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10 Oracle’s Top 10 Cloud Predictions 2019 Predicting the future of the enterprise cloud by 2025—your company in the cloud.
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Oracle’s Top 10 Cloud Predictions 05
Prediction #5
85% of customer interactions
will be automated.
06
Prediction #6
The developer community will
expand 10× and productivity will
increase by 400%.
07
01 08
Predicting the future of the enterprise
cloud by 2025—your company in the cloud.
Prediction #7 Prediction #8
90% of enterprises will use a single
More than 50% of data will be
identity platform that bridges
managed autonomously.
premises and the cloud.
01 Prediction #1
Second-generation cloud providers will
offer 100% data-center replacement.
02
Prediction #2
80% of all enterprise (and mission-critical)
workloads will move to the cloud.
09
Prediction #9
The number of security events will
increase 100×, and automation...
10
Prediction #10
70% of IT functions will be
completely automated.
03 Prediction #3
All applications will incorporate
AI—further distancing themselves
from legacy applications.
04
Prediction #4
AI (and emerging technologies)
will double our productivity.
Conclusion
2Your Company in the Cloud
Shifting toward a whole-enterprise cloud.
Cloud technology and its adoption They’re no longer experimenting with In “Oracle’s Top 10 Cloud Predictions
have been transformative for nearly these new technologies in a sandbox; 2019,” we explore what the enterprise
every business, industry, and product. they’re applying them in meaningful IT world will look like by 2025 as the
From running applications that are ways across their operations, driving adoption of cloud rises. Together, these
always-on and available, to limitless new business, creating new value, and predictions demonstrate the need for a
infrastructure scalability, today’s building more sophisticated applications complete enterprise cloud approach in
enterprise technology norm is defined than ever before. By 2025, we expect the years to come, and provide a future-
by these cloud capabilities. to see both cloud providers and the facing view of how businesses will need
enterprises they serve move toward to plan their move to a cloud-native
We’ve reached a remarkable tipping
a next-generation cloud model where IT environment.
point, where enterprises are now
they have access to these
outpacing consumers in their adoption
new technologies, better security,
of emerging technologies—including
improved price performance, and
artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain,
deep automation capabilities.
digital assistants, containers, serverless,
and the Internet of Things (IoT).
301 Prediction #1
Second-generation cloud providers will
offer 100% data-center replacement.
4Prediction #1 Further Reading
There’s an almost limitless number of ways Second-generation clouds enable highly
Video: Oracle OpenWorld
to use the cloud. But no matter how your complex workloads and mission-critical
Announcement: Gen 2 Cloud
journey begins, all routes eventually lead to systems. They deliver better guarantees
the same destination—running your entire for security, continuity, control, and price
company in the cloud. performance. In addition, this provides
White Paper: Next-Generation
access to innovations spanning autonomous
100% data-center replacement is only Cloud Delivers Enterprise Scale
database, AI, machine learning (ML),
possible when cloud solutions are afforded
blockchain, IoT, and human interfaces.
at least the same level of reliability and
Ultimately, IT organizations will have
performance as on-premises technology. IPaper: Oracle Cloud
the confidence and new capabilities to
Everything you run in the cloud needs to be Infrastructure Cloud Essentials
completely rely on the cloud for their
secure from core to edge, leveraging the
mission-critical operations.
latest advances in automation technology.
The design principles for many first-generation
clouds were opportunistic: commodity
servers, storage, network, shared tenancy, Oracle Cloud Trial
and best-efforts management. These early
capabilities successfully captured the market’s
attention for low-risk workloads.
502 Prediction #2
80% of all enterprise (and mission-critical)
workloads will move to the cloud.
6Further Reading Prediction #2
Press Release: Oracle and We are now in an era of coexistence The considerations from moving all and critical
Top-Flight Customers Lead the among private data centers, managed cloud workloads to the cloud come from its flexibility,
Charge in Cloud Applications environments, and self-service public clouds. reliability, and performance capabilities. These
Enterprises almost universally consume core capabilities of the cloud provide the
IPaper: Cloud Essentials public-cloud resources today, and mission- foundational infrastructure needed for all types
for Migrating Any Application critical workloads are an increasing part of of workloads—AI, traditional, mission-critical,
to the Cloud that consumption. performance-intensive, and high-performance
computing (HPC).
