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Ellison rejects SaaS apocalypse at Oracle AI World
The Hindu BusinessLine·
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison told Oracle AI World that artificial intelligence will not end software-as-a-service sales. He rejected a SaaS apocalypse story in which firms only build their own apps. Ellison said companies will keep shipping applications that AI makes much better and can finish industry by industry. Oracle starts with healthcare before banking, retail, hospitality and government.
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What It Means For You
- Hospitals on other records systems can switch on Oracle Health modules that discover existing processes.
- Ellison said applications need no training once users can ask for the record they want.
- Enterprises budgeting multi-year installs still hear two years cited as a common timeline.
What's Happening
- Ellison is Oracle's executive chairman and chief technology officer.
- He said healthcare is the most complex industry, so success there would prove other suites.
- He rejected the idea that AI replaces all people, citing autopilots that still leave pilots in cockpits.
Oracle Health As The Test Case
- Ellison recounted a hospital visit where staff needed many screens to open an X-ray.
- Oracle Health's clinical trials module is pitched to let patients join trials near home.
- He said AI has already changed drug development and spoke of wider access beyond wealthy US cities.
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