Oracle CloudWorld 2024: Conference news and insights

Oracle CloudWorld is one of the tech industry’s signature events. The event, known as Oracle OpenWorld until 2020, is a significant gathering for IT professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to explore the latest advancements in cloud computing. 

Oracle CloudWorld 2024 began September 9th and ended September 12th. As expected, Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison took to the stage to unveil the company’s strategies and products around multicloud, distributed cloud, AI, application development, and security. In particular, the week saw Oracle focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations.

Below you’ll find our complete coverage from Oracle CloudWorld 2024.

Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event

September 18, 2024: Oracle’s announcements at Oracle CloudWorld 2024 focused on providing developers and enterprises with new ways to take advantage of generative AI in their operations.

Oracle launches a new sustainability app for Fusion Cloud EPM

September 11, 2024: Oracle has announced the launch of Oracle Fusion Cloud Sustainability — an app that integrates data from Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP and Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM, enabling analysis and reporting within Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence.

Oracle updates Fusion Cloud SCM with AI-based features

September 11, 2024: Oracle is adding new user experience (UX) enhancements to its Fusion Cloud Supply Chain & Manufacturing (SCM) offering, the company announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference. These enhancements are designed to help customers leverage AI to increase workforce productivity, expand visibility, accelerate processes, and prioritize the next best action to drive results. 

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM gets AI-powered Dynamic Skills feature

September 11, 2024: Oracle has updated its Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) suite with a new AI-powered feature, dubbed Oracle Dynamic Skills. The Dynamics Skills feature within Fusion Cloud HCM is expected to help enterprises keep tabs on their current and future requirement of skills. The features were announced at the Oracle CloudWorld 2024 conference.

Oracle updates Fusion Cloud CX with CDP, B2B buying features

September 11, 2024: Oracle updated its Unity Customer Data Platform (CDP) with new features to help enterprises improve customer experience and engagement, and optimize marketing spend. The latest updates made to Unity CDP — announced at the CloudWorld 2024 conference

Oracle’s HeatWave data analytics service gets new gen AI features

September 10. 2024: Oracle released new generative AI features among other updates to its managed data analytics and database service, Oracle HeatWave at its CloudWorld 2024 conference. Oracle HeatWave encompasses several modules including HeatWave Lakehouse, HeatWave on AWS, HeatWave AutoML, HeatWave Gen AI, and MySQL HeatWave.

Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence gets Gen AI-powered developer assistant

September 10, 2024: Oracle will be adding a new generative AI-powered developer assistant to its Fusion Data Intelligence service, which is part of the company’s Fusion Cloud Applications Suite, the company said at its CloudWorld 2024 event. Fusion Data Intelligence, which is an updated avatar of Fusion Analytics Warehouse, combines enterprise data, and ready-to-use analytics along with prebuilt AI and machine learning models to deliver business intelligence.

Oracle inks deal with AWS to offer database services

September 10, 2024: In continuation of its efforts to help enterprises migrate to the cloud, Oracle said it is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer database services on the latter’s infrastructure. Announced at CloudWorld 2024, Oracle Database@AWS will allow enterprise users to access Oracle Autonomous Database on dedicated infrastructure and Oracle Exadata Database Service within AWS.

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Oracle CloudWorld 2023: 6 key takeaways from the big annual event

Sept 22, 2023: Generative AI was the watchword at CloudWorld 2023, as Oracle rolled out a new API-led AI service and updates to Database 23c, MySQL HeatWave, Fusion Cloud applications, and other products. In line with Oracle co-founder CTO Larry Ellison’s notion that generative AI is one of the most important technological innovations ever, the company at its annual CloudWorld conference released a range of products and updates centered around the next generation of artificial intelligence.

Oracle’s Database 23c gets vector search to underpin generative AI use cases

Sept 20, 2023: Oracle is planning to add vector search capabilities to its database offering, dubbed Database 23c, the company announced at its ongoing annual CloudWorld conference. These capabilities, dubbed AI Vector Search, include a new vector data type, vector indexes, and vector search SQL operators that enable the Oracle Database to store the semantic content of documents, images, and other unstructured data as vectors, and use these to run fast similarity queries, the company said.

Oracle’s MySQL HeatWave gets Vector Store, generative AI features

Sept. 20, 2023: Oracle added a Vector Store and new generative AI features to its data analytics cloud service MySQL HeatWave, the company said at its annual CloudWorld conference. MySQL HeatWave combines OLAP (online analytical processing), OLTP (online transaction processing), machine learning, and AI-driven automation in a single MySQL database.

Oracle HeatWave’s in-database LLMs to help reduce infra costs

June 26, 2024: Oracle is adding new generative AI-focused features to its Heatwave data analytics cloud service, previously known as MySQL HeatWave. The new name highlights how HeatWave offers more than just MySQL support, and also includes HeatWave Gen AI, HeatWave Lakehouse, and HeatWave AutoML, said Nipun Agarwal, senior vice president of HeatWave at Oracle.

Oracle renames Database 23c to 23ai, makes it generally available

May 2, 2024: Oracle is making the latest long-term support release version of its database offering — Database 23c — generally available for enterprises under the name Oracle Database 23ai. The change in nomenclature can be attributed to the addition of new features to the database that are expected to help with AI-based application development among other tasks, the company said.

Oracle adds AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX

April 25, 2024: Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. The new capabilities, based on the company’s OCI Generative AI service, include generative AI-assisted answer generation, assisted scheduling for field service, opportunity quality scoring, and seller engagement recommendations.

Oracle unveils its API-led generative AI service with Cohere’s LLMs

Sept. 20, 2023: Just months after unveiling its three-tier generative AI strategy across multiple product offerings, Oracle has taken the covers off its new API-led generative AI service at its ongoing annual CloudWorld conference. The new generative AI service, which is built and supported on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in combination with large language models (LLMs) from Cohere, is a managed service that will allow enterprises to integrate LLM-based generative AI interfaces in their applications via an API, the company said