JOIN USOracle on Thursday expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform to autonomous services like self-driving, self-securing and self-repairing beyond autonomous database.
In a release issued, the Oracle said it is applying AI and machine learning to its entire next-generation Cloud Platform services to help customers lower cost, reduce risk, accelerate innovation, and get predictive insights.
With its enhanced suite of autonomous Cloud Platform services, Oracle President of Product Development Thomas Kurian said the company is setting a new industry standard for autonomous cloud capabilities.
President of Product Development Thomas Kurian demonstrated the latest advances in Oracle Cloud Platform, expanding its Oracle Cloud Platform Autonomous Services beyond the Oracle Autonomous Database, to make all Oracle Cloud Platform services self-driving, self-securing and self-repairing.
Kurian said the future of tomorrow's successful enterprise IT organisation is in full end-to-end automation.
"At Oracle, we are making this a reality. We are weaving autonomous capabilities into the fabric of our cloud to help customers safeguard their systems, drive innovation faster, and deliver the ultimate competitive advantage with smarter real-time decisions," he said.
Oracle's autonomous capabilities are integral to the entire Oracle Cloud Platform, including the world's first autonomous database unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld.
The Oracle Autonomous Database uses advanced AI and machine learning to eliminate human labour, human error and manual tuning delivering unprecedented availability, high performance and security at a much lower cost.
Multiple autonomous database services, each tuned to a specific workload, will be available in 2018, including Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service for analytics, Oracle Autonomous Database OLTP for transactional and mixed workloads, and Oracle Autonomous NoSQL Database for fast, massive-scale reads and writes.
In addition to the Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Platform autonomous capabilities for application development, mobile and bots, integration, analytics, security and system management, are scheduled to be available in the first half of calendar year 2018.
Oracle Cloud Platform services all share foundational autonomous capabilities including self-driving to lower costs and increase productivity, self-securing to lower risk and self-repairing for higher availability.
Oracle Digital Assistant
Oracle also demonstrated a single Oracle Digital Assistant for users to interact across Oracle's SaaS and PaaS services including analytics.
Oracle Digital Assistant provides centralised connection for the user to converse across the user's CRM, ERP, HCM, custom applications and business intelligence data and uses AI to intelligently correlate data and automate user behavior.
Oracle Digital Assistant capabilities include integration to speech-based devices like Amazon Echo (Alexa), Apple Siri, Google Home and Speech, Harman Kardon (Cortana), and Microsoft Cortana.
Ovum Principal Analyst Saurabh Sharma said Platform as a Service has become a critical component of the cloud delivery model to help drive business agility and innovation for enterprises.
"With Oracle revealing its AI and machine learning-based Autonomous PaaS, Oracle is bringing productivity gains, cost reduction and human error reduction to the forefront of enterprises looking for possible ways to drive faster innovation. Oracle Cloud Platform's autonomous PaaS capabilities will let enterprises scale, back-up, upgrade, diagnose, correct and secure enterprise PaaS cloud services," said Sharma.