| |September 20199of extending the chatbot usage for employee self-service and other internal purposes as well. Another noteworthy aspect is that there is a concerted push by NITI Aayog, the Government's policy think tank, to advance AI/ML adoption in India. The blockchain pi-lot to prevent fake drugs in the pharma industry is pow-ered by Oracle technology. In the coming months, we anticipate a remarkable rise in the level of AI/ML adoption by Indian businesses. 4. What's Oracle's AI play? How are you making it easier for businesses to take advantage of AI/ML?Our entire cloud portfolio is embedded with AI/ML ca-pabilities, unlike other companies who offer AI/ML as add-ons. We're empowering Indian organizations to up-grade to the technology of tomorrow, today - so that our customers can now focussolely on delivering faster, better innovations to their end consumers.For example, business teams can drive better business outcomes using our AI-powered cloud applications by leveraging the pre-built intelligent features. For data sci-entists and application developers, our ready-to-build AI platform offers a range of cloud services to easily build, train, deploy as well as manage AI-powered solutions.Our flagship solution - the Oracle Autonomous Data-base, which is the world's first and only "self-driving, self-securing and self-repairing" database powered by ground-breaking machine learning - redefines data management and takes the complexity out of running a business-critical database to enable unprecedented availability, high per-formance and security at a significantly lower cost. And it's available as a cloud service, so not just large enter-prises, even mid-size companies and startups can take ad-vantage of this breakthrough innovation.5. Could you outline a few specific examplesof Oracle Au-tonomous Database customers in India and the business benefits they're seeing? Using Oracle Autonomous Database, several Indian or-ganizations have started realizing tremendous business value from their data. These customers come from diverse industries - spanning digital commerce, IT and profes-sional services, banking and consulting to name a few.With deeper, more meaningful insights, these customers have acknowledged significant improvementsin the qual-ity and speed of business decisions, introduction of new products/services with a faster time to market and em-powering their workforce to become smarter.For instance, Federal Bank, a leading mid-size bank with origins in South India, used Oracle Autonomous Database with Oracle Analytics Cloud to improve their ATM Analytics. The bank is now able to get a deep dive view of which ATM is performing how, and what kind of transactions occurs in which ATM, to offer tailor-made customer experiences.With Oracle Autonomous Database, Huron Con-sulting acquired the ability to:(a) scale on-demand, and (b)for patches to be made available and applied on de-mand. Huron has now found scaling or adding CPUs to be extremely simple and most importantly benefit from automatic patching, which is seamless - while reducing dependency on manual intervention and increasing cost savings overall.6. What are the three key things that CIOs should look at in 2019 and beyond? Gartner's annual global survey of CIOs outlines that the CIO role is indeed transitioning from a delivery executive to a business executive, from controlling cost and engi-neering processes, to driving revenue and exploiting data. CIOs are increasingly taking on roles and responsibilities outside traditional IT, with 51 percent of CIOs surveyed in India reporting that they are taking charge of inno-vation and 49 percent indicating that they are heading up digital transformation. Therefore, based on my obser-vations and experience of extensively collaborating with C-suite over the years, it's evident that transformational CIOs typicallyfactor in3 key aspects when they plan their long-term innovation strategy: (a) Agility - Indian CIOs are under constant pressure to innovate faster and better, alongside effectively deploying emerging technologies for sustainable business benefits(b) Security - With the democratization of IT, the onus is on the CIO to craft a unifying technology strategy for the company, taking business stakeholders along, to ensure business data is secure and breach-proof(c) Automation ­ This will lead to elimination of human intervention in the daily, mundane tasks, which will automatically speed up the entire business lifecycle with more accuracy. As a result, more time can be devoted towards innovation and new ideas for better results. Another issue that CIOs are trying to address is bridging the IT skill gap.
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