Visionary: Oracle

The Austin, Texas-based software giant is broadening its portfolio of AI services beyond Oracle Digital Assistant and its other applications to provide autoML, language and vision services.

Oracle has consolidated its AI portfolio under a newly formed team and has an aggressive plan to expand its offerings. Oracle’s strengths reside in its language-focused conversational AI platform and its NLU and text analytics.

Oracle ranks fifth for vision on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant and near the bottom for execution.

Strength: Oracle has a strong developer outreach program and following among the developer community. The company has strong NLU capabilities, with its NLU product being among its most mature offerings.

Weakness: Although Oracle offers competitive AI services, there are many gaps in its offerings. To compete in the cloud AI developer market, Gartner said Oracle must quickly expand beyond its limited range of AI services.