Here's the most critical thing for CEOs to understand about machine learning: When it's done right, the outcomes get better with more time, more data, more use. That's so important because companies that aren't using machine learning to, say, make better product recommendations or provide better customer service risk falling behind rivals whose systems keep getting smarter. "Every CEO, in every industry, needs to worry about new companies coming in and doing it better by using software," says Amit Zavery, senior vice president for Oracle Cloud Platform. "The next thing most companies are going to do is start using machine learning to improve the software--and improve their relationships with customers. So it's going to be too late if you don't learn now."

When Amit Zavery laid out the Oracle Cloud Platform roadmap at Oracle OpenWorld on October 2, one of the first themes he focused on was keeping that platform "open." "This is something that we really believe is important," said Zavery, senior vice president for Oracle Cloud Platform. At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Senior Vice President Amit Zavery emphasized that Oracle's application development, integration, management, and other platform services are built around open standards. Zavery emphasized that Oracle's application development, integration, management, and other platform services are built around open standards, including those for emerging technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, and chatbots. Oracle enhances the best open source innovations with tools for management, security, development, and high-performance infrastructure that companies need to put them to practical use. Here are just five areas that Zavery noted in which Oracle Cloud Platform delivers on the open promise.

Oracle came late to the cloud and it's been playing catch-up in recent years trying to add a wide range of services that customers are going to be demanding from a cloud vendor. To that end, the company added artificial intelligence as a service to its dance card today at Oracle OpenWorld. The company has been busy today with a flurry of announcements including a new autonomous database as a service and a shiny new blockchain service. The artificial intelligence service is an extension of these announcements. Artificial Intelligence has become table stakes for developers and they need a set of tools and technologies that make it relatively easy for them to tap into AI capabilities without requiring deep subject knowledge to make use of it.

Amit Zavery, senior vice president and general manager of integration products for the Oracle Cloud Platform, recently explained the company's positioning in an exclusive interview with SearchCloudApplications. We have embedded machine learning algorithms and AI systems into our database, management products, as well as applications for many years. It is up to all of the providers of chatbot technology, including Oracle, to adhere to industry standards, contribute back into the community, and collaborate across different systems to make sure things work. Zavery: When we look at our chatbot technology, we work with several messaging services providers to make sure we can integrate and interoperate with Facebook Messenger, WeChat and others.

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