As more firms store their project data in the cloud, it offers the chance to dig through that data for new insights. Oracle has already offered some limited business intelligence dashboards for its cloud service, but the technology giant is now bringing machine-learning advice to company's scheduling and project data.
Oracle's Construction Intelligence Cloud Service is a new product from the company, which can examine past project data and provide users with advice on their current and future projects. Intended as an AI "advisor," the service will provide bespoke advice to companies based on their past scheduling and project data, says Karthik Venkatasubramanian, vice president of data science and analytics at Oracle Construction and Engineering. "The industry standard is P6 data, which we're now using to do analytics and make predictions," he says.