Partners invest in Oracle AI Data Platform to empower customers
The Oracle AI Data Platform helps customers accelerate AI initiatives with secure, unified data and agentic automation.
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle AI Data Platform at Oracle AI World. The comprehensive platform is designed to help customers securely connect industry-leading generative AI models with their enterprise data, applications, and workflows. The Oracle AI Data Platform simplifies the AI journey by combining automated data ingestion, semantic enrichment, and vector indexing with built-in generative AI tools.
According to T.K. Anand, Executive Vice President, Product Development at Oracle, by unifying data and simplifying the entire AI lifecycle, Oracle AI Data Platform is the most comprehensive foundation for enterprises seeking to harness the power of AI with confidence, security, and agility.
“What the AI Data Platform is doing is it builds on top of the robust database foundation. We're adding a lot of additional pieces to the overall suite. Think of it like an entire platform suite. A lot of the things we need to do to realize the true value of AI is to basically get data in place. The true value of AI agents comes when you take your data, vectorize it and get it ready for AI. The power of AI agents comes when you get intelligence out of the data and you act on it, and acting on the intelligence is got to be about enacting business processes workflows. That's where I think the power of the Oracle Enterprise stack, starting from the applications and everything comes in,” added Anand in a media Q and A session during Oracle AI World.
Given the capabilities of the Oracle AI Data Platform, leading global system integrators and consultancies have committed a collective investment of more than US$1.5 billion in the platform. Among the partners that have invested include Accenture, Cognizant, KPMG and PwC.
Lan Guan, chief AI and data officer, Accenture believes that with Accenture’s extensive AI engineering capabilities, industry domain knowledge, and experience from thousands of gen AI client engagements, they are uniquely positioned to help their clients leverage Oracle AI Data Platform to unlock the full value of Oracle's capabilities from day one.
For Naveen Sharma, senior vice president, Cognizant, the Oracle AI Data Platform is a strategic component of the journey that clients are on, and they look forward to the collaboration between both.
Meanwhile, Todd Randolph, advisory partner, KPMG commented that KPMG is excited to collaborate with Oracle to deliver innovative AI solutions built on a foundation of trusted data.
“This partnership enables us to help clients make smarter decisions, achieve greater operational efficiency, and unlock new opportunities for growth—confident in the reliability and security of their data,” said Randolph.
Kevin Sullivan, US & Global Oracle Alliance Lead, PwC added that PwC sees tremendous opportunity for AI to help clients reimagine how they operate and create value beyond just automating tasks.
“The Oracle AI Data Platform brings together the essential building blocks for secure, governed, and trusted enterprise-grade Analytics and AI in a single platform. This enables us to help our clients accelerate innovation and deliver measurable outcomes faster in today's complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments,” said Sullivan.
The Oracle AI Data Platform
Taking a deeper look at the Oracle AI Data Platform, organizations will have access to AI ready data as the platform enables the creation and deployment of agentic applications by harnessing the combined capabilities of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Autonomous AI Database, and OCI Generative AI service.
The platform integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure, which enables the selection of the latest generation GPUs and libraries for high-performance workloads. The result is faster innovation, higher productivity, and measurable business impact across every line of business.
As the Oracle AI Data Platform provides an enterprise-ready foundation for data and AI, customers can create their data lakehouse using open formats such as Delta Lake and Iceberg, helping eliminate data duplication. In addition, the AI Data Platform catalog provides a unified view and governance across all data and AI assets, helping businesses maintain compliance and trust.
“There is a growing recognition that if you really want to unlock true business outcomes, you really have to work backwards from specific business objectives and goals, and a lot of that information is anchored on system of records with the AI Data Platform. We're also recognizing that as organizations have multiple data assets that contain piece of information across their tech stack, we're bringing all together, and we're creating this single semantic layer that allows organizations to bring AI to data, and apply it easily, in close proximity on the entire data catalog, whether it's on Oracle assets or whether it's non Oracle assets,” explained Federico Torreti, Senior Director, AI and Machine Learning, Oracle in an interview with CRN Asia at Oracle AI World.
Torreti also pointed out that an interesting part of the AI Data Platform is that it supports zero ETL copy, having close proximity and the combination of a recognizing that AI is only as good as the data that organizations have.
“At the same time, the typical organization has over 100 applications and multiple data assets spread across. So how do we break and bridge some of these data silos that exist, potentially within their existing Oracle footprint, but also beyond?” added Torreti.
This is where the Oracle AI Data Platform also supports multi-cloud and hybrid cross-cloud orchestration, enabling customers to connect, process, and analyze data from any cloud, on-premises, and edge sources. In addition, AI agents can operate seamlessly across Oracle applications and third-party environments, allowing customers to scale AI-driven innovation seamlessly throughout the enterprise.
For all major Oracle application suites including Fusion, NetSuite, and industries spanning health, consumer, financial services, and construction, Oracle plans to offer a tailored version of AI Data Platform that comes with prebuilt integration. The curated, enriched, and AI-ready data of Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence is available in AI Data Platform, providing immediate value for business users.