Mission-critical applications that cannot afford to
Report: Moving Critical Apps
suffer any downtime are leaving the enterprise From point-of-sale systems for retail operations
to the Cloud: Understanding
data center behind. This shift is inexorable, and to high-speed transaction systems for financial
the Benefits and Challenges
it’s increasingly a major part of the conversation services, these critical enterprise applications
about moving enterprise IT forward in terms of will benefit most from moving to the cloud.
Assessment Tool: Oracle efficiency and reliability.
Cloud Confidence Tool
The migration of applications and workloads
from all corners of enterprise IT has created
of all enterprise
80%
demand for a new breed of integration and
(and mission-critical)
Learn More: migration tools that can ease an enterprise’s workloads will move
Why Oracle Cloud? path to the cloud. to the cloud.
703 Prediction #3
All applications will incorporate AI—further
distancing themselves from legacy applications.
8Prediction #3 Further Reading
Today, we collect more data than ever AI is being applied in many exciting ways IPaper: Oracle Cloud
before. When applied intelligently, that data today, and it’s hard to visualize a future where Essentials; Artificial Intelligence:
informs our processes and provides us with it’s not an important part of every application. The Next Generation
the insights needed to work more quickly, Whether AI is a sophisticated algorithm based
efficiently, and flexibly. on deep learning that can analyze product
Research Paper: MIT Tech Review:
quality, or a new cognitive user-engagement
To this end, artificial intelligence is finishing Machine Learning-Driven Analytics
paradigm for speech, vision, gesture, or touch,
what business intelligence started. By
we predict it will be at the foundation of all
gathering, contextualizing, understanding, and
next-generation applications. White Paper: Harvard Business Review:
acting on huge quantities of data, AI has given
Using Digital Platforms and Artificial
rise to a new breed of applications—one
Intelligence to Outpace Rivals
that’s continuously improving and adapting
to the conditions around it. Report: Forrester: The CIO’s Guide
to Automation Driving Business
We’re already seeing applications change
Value Requires Investments in
before our very eyes. Conventional back-office
Strategic Competencies
applications are becoming legacy. They’re
being reinvented with innovative front ends
and aggressive commercial automation.
Looking ahead, transformation is only
going to become more widespread.
904 Prediction #4
AI (and emerging technologies)
will double our productivity.
10Further Reading Prediction #4
AI augmentation already has immense power This enables businesses to reduce the time to
Blog: A Practical Path
to increase human productivity—and as AI complete tasks and the costs of maintenance,
to AI Podcast Series
capabilities keep improving, those productivity and will lead to the creation of higher-value
gains are only going to get bigger, and be jobs and new engagement models.
Blog: Trying to Understand experienced by more people.
With built-in AI and more integration of
Blockchain? Here’s a Simple
As the volume and depth of data available to emerging technologies like blockchain for
Explanation
businesses grow, AI will become better at secure high-trust transactions, this will enable
making decisions—seeing it evolve from a companies to shift resources to focus on
Report: Cloud Development: technology used to reduce human effort into business growth and innovation.
The Key to Rapid Innovation something that can truly reduce human bias.
As we move forward, these converging
AI changes the productivity equation for many efficiency gains will culminate in a huge
jobs by automating activities and adapting productivity boost across the business. We
current jobs to solve more complex and time- predict that by 2025, the productivity gains
consuming problems, from recruiters being delivered by AI, emerging technologies,
Oracle Cloud Trial able to source better candidates faster to and augmented experiences could double
financial analysts eliminating manual error- compared to today’s operations.
prone reporting. This type of automation will
not replace all jobs but will invent new ones.
1105 Prediction #5
85% of customer interactions
will be automated.
