Oracle Consulting has been undergoing its own transformation, from staff augmentation to offerings key to the business of its enterprise customers.

Central to Oracle Consulting’s offering portfolio is the use of autonomous technology to understand data inside an organization and enable a cognitive platform to essentially teach itself.

“This is probably the most exciting space that I’ve thought through with my team as we build up a new consulting business,” said Aaron Millstone (pictured), senior vice president of cloud consulting at Oracle Consulting. “It’s using artificial intelligence and machine learning to cognitively understand the actual data and processes you’re using in the enterprise. This is really about pivoting away from the systems of record and the systems of interaction and really building up the systems of intelligence.”

Millstone spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, as part of Oracle Consulting’s “Empowering the Autonomous Enterprise of the Future” initiative. They discussed Oracle Consulting’s approach to reducing operational cost for customers and the key role of the company’s Exadata architecture in facilitating database migration. (* Disclosure below.)

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Oracle Consulting’s customer conversations often start with how to take existing datacenter-driven information-technology infrastructure and reduce the cost of operation.

“We come in and look at the total cost of ownership, and we think we can take out between 40% and 65% of your run-rate costs,” Millstone said. “We’re pushing customers hard in that space at the moment and then driving that into a secondary conversation. You can pocket the savings, or we would propose that you go into the autonomous enterprise space and build up your AI and machine-learning capability with centralized data.”

A centralized data strategy usually involves the cloud. Oracle’s Exadata platform has evolved over the past several years to facilitate database migration for enterprise users.

“Exadata for us is our secret weapon,” Millstone said. “We think that it is a core differentiator in our products. It is purpose-built hardware that is engineered for our software products, specifically our databases, and now we have taken that concept and moved it straight into our cloud.”

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