Oracle forecasts big things for big data this year

Companies generate massive amounts of data, and this will rise exponentially as new computers and sensors are connected to the system. This huge amount of data is unusable if companies do not know how to manage it and transform it effectively. Multinational computer technology corporation Oracle forecasts 2018 will be the year when laggards will finally make the move to cloud, late adopters of big data will see immense benefits straight away, and those using artificial intelligence (AI) will drive the most insights. Samina Rizwan, Oracle senior director for big data and analytics for Middle East and Africa, says Oracle has been in the business of big data since before it became the buzzword it is today. She says the conversation around big data should be expanded to include analytics, AI, the Internet of things (IOT) and machine learning (ML), all encapsulated in the cloud.