Leaving Oracle Intelligent Advisor on premises: your rules, tested, in plain English
Oracle Intelligent Advisor (OIA, formerly Oracle Policy Automation) holds the rules of many public services and insurers: who is eligible, for what, and how much. Oracle’s Premier Support for the on-premises edition ended in September 2025, with no Extended Support after it (Oracle’s Lifetime Support Policy): no new versions and no more fixes, security fixes included. If your rulebase runs on your own servers, it is now on a clock: move to Oracle’s cloud, or move the rules somewhere else. And Oracle’s own direction is moving to Policy Nodes, inside Oracle Fusion.
Either way, the first thing you need is the rules themselves, in a form your policy owners can read and your testers can rerun. That is what we give you.
What we do with an OIA project
Our translator reads a project as Oracle’s Policy Modeling tool builds it (a zipped project folder, or a deployed rulebase) and writes it in Logical English: sentences in English that a computer runs, explaining every answer.
- Your rule documents become rules, in the words your authors wrote in Word.
- Your rule tables become decision tables.
- Your Excel test cases become scenarios, with the answers OIA gave, so the program checks itself against your own tests every time it runs.
- Your interviews become views: screens for the people who decide cases.
- A ledger lists every element of the project and says whether it was translated, approximated (with a note on how its meaning changed), or left for a person to translate.
How well it works
We ran the translator on five public OIA projects. The translated programs, called twins, gave the same answer as OIA’s own test results in 475 of 476 cases. The one difference is a case where OIA answers uncertain, a state Logical English expresses differently; the guide explains it. The translation follows fixed rules, with no language model involved: the same project always gives the same program.
The twins of those projects are not published, because the projects carry no licence that allows it. What you can open is a real public rulebase: England’s Department for Education publishes the rule documents of its Oracle Intelligent Advisor rulebase for the funding of students aged 16 to 19, and we wrote all of them in Logical English: 160 rules, each citing its page, with the students’ courses as the data. Because the Department publishes a PDF rather than its project files, that program was written from the printed rules, not by the translator, and it was checked against a second, independent reading of the same pages rather than against Oracle’s engine. The video shows one of them running, and the Migration Gallery shows the results for sixteen other systems.
What you can do with the twin
- Read and review the rules with the people who own the policy, without Policy Modeling.
- Rerun your tests whenever a rule changes, in the browser.
- Run the rules on our hosted service, or on a private instance in your region, with an explanation for every answer.
- Use the twin as the specification for wherever the rules go next, with the scenarios as the acceptance tests.
The first step is free
Send us one OIA project, zipped as Policy Modeling builds it. Within five working days you get back its Logical English twin, its ledger and a link that runs it: free, and yours to keep. We sign your non-disclosure agreement before you send anything, and we publish nothing without your written permission.
For a whole rule estate, a Migration Assessment (at a fixed price, credited against the work that follows) inventories your projects and says what will translate, what will need a person, and what the migration costs. The steps and prices are on For organisations and Pricing.
OIA consultancies: if your clients face the end of on-premises support, you can refer them for a commission on the first year’s fees, or resell our services. Write to licensing@logicalcontracts.com for partner terms.