12Prediction #5 Further Reading
For customers and employees alike, AI is conversation naturally wanders or how an
Video: Exelon Readies AI-Driven
ushering in a new era of experiences—one individual communicates. As AI technology
Chatbots for Millions of Customers
characterized by natural interactions, easy gets better at tracking and understanding that
engagements, predictive recommendations, context, more and more customer interactions
and friction-free journeys. can be automated effectively. Video: Oracle Digital Assistant:
In fact, AI has already had a profound impact With AI-driven analytics helping businesses The Power of AI at Your Fingertips
on how businesses and customers interact. understand customer needs, IoT bringing
Today, 89% of people use voice assistants customers closer to companies directly,
for customer service, and 69% of enterprise and digital assistants providing humanized
Oracle Analytics Cloud Trial
customer service functions use chatbots for digital experiences, automation of customer
anywhere, anytime engagement. engagement is going be extremely common
by 2025. We predict that 85% of all
This widespread adoption has seen
interactions will be automated.
automation quickly go from being a nice
to have to becoming a basic customer
Oracle Cloud Trial
expectation across nearly all markets.
The key element for successful automated
of customer interactions
engagement is to continuously understand 85% will be automated.
context and intent, no matter how the
1306 Prediction #6
The developer community will expand 10×
and productivity will increase by 400%
14Further Reading Prediction #6
Despite huge growth in the number of components into an application. This visual
Learn More: Step Up to
developers working today, demand for “no-code” approach to development will see
Modern Cloud Development
applications continues to outpace the supply nonprofessional developers start to reduce the
of trained developers. Between 2012 application backlog, and even encourage line-
and 2018, GitHub went from 5 million to of-business experts to build their own solutions
Blog: Step Up to Modern
31 million users, but even this level of growth in where necessary.
Cloud Development
developer numbers isn’t enough to keep up with
Automation will take this to the next level.
increasing demand for modern technical skills.
Developers will be able to work in a virtual
Video: Interviews and
The newest innovations require mastery world of coding components and simulations
presentations on key
of new technologies as well as knowledge that span the entire development lifecycle.
development trends.
disciplines. For example, adding natural Using gestures and conversation, future
interfaces, such as language processing or programmers will select software modules
data-enhanced imagery (augmented reality), where they can be evaluated, assembled,
requires advanced degrees in artificial and debugged.
intelligence and image processing—a level
Oracle Cloud Trial With these new tools, 2025 will see a
of expertise and qualification that’s certainly
larger developer community than ever
not widespread.
before—and that community will be far
With the next-generation environments, they more effective, due to immersive, AI-driven
hide the technical underpinnings and simply development experiences.
allow dragging and dropping of intelligent
1507 Prediction #7
More than 50% of data will be
managed autonomously.
16Prediction #7 Further Reading
The motivation to deliver high availability and to Oracle has taken the next step in extreme Video: Autonomous Database:
protect our technology ecosystems has never automation with the Oracle Autonomous Larry Ellison at Oracle
been higher. However, looking forward, it will no Database. It is the industry’s first database that OpenWorld 2018 Highlights
longer be necessary to expect IT organizations to is self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing.
respond to these demands with people, training, Looking forward, we expect a huge proportion Video: Sound Familiar? Larry
and process. of businesses to explore similar capabilities for Shares the Oracle Autonomous
every aspect of data management. Database Story
Data is a crucial organizational asset and it must
always be available, trusted, and secure. The first
step to ensure higher availability is to eliminate a Press Release: Larry Ellison Charts
broad collection of maintenance activities, such a Course for the Future of Cloud
as patching, updates, and upgrades while the
system is running.
of data will
For small companies with big ideas (and big
companies with experimental ideas), autonomy
>50% be managed
autonomously
will become a crucial factor for business Oracle Cloud Trial
continuity and low operational costs. Put simply,
autonomy enables them to bring applications
online faster, cheaper, and more reliably, without
investing in additional skills or people.
1708 Prediction #8
90% of enterprises will use a single identity
platform that bridges premises and the cloud.
18Further Reading Prediction #8
The “Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report, By 2025, privacy regulations that require
White Paper: Manage Identities
2018” highlighted that the number one immediate audit capabilities of users
Across the Hybrid Cloud
identity and access challenge organizations across apps and services will drive these
deal with today is the use of multiple identity organizations into a unified platform out of
provisioning platforms, both on premises and liability needs, as well as to help speed up
Report: Oracle and KPMG
in the cloud. Over a third cited how cloud has provisioning of new apps, users, and devices.
