For service providers and enterprises, cloud adoption drives innovation
NEW YORK–Oracle Executive Vice President Bob Weiler stressed to attendees of the Oracle Industry Connect event that now is the time to move business processes to the cloud. “You have to go to the cloud,” he said, “because it’s innovation beyond the cloud that’s starting to take place right now.”
Weiler–who took the stage to Portugal. The Man’s Feel It Still–recalled being at an executive roundtable four years ago and none of the company leaders were interested in moving business applications to cloud environments. Existing applications were “old, they’re customized, they integrate with everything else. Even though the cloud was proven for back office, industry apps, not so much.”
Now, Weiler said, the cloud is a proven, secure, cost-effective platform for delivery. “The cloud actually has gotten kind of boring.” In terms of cloud-based innovation, Weiler called out Oracle’s use of machine learning and AI in its database and business application solutions to enable things like natural language user interfaces and augmented reality. “The biggest hurdle that we’re seeing now is how do you employee artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning.” He said AI technology will become “the fabric of the product. They’re going to become part of the product. You’re going to have to say, ‘How do I apply an artificial intelligence product to my retail systems?’ It’s going to be in the systems.”
Editor’s note: Oracle provided travel and lodging for this event.
