Safra Catz, the CEO of Oracle has stated that she believes that the future of cloud for enterprises lies with autonomous systems and Oracle is planning to integrate all of its products on one cloud infrastructure system.

Autonomous systems provide the benefit of eliminating human errors and ensuring data is kept safe.

At the Oracle OpenWorld 2019 conference, the CEO stated that Oracle Cloud had created a new phase of integration for customers worldwide. Catz explained that Oracle is predominantly focused on users and believes the future for enterprises involves autonomous systems and that they are working together with their customers to provide the highest level of value. Catz reinforced the statement made by Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison in that autonomous systems remove potential human errors and keep data safe.

Highlighting its strong position and vision within the cloud ERP market, Oracle also confirmed a series of updates to the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Cloud and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Cloud. The latest updates will allow businesses of any size to boost their productivity, decrease costs and enhance controls by delivering product innovations and sector solutions.

Rondy Ng, the Senior Vice President of Oracle Applications Development recently stated that Oracle continues to reinforce its leading position within the Cloud ERP market with a series of innovative developments, supporting the continued changing demands within finance and operations teams. Ng believes that by combining intelligent systems and machine learning tools with Oracle ERP Cloud will allow customers to minimise the number of standard tasks performed by employees.

In order to ensure businesses and customer interaction is data-driven, Oracle released a number of data-focused updates within the Oracle Customer Experience (CX) Cloud. Oracle CX offers a range of applications within marketing, sales, services, and commerce. Rob Tarkoff, the executive vice president at Oracle CX Cloud and Oracle Data Cloud explains that the latest updates are driven by data and machine learning and are focused on ensuring customers can take advantage of data insights in order to meet customer requirements, creating the best customer experience.

Oracle also launched new updates to the enterprise-level customer data management platform (CDP). The new updates to Oracle CX Unity will allow businesses to offer personalised and detailed experiences within all customer interactions, including website visits through to in-store purchases.

One of three of the original Hadoop distribution businesses has confirmed their plans to launch a number of big data platforms in the cloud. Arun Murthy, the chief product officer at Cloudera confirmed the business was preparing for further movement into modern technology to manage and analyse data.

Cloudera has moved away from promoting themselves as a Hadoop company and has developed a number of technology systems aimed at enterprise customers and their plan is to provide a collection of open source technologies that are available in the cloud to enterprise customers. The new vision is focused on creating a series of emerging large scale data systems, consisting of open source components and solely based in the cloud. 

Cloudera has been working towards this vision with a focus on its Cloudera Data Platform. The business released the technology with a statement that a number of customers were assessing the services within a public cloud deployment. Cloudera highlighted that its sales pipeline had increased since Q1 and were on target for the year. An extended version of the technology is due to be released later this year.

Cloudera also announced this month that it plans to acquire Arcadia Data, a specialist AI-driven company focusing on business intelligence and real-time analytics. Cloudera believes the technology at Arcadia will accelerate delivery time for customer insights by offering self-service access to data and improved analytical response time.

In a recent release and steps recently made by Cloudera, Murthy refers to the concept of Hadoop and how the software is essentially a stack, where each layer i.e. storage, compute platform, etc. are designed in a manner that allows them to be connected together. Cloudera is essentially leveraging open data standards and technology and moving away from systems that are controlled by vendors. Murthy explains that the core goal of the Cloudera Data Platform is to ensure that the cloud service created is simpler for businesses to measure value from the platform without having to understand the complex level of detail associated with power technologies.