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Guide

Your Oracle ATG Migration Roadmap, Before Your Next Forced Upgrade

Every quarter you stay on ATG, the cost of leaving goes up. This guide gives B2B commerce and technology leaders the exact steps, business case, and Forrester benchmarks to move to KIBO and get it approved internally.

Oracle ATG does exactly what it was built to do — 20 years ago. Since Oracle ended active support in May 2022, organizations still running ATG are paying enterprise fees for a platform with no new patches, no security updates, and no regulatory compliance coverage, while competitors on modular platforms, like KIBO, are moving faster, more affordable, and are better serving their customers.

If you’re dealing with legacy pains we hear of every day like runaway customization costs, mounting security exposure, or a dev team stretched thin on legacy code, you’re in the right place. This guide gives B2B commerce and technology leaders a Forrester-backed, step-by-step roadmap for your Oracle ATG migration to KIBO’s composable commerce and order management platform, including how to build the internal business case to get it approved.

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TL;DR

B2B organizations still on Oracle ATG are paying full support fees for technology that receives no patches, no security updates, and no new development. Oracle Commerce Cloud, the official migration path, is built on the same legacy architecture and has been absent from the Gartner Magic Quadrant since 2022. KIBO’s composable commerce platform consolidates commerce, order orchestration, and inventory management into a single MACH-certified system, and Forrester documents 167% ROI and $12.8M in operational benefits within three years for organizations that have made the move.

What ATG Is Actually Costing You

The Oracle support contract is only the beginning. Here is what is quietly draining budget, velocity, and competitive position.

  • Oracle Sustaining Support fees with no new patches, security updates, or regulatory compliance coverage included
  • Rising ATG-certified developer costs as the talent pool shrinks and business changes that should be simple configuration require specialist involvement
  • Years of accumulated Nucleus framework customizations built to compensate for capabilities the platform never supported natively
  • Ongoing integration maintenance across ERP, OMS, PIM, and EDI systems built against ATG-specific APIs, where every infrastructure refresh introduces regression risk
  • The cost of migrating to Oracle Commerce Cloud, the only path Oracle offers, carries comparable migration complexity without resolving the architectural limitations or integration debt that define life on ATG.

What You Gain on the Other Side

KIBO delivers the B2B capabilities ATG required years of custom development to approximate, available through configuration from day one.

  • Unified commerce and order management in a single system, eliminating the middleware layer most ATG environments depend on to connect commerce and fulfillment operations
  • Native B2B capabilities configured by business teams: account hierarchies, tiered and contract pricing, approval workflows, quote lifecycle management, and purchase order payments
  • Real-time inventory visibility across every fulfillment node, with accurate order promising powered by a single, authoritative inventory record
  • Intelligent order routing driven by configurable business rules covering geographic proximity, customer-tier SLAs, excess inventory prioritization, split-shipment logic, and custom attributes
  • MACH-certified, API-first, MCP-ready architecture built for composable deployment today and AI-assisted commerce workflows as the platform evolves

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ROI documented in the Forrester Total Economic Impact study of KIBO Order Management

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Net present value of operational benefits within 3 years

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Sub-6-month payback period

Source: Forrester Total Economic Impact of KIBO Order Management; Forrester Wave: Order Management Systems, Q1 2025, KIBO named a Leader

FAQ

Q: Oracle ended ATG support. Is my organization at risk by staying on it?

Yes. Since May 2022, Oracle ATG has been on Sustaining Support, which covers access to existing documentation and previously released fixes only. There are no new security patches, no regulatory compliance updates, and no new certifications. Organizations running ATG today are accumulating security exposure with no vendor remediation path, while continuing to pay Oracle enterprise pricing for a platform Oracle no longer actively develops.

Oracle Commerce Cloud has been absent from the Gartner Magic Quadrant since 2022. Industry analysts, including former Forrester analyst Andy Hoar, have raised concerns about OCC’s trajectory. OCC is built on ATG’s underlying architecture and does not resolve the integration complexity most ATG organizations manage between commerce and order management. A migration from ATG to OCC is a lateral architectural move at Oracle enterprise pricing. Benchmarking that path against a KIBO migration typically changes the outcome of the evaluation.

Many ATG customizations were built to work around platform limitations that KIBO addresses natively. Complex account hierarchies, tiered pricing, approval workflows, and quote management are all delivered as configurable features in KIBO, not custom code. The phased migration approach begins with a structured discovery and customization audit designed to separate genuine business requirements from ATG workarounds. Most organizations find that a meaningful portion of their customization scope is resolved before any production cutover takes place.

Forrester’s Total Economic Impact study of KIBO Order Management documents 167% ROI, $12.8 million in net present value of operational benefits over three years, and a sub-6-month payback period. Results will vary based on an organization’s current ATG operating costs, integration complexity, and commerce operations scope. The Forrester benchmarks provide an analyst-validated baseline for building the internal business case.

Timeline depends on environment complexity. The phased approach in this guide is structured to begin reducing Oracle support costs before full migration is complete. Phase 1 discovery and architecture mapping typically runs 6 to 10 weeks. The pilot phase validates KIBO configuration against real business requirements before any forced cutover. Staged rollout then retires ATG scope incrementally, with support costs declining as each segment migrates.

How-To Block

Here is how B2B organizations execute a structured, low-risk migration from Oracle ATG to KIBO using the phased approach outlined in this guide:

  1. Audit your ATG environment. Inventory your catalog structure, Nucleus customizations, scenario engine workflows, and integration points. A customization audit at this stage identifies which requirements are genuine business needs and which exist only to compensate for ATG platform limitations.

  2. Map your integration dependencies. Document all ERP, OMS, PIM, and EDI integrations covering data flows, API contracts, and system dependencies. Use KIBO’s unified commerce and order management architecture as the framework for keep-vs.-replace decisions on each integration.

  3. Run a pilot on one segment. Deploy KIBO for one business unit, product category, or customer segment while operating ATG in parallel, with no forced cutover during validation. Configure and validate core B2B capabilities including account hierarchy, price lists, quote workflows, approval rules, and order routing. Establish baseline measurements before expanding.

  4. Expand in stages and retire ATG scope incrementally. Roll out to additional segments and replace ATG integration connectors as each segment migrates. Oracle support costs begin declining with each decommissioned segment. The migration generates return before full cutover is complete.