Product evolution and roadmap

Oracle EPM, answered in plain English inside Claude.

Finance teams ask their Oracle and NetSuite EPM questions in their own words and get real numbers back, each user signed in individually and governed by the security they already have. Here is how the connector got here, and where it is going.

Retired
Desktop Edition
Laptop prototype
Foundation
Oracle Cloud
Hosted rebuild on OCI
v0.1
First hosted build
Live answers from EPM
v0.2
Per-user sign-in
Your Oracle identity
v0.3
Essbase vocabulary
Learns your outline
v0.4
Company vocabulary
Your firm's own terms
v0.5 · Current
Faster, smarter answers
Speed, totals, job console
Ahead
Roadmap
Now · Next

01 · Origins

Where it started: the Desktop Edition.

The connector began as a hands-on prototype built by our founder, running on a single laptop with Claude Desktop.

It showed that finance users could ask Oracle EPM questions in plain English and get real numbers back, including early experiments with updating plan data.

It proved the idea. But a laptop isn't an enterprise answer, so we retired it in favor of a hosted design.

Why a desktop install couldn't scale

Credentials lived on the desktop.
Every user needed their own install.
There was no central control.

02 · Foundation

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

We rebuilt the connector as a hosted service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), the same cloud Oracle EPM customers already run on.

Built on OCI

Hosted where your Oracle EPM already lives.

Nothing to install

Users connect from Claude on web, desktop or mobile, and sign in with their own Oracle identity.

Encrypted and vaulted

Credentials held in OCI Vault; all traffic TLS-encrypted.

Security-reviewed, test-gated

Oracle and NetSuite EPM expertise, proven on live EPM.

03 · Hosting

Two ways to run it.

VanBuren-hosted

VanBuren OCI

We host and run it for you. Fastest path to value.

Customer-hosted · In progress

Your OCI

Installed in your own Oracle Cloud tenancy, inside the security boundary you already manage for Oracle EPM.

Either way: the same Buren. You choose whose Oracle Cloud it runs in.

04 · Releases

Release highlights.

Highlights from v0.1 to v0.5. Not official release notes.

v0.1
First hosted build on OCI
A secure endpoint, the Claude connector, and live answers from Oracle EPM.
v0.2
Per-user sign-in
Each person connects with their own Oracle identity.
v0.3
Plain-English vocabulary
The connector learns your chart of accounts, departments and members, so “Q3 opex vs budget by department” just works. Adds year-to-date and period awareness, plus a built-in help menu.
v0.4
Company vocabulary
Administrators can teach the connector your firm's own terms and nicknames, and the vocabulary stays current as your outline changes. In-product “what's new” notices.
v0.5
Faster, smarter answers
Compact responses with response timing shown, learned totals for your hierarchies, answers that follow each user's own EPM point of view (scenario and version), and an interactive job console to see and ask about EPM jobs right in Claude.

05 · Roadmap

Where we're headed.

Direction, not dates.

In progress

Now

Hardening and packaging for installs in your own Oracle Cloud tenancy
Signed automatic updates

Planned

Guided forecast updates from Claude: controlled and fully audited per user, with business rules run after entry
A library of reusable finance routines callable from Claude

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