Oracle Announces the Industry’s Most Comprehensive Offering for Analytics in the Cloud

Oracle Analytics Cloud is a comprehensive set of capabilities
spanning packaged content, expert models, and data services as well as
platform, applications and infrastructure

Oracle OpenWorld, San
Francisco – September 20, 2016 – Oracle today announced a number of
innovations in analytics that give organizations a unified and complete suite
of Cloud services to unlock value from their data. The new Oracle Cloud
services enable businesses to fundamentally transform the way they generate
insights from people, algorithms, processes and machines and deliver them to
their users with intuitive visualizations, creative narratives and predictive
outcomes using expert models and adaptive learning.

The industry’s only
end-to-end solution for business analytics, Oracle Analytics Cloud
includes a high performance analytic processing infrastructure at scale; a
broad suite of tools for data preparation, discovery, visualization and
collaboration; a pre-packaged suite of domain-specific machine learning models;
packaged best-practice analytic key performance indicators (KPIs) to run your
business; and large scale, curated public data sets all designed for analytics.

“Public Cloud
deployments of business analytics software are still in relatively early stages
of adoption. However, the market for Cloud deployments are expected to grow at
a rate 5x greater than on-premises and other deployment methods. Oracle
Analytics Cloud embraces the emerging hybrid data management and analytics
architecture, delivers self-service data access and analysis, and will embed
cognitive/AI functionality. These capabilities make the company well positioned
to take advantage of this market opportunity.” Dan Vesset, group vice
president, Analytics and Information Management at IDC. 

Oracle is the only
company that unifies all these components of a modern analytics foundation
including:

High Performance
Infrastructure for Analytics at Scale

Oracle provides a
complete set of very high-performance, elastically scalable infrastructure
services designed for analytics processing on data of various types, shapes,
and speeds:

·       Infrastructure:
hyper-efficient compute, block and object storage infrastructure in the Cloud
provides the best performance and scalability for analytic processing.

·       Elastic
Analytics Platform: elastic Hadoop, Spark, and data streaming using Kafka
allows customers to create elastic clusters to process data with MapReduce and
Spark.

·       Flexible
Data Storage: includes high-performance Object Storage, HDFS, Oracle Database
and key-value/NoSQL engines.

·       Smart
Options for Data Ingestion: includes streaming for high speed real-time and
event data, and high-volume data replication across varied sources.

Powerful Capabilities
for Data Preparation, Discovery, Visualization, and Collaboration

Built on the
high-performance analytics infrastructure, Oracle provides a complete suite of
tools to enable anyone in the company to derive insights and share them: 

·       Data
preparation to ingest, profile and cleanse data using a variety of algorithms.

·       Data
flow allows data stewards to prepare, transform and aggregate data and then run
machine-learning models at scale.

·       Data
discovery makes it easy for subject matter experts to collaborate with data
science teams, blending intelligent analysis at scale, machine learning, and
statistical modeling.

·       Data
visualization empowers anyone to visualize any data and glean insight on any
device, on premises and in the cloud.

·       Data
collaboration offers everyone proactive conversational content and drives
ongoing interaction around smart insights.

·       Data-driven
interfaces enable application developers to extend, customize and embed rich
analytic experiences in their application flow.

Packaged Analytics and
Machine Learning Models

Extending intelligence
across the enterprise requires knowing the right metrics to measure and getting
the guidance to understand those metrics in every aspect of the business.
Unlike other vendors who provide platforms without data or expertise, or only
offer artificial intelligence as the solution, Oracle delivers data,
intelligence and expertise together. This includes hundreds of person years of
analytical expertise tailored to multiple industries and business functions,
embedded in core applications and extensible via a cloud-based analytics
platform:

·       8,000+
best practice KPIs for roles across a variety of functions including sales,
marketing, service, finance, human resources and supply chain.

·       Optimized
solutions with pre-built analytics for the largest portfolio of industry
specific solutions including Communications, Construction and Engineering,
Education, Financial Services, Health Sciences, Hospitality, Manufacturing,
Retail and Utilities.

·       Smart
Applications that adapt based on packaged machine learning and artificial
intelligence algorithms to provide intelligent predictions and recommendations.

·       Domain-specific
applications for industries such as asset monitoring, production monitoring of
manufacturing and supply chain systems, fleet management and connected workers.

·       A
collaborative Oracle Cloud community for users to share analytics and expertise
by exchanging data models, machine learning solutions, and algorithms.

Packaged Curated Data
Sets to drive Analytics

To drive more effective
marketing, selling, e-commerce and customer service, Oracle also offers
packaged and highly curated data sets to drive more effective business
processes and more targeted analytics.

·       Oracle
Data Cloud: the world’s largest data marketplace intelligently aggregates and
normalizes data across more than 5 billion global consumer profiles, with over
45,000 different dimensions from 1,500 providers. This unique data marketplace
gives enterprises deep insight into their customers and prospects and can be
activated through a suite of adaptive intelligent applications powered by deep
learning models that operate at web-scale to learn about users and their
behaviors.

“Competition in the
cloud is changing,” said Thomas Kurian, president of product development at
Oracle. “Inexpensive computing and storage are important, but the real game
changer is creating business value through better insight. Only Oracle ties all
the data, technologies, and expertise together to deliver that value for our
customers. It’s that simple.”