Exclusive Interview : Oracle on AI and enterprise technology challenges
Oracle has been upping its AI and machine learning game of late, as the company continues to push its vision of using the technology to shift business’ time away from ‘mundane’ tasks. The company has weaved AI and ML into a number of its offerings, including its security cloud, its autonomous database and most recently its wider cloud platform, clearly positioning automation as a core focus of the company. We sat down with Oracle cloud platform VP of product management and strategy Siddhartha Agarwal to discuss how Oracle views AI technology development as well as what it sees as the big challenges for the enterprise space this year. What do you see as the key technology challenges facing the enterprise for 2018? There are certainly a number of challenges facing the enterprise space. Firstly, I would say there is a challenge around building serverless applications, where they want to be able to have things running just for the time that they are ne...