous AI agents that interact with your financial planning and close processes.

The future of EPM is agentic, automated, and API-first — and it starts now.

Happy Days on the cloud!!!