AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle today
announced availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI
services, a collection of services that make it easier for
developers to apply AI services to their applications without
requiring data science expertise. The new OCI AI services give
developers the choice of leveraging out-of-the-box models that have
been pretrained on business-oriented data or custom training the
services based on their organization's own data. The six new
services help developers with a range of complex tasks from
language to computer vision, and time-series forecasts.
Companies today need AI to accelerate innovation, assess
business conditions, and deliver new customer experiences. However,
they frequently run into implementation issues ranging from a
scarcity of data science expertise, difficulties in training models
on relevant business data to getting their platform to work in a
live environment or breaking down data silos. As a result,
companies expend valuable time and resources, when they need AI
that's consistent, responsive, and capable of working in their
business applications and operational environments to deliver
actionable results.
"It's essential for organizations to bridge the gap between the
promise of AI and implementing AI that helps them achieve real
results," said Greg Pavlik, chief
technology officer, Oracle Cloud Platform. "Oracle is best
positioned to realize the value of AI through our industry-leading
expertise in enterprise applications and enterprise data, our
next-generation cloud infrastructure, and our deep commitment to
building AI services and solutions."
Based on Oracle's experience as the leading business
applications vendor with the most complete suite of cloud
applications, Oracle's AI services are pretrained to provide
immediate value for enterprises across a broad range of use cases.
The new fully managed AI services include:
- OCI Language: Performs text analysis at scale to
understand unstructured text in documents, customer feedback
interactions, support tickets, and social media. With built-in
pretrained models, OCI Language eliminates the need for machine
learning expertise and empowers developers to apply sentiment
analysis, key-phrase extraction, text classification, named entity
recognition, and more into their applications.
- OCI Speech: Provides automatic speech recognition
through prebuilt models trained on thousands of native and
non-native language speakers for real-time speech recognition. OCI
speech enables developers to easily convert file-based audio data
containing human speech into highly accurate text transcriptions
and can be used to provide in-workflow closed captions, index
content, and enhance analytics on audio and video content.
- OCI Vision: Provides pretrained computer vision
models for image recognition and document analysis tasks. It also
enables users to extend the models to other industry and
customer-specific use cases such as scene monitoring, defect
detection, and document processing with their own data. OCI Vision
can be used to detect visual anomalies in manufacturing, extract
text from forms to automate business workflows, and tag items in
images to count products or shipments.
- OCI Anomaly Detection: Delivers business-specific
anomaly detection models that flag critical irregularities early,
which enables faster resolution and less operational disruption.
OCI Anomaly Detection provides REST APIs and SDKs for several
programming languages, which developers can use to easily integrate
anomaly detection models into business applications. It is built on
the patented MSET2 algorithm, which is used worldwide in highly
sensitive situations like nuclear reactor health monitoring, and
can be used for fraud detection, predicting equipment breakdown,
and receiving data from multiple devices to predict failures.
- OCI Forecasting: Delivers time-series forecasts through
machine learning and statistical algorithms without the need for
data science expertise. OCI Forecasting helps developers to quickly
create accurate forecasts for their critical business metrics,
including product demand, revenue, and resource requirements. These
forecasts all have confidence intervals and explainability to help
developers make the right business decisions.
- OCI Data Labeling: Helps users build labeled
datasets to train AI models. Users can assemble data, create and
browse datasets, and apply labels to data records through user
interfaces and public APIs. The labeled data sets can be exported
and used for model development across many of Oracle's AI and data
science services, including OCI Vision and OCI Data Science, for a
consistent model-building experience.
The new OCI AI services are at the core of Oracle AI, a
collection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data
science offerings that include Oracle Digital Assistant, as well as
OCI Data Science and Oracle Database Machine Learning, which are
used for building, managing, and deploying machine learning models.
Organizations around the world rely on Oracle AI to help automate
their operations, drive innovation, and make smarter decisions
securely.
Customer and Partner Quotes
Children's Medical
Research Institute (CMRI) is a premier Australian medical and
biological research institute and a registered charity.
"Identifying the effect of different treatments on tumors is one of
the key parts of our research in curing children's cancer," said
Pablo Galaviz, senior data scientist
and bioinformatician at Children's Medical Research Institute.
"Along with OCI Data Science, we are looking to OCI Vision and OCI
Data Labeling services to help us characterize the effects of those
treatments on cells. First, we label microscope images using OCI
Data Labeling, and then with the help of OCI Vision, we can
automate the process of detecting different types of cells. In this
way, we use Oracle's platform to achieve our research goals
efficiently."
SS Global is an innovative transportation company that provides
a broad portfolio of logistical solutions and services. "Our
customers in the transportation sector collect data from vehicles,
cargo, drivers, and other environmental conditions such as
traffic," said Sunil Sharma, CEO of
SS Global LLC. "Identifying anomalies in real time is key to
delivering the desired service level and therefore, we were looking
for a compelling anomaly detection solution. We chose OCI Anomaly
Detection service for its capability to determine anomalies in
multivariate complex datasets and for the significant investment
Oracle is making in this AI service."
Bosch Service Solutions is a leading global supplier of Business
Process Outsourcing for complex business processes and services.
"As a provider of contact center services, Bosch
Service Solutions combines the OCI AI Services of Digital Assistant
and Speech to allow our customers to have a natural conversation
with BETO, the Bosch chatbot," said Kiria
Fernandes, head of operations at Bosch Service
Solutions Brasil. "With OCI AI Services, our customers can
communicate with us in Portuguese using voice commands to drive
desired actions and outcomes, enriching the user experience with
conversational AI, simplifying interactions and improving
productivity."
NVIDIA is a pioneer of accelerated computing and AI. "By
delivering high-performance GPUs to customers in a fully managed
fashion for notebook sessions, jobs, and model deployments, Oracle
AI Services and NVIDIA are delivering the benefits and
experience that customers have been looking for," said Ian Buck, senior vice president and general
manager of accelerated computing at NVIDIA. "The combination of OCI
AI Services and OCI Data Science with NVIDIA RAPIDS allows data
scientists and developers to accelerate end-to-end machine learning
and data science pipelines on NVIDIA GPUs much faster than they
would be able to on CPUs."
About Oracle
Oracle offers integrated suites of
applications plus secure, autonomous infrastructure in the Oracle
Cloud. For more information about Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), please visit
us at oracle.com.
Additional Resources
- Register for the Oracle AI event
- Read our Oracle Artificial Intelligence blog
- Learn more about Oracle AI
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