Oracle: Why AI can be the key to business success in 2019

As the world around us becomes smarter and more connected, the need for sophisticated systems to facilitate these connections, and support the technology that powers them, is more important than ever. At the recent Oracle Open World event in London, Oracle CEO Mark Hurd laid out his company's aims of enabling new business tools and services using cutting-edge technologies such as AI, which Oracle says can bring a range of benefits across the board. Yet concerns about the effect of AI persist among some in the technology space, who doubt the potential advantages it can bring. At the event, ITProPortal spoke to John Abel, vice president, cloud and innovation for UK, Ireland and Israel at Oracle, who told us how AI is set to play a major role in the company's work going forward. Abel describes how the technology space is going through, "a cultural shift from being an industrial workforce to becoming a creative workforce."