# Astute Business Solutions

> Astute Business Solutions is a Dublin, California-based Oracle consultancy and managed-services provider that modernizes long-lived enterprise resource planning systems without requiring customers to replace them. Founded in 2006, it combines PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, and Ellucian Banner expertise with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, managed operations, disaster recovery, analytics, automation, and a growing set of GenAI products for invoices, contracts, expenses, student support, and ERP workflows.

- **Founded:** 2006
- **Headquarters:** Dublin, California, United States
- **Founders:** Arvind Rajan (CEO and Co-Founder), Sudhir Mehandru (CFO and Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 120-123 employees; LinkedIn classifies the company in the 51-200 employee range.
- **Products:** AstuteAP, AstuteCLM, AstuteExpense, Guru Student Chatbot, AI Agents and ERP AI Services
- **Notable:** Received the 2024 Oracle North America Cloud and Technology Partner Award for Innovation., Guru Student Chatbot achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud status and a listing on the OCI Marketplace., FasTest 6.0 received Oracle Validated Integration for PeopleSoft 9.2 with PeopleTools 8.58.

## Products & services

- **AstuteAP** — GenAI-powered accounts-payable automation for capturing, extracting, validating, matching, routing, and posting invoices into Oracle-centric ERP environments.
- **AstuteCLM** — Generative-AI contract lifecycle management designed to help draft, review, organize, and manage enterprise contracts.
- **AstuteExpense** — AI-driven expense processing and auditing intended to reduce leakage and support policy compliance.
- **Guru Student Chatbot** — A 24/7 conversational assistant for admissions, financial aid, registration, campus services, and PeopleSoft Campus Solutions; it achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud status and was listed in the OCI Marketplace.
- **AI Agents and ERP AI Services** — Purpose-built agents, retrieval-augmented generation, conversational analytics, and workflow automation for finance, HR, student systems, procurement, and operations.
- **Oracle Cloud Migration and Modernization** — Assessment, architecture, lift-and-shift, replatforming, security, testing, and optimization for PeopleSoft, EBS, JD Edwards, Banner, databases, and adjacent workloads on OCI.
- **Autonomous PeopleSoft Managed Service** — SLA-based application, database, infrastructure, release-management, monitoring, patching, and user-support services for PeopleSoft on OCI.
- **FasTest** — Oracle-validated test automation tooling for PeopleSoft and PeopleSoft Test Framework projects.
- **Disaster Recovery on Cloud** — Business continuity architecture, automated replication and testing, and managed recovery for Oracle and other enterprise workloads.
- **Cloud Advisory and Modern Data Platform** — Roadmaps, total-cost analysis, data integration, warehouses, lakes, machine learning, analytics, and hybrid or multicloud deployment planning.

## Achievements

- Received the 2024 Oracle North America Cloud and Technology Partner Award for Innovation.
- Guru Student Chatbot achieved Powered by Oracle Cloud status and a listing on the OCI Marketplace.
- FasTest 6.0 received Oracle Validated Integration for PeopleSoft 9.2 with PeopleTools 8.58.
- Migrated 32 Hennepin County PeopleSoft database instances to OCI; Oracle reported about 40% hosting-cost savings.
- Migrated 25 internal PeopleSoft instances from AWS to OCI and reported 30% lower TCO, 90% faster installs, and more than 1,000 staff hours freed annually.
- Holds a U.S. General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule contract, with the current option period listed through July 2028.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Astute's current product positioning centers on turning ERP into an AI engine through AstuteAP, AI agents, student chatbots, and embedded AI for PeopleSoft, EBS, and JD Edwards.
- **2025-10** — The company presented ERP modernization, GenAI student support, invoice automation, contract lifecycle management, and OCI migration work at EDUCAUSE 2025.
- **2025-10** — At Oracle AI World 2025, Astute promoted live Oracle ERP demos and named Children's Minnesota as an AI modernization customer.
- **2025-06** — Astute ran a virtual event focused on practical GenAI for Oracle ERP.
- **2024-09** — Astute announced its 2024 Oracle North America Cloud and Technology Partner Award for Innovation around Oracle CloudWorld.

## Links

- Website: https://www.beastute.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/astute-business-solutions
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Be_Astute
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beastute/

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Last updated: 2026-08-10