Overview

AppZen’s Mastermind platform provides a robust, standards-based integration tool for expenses that we call AppZen Connect. It’s a proprietary middleware technology that allows AppZen to develop robust API connectors that work straight out of the box. Using our multi-point, scalable integration layer, we have developed a bi-directional integration with Oracle Fusion Financials that seamlessly interacts with standard Oracle APIs. AppZen Connect includes real-time monitoring and alert features for all expense transaction data transfers between AppZen's platform and your Expense Audit environment.

For Expense Audit, the connector supports the transfer of the following data: expense reports, audit status, companies, users, and user hierarchy.

High-level integration architecture 

This diagram illustrates the high-level integration between Oracle Fusion Financials and AppZen’s Expense Audit services.

Expense Audit integration

We provide a bi-directional integration between Oracle Fusion Financials and the Expense Audit engine. Connections to Oracle Fusion Financials are made using either API keys or OAuth2.

Key process flows

On a scheduled basis, AppZen will retrieve submitted reports from Oracle Fusion Financials. We create a step/node in the approval workflow called “AppZen” and submitted reports are on hold in the workflow at this step. Report data and receipt images are ingested into Appzen.

An expense report audit then occurs in AppZen.

AppZen calls the Oracle Fusion Financials Approval API and shares the report’s status, whether approved or denied. The expense report workflow then progresses accordingly.