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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I dive into Oracle’s ambitious push to embed AI agents across end-to-end business processes.
Highlights
00:20 — I had a great conversation with an Oracle executive recently. Executive Vice President Chris Leone talked about how we’re going to see a rapid shift from agents, which are currently being used in a lot of single-function applications. They’re going to be moved very quickly to multi-function processes, where they’ll really help drive transformation for Oracle customers.
01:12 — He said that Oracle is going to quickly make this move. These functions are saving lots and lots of nickels. And after that, he said it’s going to be saving lots of — he said, “forget quarters” —it’s going to be lots and lots of dollars.
02:24 — Chris said we’re going to see big gains in the cost savings—the speed, the precision of how these companies operate, the predictability they’ll have, the insights into how their business works. And also, in this 20-minute video interview I’ve got coming up with Chris: He has an excellent use of a whiteboard there.
03:24 — Because of Chris’s role being tightly aligned with the supply chain business at Oracle he’s very much on top of that and talking about how this is going to help companies overcome some hurdles and obstacles. Paperwork —things that used to take them hours and hours, or days and days —are now going to be done in minutes, again with great precision.
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04:02 — The other thing that Chris talked about as well — I emphasized what Oracle Executive Vice President Steve Miranda and I talked about a couple of weeks ago. He said the agent and application interplay at Oracle is built in from the ground up. He said the agents are going to become indistinguishable from the applications—and the applications from the agents.
04:42 — So, very exciting outlook for what’s happening. I like that Chris was pinpointing three to six months. He expects to see among Oracle customers this big transition from agents handling fairly simple tasks to ones that really start to move end-to-end. That’s a very bullish future. Very bullish timetable.