Cloud Threat Report
greatly added complexity in how they can
manage the real-time needs of provisioning
and deprovisioning.
IPaper: Cloud Essentials
for Securing SaaS at Scale Organizations are now starting to leverage of enterprises will
technologies in the identity and access use a single identity
Report: Oracle Database
management (IAM) space that cross the
hybrid cloud and grant the ability to deliver
90% platform that
bridges premises
Security Assessment a unified identity that stretches into all and the cloud.
applications and services.
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1909 Prediction #9
The number of security events will increase
100×, and automation will become the most
reliable way of preventing, detecting, and
mitigating threats.
20Prediction #9 Further Reading
Today’s organizations face an overwhelming Bad actors will use nonlinear (usually
Ebook: Cloud Security
number of security-related events every single AI-based) techniques that inject randomness
for Dummies
day. This volume makes timely prioritization into the pattern of behavior of botnets
and troubleshooting a unique challenge, to launch an unprecedented number of
because every event needs to be evaluated extremely difficult-to-detect attacks.
IPaper: Cloud Essentials: Secure
and either acted upon or disregarded.
We predict that moving forward, organizations and Manage Hybrid Clouds
In the “Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat will also have to employ cloud-based AI to
Report, 2018,” the number one challenge to help defend against these threats. The most
respondents was analyzing security event effective way to defeat a highly automated Assessment Tool: Take the
telemetry at scale. This is further reinforced network of attackers is for enterprises to turn Cloud Security Assessment
by McAfee’s 2019 Cloud Adoption and over the mass analysis of events to intelligent
Risk Report, which showed the average AI-driven analysis platforms that span the
organization will find only 1 out of 100 million entire enterprise IT estate.
events to be a threat. So how can security
We should expect that many enterprises will
teams identify the real threats among all Oracle Cloud Trial
embrace a core-to-edge security model by
this noise?
2025, to ensure customers’ data is secure
By 2025, malicious traffic will use AI to hide from the core of the infrastructure to the edge
within the mass of regular and legitimate of the cloud.
human-based traffic.
2110 Prediction #10
70% of IT functions will be completely automated.
22Further Reading Prediction #10
Video: Accelerating Growth in Every year, billions of work hours are spent For companies running entirely in the cloud,
the Cloud: Mark Hurd at Oracle performing necessary, extremely complex, this will be invaluable. Once all high-value
OpenWorld 2018 routine IT tasks. These tasks take up a huge enterprise processes can be attended to
amount of IT’s time, making them a perfect in the cloud as truly managed services,
Article: WSJ: For Chinese Property target for automation. businesses will have a huge volume
Developer, the Cloud Opens New of resources that can be reallocated to
Cloud services are evolving to include lifecycle
Data-Driven Opportunities innovation projects and delivering further
and advanced run-time automation such
digital transformations.
as self-patching and real-time tuning, and
White Paper: The Autonomous as automation capabilities improve, so will
Advantage: The Rise of the reliability, availability, scalability, and ultimately
Strategic DBA application SLAs.
Video: Oracle Cloud: The Future By 2025, automated software and hardware
of IT functions
70%
Is Autonomous: Steve Daheb at lifecycle management will be the norm. In this
OpenWorld 2018 world of 100% managed services, SLAs will will be completely
increase and security threats will decrease. automated.
This will enable both cloud providers and their
customers to have more time to focus on
improving business outcomes.
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23Conclusion
Companies have moved beyond the questions have access to all three layers of the cloud,
of why they should be using cloud and spanning applications, platform services
emerging technologies, to arriving at the more and infrastructure services. We deliver
important question of: “How do I get there?” stronger security controls from built-in
core-to-edge, workload-migration tools
With Oracle, that path is as simple as an
to protect our customers’ investments,
upgrade. Oracle provides a simple upgrade
and superior economics with automation,
path for customers, leveraging their existing
performance, reliability, and other advantages
investments and skills to move to new
that lead the industry.
versions that upgrade their capabilities and
experience, while reducing risk and driving Oracle provides customers with multiple
greater business value. paths to the cloud and access to an
AI-based future today.
It’s all part of Oracle’s mission to support
customers’ journeys to the cloud—wherever
their starting point might be.
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