GEC NEWS WIREWhen you make a telephone call, you probably don’t think about the networks that carry it. You just make the call and expect to be put through.
In the app world, it’s a very different situation. There are literally hundreds of thousands of apps in use today that let you communicate with other users, but very few let you send messages to users of other apps. That’s the current nature of the beast, and app developers are apt to build silos to retain their users within their ecosystem.
At their core, all of these apps are built on the same digital foundations, so the problem of interconnectivity is not unsolvable. But the effort required to connect them together has meant that no one has made significant strides towards doing so.
Until now.
Start-up company, Virtual Artifacts (VA), has just launched its Hibe Mobile Application Network (Hibe), powered by Oracle’s new autonomous cloud services.
Hibe creates a platform into which developers connect their apps. From there they can network and grow their own connections with other apps in the same was as you would friend users on social network. The result is that their end users can then communicate with their peers on different apps.
Oracle’s autonomous technology is helping make this vision possible.
And it’s not just startups that are seeing the benefits. Autonomous technology is enabling other businesses to bring new initiatives to market much faster than ever before.
And the specialist sports data firm QLX is using Oracle’s autonomous data technology to help it bring critical ticketing, point-of-sale and merchandising data into its systems faster, more reliably, and more securely. That means that data can be more readily used to create great experiences for sports fans.
At Virtual Artifacts, chief operating officer Stephane Lamoureux says autonomous technology is enabling his team to shift its focus from the backend of the platform to building out functionality at scale.
“What this does is give me the ability to properly grow on a global basis,” Lamoureux says. “Autonomous technology is enabling our team to shift its focus from the backend of the platform to building out functionality…. We can put more people in the front end focusing on product, knowing that 80 per cent of our operations will be well managed and automated in the background by Oracle.
What this does is give us the ability to properly grow on a global basis and also move our products much faster without having to worry about a backend infrastructure.”
Virtual Artifacts is also using Oracle technology to support its AI-driven privacy engine, which is at the core of the Hibe platform, giving users control of what happens to their data, including things like what advertising they can be shown.
Autonomous technology is being used to ease the management and backup of data. This enables Virtual Artifacts to handle massive leaps in workload as each new app is connected, and bring hundreds of thousands or even millions of new users on to the platform.
Autonomous technology will bring greater security and reliability to the platform, including automated security analytics to provide real time insight into what is happening on the platform globally.
“All of this stuff will be automated,” Lamoureux says.
But most importantly, autonomous technology is enabling Lamoureux and his team to realise their dream of a fully-connected app world more quickly.
“The ease of management in the backend will give us the ability to spin out new products much faster, and we can be a lot more agile with what the users are coming back with.”
