Why Oracle Users Should Move to the Cloud–And Take Their Tax Engine with Them

Cloud migration is no longer a question of if. It's a question of how. Oracle customers running eBusiness Suite, JD Edwards, or PeopleSoft are under growing pressure to modernize. This eBook walks you through the business case for moving to Oracle Cloud, and explains why your tax engine needs to be part of that plan from day one.

Two paths, one destination

Oracle customers have two ways to move to the cloud. Option A is a ""lift and shift"" to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). You keep your existing application and customizations, but gain the security, scalability, and cost savings of a cloud environment. Option B is a full migration to Oracle Cloud ERP, a SaaS solution where Oracle handles hosting, updates, and maintenance automatically. Both paths have real advantages. The right one depends on your organization's timeline, resources, and goals.

Why tax compliance can't be an afterthought

Tax is one of the most complex areas to manage through an ERP transition. With more than 19,000 tax jurisdictions globally (each with rates and rules that change constantly), keeping up manually is a losing battle. Moving your Vertex tax engine to the cloud means tax content updates happen automatically, invisibly, and with pre-testing built in. Your team stays audit-ready without the manual effort. And because everything runs on a single cloud platform, you reduce latency and improve performance across your enterprise.

Vertex Accelerator for Oracle Cloud ERP

For customers migrating to Oracle Cloud ERP, the Vertex Accelerator delivers a next-generation integration built on OCI. It's the first integration of its kind validated to both integrate with and be powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Features like automated data mapping, an onboarding dashboard, real-time testing, and transaction monitoring simplify setup and reduce implementation risk. It's designed to get you live faster and keep you in control once you are.

A partnership built over 25 years

Vertex and Oracle have worked together for over 25 years, the longest-standing relationship of any tax technology vendor in the Oracle ecosystem. Vertex was the first tax technology provider to host applications in OCI, and the only provider recognized three times with Oracle's ERP/EPM ISV Partner of the Year award. Together, Vertex and Oracle serve more than 2,000 joint customers. Vertex holds a 100% implementation success rate for Oracle Cloud ERP customers.

Real results from real customers

Black & Veatch migrated from a heavily customized on-premise ERP to Oracle Cloud ERP and used Vertex's OCI-native tax engine to streamline compliance. As their team put it, Vertex and Oracle took care of the tax piece. One less thing to worry about. That kind of confidence is what a true partnership delivers.