Reboot Your Benefits for Smarter Spend with AI and Analytics: 5 Takeaways from Oracle AI World 2025

At Oracle AI World in October 2025, leaders across industries and levels of seniority met in Las Vegas to discuss emerging AI trends and the impact they will have on technology across ecosystems.  

At this event, Claritev’s Chief Financial Officer, Doug Garis, and Chief People Officer, Carol Nutter, discussed how the company leverages technology to differentiate itself in the market and create value for employees. They shared their best practices for leveraging AI and analytics to reboot benefits programs and optimize spending. 

Here are five key takeaways from this presentation: 

1. Healthcare spending is a strategic investment that impacts employee retention, engagement, and productivity. 

If employees can’t afford or don’t understand their benefits, they tend to disengage, and companies risk eventually losing people. A recent survey found that 89% of employees believe their organization could improve benefits packages to enhance employee trust, with increased affordability, more options, and increased coverage being the most attractive improvements.ⁱ Therefore, it’s no surprise that companies worry about healthcare affordability and ensuring that employees can afford out-of-pocket costs for care. At the same time, organizations need to manage the overall cost of healthcare benefits to maintain sustainable spending levels.  

2. CFOs and CPOs need an intelligence platform that supports shared decision making. 

When it comes to health benefits, Finance and Talent have two different perspectives. CFOs ask whether the organization is managing costs and CPOs ask whether the organization is delivering value. With Claritev’s BenInsights^®, those questions finally meet on the same platform, resulting in one shared outcome. Both Finance and Talent can experience greater clarity, less guesswork, and better outcomes.  

3. When organizations connect financial, clinical, and people data, they show outcomes, not just outputs. 

High levels of employee wellbeing are correlated with higher market valuations, as well as improved company performance. Researchers found that investment in the top 100 U.S. workplaces ranked by employee wellbeing would have returned 20% more than the same investment in the S&P 500 or Dow Jones over the same two-year period.ⁱⁱ Because BenInsights integrates directly with Oracle Fusion, the Talent and Finance teams can work together in one secure ecosystem. Financial, clinical, and people datasets have been connected in one innovative platform which enables CFOs and CPOs to make decisions together, measure ROI, predict outcomes, and engage employees, so every dollar works harder. BenInsights helps companies shift from managing benefits to managing outcomes.  

4. It’s time to transform benefits from a cost center to a business lever.

A focus on TRUE value supports the shift from cost containment to intelligence-driven transformation. At the conference, Carol Nutter explained how BenInsights delivers the four elements of TRUE value: (1) Talent attraction and retention, (2) ROI from benefits dollars, (3) Understanding through clear and connected insight, and (4) Engagement thanks to better communication and action.  

5. BenInsights turns data into descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive intelligence. 

Teams have access to descriptive insights based on over 200 automated reports that show their real-time plan performance. Predictive AI models flag emerging risks before they appear in an organization’s claims. BenInsights’ Smart Cards translate insight into prescriptive action that informs health benefits plan redesign, vendor optimization, and employee outreach initiatives.  

When Finance and Talent share the same insights, they can drive toward the same outcome: a healthier business and stronger workforce. To learn more about how BenInsights can activate intelligence at your organization, contact us.