This post was contributed by Steve Daheb, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud & Trek Thunder Kelly, Artist
The Oracle Autonomous Database helps our customers to do what they do best: innovate. In this episode, we invited artist and adventurer Trek Thunder Kelly to sit down with Steve Daheb, Senior Vice President of Oracle Cloud, to learn about the Autonomous Database. Watch this interview to see how this inspired Trek to create his mural, “Bee Autonomous,” at OpenWorld 2019.
Steve’s Take:
My conversation with Trek began with the idea of giving time back to people to enable them to create. Today, we’re finding ourselves at the precipice, leading the market and our customers into a new age: the automation age. It marks the culmination of four decades of technology innovation with the integration of machine learning. It’s an entirely new category of software automation based on machine learning—a technology as revolutionary as the internet. Customers now have the means to automatically generate insights and perform manual tasks, all while reducing costs and risk.
Artists such as Trek need the creative freedom to imagine, visualize, and focus on creating art. Similarly, autonomous technology will completely reshape our approach to IT, allowing us to free our budgets, resources, and imaginations for customers to focus on business growth and innovation.
Oracle is uniquely positioned to help our customers realize exceptional value and generate real change by spending their time and resources on the things that have the greatest impact on their businesses by:
- driving operational efficiency
- engaging with their workforce and partners
- creating exceptional customer experiences
- innovating
We believe it is our responsibility to do the hard work to embed emerging technologies that provide new sets of capabilities while at the same time simplifying the path to the cloud. Oracle Cloud and our Autonomous capabilities are the ultimate expression of that technology advancement and of our commitments to our customers.
I often talk about redefining what’s possible. At Oracle, we believe that automation and autonomous technologies are completely changing how data is captured, processed, and accessed. With respect to outcomes, it’s doing two very important things. It’s providing insights to help us better understand our business. And it’s helping free our time to focus on innovation.
Autonomous technologies are fundamentally changing how we experience data. What used to be simple tables, charts, and scatter plots are now live, complex, and creative visualizations that are presented to us and provide deeper meaning. It’s new ways we interact with the world around us. And, it’s actions taken based on insights, both collected and predictive, both self-directed and automated.
Trek took this idea and brought it to life through his mural, “Bee Autonomous.” Customers such as The World Bee Project use the Autonomous Database to take complex data, pull meaningful insights, and take action.
Only Oracle has the technology, experience, and imagination to deliver an Autonomous Database. We uniquely allow our customers to explore their own imaginations and build their own cultures of innovation that ultimately define who they can and will be. Helping our customers through every major technology transformation is something Oracle has been doing for decades now. And, for us, it’s always been about enabling what’s possible.
Trek’s Take:
What is it like to live paint a mural at Oracle OpenWorld? Unbelievably cool. Especially when attendees have the opportunities to actively engage with both the mural and me. What I most enjoyed was explaining the layered meanings of the art with the curious viewers, donned in suits. My task was to somehow take my conversation with Steve Daheb and capture the Oracle Autonomous Database visually through an artistic lens.
When I spoke with Steve, I learned that Autonomous services allow companies to become more efficient by allocating tedious work to the cloud, thus freeing time for humans to do what they’re best at: imagining and creating. This allows organizations to not only become more competitive and successful, but in some cases leads to innovation that can save the world!
Enter The World Bee Project, the first private organization to launch global honeybee monitoring to improve their habitats, food security, and livelihood. The Oracle Autonomous Database helps them by storing, tracking, and analyzing the enormous amount of information necessary to do this.
Thus, through Oracle’s introduction, I had my inspiration for the mural.
Using Oracle’s new branding and warmer color scheme, I merged the logical, analytical right brain with the creative, emotional left brain on a giant canvas. The zig-zags of the mural represent real audio data visuals pulled from the Autonomous Database used by The World Bee Project, while the heart-shaped side pours free-form and whimsical color. Brains at their best blend these activities. Language melts into music, reason dances with dreams, rationality is buoyed by compassion. The bees represent neurons busily pollinating the floral creative mind into the hive-like neural network of the logical mind, and vice versa. And the result is…
“Bee Autonomous!”