“Why can’t the software manage itself?”

This is the question that Thomas Kurian, C.E.O of Oracle, stated in an interview that his team asked him almost a decade ago. In 2018, the answer is now, “it can”, in the form of Oracle’s own cloud services.

Earlier this year, Oracle launched the world’s first self-contained data warehouse and is further committed to adding self-control, self-protection and self-repair capabilities through its cloud platform services. Three other autonomous services have now come online: Oracle Autonomous Visual Cloud Builder, Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud, and Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud.

Thanks to automated learning, these services perform tasks such as patching and optimization without human intervention, reducing operational costs and freeing IT teams, DevOps developers, cloud architects and even city developers to focus on more creative work.

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“For every $1 spent on software development, companies spend $3 on software administration,” Kurian said. With the vision of reducing this burden and freeing up time for more stimulating activities, Oracle has launched a four-phase project. “First of all, let the software install and run patches and backups, and then let the software take care of capacity management, accumulating IT servers on the fly,” Kurian said. “Thirdly, let the software tune in on itself and see how the queries are executed in the database, then index. Fourth, let it do health management: if the system does not seem healthy, take corrective measures. ”

These early stand-alone systems can also help reduce security risks, because systems are automatically repaired, rather than waiting for a person to schedule time to do so. “The integration of AI and machine learning in these cloud services will help organizations innovate in revolutionary new ways,” this is according to Amit Zavery, Executive Vice President of the Oracle Cloud Platform Development (OCPD).

Three new services: analysis, integration and development

All stand-alone services created in the Oracle Cloud Platform decrease labour-intensive effort, update automatically while they are running, and increase or reduce scalability without downtime (autonomous driving). They protect against malicious activity and automatically encrypt all data (self-protection). And they have 99.995% availability, or less than 2.5 minutes of downtime per month (automatic repair).

Beyond this, each of these three new services has been optimized for your audience.

Oracle Autonomous Analytics

For example, Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud helps business users discover ideas by asking questions without the need to write difficult requests. The Analytics Cloud translates requests into back-end queries; using natural language processing, then creates detailed views of responses. All the time, you are learning from those interactions to proactively suggest ideas and reveal hidden patterns.

Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud

With the Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud, helping to integrate the scrub of the systems in which companies operate, a problem that is becoming increasingly complicated, can be done using machine learning. “The problem we are solving is making it easy to quickly map these endpoints,” Zavery said. It is crucial to find out which scheme is assigned to which other scheme in their SaaS applications, so as to provide many pre-packaged connectors, so customers do not have to do much coding.” Extraordinarily, Autonomous Integration Cloud absorbs multitude-tracked data from all implemented incorporations before making visual endorsements of how to connect objects across different systems.

Feeding the Beast

And, finally, there’s the challenge of feeding the beast: Keeping up with the insatiable demand for web apps and new mobile services. Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder Cloud ensures a less complicated process both for developers and commercial users, offers multi-platform smart applications written in HTML and JavaScript with code generated by WYSIWYG tools including Apache Cordova, Oracle Swagger and JET. Visual Builder Cloud Service, similarly, has stand-alone functionality to eradicate pedestrian tasks, so that focus can be shifted to the designing, creation of prototypes and launching of your app. Just name the server and click the button, and VBCS is configured in the database, on the host and on the full development platform. Publishing a mobile app is just as simple: just one click to package the code for iOS and / or Android.

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Do professional developers want to use a visual encoding tool? Oracle believes that visual code productivity can now provide developers with their own custom code for richer behavior. “While VBCS automatically generates the codes for you,” said Shay Smeltzer, Director of Product Management at Oracle. Experts at Umbrellar Cloud Hosting stated, “Essentially, a skilled programmer views autonomous VBCS as an avenue that eliminates boring coding and allows them to focus on the most challenging part of development: implementing unique capabilities for their organization.”

Make artificial intelligence trivial

Oracle announced not too long ago that it plans to launch other independent services towards the end of the year, with a focus on chat bots and mobile devices, security, block-chain, proper data integration and administration, and extra database assignments, including OLTP.

And they also expect more autonomous tools to help developers. “We are trying to get more benefits to help mundane tasks,” Smeltzer said. “So take for instance, one of the ideas we are working on is the possibility of scanning an image with a theoretical outlay of a page and creates the HTML to execute it for you.”