Diamond In The Rough

Oracle recently hosted its inaugural AI Summit at the St Regis hotel in Dubai, where the firm discussed strategies for introducing disruptive technology and innovative processes into the enterprise.

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Almost half of the UAE’s workplace activities are susceptible to automation, with similar figures for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, Oracle’s EMEA senior vice president of applications Alain Blanc has highlighted.

Blanc said that artificial intelligence was the best way to extract business value from otherwise meaningless data. “These days, what makes the topic of AI so hard is the acceleration of the technologies driving it. There is much more data available, and more power to do something with it. If you don’t have the right tools, you cannot strike gold and in this day and age, data is that gold. Once you’ve extracted it, the information and conclusions that you draw from it is a jewel that you can create. Extracting data allows for quicker, cheaper decisions.”

Diamond in the rough Oracle recently hosted its inaugural AI Summit at the St Regis hotel in Dubai, where the firm discussed strategies for introducing disruptive technology and innovative processes into the enterprise.

Blanc highlighted the eye-catching World Economic Forum prediction that in the near future, 47% of work activities in UAE will be susceptible to automation, with the numbers standing at 46% in Saudi Arabia and 41% in Kuwait.