| |December 20188CIOReviewt is clear that businesses across Asia Pacific are becoming increasingly optimistic about the op-portunities today's digital economy presents. In fact, Gartner's annual survey of CIOs, shows IT leaders in APAC are adopting new, disruptive technologies at a higher rate than their global peers.As part of this, enterprises are starting to embrace areas like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learn-ing (ML), recognizing their power to help them inno-vate faster, drive change and operate more efficiently and securely. However, the incredible pace of technological change can make it feel impossible to keep up, and with the newness of it all and so many companies looking to harness the benefits, skills to support these areas are in short supply. To help with this, forward looking leaders should look to capitalize on the advantages brought by the next generation of computing: `Autonomous Cloud'. What is an Autonomous Cloud?Autonomous cloud represents a new category of cloud services. This new style cloud platform powered by AI and ML has the potential to help businesses across the globe reduce risk, lower costs, do more with less and get more value from their most important business asset, their data.In the longer run, the resulting `autonomous organi-zation' will reach an ideal state where it does not need the touch of humans to run its day-to-day operations and maintain its core IT systems. Instead, AI and automa-tion, working together in harmony, will manage every-thing from database to application development, to pro-viding predictive insight around business processes, all without human input. This will free up resources from the burden of managing complex IT systems, which can I IN MY OPINIONPUTTING PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESSES IN THE DRIVING SEAT OF INNOVATIONBy Cherian Varghese, Regional Managing Director of ASEAN and SAGE, OracleFrom intelligent business applications to infrastructure, Oracle delivers tomorrow's emerging technologies. Presently, 430,000 customers in 175 countries use Oracle technologies to seize business opportunities and solve real, tangible challenges.Cherian Varghese
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